and your "belief" in an INEXISTING thing .

And what if you are wrong? and when you die, you are just dead? Firstly make sure your spelling is right, secondly before you mouth off, show proof of what you are talking about. Show proof that god exists. a leap of faith is just that a leap into the unknown. Wake up to the real world!

disproved them all. In the "Frisco Kid" movie (Rav Avraham B'Marav Haparua) Gene Wilder graduates 81 in a class of 79. Amnon Yitzhak was in the same class but graduated 97th in the class.

Maybe in the circles of the atheists, such books are fiction, but there has been a great deal of archaeological evidence which has supported many stories from the Bible, including the great flood. The argument of most atheists is "if I can't see it, it doesn't exist". And yet, they believe in air and bacteria. Strange.

You'll be surprised how much your government (read six-pack-joe) is paying these con-artists - Google "Yeshivas Score Huge Pell Grant Windfall" or "Chabad "College" Pell Grant Scam" or "A Village With the Numbers, Not the Image, of the Poorest Place"... for details ,...

Fallen, not there any more. Some day you will find out. You will see that the void is huge and there is nothing there.

His brain has been cooked by the heat. Either that or he's on drugs. The fact of the matter is that every politician in Washington, DC has been bought by the Israeli lobby. The tail is wagging the dog. Now the rabbi is correct about one thing. Israel should wean itself from US money. But we all know that is not going to happen. The Americans couldn't be so lucky.

There are more rich secular Jews where the hurricane hit than anywhere else in the world. This is a warning message to these Jews to give their riches to the poor yeshiva students of Israel. I myself am in need of some funding. The government does not give me enough to feed my children and study the Torah and Talmud day and night as G_d commands all of us.

the amount of denouncing talkbacks and other responses to this rabbis sermon by the average Israeli and Israel supporters.

Don't even pretend to be an American. And speaking of getting lost...

per year than Israel. I guess their lobbies must have bought off more US politicians than the Israelis.

Hit the road Jack ,...

Listen to me, and listen well. You are NOT a prophet, you don't have a direct line to G-d, and the best thing you can do is to heed our Sages' admonition that silence is a fence for wisdom. These are whole communities of honest, faithful, and hardworking people - including MANY, MANY RELIGIOUS JEWS - who have lost EVERYTHING and they don't need to hear your unmitigated RUBBISH, not now or not EVER. I imagine you're probably the type of idiot with the temerity to tell grieving families at funerals why their beloved is dead. You have NO IDEA, so just SHUT UP. And maybe GET OFF YOUR 'TAHAT' and start helping people clean up and replace what they had lost. I invite you to come to Long Beach, where I live, and get your hands dirty with actual work that has genuinely positive effects on people, instead of the pontification you so self-righteously peddle.

There are also more religious Jews and Torah scholars in that part of the world than virtually anywhere else. There are righteous, G-d fearing people in my town that have lost everything. Are they to be punished too? And what gives you the right to pronounce judgment?

This rabbi receives a state salary from Israel...really? Cite your evidence. Surely, this guy is not half as bad as Reverend Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright.

Hyperbole is part of classical rabbinical discourse. It sounds terrible to those who aren't used to it, and not much better to those who are. The Arab world used to be client states of the USSR, and they have little in common with the USA, while Israel is based on the British Mandate model of parliamentary democracy.

Even allowing for how the secular media twist and turn inside anything a Haredi-looking Rabbi says, this opinion is problematical. The American people and the American Congress are genuine friends of Israel and deserve to be blessed, not criticised. There is a tremedous lack of Hakoras HaTov []gratitude]. From the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Sandy we should learn how powerless we are compared to the Creator, and we should see how well we can respond to our fellow human beings with aid.

Nothing more than very tendentious theological fictional man made literature. The fact that you are fooled into to believing is very common, that's what it was designed to do. The human mind can be tricked and cajoled and fooled, look at Uri Geller an Israeli conman. You are a perfect audience for a magician' sleigh of hand, like pulling Jesus out of a hat.

B'H Perhaps American Jews should move to ERETZ ISRAEL, instead of trying to rebuild in the LAND of ESAU ? pshat yid

This Rabbi should lose his job and any state funding. This is a tremendous Hillel Hashem - he handed a propaganda victory to our enemies.

Great idea, short in presentation and transparent - Frankly, my dear yid, I don't give a damn, where ;) ,...

The aliyah of the parsha for shlishi Tues and revii Wed: the destruction of Sodom

You don't rein in the Haredim and allow them to get away with almost anything.

I hate the fact that the US dogs Israel the way it does. Listen to some of the arrogant morons posting here...speaks volumes. I'm splitting from the US because its for noodnicks and fat/lazy welfare dweebs and keyboard commandos who don't give a damn about themselves, let alone each other. I agree that Israel should cut ties with the US; NO MORE AID FROM THE MORONS ON THE HILL. Its embarrassing to have to deal with such hypocrisy. As for the Hurricane being 'punishment'? Foolish, dangerous and way out of line. Its the worst kind of ignorant religious banter you can find. He had some really great points otherwise. My family has been in the US for 3 centuries...today, it sukks and I can walk away without looking back or missing a thing. Am Yisrael Chai! Coming home soon! And for the arrogant fools who made some posts here: enjoy your little bubbles...simply pathetic.