With great consternation, I feel it necessary to inform the public of the serious and disturbing breaches in Kedushas Yisroel committed by the blog known as Daas Torah. This blog is administered by someone who describes himself as "a member of the chareidi community in Jerusalem."
The Day After Yom Kippur!
Thursday October 13, 2016 is the day following the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur. It is also the day on which a website, which supposedly represents Daas Torah - pure and pristine Jewish values as seen through the prism of G-d's holy wisdom, published an article containing utterly vulgar and disgusting terms and expressions. Impure. Defiled. Nivul Peh.
Protect Your Children!
It is stunning and shocking that the Daas Torah Blog would expose the Jewish People to such filth. It is even more disturbing that he would do this on the day after Yom Kippur, when the Jewish Nation spent the day in fasting and prayer and strove to reach higher levels of purity! Is it conscionable? The day after Yom Kippur? Divrei nevalah, in the name of Daas Torah no less! How could he allow children to potentially be exposed to such impurity?!
The Requests Went Unheeded
After the post was published two perturbed Jews posted comments to that post, respectfully asking the administrator to look at what he posted and remove the offending parts. Unfortunately, these requests went unheeded. Many hours later the post is still there. Unchanged. This despite the fact that the administrator had time to post and comment on other parts of his blog, even after the comments asking him to edit the post were approved and published.
A Final Plea
The travesty is large. I call upon the Daas Torah Blog to swiftly rectify this matter. I call upon the administrator to refrain from such impurity in the future. I call upon anyone who feels they can help show the administrator the error of his ways, to please act quickly to remove this stumbling block from the Jewish Nation.
