Rabbi Fried
Posted by:
richardmgreen
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Date: March 05, 2003 10:13PM
Although it was an orthodox synagogue, everyone was welcome. Rabbi Fried never put a trip over on anyone's head which is why I associated with him. But other members of the shul did. There always were people who would call me an "apikorsus" (heretic), try to get me to change the way I lived etc.. I was at the synagogue for about 3 years until I decided to focus on my area in NJ.
Rabbi Fried made me his "assistant rabbi". He's friends with Yeshua Witt, who's Shlomo Carlebach's #1 man in Israel. So I went back a long ways with all of this. But after Shlomo passed away, it seems that some people in the Carlebach movement are trying to turn it into another die hard chassidic movement and all of Shlomo's soft touch is being set aside for a more powerful membership drive.