?מה לכהן בבית הקברות

Posted by Mrs KL from Sydney

I was a bit shocked when opening the AJN this week to see the above picture, of "His Holiness" the Dalai Lama placing some type of a Reform Tallis around the shoulders of Rabbi Leibl Wolf.

My first reaction was ?מה לכהן בבית הקברות
What's a rabbi doing with this  אבי אבות הטומאה - the head-"Galach" of a leading עבודה זרה?

Then I did a Google search and was even more shocked to read an article in the LA Jewish Journal (from 2001) informing us that Rabbi Wolf studied "with such luminaries as the revered Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson and the Dalai Lama"

WHAT!? Not even a 'lehavdil'?

(And did Leibl really study "bechavrusa" with those gentlemen? Hard to believe.)

I am sure that Rabbi Wolf knows of the hundreds - if not thousands - of secular and uncommitted Jewish kids caught in the net of the Buddhist religion all over the world. Giving his "hechsher" to the leader of this 'klipah' makes matters much, much worse.

Thank you AJN Watch for allowing me to vent.