Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld, who leads a Portland congregation, is a graduate of the Open Orthodox Yeshiva Chovevei Torah. In a recent editorial,the YCT Graduate publicly supports same gender marriage and relates it to celebration of Chanukah.
Click here to read the column in the Portland Press Herald.
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A bunch of low lifs,
Is this a Chiddush? Once you no longer believe in Torah MeSeniy, so what do you expect?
Shame on you.
How dare he call himself a Rabbi. It’s against the torah and greatly angers G-D
This cleric is even worse than the misyavnim. At least the latter didn’t use their Yiddishkeit as their justification.
Sad.
Proponents of DOMA do not necessarily deny the possibility of civil unions.
The desire to sound original and creative -in thought and action -is a Nisayon to many.
When he relates it to the celebration of Chanukah he means reenacting the Helenists!
How dare he call himself “Orthodox” or “Rabbi” in his article.
He is a Michalel Shem Hashem.
You may as well title this article: YCT Graduate ‘rabbi’ publicly comes out aginst Hashem.
YCT is not Orthodox. They have pushed the envelope too far & this “Rabbi” is the results. Let’s stop referring to them as Orthodox.
Thank You so much, Matzav, for keeping us abreast of everything that’s going on with people who at one time learned in Chovivei Torah and are now a discredit to Orthodox Judaism.
a complete chillul H-shem and disgrace. we need to stand and protest in the name of H-shem that same gender ‘marriage’ is not right, never was and never will be.
What a disgrace. ???? ???? ????? ??? ????? and ????? ??? ?”?.
Let us call on the school to publicly revoke his ordination, or face strong action itself.
After reading his disgusting article it is so obvious by his words & phrases.
#12,
YCT in not Orthodox nor Judaism. They fully support and are proud of this graduate of theirs.
#14,
“Let us call on the school…”
HAHAHA
Just in case you were unaware, the school teaches them this skewed and blasphemous ideology .
People should also e-mail Dr. Natan Kahn the Shaarey Tphiloh Shul President to protest the Shul’s reform rabbi. His e-mail is: [email protected]
put him in cheirim!
why does matzav.com have to post this story?
are we all really sure that lashon hara doesn’t apply over here?
If you read the piece, it could have been written by a seventh grader.
Open Orthodoxy?
It should be called, Open Idiocy.
I think his article us a little more nuanced than your screaming, simplistic headline makes it out to be.
#20,
Why do you mention loshon hora here, when it has no relevence. This idiot published his “piece”
Here we go again, with someone citing “Lashon Hara” in a situation where it is not.
If someone publicly endorses something which clearly against the Torah, protesting against it is NOT Lashon Hara.
Check the Hilchos Shmiras HaLoshon before you claim that something is Lashon Hara.
This “Rabbi” is endorsing a lifestyle which was part of the Greek lifestyle that the Maccabees were fighting against. How ironic that he claims that the 2 situations are the same. Disgusting.
I find this “Open Orthodoxy” to be just another reform movement. If anyone can give semikha to anyone with any standard of commitment, there is no meaning to the title of rabbi.