Signatures A Respectful Request To Signers Of The Ban Against Rabbi Nosson Slifkin And His Work Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	First Name	Last Name	State	Country	Comments
51	Bob	The Cat			This is a fun list
52	hillel	bick		AU
53	the	Yingele
54	Eliezer	Goldish
55	yaakov	fogelman
56	David	Eisen, Esq.		IL	A close relative of RNS informed me that on the heels of the egregious treatment he recevied from the Gedolei Torah, he now defines himself as being "post-Haredi;" we may see him sporting a kipa seruga once again...
57	Yossi	Adler		CA
58	Jay	Kelman		CA
59	Reuven	Stein		CA
60	Arthur	Taub, MD PhD	CT	US	The issuance of this cherem by those incompetent to judge its meaning is a chillul hashem, and will be a source of laag, keles, busha and chlima for Judaism now and for many years to come. It must be rescinded at once, and those issuing it, repent.
61	Moshe	Blau		IL
62	yaakov	heiszler	NY	US
63	Carl	Rosenzweig	NY	US
64	David	Friedman	NJ	US
65	David	Friedman	NJ	US
66	Avi	Unterman		IL
67	Barukh	Weisman
68	Rabbi Menachem	Lebowitz
69	Frank	Jaffe		US
70	Danny	Shine		UK
71	Avi	Goldstein	NY	US
72	Max	Lew		US
73	Chaim Baruch	Kaufman	MO	US	I've beeen through the mainstream yeshiva system, including Lakewood, Torah Ohr, Mercaz HaTorah... I'm apalled at the level of narrow mindedness of those whom people call gedolim. My rebbe in yeshiva, R. Shlomo Volbe, said that there no longer exist gedolim in America. I see this to be true and believe that it may also apply to Eretz Yisrael. We are a nation orphaned from leardership on any level.
74	Steven	Rabinowitz
75	Akiva	Weisinger	NJ
76	Akiva	Weisinger	NJ
77	Jonathan	Sheink		IL	A sad phenomenon reflected and parralleled by many othe rinstances of obscurant charedi attitudes and behaviour particularly here in Isreal and all under the guise of religion - what false piety !
78	Avrumi	Lebovits		US
79	moshe	lerman		IL	I am stunned about this ban.
80	Moshe	Lerman		IL	Please consider what the Rambam wrote in Moreh HaNevuchim, at the end of chapter 29 of the second section. The act of creation is not quite as simple as understood by the masses. We should and can learn from the sciences...
81	Jonathan	Shabbat	PA	US
82	Lisa	Reiss		CA
83	S	Scheinerman
84	Aviva	Blumenthal	NY	US
85	shaul	Praver	CT	US	To whom it concerns: It appears that Rabbi Slifkin is a thoughtful person pursuing the study of Torah with the intent of finding truth. As such, Rabbi Slifkin may take his place amongst other Jews who have pursued the study of Torah with a love for truth, and a desire to find it. Those who would put him in Herem may be afraid of the truth and wish to shield themselves from having to face the truth. Rabbanim!! there are plenty of authentic Torah sources that enable us to deal with the earth being older then 5765 years old with our earth going around the sun, with dinasaurs that roamed the earth, and with Chazal who on occassion got some things wrong about the natural sciences and Geography. This does not present a crisis in Jewish faith. There is one advantage however, in putting Rabbi Slifkin in Herem; At least Rabbi Slifkin will have some good Talmidei Chachamim with whom he can speak with in there. In fact, increasingly, Herem these days is starting to look more and more like Sura and Pumpedica, a gevaltic Makom Torah!
86	H	M			You left out the most important reason to have the ban undone. Plenty of Torah Greats gave haskomos on the sefer (i.e. R Shmuel Kamenetzky), so at worst there is a machlokes about whether the book is valid. This doesn't warrant a ban! (unless the maskimim are also being banned chas v'sholom...) HM
87	Aharon	Urman	NY	US
88	Yosef	Anonymous		US
89	Steven	Plotnick	NJ	US
90	Lisa	Joffe
91	Rabbi Fred E.	Dweck	CA	US	The Rabbis who issued the ban surpassed their authority. We need to heed the words of Hashem through the prophet Isaiah. (Isaiah 29:13-14)
92	Avrom	Miller		US	The ban is unjustified, disgraceful and unbefitting the sages of Israel. The similarities between Rav Slifkin's ban and the treatment of the Rambam in his own time are strikingly papallel.
93	Awigail	Mayer		IL
94	Shmuel	Plotsker	MD	US	I wholeheartedly endorse the above petition. -SP
95	Eliezar	Eidenbom		US
96	Paul	Plotsker	MD	US	Yashe koach on a petition well done. B'hatzlacha!
97	Daniel	Rosenthal	CA	US	I would expect this kind of lunacy from Christian Fundamentalists, not from my fellow Jews. The evidence that the Earth, the Universe, and living things are billions of years old, and that we evolved from a lower order of organisms millions of years ago is overwhelming. My own view is that G-d created the Big Bang 15 billion years ago with all of the laws of evolution programmed into it--and let it run according to those laws just like a program runs on a computer. The Torah account of creation was never meant to be a scientific treatise; it was written, rather, to show how man became "different" from the other animals--it is symbolic, not literal.
98	Ido	Dubrawsky	MD	US
99	Tzvi	Bloch		US	I found this letter disrespectful in the extreme. This entire argument is specious: you question the gedolim by asking them how they can question gedolim. You have no interest in learning, no desire to grow, no feeling for being good Jews. You Modern Orthodox Jews are today's Eiruv Rav. May you be zoche to do teshuva. And may the world not be brought to further degradation because of the likes of you.
100	Inna	Minuk		CA	I’m a secular Jew but my family always belonged to the Orthodox shul. I recently read an article on the ban issued against Rabbi Slifkin and I’ve been more than frustrated. It’s not the first time in the history rabbis do a similar mistake (let’s recall a case of Spinoza or Ariel D’Acosta). While still studying works by Spinoza, we can only be sorry for those who were trying to ban his ideas. Another sad thing about today’s ban is that rabbis forget the true essence of Judaism that allows us, Jews, to provide different interpretations for Torah instead of accepting it literally (this opposed to what Christians and Muslims do). I’m sure that rabbinic authorities would realize their mistake; but meanwhile I would like to wish lots of courage to Rabbi Slifkin.