Should You Respond to Anti-Torah Posts Online?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is David Wolowski with our question and answer series. If I see an anti-Torah post online or on social media, is it better to ignore the post or to engage? Yesh or yesh. There's there's different opinions on this matter. And uh there are some people who feel that you need what they call in Hebrew hasbara. You need to respond to all these things, etc. Other people employ the Latin expression helfnicht, which basically means it's not going to make any difference. All you're going to do is inspire people to double down and say more nasty yucky things. Which one is right? I don't know which one is right. Personally, when I was younger, I always used to respond. As I got older, I realized that most people don't care what you think. The odds of you being able to influence somebody who's commentator online, uh open parentheses. There are these frum news sites. And sometimes in the comments, people write the most vile, vicious, terrible things. And they don't do what I do. Uh I I look around and if I can uh if I see a post that I believe is insulting or degrading to somebody, you know, I don't care if you correct me or criticize me or something like that. But

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Wolowski with our question and answer series. If I see an anti-Torah…
2. 0:32helfnicht, which basically means it's not going to make any difference. All you're going to do…
3. 1:04uh open parentheses. There are these frum news sites. And sometimes in the comments, people write…
4. 1:35just write something that's yucky, I take it right down. But these other news sites don't.…
5. 2:06I have a few trolls I see who comment. I recognize a few of the names.…
6. 2:37through to them. You know. I was in the middle of a particular controversy once and…
7. 3:37interested in whatever it is, you know. And it's depressing. It's depressing, you know. When Tucker…
8. 4:08>> [laughter] >> This is David Icke with a question and answer series.…

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