I received this letter in my email inbox – I always knew Facebook would be banned, but I assumed since the Gedolim had already banned the internet, it was assumed via kal vachomer that any internet site was banned. This comes at a time when there has been a lull in the bans and chumros put out by the group known as “gedolim” – from what I have heard, the gedolim are controlled by special interest groups who seek to add pork barrel legislation to decrees such as random bans that they seek to make money off of, word has it that someone will put out a device to “kasher” facebook for use in a business setting.
I received the following via email:
Unfortunately mu publishing software would not let me copy and paste the email for it contained a lot of Hebrew.
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