The "Daat Emet" pamphlets are distributed by the thousands. They arrive by mail, are handed out to passersby, are presented to synagogue-goers. They make one question who could distribute these sort of pamphlets, upon which are written, "In this pamphlet are verses from the Torah and words of Chazal" as a smokescreen to confer trustworthiness, as it were, on their distributors. It turns out that the people behind the distribution of the pamphlets are former yeshiva students who are part of the "return to question" camp. They presume that they have a mission to "fix the world of Jewish faith." In any case, some of them presented themselves that way in a broadcast on Kol Yisrael.
They want to prove that "in every generation tradition changes" and that the Torah of the Jews "was forgotten and rewritten in another script; who can prove that the Torah which was renewed is that which was forgotten?"
If at first these pamphlets aroused a typical curiosity amongst the religious, today there are those who take the initiative and gather these pamphlets to destroy them, as they are "muktze because they are disgusting."
One must wonder who helps these people who have become irreligious. Who finances their "creations" and who encourages them to act this way, a way which is borrowed from the work of missionaries in the past and present?
From: HaTzofeh Sunday, 12 Adar II 5760, March 19, 2000