Comments on: Out Of The Mailbag: (If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It)

By: amusedreader

amusedreader — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:18:31 +0000

Beautifully put #99

By: Matisyohu28

Matisyohu28 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:43:04 +0000

yiddishreder – are you serious?? How is it gaiva to say something is wrong? do you mean to imply that we cannot say that being mechalel shabbos is wrong, because who are we to say what is rght and wrong? lack of ostentation is a maila if done right. meaning, people who are ehrliche and really anavim dont show off because all the kovod in the world belongs to the aibeshter – NOT because it’s nice to be modest, or because they’ll get esteem in the community for it, since, well, no one knows what they do, because they’re modest about it!

You are saying we should be ostentatious, yet the torah says this is a disgusting middah – your thinking is pretty warped, to say the least..stop trying to blame the victims.

By: tzvi w?

tzvi w? — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:14:38 +0000

good article

By: jphone

jphone — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:25:18 +0000

Do people understand what the word “flaunt” means? Look it up in the dictionary. Webster has 2 definitions, based on how the word is used. Does anyone believe that either definition of the word “flaunt” is a torahdik value?

By: Yidishreder

Yidishreder — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:19:44 +0000

I think that those of us (myself included) who denigrate our brethren for their ostentation should perhaps realize that WE show an unseemly ga’vah with respect to our LACK of ostentation. Only G-d knows what is going on in the hearts of people. How about being don lechaf zchus?

By: Proud of KAJ-WH TIDE

Proud of KAJ-WH TIDE — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:33:23 +0000

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By: lgbg

lgbg — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:34:50 +0000

pashute yid,

nah, i think lipa liked your name cuz its ‘special’. and its simply PASHUT!

By: maidelfromlakewood

maidelfromlakewood — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:02:22 +0000

NEBACH that people out there have no embarrassment to just speak against the writer like that. There are nebach those out there that are SUFFERING because they have a standard to live up to. I know a family here in Lakewood that built a new STUNNING house (from the outside). We were building our house the same time as them. The daughter used to ask me, “So how many modalians are you putting into your house?” How much was your kitchen table? Ours was from an auction – $5,000… DISGUSTING talk that is. My family moved because we were growing up and BH marrying off children, and needed the extra room. My father gets embarrassed when people ask him where he moved to. EMBARRASSED. Yes. Thats the way it should be. When someone asks him where he lives, he totally avoids our exact location because he doesn’t want to make anyone out there jealous, and our house isn’t fancy. Now the world is screaming SHOW OFF WHAT YOU HAVE (or don’t have). If you have the money, nobody is saying live ugly – the opposite – ur supposed to live nicely and comfortably, BUT, that does NOT give you a right to make it a pressure on others.

By: lgbg

lgbg — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:19:00 +0000

pashute yid:

your humor is just not stam ‘pashut’. maybe instead of the concert you should get up there and give a comedy show with all the shtus that goes on in the YW comment section.

but all jokes aside hope you win the case. or maybe lipa will offer you to sing at your kids weddings at no charge! not such a bad idea….

By: kollelwife

kollelwife — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:18:10 +0000

I don’t know but where I live, everyone lives very simply and competing who can buy their kids cheaper clothing in Walmart or JCPenney.
I guess I should be thankful.
I’m also surprised at some of the content of this letter and that yw agreed to print it.