Reply To: Arba Misois Beis Din Awareness

1) This was a wind-up thread but it sure generated interesting responses.

2) I actually think that there should be more awareness of the negative consequences of certain actions, but NOT in the sense of you are chayav this and that. Instead, it should be explained that you, as a Yid, have a tafkid in this world, and by doing (aveiro) you are just not doing what you’re here for.

There actually are some fine mussar songs, from the kind of tacky We Want You – We Want Your Tefilla (Better Shut Your Mouth if You Don’t Want Skila) to the almost frightening song by Reb Moishe Goldman AH about the boy who hit a fellow Yid and chose to come back disabled L”A rather than face Gehennom. I do think we need more psukim set to music, but psukim from the toichecho are not really meant to be sung!

3) Please block my account. I came on one last time to clear this up and to explain this thread, but I can’t justify being part of this anymore. I believe very strongly that we need something called taharas ha’am, in which we keep out and expel those who do not meet standards.

In the particular incident that was the last straw, I have hard, permanent evidence that someone should be removed from the klal regardless of his status – namely that he is a clear koifer be’ikar. It doesn’t concern me personally. I live abroad and he is not going to touch my nonexistent non-mevushal wine, but the klal needs to watch for fakers and those who perhaps came in with good intentions but can’t walk the walk.

I will close by saying that I have noticed a new phenomenon of self-hating “Orthodox” Jews. They are borderline, ostensibly MO but very far from what MO stands for, and they clearly are not happy with themselves. They take their unhappiness out on Yiddishkeit by trying to paint those who do take it seriously and do believe as fanatics. They make a spurious claim that they are the ones who are machmir on bein adam lechavairoi, but you always see them mouthing off about how, lemashal, Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin deserved what he got (chas vesholom), or about some frum person who slighted them. They always take the side of the frei or the nochri against the ben Torah, even if all they know is what they read in a biased lefty newspaper.

These sad souls unfortunately are given a platform to squawk here, and recently it has gotten out of hand. They are the second son, not the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZYA’s fifth son, and since I have no power to “hake es shinav,” I must leave so that I don’t waste time arguing with them.

So, goodbye once and for all. You know where Creedmoor is if you like my humor :). I don’t want to concern myself with real issues in the klal online, except as a satirist on my own blog.

And to leave on a happy note – here is my first Arba Misois Beis Din niggun. I’m not sure where the music is from but check out some Belz, Nadvorna or Satmar albums and you’ll find the right tune:

“Bo-reye arba misois byse din – hee yevooreykh es ha-chusson

Bo-reye skila vegam sreye-fo – hee yevoorech es ha-kallah!”