Quick Quote From Yankel Feferkorn

Sorry, but it’s a distant second. Starting a new thread with such a quote is incomparable on a far greater scale.

I’m sensing a pattern to your quotes

But chazal bring down that the remedy for the obvious consequences of having a bean-based chulent is not to add additional gas to the digestive tract. Yankel’s contrarian eitzah seems like using gasoline to extinguish a small fire.

Which yeshiva(s) did Yankel Feferkorn attend?

Where is he these days?

he passed away a few years ago came from the bronx, davened by rav moshe bick ztl for many years who knew yet from the bronx

Yankel grew up in the Mt Eden area of the Bronx and was frequently seen walking with his father. I first saw him in Brooklyn around 2000 although I assume he left the Bronx much earlier as most of the Jews did.
Although we share the same first name, he was not related.

Yankel lived in Brooklyn at least since sometime in the 1980s.

“Gadol: Are you sure you didn’t go by the name Sammygol in one of the previous of your nine lives?”…

From Sammygol’s All-Time Best CR Posts (circa June 2008):

He got his nomination,
but how can a great nation,
without contemplation
at this historic station
at war and provocation
take a four year vacation
performing self-ablation?

The borders’ demarcation,
the runaway inflation,
the dollar’s deprecation,
the fiscal constipation,
the failing education,
the lack of expectation,
the overall stagnation,
the general frustration…..

What is the celebration,
why all the exclamation,
the shouts of elation,
without reservation?
Where is the trepidation
and thoughtful reservation?
As if by revelation
the whole population
avoids the obligation.
Deriving inspiration
from lack of information,
as if the obligation
of this new generation
is the lack of moderation.

Beyond imagination,
sans any explanation,
perhaps from desperation
with this administration,
or pure infatuation
with much anticipation
awaiting conflagration?

Where went the condemnation
of his affiliation?
Why give accommodation
to wishers of damnation?
Guilt by association?
Not quite – by emulation!
His wife’s vilification
of country’s obligation,
the lack of reveration
for homeland’s formation,
the bigots’ reveration,
the bland determination
to hold a conversation
with lowest of creation,
the knee-jerk adulation
of every aberration…

Perhaps the accusation
of old days’ segregation,
the feeling of relation
to Southern plantation,
with general sedation
of critical mentation,
lent votes’allocation
to Active Affirmation.
So playing integration
as if a compensation,
awaiting transformation,
swept up by his oration,
the super-delegation
gave us Obamination

I guess that erev (goiyeshe) NYE, there is a bit of looking back in nostalgia at some of the more eccentric yidden we encountered over the past several decades. Does anyone recall Mendel the Coatrack or any of the other colorful neshamas to be ecnountered around Landau’s minyanim and other nearby shuls and shtieblach

Regular Yid: I think you may be reading some of these posts 180* from their intended meaning. These were individuals who were different and each in his own way had a certain pure joy and manner of expression that was unique to them. Certainly, none of the posts I read above were meant in a negative or derogatory way, or at least thats not how I read them.

anyone remember the pickle man of the east bronx. ott was a character !!!

Yechiell: I don’t remember “Ott” but I sure do miss Jake the Pickle Man who sold pickles from the barrel on Jennings street in the Bronx which were so much better than the over-rated pickles from Guss’ on the lower east side.

That picture doesn’t look like him (even considering aging.)

That picture is so heartbreaking.

He sometimes davened next to us at Rav Pollars Yeshiva on 55th St. He looks so frail compared to the vibrant person he used to be.

May he have an immediate רפואה שלמה.