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Their early ones were very funny (IMO)
The little old Rabbi,
Mordechai Shlomo and Joe,
Boro Park
Searching through the night!
Hineni Heoni (Pasteurised und homogenised…)
A chazendil Oif Shabbos – brilliant
And my all time favorite – Shver and shvigger
Yes. I was quite a fan in my younger years.
This question seems to forget HKB’H’s role in this world.
The rich person is not able to ‘buy himself a place in oilom habo’ any more than the poor man. Rather, he has been given an opportunity to earn his oilom habo in this way, whilst the poor man is given different opportunities to do so.
Do you question how come the rich man does not get the opportunity to ‘buy a place in oilom habo’ by serving Hashem in his destitution?
“Hillel mechayev es ha aniyim, R. Eliezer mechayev es ha ashirim.”
BTW – what makes you think its easier for the rich person to give away $100,000 than for the poor person to give $1,750. Yesh loi moneh, roitzeh mosayim…
What makes you cringe, the concept or the name?
Sharp,
You give an example of Soroh Schneirer but then say you aren’t comparing it. Thats problematic as I would respond to your comparison but now cannot as you have already said its not a comparison.
I do not think there is a problem with something new specifically. The problem is when people get ‘taken’ by new ideas and concepts. When that happens it can cause problems.
And even when it happens in items that are not bad inherently, they are indicative of a nature of a people, that when a new thing hits, everyone gets excited. If a new type of limmud system hit Klal Yisroel and it spread really quickly, that would be good. If a new type of food starts becoming wildly popular, that says something else.
I think that if indeed Rabbonim rail against it, it may not be about the food itself – nothing would seem inherently wrong with the food – but its about the attitude in general that when something new crops up, people just get ‘farkoift’ to it so quickly.
There is a concept of not going for the latest fads in goyish society. Even if the item itself isn’t technically problematic halachically, we still don’t look for new distractions coming from the outside world.
Sadly, in other aspects of life, we see how peoples eagerness to invite and welcome new fashions has changed Klal Yisroel so much over recent years.
So whether chulent and kugel were at some point introduced to klal yisroel in the same way – i.e. as a local fad that was going round – is irrelevant. Right now they are not new fashionable things and therefore they are ‘just food’. Sushi will also be like that in the future. But right now, it is a little discomforting to see how a food fad that hits the goyish world seems to have the same appeal and speedy assimilation in the Jewish world.