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Honestly, the anti-Semitism in this community has gone on for far too long.
I may have to go DEFCON 3.
GEDOLIM WARN: Leading Gedolei Yisroel, headed by HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau and HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, have issued a strongly worded letter opposing the growing phenomenon of “musical Selichos” events, declaring that such gatherings run contrary to the very purpose of the Yemei HaSelichos.
“Chas v’shalom to transform an elevated and sacred concept established by Chazal into an entertainment event and musical performance,”
The letter states that such events should certainly not be held inside batei knesses or batei medrash The Gedolim further state that tefillos and Hallel should not be accompanied by musical instruments.
Noam retweeted
Despite Marcionism being deemed a heresy by the church, it won in the public imagination even amongst the most traditional. Because it is a very flattering heresy: that we as Christians received the revelation of the God of love while the Jews are stuck with their primitive God.
Noam retweeted
At some point Megyn Kelly will apologize profusely for Dancing With Nazis. Because Kelly is an amoral careerist and eventually will realize she has damaged her career. Never accept apologies from Jew haters. They do not regret their anti-Semitism. They regret the consequences.
Noam retweeted
Murray Rothbard took this idea to its logical conclusion, and concluded that since a parent has no claim on the labor of its parent, the parent has a right to neglect its child and allow it to die.
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For those who want to understand the mindset of ultra-Orthodox Jews in general, and Chabad—an amazing and open group—in particular, almost nothing could be more enlightening than the discussion sparked by this naked rage-bait post from the official Chabad account. An anthropological window has been cracked open here.
The Menorah in the Temple had curved branches. We know this from a large number of carvings and depicitons—by Jews and Gentiles—spanning over five centuries. Medieval rabbis, however, who had never seen the Menorah and were separated from the Temple by a thousand years or more, had to reconstruct its appearance from texts alone. Some got it wrong—such as Maimonides, who assumed straight branches—and others, like Ibn Ezra, got it right.
But since the top rabbi of Chabad preferred the first, incorrect view, Chabad will forevermore be devoted to purveying the wrong—and objectively extremely ugly—shape.
They view their religion as something not just detached from mere reality, but above reality. And at the core of their religion is the veneration of rabbinic writings and lore.
So the very obviously historically inaccurate Chabad-style Menorah—deriving from the views of rabbis who never saw the Menorah, in life or in art—becomes a perfect symbol of their theology.
By waving their Menorah, they say to the world: “We follow the rabbinic tradition, nothing else.”
They know the Menorah had curved branches, we know they know the Menorah had curved branches, and they know we know they know the Menorah had curved branches. The point of the exercise is creed: “My rabbi, right or wrong.” It is a public declaration that they will never be torn from their tradition. Logic and science will be bent to faith and tradition—never the other way around. That is the message they are putting out here. They are willing to be metaphorically whipped by nationalists over this as it proves the depth of their faith.
People think that Jews and the Chabad movement are trying to control the world, but in fact, they are simply more interested in arguing about things like this.
