Please visit my new site for the complete blog http://frumsatire.net
Filed under: Blogging, Blogroll, Frummies: a satirical exploration, I like Girls, Judging your fellow frummy, Modern Orthodox, Shabbos, Shull Rants, Yeshivish
I have started video blogging
Posted on +00002008-02-22T09:56:56+00:00292008bUTCFri, 22 Feb 2008 09:56:56 +0000 5, 206 by Frum Hiker
this comment is for your other blog about the monsey post….first of all i think you’re a first class jerk and that’s probably the only first class thing about you…what kind of person goes on and on to publicly degrade and insult families that opened up their homes to you for shabbos or a shul that you yourself said welcomed you and didn’t make you feel uncomfortable even though you have a different background than they do….talk about reverse discrimination…you complain how people from this community have no idea what goes on past their little neighborhoods…that other types of orthodox jews exist i.e. Y.U. etc..and how they look down upon those that aren’t like themselves…take a long look in the mirror Mr.! look how you ridicule them and their culture…you should be ashamed of yourself…how dare you!!!…what makes you think you’re superior or better than anyone else?
You decided to analyze the word I labeled myself with. So let me give you my perspective, and hopefully I can shed some light on the situation.
Since most of Polish orthodoxy was wiped out by the Nazis, and most who survived either went off, or became chasiddish, and those are the ones that went to Ger, some Belz, a little Alexander. A few stayed frum but not chasiddish.
Form the Hungarian/Romanian side, the Casualties was much less, since the Nazis didn’t really take over Budapest until 1944, the orthodoxy stayed much more intact. Therefore, most orthodox people who came over from Europe after the war, where Hungarian. However, there was almost no of such a thing as Chasidis in Hungary. When they came to America the ones who established Yiddishkeit and provided for them both spiritually and physically, where Satmar, Tzehlem, Klausunburg, Pupa, who were are Hungarian Rabbi’s in Europe. They turned them all into Chasisdisis and all their followers gave in their caps for shtreimlich.
Both of my grandfathers where clean shaven, however all my uncles were shteimlich, well almost, but all their kids. Now even though we are not Chasidish per se, we all speak Yiddish, and we put on the garb because we don’t want them to kick our kids out from the school, but in general we don’t want to lead a very restrictive life. We don’t want to have to walk the streets in ninety degree weather with a fur hat on our head and a bekeshe, which is basically a black plastic bag.
Do we like it? Nah, but we have no choice, we love our families, our surroundings our Tahoes, our hot Chani’s, our Choolent, and all the amenities that come along, and not willing to give it up.
So “heimish” really, in our sphere, means Chasidic/Hungarian/warm background, but not necessarily willing to give up the Big Event, their Yankee/Mets baseball, or to swarm Miami every winter. We will sing Zemiros with our kids, Go to a rebbe to cut our three year olds’ hair, and put on his tifillin at the Rebbe, live the ghetto life, some go for a kvitill before Yomim NoRa’im, and if god forbid a tragedy happens. But in general non-affiliated.
Kind of a happy medium put it has many faults and in a different comment I will discuss those.
We gave our full seal of approval to this outstanding video, a valuable and unique contribution to obective, sane, Jewish cultural history. Sans BS, and wonderful and true.
Note how he flings the tzitzis in your face, but one’s eyeballs hang out looking for the kissoy rosh. Interesting. GBU reb yid.