Environmentalists have decided to attack the Jewish tradition of bonfires on Lag Baomer, so many orthodox Jews have decided to scrap the bonfire tradition this year. Jewish public relations have taken a big blow this year and they don’t need another PR scandal on their hands, especially when the big thing this year is to go green. Fortunately frummies have decided to take on environmentalists and use the bonfire minhag as an excuse to get rid of unwanted items – a frummy engineer has even developed a turbine to catch the increased heat from the bonfires expected this year in order to go green while burning the following unwanted items at the same time.
Leftover Indian hair sheitles
Slifkin Books
Accidental triangle-K purchases
Matisyahu CD’s
Denim Skirts
Chometz found on Pesach Sheini
Untznius Dolls
Computers without filters
The Kaballah Center Zohar set
Making of a Gadol books
NCSY Benchers
Low mechitzas
Sim Shalom Siddurs
Rainbow Flags
… and the bodies of untznius girls and young religious Zionists, no doubt.
This is another one of your pieces which could be funny if it weren’t kind of near-fetched.
Lol, lol, lol. That’s all I can say. I’m sure they will also burn photographs from the 30s-50s of religious Jews wearing light hats and jackets.
I am definitely NOT going to burn my denim skirt and my NCSY benchers. I am going to continue to keep them buried deep in my drawers and the back of the closet. They are part of my history but of course they are bad for my children’s shidduchim, so I am going to continue to keep them from seeing the light of day! SHHH, don’t tell the shadchan!
News items on VIN have mentioned that Obama effigies are popular this year. I don’t think that will play well on international news.
Do people ever actually try that commandment to love their neighbors? Speaking in terms of gay people, non-Jews, Muslims, African Americans, frummies, non-frummies, and everyone else in the world?
According to the “Real Torah Jews” that only applies to other Jews. Tanya teaches us that Gentiles are spiritually lower than whale dung while the worst yid has a special transcendent spiritual value.
That is one of the reasons I recycled my copy of Tanya.
God wouldn’t have made Gentiles human beings if they had a different kind of soul than Jews. Real Torah Jews should be teaching good things to the rest of the world, considering the rest of the world will treat Jews according to the example they have been given. Gentiles follow the Jews’ example, God set it up that way. Gentiles don’t treat people good if they believe someone has a less than human soul, like the Nazis for example.
Why can’t G-d make us the same in body and different in soul?He can do anything he wants. No one says Gentile soul is less then human. It is less then Jewish soul, but that doesn’t take away from it’s human factor. And no matter of the soul level, Jews are commanded to treat all creations, humans, and animals with proper respect.
How can you possibly compare Nazi genocide to the Jewish treatment of Gentiles?!!!
I don’t see how a Jewish soul and a Gentile soul can both be human but that they are not equal? It sounded similar to what the nazis believed, that there were such things as “sub-humans.”
There is no such thing as different soul levels in some religions, people who aren’t used to that belief from Judaism will not interpret it the same way as Jewish people do.
Sorry for referencing the nazis. I forget who I’m talking to, it just happened that the beliefs sounded similar.
Yawn just burn leftover pesach crap no ones gonna eat
ah…. remembering the glory days in Seminary when we had a ritualistic bonfire to establish our commitment to the Seminary by burning our romance novels and N’SYNC cds… (and yes, while the world may have become a better place with one less copy of Bye, Bye, Bye playing on repeat, I couldn’t help but feel the smoke burning my lungs instead of the sweet smell of dogmatic satisfaction) Anyone else experience this?
Why on earth would a frummie be in possession of a Sim Shalom Siddur??
I heard a comedian at the Eastside Comedy club say burning a Rainbow Flags, that is set it aflame is more of an endorsement than a protest.