Rabbosy,
I am speaking to you today about a dangerous ailment that effects the frum community each year around Succos time. As we all know, our dear gadol Harav Shalom Rubashkin shlita has been ruined by an anti-Semitic decree against because people allegedly knew of him breaking child labor laws, there is no proof and most of the children had to work to food on the table anyway, but I am not here to speak of that outrage. The outrage I speak of is the child labor laws being broken in public by our own yeshiva buchrim and young ones in the minhag ysrael of allowing them to sell the arba minim.
I was walking down main street in Kew Garden Hills on erev succos and I was mamish flabergasted at what I saw taking place. Dozens of children, not even teenagers, mamish children were seen hocking lulavim, esrogim and all of their condiments on the street to adults. Any cop could have driven by and arrested dozens of their pimps (the adult hockers who run the underage lulav sales rings in Queens) This would have been a chillul Hashem unlike Rubashkin who is obviously innocent and even a martyr, these hocker lulav pimps will be caught red handed.
Rabbosy, I beg of you to heed my words, take the children inside the empty cell phone stores,m flower shops and old pizzarias to sell the arba minim and send older buchrim outside so we are not caught with our bekishes down.
Very funny, I laughed out loud , also that last line “so we are not caught with our bekishes down.” really capped it off nicely.
Not only that, but I heard that the yeshivas also have their (under age) kids selling candy bars and chocolates in school fund raisers!
And what about the girl scouts . . . I think you have just uncovered the tip of the iceberg.
Don’t you know that a mitzvah is not tirchah , hence selling lulavim and esrogim is not bageder child labor, because it’s bchlall not labor.
” … mamish children were seen hocking lulavim, esrogim and all of their condiments on the street to adults.”
I think we should take that somewhat peculiar phrase with a large pinch of salt.
Honestly bro you just went too far joking about rubashkin Im not going to be reading this website anymore and so will most of my friends after hearing this
have to agree with you there, not really something to joke about
I understand your feelings, Dude, and I respect them – but in this case my support (if so requested) would have to go to Heshy.
Living outside the United States I feel that I can looking upon the SMR saga fairly dispassionately. Yes, SMR’s conviction was definitely justified, although the length of the sentence handed down was harsh.
But leaving all that aside, I was astonished at how ??”? are idolizing this convicted fraudster. If we were Catholics and not Jews SMR would be well on his way to canonisation and having his own annual ??? ???.
But you are quite right in expressing your opinions, Dude, and I am sure the rest of us will respect them.
It’s like two different people are writing this article. Yet both of them are crazy funny and ridiculously absurd.
I understand your feelings, Dude, and I respect them – but in this case my support (if so requested) would have to go to Heshy.
Living outside the United States I feel that I can looking upon the SMR saga fairly dispassionately. Yes, SMR’s conviction was definitely justified, although the length of the sentence handed down was harsh.
But leaving all that aside, I was astonished at how ‘anash’ are idolizing this convicted fraudster. If we were Catholics and not Jews SMR would be well on his way to canonisation and having his own annual Yom Tov.
But you are quite right in expressing your opinions, Dude, and I am sure the rest of us will respect them.
Ha! So true. What about yeshivas recruiting little kids to go door-to-door collecting money for their institution? Thats the real pimping situation where you feel bad turning down the cute kid who thinks he’s doing a mitzvah. Though I guess it could be classified under chinuch since the skills may come in handy down the road when they have to approach their father-in-law because the kollel check doesn’t cut it.