#Chasidim

[johnthestitcher]

This Black Hat was delivered to my door today - and it almost fits correctly! (size 57 and I wear a 59) - Should I become a Black Hat? Join a Yeshiva? I didn’t order this! Is it a sign from Hashem?

[rotzaprachim]

Would they have come to the event if it allowed women in the audience? Like idk, there’s a lot of bad blood between yiddishistn and chasidish yiddishredners but people need to be a lot more honest about what puts boundaries up between the two communities. Gitl shaecter visnawath and Paul glasser knew chasidish book shops wouldn’t stock their “unkosher” dictionary because it contained words for body parts, many yiddishist events are not going o really attract chasidim if they have mixed gendered seating or women singing and publications will be off limits for showing girls and women. We need to incorporate chasidim into Yiddish but we also have to be honest about these things

[torahtot]

chasidish kid at the grocery called my mom a goy LMAO

[doubleca5t]

"rogue chasidim digging secret tunnels under a New York City synagogue" is the fakest sounding news story I've heard in a while I swear truth is always stranger than fiction

[todaysjewishholiday]

22 Tammuz 5784 (27-28 July 2024)

Shavua tov! Gut voch! Semana buena! Shabbat is over once havdalah is complete and another six days of labor begin.

The 22nd of Tammuz is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin, who died of his wounds on the 22 of Tammuz 5552 after being shot by a Cossack during the unrest that lead to the partition of Poland.

Shlomo was one of the third generation of Hasidic rebbes from the Baal Shem Tov. He was introduced to Hasidism by attending a shiur by Rabbi Aharon of Karlin, and impressed with the rabbi’s learning, asked “Where does one go to become so learned?” Rabbi Aharon replied, “You must go to Metzerich.” Shlomo said he would have to make the trip soon, and in his deep gratitude, asked Rabbi Aharon to come to his home for dinner. Rabbi Aharon declined, saying “If you are ready to go to Mezeritch, you should leave at once.”

Rabbi Shlomo became one of the Maggid’s closest pupils and then made his way to Karlin and became a close friend and supporter of the man who had first introduced him to chasidism. He then became Rabbi Aharon’s successor as rebbe of the chasidim there. Rabbi Shlomo was incredibly close to many of the other chasidish tzaddikim of his generation, even taking in two children of one of his contemporaries after their father’s death. One of his foster sons, Asher, became his successor as rebbe of the Karlin-Stolin Chasidim.

Rabbi Shlomo faced the obstacle of being the foremost representative of the chasidic movement in an area that was deeply dominated by the litvish opponents of chasidism. Near the end of his life he led his community away from Karlin to Ludmir to escape the opposition of the misnagedim.

In 5552 a war broke out in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth between the supporters and opponents of a new constitution, and once more the Jews of the territory were caught in the middle. Cossacks who sided with the intervening Russian Empire arrived in Ludmir on the sixteenth of Tammuz, and began firing on the prayer-hall, and a bullet struck the rebbe as he led the community in prayer. He died of an infection six days later.

Because of Rabbi Shlomo’s great emphasis on joy, his yahrzeit is celebrated by Karlin-Stolin chasidim as a reversal of the mourning practices of the three weeks, rather than as a cause for grief. A joyful man is remembered joyfully despite the violence of his death.

[bocceclub]

the chabad tunnel thing genuinely sounds like a seinfeld bit like kramer comes running in at the beginning of the episode and blurts out "THERE ARE CHASIDIM UNDER THE STREETS, JERRY! I'VE SEEN EM WITH MY OWN EYES!"

[passengerpigeons]

between the NY chasidim tunnel beef and that storm shelter girl on tiktok, we are truly in the era of DIY tunneling.....minecraft's influence

[newoldchaos]

Gotta say, I'm getting kind of annoyed at how all of the Jews in Fellow Travelers are either villains or dead. Jews have done so much work within the Queer community (like Harvey Milk) but their Jewishness is always left out. Tikkun Olam and Gemilut Chasidim has inspired myself and many other Jews for literally hundreds of years to fight for the acceptance and rights of Queer people. I wish that was talked about more.

Anyways read People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn

[jewishpositivity18]

There are many different sects of Judaism. Some groups, like the ultra-Orthodox Chasidim, are very strict about Jewish law and typically live in distinct, insular communities. Other Jewish people are more secular and are more lenient with ritual and religious law. All these different ways of being Jewish are valid and should be respected. Jewish diversity is a beautiful thing!

[murderballadeer]

considering i know you are studying linguistics (i just got my ling degree!) im asking 21 for the ask game

12 - if you could be fluent in any language which one would it be? yiddish in a heartbeat! like a lot of younger ashkenazi jews it was the first language of a lot of my relatives but i never got the chance to learn it bc people who emigrated to north america kinda stopped teaching it to their kids starting with my mom's generation (the chasidim being a notable exception), so i'd really love to be able to speak it

[rotzaprachim]

writing about the alternate yiddish modernities of yiddishistn and chasidim/charedi speakers, exemplified by the music videos of the vibers vs mendy twerski

the vibers

mendy twerski

[torahtot]

it's so crazy how everyone thinks the only yiddish speaking communities are chasidish when that is simply not true.. & people also wildly overestimate how isolationist chasidim are. but if you think of them like fictional characters of course you're gonna think that. how would you know

[girlactionfigure]

I heard this story from the legendary Rabbi Mendel Futerfas

Reb Mendel Futerfas was a famous Chabad mashpia and Chasid. He was involved in maintaining the underground network of Yeshivat Tomchei Temimim and overseeing the escape of hundreds of Lubavitcher Chasidim from the USSR in 1946. As a result of these efforts, Reb Mendel was caught and sent to the Siberian Gulag for eight years. He was known for his sharp wit and humor, and his well-attended farbrengens were interspersed with life lessons creatively deduced from his experiences in Siberia.

He told a story about a bird who found his lessons in the most unlikely of places:

Once upon a time, there was a nonconforming bird who decided not to fly south for the winter. However, soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly started southward. In a short time, ice began to form on his wings and he fell to earth in a barnyard, almost frozen.

A cow passed by and crapped on the little bird. The bird thought it was the end. But then the manure warmed him and defrosted his wings. Warm and happy, able to breathe, he started to sing and dance in the crap.

Just then a large cat came by and hearing the chirping, investigated the sounds. The cat cleared away the manure, found the chirping bird and promptly ate him.

Now, it may seem that there are no lessons here, but there are. In fact, there are three that Reb Mendel taught us:

1. Everyone who craps on you is not necessarily your enemy.

2. Everyone who gets you out of crap is not necessarily your friend.

3. If you’re warm and happy in a pile of crap, keep your mouth shut.

Rabbi Yisroel Bernath 

[todaysjewishholiday]

13 Tammuz 5784 (18-19 July 2024)

The Lubavitchers celebrate the twelfth and thirteenth of Tammuz in honor of the liberation of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, from a Soviet prison on the 13th of Tammuz 5687. Schneerson had been active in opposing the antisemitism of the Tsarist government, and had been repeatedly arrested before the Revolution for drawing attention to violence against the Jewish community. After the Revolution, he became an outspoken critic of state atheism and worked to expand the Lubavitchers network of yeshivas. This effort brought him into direct conflict with the Soviet government. He was arrested in the middle of Sivan 5687, and sentenced to death for counterrevolutionary activities. However, as he had been active for decades in working to bring the plight of Russian Jews to the attention of the international community, even before the revolution, his arrest immediately brought about an uproar of protest. After 27 days of imprisonment and interrogation with torture, the government bowed fully to the extensive pressure calling for his release. He was informed of the decision to free him on his birthday, the twelfth of Tammuz, and given his release papers and sent home on the thirteenth.

Soon afterwards the Rebbe departed for Riga in Latvia. This was the start of the migration of the Lubavitcher Chasidim out of Russia to the movement’s eventual new center in New York City.

Today is also Erev Shabbat. The most holy celebration of the Jewish calendar will begin eighteen minutes prior to sunset at the end of the 13th of Tammuz.

[maguneedsalife]

absolute doozy of a weirdo call at work today lads

(cw for antisemitism but the call is coming from inside the house)

Call from a self described chasidic Polish man (and he had the accent so I assumed he was legit.). Says he recently moved to the area and is looking for a synagogue that aligns with his political views (oh no). he says, "i went to a synagogue around here, and they had female rabbi, they had homosexuals, they had sephardim, they had goyim. tell me you aren’t like that."

and i said, trying not to grit my teeth, "well we are the synagogue with 2 female rabbis, a large lgbt community, and a bunch of sephardic folks, so uhhh I don't think we're what you're looking for, but maybe try [orthodox shul down the road]?"

somehow this does not deter him! a normal person would have hung up, but not this guy! he goes on to kvetch about his struggles to find a shul here, and gets increasingly racist and homophobic as he goes. 

He tried talking to me in Yiddish and asked why I couldn’t understand what he said if I was Jewish. He then asked if I was Ashkenazi, and when I said yes, he blessed me in Hebrew, saying his father said to bless all Ashkenazim. He mentioned being of proud Ashkenazi heritage and said his father taught him that “third-world trash” shouldn’t be allowed in Judaism, or in Europe, or in America. “Ashkenazi are the real Jews,” he informed me, “Sephardi, mizrahi—they are fake. They are no better than slaves for us, the real Jews.” With each outrageous claim he was expecting me to agree with him as if it's just "natural" for "real" jews to behave this way

I finally say to him "okay, so, I don't think we, the local gay synagogue, can help you." to which he responds "if you allow women rabbi and l-g-b-t you're not real jews, you're fake, you're worse than goyim.” so i hung up on him

the kicker: he mentioned that everywhere he goes people are “mean to him” and “treat him like idiot for being dumb, because he’s not very smart” (his words) and i was sitting there like. is it maybe possible people are mean to you because you’re a racist asshole?

i know chasidim hate women and lgbt folk, that's nothing new to me, but this was my first time hearing such raw hatred for non-ashkenazi (i.e. white european) jews. i was simply dumbfounded. i should've asked him if he knew that racist jews like him are the reason we don't have a temple anymore

[bwitiye]

hi im a college student from new york

interests: religion and its function in society, art, art history, history in general, japanese woodblock prints, the works of thomas aquinas, yukio mishima, stephen sondheim, prefab sprout, languages, chasidim, the soviet union, old music, modern music, rossellini’s the flowers of st francis

im also always open to new friends =)