United Lubavitch of Thailand in Boston
Shlichus is the only respectable career path in Lubavitch. The field is ripe with tremendous competition and many young Lubavitchers find themselves in G-d forsaken places like Thailand.
I have no doubt the Shluchim are all special, but I question the purpose. For example according to their own account in Bangkok there are 150 Jews who comprise the city's standing community and 600 tourists found in the Kaosarn district popular among young backpackers. The latest I heard there are six Shluchim in Thailand. Every single Jew is important but I can�t see the need for six Rabbis except for their own parnosa (not a small thing indeed).
I say this at the backdrop of a major Jewish community in Boston full of hundreds of thousands of Jews where Lubavitch has been spectacularly ineffective. This picture repeats itself all over the word. Lubavitchers are successful in dying Jewish communities in Russia, elsewhere in Europe but the flop utterly in the face of a significant Jewish presence.
We have here Rabbi A. who thinks that his job is to make sure his school is the last place a Jewish child hears about Judaism. Rabbi B. thinks that his job is to hire somebody who will create an appearance of him doing his work so he can delegate all his efforts to preventing other Shluchim from entering his territory. His monopoly failed after 20 year struggle and recently many young Shluchim arrived to small towns around Boston but they are yet to have any impact. We have Rabbi C. who thinks that the way to bring Jews closer to Judaism is to speak incomprehensively using a language he barely knows. It's all indicative of the chronic lack of structure or plan. There are 50,000 Russian Jews in Boston and nobody who can speak to them (don't even get me started). It breaks my heart that they and others disappear as Jews. Meanwhile there are six Shluchim in this little shitty, 150 Jew strong, whore house called Thailand who spam the entire universe with pleas for help. You can stick that refrigerated mitzvah tank up your tsunami ass!
I have no doubt the Shluchim are all special, but I question the purpose. For example according to their own account in Bangkok there are 150 Jews who comprise the city's standing community and 600 tourists found in the Kaosarn district popular among young backpackers. The latest I heard there are six Shluchim in Thailand. Every single Jew is important but I can�t see the need for six Rabbis except for their own parnosa (not a small thing indeed).
I say this at the backdrop of a major Jewish community in Boston full of hundreds of thousands of Jews where Lubavitch has been spectacularly ineffective. This picture repeats itself all over the word. Lubavitchers are successful in dying Jewish communities in Russia, elsewhere in Europe but the flop utterly in the face of a significant Jewish presence.
We have here Rabbi A. who thinks that his job is to make sure his school is the last place a Jewish child hears about Judaism. Rabbi B. thinks that his job is to hire somebody who will create an appearance of him doing his work so he can delegate all his efforts to preventing other Shluchim from entering his territory. His monopoly failed after 20 year struggle and recently many young Shluchim arrived to small towns around Boston but they are yet to have any impact. We have Rabbi C. who thinks that the way to bring Jews closer to Judaism is to speak incomprehensively using a language he barely knows. It's all indicative of the chronic lack of structure or plan. There are 50,000 Russian Jews in Boston and nobody who can speak to them (don't even get me started). It breaks my heart that they and others disappear as Jews. Meanwhile there are six Shluchim in this little shitty, 150 Jew strong, whore house called Thailand who spam the entire universe with pleas for help. You can stick that refrigerated mitzvah tank up your tsunami ass!
posted by Tzemach Atlas at 9:19 PM
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