Monday, April 30, 2007

No-one goes near Chabad with a ten foot pole

OJoe commenting to mentalblog.com: Save the Tzig:

There isn’t only one website which kvetches about 'snags'. There are dozens. Most of them are run by 'snags' who are commenting on what they see in their own community. The irony of Tzig is that he thinks that 'snags' are anti-Chabad because they are misnagdim. This is plainly ridiculous. The whole chassid-misnagid thing died decades ago. The most chareidi litvisher gets along just fine with Vishnitz, Belz, Bobov, Slonim, Skver, Ger, etc.... In fact, the entire rest of Klal Yisroel has moved on. Everyone but Chabad who cannot handle the fact that the rest of Klal Yisroel has REAL issues with their practices and theology. So they cocoon themselves in this silly idea that it’s all just 'Haters' who base their antipathy to Chabad not on the factual problems in Chabad, but in 200 year old Hisnagdus (which in reality no longer exists). It’s sad how clueless so many Chabad folks are at how and why they so precipitously fell out of favor with the rest of Klal Yisroel in just 2 or 3 decades. I remember how in the 80s every kid, even Litvishe, was a member of Tzivos Hashem and went to the Lag B’Omer parade. Now, no-one goes near Chabad with a ten foot pole. Let me clue in some Chabad defenders. It wasn't us who changed.

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