The center of Chabad gravity permanently moved to the grave. It’s not longer 770, of course. In this, it follows the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (burial chamber) in Jerusalem, the site of the tomb. Similarly, Rome evolved around the tomb of St. Peter. Just to underline this fact, Shais Taub, a professional propagandist who is shrewdly attuned to the business potential of the ideology, purchased a property in the neighborhood.
Leave Trump out of it, it’s a campaign event. But all assembled Jews have one thing in common, they don’t hold a real job, they don’t create. Even Ben Shapiro, who reacts and comments to the current evens in front of a video recording for living. Remember, less than four years ago in 2016, Shapiro advocated against Trump! I sometimes wonder how a dork, with an annoying nasal delivery and pedestrian but quick logic, could be so popular. But he is an ultimate PR man, and Ramash, Chabad craves PR like a junkie craves dope. It’s Ramash’s legacy. Shemtov will kiss Biden's (anyone’s) ass with the eager enthusiasm of a lackey. As Hamas rallies testify, it’s the bizarre twilight of the Jewish America. Put a stone on it.
We do remember Judaism of old, two thousand years of heroic resistance. And then Menachem Mendel Schneerson said, why fight them, join them. Let’s become a one religion. As the Jacobson brothers quip, always laughing. Could these two, especially the younger brother, do anything but a standup? The jokes are at the premium in that cult-ure and, of course, the joke is on you.
It’s like the incomprehensible twist of fate, we left the CCCP to escape communism only to witness America and the west going Marxist. And to witness your religion not only merge with Christianity but become an absolute mainstream in America? We were proudly counterculture. We thought it was the essence of the Jewish idea.
עולם הפוך ראיתי עליונים למטה ותחתונים למעלה
In an outlandish and symbolic moment, Trump read from the Siddur and then innocently asked the attending Rabbi: “Do you want me to sign it?” Not understanding that in his preformative role, he supposed to bow before God, you lowly human. The more he genuflects by the grave, the better. Ultimately, Judaism is a cemetery cult, just ask the Rebbe in Uman or Jesus. At least his tomb, we know for sure, is empty.
With Hasidism as the successor to Sabbateans it was really inevitable. There, the moranos fought and resisted Christianity so much that they subliminally (or de facto) joined with it. It’s the promised land of the American idealism. As the tenor sung a rousing and touching “Ave Maria” at the Trump rally, I cried and thought we are just one family, the Trump movement, the revolution, so witness our prayers to the Mother of God, the sacred Shechina.
Like with Jesus, the religion was formed by people who never saw the savior. We just happened to be there. So we scream in vain, we are the resistance of old. We are the sons of the two thousand years of resistance. But no one cared for the reality ever. Less truth, the better, until the coffin is empty…
I still remember the spirit. On this Rosh Hashone I was thinking about the lack of a personal connection to God. I remember the lack of a personal connection to the Rebbe. It was a sad and lonely time. Hours of farbengers with repetition of the same slogans over and over. The totalitarian cult that was only so familiar to a man from the CCCP. But we are cursed, we are the sons of resistance.
No worries, you can tell yourself all the stories you need and fervently desire. Who is to stop you? Especially if it helps to feel mainstream.
MAGA?
I sometimes wonder if the decay could be stopped. No matter, there is always a resurrection! Gmar Tov!
Why do they call it an Ohel, there is no roof?
It's a strange event.
Trump ,the fool he is was convinced by handlers that Chabad is Judaism. As Rav Shach stated it's the religion closest to Judaism,but to me it seems closer to Madison Ave,Hollywood and pop culture
Chabad without a leader is not Chabad,rather it's a sophisticated PR apperatus good at fund raising but offering zero in genuine Jewish feeling or spirituality. What pray tell me was the Rebbe's unique spiritual message to us?
Many contemporary Chasidim leaders have commented I about the idiocy of current Chabad. But I'll protect their identity but as one said Chabad has lost its soul,how sad,it makes me cry eykh naflu giborim !
The background to all of this is a massive number of young people mostly geza joining. OTD or Bud Lite brand . But the so called leadership there only is concerned about PR ,fund raising and a massive amount of internal strife not over halacha or ruchnius as in days of Mittler Rebbe and Reb Aaron but over power kavod and money. Of course nepotism reigns on all levels of Chabad!!
Yes indeed Eyn od milvado,there is nothing in Chabad as important as their own massive egos. It's all about money PR ETC
In these Yeme Horachamim I urge 770 to return to the derech of the first 6 leaders avderrch of pnimius a derech of study hence the moniker Chabad and a derech the opposite of their current triumphalism.
Start by initiating a serious conversation about spiritual leadership ,beyond finely combed facial growth,juvenile humor and a need for kavod and more and more power and nepotism.
Chadesh yameinu kekedem,in the words of Rabbi Zalman Schneerson -noch dos benk ikh - I yearn for the real glory days of Chabad. when Chabad chasid presented a unique portrait of an ADAM.
Gmar chadima Tova to all
Iconic Picture.