The culture of misnagdim

AFP - Yoav Lemmer

Despise the fact that Gil Student is singing about us being brothers, it is patently clear how little in common I and millions other Jews have with his brand of geek Judaism. The man can write some creationist abstractions post after post but here and now the lives of Jews leave him cold. Scarp that religion. Scar that worldview. This is Lakewood, this is Baltimore this is the culture of all of the misnagdim. At least NK has an emotional position on the matter. To say that G-d had this casuistic vision devoid of beauty as the formula for the religion is to void ourselves of humanity and the life itself. They don�s care for the dead because they are already dead inside.

P.S. During the war I took Yudel Shine off my blogroll. A Satmar? resident of Lakewood. Not a word about the war, yet the man can speak for hours about Rubashkin cows! This simply could not be what G-d had in mind. Even if that was exactly what G-d had in mind I do not want any part of it.