Beltzer Tish

Belz Rav Chanuka '05, originally uploaded by yr514.

Comments to mentalblog.com: Multiple choices in the Belzer Rebbe Head

Zeitgeist:

Regardless of his outer appearance, and even Belzers know that the Belzer Rebbe suffered a serious nervous/mental breakdown connected to the pressures (mostly financial) of putting up his huge synagogue in Jerusalem, the fact remains that the man must have a lot of IQ grey matter because he is reputed to have the skills and abilities of a high-powered empire-building CEO who knows how to move all his chess pieces like a grandmaster and exaactly how to stir the political pot in Israel his own favor with tons of cash always pouring into his coffers.

Therefore, the correct diagnosis would be megalomania of a messianic complex kind which he encourages and his Chasidim feed in to and lap as it's fairly well known that they regard him as Moshiach.

He is obviously heavily depressed and has a severe eating disorder that indicates serious emotional and and physical trouble.

He may also be the victim of delayed post-traumatic stress disorder often shown by children of Holocaust survivors, a complex field of its own.

His obesity is an open sign of a sever eating disorder and it may be a way he "comforts" himself as a residue from his days as being orphaned at a young age.

To be somewhat Freudian, his obese body looks like a huge fat penis and it's a kind of "totem pole" of virility symbolically declaring that nobody's dick is bigger than mine and I am the "big" Indian Chief in more ways than one. If this were the days of King Solomon, no doubt that each Belzer Macher would have offered him one of his daughters as wife or a concubine.

So yes, while he is emotionally very immature, as most jabba-the-hut/North Korean-type tyrants really are, but his rational and thinking capacities are in the super-genius range and are probably in over-drive and he has a very good grasp of the human character and is able to read anyone who comes into his focus very well.

Also do not underestimate the esotoric teachings of the Chasidus and Kabbalah he was taught since an early age in the house of Viznitz and by his handlers who groomed him for this roile and still manage his every moment. They pander to his needs, as if he were a literal queen bee in her nest with all her minions of worker bees, disposable drones, and keepers of the hive. It is said that they built him a pure gold indoor mini-pond for him to do tashlich in, that sounds a lot like the pure gold toilet that was built for Elvis to make in.

Do not underestimate this man. He is dangerous.

evanstonjew: Here are some accomplishments of this rebbe:

1. He has consistently been on the side of trading land for peace.
2. He has given speeches saying able bodied men who are average in Torah studies should go out, earn a living and stop loafing.
3. He created a vigorous alternative to badatz shechita and in general broken the Litvish-Hungarian stranglehold on Jerusalem charedi politics.
4. When Agudah became a rubber stamp of the Gerer rebbe he helped create Degel Torah as an an alternative political party, accepted rotation and when they formed an alliance with Agudah caused the new UTJ to appeal to a larger charedi audience.
5. He created an outreach program to non frum Israelis.
6. He grew his community beyond their natural internal growth. Just compare the You-tube video of the son’s bar mitzvah in the 1980’s and the grandchild’s bar mitzvah this past year.
7. There is something about Belz that people find deeply moving. He found a way of recreating that feeling. I was hoping you would find a way to put it into words.
I hope I didn’t make too many mistakes…all this is from memory which is iffy these days.