By now, I hope that readers know that my main website is https://beisvaad.blogspot.com/
That being the case, I have the latitude to post here the type of thing I used to post when this blog was anonymous, before I married off all of my children.
So here's the observation from your humble éminence grise.
There are things in Jewish life that are polarizing. By that I mean that people's attitude toward them is not a bell curve, it is an inverted bell curve, a bi-modal distribution that falls to a trough between two peaks. In English, that means that you either love them or hate them.
I immediately thought of two examples. The first was inspired by the approaching onset of Slichos.
Chazzanus
P'tcha
I would be happy to hear more suggestions.
More:
A Tisch
A Kumzits
Gefilteh Fish
Arak
Someone suggested Shtreimels, but I think that since more than ninety five percent of Lithuanian Jewry was murdered, and the escapees in South Africa always included Lubavitchers, the Litvaks have basically given up, and even if they're "misnagdim," seeing Chassidishe behavior as a farce is no longer common in the Frum community. Especially considering the Torah gadlus of the Gerrers.
That being the case, I have the latitude to post here the type of thing I used to post when this blog was anonymous, before I married off all of my children.
So here's the observation from your humble éminence grise.
There are things in Jewish life that are polarizing. By that I mean that people's attitude toward them is not a bell curve, it is an inverted bell curve, a bi-modal distribution that falls to a trough between two peaks. In English, that means that you either love them or hate them.
I immediately thought of two examples. The first was inspired by the approaching onset of Slichos.
Chazzanus
P'tcha
I would be happy to hear more suggestions.
More:
A Tisch
A Kumzits
Gefilteh Fish
Arak
Someone suggested Shtreimels, but I think that since more than ninety five percent of Lithuanian Jewry was murdered, and the escapees in South Africa always included Lubavitchers, the Litvaks have basically given up, and even if they're "misnagdim," seeing Chassidishe behavior as a farce is no longer common in the Frum community. Especially considering the Torah gadlus of the Gerrers.
