tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post3860533538801942697..comments2024-01-30T02:37:28.387-06:00Comments on Notes from a Jewish Thoreau: Do clothes make the Hasid?Yonassan Gershomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-64938972430467824742018-08-16T15:48:49.747-05:002018-08-16T15:48:49.747-05:00Appears I am about 5 years late in leaving a comme...Appears I am about 5 years late in leaving a comment but I could not resist because the picture of you in the blue shirt made me smile. I've never seen a Hasidic man wear colorful clothing. I grew up and lived in Lakewood, NJ until I was in my late 30s and I've only seen the adult Hasidic males wearing the black outfits. Since there's a large Yeshiva in the town, perhaps that had something to do with it? Most of the Hasidim in Lakewood are "city folks" who know little about animals or farming. You remind me more of the "old timers", the Jews who came to Lakewood after WWII, many of whom were builders and chicken farmers back in the 50s and 60s. Most of them were Conservative or Reform, if memory serves me correctly. <br /><br />Getting back to the clothing-thing, you are correct, in that the color of your clothing is no indication of whether you are Hasidic. Your comment means even more, now that I've just finished reading both your books on the Holocaust/Reincarnation. I know it's who you've always been. :)NochEinmalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03458368619529606859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-23693039289639967022013-08-18T01:14:53.012-05:002013-08-18T01:14:53.012-05:00And then there is this:
http://www.youtube.com/wat...And then there is this:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSoMvDJyp0w<br /><br />Lots of white on the heads of the Na Nach. Looks like they are having fun, be warned the tune is sticky<br /><br />Be happy<br /><br />Regards<br />TonyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-34008673657356226142013-08-15T15:34:31.800-05:002013-08-15T15:34:31.800-05:00And then there was the guy on YouTube, who posted ...And then there was the guy on YouTube, who posted this list of insults on one of my video pages:<br /><br />"Yonassan Gershom is a complete and total fraud. he is no rabbi at all. rather, he is a self-hating Jew, a left wing liberal lunatic marxist islamofascist loving gay homosexual. and those are his good points."<br /><br />This was so ludicrous I burst out laughing. How can you be a fascist and a Marxist at the same time? And I doubt many Islamic extremists are gay -- at least not openly. Clearly this guy just opened a list of canned epithets. (I'll claim liberal though, that's no insult for me!)<br /><br />As for "self-hating Jew," I went to this guy's channel, expecting to find some Haredi halachah cop in Israel -- instead, I an empty profile page and nothing but secular videos on his feed, much of it drivel, and none of it obviously Jewish. So why does he even CARE who I am or what I do? He must really hate vegetarians...<br />"Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.com