Emese Yid
Barf
A new music video came out today, cleverly parodying TYH.
The music video points out the various issues of the TYH movement and decides to double down on the root cause that caused this movement in the first place!
I’ll just point out that Ashkenazim do not keep the Shulchan Aruch, and neither did Sefardim before a certain date.
This is the Jewish equivalent of celebrating America via this song:
If that was all American patriotism was about, I too would violently revolt against Vietnam. V’dai Lechakima Beremiza.
DYK Torah Journal, This is why I revolt against yeshivish Judaism. Not Smartphones.1
It’s the emptiness of pretending to find meaning in just doing what the Zaidies did and threatening Yom Hadin if they don’t. That’s not meaning, just peer pressure from dead people. Especially when the Zaidies actually didn’t do it.
Previous posts on this:
I think smartphones are terrible, but the religious battle against them pointless. I read the Tech Talk every week for all the gems about it. This past week had an awesome one which really illustrated the Chareidi idiocracy on this subject and is somewhat relevant to this post.
The anonymous ‘Rosh Kollel Shaar Halacha’ wrote about how dangerous AI is, and illustrated it by saying (quoted word for word):
The Rosh Yeshiva R Elya Ber Wachtfogel Shlita said recently unbelievable and remarkable words! He said he is willing to give up a week of his shiur to do whatever he can to save klal yisroel from the dangers of AI!!!
I don’t think I have to explain to our choshuve readers the depth and how unbelievable this statement is. A whole lot of pain and worry about AI in the heart of the Rosh Yeshiva Shlita caused him to say such drastic words of mesiras nefesh!
The self-parody of this is deep and unbelievable. A whole week!? Who can believe it!
This particular Tech Talk issue also includes the astute observation that
“When the Gedolim made the war against television they didn’t know what was on it either. And they didn’t need to because they have the daas torah on it….
This observation is a direct continuation of the logic in the (ironically AI) video of how the shulchan aruch supposedly works - magic.
And if the only inspiration in the system is basking in the depth and unbelievability of R Elya Ber’s AI statements, which is based on the insane yeshivish hasaga of the greatness of the shiur as shpitz yiddishkeit upholding the world, I’ll stick to flying carpets of the baba sali wanting to be like Zusha.
I know it’s a random example, but there’s many more.
I never use AI.
What bothers me most about the song is that they pronounce Shulchan Aruch with a decidedly Sephardic havarah, but then talk about our Zaidy's. Sabas, anyone?
Also interesting that they don't go to Iyun Gemara Learning as the Yom Hadin Bogeyman. Who is learning Shulchan Aruch straight up? Mishnah Berurah, anyone?
I think the point of the ditty though is to rollback the prominence of the hippie-dippie Carelbach feelgood neoChassidic rah-rah Judaism that is sweeping Am Yisrael (which is, to a large extent, a reaction to the Lita-centric hagiography worshipping neoMisnagdic one-size-fits-few Judaism that has been served up since the mid-80s) in favor of a more serious, prudent Yiddishkeit. Landing on "Shulchan Aruch," though, is a bit off the mark.
Most of our Zaidys didn't study much of anything, let alone Shulchan Aruch. If they were looking at a halachah sefer, it was most likely Chayei Adam. They were probably more likely to be found in a Chevra Mishnayos, or an Ein Yaakov chaburah. If they were learning at all, that is.
Chumash with Rashi, anyone?