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you should get a job

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Gee, I thought it was the Haraidim who were a bunch of shnorers.

[Anon]

I have a proven successful method of fundraising. YOU GET A JOB AND BECOME A PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF SOCIETY.

Well, I guess THESE guys won't be sending you any money. N

[Rachel Batya]

That was me. I hope others will contribute. You do a real public service here.

[MalachHamovies]

In the next few days, i will be sending $200.

The rest of you imbeciles who criticize shmayra can support yeshivas (who send out their students to schnorr for them) who allow our and your children and grandchildren to get molested.

And, Anon, Do you inform a rosh yeshiva when he tells his talmidim not to get a job or to go to college that he is preventing them from making a decent living and becoming a productive member of society ?? Why do you give them a pass ??

Just make believe that Shmayra is learning in Kollel. Except that he is not asking for $100,000 up front from his future father-in-law.

[Anon]

--In the next few days, i will be sending $200.--

Why not today?

--Why do you give them a pass ??--

I don't give anyone a pass. But at least they convince themselves that they are following some higher calling that warrants their asking the rest of us for money. Shmarya doesn't do squat. If he were to get off his behind and actually do something to address the issues he blogs about I would consider donating. But for doing nothing other than blogging - if he wants I'll mail him my the leftovers from my Rubashkin salami sandwitch so that he has something to eat.

--Except that he is not asking for $100,000 up front from his future father-in-law.--

duh, of course not. He can't even find a girl willing to date him.

[Jen]

I find it ironic that people who frequently post anonynmous vicious remarks keep coming back regularly to read the blog.

[MalachHamovies]

Ok. I will do it today. Thanks !

Shmayra job is to expose the issues. Our leaders job is to address and resolve them.

I'm sure that he can "find" a girl. But he is obviously on a higher mission. You know. like exposing the present and shameful injustices, and also the ones that have occurred for the past 60 years perpetrated by the orthodox jewish establishment.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Ok. I will do it today. Thanks !

Shmayra job is to expose the issues. Our leaders job is to address and resolve them.

I'm sure that he can "find" a girl. But he is obviously on a higher mission. You know. like exposing the present and shameful injustices, and also the ones that have occurred for the past 60 years perpetrated by the orthodox jewish establishment.

Posted by: MalachHamovies | September 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM

There was this German fellow who also didn't get married because he was on a higher mission.

But then, as Berlin fell and the end was near he married her a day before committing suicide.

[yidandahalf]

I'll Paypal today too. What about the Lone Wanker, Getzel? His family gave Reb Ariel Sokolovsky a whopping ten dollars.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Can I contribute by sending box-tops from macaroni and cheese packages?

[Yochanan Lavie]

UO: It is ridiculous and trivializing of the Shoah to implicitedly compare Shmarya to Hitler. If you hate him so much, don't waste you time reading his blog.

[Gid Hanasher]

I will give $300. its the money I saved by not eating meat since the original raid in May.
better it goes to shmarya who uses it to fight corruption in the charedi community.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Yo - I never mentioned the Holocaust. There is more to Adolf Hitler than the Holocaust just as there is more to Shmarya than his hatred of all things Orthodox.

They share the claim to 'on a higher mission'.

What is the use of giving up Orthodoxy if your going to spend your whole life wottying about it? Time to move on.

And why should I stop reading his blog? It is very entertaining.

[Rachel Batya]

--I find it ironic that people who frequently post anonynmous vicious remarks keep coming back regularly to read the blog.--

Amazing, isn't it? Apparently, some people have nothing better to do than to keep repeating that Shmarya should have something better to do than running this blog that some people have nothing better to do than to read and to post to about how Shmarya should have something better to do than running this blog.

Who would do this for free? If you can afford it, send the man some money.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

On TV we can watch reality shows but don't get to comment as the poor bastards make fools of themselves.

Here we get to watch the workings of a brain on an anger overdose and even get to comment on it.

What a deal!

[Rachel Batya]

Ever notice how pissed off people are that Shmarya is angry? They're so angry that Shmarya is angry. He should stop being so angry. Then they wouldn't be angry anymore. But till then, they're going to be very, very angry, all because Shmarya is angry.

And what is he angry at? Trivia! Child molestation. Animal cruelty. Bigotry. Wow, that Shmarya--he really sweats the small stuff. No wonder he makes people so angry.

I wonder what these people were like before Shmarya started this blog and drew them in with his super powers.

[R]

Chabad Embezzlement Scandal Widens

Shmarya, was there any follow-up to this story? It seems to have disappeared off the radar screens completely.

[Yochanan Lavie]

I wonder why people are obsessed with Shmarya's marital status?

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Angry at Shmarya's anger?

Not me!

I find it amusing and entertaining.

[Shmarya]

Chabad Embezzlement Scandal Widens

Shmarya, was there any follow-up to this story? It seems to have disappeared off the radar screens completely.

Israel law enforcement works differently than many other countries.

From the time of first questioning to trail can take a couple years.

Expect more news in this fall, I'd think.

[Rachel Batya]

--I wonder why people are obsessed with Shmarya's marital status?--

You mean, all those interminable (and cleverly original) posts that say, "Shmarya, you should get a woman"? They're talking about themselves. If there were a woman in the house, she'd have hit them upside the head already for spending so many fruitless hours on this topic.

[Gid Hanasher]

I gave $300. I was going to give to my Shul's Kol Nidre appeal, but I think this cause is more worthwhile.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Bechira Chofsheet (apologies to Rush. Geddy Lee is MOT)

There are those who think that Judaism
Has nothing left to chance
With a host of holy horrors
To direct our fabrengen dance

An Ohel of playthings
We dance on the tzitzit
Of powers who love to deceive
The opposition's not aligned ---
And the rebbe-gods are malign
Blame is better to give than receive

You can choose a ready guide
In some rabbinic voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice

You can choose from phantom chumrot
And blindness that can kill
I will choose a derech that's clear
I will choose free will

There are those who think that they've been dealt a losing hand
The [rabbi]cards were stacked against them ---
They must eat from the Rubbishcan

All preordained
Like Yosef in chains
A victim of venomous bretheren
Kicked in the face
You can pray for a place
In a rebbe's unearthly Sanhedrin

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
A Failed Messiah
With a heart on fire
On a truth hunt
That won't be defeated...

[rebitzman]

++It is ridiculous and trivializing of the Shoah to implicitedly compare Shmarya to Hitler.++

There is a rule in the Jewish blog world = the first one to bring Hitler into the argument - loses the argument.

Doesn't matter what the argument is.

What happened with the Oorah petting zoo?

[Shmarya]

What happened with the Oorah petting zoo?

I don't know. I haven't had time to check it out.

[LES Apikores]

I just gave a small donation. The site is part of my daily read, least I can do is give it some support.

[formely frum]

Angry at Shmarya's anger?

Not me!

I find it amusing and entertaining.

Posted by: Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed | September 22, 2008 at 03:34 PM

why not pay for your entertainment do you pay for cable or go to baseball game movie.

Look at it this way by exposing it he is doing something, without exposure nothing will be done, since very few would know about it. Or, the public will be in the dark and the powers to be will feel no heat from the public and not do anything about it.

in history many things changed because of the press and now bloggers

Shmarya, does a good job and most of the times backs up what he says with facts. You might not agree with his conclusion but at lest he does not talk out of his ass like many people who commnet here

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

++It is ridiculous and trivializing of the Shoah to implicitedly compare Shmarya to Hitler.++

There is a rule in the Jewish blog world = the first one to bring Hitler into the argument - loses the argument.

Doesn't matter what the argument is.

Posted by: rebitzman | September 22, 2008 at 05:30 PM

I've never accused Shmarya of being part of the Jewish world.

[state of the Jews]

Shmarya:
Just out of curiosity, how many people read FM per month?

[rebitzman]

++I've never accused Shmarya of being part of the Jewish world.++

And you're not Chabad?

Right.

Regardless - I was referencing your silly comment to begin with.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Please. I didn't insult you, please do not insult me.

[rebitzman]

++Please. I didn't insult you,++

Ah, but you did.

The nano-second you compared Shmarya to Hitler.

And for the record - I would have been equally offended regardless of who you had so compared.

++please do not insult me++

No need - you're doing a tremendous making an ass of yourself without me chiming in.

Carry on.

[Neo-Conservaguy]

Bechira Chofsheet (apologies to Rush. Geddy Lee is MOT)

There are those who think that Judaism
Has nothing left to chance
With a host of holy horrors
To direct our fabrengen dance

Now, where's my old electric guitar - it's time to jam. That was worth an extra donation right there.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thank you, Neo. Good to hear from you.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

So, by that line of 'thought', it would be wrong to describe a person's mustache by saying it was the same style as Hitler's.

Correct?

[Rebitzman]

++So, by that line of 'thought', it would be wrong to describe a person's mustache by saying it was the same style as Hitler's.++

Are you suggesting that's all you think you did? Because everyone here read "There was this German fellow who also didn't get married because he was on a higher mission.

But then, as Berlin fell and the end was near he married her a day before committing suicide."

Like I said - you don't need my help. You're doing a FINE job in the "making an ass on oneself" department.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

At least I'm not on a 'higher mission' like the failure who sits in his mother's bunker finding fault with everyone but himself.

Whoops. Basement.

[Archie Bunker]

Is that really true that the Rubashkins donated money to Sokolovsky?

[Anonymous]

This blog is a true public service. A donation to Shmayra is a much better value then a "donation" to the Cunin Telethon.

[Jerome Soller]

To Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed (unintelligent and clueless),
It is great that you are starting to compare Jews to Hitler, something the Palestinian propagandists love to do. Sometimes, people's posts reflect their own insecurities. Channeling Sigmund Freud (a Jewish psychologist) :) , you must living in your mother's basement and have a thing for German men with mustaches. Maybe, un-orthodox, you should get a job and stop spending your time making posts that disrespect the memories of the people that died in the Shoah (holocaust).

Jerome

[yidandahalf]

AB, it is true. But he said they only gave him ten dollars. It is posted on FM and it was before Ariel himself asked for help for a woman. Some of us gave him money btw. I pestered him til he admitted rubash-in gave him money. After that things went further downhill with his claiming I myself must be taking money from somewhere and so on.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Jerome,

Mentioning that Shmarya suffers from similar symptoms of mental illness as did Adolf Hitler is no more equating the two than if I mentioned that Shmarya walks with a similar gait as JFK would be the same as equating the two of them.

I noted that the two of them seemed to suffer from similar personality disorders. That in no way means I consider them to be equally evil.

The memories of the six million kedoshim is neither respected or disrespected by my comments.

As for getting a job, I was thinking of going on a 'higher mission' so I could give up my efforts at supporting the family. Sure relieved Shmarya of that task.

[Shochad]

To Getzy Rubashkins should donate to this blog. Shochad works. It will bend his mind even if he says it wont. There are many stories from Chazal about how it bends peoples minds

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Shochad - His is one mind that does not need any more bending!

[R]

Shmarya i think someone else is posting using my initial and it isn't me. So either they get themselves a new knickname or i will have to use a different one.

[Shmarya]

Shmarya i think someone else is posting using my initial and it isn't me. So either they get themselves a new knickname or i will have to use a different one.

I'll take care of it. Thanks for telling me.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

uh oh. R has given Shmarya another Higher Mission. Watch Out. The rest of the letters might be in big trouble.

Should we expect a new blog - Failed Alphabet?

BTW, R, Are you the same R I heard about on TV the other day? My granddaughter was watching TV and I heard an announcer at the end of the show announce "Today's Sesame Street was brought to you by the numbers 3 and 7 and the letter R".

Relative of yours, perhaps?

[Yochanan Lavie]

UO: Why attack the person who goes by R? Has this person done anything to you?

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Huh?

[Rachel Batya]

--UO: Why attack the person who goes by R? Has this person done anything to you? --

Yochanan, UO is all over the map, and is just playing with people in snide, silly, and juvenile ways. Sometimes he acts like an ultra-Orthodox guy who hates Shmarya; sometimes, he sounds like an un-Orthodox guy trying to help the MO get free of the ultra-O.

But most of the time, he just sounds like a contemptuous guy who enjoys confounding people and jerking them around, and who thinks he's therefore more clever than everyone else. When we respond, he sometimes answers with an actual argument, but most of the time he posts the equivalent of "Huh?" as though he didn't understand the question or you didn't understand his response.

He thinks his game is fun, and that is his right. I don't, so I don't play.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Much psycho babble about a little humor.

Lightrn up lady. This isn't real life.

In real life no one would pay any attention to the ramblings of the Big Failure.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

Lighten up lady. No one is attacking poor "R".

btw, you have missed the obvious: I might be Ultra - Unorthodox.

[Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed]

And I am not trying to help the Modern Orthodox (or anyone else) free themselves of the Ultra Orthodox (or anyone else).

I merely point out that the Modern Orthodox are just as much to blame as anyone else so they have no right to try and sound better than the Haraidim.

[meyer]

Un-Orthodox and Unimpressed - you rock!

[meyer]

"why not pay for your entertainment do you pay for cable or go to baseball game movie."

Why should he? He's a cheap jew (just like shmarya)

Shmarya has a point you know.

No (other) circus lets you in for free.

[arabi]

I read the blog periodically to try to understand an alternative POV. the reason I wouldn't contribute to ithe blog -- and discourage others from contributing -- is because the blog is as narrow minded as it portrays the orthodox. Like most things, orthodox Judiasm has many beautiful features; unfortunately it has areas for improvement, often because "orthodox" are not adhering to tenets of the faith. To focus on flaws w/o ever recognizing the good is a serious character flaw of the blog and its leader.

[Let Down]

There was this German fellow who also didn't get married because he was on a higher mission.

But then, as Berlin fell and the end was near he married her a day before committing suicide.

Woop! Woop! Godwin's Law violation! Woop! Woop!

[Rachel Batya]

Hi Let Down, good to see you again.

[state of the Jews]

Shana Tova U'metukah
l'kulam

[Let Down]

Shalom Rachel, l'shana tova.

May you receive all you want in the coming year, but only after all you need, because without all you need, all you want is worthless.

[Rachel Batya]

--May you receive all you want in the coming year, but only after all you need, because without all you need, all you want is worthless.--

And sometimes when you get all you want, you realize it wasn't what you wanted after all!

Shana tova u'm'tuka,
Rachel

[steve]

Shmarya and Friends,

Wishing you all a K'Siva V'chasima Tova!

[Jerome Soller]

Shmarya,
May you have health, happiness, and success in the new year, and continue to help those that cannot protect/defend themselves.

Jerome

[Shmarya]

L'shana tova u'metuka to you all, as well.

And thank you…

[Yochanan Lavie]

Shanah tovah to Shmarya and the entire FM community- including the critics.

[HAHAHHAHA]

I wonder why people are obsessed with Shmarya's marital status?

Posted by: Yochanan Lavie

Because the men who tell him to get a woman secretly love him.