Rabbi Smashes iPhone, Rants Against Those "Abominations" And "Vile Villains" Who Own One

“A religious person who owns this impure device is an abomination and a disgusting, vile villain.”

Rabbi Smashes iPhone, Rants Against Those Who Own One
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

In a synagogue in the Bnei Brak neighborhood of Pardes Katz yesterday, Rabbi Lior Glazer – reportedly called the “the preacher of uprightness” by his followers – asked his listeners to destroy their iPhones.

The rabbi ranted against the mother of all smart phones as one sat helpless before him on a table, and claimed it had destroyed lives.

“A religious person who owns this impure device is an abomination and a disgusting, vile villain,” Glazer fumed during his anti-smart-phone rant, which was reported by Devorah Ginzburg in Hebrew on haredi news website Lada’at and afterward by the Jerusalem Post.

When he finished condemning the iPhone and those who own one, Glazer recited a short prayer calling for the destruction the nation of Amalek, the biblical archenemy of the Jewish people and the rabbinic paradigm of all evil.

Then Glazer picked up a hammer and smashed the iPhone lying helplessly on the table in front of him over and over and over again until all that remained were small pieces.

Glazer’s anti-iPhone rant was part of a longer sermon calling for repentance before the Jewish High Holidays, which begin Sunday night.

[Hat Tip: The Lion.]

Comments

[MarkfromShortHills]

Thanks be to G-d for holiness and virtue! Smash the phone and suck the penis!

[Yosef ben Matitya]

must be an old version and the holy rabbi must be getting ready for the iphone 5.

[Time2Upgradel]

I assume he was an Android fan or decided to upgrade to the iPhone 5. Someone should tell him about eBay of Craigslist.

[Bob Guthrie]

Faker. Probably an old iPhone 3GS,... or there is a very pissed off Rebbe assistant walking around Pardes Katz right now:

"Oi, Moshe, can I borrow your iPhone for a sec?."
"No proble, Rav. Your Samsung Galaxy III outta juice?."
"Yeah,... sure. Out of juice. Your phone insured?."
"Naw, my Apple care ran out yesterday."
"(Thy be it G-d's will then)."
"Pardon, Rav?."
"Nothing. See you after the service, Mosh. Shalom."

[gary]

These ultra-orthodox rabbis see the handwriting on the wall. When their followers can access the world through information, their house of cards will come crashing down, and the light of day will come pouring in. And it scares the hell out of these zealots.

[Bob Guthrie]

The “the preacher of uprightness” will need to get that stick out of his arse to sit down after he reads this news out of the wire:

*Reuters:
"Sales of the new iPhone 5 could be double those of the previous model in its first week on the market, thanks to Apple's (AAPL) most aggressive smartphone launch plan yet, and up to 33 million iPhones may be sold this quarter, analysts said."

Better invest on a steamroller, rav.

Hey, I just became an abomination and a disgusting, vile villain!. My iPhone 5 Apple pre-order email got in!. Yes, half priced too. =D

Ah, destroy my life, Baby. ^.^

[Dave]

Its all about porn

[jancsipista]

It takes a vile person to know another vile person, he must be one himself if he sees it in others.

[TakeTwoAndCallMeInTheMorning]

Big news here! Thanks for keeping up posted.

Maybe someone should inform Samsung and they can use it in their ads. Pay him a few dollars to smash an iPad and have him hold two Galaxy "tablets", one in each hand,declaring that these are the only kosher ones.

[Korbendallas72]

The tool of his destruction - information.

It is incredibly satisfying to watch these backwards troglodytes grasp at the coattails of exile, praying the impostors can maintain their tyrannical stranglehold on us as their power slips away. I think that's what they're angriest about.

Bob, I still have my 3GS. This thing is the M1911-A1 of smartphones.

[Rebitzman]

Makes my decision to buy one easier.

I truly fear the day these guys discover the power of televangelism or the infomercial.

[SMR]

Sounds like ba'al taschis. Why wouldn't he sell the phone to a non-Jew and give the money to a poor family?

[No Light]

Of course they're scared. Smartphones are, essentially, the world in your hand.

Access to every piece of information on every subject, the ability to read books/listen to music and podcasts/watch video files. The antidote to religion. in one tiny, portable case.

[Garnel Ironheart]

Actually, as a person who relies on a cell phone I've come to hate mine. The sound of it ringing, especially at inconvenient times, is so damn annoying. My plan at my retirement party is to do what this Rav did - take out my cell, put it on the table and smash it with a hammer so I can be free of it and its constant demands on me.

[David]

Idiot. Even a fairly old iPhone is worth decent money on eBay. He should have sold it instead of snashing it and donated the proceeds to Tzdakah. But the frumma don't often do that, do they? And I forgot to mention, isn't there a Halacha against "wanton destruction" of this nature? To destroy a valuable and useful thing like an iPhome is absolutely prohibited.

[ThouShaltNotWaste]

Idiot. Even a fairly old iPhone is worth decent money on eBay. He should have sold it instead of snashing it and donated the proceeds to Tzdakah. But the frumma don't often do that, do they? And I forgot to mention, isn't there a Halacha against "wanton destruction" of this nature? To destroy a valuable and useful thing like an iPhome is absolutely prohibited.

Posted by: David | September 14, 2012 at 08:31 AM

I think it is high time to make it illegal to destroy something that has value. The religion realizes that it is wrong, it is time for the state to realize it as well.

[Measure]

Where does the line start to smash the heads and bodies of these idiots who are cultists and are spreading lies and are the real vile? Who is willing to donate hammers to smash these 'rabbis'?

[Eli, what me messiah?]

"Then Glazer picked up a hammer and smashed the iPhone lying helplessly on the table in front of him over and over and over again until all that remained were small pieces."

And then the took the pieces to the Apple Store and complained the damn thing was still under warranty yet look how it fell apart!

[Eli, what me messiah?]

Rabbis buying iPhones to smash them? More reason to buy Apple stock.

[lionroars]

yes and her hasnt stopped one domestic violence case or one molester bt he has smashed i phones

[Alter Kocker]

I want an iphone app that takes out a hammer and smashes idiot rabbis on the head.

Neanderthal fuck is scared that his followers will actually read something online, realize that he is a useless piece of shit that spouts nonsense and go out and get a life.

[rebeljew]

"looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

This famous Groucho gem that paraphrases earlier pundits was intended as a definition of ... wait for it ..... POLITICS! Perhaps overly politicized rabbis are worse than iPhones. Kvar kadmucha Groucho.

[PrettyBoyFloyd]

Fucking idiot.

Sent from my iPhone

[Lubavitchers are Christians]

Where does the line start to smash the heads and bodies of these idiots who are cultists and are spreading lies and are the real vile? Who is willing to donate hammers to smash these 'rabbis'?

Posted by: Measure | September 14, 2012 at 08:55 AM

Are you calling for violence against people who smash phones?

You are no different than fucking Muslims who kill our US Ambassador and bloody riot around the world, all because someone loaded a video to YouTube.

[danny]

Rabbi Glazer: “A religious person who owns this impure device is an abomination and a disgusting, vile villain.”

danny: "A religious person who sucks on the bleeding circumcision wound of an 8-day-old infant is an abomination and a disgusting, vile villain."

[Bas Melech]

lunatics!

[A Yid]

Re:Idiot. Even a fairly old iPhone is worth decent money on eBay. He should have sold it instead of snashing it and donated the proceeds to Tzdakah. But the frumma don't often do that, do they? And I forgot to mention, isn't there a Halacha against "wanton destruction" of this nature? To destroy a valuable and useful thing like an iPhome is absolutely prohibited.

Posted by: David | September 14, 2012 at 08:31 AM

I think it is high time to make it illegal to destroy something that has value. The religion realizes that it is wrong, it is time for the state to realize it as well.

Posted by: ThouShaltNotWaste | September 14, 2012 at 08:54 AM/

Why not concentrate on a situation you can actually improve instead:
Food Waste: Americans Throw Away Nearly Half Their Food, $165 Billion Annually, Study Says

[JK2]

Bonfire of the vanities, early 21st century version.

[God is not amused]

Well who would have thunk, me and the Rab...would be on the same page! for different reasons ;-)
I am boycotting Apple. Chinese workers work 18 hour days 6 days a week and are literally worked to suicide. All this so some corporate scum can make 100 billion a year. THERE IS THE TRUE SIN.

All of these tech gadget are planned obsolete. They do have a "kill switch." Ever notice how all your high tech gadget die in three years? =PLANNED OBSOLESENCE. The dead gadgets end up in LANDFILLS polluting the earth. This ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGEis NOT reported or attacked by Al Gore and all the environmentalist minions because; CORPORATE PROFITS and the damage it would cause if people knew that in the 1980s France/Germany paid the Irvory Coast to take ALL its tech garbage and now the Ivory coast has huge tracts of DEAD wasteland as a result= SIN!. DELIBERATE PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE so that you shell out $500/2000 every three years.
These tech gadget also have SPY chips in them. Nothing you do on them is private. NOTHING big bro is in your business like you are some kind of criminal. Then to make it worse when big brother doesn't like your communique, your gadget has a kill switch and big bro can send your life into the stone age. BOYCOTT APPLE AND MICROSOFT. they are affront to human dignity.

btw way Utube=documentary on corporate 'planned obsolescence" which is why nothing last like it used to back in the 50/60/70s.........OLD TECHs lasted for over 10YEARS!!
or TOPDOCUMENTARY.COM great expose documentaries.

[Hamish McHorney]

I hate smart phones. Theyve taken all the challenge and sport out of infidelity.

Now its like shooting fish in a barrel.

Ah, for the good old days!

[maven]

This is what Nietszche called ressentiment. These guys have little education, don't understand science or technology, so they either have to face up to their own impotence acknowledging that their followers may be smarter than them, or declare everything impure and sinful, which is the preferred path of the inferior mind.

[John Nagle, Silicon Valley, CA]

It's a bad week for freedom of speech. The Islamic extremists are attacking US embassies over a bad movie, and the Jewish extremists are smashing mobile phones. Leaders of both groups are absolutely terrified of their followers seeing a worldview other than their own.

[Steven W]

Would love to know the back story how the Rabbi got the phone. I am guessing that some poor follower (maybe a BT?) had one and he went to the rabbi for some blessing. The rabbi said if you give me your evil iPhone, you will have blessings and fortune. So, the guy hands over the iPhone and thinks he feels the weight of the world removed from his shoulders. And then when he sees his beloved rabbi smash his iPhone, he is in ecstasy.

[rebitzman]

@John Nagle

Te movie was allowed to be made, the rabbi was allowed to express his opinion, and the followers of the rabbi are being restricted by him - not the government........

How is it a bad week for free speech?

[Bassy the Haredi Slayer]

I remember few years ago rabbi Amnon Yitzhak followers got together to smash tv sets. All the set were old sets not one of them was flat screen tv.

http://shofar.net/site/ARDetile.asp?id=11392

Yemenites smash TVs for the 'sake of God and Torah.'

[No Light]

Ah, I see GINA's off his meds again.

GINA - my partner's spare phones are 7 and 6 years old. They both work perfectly. We have a six year old laptop, and until he died recently, her father was using her old PC from 2003.

We have a tv upstairs and a DVD player. Actually three DVD players (long story) that I bought in 2000. The tv works just finee as a hook-up for DVD and Freeview, but it's analogue, so can't get a digital signal.

You know what the biggest cause of computer problems is? Something we used to call PEBCAK, at one of my early PC repair jobs.

Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard.

My partner does tech support for a mobile phone company, and has exactly the same issue. People not taking care of their own property, not treating gadgets/AV equipment properly. Not some fucking magic auto-destruct chip.

[Chareidi Investor]

I dunno... a Rebbi I know is dying to get his hands on the new IPhone5, and not for the Internet. (He got rid of it after the Internet Asifa.) Apparently, there are plenty of bells and whistles besides the Internet to be worth the $. (Full disclosure: I just took appox. $XX,000.00 of profits off of AAPL OCT 600/660 options today, , and the recent rally this week gives me an addl. unrealized coupla Gs, on top of X0Gs taken earlier this year, on top of XXGs unrealized since inception of investment) I hope G-d is not too angry with me!

[Chareidi Investor]

One caveat: he does have email on it.

[rebitzman]

I hope G-d is not too angry with me!

For posting here.........He may well be. You might want to beat yourself harder during the Ashamnu.

[I'm a Sheep. You too?]

I'm a Sheep. You too?

Listen to your shepherd(Rabbi) he needs to keep the sheep(people) in line as not to stray. And, if you do stray he will send the wolves(shomrim or police) to bring you back to the other sheep.

[Bob Guthrie]

Posted by: Lubavitchers are Christians
"Are you calling for violence against people who smash phones?, You are no different than fucking..."

LaC, put a sock in it, dear. Pouting is very unbecoming of you.

[Bob Guthrie]

Posted by: John Nagle, Silicon Valley, CA
"It's a bad week for freedom of speech. The Islamic extremists are attacking US embassies over a bad movie, and the Jewish extremists are smashing mobile phones."

A bad movie made by Christians extremists, while posing as wealthy Jews (classy, and not dangerous at all for Jewish people living next to the Egyptian power keg). =/

[Bob Guthrie]

Posted by: Steven W
"And then when he sees his beloved rabbi smash his iPhone, he is in ecstasy."

And NIS 4500 poorer,... 4500?! (1200$?!). I got mine for 227 Euros! (299$).

It better be gold plated, and come inside a small version of the Ark of the Covenant. =P

[Jeff]

Bob, how did you get an iPhone for half price? Is that the deal if you pre-order?

[Rocky]

Don't the religious have anything better to worry about than stamping out smartphones? Maybe they should be worried about all the government budget cuts that will be coming if the Republicans take control in Washington after the elections.

If I were Rabbi Glazer, I would be much more worried about Israel going to war in the next few months.

[Bob Guthrie]

Posted by: Jeff
"Bob, how did you get an iPhone for half price? Is that the deal if you pre-order?."

If you pre-order and your phone provider contract is about up. I already got the one for the iPhone 5 32gb white for the same price (just in time, as preorders have sold-out). =/

[Milhouse]

@Rocky

What government budget cuts are you talking about?

[Rocky]

Milhouse: Have you read about Congressman Ryan's budget proposals. As Vice President, he would undoubtedly play a major role in the budget negotiations with Congress. A Republican House and Senate would give him pretty much everything he wanted. Read about his proposals here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_to_Prosperity

Haredi are big users of Medicaid, food stamps and Section 8 housing vouchers, programs which would be cut under the Ryan budget proposals.

[Jeff]

Are they really all this nuts, or are the Haredim who comment here correct - do we just focus on the few extreme examples?

[The Anti-Schmendrick]

An unknown showman taking a cue from the successful showman Amnon Itzhak. Great entertainment. Thanks for posting this.

[mimi]

God is not Amused. The wanton waste and pollution in the electronics industry is discussed in the excellent documentary film "Manufactured Landscapes."

http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=manufacturedlandscapes

[BlackHole]

Why not concentrate on a situation you can actually improve instead:
Food Waste: Americans Throw Away Nearly Half Their Food, $165 Billion Annually, Study Says

Posted by: A Yid | September 14, 2012 at 10:20 AM

I don't think Shmarya can improve on that. No food goes to waste!

[spacedout BT]

Rabbi Lior is following a long line of of Elmer Gantrys and Rev. Billy Sundays who employed the method acting of faith healing, tent meetings,laying of hands and snake handling. If you want to believe his message then I have some snake oil Kickapoo medicine guaranteed to heal what ails ya.

[Araham]

I have an iphone. I guess I am a vile, abomination. Thank you Rabbi for setting the record straight. You really do hate most of k'lal Yisroel. I pity him for his act of sexualized aggression towards the iphone.

Look homeward Rabbi - Yom Kippur will give us all a second chance.

[Jeff]

I wonder if they'll all buy Android or Windows Phone 8 now.

[spacedout BT]

Rev. Marjoe Goertner employed histrionics in his preaching also.