First Satmar Rebbetzin Wore Tallit Katan And Gartel, Satmar Newspaper Says

On a page devoted to stories about proper Jewish clothing, the Satmar Yiddish newspaper Der Blatt writes that the Veiner Rabbi heard from a women on the chevera kadisha [burial society] [in Europe] that when they handled the body of the Satmar Rabbi [Joel Teitelbaum]'s first wife Chava, they found her wearing a talit katan [a small ritual fringed garment normally worn by males only, example at right] with a gartel [a prayer belt, also normally worn exclusively by males] under her regular clothing.

Above right, a tallit katan

Comments

[Jeff]

1. It's a lie.

2. She was operating at a higher madrega.

3. They were placed on her body posthumously by Zionists.

[David Samuel]

I wonder if this qualifies as cross dressing in the chassidishe world?

[put a square into a hole]

To #1

Mabey just mabey she was a cross dresser?!

[Max Ponzi (the one from Cedarhurst)]

4. She was a man trapped in a woman's body.

5. He was a woman trapped in a man's body.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Apologies to the Kinks (Paranoia):

Met a girl called Moshe and I took her back to my place
Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, smartphone cameras everywhere
Stop! Hold on. Stay in control

Girl, I want you here with me
But I'm really not as frum as I'd like to be
'Cause there's a Rebbe, under my bed
And there's a Jewish Iran in my head
And there's a tallit katan worn by thee
That keeps stoppin' me, touchin' ya, watchin' ya, lovin' ya

Refrain:
Beged Isha, the destroyer. 2x

Well I fell asleep, then I woke tefillin kinda' queer
Moshe looked at me and said, "Oy, you have no beard"
She said, "Nu, there's really something wrong with you.
One day you're gonna' go off the derech.
You're frum, you're frei, you eat matzoh brei
You get a good thing goin' then 'Gevalt!' you schrei."

Refrain

Silly Goy you got Satmar to live for
Satmar to shame for, Satmar to lie for
You blowing it all on beged isha
You're so insecure, you meshugeneh creature

(And it goes like this, nu?)
Beged isha, the destroyer
(Here it goes again)
Beged isha, the destroyer

Shmarya, Shmarya help me please, I know you'll understand
There's non-kosher mice inside of me, I'm a davening shuckling man
There's a Rebbe, under my bed
And there's a little blue techelet thread
And he said, "you're not meshugeh, you're just a bit bad
'Cause there's yetzer horah in ya, knawin' ya, tearin' ya, till you're no Jew."

Refrain

Self-destroyer, wank in stealth
Deploy your "friend", destroy yourself
The tumah of self-destruction
Spank the monkey; start eruptin'

(Yeah, it goes like this, here it goes)
Beged Isha, the destroyer
(Here's to beged isha)
Beged isha, the destroyer
(Oy vey, here it goes)
Beged isha, the destroyer
(And it goes like this)

Beged isha, the destroyer
(And it goes like this.)

[Jeff]

You know, if you'd been learning Toyreh all those years instead of listening to music from the sitra achra, you could be a great rov now!

[don't hock]

She was STRINGING along her husband For all those years. Nebach!

[Rodin]

I think this is HOT. I think she was way ahead of her times. Knowing today that some chasidim like boys, she was trying to entice her partner. Hmmm. We'll never know.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Jeff: Is the Sitra Achra an Indian instrument George Harrison played?

[S M L]

...Is the Sitra Achra an Indian instrument George Harrison played?...

Yes, he learned the technique from Rabbi Shankar.

[Jeff]

Yes. Yes, it is.

[Jeff]

"Yes, he learned the technique from Rabbi Shankar."

Oh, I wish I'd said that!

[Turd Degree]

Why isn't she being condemned on the same grounds that modern orthodox women are for wearing teffilin?

[Jeff]

Because everyone knows those women are only doing it for the attention and because they're jealous of the boys. [/sarcasm]

[Yochanan Lavie]

LOL, SML, Jeff.

[Primetrades]

They also found a big black dildo she used to shtup the rebbe with

She was yentll before Barbara Streisand was.

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

Many said she had nice tzitzis.

[jancsibacsi]

Jeff--Maybee its the kama sutra not sitra achra that would of made him a better rov:)

[Yochanan Lavie]

How about Baba Kama Sutra?

[Primetrades]

I heard from the gabbai she used to hog tie the rebbe w those Tzitzit and them remove her gutches and give him malkos w it.

He Loved it.
But when he didn't get it he was miserable and started talking non sense about eretz Yisroel. He looked like he didn't take a dump in 10 years.

Was farahtoped

[Steven W]

Coincidentally, I recently read an essay about tzitzit. Of course it was written by Rabbi Jacob Milgrom in the back of the Etz Hayim chumash from the Conservative movement so I am sure some will deny it any level of scholarship:

'Another historical fact revealed by early Rabbinic sources is that the tzitzit were worn by women. In fact, some Sages actually affirmed that "af ha-nashim b'mashma," i.e. women are required to wear tzitzit (Sifrei Num. 115; BT Men. 43a) because it falls in the category of a commandment whose observance is not limited to a fixed time (she-ein ha-z'man g'rama; Tosef. Kid. 1:10).'

The essay does not cover the gartel.

[singlemalt]

Jeff, Actually the Rebbe was is shul all Fri night proving tisch and she was bringing him fresh tsitsits to be able to make a bracha on for the new day and she couldn't carry them on Shabboss. On the way over she was attacked, bound with a black belt and then murdered by Zionists. It's a bavusta maaseh!

[RWisler]

What's amazing about the article, if you read it in Yiddish, is that probably half the words in the article are aggrandizing titles for the "rebbe'im" that go on and on and on. It's like hearing the Munchkins describing the Wizard Of Oz.

[rebitzman - $101 to read my posts]

"Oh, I wish I'd said that!"

You will, Jeff - you will.

[Jeff]

Heh!

[put a square into a hole]

These are NOT real tzitzes.
This was the sheet that they used in bed.
The gartel was to hold up her tights..
The strings were to shape the rebbes payos each night, to look prestigious in the morning.

[ah-pee-chorus]

YL-

great choice and great job!

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks, APC.