It’s coming up any hit now, you may have just been the one. So Thanks.
For the full speech, look to the one for 5,000.
Side note: I had 5,000 hits since May 18th. Which was only a month and a half ago. As opposed to the first 5,000 that took 4 months. and Pearl, No Kiddush. Sorry.
Oh well, if the HOSTAGE TAKERS say it, I’m sure it’s true. (sigh)
“Once the people who are cool, know they are cool, they arent cool anymore, does that make sense?”
Yitz, we’re never gonna fully agree about this, so I’m dropping it, sorta, I think your wrong, if you want to go, point for point regarding everything we have said over the last couple days I’m not doing that anymore. It’s like talking to a rock. You keep defending your stance not giving an inch.
I still do not agree that N’choiach is an “official Lubavitch release” it’s simply not. It may have become known as that, which is all good and fine, but it was not an official mouth piece for the Lubavitch movement. If I release an album of my favorite Lubavitch Niggunim, and don’t credit the original composers, than the fault lays with Chaim Rubin, and no one else. You have said multiple times “Lubavitch” and “The Rebbe” used songs and didn’t credit them, so to that I say hogwash. That’s not true. N‘choiach didn’t credit it, and there is a difference.
Further, never have you ever entertained the thought that the “uncrediting” was done unintentional, or perhaps sliped through some cracks, as many other lubavitch niggunim WERE in fact properly credited.
When MBD or better yet Piamenta, used that Men In Work song for Asher Bara and didn’t credit them, we can all safely assume that was INTENTIONALY uncredited, cause folks in Flatbush and Boro Park and Monsey would not be too happy knowing Piamenta’s Asher Bara was a Men At Work song originally.
Let’s just say, for a second, that maybe, just maybe your right, and “Lubavitch” or “The Rebbe” did not credit Shlomo, would it be any less devious and maliciousin your eyes, if it was an accident? No one is saying an accident is alright, but your tone suggests mischievous behavior on the part of “Lubavitch” for not crediting “We Want Moshaich Now” to Shlomo Calrebach, sort of like, “I don’t see how “they” think they can get away with it, we all know Shlomo originally composed it.”
I have been having this discussion now with a certain friend about downloading through Kaaza/Limewire for a while now. I told him besides that t’s wrong, even if it isn’t wrong, it’s not worth it these days. They are suing, and it’s just not worth the hassle. Just buy the CD. He won’t listen. Well, fine, just wanted you to see THIS.
He tells me, I don’t do it so much, and they only go after the big downloaders. I don’t even think that’s necessarily true, but I’m just telling you, they aren’t gonna stop, so if your not worried about winning the wrong kind of lottery. The kind where you get a letter from the RIAA that have won a free trip to court. Then keep downloading. Go ahead, and take your chances.
War of the Worlds is not getting such a warm reception.
Article HERE
I know that doesn’t come as shock to most people. It’s become a haven for people pushing their product, promoting their concerts, bashing people they don’t like, attacking anything that isn’t deemed by them to be holy and pure. Most of you know this already, I know I’ll get comments/email’s going “good morning Chaim” but through my latest “getting myself involved” series of posts there, I just felt the need to vent it on my own home turf.
Especially this guy, Mr. Yehoshua Solomon, who has been for the last 3 days, taking every swing possible at Eli Gerstner. The beating that Matisyahu took on that board after the HASC show was an embarrassment, but if someone would bash Miami Boys Choir, or Shloime Dachs or Nochum Stark (who was bashed and then defended right away with screams of “that’s disgusting”) or The Yaakov Shwekster, or whoever, there would be mounds of loshan hara finger pointing.
… it just annoys me, because that board to me is a microcosm, of all the hypocrisies amongst holier than thou frummies. I just want to meet other frum people who are sincere in what they do, and not just full of horse manure.
Mr. Yehoshua Solomon, I hope people don’t treat your “One Man Band” the same way you treat musicians. How about a little decency?
I’m SICK and TIRED of these nut case/yellow flag waving/out of control bochurim, who call themselves Lubavitchers do. They make Lubavitch a mockery, and it gives off the wrong impression, this is not what Chabad is about, this is not what The Rebbe would have wanted, and this certainly does NOTHING to bring Moshiach any closer.
If they find the guy that did this, I hope they put him in Jail and throw away the key. This is DISGUSTING.
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Last night I needed to track down an old elementary school buddy, for reasons I won’t go into on this blog, but in the process I called a guy who I was good friends with back in the day. It’s been years since we last spoke, it was great to re-connect. We ended up speaking for almost 3 hours, about everything under the sun. Some people you speak to for the first time in years, and it’s just quick, and odd.
ME: “How are you?” …..
HIM: “Good, and how are you?”…….
ME: “Good, so your good? Everything’s going well for you?”……….
HIM: “Ya, it’s good, same by you eh?”………
ME: “Ya .. it’s good”……….
HIM: “So your happy? Famlies well?”…………
ME: “Ya, we’re all healthy and good”………..
HIM: “Cool…….. Good……..”
(shoot me)
With this guy, we connected just like we hadn’t missed a beat since school, we were quite a trouble making bunch in school, especially him and I. We got away with a lot too, smooth talkers I guess, clever about how we went about stuff, but always stirring up trouble and just having a good time doing it. It was really great to talk to him, and it was just so out of body to now see things so different as full grown adults, with kids, and wives, and houses, and jobs.
Life is really a brilliant thing, I think everyone’s life in interesting, there should never be conversations like the above boring example, cause everyone’s life is filled with stuff, maybe it just takes the right two to connect to bring it out to discussion form. Life is filled with wonderful things, and seeing different people on that journey is very inspiring.
Shloimy writes on a growing problem in Jewish Music Stores.
This morning I was listening to a podcast, and the host (who isn’t Jewish) starts up about Yarmulka’s. He asked a very simple question.
Why do we put sports and cartoon character’s on something like a Yarmulka which is supposed to be this holy thing.
It’s an innocent enough question. The truth is, we shouldn’t, and it does bring down the spirituality of a Yarmulka. He further used Menorah’s as examples, which has those same logo’s and characters on them. His co-host is a Jewish girl, and she tried to defend the practice. I would try to as well, but in a way I think he is right. He went even further to give as an example, that you would never find a cross for sale that had a Goofy or Mickey Mouse or SpongeBob hanging off it.
I get that not everyone does it, and mostly I think its for kids, so you can use the “making religion fun for kids” excuse, which I don’t even fully accept, but you COULD make that case.
Still, when is it considered wrong. I think a nice design isn’t so bad, some color, something that’s not just a dirty, faded piece of cloth. Beccuse your trying to beautify it or make it look nicer. But just having a Yankees logo on it? It’s a bad place to show your team pride.
Just my own opinion, what do you think? Please leave your thoughts in the comments section.
Reading these words, makes my heart beat faster and my blood boil.
a sample ….
“…And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other. Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. History is the same thing over and over again.”
NY Post article about it here.
Original Der Spiegel interview here.
