Tuesday, August 16, 2011

This Blogging thing is not as easy as it seems



Sometimes you just can't bring yourself to write, try as you may, it just doesn't happen. This is one of those times, for several reasons, some happier than others. Maybe it's because I look back and see 6 years of writing, but very little as far as effect. Whatever that's supposed to mean. As if I really thought I'd make a difference.

Bear with me as I gather myself.

35 comments:

Neil Harris said...

Hirshel, I know you put much effort into your posts. Sometimes there is simply "nothing to say" and we have to just enjoy the silence.

Hirshel Tzig - הירשל ציג said...

thank you, Neil, for your kind words.

Anonymous said...

hmmm, does this sound like teshuva??

קרעמער said...

אילו לא באת אלא בשביל תמונה זו דייך

דאס איזט איין געוואלדיקע בילד

airmonter said...

I think you may need to clarify to yourself exactly what your real objectives were and still are in maintaining the blog.
Was it to gain acceptance in lubiland?
Was it to really provide a counterpoint to lubavitch bashing online?
Or maybe it was simple self agrandizement which is impossible to achieve while trying to stay anonymous?
Werte you expecting artscroll or harpercollins to offer you a book deal?
Sort it out, when the beard and (payos?) Comes off it will all be clear.

Anonymous said...

I certainly hope you continue. Reflect on the valuable friendships you have had for many years now from this blog. Not on the vituperative bull**** that passes in a second as soon as the trolls finish excreting.

dlz said...

On the contrary, you should only write when you have something important to say - quality trumps quantity.

Anonymous said...

is it because:

?בּא ללמד ונמצא למוד

Anonymous said...

or is it farwell time ?

מענדל said...

הירשעלע
ווייסט אויס אז דו דארפסט א עכט חסידישע פארברענגען, ומצד צוויי טעמים.
הא' עס וועט דיר אראפרייבן אביסעלע די ישות, והשנית (והא בהא תליא) עס וועט מגלה זיין די פנימיות ובמילא וועט זיין וואס צו שרייבן.
לחיים הירשעלע, לחיים ולברכה.
מענדל

yakov said...

Dear Hershel Tzig.
You certainly made difference for me.
Being attached to Chabad, I used sometimes to wonder about self-aggrandizement heard at farbrengens like umah noim goiroleinu - she anu chasidei Chabad vechulu. Sometimes I would wonder about outright negative attitude to a godol - rav Shach.
After reading on your blog what rav Shach was actually saying, reading comments of seemingly religious people about the Rebbe, I started feeling more deeply that indeed mah noim goiroleinu and the rest.

Anonymous said...

השׁמים מספּרים.. אין אומר ואין דברים.. בּכל הארץ יצא קום..

Anonymous said...

One thing is certain, if you were looking to throw away your olem habba, you accomplished your objective.

Fed Up In Peoria said...

Here we go again.

Hirshel Tzig - הירשל ציג said...

hey, Joliet

I feel like I have a responsibility to you guys, to update you as to why I'm not writing. Would you rather I just ignored y'all?!

Anonymous said...

is this the calm before the storm ?

Anonymous said...

Hirshel Tzig - הירשל ציגsaid...
hey, "Joliet"

hey romeo!

Fed Up In Peoria said...

Joliet IL 130 miles from Peoria IL

Joliet IL 10 miles to Romeoville IL

Juliet was a lot closer to Romeo

Anonymous said...

so just close the blog.

Anonymous said...

"Juliet was a lot closer to Romeo"

and what happened ?

Anonymous said...

"Juliet was a lot closer to Romeo

I heard once a speach which he said: If you feel g-d is far away from you - think who moved!

but romeo and juliet what happened who moved? when and where? IDK

Anonymous said...

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:19:00 PM
Anonymous said...
"so just close the blog."

hey, easy on the old man,its the month of av no decision time! maybe it the 15 of av, the gemarah says: "man d'yosif yosifin loi.." so hershel spends more time learning! and than elul-tishrei by cheshvon he will be up to speed..

Anonymous said...

I have to say that as a chassidishe rov who is somewhat more "with it," I have learned so much from your blog as to the history of the frum world up to today, which helps me gain perspective and be more "normal."

Keep on going - chazak veemutz!

Hirshel Tzig - הירשל ציג said...

thank you

חסידישע רב

Harry Nichter said...

Why don't you write about a little derfl in White Russia near the big city of Smolensk? I think it was called Lubavitz.A lot of people never saw the old shtetelle.Believe it or not,I heard they picked up the whole kaboodle and dropped it into Bruklyn. I hear there are a lot of polne meshugoyim there today fun di real shmetenne. Once it was strong and mighty but today it is a silly little chassidus with lots of tzudreite.Nevech,nevech...Like the primitive Gelitziyane shtetellech fun amol it's worth sometimes to write about it.

Anonymous said...

Harry Nichter
Very original,I envy Hirshel for owning a blog with original thinkers

Hirshel Tzig - הירשל ציג said...

Harry didn't have his schnapps this morning, so he's a bit uneasy.

talmud bavli said...

i think the tzig does a big mitzvah so "bobov chusid" and other alike, should have a platform where to puke.

Anonymous said...

Hirshel
noting to say on Ari L Goldmans article on the NYT handling of the CH riots?

Hirshel Tzig - הירשל ציג said...

what's the surprise? The NYT hates frum Jews and Israel and was covering for Dinkins. I guess the fact that he admitted it is a bit of a chiddush.

golem of prag said...

look how many comment about nothing

Anonymous said...

Hirshel
Did u ever imagine in your wildest blogging dream that the Mazkir of the holy Zvhiler of Greater New England will contact a Humble tzigele, that should u chizuk for a other decade

Hirshel Tzig - הירשל ציג said...

that letter was ווי פון הימל אראפ

עוד הם מדברים ואני אשמע

Anonymous said...

Hirshel,
if you are in touch with the Rebbes mazkir, ask him for a berucha, that u should have Nevias Mochin, to produce daily sensible blogs, and the Iker that it should create revenue for Gezunt Farnusa Nachas,
If he cant deliver then he is no Ukrainer Rebbe....

Shaul said...

Its כדאי just for the picture of the דייטשיק