"מ'זאל נישט מאכען פון די מצה א פרעס"

Leave it to the שארפע in Prszyscha to get straight to the point, so that even גראב יונגען like us can understand. Although as I'm writing this I can't help but think that it wasn't the חפצא of the Matzoh that he didn't want made into a fress, but rather the whole inyan of Oneg YT and פלייש, etc. But maybe I'm just delving too deep. Try to explain this to a non-chossid and you'll get lots of blank stares. or maybe he'll tell you how it's עונג יו"ט to have Matzoh brei/farfel/toast and kneidlakh. יהי להם אשר להם. I fargin everybody his simchas YT. The interesting thing is that in today's day and age it's specifically the "Heimishe", i.e. Chassidim that seem to be so heavily invested in the פרעס. Even without the gebrokts. Just check out the circulars and the Charedi publications. And the whatsapp clips from the various supermarkets לולי דמסתפינא we would eat a simple gebrokts and less of the meats and pesach cookies.

הכנות לחג הפסח בשכונת מא"ש בירושלים עיה"ק ת"ו - שנת תשי"ט לפ"ק

why the frum press is downright depressing these days

I'm not sure why this hit me today while reading a certain paper, and whether or not it's just this Pesach season that elicits this reaction within me, but this was the case today. Read the papers carefully these and what do you find? it's one of several things: 1) ads asking for קמחא דפסחא etc. 2) sales for clothing and stuff you can't afford 3) worse yet, ads for Pesach in extravagant locations that only the 1% can afford, or 4) features on organizations that distribute food etc. And not much else. I'm not complaining, papers need to make money, and they do that through selling ads. But why would I want to read them? All I see is tens of thousands of Jews suffering hunger and disease. There's little I can do to help. I can't possibly help all of them, there's just too many. So I just turn the page and sigh. Maybe I get a שטיקל התעוררות תשובה seeing all those who ר"ל need a רפואה שלמה, So maybe it does have some affect on me. What about the fancy clothes and hotels, you ask? What about the לפני עור that they're עובר on for making me want that which I cannot afford? טאקע א שווערע שאלה. I cannot answer that, but maybe that's what the עיני העדה meant when they discouraged people from reading newspapers. טמא'נע בלעטער is a חידוש that you may not read? אלא מאי they were referring to the kosher ones. If so, if they're kosher, why not read them? מוז מען זאגען because of the ads.

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Cleaning the Beis HaMikdosh, er, the Belzer Shul, for Pesach

Cool Aish

Never you mind. They're getting plenty of flack from the black hatters who see this as a terrible affront to Moshe Rabbeinu, Pesach, kabbolas HaTorah and anything Jewish. Most frum people have a hard time swallowing this kind of new-age hip way of communicating an age-old message to the Facebook generation. The fact that Moses used email and used words like "cool" and "awesome" is like fingernails on a chalkboard to lots of people. I include myself in that group, although I understand that it has to be done if you wanna attract young people to services and lectures. In the case of Aish that kind of talk usually stays with the "kiruv" crowd, which is miniscule. Chabad, however, has crossed that line and make one big cholent out of it. Meaning all Chabad literature and media now caters to the "lowest common denominator," (for lack of a better term, no harm intended) and all of us now need to read about "Bereishit", and "Mitzvot" and "Shabbat", even when using a Hebrew siddur with only English-language instructions (not translation) in a place like Monsey. I guess that's so when they go on shlichus (or is it "shlichoot?") they should know how to say Shabbat and not Chas VeSholom - Shabbis. That "galut" talk is too old-fashioned for the Twitterers, I guess. One thing I will say for this ad: It is VERY well done.