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2021-09-12 Science & Technology

Uman pilgrims 'majority' of Ben Gurion Airport's newly diagnosed COVID cases

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-12 06:21|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 They are not “Jews” unless they are like you, right )r(?

Posted by Xyz 2021-09-12 10:43|| 2021-09-12 10:43|| Front Page Top

#2 In America we are familiar with the Chabad Hasids, Xyz — they’re the ones who do public Hannukah menorahs on Hannukah, and provide welcoming Jewish spaces around the world for any Jew who walks in. It was a Chabad rabbi and his family who were tortured to death in the Lashkar-e-Taiba attack on Bombay in 2008.

The Breslov Hasids are a different branch, not nearly as open to the outside world. In Israel they are parasitic on the State: aggressively demanding financial support while they study the Bible instead of working to support themselves, refusing to serve in the IDF, and rioting in the streets if there is even a hint that the government is considering reducing their special privileges. Plus they have many of the pathologies seen in cults of all sorts.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-09-12 13:25|| 2021-09-12 13:25|| Front Page Top

#3 tw, when we toured Israel, our tour guide mentioned the Breslov Hasids. Apparently they have just enough votes that they can swing the Knesset, so several of the parties try to curry their favor - giving in to demands for not serving in the IDF, support to study the scriptures, etc.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-09-12 15:10|| 2021-09-12 15:10|| Front Page Top

#4 There are all kinds of Breslovers. Not all are Hasid, some are Modern Orthodox looking for something they can't find in MODOX.

Once I was in Israel looking to park near a hotel and was surrounded by Breslovers dancing to cymbols. I drove on the sidewalk to get around them.

Othertimes I was in traffic jams caused by Breslover dancing parties.

The haredim generally consider the Brelovers are idol worshippers.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-09-12 15:41|| 2021-09-12 15:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Thank you for explaining better than I could, gentleman.

As far as I can tell, each branch of the Hasids has personality cults stuff going on around their particular founder, plus in some cases around the rabbinic descendants to the present day. Remember the Lubavitch (Chabad) waiting excitedly for their chief rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to announce that he was the messiah?

Posted by trailing wife 2021-09-12 18:27|| 2021-09-12 18:27|| Front Page Top

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