Comments on: Olympic Meshugass! http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/olympic-meshugass/ Just a mommy, with a soupcon of attitude and a dash of moxy. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:27:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: curleegirlee http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/olympic-meshugass/#comment-275 curleegirlee Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:41:32 +0000 http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-275 I have to say I agree whole-heartedly with you. Sermons like these are a huge reason I don't go to temple on a regular basis. I find it very disheartening that your rabbi (and many others - but certainly not all)have a very close-minded view when it comes to religion. Shouldn't rabbis welcome all different forms of Judaism? Shouldn't they support variations on the same theme? I have to say I agree whole-heartedly with you. Sermons like these are a huge reason I don’t go to temple on a regular basis. I find it very disheartening that your rabbi (and many others – but certainly not all)have a very close-minded view when it comes to religion. Shouldn’t rabbis welcome all different forms of Judaism? Shouldn’t they support variations on the same theme?

]]> By: The Babysitter http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/olympic-meshugass/#comment-260 The Babysitter Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:36:02 +0000 http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-260 I've been brought up hearing such speeches from teachers at my school. Teachers used to say that by Yavan they were all into good looks and that's where the Olympics first started. SO they made it sound like a bad thing. But my mother was always into watching it. So I figured there's just different opinions. But your right Hashem does give these people the amazing talent, so it is a great thing. As long as you look at it the right way, and don't think that their more powerful than G-d or something like that. I’ve been brought up hearing such speeches from teachers at my school. Teachers used to say that by Yavan they were all into good looks and that’s where the Olympics first started. SO they made it sound like a bad thing. But my mother was always into watching it. So I figured there’s just different opinions. But your right Hashem does give these people the amazing talent, so it is a great thing. As long as you look at it the right way, and don’t think that their more powerful than G-d or something like that.

]]> By: The Rebbetzin's Husband http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/olympic-meshugass/#comment-259 The Rebbetzin's Husband Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:49:23 +0000 http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-259 Lion- I hate rabbis' sermons - both those of others, and my own. As I think I've written somewhere (too lazy to look it up at the moment), sermons are a rotten way to get a serious message across. The time-frame, crowd and venue forces oversimplification. Lion-
I hate rabbis’ sermons – both those of others, and my own. As I think I’ve written somewhere (too lazy to look it up at the moment), sermons are a rotten way to get a serious message across. The time-frame, crowd and venue forces oversimplification.

]]> By: Lion of Zion http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/olympic-meshugass/#comment-257 Lion of Zion Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:28:43 +0000 http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-257 ok, the first link didn't work.<a href="http://agmk.blogspot.com/2007/11/thanksgiving-day-in-jewish-practice.html" rel="nofollow"> try here</a> ok, the first link didn’t work.
try here

]]> By: Lion of Zion http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/olympic-meshugass/#comment-256 Lion of Zion Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:27:02 +0000 http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-256 i had some really not-nice things to say about rabbis' sermons as i was nodding with your sentiments while reading, but now i can't write them because i see the the rebbetzin's husband visits here. i will just say that i tune out whenever--and it's too frequent--a rabbi starts comparing us to the "goyyim" or otherwise knocking them. <a href="http://agmk.blogspot.com/2007/11/thanksgiving-day-in-jewish-practice.htm" rel="nofollow"> i wrote about this here: Thanksgiving Day in Jewish Practice</a> "I am guessing that this rabbi, well into his 70s, has a different mind-set than I do" it has nothing to do with age, but rather hashkafah <a href="http://agmk.blogspot.com/2008/08/frum-taekwondo-girl-at-olympics.html" rel="nofollow"> (i guess he wasn't rooting for the Frum Taekwondo Girl at the Olympics) </a> i had some really not-nice things to say about rabbis’ sermons as i was nodding with your sentiments while reading, but now i can’t write them because i see the the rebbetzin’s husband visits here.

i will just say that i tune out whenever–and it’s too frequent–a rabbi starts comparing us to the “goyyim” or otherwise knocking them.
i wrote about this here: Thanksgiving Day in Jewish Practice

“I am guessing that this rabbi, well into his 70s, has a different mind-set than I do”

it has nothing to do with age, but rather hashkafah


(i guess he wasn’t rooting for the Frum Taekwondo Girl at the Olympics)

]]> By: The Rebbetzin's Husband http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/olympic-meshugass/#comment-254 The Rebbetzin's Husband Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:12:10 +0000 http://hadassahsabo.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-254 I don't know your rabbi, but I wouldn't give any speech at all if we didn't have Q/A afterward. No, it can't happen in shul, because then all of the people who want to get to kiddush would be upset... so it happens at the kiddush, or in Saturday night emails, or later conversations, with men and women as well as the teen and pre-teen set. But it has to happen. I don’t know your rabbi, but I wouldn’t give any speech at all if we didn’t have Q/A afterward. No, it can’t happen in shul, because then all of the people who want to get to kiddush would be upset… so it happens at the kiddush, or in Saturday night emails, or later conversations, with men and women as well as the teen and pre-teen set. But it has to happen.

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