I just got sent this video by Shuvu Banim’s Kollel Hatzot.
They are so bad at all this ‘marketing’ stuff, that I had to wait three weeks for them to find something useful they could send me. It’s three minutes long, take a look:
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In our world of fake frumkeit, usually brought to you by the slick marketers of Chabad, you rarely see avreichim actually praying.
You rarely see people who get up to go to a yeshiva to recite Tikkun Chatzot – the midnight lament.
You rarely see people davening the sunrise prayers so enthusiastically.
Or learning Torah for hours on end (although I admit, the fake frumkeit marketers always have their PR clips and shots of earnest people poring over sefarim. That bit does still happen, at least in some yeshivas.)
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In the world of fake frumkeit, usually brought to you by Chabad, you see things like this:
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Don’t get me wrong, I still really like Elitzur.
But my friend clued me into this new song of his – because she was totally turned off by all the references to the Tzemach Tzedek, Baal HaTanya, and other ‘messaging’ about Chabad.
And she was very puzzled about how all this stuff was suddenly appearing in the songs of Elitzur, who is Breslov.
So she sent to look up who was producing this latest song of Elitzur, and THIS is where she got to. Snippet:
[He] found the answers to life through the pages of Likkutei Torah and today he uses his musical talents to spread the wellsprings and to bring authentic Chabad niggunim to the public, even to non-Jews.
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Your guess is as good as mine, as to why Elitzur is now singing about the Tzemach Tzedek instead of about Rebbe Nachman.
But the video of his latest song is very interesting – he’s taken hostage from his own concert by ghouls with dollar signs for eyes, while the Breslov guy who ‘saved him’ from the ghouls in the song ‘I’m not going back to Rehovot’ runs after him – but this tme around, appears to get to him too late….
Each person can decide for themselves what’s going on here.
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Point is, authentic frumkeit isn’t slick, isn’t being marketed by experts, doesn’t have an endless supply of cash to keep buying up properties all over Jerusalem to turn into yet more ‘Chabad houses’, doesn’t have politicians all over the world attending their events and sucking up to their tzaddikim.
And at least in Shuvu Banim in the Old City, authentic frumkeit is suffering tremendously, because after all the persecution the Rav and Shuvu has endured by the State over the last few years, the avreichim are literally getting 100 SHEKELS, a MONTH, to wake up every single night and recite Tikkun Hatzot at the yeshiva in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.
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I’m cutting and pasting the next bit, below, from THIS article I already did on the Kollel Chatzot – that I am not working for in any capacity, btw.
Just a person who is interested in trying to help out ‘authentic yiddishkeit’ and totally sickened by the Chabad takeover of almost aspect of Jewish culture.
For the last two years (at least….) this Kollel of 5-6 men have been following this schedule:
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11pm – Arrive at the Shuvu Banim beit midrash in the Old City, overlooking Har Habayit, and hear a shiur from the Rosh Kollel.
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12am – 2am – Do Tikkun Hatzot – the midnight lament, that is meant to be the most powerful prayer for negating harsh judgements on the Jewish people, particularly in relation to ending the exile and getting the Temple finally rebuilt.
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2-5.30 am – Learn Torah.
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5.30 am onwards – prayer with the Netz, or sunrise minyan.
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BTW, it’s actually more like 10-15 men who are doing this every night.
I propose, dear reader, that if you really want to put your tzedaka money somewhere where it is making a tangible difference to both yourself, and to Am Yisrael, on the spiritual level, that you consider sponsoring one of the members of the Kollel Hatzot to the tune of 400 nis a month.
This is the minimum amount that Rav Berland has asked the Rosh Kollel to try to pay each one of the members of the Tikkun HaTzot kollel.
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You can literally do that online, right now, by going HERE.
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If go back to THIS article, you’ll find all the translated screenshots for how to do this in English.
Thank you to all the readers out there who answered the call last month, for the Kollel Hatzot.
BH, more people will be moved to help, and to maybe set up some sort of monthly donation.
Because the Samech Mem is taking out authentic yiddishkeit every way it can.
And it has all the slick marketing, money and political influence required to do that.
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PS: I had some complaints that I’m ‘bashing’ Chabad.
Yes, I’m ‘bashing’ Chabad.
Chabad seems to be up there on a pedestal, where no one can mention any of the many, many disturbing things that go on with them, because the shluchim…. the mesirut nefesh of the shluchim….
There are many good, wonderful Chabad shluchim, I totally agree.
If you take a look at the xtian world, you will also find many ‘good, wonderful xtian shluchim’.
Does that mean we can’t ‘bash’ xtianity?
I personally am sick of living in the world of lies.
If you’re not – great! Chabad has a ton of sites online, and maybe you’d be better off sticking with them.
No-one is saying that individuals in Chabad aren’t great – I’m sure many of them are. And I’m also 100% sure that there are really not great people who self-identify as ‘Breslov’.
I’m talking about the organisation, not the people.
And I’m sorry if that makes you uncomfortable.