Comments on: Poll: Wanna Shake the Lulav? http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/ Mixed Multitudes Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:10:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: clara1 http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-530 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:20:46 +0000 http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-530 I just say, "I’m Jewish, wanna fight. I live over there if the KKK is looking for me." <br /> <br />Not really, but I am still Jewless.<br /> <br />Clara I just say, “I’m Jewish, wanna fight. I live over there if the KKK is looking for me.”

Not really, but I am still Jewless.

Clara

]]> by: Ezekah http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-519 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:38:04 +0000 http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-519 <blockquote>[Editor in Chief]Problem is: as a general rule, the truly gifted emissaries will rise to the top, but when it comes to Sukkot-time, many high school kids and less socially adept members of the community take to the streets too.</blockquote> <br />Perhaps Sukkot is for their trainees because it is easier. I mean, it doesn’t take a lot of skill to shake the lulav. However, putting tefillin on another’s arm takes much more finesse.

[Editor in Chief]Problem is: as a general rule, the truly gifted emissaries will rise to the top, but when it comes to Sukkot-time, many high school kids and less socially adept members of the community take to the streets too.

Perhaps Sukkot is for their trainees because it is easier. I mean, it doesn’t take a lot of skill to shake the lulav. However, putting tefillin on another’s arm takes much more finesse.

]]> by: The Doctor http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-518 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:55:48 +0000 http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-518 I am reminded of when we saw a chabadnick holding a <i>hanukkiah</i> in the streets of St. Thomas and we went to greet him with a <i>Hag Sameach</i> [in part because we had pity for his wearing Lithuanian winter garb in the tropics] and his response was to look at us, raise his eyebrows, and say "what, are <i>you</i> Jewish?"<br /><br /> <br />It was difficult to remember that he was basically on a good mission when we were greeted that way... I am reminded of when we saw a chabadnick holding a hanukkiah in the streets of St. Thomas and we went to greet him with a Hag Sameach [in part because we had pity for his wearing Lithuanian winter garb in the tropics] and his response was to look at us, raise his eyebrows, and say “what, are you Jewish?”

It was difficult to remember that he was basically on a good mission when we were greeted that way…

]]> by: Daniel Septimus http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-517 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:38:16 +0000 http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-517 As I said -- perhaps not strongly enough -- I'm a big fan of Chabad, generally. They present Judaism with warmth and a smile, and the rest of us would do well to learn from them. Problem is: as a general rule, the truly gifted emissaries will rise to the top, but when it comes to Sukkot-time, many high school kids and less socially adept members of the community take to the streets too. If you ask "You Jewish?" in the wrong way, while holding a branch and a lemon, it's a potential hilul hashem. That's my concern. That plus the fact that I do have an old-school, knee-jerk aversion (cf. "a Jew in the home and a man in the street" ) to religion in the public square. But that, I admit, is my own mishugas. As I said — perhaps not strongly enough — I’m a big fan of Chabad, generally. They present Judaism with warmth and a smile, and the rest of us would do well to learn from them.

Problem is: as a general rule, the truly gifted emissaries will rise to the top, but when it comes to Sukkot-time, many high school kids and less socially adept members of the community take to the streets too.

If you ask “You Jewish?” in the wrong way, while holding a branch and a lemon, it’s a potential hilul hashem. That’s my concern.

That plus the fact that I do have an old-school, knee-jerk aversion (cf. “a Jew in the home and a man in the street” ) to religion in the public square. But that, I admit, is my own mishugas.

]]> by: hherring http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-516 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:34:07 +0000 http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/holidays/wanna-shake-the-lulav/#comment-516 A question for Daniel: how would you feel if the people offering to share lulav and etrog were not Chabadniks? In other words, how much of your ambivalence is related to who is doing the outreach and how much is related to the idea of reaching out to other Jews publicly? While sharing this ambivalence, I'd like to see more Jews willing to share their feelings of joyful Judaism with others. A question for Daniel: how would you feel if the people offering to share lulav and etrog were not Chabadniks? In other words, how much of your ambivalence is related to who is doing the outreach and how much is related to the idea of reaching out to other Jews publicly? While sharing this ambivalence, I’d like to see more Jews willing to share their feelings of joyful Judaism with others.

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