The best ways to mess with Baal Teshuva’s

by Frum Hiker on April 26, 2007 · 169 comments

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There was some kid at the kosher kitchen today where I mashgiach once in a while- who switched the way he was facing during benching so as a joke I told him to face the other way like in shmona esray and all the sudden I had an epiphany. I decided to list the best ways to mess with baal teshuvas who haven’t been frum too long or are still in the process. I even asked some of my fellow BT friends for ideas. This is a work in progress- email or comment with your suggestions.

Tell them the reason Jews don’t get abortions is because the temple is not around anymore and we cannot have sacrifices,

Convince them to drink the mayim achronim waters,

Tell them to stand up and salute when they do hagba,

When you see a newly indoctrinated BT putting tefilin on- gasp with horror and ask them where the other arm is?

Tell them that flushing their toilet on shabbos is forbidden because it carries stuff from rishus hayachid to rishus harabim,

Tell them it is a custom to wish newly weds luck in the bedroom,

Hide the barcha sheet when they called up to the torah for an aliyah,

Hide all the transliterated siddurim and give them one of those free breslover ones the dudes hand out in the street,

Alleviate their fears by saying the prayers of tefilas haderech and oray minay bisumin were made to show appreciation for drug use,

Convince them to buy those ticheles tzitzis,

Tell them that peeing facing east is assur,

Tell them to be care full about wiping their mouths with unkosher napkins,

The OR symbol on products is the strictest hechsher in the kasharus field- standing for Orthodox Rabbis,

Serve veggie burgers with cheese- nonchalantly, ignoring the sweat beading off your friends face- struggling to understand and convince them it is a sphardi custom,

Tell them to save all their bedikas chometz bread for throwing at tashlich,

Show them how to hold a lulav- upside down,

Tell them asher yatzar should be said for any bodily function that comes from openings, such as masturbation, sneezing, and throwing up,

If you happen to be in a litveshe setting convince your friend to strike up a hearty Yechi adonanu….

Direct them to shuir hashirum for every haftorah,

We must cheer and clop for Mordichai because he saved the Jews- hence the reason for graggers,

Get them to clap after a Rabbis drasha,

Direct the random BT entering your shull to the usually empty women’s section,

During purim try to get them to pull a woman’s sheitle off- make up some custom about exposing the costume wearers,

The hole in the sheet sex is really false- its really supposed to be through a talis,

All fruits and veggies must be certified kosher,

Freak them out by saying they may have to “renew” their bris,

Point to some randlom shmona esray insertation and tell them that since they missed they need to say it over again- stop them before they start of course- (don’t want no bracha livatala’s)

Tell them that the reason why Aish and Chabad hate each other is because the Rebbe was Water according to his astrological sign and water and aish dont mix well,

In order to get bircas kohanim rights you have to have big hands- so its harder not to look and you get more sechar for not looking,

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1 April 26, 2007 at 5:54 AM

now for this you deserve to win the award :) youre a funny one

its not the exactly the same thing, but once you;re on the topic of make fun of us, let me give you some more ammunition.
i was once at the heritage house in israel and one of the girls whispered to me at some point during shabbat ” wow this place must be really broke, i noticed they use left-over, ripped scraps of toilet paper instead of just buying new roles”

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2 April 26, 2007 at 9:43 AM

you didn’t put in the tefilin one….when the BT is putting on tefilin be like where is the other arm.

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3 April 26, 2007 at 11:37 AM

I once told a BT he had to wash on crackers.

I also told him that Jews are not allowed to wear socks with sandals. Which is not true of course. However, I perosnally think that socks with sandals is a sin.

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4 April 26, 2007 at 12:05 PM

Am I the only person that finds this post offensive? I don’t know, maybe you have to be an uppity frumster from Brooklyn to find this funny.

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5 April 26, 2007 at 12:10 PM

did you just call me an uppity frumster from brooklyn?
now thats funny :P

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6 April 26, 2007 at 12:19 PM

Why? Was that an accurate description of this blogs target demographic?

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7 April 26, 2007 at 12:23 PM

This blogs target demographic is people without matzo and kishke shoved up their tuchuses who appreciate dry-satirical humor. If you want you can go and find the hundreds of “serious” blogs out there.

Though I do appreciate your comments- being as you are one of the first ever anonymous comemntors.

There really is no target demographic- I get mail from all sorts- I have Rabbis, politicians and all sorts of interesting folks coming here to laugh during their work hours.

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8 April 26, 2007 at 12:35 PM

Oh and I live very far away from normal Jewish communities- with your repsponse that you must be from brooklyn.

Mookie- your comment was very funny- keep em coming.

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9 April 26, 2007 at 1:02 PM

Your “dry-satirical humor” must be way over my head. I still don’t get why misleading a BT in the ways you suggest is funny. “Haha! I stole the bracha sheet! Look at that sucker sweatin’ at the bima!”- is that what you were getting at? I post anonymously because it’s just so darn hard to openly dissent!

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10 April 26, 2007 at 2:45 PM

I agree with the first anonymous. I think there is a line between being funny and flat out mean and I think you have definitely crossed it. There is nothing humorous here.

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11 April 26, 2007 at 4:45 PM

yep- i agree with both anons. that was lame.

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12 April 26, 2007 at 5:10 PM

well if that was the blog’s target demographic then i certainly wouldnt fit in, what with me being a bt.. and living far far from brooklyn – physically, spiritually, emotionally, financially..

as a bt, however, i can say that id much rather be teased and than spoken to like im dumb, deaf or depressed. no need to put on the big fake smiles, no need to treat anyone like they’re in grade school (i actualyl had someone at the shabbos table explain to me who noach was!) .
personally i prefer frumsatire’s ‘rites of initiation’ than the hypocritical and patronizing ‘acceptance’ from others

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13 April 26, 2007 at 5:36 PM

being a BT myself I find the post and blog itself hilarious

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14 April 26, 2007 at 7:49 PM

When you’re attending a siyum made by a BT, sarcastically mutter loudly under your breath “thank g-d for Artscroll…”

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15 April 26, 2007 at 9:34 PM

(hate to be serious, but) Doesn’t it bother you that we make nice to BT’s for kiruv, and then trash them when it comes to shidduchim?

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16 April 26, 2007 at 10:38 PM

Not a BT, but in the process of gerus…I think this is absolutely hilarious. (Also, I was thrilled that I understood everything, lol.) Of course you need to have a sense of humor to appreciate this (and most of the rest of this blog). Fortunately, I’m not lacking in that area….

Though I will say (read with humor please)your “labeling” posts are a little scary. You’ve got me scared to join ANY Jewish group! ;-)

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17 April 26, 2007 at 10:55 PM

dofan akuma, the feeling is mutual when it comes to shidduchim :)

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18 April 27, 2007 at 12:47 AM

Well done.

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19 April 27, 2007 at 8:50 AM

Yeah- I guess I missed out in the humor department. But hey, at least I can spell and do not pass off what is often random, inane babble as “dry- satirical humor”. Tell me, what exactly does that label mean to you? And really, the fact that you justify the stuff you write here by saying, “well, rabbis and politicians read this blog so it must be hysterical”, only serves to remind me of the sorry state of religious and civic leadership.

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20 April 27, 2007 at 9:39 AM

Cute. But its almost too easy to mess with a Baal Teshuva when they just became frum a few months ago. The real challenege is to mess with them, when they’ve been frum for two years or more, when they think they’ve got the walk and talk down, but there is always some tell sign or mistake that can be ascertained if one looks closely enough. Sometimes if your lucky its a deep theological misunderstanding, which produces some wonderful looks of confusion.

Anyway aside from that, how is getting them to buy those tzitzis with techeles messing with them?

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21 April 27, 2007 at 10:32 AM

Hey, I am a BT. I have a highly evolved sense of humor. Hence, I found this article freaking hysterical. Clearly there are those who don’t understand humor – it can be funny even if you don’t actually go out and do it people. I can only assume that these are the same folks who hate science fiction because it’s so “unbelievable.”

Besides, if you want to look at it from a more serious perspective, it should be an example of why everyone should concentrate more on their knowledge of halacha and stop trying to just imitate FFBs and their minchagim.

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22 April 27, 2007 at 10:34 AM

Tell them to stand-at-attention and salute during Hagba.

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23 April 27, 2007 at 10:36 AM

I’ve seen some pretty frum people screw up the Torah brachos. It’s not just for BTs anymore.

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24 April 27, 2007 at 12:10 PM

FFB? An acronym for frum from birth?? Now that is freakin’ hysterical. FFB? BT? MO girls and their shorts and shabbos walks? Man, I don’t know why I keep dissing this blog! I am learning so much! By the way, I love sci-fi. And uhhh dry-satirical humor. It makes me laugh. Unlike this blog, which just makes me sad, maybe in a funny way, but sad nonetheless.

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25 April 27, 2007 at 2:49 PM

You people all have poles shoved so far up your asses the poop is coming through your mouths. So making fun of Modern Orthodox, Black Hat and Chassidim is funny but when it comes to BT’s you are all offended- do you all happen to be BT’s.

Judging from your serious pole shoving comments- your probably a bunch of Broolynites who have nothing else better to do then be so damned serious.

If you would have read any of the other posts- you would have realized the irony in all of this site. But no you have to take yourselves way to seriously.

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26 April 27, 2007 at 2:55 PM

Wow I didn’t expect the sour asss to take this so seriously. Well I guess we still have to have those folks in the street that yell at you for skateboarding because its too dangerous.

To the guy who said I cant spell- if you had read the site disclaimer- you would have noticed that I lack all the capacity to formulate sentences including grammar and spelling.

I guess the critics will really love next weeks posts when I take on folks who are converting. Hahaha…..

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27 April 27, 2007 at 4:34 PM

Lol, can’t wait to see that.

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28 April 28, 2007 at 6:35 PM

Dude this is the best post I have ever read with reagrds to BT’s. What you say is truth and funny, and looks like most the readers besides a few most probably non-BT types enjoyed what you had to say. Keep up the good writing.

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29 April 28, 2007 at 6:36 PM

Seriously relax people

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30 April 28, 2007 at 6:37 PM

I know right?

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31 April 28, 2007 at 6:37 PM

This blog is awesome

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32 April 28, 2007 at 7:55 PM

Hey beis yaakov cunt I agree. Penises rock. I happen to have one. Call me at 1800 433 6687 and we shall have sexual intercourse.

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33 April 28, 2007 at 9:23 PM

To the two Anonymous posters: it’s a joke, get over it. No one in their right minds would really do that to BTs; it’s just for laughs.

And t0 Heshi and others, lay off the “Brooklynite” bullshit. It’s just not cool to diss out other Jews.

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34 April 28, 2007 at 9:31 PM

Actually back when I used to be an NCSY advisor I used to mess with my kids all the time! Lol!

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35 April 29, 2007 at 12:07 AM

I half agree with the anonymous posters. I didn’t think that the post was funny and I’m not certain why somebody would vote for this as the best humor blog when half of the posts are nothing more than asking folks to cast that vote.

I’m not offended by the content, but I am certainly offended by the grammar. The last thing the world needs is another frummie who can’t spell or properly punctuate his sentences.

Maybe BTs should start making lists of good ways to mislead FFBs in the construction of their written correspondence.

That would be a far more creative undertaking and might actually require some effort to put together a list.

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36 April 29, 2007 at 12:47 AM

Levi,

This is a blog, not an English-major thesis.

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37 April 29, 2007 at 4:16 AM

LMAO you mean thing :)

Hey as the saying goes “I’m not a racist I hate everyone equally!” So long as you arent solely picking on BT’s…

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38 April 29, 2007 at 7:16 AM

I read your Blog at least once a week, I usually find your sense of humour hilarious, this time: NOT!

I think there is a fine line when it comes to humour where there are people involved and this time – I think you crossed it.

P.S. I”m an FFB

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39 April 29, 2007 at 9:04 AM

Levi! Finally someone with a clue!

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40 April 29, 2007 at 11:15 AM

Heshy-

Don’t get carried away. Try designing a list of ways to fool ultra-haredi people, who know little about the secular world.

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41 April 29, 2007 at 3:02 PM

Post was funny. The greater nachas comes from the fact that 41 comments may be your highest number.

Don’t shvitz about a lack of comments anymore!
Mazal tov.

PS- Our mutual friend is coming up next shabbos.

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42 April 29, 2007 at 4:08 PM

This post was funny but I do feel lots of hatred in reading it. I know you people are going to tell me, noone would do these things! But ya know what I was once becoming frum and the ffbs used to mess with me all the time. I now hate judaism and everything it stands for. I am now a neonazi and want to eradicate every jew from this earth. Zig Heil! The yidden have tried to destroy my life and now I shall destroy theirs!!!!!!!!!!

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43 April 29, 2007 at 7:16 PM

Wow look what happens when I dont go online for a day. I just want to respond to all the negative pole up their tuchus commentors. HAVE YOU READ ANY OF MY OTHER POSTS???

I assume not because if you did- you would find that the hole point of this blog is to push peoples buttons- I did and had a great time doing it. I am glad I have some critics now- maybe you can comment on all my other posts- I am sick of just having fans.

I must ask a question though, why does it seem that a majority of the emails I am recieving praising this post have come from BT’s and the critics besides one or two seem to be FFB’s.

Maybe thats why you can tell someone is an FFB within two minutes of talking to them. They aren’t so damned serious all the time. Lighten up people. and read some of the other offensive stuff.

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44 April 29, 2007 at 9:31 PM

Okay, I found this post very funny. Messing with BTs is fine, but doing it to MO people is also awesome.

After I was engaged, I told my MO friend that our chabad custom is to make the sheitel from the first mop that the wife uses to wash the floor with. She thought it was a “very interesting” custom.

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45 April 29, 2007 at 10:50 PM

Onionsoupmix: Ya that chabad minhag to use a mop as a sheital is almost as “interesting” as that other chabad custom to believe that the sun revolves around the earth. Those dopey Modernistas would probably intrigued by that one too.

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46 April 30, 2007 at 1:34 AM

you should convince bt’s that if semen accidentally emits from their peckers, they have to commit suicide.

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47 April 30, 2007 at 5:13 AM

I do like that one- how about telling the MO folks that the reason chassidish women shave their heads is for wind resistance when rushing through Glatt mart to get the last jar of gefilte fish.

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48 April 30, 2007 at 8:21 AM

Man, I am going to have to stop commenting here because you clearly just don’t get it. What “pushes my buttons” is your poor writing and the BORING and TYPICAL choice of topics. You may be trying too hard. Or maybe not enough. Either way – you should try reading some real satirical literature. It can’t hurt.

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49 April 30, 2007 at 8:44 AM

The scariest thing about this whole thread is that alot of the fake reasons your giving for various aspects of yiddishkeit seem possibly more reasonable then the real reasons!

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50 April 30, 2007 at 1:42 PM

Amazing and well thought of- the anonymous posters and no-namers make it even funnier. LMAO!!!!!

Yes I am a BT…..

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51 April 30, 2007 at 6:54 PM

whoa………………..Is the Lubab lord of the internet deleting posts?

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52 April 30, 2007 at 6:59 PM

You’re welcome Hesh…………
On Interstate 90 in Albany there is a Hebrew and English billboard that has a picture of everyone’s favorite hippie Jesus that reads “call him and he will come”. Any person driving along this stretch of road bobbing their head to some 80s hair metal can understand this sign. They may even think about whipping open their bible and rocking some hymns or later on that night when the truck driver pulls over for a rest on an hourly motel, he will reach over and discover the bible in his top drawer of the night stand and read a bit and ask for some parnassah.
Granted some Jews might get all up in arms over the Hebrew and the whole Jews for Jesus thing- but it’s a pleasant sign and very understandable, but when one looks at the ten story high behemoth of a billboard with the late Lubavitcher Rebbe smiling out at all the traffic on West Street and the tourists going to the Intrepid aircraft carrier- the sign is hard to understand. Instead of having some good cheesy propaganda line like “the messiah is here” it reads “Moshiach is here”, now what the hell is that? If your trying to convince folks that the Rebbe is indeed the Jewish answer to Jesus type prophecy wouldn’t you want to make the sign understandable to everyone? Shouldn’t there be some offers to be converted over to meshichism- or at least write in clear English.
This has been bothering me for some time, the lack of good PR within the meshichist fold. Seriously, if you want to convince me that Jesus is not the messiah and the Rebbe is, you have to do better then large signs in unknown languages and yarmulkes with the message of Yechi adonenu in Hebrew.
The Jews for Jesus folks are way better at approaching unsuspecting Jews walking down the street. Rather then a smelly, bearded guy with a crushed hat on chasing you down the street with a lulav, you have nice good looking preppy guys handing out tea and cute little pamphlets in local parks. Way less threatening, and way easier to say “no thank you”, when refusing the lulav- you may get a ten minute mussar speech, and will feel guilty about not coming in contact with the true messiahs people.
I personally don’t know too many Jews for Jesus folks, the ones I have met have been great guys, maybe that’s because they have given me free, organic, kosher tea. Or maybe its because the people they employ are friendly and corteous and you know what they are about. They believe that a hippie and his long haired followers wearing Birkenstocks and eating temphe went into the woods and tripped on some great peyote and then had visions of the head hippie walking on water and doing all sorts of crazy shit- as any user of hallucinogens will tell you.
On the other hand most folks have no idea what the meshichists actually believe. Do they think the Rebbe is like Elvis and lives on and that is why they worship his old house? Do they believe he is dead but his spirit lives on? Do they believe he is actually walking around Eastern Parkway and dressed as some poor homeless man testing the Jews for kindness? Maybe they believe he died- but he’s coming back? Whatever these loonies believe- no one really knows. Then you have the opposite side- the problem with the opposite side is you cant really tell who doesn’t and does believe.
The meshichists must get their act together and join to reach a consensus. They cannot just go on and fight with each other for their voices to be heard. I mean we don’t want to think meshicists are insane- because most of them aren’t- they are merely too far in to admit their mistake. Werent they at the funereal- I actually was- though the closed casket made for some great rumors- “if he is really in there why is it closed” was one rumor that circulated amongst the croud as Senator AlDamato spoke to the thousands of mourners.
If only the meshichists would take tips from the 9-11 commission for truth- they all agree that 9-11 was funded by big businesses like Wal Mart and Exxon Mobil and Halliburton so they could reach record profits and the planes that crashed into the buildings were really missiles- because the bodies were not found.
The Lubavitchers for Mendel should take some tips from the Jews for Jesus. Shouldn’t they expand their scope beyond Crown Heights, Tzfat and Morristown? They also should irradicate the guys in 770 who scream yechi at the top of their lungs all day long on shabbos. Not only are they annoying- but they scare away potential believers who dismiss the whole Rebbe is moshiach thing as some sort of membership drive that is supposed to make money rather then a real belief.

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53 April 30, 2007 at 7:14 PM

I figured it was loshon harah, so I took it down.

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54 April 30, 2007 at 9:22 PM

frumbutwithit writes:

> Wow look what happens when I dont go online for a day.

Let’s try, “Wow, look what happens when I don’t go online for a day.”

> I just want to respond to all the negative pole up their tuchus commentors.

There should be a comma between negative and pole. Pole and tuchus should be plural to agree with commentors, unless there is one common pole up one common tuchus of all negative commentors.

On that note, what is a commentor? Is it, perhaps, a contraction of communications-mentor? If not, then you might have misspelled commentators or commenters.

> HAVE YOU READ ANY OF MY OTHER POSTS???

Yes, the spelling, grammar and punctuation are no better in any of those. I’d have hoped that you might have perfected the, “please vote for me,” rants by now. I guess we’re both out of luck on that count.

> I assume not because if you did- you would find that the hole point of this blog is to push peoples buttons-

This clause is just disgusting. Let’s start with, “I assume not, because.” Let’s move on to, “if you did,” the preferred past-tense counter-factual would be, “if you had.” That you mess up with, “you would find.” It should have been, “you would have found,” so that it would agree with, “if you had.” Now we come to the really repellent part of the sentence, “the hole point of this blog.” Unless this blog somehow builds foundations for buildings or takes part in acts of gardening, there is no “hole point”. There might, however, be a “whole point.” If you have a hard time with homophones, perhaps you should avoid them. Try writing “entire” instead of “whole” when you don’t know into which “hole” your grammatical ability has been shoved.

> I did and had a great time doing it.

Good for you.

> I am glad I have some critics now-

Also good for you.

> maybe you can comment on all my other posts- I am sick of just having fans.

The grammatical work alone would be a full-time job.

> I must ask a question though, why does it seem that a majority of the emails I am recieving

Recieving? I before E, EXCEPT after C. You can remember that. It rhymes.

> praising this post have come from BT’s and the critics besides one or two seem to be FFB’s.

“Besides one or two,” should be written between commas. Also, if you must ask a question, you should really end it with a question mark.

In answer to your ill-punctuated question, some of us, who are FFBs, are bothered by those of our ilk who perpetuate the stereotype that FFBs are unable to communicate via the written English language.

> Maybe thats why you can tell someone is an FFB within two minutes of talking to them.

Thats is not a word. You should have written, “that’s.”

> They aren’t so damned serious all the time. Lighten up people. and read some of the other offensive stuff.

It is a pity that the apostrophe in aren’t has so few friends in a rant that has so many contractions. It is also a pity that the period after “people” has usurped the rightful place of a comma. I suppose, though, that you could have simply made “and” begin with an uppercase letter.

It is a shame that nobody has found a chumra that would force all the frummies to try to communicate clearly in various tongues of the lands of their respective sojourns. Humor and virtually all genres work so much better when they are comprehensible.

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55 April 30, 2007 at 9:25 PM

Levi, you’re like the simon cowell of the blogoshpere.
Crtique that bitch!

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56 April 30, 2007 at 9:37 PM

Is it me or did non of you read the site disclaimer- in which the first sentence reads” I do not know how to spell or use grammar correctly” I copied it just for you bastards who do indeed have come down off of bad trips or something. FYI it is on the top right of the page.

I do not profess to know how to spell or use grammer correctly. All I do know how to do is make people laugh by using my warped perspectives, varied experiences and wild imagination. If you feel you have been offended or that you think I am the best think since indoor plumbing please feel free to send me an email frumsatire@gmail.com If you feel that you want to meet up for a hike, bike ride, shidduch date, conversation or any other possible halachically legal scenario I am all ears. I have dated and met with people who have commented on my blog. If you feel that you have a shidduch for me- click the link to my frumster profile, or just send me an email- hook it up yo.

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57 April 30, 2007 at 9:41 PM

Levi-
Tell me did you at least enjoy the post. The grammar thing is old my old roommate emails me every other day with the same suggestions- I just don’t care enough to waste time with that. I am all about the content- to which I am sure you have some critical comment about as well- but I guess the average of 800 individual site visits per day continuously isn’t there because the content sucks.

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58 April 30, 2007 at 10:16 PM

I see you took up my “hagba” advice. But I think you understood part of it wrong:

Tell them to stand up and salute when they are supposed to do that “zot ha-torah” pinky swear thingamajig.

I didn’t mean it for when the BT himself is doing hagba.

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59 May 1, 2007 at 6:05 AM

Yea, Levi. Get with the program i.e. shut your piehole.

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60 May 1, 2007 at 8:38 AM

I know I said I would stop commenting here, but Levi, I think I love you!

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61 May 1, 2007 at 4:52 PM

frumbutwithit writes:

> Levi-
> Tell me did you at least enjoy the post.

It isn’t really my thing. The entire genre of making lists of ways to create chaos is a bit old at this point. I am sure that we all receive emails full of possible ways to incite havoc in elevators, restaurants, classrooms, political rallies, etc. on a weekly basis.

It doesn’t take much effort to create such things. Starting the timer on my watch now, I will try to see how many addenda I can offer to your list within two minutes:

1) Tell a BT that he has to pee at least a reviis in order to make an ahser yotzor; hence, he should always bring a measuring cup with him to the bathroom.

2) Tell a BT b’vakasha means, “Hey you stupid!”

3) Tell a BT that when speaking with a Rabbi one should always avert one’s gaze.

4) Tell BTs that they have to coat themselves with salt before going into the mikveh so that they can check to make certain that is has all dissolved and that, ergo, all of one’s skin has made contact with the water.

5) Convince a BT that one must avoid wearing matching clothes in order to avoid ayin horo.

6) Convince a BT that before he can walk on a building’s carpeting, he must ensure that it is not shatnez.

That’s it, I’m out of time. I averaged twenty seconds per shenanigan. As I am not a particularly creative individual, I can only assume that creating such lists is not a terribly demanding enterprise.

> The grammar thing is old my old roommate emails me every other day with the same suggestions- I just don’t care enough to waste time with that.

If one wishes to communicate via the written word, then ensuring it is done correctly is hardly a waste of time. Not everybody can get away with the liberties that Mark Twain took.

> I am all about the content- to which I am sure you have some critical comment about as well-

I won’t comment beyond what I have already said. I, personally, don’t enjoy it too much. A friend sent me the link and I put in my $.02 and responded to those who called me to task. At this point, I have no intention of investing any further effort. It is certainly no shock to me that there are folks out there who still enjoy the whole list-o-ways to make trouble for unsuspecting people thing, but I’m not one of them. I also don’t see the appeal of the, “Please vote for me,” posts, but I’m not really the one who matters. As long as you can attract a hot, Lubavitch girl, you’ll be just fine.

> but I guess the average of 800 individual site visits per day continuously isn’t there because the content sucks.

Fair enough. I guess that I’m just not one of that number. I wish you all the best with continuously improving that content and your means of delivery.

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62 May 1, 2007 at 8:44 PM

haven’t been around, but just laughed so hard I nearly pissed myself…That was awesome, and any of you tight asses, need to relax. FrumSatire would never do anything of the sort actually, and people who can laugh about such a thing wouldn’t either. Those people who cannot see the humor in this HILARIOUS post are the ones we should be worried about. LIFE IS SO SHORT PEOPLE, IF YOU DON’T WANT TO EXPAND YOUR MIND OR LAUGH, YOU WILL LEAD AN AWFUL LIFE. I THINK FFBS CAN LEARN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT FROM FRUMSATIRE!!! (MEANING, RELAX!!!!)

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63 May 2, 2007 at 7:36 AM

Thank you for the compliment sexy BT

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64 May 2, 2007 at 11:08 AM

What a controversy.

I think you should specify on each post from now on that it was meant for humor purposes only. It’s like those commercials that must emphasize that ‘batteries are not included’ or ‘the barbie does not actually walk itself’ or some other inane proclamation as such, because unfortunately, some people really just don’t understand.
Tragic, of course, but true…

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65 May 2, 2007 at 12:57 PM

Well I would assume that since everyone could tell me that my spelling and grammar sucks that they were SMART enough to realize the humor. Then again also would have thought that the Blog Title and disclaimer made it pretty clear.

After all most blogs are made to offend, push peoples buttons and make people think differently, then say, reading a book or a newspaper.

But the truth is, that if people a few get offended I am fully realizing my first amendment rights eh…

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66 May 2, 2007 at 1:07 PM

you should consider yourself lucky to have your own personal spell-checker…

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67 May 2, 2007 at 5:37 PM

the best way to mess with baal teshuvos is to tell them the truth.The truth is that no matter how hard they try to live a life of torah and mitzvos, the frum community will never accept them.

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68 May 12, 2007 at 5:46 PM

Well I thought it was funny. Frumbutwithit is right, most BTs tend to take things way too seriously and sometimes they take it to such extremes, they come off nazi like. There was a geirut girl who was attending the seminary I was going to. She was mamash frum.
She went on shidduchim and most of BTs were really nasty to her. One guy she met in a restaurant and he immediately asked her if she had any Jews in her family and she told him that she already told the shadchan that she had no Jewish relatives . He stood up and left without saying anything and left her alone in the restaurant. Now that’s outright rude and nasty.
(She is now married to a FFB, she was not Jewish enough for the BTs but a FFB married her)

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69 May 12, 2007 at 8:07 PM

I actually wrote about when you could tell a BT had already become a frummy- there are subtle differences between BT’s who have not shed their status yet- like the ability to play a good game of Jewish geography.

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70 May 13, 2007 at 3:57 AM

Yeah I really like the BTs who bitch around how everyone is doing some kind of a halacha in a wrong way, constantly correcting other people’s behavior and ways, and then they rush out of the shul on Shabbes to check the messages on their cellphones. Hell, actually I love the ones who drive on the second day Yontif more than the guys/gays using the phones on Shabbes.*rollseyes* [/insert end of sarcastic rant]

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71 May 13, 2007 at 4:01 AM

Sorry my post is supposed to say guys/girls. No clue why I typed in gays. Just noticed that, hahaha.

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72 May 13, 2007 at 11:52 AM

(gasp)-Don’t you know you’re not allowed to close your zipper on Shabbos? About the suitability of this topic-it’s not as if we actually do these things (well, most of us)-we all have naughty thoughts, so isnt it better to let them out this way?

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73 May 13, 2007 at 5:19 PM

I think closing a zipper on shabbos is the melocha of Boneh

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74 May 13, 2007 at 5:37 PM

Excuse me but take this case scenario. You are at a Shabbes meal and you use the bathroom. Are you going to come out back to your host’s living room, with unzipped pants, revealing all your glory? Hahaha.
p.s. are you telling us that all men wear buttoned pants on Shabbes?

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75 May 14, 2007 at 9:43 AM

No Rebel thats why the frummies wear bekishas and kapata’s

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76 May 14, 2007 at 11:36 AM

You wear a Bekishe on Shabbes? :-O

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77 May 16, 2007 at 11:41 AM

Very nice.

There is some truth however to some of the BT-windups. Dumping, and according to some, peeing too, facing East (in an open area) IS ossur (Orach Chaim 3:5)

Fresh produce in Israel needs a hashgocho.

I’m definitely subscribing to this one!

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78 May 16, 2007 at 2:08 PM

HAHA…… After livin with BT’s for 3 years…. LOL

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79 May 16, 2007 at 2:26 PM

I was also a mashgiach for Pesach once in a hotel.. and for the fun of it, while watching the vegetables being cut, I screamed “STOP”, and explained to all the staff that “in order for the vegetables to be Kosher for Passover, they needed to be cut in a “different” manor. SO, if you are a righty, you need to cut them with your left hand,,, and if you are a lefty, with your right hand.”… They all moaned,,, and slowly complied. This was a good thing for about 10 minutes until the Rav Ha’Machshir came in,,,and was asked if what I said was true… and after the look on his face,,, I heard a scream “RABBI”……
I think it better to play with the Goyim, than the BT’s… yet I don’t hold offense to any of it. It’s all in good fun…. Oh,,, and I’m a BT.

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80 May 16, 2007 at 7:11 PM

I assumed you were a BT and messing with goyim is way to easy. There are too many things to list especially when you are mashgiach- I happen to work part time as a mashgiach once in a while and the things they ask are amazing. “Are plastic knives kosher?” Or “Can we listen to music while we cook?” Since its not Jewish.

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81 June 25, 2007 at 7:57 PM

awesome! someone once told me: tznius is bec. women are cold!

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82 June 25, 2007 at 10:04 PM

I once wrote a post about how the whole point of tznius was because that it reduces the horrible muffin tops that plague Jewish women. It also allows for men who are shomer negia to marry women who they would have never given a chance had they seen what was really under their skirts and shirts.

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83 SA August 15, 2007 at 4:46 PM

My friend gave me these:

Seperate garbage for milk and meat. Open mouth underwater in mikva for saying lashon hara. Woman not allowed to have too much pleasure from this world, no orgasms. Kiss the mezuza more than your wife. Knock into a jew while hes praying, but be terrified of a black on the train. Kiss the siddur more than your children. Rush and knock people to attempt to kiss the Torah, but be reserved with your family. Love chulent more than G-d. Scream at the Torah reader for a mistake, while u can’t read.

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84 Frum Hiker August 15, 2007 at 7:07 PM

Love it, thank you for that. It seems that the best ones actually came from BT’s as most of the post came while sitting at the campus chabad house talking with BT’s about what they would believe if someone told them some crazy stuff to do.

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85 Anonymous October 12, 2007 at 4:16 PM

Asshole

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86 Hesh October 12, 2007 at 9:01 PM

Thats right bitch!!!

I assume you are not a BT then. Because it seems that all the folks who hate this post are FFB’s or irreligious Jews.

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87 chevramaidel October 14, 2007 at 10:28 PM

re:mean to geirim: A certain gioret was seriously involved with a BT. His mother(who had been married to,not one, not two, but THREE non-Jews) protested,”No son of mine will marry a SHIKSA!!!

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88 chevramaidel October 14, 2007 at 10:37 PM

Oh – and if your BT is a science geek, start a discussion of “quantum halacha”. Do you realize that every time you measure something- say a kazayis, or check if your tefillin are on right- that automatically changes what you are measuring- you can never get it right!

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89 heshman October 14, 2007 at 11:37 PM

A budy of mine actually just asked me if I would make a second part to this post with another list, if you have any ideas- send em over.

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90 MBK December 12, 2007 at 4:42 PM

Uch this is so low on the totem noone is going to read this! o well

On the second night of pesach I asked someone what we are doing, he said “We’re counting sephiras ha’omer” “but we didnt do this last night” I argued. And he said, “I know tonight’s the first night” Haha now you can’t make a bracha!

I also asked someone what night of Chanukka it is and he told me and i said haha now you cant make a bracha

teehee

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91 poshiter yid February 25, 2008 at 1:32 PM

What’s everybody got against Brooklyn? There are still a few of us “normal” people living here.

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92 Hesh February 25, 2008 at 4:11 PM

Well as a tree hugger I have everything against the east coast in general- but Brooklyn has retained a reputation as being one big closed minded city full of snobs, dirty chasids, and shietle hookers.

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93 stacy March 3, 2008 at 3:00 PM

funny
people who have a problem with this are the same people who give me death stares for walking on the street wearing a doors t shirt

ps my friends rag on me non stop for not being to use “crappy spelling and grammar” i just cant!
love your spelling

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94 heshman March 3, 2008 at 6:23 PM

Thank you, I just have no patience for editing I love to just see the post up and running.

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95 JJ March 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM

What condones drug use in tefillas haderech? i obviously get borei meney b’samim.

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96 heshman March 17, 2008 at 1:19 PM

Tefilas haderech- when you take a trip!

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97 Rivka March 27, 2008 at 10:53 AM

Dude, man funny! You may be able to call me a fan now.

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98 Anonymous March 27, 2008 at 11:56 PM

BT? FFB? What’s with all the labels? And “Best ways to mess with baal teshuvas?” Maybe you should try helping them out as a fellow Jew.

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99 heshman March 28, 2008 at 7:29 AM

The whole point of this blog is the mock all the labels- you will notice that through other posts. Besides using acronyms saves time and is better for SEO purposes (search engine optimization)- well maybe not.

Still you must be an FFB due to your lack of humor- this post got rave review the BT’s and all the FFB’s got offended.

Oh and I am helping fellow Jews through laughter.

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100 Anonymous March 31, 2008 at 7:12 PM

nah i’m just a jewish kid in the South. But ok point taken

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