I just had to make a video and got a little carried away with regards to staying on subject. But its funny and most importantly clean.
Coney Island sheitle store boycott video
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Yo, why the short short haircut? No more biker ‘do?
Oh wait….You’re stuck indoors. When was the last time you did some riding?
Me? I’m hoofin it to work on my wheels, every day.
that image of shaved chassisdish women was rather disturbing…esp that windtunnel shnazzel.
Please Hesh, whenever you post a video, post the same content in text. I have no patience to watch for 5 minutes when it would take me maybe 2 minutes to read.
You look cute with short hair
Thanks for the link!
Question:
Every time you post a video, there’s some guy sitting in a chair in the kitchen behind you, completely ignoring you as you talk. Who is that guy?
That is my roommate John, I have this one video I am debating about whether to post that is 7 minutes long and John he is a bit odd, continuously gets up and sits back down in the video- I am ranting away and you see him in the back round just getting up sitting down, thinking he forgot something and gets up again.
Hey A23 where have you been- used to be one of my best commenters – can you explain in English what you mean
nice!
Pay no mind to the man behind the curtain. He’s nobody. Do chassidim have pubic wigs? Would it be ok to go outside on a hot day in one of those? Along with the regular wig, of course. (I’m not an idiot).
B”H I only had time to watch a little. It’s 2 hrs. before Shabbath in Israel.
Sheitles are bullcrap, man. They are a stupid, Ashkishagy invention made to assist them to blend in, and to compromise with their insolent wives who wouldn’t cover their hair in first place. (Read the Aruch HaShulhan on such insolence).
Nowadays, we see plenty of men who want to show off their new arm candy to the bros.
It may technically becovering their hair according to some poseqim, but it’s not tzni’uth.
I guess this is one area on which the right-wing, Torah Zionist settlers (most are mamlakhtim, or even just as codependent assimilationists as the gov’t) and Satmar agree.
Burn your wigs!!!!!
Wow do a smell a new branch of the feminist movement. You should take your views to JOFA- Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
I’d like a summary of some videos as well. I can’t follow most of what you are saying when I watch them. (The first D in JDMDad stands for Deaf…) Not a full transcription, just a quick summary would be nice.
Priceless and darn funny. How I wish they had the Internet when I was younger. On the other hand… no, my ranting would have made Dennis Leary look frum.
Perhaps an orthopedic backside pillow might be in order for your room-mate?
The default image before the video starts looks so much like Moshe Fried. I almost shit my pants when I started the video
As much as I dislike the concept of shaitels, there’s thousands of women who agree to wear it and why should I bust their balls about it. There’s plenty that don’t wear it or don’t plan on wearing it which is the type I’m going to end up looking for. I just never understood the whole “learning it out from a posuk from Soteh” that is so convincing that women thounsands of years later are totally okay with this derivative by some Tanah who might have darshined it as a joke to get chicks to look funny in their old age.
the reall reason the yeshiva got after the store is becuase ther was probably some poor boy who looked out the window and said oh, those women are atractive, adn everyone was omigosh a display of heaven forbid – sexual feelings! so, they got rid of the store so the boys wouldn’t be getting turned on, even though the women are so much older!
What ever happened to that girl you were dating seriously? (when you went to some island or something on vacation?). I was getting excited about hearing a mazal tov for you!
Like the short hair very much. Like the wiggerease. Don’t like the whole shaved head confusion. It’s not a Chumra, dude. It’s a Minhag, I think. Whatever. And, Ben Yehuda, I actually think I’m with you. I always admire the Sephardi women with the headscarves and stuff. That makes way more sense than everything else.
So Ben, you are saying that you’re looking for a woman who wears no head covering, or who wears a scarf? I posted my opinion on shietels in some other post. I have to say btw, that rereading my post in “Yeshiva Memories” on tsnius, I realize that I came across as pretty extreme. Hmm…. On the one hand, I appreicate that mindset, but on the other, I don’t live it. Erm. Well- that won’t bother me for long since I’m a big believer in that everyone does what is good for them and is perfectly entitled to their own viewpoint. I also believe that different situations calls for different measures. Shivim Panim LaTorah. I can and do debate opposite sides of an arguement quite passionately with relative ease.
Anyway, this video was the funniest. i was laughing ym way thorugh. You are such a kid. Your mind flows form topic to topic- you have a lot of untpaped talent within you, and should really try to figure out what it’d be best for. You have a lot of restless energy that could really accomplish a lot. (hence the frequent trips to nowhere and the experiecne of being cluastrophobic in a country that has less than 3000 miles of space around it…)
utubefan said: I always admire the Sephardi women with the headscarves and stuff.
woo hoo~ *sporting her teichel*
When I first met my husband (who’s Ashkenazi) we both tiptoed around the issue -afraid to offend the other. What a relief in the end when I finally told him, “Misha, I’m not wearing a sheitl”
and he said, “Oh no?! *whew!* okay!
disclaimer: not to offend sheitl wearers. I don’t know enough on the halacha. Just that I didn’t want to.
It looks great on my friends.
Hey mindy – do you purposely invert every hundredth and hundred and first, or so, letters?
ha ha my mom just waltzed over when you were doin the bit abou tthe women running to catch her sheitel and she was like if his parents find out about this they’re gonna be pissed. im like uh, sure mom… im sure…
Notbad- lol, no I just type very quickly and don’t bother about correcting it. And I think it looks cute.
It’s funny that you say that because when I write, I actually get so far ahead of myself that I find myself skipping words on the paper to fit with what is going on in my head then. … The negative effects of geniosity…
I see I missed the party, so sorry I could join- I was in NYC for the past few days on job interviews.
Well Mindy,
Since I’m not a fan of the whole head covering thing altogether, I guess I wouldn’t want the scarf either. Bandannas can be cool sometimes, but this whole pirate mom thing sure is a weird way to try and brush off attention that you’re trying to avoid. As much as people hate community and things like that, if you’re part of a certain area that holds certain minhagim, you’re going to get the stare for not being part of it. Where I live, it’s pretty much pure ostracism if you dont have fake hair and you’re married. Not sure what my future has in store for me but I hope I’ll eventually be blessed with the knowledgable female who understands me and tries to work with me on this issue.
“Every time you post a video, there’s some guy sitting in a chair in the kitchen behind you, completely ignoring you as you talk. Who is that guy?”
Me. I’m not ignoring him, but rather doing my best to not distract him. Maybe we should get a mechitza-like device so you can’t see me.
To Ben: Why don’t you agree with hair convering?
To Yochanan:
Ever considered just moving out of the kitchen?
Personally I’m just not attracted to it. Thats the purpose really, but who doesn’t want to be attracted to their own wife? And yeah of course they say “the husband” can see it. But many women these days have the tendency to wear it at home most of the time too. And even if she uncovers her hair at home, it’s NOTHING like it used to be because the hair isnt as rich and shiny like it was because it’s always covered and smushed. Not very pretty.
Side note, I put on my mother’s shaitel last night and blasted some Judas Priest. That gear is great for headbanging and getting the feeling of what it’s like to have long hair at a metal concert swishing in every direction. She took it away claiming I was ruining it.
UPDATE: Boycott Against Flatbush Shaitel Store Over
February 14, 2008
YWN had posted a letter from Rav Aron Schecter Shlita a few weeks ago calling on people not to enter a Shaitel store on Coney Island Avenue. The store, located across the street from Yeshiva Chaim Berlin had refused to remove large inappropriate photos of women hanging in the store window.
Today, a new letter has been written by Rav Aron Schecter telling everyone that Boruch Hashem, the store-owner has removed the photos – changing the situation from “Chillul Hashem to Hillel Hashem”.
“To Yochanan:
Ever considered just moving out of the kitchen?”
Yeah, but the kitchen kinda functions like an office for me. I don’t have a desk in my room, nor do I have any space. Besides this is a youtube video, not a professional movie set. Not to mention, I was already in the middle of something.
That was me in comment #30.
Ben you rock, I can just see a whole movement of frummy sheitle wearing power metal fans. And even Rob Halford could understand- him being gay and all.
Of course they caved, welcome to the free market Left Flatbush- the free market is great because economics- not chumras tell the market what to do- unfortunately the free market is being dictated by a bunch of tyrannical Rabbis. They should just have let the owner do his own thing, if people get offended they wont shop thre- why do you think all the non-Jewish owned business are shomer shabbos.
Did you see on Hassid and Heretic’s blog, they banned their own concert, hahaha!
I know I was going to write a post on it but cannot figure out what angle to go at it.