This is dedicated to Yehuda who is really pissed off, I myself don’t really care, but I tried to put what he messaged me on Facebook into a blog friendly format…there is a nice version and a mean spirited version of what Yehuda may send back to you if you send him one of these, but his would contain many explitives.
Nice version:
Wow, I’m so happy that you took time out of your busy schedule to ask me to say tehillim for someone you know who may be in need of my prayers. I am kind of honored actually, I mean, doesn’t that mean you trust that my prayers mean something. Does that mean you think I am on a high enough madreiga that you would request me to be of service to you – wow that’s pretty cool, considering the fact you don’t know me.
Evil road rage version:
I’m sick and tired of your chain mail tehillim requests, the 90′s was for those spammy chain letters that promised me money and love. You want me to pray for your aunts neighbor that is getting surgery in three weeks from now? Yeh, well don’t send it to me over facebook – that really shows you care – because I don’t!
See what you caused with tehillim request…anger and madness, I can’t take it anymore. Its one thing if you want me to join your zombie killing scrabble game, but I thought it would end at dumbass apps, but it didn’t. If not for you tehillim requests wouldn’t be considered spam – the lowest madreiga of all requests!
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it is so sad – but i agree with this rant. i get daily texts messages from people i dont know. yes i always try to stop and say a perek of tehillim but is has really gotten out of control. i need to stop getting tehillim requests with just a name. sometimes i will write back asking who the tehillim are for and i am scolded b/c the person would like to remain anonymous. is it is really so hard to write – baby with cancer vs grandmother needing pacemaker etc. it def chnages the kavahna level as well as the likelihood that its a legit tehillim request.
Tehilim request for someone I don’t know? Denied. Deleted. Into the Trash. I’m sorry but I have a busy schedule, and when I’m saying Tehillim at all, it’s for something serious (i.e. my friend’s mother’s terminal illness, not your routine root canal) or for someone I explicitly know (and their immediate relatives if they’re close).
In all seriousness, many of the requests I recieve are outdated. I recommend that every request contain a weblink to a site that constantly verifies the need for tehillim.
Honestly we can not deny the requests to read tehillim for a fellow yid, after all — it is ahavas yisroel, and veahavto l’reacho kamoiheh. We should care for one another.
Now I don’t know if it is possible, but if you are already reading a number of tehillim in the morning as per the day of the month, have all the sick of am Isroel in mind when reading one extra kapitel?
american assholes.. (yes, you all are assholes) deal with it
ahavas yisroel? they dont care…