Thursday, November 17, 2011

Davening with the Dark Side

I read a Shmuley Boteach article on twitter today that says that ChaBaD is growing Horizontally and not vertically. 
I sent Shmuley a tweet and said that I think that the ChaBaD is growing diagonally and in a zigzag pattern.
The fact is that this ChaBaD today does not seem to be addressing the issues in judaism in totality.

People argue that the ChaBaD is good.  It has a major international presence and establishes seemingly Torah Observant offices and congregations around the globe. If you go to Nicaraugua, I bet you can find a ChaBaD to do your davening while you are in town for a cigar convention.

But alas, I digress that the fact is true that the ChaBaD is really not officially in my eyes the future of the Jewish people. 
I have previously compared them to the dark side of the force such as in Star Wars.
This is how I see the ChaBaD.
They are organized and they have their major groups of men wearing the same attire everywhere they go.
They can all fill in the day with Torah readings in the synagogue and their voices are all so wonderfully dovelike!  It is such a blessing, such a blessing... 
But the fact is we can all make spaceships today.  Dark side does make space ships too (they can daven and they can walk the tight line of the religiously intense environment of prayer and worship in the synagogue).
In fact, their spaceships fly just fantastically. 
Go forth and fly young men!  The ChaBaD might be fantastic in many ways, but lets not miss the fact that they have a dark side and a dark energy about their social experiences.

So I am not in the ChaBaD today and I have decided not to support this organization.  True they are all a part of Israel and I do believe some will be great Jews of course.... but rest assured that the dark side is not the way of the True Force that rules this Magnificent Universe.

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