A MORONIC SYSTEM THAT MAKES SO MANY ACT OUT ..AND IN SO MANY WAYS AND SOME CONCRETE SOLUTIONS Witney Houston once sang …Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all I am ok cuz G-d don't make junk , goes the saying Love your neighbor as thyself You have to love yourself A rav in Israel called this "basisi", basic stuff It is every parent's goal; to raise kids with a sense of self love That way they won't act out ..with food, drugs, rage, lust etc However in today's Jewish community often things are different. "My students think G-d hates them!" in despair, Rabbi Hikind announced to his father's radio show listeners Rav Arush writes how the vast majority of the people whom he counsels hate themselves And Rav Sheya Twerski spent his writing career combatting what he called the number #1 problem of our generation, low self esteem Indeed hating yourself is a one way ticket to that island of acting out with our toxic "friends" drugs, food, alchohol, rage, lust, you name it I write as one who really struggles with this hate, self esteem thing "We were taught to doubt" one night, talk show host Larry King tells of how he viewed Judaism growing up. What was I taught growing up? What are so many today taught? No one taught me "Thou shat hate thyself" Fine I was taught just this : YOU MUST FOLLOW A HIGHLY RIGOROUS DEMANDING SET OF LAWS IF YOU DON’T, WHATEVER AND WHENEVER YOU FALL SHORT, A LOVING G-D (no sarcastic quotation marks)WILL TORTURE YOU IN THIS WORLD PERHAPS, AND DEFNATELY THE NEXT, WITH SPIRITUAL PAINS THAT MAKE THE HOLOCAUST LOOK LIKE A RIDE ON A REKEVET KALA IN JERUSALEM, OR THE INCONVENIENCE OF A SHORT DELAY FOR THE "F "TRAIN IN MANHATTAN THIS VERY LOVING G-D WILL PUT YOU IN A STATE OF KAF VAKELLA FOR ETERNITY – BUT ONLY IF YOU REALLY REALLY TRY HIS LOVING PATIENCE. SO DON’T WORRY ALL THE WHILE I, LIKE SO VERY MANY OTHERS, WERE EXPOSED TO PERVERSE SICK, IMMORAL, VIOLENT, SEXUALLY IMPLICIT AND EXPLICITE, TV, RADIO, CABLE ETC, WIRIING ME TO SIN, AND IN SO MANY WAYS Of course popculture affected me! It is scientifically proven that virtually all of us say that they are amongst those chosen few who aren’t affected I watched and listened, and was hugely affected for the worse Consequently, the Torah became harder to follow. So I often couldn’t measure up to Yiddishkeit. My self esteem took a real first class beating. I hated myself, judged others harshly, and in a sense I hated G-d. I felt He hated me.I suppose you can love life as a failure. Gilligan of my sitcom TV saturated rerun childhood, did. I didnt. So I got depressed and I acted out. "When I think back on all that [religious dogma] I learned in gradeschool and highschool; it is a wonder I can think at all" I quote a song from my youth "Hate yourself ? When did we say we tell you to actually hate yourself? We love you daledadar.3 " But be careful to not speak lashon hara. & study your five hundred page manual. Learn it well. Some lashon hara is murder Study then you won't be guilty of murder. "You removed the peach label wrong on a warm Shabbos afternoon? You are past twenty years old so you are excommunicated. An das you know daledaadar.3, it is Biblical command But you can get your excommunication reversed. It is gonna take a lootta work though. "No don’t hate yourself. That is a tremendous aveirah daledadar.3 "But that list of ayn lo cheileck lionlam haba in Perkei Avos...? Yeah watch that daledadar.3 ,because you can lose your ticket to paradise " LIES MY RABBIS TOLD ME or what they told me they really had NO business telling me ! The melting pot is very real. And so too JEWISH GUILT IS VERY REAL AND THESE DAYS ( not centuries ago mind you perhaps . Then extremely harsh mussar HAD its place.)but these days …?IT IS A KILLER! Toras H-shem temimah. Torah is beautiful, wonderful. As a levi I say my aliyah with great pride and often. But you don’t teach niddah to seven year olds, you don’t spit on Superman's cape... and in a generation where emunah is virtually impossible compared to, say, 100 years ago...Dont teach me very shtark mussar and highly rigourous obligations which guilt many of us out & bum us out to the point of acting out!. I, and many of us are part of a cruel sadistic experiment ; not by Nazis and no, not as severe No one person actually does this .. But this is the experiment: Let us raise kids with WWF wrestling, graphic songs where teenagers lose their virginity panting and moaning heavily ,and rappers seducing women into copulating (or just forget the seduction part) Let us show kids all sorts of utterly graphic violence that would make Alfred Hitchkock of fifties fame horror film creator, flintch with terror ;heads being chopped off all sorts of things Now let us tell them not to touch women's pinkies, or look at them, and inform them that any erection might be the fault of the young man (us) in this experiment.Inculcate the participants that masturbation is like murder. "Let us see" say the experimentors ..with all this sex violence scoffing on one hand ///-and elite kedusha as very polar opposite forces ..let us see how many end up maladjusted, older singles, with shalom bayis problems, disenchanted with their faith, drug addicts, floundering in life etc etc etc and acting out … Hell, Gehenom, Purgetroy "60 times hotter than the sun rabosi" I can still hear the deep voice of my 9th grade rebbe, "touched" as African Americans would have called him , lecturing to a very modern Orthodox highschool....... 60 times hotter than the sun rabosi 60 times !! And so many of us had parents who let their kids see, listen, and inhale TV, radio, movies, rap, "What can we do?" bewail so many parents in 2019. " My kid acts out with food, drugs,lust, violence and chutzpah to their mechanchim ?"the parents go on and on and on I have a suggestion Daledadar.3 can give you an "eitzah maalyah" Take a "Back to the Future" Time machine to when Harrry Truman was chastised for using the taboo turn "Hell" in a speech Tell them what you expose yor kids to Let them actually see the sewer of 2019 cable SHOW IT ALL, PARENTS OF A MESSED UP CHILD! Then social service 1950S style ,alla a guy like a judge like Perry Mason of TV fame, fifties style will sentence your "Bruchie" and "Duvie" to be removed "You aren’t fit parents" he will declare. If you don’t comply, then a cop like, say, Andy Griffeth and Barnie Fife of TV fame, will force " Bruchi" and "Duvie" out of their "Jekyl Hyde" –morning lessons of Avraham Aveinu who didn’t gaze at Sarah due to tzniyus -night time homosexual sitcoms and riality shows and onslaught of sex vilence and all the filth ,all the filth That teacher I once had who spoke of "60 time hotter than the sun" stuff to his students, his students from TV homes. How did they respond? They taught the "helige"rav's three and four year old nibul peh "You shouldn't say that. That is a naughty word." "the four year old bechor affectionately told his little brother The rav affectionnately would kiss his little ones -(even after they would use nibul peh...-rightfully so) "Little kids need lots of affection at that age" teh rav of my youth would inform us ...... AND WE DONT ??! After all ..did the GRA"S generation sit down to Uncle Miltie dress up like a woman, or witness the simulated violent rape of a man as in TV's St Elsewhere? Did Abiya and Rava's generation watch practically naked women violently beat up nearly, but not quite as muscular, men? In the time of Rashi, did people hear leitzanus about howmosexuality "not being anything that wrong" and taunts from women to men about fake orgasms, from a "mefursam" Jewish badchan ? Mistama not In the times of Rabbi Akiva Eiger, did modern orthodox yiddden listen intently to rappers flaunt going into clubs and, in vulgar terms, seducing women and copulating with them, usually as these women are totally "maskim" (though not always, to totally to meaningless lustful one night stands, or half night stands perhaps) ( We are wary ooooh there is antisemetism in rap The other stuff is 'going a little to far" vihaer shushan navocha!!) Torah changes with the times. Rav Shimshon Rafael Hirsch and Ba'al Shem Hakadosh paskined Rabbis at risk, kindly put down the harsh heavy mussar and teach a G-d of UN conditional- not conditional love !! David Berkowitz and a rapper who rapes, feel G-ds love. Maybe rabbis are at risk if countless of us hate ourslelves? Ya think ? Jewish Press loves to tell us about how the NYTIMES ignored the Holocaust. While actualy they did write hundreds of articles about the Holocaust That is much more than AMI MISHPAHCA Jewish Press, Jewish Week, Jewish Connection, Yated and Hamodia combined ever wrote on the evils of pop culture and how it is destroying our people Oh, and if their readership doesn’t watch pop culture WHY DON’T THEY WRITE ARTCLES TEACHING THEIR READERSHIP HOW TO MOTIVATE OTHERS TO STOP? The answer ?Perhaps thy will "inform you" that no one watches TV and or cable. (By the way not much is written to inspire people to get filters on smartphones and computers) So if no one is watching TV And cable anymore....?. Give me a break Tell me about all those "smartphone" or "computer" Superbowl parties Why the incessant "purple glow " on the very Modern orthodox Ocean parkway in Brooklyn ?? No one uses dollars or shekels.i suppose.. Keys ?No one uses keys it is all hand censored ! In the words of let su say a TV and Cable free home eralicha beis Yaakov girl .. "BALONEY!" Aguda said they spoke aganst TV ...7 years ago!! Hollywood pro Palestinians are anti semites. Got it Got it . How about pondering this in peridodicles :…. Are Hollywood folk who mock and figuritevely burn our Torah day and night on TV and cable TV shows antii-Semites?? Magazines please,you do such wonderful work .. But could you kindly stop looking at "those darn kids" what is wrong with them? angle I think Mr Hikind and his son get it Rav Arush gets it Gateway to Happiness' Rav zelig Pliskin in my opinion gets it Lots of rabbbanim get it Many dont They are the Rabbis at risk But back to all to us Next time you put on teffilin –or if you dont, just contemplate it for a while --Viarisatech li lolam. G-d is connected ot me always What an invigorating happiness inducing calming tranquil pleasant thought Sit com dads love their kids .. and even when they acted up really bad! From Mr Brady to Andy Griffeth to the dad on different Strokes.. Hakodosh Baruch Hu is as good as them.. You know what INFINATELY BETTER !! His love is UN conditional First came chessed THEN later din for a reason Today we are my ninth grade rebbes three and four year old. Rav Moshe Wolfson shlita consistantly speaks of a weaker generation that should be treated more gently which has harsh tests G-d loves unconditionally According to what I read in a Rav Sheya Twerski classic on perkei Avos, a Fire and Brimstone rav I knew.., please forgive me, but he butchered pshat in that ain lo chellek liolam habba mishna Yes dear reader you are in for much beauty in the next world ; so stick around and "chap" even more schar in this world Naur Bismicha If mass murderer David Berkowitz, and a rapper who raped, know G-d loves them ,then so can we all ! Every generation must have different "trumpets" We grow up in a world where "cannibalism is ok" so to speak- a sick perverse time The trumpets have changed and they should And maybe just maybe we all could hear the metophoric trumpets so to speak, if everyone would turn off the "SATANIC BLACK BOX" I remember when rabbi Sheya Twerski wrote "Like Yourself and Others Will Too " Know HAkadosh Bruch Hu's love is UN -I repeat- UN conditional DONT BELIEVE THE MOTZE SHEIM RAH AGAINST YOUR HELEGE HIGHER POWER ; then you will get to like yourself be a better person and &happier yid … A DONT PUT INTENSE PRESSURE ON YOUSELF DONT FOCUS ON THIS GEHENOM GARBAGE This is a little tougher for you.. Turn off the TV and all the stuff which isnt good for you and making life less pleasant (But dont "gullt" albout it) and you wont want to act out Please honored reader, if you would send this to any and all of the wonderful publications which I mentioned that are guilty of ignoring how toxic pop culture is; I would be indebted and very honored G-d bless you and gantz klal Yisroel !! |