They tell you that you don't need
the world, don't need secular studies because everything is in the Torah. They
walk you into a room full of books and say "Look at all these. You don't
need anything else." Since the books are in a foreign language, you really
can't investigate the truth of the claim. This applies not only in the
beginning but after years because they don't teach you the language. The
strange characters, running right to left, are exotic. They look like art. They
kind of spin your mind around, and you find yourself saying, "I guess
everything is in there. I don't need anything else."
But then they don't study the entire Torah. They disparage almost
of all it and focus exclusively on a few pages of the Gemara which they
approach in a chaotic, abstract manner. Where's all that everything-is-in-it
stuff? Oh, you don't need that. Just learn this. It's magical. It will change
you.
What, it's not changing you? That's because you are not
trying. It's due to your yetzer hara. It's a new phrase for you. It really
means the devil. Those Xtians who tell you that the devil is inside of you, the
ones who run religious cults. It's the same here. They just have a new phrase
for it so you don't realize what they are doing to you. Meet the new boss. It's
the same as the old boss.
Then they tell you that you must replace your interests and
hobbies with mitzvos. Hobbies are foolish. Mitzvos are from God. They will enrich all of your life.
But then they disparage mitzvos. That handful of Gemara that they
study, the 1% of the Gemara, is better than all those silly mitzvos. You hear
this over and over until you don't really respect the mitzvos that replaced
your life. You just fear getting eternal damnation for not doing them. They
don't call it eternal damnation. That's so Xtian. They call it gehennom. They
call it busha in olam haba. These are new words, but they mean essentially the
same thing - eternal damnation.
What about your heroes? They are bums - Martin Luther King, John
Lennon, Shakespeare, Mozart. I have heard all of them disparaged. So have you.
Most rabbis won't even utter their names. You replace them with gadolim.
That's another new word. All of
these new words have a power over your mind because you don't know what they
mean. It's easy to manipulate people with new words -- every demagogue uses
them -- because you attach magical meanings to them. The mind gets confused.
So who are these gadolim? Oh, we don't show them to you. They are
very busy. It wasn't until a few years ago that videos of people like Moshe
Feinstein even became available. Still, there aren't many videos of such
people. There are no interviews. Most of them never even wrote any books. Your
knowledge of them comes strictly from average guys, some below average, who
claim to have been "close" to them. That's who you try to get close
to, the below average guys who claim to have been close to the gadolim that you
don't really know anything about.
What you question all of this? How dare you. Who do you think you
are?
Oh, they don’t talk to you like that
at kiruv camp. There, they are polite and patient. But once they get this idea
of eternal damnation in your head – oh sorry, gehennom – that’s when the fist
lands in your face. You don’t realize it, but you have been trapped by the Child
Catcher.
Who’s that? He’s that scary guy from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Wearing colorful clothing, he approaches children with candy. He says, get in the truck for more candy. He's a little odd, but his clothes are fun and he's waving candy. What child can resist?
You step inside. And then this
He sheds his colorful cape and reveals his black coat as he howls and drives you away.
What you are waking up? But it's too late. If anybody catches you talking like this, you kids won't get shiduchim. They'll spend their lives lonely and frustrated like you were. Better step in line and obey. They got you.
Here's what happened to you.
Not saying here the Torah itself is the candy snatcher. It's contemporary frum culture, particularly the manalist culture.
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