Of Jews and Ships and Sealing Wax, Cabbages & Things

Chabad, G-d love 'em, remain as incapable of assisting with cleaning 'dirty laundry' as ever. Rather than help anash deal with their children's drug/alcohol/intermarriage issues, they continue directing community members to seek counseling outside as far from them as possible.

The mantra of 'we dont have problems in Chabad' remains as strong as it was decades ago when I lived there. In truth it appears that the bulk of the kids in question are from baaletschuvah families and a few rebels from Chassidic families that distance themselves as much as possible from their 'failures.'

Sholom Rubashkin was imprisoned under RICO and immigration violation charges and here again Chabad kept its distance-'its better for Rubashkin if we dont publically take a stand.' How is that the case? Chabad fund raises everywhere, is the face of King Moshiach and has centers across the globe-and cannot defend a man who has supplied food for Jewish poor, as did his father, for decades?

As the world continues to implode, as we reach the end of Life as we know it, its not only a matter of living in degradation and perversity among goyim who insist that left is right, up is down and all manner of human lifestyles is perfectly fine as along as your partner is okay with it. There are no sins, your kids may do as they like and its not your business, they're adults. Of course if you had done things correctly as haredim do, to the extreme, then you dont have these sick behaviours, so one has only oneself to blame.

So I hear a shiur on NYC radio erev shabbos...the Para Adooma, ashes of the Red Heifer are kept by the Kohan Gedol to cleanse tummah. The ashes and the Kohan are taharah and once the Para Adooma is used, the person is relieved of being tummah but the Kohane becomes tummah-in effect sacrifices himself to save the soul of the person who must be cleansed. The person teaching went on to explain that as the Kohanim sacrificed at this level to save a soul, each person must do the same, get their hands dirty to help another Jew and if necessary, sacrifice to the extreme to keep that Jew safe.

I probably should note that ex and I are discussing what options we can employ to dissaude our youngest daughter from continuing relationships with male goyim. Ex and I have not communicated in 3 decades, this issue had to bring us together, that's how serious it is for us. Not on our watch, we owe the Rebbe and our grandparents at least trying to save her.