Yoav Eliasi, better known by his stage name "Hatzel," is an Israeli rapper. Judging by the photo he chose to display on his Facebook page, he doesn't seem like someone for whom tefillin and Yiddishkeit are top priorities.
But, as it turns out, there are always surprises and a Jewish soul.
''Hatzel' came across a video in which a Chabad Hasid is recorded placing tefillin for visitors at a branch of the Shufersal chain. The man who recorded the video, Adi Abir, attacks the placing of tefillin - which angered 'Hatzel', which responded with a particularly angry post on its Facebook page:
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""Unbelievable and extraordinarily annoying video of leftist trash causing a mess in a supermarket, because of a guy putting on tefillin.".
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As a secular Tel Avivian, I see something like this and can't begin to understand where this self-hatred comes from? How are they not ashamed?
Most of them are second and third generation Holocaust survivors who were murdered because of their Judaism and for their tradition. We were expelled from Spain, we lived in fear in Arab countries, we married my grandmother at the age of 9 so that a Muslim wouldn't marry her, we escaped hatred and anti-Semitism all over the world so that leftists would allow themselves to behave like this.
So where is their honor? They are constantly crying about incitement and hatred and civil war - and they are the only ones who will bring this civil war upon us, and they will have no one to blame but themselves.
I'm writing this nervously and dying to know who this scumbag, the instigator, the hater, is behind this video.
"You're not happy here? Leave! No one is holding you back! Don't you like the fact that you were born Jewish? Kill yourself! Do us all a favor!""
Three hours later, after discovering who was behind the video, Hatzel wrote another post:
""This is Adi Abir, the photographer from the video and the trashy person who is angry that a Chabadnik is putting on tefillin in a supermarket.".
""So without knowing him, I understood what kind of twisted person he was. He is a Jew who hates the fact that he was born Jewish, and now he is at war against religion.".
""He operates anti-religious Facebook pages and websites, such as One against all religion And what is no less bad is the reaction of theShufersal "For his war against tefillin. We're tired of the radical left and we need to expose them all. Enough of being silent about their madness!""
He attached the following to the post:
