Where are we in the picture?. My friend, sociologist Professor A.A. Hello, you wonder why in every popular Haredi documentary series the Haredi publicist on duty appears and vehemently denies arguments about permissive, anti-Haredi development, such as the latest one sought in the TV series 'Question Marks.' You correctly identified that during the series, as well as on other platforms, Haredi thinkers insisted on claiming that the data is distorted, and that the new trends are the figment of the imagination of secular sociologists.
And the answer, my friend, lies in the irrational Haredi tendency to find victory or the place of the in-group in every story, even when the narrative reaches the level of ridiculousness. The prime minister's son is socializing with a foreign girl, and the Haredi public is shocked. Why? Who cares? The prime minister and his son are apparently publicly desecrating Shabbat, apparently eating carrion and carrion, and only going to the movies with a Norwegian girl strikes at the foundation of Haredi Judaism?
President-elect Rivlin's chief of staff is a Haredi woman, and the Haredi press never stops talking about Rivlin's connection with the Haredi world that suddenly embraced him. How did a man from Betar Jabotinsky, an outspoken supporter of the hated conscription law, become an inseparable part of the sector? It was the same when Major General Benny Gantz was appointed Chief of Staff, and the Haredi newspaper Mishpacha reported that the man 'always had a soft spot for religious matters, and that during his service as IDF attaché in Washington, he invited rabbis to his place and used to take pictures with them.' Who cares, for God's sake? Are the columnists unaware of the fact that Gantz is a secular man, devoid of any outward Jewish signs, and not necessarily the yeshiva head who was agreed upon as a compromise candidate in the Ponivez yeshiva?
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The answer to this question, or almost this ultra-Orthodox neurosis, must be found among the intricacies of research belonging to the field of 'crowd psychology.'.
The father is from the USA. Noa, my aunt, told me the following fact: The year was 1987, she was in her second pregnancy, the ninth month had almost passed, and signs of distress began to rage in her body. She was terrified at the thought that the child would be born with a deformity or defect in his body or mind. Scenarios of a lifeless boy or girl, and scenes of severely injured newborns, did not stop playing in her head, and she did not know what to do. Noa had never been a Chabad follower, but she was very impressed by the personality of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, whom she had visited some time earlier, and sent him a fax detailing her distress.
The answer to her request came in a short time: "A healthy male child will be born on time in the "H". It is needless to say that the sex of the fetus in those distant days of the 1980s was unknown to anyone, and it is almost needless to say that a male child was indeed born exactly on time, healthy and intact.
But to me, the center of gravity of this little story is not the Rebbe's almost trivial 'miracle.' The most impressive element in the story belongs precisely to the fact that a woman from Rishon LeZion - my aunt - who does not belong to the world of Chabad Hasidim, or in general the Haredi world, turns with such great naturalness, via fax, to a man, a seemingly stranger, who lives thousands of miles away, when she is sure that he will reduce the high level of anxiety she has been dealing with and allay her fears.
Which did happen.
sad. Am I the only one who noticed that, painfully ironically, the chairman of the organization 'Out for Change' who was interviewed on the program 'Question Marks' is named Moshe Sheinfeld?
Our bee. Among the stacks of shiny children's books in the Haredi bookstore chain, I found the following surprise: a new book by author Deborah Omer. Who hasn't read "Sara Giborat Nili," "Ha Bechor Beit Avi," and the mythological "Divers Forward" by the former teacher who won the Israel Prize for Literature and became one of the most important and beloved authors of the last fifty years?
Now, her monumental children's book "The Tower of Cubes I Built" is finding its way into the hearts of Yaffe Nof, Or HaChaim, Feldheim, etc. stores, and even Israeli children wearing kippahs and wigs will be exposed to their beloved characters. So it's true that the characters of the book's heroes have undergone a certain metamorphosis, and Ron [Ron fell and got hit. A hit on his leg. On his knee] became Aaron, "Ehud who got lost" [I cried for you, mother. A little] in the secular Dvora Omer, became Uri in Omer in the Haredi version, and Mom began wearing a shabis alongside Dad who bought a hat and grew a beard. But these cosmetic changes do not diminish the importance of recognizing that fine children's literature must reach the hearts of the Haredi mainstream, even if for this purpose Ayelet had a little brother named Yitzhak, and not necessarily Yiftach.
Ayelet and the baby, the secular sister-in-law
Ruth and Isaac, the Haredi version
Aaron in the Haredi version
And the original version
