{"id":9993,"date":"2009-08-24T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T17:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2009-08-24T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T17:15:21","slug":"when-chabad-goes-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9993","title":{"rendered":"When Chabad Goes Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nachum Lamm posts on Facebook: I got on a plane from Israel some time back and sat down next to a kid with tefillin on- it was about 10:30 AM. His mother (sitting between us) explained that he would be bar mitzva-ed in about a month. So far, so good, apart from the time?<\/p>\n

Well, let me jump ahead and say that he barely wore his kippah during the flight. Nu, OK, he’s not religious, but tefillin are good, right?<\/p>\n

Until I saw him put on a second pair. Rabbenu Tam. Gevalt. And then I saw that the two tefillin bags had pictures of 770 on them, and I didn’t have to ask what had happened.… Read More<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To tell a mother that she needs to buy *two* pairs of tefillin for her son- one pair is expensive enough- without explaining that this is uniquely (for unmarried men) a Chabad custom and that one pair is just fine for him is simply unconscionable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nachum Lamm posts on Facebook: I got on a plane from Israel some time back and sat down next to a kid with tefillin on- it was about 10:30 AM. His mother (sitting between us) explained that he would be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[18572,31599,18571,18570,18573],"class_list":["post-9993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chabad","tag-bar-mitzva","tag-facebook","tag-gevalt","tag-tefillin-bags","tag-unmarried-men"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t