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Did you ever converse digitally with Hirshel Tzig? You feel like you are in a reancatemnt of the Turing Test. It was the test devised by the great Jew Allan Turing before he killed himself. The iconic test was to ask a computer a series of questions to demonstrate a machine intelligence. And although in the test there is a margin of error to confuse a machine with a human, there is no error with Hirshel Tzig. Your know for certain you are talking to a machine that only responds to a linear input and crashes on metaphors, nuance and humor.
There is a story about the Mitteler Rebbe, when a chossid confessed to the Rebbe about an incident of necrophilia. As was the Mittler Rebbe’s discipline, he was trying to find a symbol of the sin within himself but he couldn’t relate to the astonishing crime till he realized that sometimes he says a maamar chassidus (a religious discourse) but the chassidim, his disciples, are not listening…
Come to think of it, anyone who became a Chabadnick and joined the Lubavitch court after the Rebbe was alive or was only virtually alive is now a practicing, card-carrying, necrophiliac. And the Breslevers, naturally, paved the way and perfected the shtick, or should we say covered it up… As Schneur would write “a quick Wikipedia search would show” that most often cited reason for a Necrophilia is that it momentary kills the fear of rejection…
The Messianic creed is so much healthier, you follow the good old Christian model to reject the death altogether. It’s alive and hovers right next to you ready for an embrace. Just close your eyes, can you feel it? Leave it to the healthy imagination, in other words your Garden of Eden variety onanism. And even Reb Nachman already rejected this type of worship as a meta sin and instructed people to come to his grave specifically to atone for the vanity (btw, since Reb Nachman himself never wrote anything, the lurid, pathological ritual might be a pornography left by his heartbroken spiritual lovers).
And sensible people understand that the Messianic living presence was not what the Chabad Rebbe had in mind. As we all know these type of obsessions are passable. And naturally if one, a leader, have a not so secret hobby centered on a tomb, than the legacy lives on. Especially if for some totally random reason the leadership is passed to the undertaker with the official occupation listed as “cemetery transportation”.
You might ask how do I have the insight? I followed the living example of the Mitteler Rebbe and realized that I was a shameful practitioner. Remember when I rode the wave of youthful yearnings long after the intimacy of a personal, social intercourse was inhumed?
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Where is this ‘story’ of the Mitteler Rebbe you retell here to be found? Source please.. In print. Thanks
I don’t do sources anymore, it was discussed on the old blog, there are some quotes. Let’s some book worm fetch it now, I don’t care.
quite a story and quite an acclamation of the said Rabbiner’s sincerity.
“Your know for certain you are talking to a machine that only responds to a linear input and crashes on metaphors, nuance and humor”.
that necrophilia is known to be caused by something as prosaic as fear of rejection.
did you make that up seeing that you have obviously done you research on the subject-excuse pun –
serious where did you get that theary
Shmuel, it says it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia
“Rosman and Resnick (1989) reviewed information from 34 cases of necrophilia describing the individuals’ motivations for their behaviors: these individuals reported the desire to possess an unresisting and unrejecting partner (68%), reunions with a romantic partner (21%), sexual attraction to corpses (15%), comfort or overcoming feelings of isolation (15%), or seeking self-esteem by expressing power over a homicide victim (12%)”
dam wiki
I have a copy of Kapuster reshimos — which seems to be an ur-text of material that was printed by another Heilman, Chaim Meir Heilman, in 1900, in his “Beis Rebi.” (It seems, based on internal evidence, that these reshimos were compiled between 1893 & 1900, & are from sources in the Schneerson family, e.g. the Mogen Avos, the Babroisker, Chaim Heilman’s Schneerson relatives by marriage, etc.) In Beis Rebi he doesn’t go into details, but in this uncensored kupir, the story is brought down in detail, describing how the chosid dug up his dead shikse lover (daughter of the local priest), & has sex with her right then & there. Immediately afterwards, he started crying “REBBE! REBBE!” & with barely enough strength, he dragged himself out of the cemetery & went straight to Lubavitch to the Mitteler Rebbe.
The reason explained of how he fell so low was because he was too much of a perfectionist, & would push off visiting the Rebbe (at first it was the Alter Rebbe) because he felt he did not prepare himself enough (hachonos in avodah). & so he pushed it off, even after the Alter Rebbe died, & slowly yet surely averah goreres….
The moral of the story obviously is that: do not try to make yourself too holy with preparations; if need be, come to the Rebbe with all your shmutz, for the Rebbe will (help) shlep you out.
They connect this story with the story mentioned in the Rebbe Ramash’s first ma’amar Bosi l’Gani, that the Mitteler Rebbe rolled up his sleeve to show his emaciated arm — a result of this chosid’s necrophilia.
Nu, nu… a “perfectionist”
Whats with the Chabad Rebbes and there emaciated arms. Dr. Wilhelm Stekel would have a field day with this story.
Is it possible to find a copy of the these reshimos anywhere?
I haven’t seen them printed anywhere, although it is referred to by some researchers. I think Hebrew U has copies.