EIGHTY DEGREES, LEATHER, AND TOO MANY JEWS!!!

Remember that post from the Godol Hador which I copy-pasted last week?
The one in which he was happily looking forward to eight days of food, rest, tea rooms, and a BIG BOWL OF JELLY FRUIT AND COCONUT MACAROONS?


[Here: http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2006/04/jelly-fruit-and-coconut-macaroons.html]

It was his last posting before leaving town for Peysach.
For over ten days he was away, and the bloggosphere was the quieter for it.

But, baruch Hashem, he's back. And he has written about his vacation.
[Here: http://godolhador.blogspot.com/#114564806810341219]

And he ain't happy!!!

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This is his posting - it is an object lesson! Read it!

Friday, April 21, 2006

Pesach (Hotel) is BOGUS!
(Totally swamped at work after being away for a week, will have to write shorthand. )


15 minute walk from our room to the dining hall!!! And we only brought along the cheapo Target travel strollers, and not our mega expensive, all terrain Bugaboo Baby Urban Jogger thingy. Also I forgot my shoes and had to spend Yom Tov wearing a pair of $12.99 Wal Mart plastic specials. No fair! Why didn’t you tell us this bit of important info in the brochure???? You call yourself Pesach Tours? You should rename yourself to Pesach Walking Tours I think. Jeez. A 15 minute hike to the dining room in 80 degree heat with 2 crappy strollers and a pair of Wal-Mart shoes is not my idea of a luxury vacation.


Also way too many Jews, especially Jews from Brooklyn (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Luckily they were mostly MO Jews. But still! Who wants to be around Jews on vacation?


Also, why was I the only sruggy in shul? Don’t MO Jews wear sruggies anymore? What’s with all the black leather kippot? Is this a religious statement, that they’re too frum for sruggies? (But not too frum to spend yom tov afternoon ‘by’ the pool). Or is it just a fashion statement, i.e. my Lexus is leather, my sofa is leather, my ipod case is leather, so my kippa should be leather too?!


Also, what’s with all these Artscroll Hagadas: Hagadah of the Baalei Mussar, Haggadah of the Roshei Yeshivos? My theory is that the secret nobody wants to admit to is that Seder is BORING for anyone over 12 years old, so they keep coming out with new Hagados to keep it fresh. What next?


Coming soon from Artscroll: The Hagadah of the Gedolei HaKanoim – due for release Pesach 2007

Contributors: Rabbi Leib Pinter – due for release Pesach 2025 (ba-da-boom!)


Also, if you’re gonna advertise a ‘Grand Finale Pesach Dinner’ for the last afternoon of Yom Tov, don’t go and serve some freakin pareve crap and a plate of cheese, unless you want to get trashed all over the blogosphere, you Pesach hotel dummies!!!! Sheesh.

And your Tea Room SUCKED. Way too much Junk Food. And don’t go telling me that I can’t get into the Dining Hall at 10:20am to feed my kids breakfast cos you need to setup for fleishig lunch (and then lunch turns out to be milchiks anyway) and that I should feed my kids in the Team Room instead. Who feeds their kids coconut macaroons and jelly fruit for breakfast???? Are you nuts????!!!!!!

Needless to say we shall not be attending your bogus Pesach Hotel program next year.
[The GH divinely posted this at 3:33 PM today.]

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One of the best godolhadoric rants ever. And all of that written on his first day at the office, between getting back to the city and heading home for shabbes. Truly, he is one of the gedolei ha dor.


And you should read him. More than you do.
Click here: http://godolhador.blogspot.com/


On a personal note, I hope that next Peysach more than makes up for the heartache of this Peysach.

On a blogger note, I hope otherwise - this is some seriously good stuff!

I'm conflicted; talk among yourselves.

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Other fine gedolic posts which you really should read:

http://godolhador.blogspot.com/2005/03/weird-wacky-theory.html

http://godolhador.blogspot.com/2005/08/skeptical-of-selective-skepticism.html

http://godolhador.blogspot.com/2005/08/mis-nagid-is-mechazek-emunah.html

http://godolhador.blogspot.com/2005/07/zohar-kabala-ari-i-told-you-so.html

http://godolhador.blogspot.com/2005/04/chareidi-ideology-science-bad-pagan.html

There are many others. Embark on your own voyage of discovery. And let him know you visited.