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From: martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Purimshpiel II: Net.Religion.Jewish Song Parody
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 11:47:15 EST
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Since  Rosen  became so upset a few months ago, when I stated that under
Jewish Law he would be Jewish, I do not know why he cares.

But as for true Judaism, my Ashkenazi hakamim including Jacob  of  Emden
and  the  Vilna Gaon have been of the opinion that Sefardi shittah is of
higher Qedushah than the Ashkenazi shitah.

In Israel,  there  is  neither  halakic  justification  for  either  the
existence  of  a  chief Ashkenazi rabbi no halakic justification for the
continued observance of Ashkenazi minhagim.

As for  Purimshpile,  this  is  one  example  of  many  borrowings  from
Christian  practise which Ashkenazim have made.  Since 99% of Ashkenazim
are apostate I must wonder whether  perhaps  Ashkenazim  have  not  been
prepared  for  their  apostacy  by  ill-considered  borrowing  over  the
centuries.

I know that Yom Kippur among Ashkenazim seems much more Churchlike  than
Jewish.    The   Hassidic   Qabalah   is   basically   Slavic   Orthodox
Neo-Platonism.  Shaving the heads of married women  is  a  Slavic  pagan
custom.

When  I  have  spent  passover  with  Ashkenazim,  I  experience "hayinu
`abadim" but I have never seen evidence that we are "bnei horim."   This
is also typically slavic.

The  list  is  endless  and  goes  from  the most trivial to fundamental
religious and political outlook.

In fact the ba`alei teshubah  movement  exactly  parallels  a  religious
revival  currently  taking  place among the slavic orthodox.  In Russia,
the ba`alei teshubah movement has in fact even been a  partial  reaction
to the adoption of Russian orthodoxy by various Jewish dissidents in the
60's.

It simply may be time for Ashkenazim to renounce the  decadent  detritus
of the Ashkenazi diaspora in perhaps a form Jewish Wahhabianism.

I  find  Yehoshua` Lebovitz admiration for the Wahhabi's since he is the
Jewish analogy of what the Wahhabi's are trying to stamp out in Islam.

Yehoyaqim Martillo