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Pope Mendel's followers rolled out the red carpet for his visit to London:

I never get tired of the Hasidic aesthetic:
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Free the Pedos said:
I’d love to read the OP on her and find out why she’s like this.
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I think she originally got off on the attention, but I was told she's graduated to grifting agunot for her "services" now. I kind of enjoy the showmanship, to be honest - she's entertaining and isn't a perpetually bitter whiner like most """halachic""" feminists. Back in the day, she had a very funny feud with Yehuda Levin, who definitely ranks high in the frum lolcow standings himself.
 
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EyeGuy said:
I think she originally got off on the attention, but I was told she's graduated to grifting agunot for her "services" now. I kind of enjoy the showmanship, to be honest - she's entertaining and isn't a perpetually bitter whiner like most """halachic""" feminists.
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How does one actually hire her? Do women just message her and send a Venmo payment for her to harass their husbands?
 
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I was originally going to make a thread on Kiryas Joel and the nutjobs surrounding it but I found this thread instead, I am wondering what tribe of Israel The Teitelbaum family is from because I'm making a family tree for them.
 
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Catch The Rainbow said:
They already have a family tree I think. In general, unless a Jew is a Kohen or a Levite who are from the tribe of Levi, Jews are a mix of Judah/Benjamin/Simeon
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If I remember correctly, the tribe one specifically belongs to is determined by paternal descent, so someone named Levi Cohen could theoretically trace his paternal ancestry all the way back to Levi through Aaron. I was more thinking about if they knew which tribe precisely they would be classified as.
And I looked at the section in the Wikipedia page for Aaron Teitelbaum about his children and it's going to be a long one. (Also OP should have considered looking on the Wikipedia versions of the pages for information.)
 
Kyle Parson said:
I was originally going to make a thread on Kiryas Joel and the nutjobs surrounding it but I found this thread instead, I am wondering what tribe of Israel The Teitelbaum family is from because I'm making a family tree for them.
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Kyle Parson said:
If I remember correctly, the tribe one specifically belongs to is determined by paternal descent, so someone named Levi Cohen could theoretically trace his paternal ancestry all the way back to Levi through Aaron. I was more thinking about if they knew which tribe precisely they would be classified as.
And I looked at the section in the Wikipedia page for Aaron Teitelbaum about his children and it's going to be a long one. (Also OP should have considered looking on the Wikipedia versions of the pages for information.)
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Goyish hands typed these posts.
 
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Free the Pedos said:
I would actually relish a thread about R’ Yoel and Kiryas Yoel. He was a maniac. Learn the culture a bit more, though.
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His English-language biography is hilarious, including the description of him trying on women's stockings to make sure they were modest enough:
In Meisels's words, "The rebbe taught that even 70-denier stockings should not be worn. The numerical value of sod (secret) is 70, so the secret is out that this [stocking] is also transparent." There then follows a lengthy account of Teitelbaum's creation, with the help of a Brooklyn businessman named Lipa Brach, of an exclusive line of fully opaque women's hosiery:

"Money in hand, Reb Lipa Brach began to work on the project. He went to several hosiery manufacturers, collected samples, and brought all of them to the rebbe to inspect. The rebbe was very pleased with the progress, and he tested each sample by pulling it over his own arm. If his hair showed, it was no good.... The new stockings were given the brand name, "Palm," the English translation of the Rebbe's surname.... To this day every Satmar woman and girl wears Palm stockings."

In many years of reading hasidic literature, from theoretical mystical tracts to tales and hagiographies, I have never encountered anything remotely like this image of a rebbe testing the thickness of stockings on his own arm, let alone naming a line of women's undergarments after himself. Was he aware of what he was doing? Most people who suffer from OCD are highly conscious of their disorder; a revered religious leader, zealously guarded by a closed circle of worshipful acolytes, would be more likely to mistake psychiatric symptoms as messages from God.
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EyeGuy said:
His English-language biography is hilarious, including the description of him trying on women's stockings to make sure they were modest enough:

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You forgot to quote the best part about how he was weird about toileting and davening from childhood. I’m glad there’s at least some awareness of how halachah can become an outlet for OCD today. These days his mom would be posting on imamother looking for therapist recs.

Apropos of nothing, I found out recently that R’ Moshe made a controversial psak that a woman could do IVF with donor sperm if her husband is infertile. Apparently this made Yoel LOSE HIS FUCKING NUT. He was apoplectic about it and tried to talk to R Moshe, but the latter wasn’t having it.
 
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