zalman, i dont feel under siege because of my clothing, sorry, its a chassidisha thing to care about the outside livush. sorry, but wearing the clothing of the mogolians and early hungarian empire doesnt make you any more jewish then me in my 20th century looking clothing (if you dont believe the shtreimel is mongolian, go to teh musuem of natural history, and go take alook, youll be utterly surprised). you want to look authentically jewish, put on a kafiayh, and the arab cloak thing worn in arabic countries, chances are that is what we wore back then. clothing changes with the time, otherwise we would still be waring the vines of grapes like adam harishon!
im sorry, but a true “chossid” would not have said something as stupid as your comment. i work with many chassidim, and they all are ehrliche yidden, who would never say such stupidity, i believe in zeh vezeh divrei elokim chayim. which means, not slamming one side to prove the other. my attack was to prove a point, that attacking can go on on both sides, and that for some reason, its always the litvish getting attacked, and im sick of it!
seriously, you really think that clothing is what makes me think the litvish minhagim are under siege? what clothing you wear is irrelevant to me, i was not brought up that it makes a difference. you want to wear shmona begodim, gezuntah hayt, but dont for one moment think your clothing is any more jewish then mine. your clothing is from not only pruste hungarian/polish goyim, but ones who slaughtered jews by the thousands during tach vetat, so dont even start about my clothing being the same as pruste goyim today. (again befaore people get appalled by what im saying, realize i am answering this poster bec of his attack, i am showing that attacks are bi-directional, but for some reason everyone here only sees it when chassidim are attacked!)
rabbiofberlin: i have no clue what your appalled by. nothing i said is appalling at all. and to prove that im not making the attacks on litvish up, look at the post from zalman and youll see what i mean. and if you dont want to be mekatreg someone dont, dont beat around a bush and say you dont, bec in essence you are. you are no better then me on these posts, and you know it. i may have said something you dont like, but im sure in your myriad postings on this and other sites, you have ticked people off as well.