The Shas party released a campaign video on the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos replete with humor, play on words, and double meanings.
The video starts with a Yesh Atid activist entering the sukkah of Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, who’s making a bracha on a lulav and esrog.
“Hi Aryeh,” the activist says. “Lapid is asking if you have a hammer.”
“For what?” Deri responds. “To ‘knock up’ the prices even more for the Chag?”
“His sukkah fell apart,” the activist says. “The ‘left’ collapsed into the ‘bloc.’
“And Lieberman can’t help him?” Deri asks.
“Liberman’s schach flew off. He already forgot a long time ago what it means to be a ‘rightie.’ So ‘we built’ on Gantz.”
“And Gantz didn’t help?” Deri asked.
“He’s wavering back and forth – like a lulav.”
“You checked if it’s kosher?’ Deri asked.
“It has the hashgacha of HaRav Merav.” [A reference to Labor chairwoman Merav Michaeli.] She even brought an esrog.”
“This is a lemon!” Deri exclaims. “Hashem Yishmor.”
Activist: “Tishmor [feminine tense]. We respect all the shivas Haminim.”
Deri: “It’s good that the Ushpizin didn’t come.”
Activist: “They came. Mansour ‘Hadas’ came. He took NIS 53 billion and left.”
Deri: “Could it be any worse?”
Activist: “Ahmad Tibi.”
Deri: “Shema Yisrael!”
Activist: “They tried to divide one sukkah into two nations but it was completely dismantled. So can you help?”
Deri: “From here, only Hashem can help you. But, He’s with us. A strong sukkah is a Jewish sukkah, traditional, with social values. A sukkah that can last for four years even if you throw a rimon [pomegranate, but also a slang word for a grenade] at it.”
Activist: “Rimon!”
Deri: “Get up, get up. Go tell Yair that your sukkah has no future.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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10 Responses
It’s absolutely wrong for him to wear a Talis as a political prop and make a fake bracha in a succah for a campaign advertisement.
One sick puppy. He is slated for an END
@ujm: His rabbanim (along with hundreds of rabbanim in Eretz Hakodesh) view voting for the chareidi parties as just about the biggest Mitzvah there is; so using a Tallis, etc., for such a purpose is beyond acceptable.
THE VIDEO IS AWESOME!!!!!!
@ujm
I don’t see what’s wrong with wearing a talis anytime anywhere even in the bathroom (as long as it won’t get dirty)
And I didn’t hear him make a brachas.
Whether or not we should be supporting convicted criminals is a different question
You missed the bit at the end- best part! He asks for a hammer -so Rav Deri takes a plastic ‘yom ha’atzmaut hammer’ that traditionally Israelis hit each other on the head with on yom Ha’atzmaut….some crazy tzioni minhag that came from no-where…….
lol
Technical issue:
A succah that can last for 4 years sounds like it’s not a succah…
Sick man
This feels so wrong. Hashem loves all his children the same. By politicising Yiddishkeit (and mocking others with Torah/Halacha terminology) you risk alienating Yidden further from Hashem chas veshalom.
Also, always need to differentiate between the person and his/her politics. Sounds like some of these attacks are of a personal nature.
Great video! They should have much Hatzlacha.
AJM, welcome to Israel politics