Yeshiva Machane Israel computer smashing ceremony

yeshiva machane yisrael is a yeshiva for baalei teshuva in the beit yisrael section of jerusalem near the mir yeshiva. the rosh yeshiva is opposed to the use of computers, and therefore even the yeshiva office uses none. here we can see one of the many computer smashing ceremonies held at the yeshiva, with a brief introduction by the rosh yeshiva Rabbi Feinhandler who explained how in this particular instance, the computer was used for purposes of earning a livelihood by the owner until he decided to make the move and dispose of his laptop. VIN news interviewed the rosh yeshiva and he explained the ideas behind his actions. this is an exercise carried out by trained professionals, please don't try this at home but if you do please wear safety goggles!

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• religion
• jewish
• jerusalem
• charedi
• baalei
• teshuva
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• ritual

[oxygen120]

Why they broke the computer???

[n977ll]

@oxygen120 They say that the computer causes a person to fall into sin.So this is their way of eradicating a object that causes sin.The computer owner willingly gave his computer to the Rabbi for the ceremony

[hamandil]

It's his own computer and prabably already broken THis is a baal teshuva yeshiva

[n977ll]

Its not his computer,read description.Its his talmids computer who agreed to have it trashed because he fell spiritually with it.There was an interview with the rabbi on Vosisnieas

[tawil89]

i wonder who they got to upload this video on to youtube...

[n977ll]

The owner of the computer made some copies of the ceremony & distributed them to friends.

[GorterPoss]

This is just the ceremony they perform when a hasidic Jews switches to Mac. T

[Wilbur665]

I would rather have a few crazy Rabbis smashing computers than a boat-load of Muslims beheading infidels for pretty much the same reason.

Oh, wait - we already have that... D'OH!

[PoonBot5K]

That dude looks so surprised after he smashes it on the ground.

[jonasdk92]

If they don't like the computers, why do they buy them then? And I bet they broke it because they don't know how to delete their traces of visiting adult websites. Silly persons...

[PILMAN]

If I had a Toshiba, i'd probably smash it too, i've had 3 that have overheated and died on me. Sony Vaio FTW.

[HofeshHatodaha]

those are the ways of the fanatical religious people, who are blinded by their own system of belief.

for them there is no virtue greater then the "bible" the "talmod" or other religious Apologetics

[wisteela]

Stupid religious pricks with more money than sense.

[elitznef]

מסכנים..מקווה שההוא למעלה ירחם עליכם

[lionessofgd]

Do not condemn them for harming noone. Do not condemn this act, because I personally know that people that go to this Rosh Yeshiva and his wife come from very unsheltered and nonreligious lives of poverty and of wealth, of parties, professional success, and many more things that even the 'religious' (and definitely the secular) still engage in.

I commend the Rosh Yeshiva and his students for choosing a path that is their own.

[lionessofgd]

אחי, please remove the video of the respected Rosh Yeshiva, a person near and dear to my heart and soul, breaking the laptop computer. In this context of being on the Internet, it is a חילול השם.

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