Subject: [janglo] Want to donate your car, van, or vehicle?
Date: 17 October 2004 1:22:18 PM IST
From: Tzvi Aryeh R.
To: janglo@yahoogroups.comHello,
My name is Tzvi Aryeh and I’m a yeshiva student getting married on
Jan. 11th. My future wife and I would like to buy a car, but can not
afford one because I will be learning in Kollel, and money is very
tight. We will probably have a child within the first year of
marriage B”H, and will not think it will be appropriate for my wife to
take the bus with a young babyIf you are leaving the country, bought a new car, or just want to do
an act of Chesed, please contact me, and I’d be happy to take your
used car off your hands for you.I can be contacted at [email address removed].
Thank you.
I might be misreading this one a little bit, but does it not seem like this guy is soliciting a free car in exchange for doing nothing (ie, as a reward for not getting a job)? If he is ready to get married, he better damn well be ready to support, at a minimum, himself and his wife. And if they’re planning to have a child, he better damn well be ready to support that child and the subsequent children. Since he apparently has no intention of supporting his family or even himself, he should be held in total contempt by everyone who does work to get money to survive. That itself is bad enough. But imagine what sort of chutzpah it takes to write to an email list requesting a car for one’s own convenience (!!!) and offering no payment for it (!!!).
Buddy. You want to buy a car? Get a job, even a part-time job, and save money to pay for one. And if you don’t think it’s “appropriate” for your “wife to take the bus with a young baby,” why then is it appropriate for me to take the bus, or anyone for that matter? Your wife and you, too (I hope), will have to wake up in the middle of the night countless times to change diapers. You’ll have to feed, wash, shop for, and yes, transport this baby all around town. If you don’t find those things “appropriate,” YOU ARE NOT READY TO BE A FATHER!
I couldn’t agree with you more. The only people living on the government dole should be the elderly, the disabled, or those otherwise incapable of providing for themselves. A young, healthy man with no mental problems should get ZERO from the government. These ridiculous kollel stipends, unemployment benefits and the child allowances that allow the ultra-orthodox to get by in Israel are a disgrace and a waste of precious resources. On a separate note, careful that your move to Tel-Aviv doesn’t suck the Zionism out of you and spur you to make yerida. Tel-Aviv can do that to people.
“careful that your move to Tel-Aviv doesn’t suck the Zionism out of you and spur you to make yerida. Tel-Aviv can do that to people.”
I don’t know, Jerusalem did just that to me, and back in 2000, before the second intifadah, when the city was a lot more tolerable. It took several visits to Tel Aviv and other places in Israel to bring me back.