http://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/ Switched Comments for Rabbi Says Facebook and Twitter Creating Yom Kippur Cop-Outs http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/Sep 28th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/
(A written apology might be more personable... Does Hallmark make Yom Kippur cards?)]]>Sep 28th 2009 11:23PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/Sep 28th 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/The Lehman brothers is the name of a large company and the origional brothers who must have started it may not have been involved with the company for many eyars before it's collapse.
Also all those Wall street problems were not solved by fgovernment interference anyway.
In fact it was government excessive regulation that CAUSED the problems, not "the Jews" as you are obviously implying.]]>Sep 28th 2009 8:25PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/Sep 28th 2009 11:13PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/28/rabbi-says-facebook-and-twitter-creating-yom-kippur-cop-outs/
First, I have no issue with individuals reaching out to those they have offended or hurt during the past year using forms of non-face-to-face communication (telephone, snail mail, FAX, email, text messaging, Facebook, Twitter, Pony Express, etc. What I take exception with is using these social media sites to send out a mass message to everyone you're connected to asking for their forgiveness.

That strikes me as missing the point of the Jewish "High Holy Days" (a.k.a., "The Days of Awe"). One should communicate directly with the other individual. Performing repentance (the Hebrew: "teshuvah") by updating your Facebook status update or tweeting on Twitter to everyone you know is akin to asking forgiveness on a highway billboard. As the Jewish teaching goes "tafasta meruba lo tafasta" - When you try to grab too much, you grab nothing at all. That is, when you try to ask forgiveness from everyone at once, you actually don't perform repentance at all. Repentance should be a challenge and a highly personal endeavor.

Eimat: If you're afraid of the individual from whom you seek forgiveness, try calling them on the phone or sending them a carefully written email message.

Shanedieselblack: Madoff is an interesting case. According to Maimonides, one has to be in the position to commit the same sin already committed and consciously choose not to err again. Madoff will likely be behind bars for the remainder of his life so he will not be able to perform Maimonides' idea of repentance. He could (and should) be allowed to meet face-to-face with each of the individuals whose financial lives he ruined and ask for their forgiveness. If you mention Madoff and "the Lehmann Brothers" because of their Jewish roots, I think you are stereotyping and acting bigoted. Many people of Jewish heritage were very negatively effected by the Madoff scandal including the Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel.

Regarding comment #5, I would strongly advise against watching Jay Leno. He's not funny. Try Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or Conan for laughs instead.]]>Sep 30th 2009 2:46PM