Midnight Party: Slichot!

Apparently they put out a pre-slichot video this year to inspire people. Not sure if it was all that inspiring, but R. Frand made some interesting points. I am going to take his points out of context and apply them to the blog world which I've witnessed shortly.


1. Vilna goan apparently said that the generation before Moshiach will not only be doing evil for superficial reasons, but will be doing good for superficial reasons also. Since we know that every generation has the potential of being the generation before the Moshiach this is a timeless "fault". I think this is also the "source" of the internet skeptic blogger. Too much "superficiality" as a sign of fakeness, instead of it being a sign of "taking things for granted" and "nature"

2. This one will go over most people's heads, but thats fine. Nature does everything by rote. As the speaker was prone to say often "Day in, day out, day in , day out" (sounds a lot like Dayan die out .. but anyway) We think the world is on automatic, but we learn from our sources that NO!, Rabono shel Olam rebuilds the world every second. Everything is new, even though everything is old.

3. There is no point three. Does that mean there is no point?


4. For the first time I decided to daven Slichot 90% in English and 10% in Hebrew... Best Slichot ever. ironically, my fiance did the same thing, and she also had her best slichot ever. Both of us thought we didn't have enough pages or something. Very bizzare.