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Religion

By Dovid Taub

My favorite part of this cartoon is definitely the stroller. That thing probably costs like $300 (maybe $250 if you’re willing to settle for olive green).

Anyways, I don’t really have any philosophical stuff to say about this one. Or rather, whatever I had to say was already said by the baby and the mustache guy. So I think I’m just going to turn this one over to you guys. I’m sure this cartoon must push some buttons, so take it away. I’ll chime in If I feel like I have something interesting/amusing to add. But I won’t tell you which it’s supposed to be.

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Posted: Nov 13, 2011

Dear Cute but....

the baby didn't have good memory so he looked at his diaper

Posted By Anonymous, e, fgd

Posted: June 21, 2011

cute but...

cute video.... but why was the baby looking down at his dipper was he checking if he had a bris or someting?

Posted By me, ma

Posted: Jan 6, 2011

Dear Dovid,

I love the videos there the best there are hilarous and a great way to learn more. Keep on making the videos. Also i understand the negative comments can bring you down and make you think your work its worthy.
Ignore that in everywhere people will bring you down. Remeber :)

Posted By Anonymous, palm beach gardens, fl

Posted: Dec 22, 2010

Response to mustache man

I thought that the baby was going to ask the moustach man if he was Jewish. I think only a Jew would answer like the mustache man.

But this is very cute.

Posted By Rochel, LA, USA

Posted: Nov 9, 2010

Re: I only ask

Perhaps a baby girl needs no reminder.

Posted By Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

Posted: Nov 9, 2010

over thinking

Mustache guy was me and how I compulsively had the need to define/describe my spiritual beliefs which were eerily similar to his. I'm starting to see that maybe I have been trying to be "the most unique" as opposed to the true essence of who I am. No definitions are necessary only right actions. I hope to get back to my state of mind as a wide-eyed inquisitve child that is open and without fear of embarrassment. I do have a wish I could turn off the "thinker" at the right times!

Posted By Jo, west brookfield, ma

Posted: Nov 6, 2010

response to "I only ask"

Please call in rabbi Tzvi Freeman to answer this question.

Posted By Anna, New Haven , CT

Posted: Oct 25, 2010

LOL...

All your vignettes make me laugh. This one totally reminds me of some of my extended relatives. They always talk at me in the same way as the man on the bench, and I always chuckle to myself, because it seems to me that they don't know who they are, yet they want to convince me that my knowledge of who I am is flawed.

They like to ask things like "What deeper psychological need drives you to organized religion?" (Backhanded insult much? LOL.)

The fact that they throw so much effort into rationalizing their equivocation (and trying to make me join them in their spiritual floundering) always smacks of guilt for not taking the time to study, learn, and make a decision about their beliefs.

I have much more respect for the religious beliefs of an atheist than for those of an individual who thinks there may be a deity but fails to take the time to learn about it. At least the atheist is seeking the truth, even if (IMHO) he hasn't found it.

Posted By Anonymous, Blacksburg, VA

Posted: Oct 14, 2010

Torah stories

Last night i pulled out a kiddies Torah book with all the stories of the Torah. I was about to read it to two girls i look after.

"That's for boys" they said.

All the heros in the Torah ( at least the obvious ones) are male. I think the 2 little girls had a point. They are 5 and 7 so way to young to be called feminists.

Posted By rhl

Posted: Aug 12, 2010

Cute, but lacking substance - response

Moshe,
Your comment is very compassionate and deep and thank you for it. Yet, I think there is only so much you can ask from a stick vignette. I dont think a vignette is supposed to be a treatise of the Jewish faith aimed at converting the unconverted from the beginning of the quest till "the end" of the discovery. It is just expressing something very poignant and subtle and yet mightily powerful.

You are very right - circumcision is not synonymous with faith, YET it is certainly a connection I believe. A connection invented by Him, and carried out by us. And as for failing and over-failing, I know about it, because I am one of them. I was the mustache man/woman - now turned baby, and my path was not clear cut. I think that the baby is not necessarily just "a newly born individual," but he also represents a newly and divinely born idea - that identity flows from heaven down and not from earth up.

Posted By Anna, New Haven, CT

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