Take a picture— and this time, send it to yourself
By the second day of Chol Hamoed, there’s a good chance you will have received a picture.
Maybe the sender is one of the kiddush Hashem police who’ll feel compelled to add text about how exasperating it is or emojis indicating deep disappointment. Perhaps he or she will rely on the image itself to tell the story.
That image might be the sign at the zoo, “No more feeding the animals after too many people didn’t follow the rules,” which was last year’s winner. The message was obvious. Frum people cannot be trusted to go to the zoo without messing things up for everyone else. So irresponsible. Sigh. Maybe they were even chassidish. Ha. Did they feed matzah to the elephants? Terrible.
The year before that, the viral image was a single car somehow jammed into a parking lot outside one of the Chol Hamoed venues (water slides, arcades, zip lines, indoor roller coaster, the Twins from France, and Pesachdig refreshments available), blocking every other car from leaving. Chillul Hashem! Bold it, please, so that the recipient realizes how destructive this one car has been to all of us trying to survive in galus.
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