Stevedog
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I saw part of an episode once but had to turn it off because the main guy, guessing Zak, was spewing nonsense.
From what i recall, in the episode they had a dybbuk box and were planning to open it. To protect themselves they had called in a rabbi who was trained on how to control the dybbuk and put it back in the box if things went wrong. When the rabbi showed up they asked what he knew about dybbuk boxes and he admitted that he had never heard of such a thing and had just looked it up online before he headed over. Then Zak(?) made some comments that the dybbuk must be powerful if it made the rabbi forget all he knew about it.
I was beside myself at the fact that nobody had apparently done the most cursory amount of research to know that dybbuks are from Jewish folklore and have nothing to do with Jewish religious beliefs. Cultural Judaism is not the same as Rabbinic Judaism. That's like thinking a Roman Catholic Priest is an expert on the subject of basilisks.
From what i recall, in the episode they had a dybbuk box and were planning to open it. To protect themselves they had called in a rabbi who was trained on how to control the dybbuk and put it back in the box if things went wrong. When the rabbi showed up they asked what he knew about dybbuk boxes and he admitted that he had never heard of such a thing and had just looked it up online before he headed over. Then Zak(?) made some comments that the dybbuk must be powerful if it made the rabbi forget all he knew about it.
I was beside myself at the fact that nobody had apparently done the most cursory amount of research to know that dybbuks are from Jewish folklore and have nothing to do with Jewish religious beliefs. Cultural Judaism is not the same as Rabbinic Judaism. That's like thinking a Roman Catholic Priest is an expert on the subject of basilisks.
