With the huge publicity on popular Jewish websites like YeshivaWorld.com, Vosizneis.com, Hockberry.com, Chaptzem.com, “THE BIG EVENT” has become the most talked-about controversial topic in the past few weeks. As the planned date for the now-canceled concert nears, the Rabbis have found new cause to be alarmed. Rabbis are now worried that their own moratorium on internet a few years ago will stop many ticketholders from hearing about the concert cancellation. These people listened when the rabbis called for the public to cancel their service, extolling the horrors and depravity that was readily available to the unassuming viewer on the World Wide Web. This brings up a dire situation in which the people who show up tomorrow to the canceled event will not have a concert to go to and end up “hanging out” with each other. Are you following?
In response to this newly recognized issue, the rabbis are leaning on Lipa Shmeltzer to rethink his decision to back out of the concert on their urging, and perform songs that will be of questionable nature and captivate the audience enough to keep them from mingling in the hallways. Ironically, there was again major buzz online about this. “Way to Reb Lipa!...You are a tzaddik for listening to the rabbonim”, commented JoeSchmo32 on YeshivaWorld.com on Friday. “I will bli neder hire Lipa at my next Simcha! It is a mitzva to support him now,” exclaimed Nuchschlepper. “I can't belive that there are out there so many ‘pochzem v'reikem’ that can talk like that on ‘rabunem’ ‘g'doileh toire…”, cried Elter Zeidah on vosizneis.com. (We believe this comment made sense in Yiddish.) These were just 3 of the millions of comments left on the many websites discussing this state of affairs. Google (a popular alternative to Koshernet.com) published their analytics showing a tremendous spike in jewish search words and has agreed to sponsor the new concert (tentatively dubbed “The Bigger Event” for advertising reasons). The re-posted website is now offering the option of refunding your Maaser for tickets to the show.
