Vaad Rabonnim Le’Inyonei Tachboset Purim
We are delighted to announce the formation of a new vaad to supervise the recent proliferation of Purim customes, some of which have been found to be inappropiate.
We hereby declare the following types of costumes to be forbidden:
Non-kosher animals
Including alligators, anteaters, apes, armadillos, badgers, bats, bears, beavers, bison, butterflies, camels, caribou, cats, cheetas, chipmunks, crabs, crocodiles, dinasours, dogs, dolphins, donkeys, eels, elephants, ferrets, foxes, frogs, gorillas, hamsters, hedgehogs, hippototamuses, horses, hyenas, iguanas, kangaroos, koalas, kudus, lions, lobsters, monkeys, mooses, mice, octopuses, otters, pandas, pine martins, pigs, platypuses, polar bears, rabbits, racoons, rats, rhinocerouses, seahorse, seals, sharks, snails, snakes, spiders, tarsiers, tigers, turtles, walruses, whales, wildebeest, wolves, worms, yaks, zebras.
Non-Kosher people
Chinese, Arabs and other goyim, witches and wizards, sorcerers.
If anyone has other suggestions so we can create an exhaustive list please be in touch with the vaad. Confidentiality will be ensured.
Thank you and Purim samayach.
Please tell me this is Purim Torah...
ReplyDeleteThe Wolf
If bears are mentioned, why the need for a separate "polar bear" mention? Or are polar bears not bears?
ReplyDeleteOf course, this means that I'm banned too (fourth from the end of the list).
The Wolf
as the title says "A Purim cherem"...
ReplyDeletethought the funny thing is, my kids school, and others like it, have already banned many of the things included in this letter...(and what was not listed was included in the genral spirit of the school ban - they only gave some examples)
as the title says "A Purim cherem"...
ReplyDeleteThanks. In today's world, you never know.
The Wolf
My small ones want to be a policeman and a monkey. Are policemen goyish? Rabbi, please advise.
ReplyDeletehmmmm... I think as long as he dresses up like an Israeli policeman it should be ok. but not yassam.
ReplyDeleteI am going to be a black gangsta rapper!!
ReplyDeleteLast year I randomly found some stuff and decided what the heck.. it was a HUGE hit with the soldiers and arsim though the rest of chevron was scratching their heads in confusion..
A bandana, a cripes hat (LA DODGERS)bling bling (a.k.a. ice)oversized fubu pants, oversized shirt.. some thug shades and a pistol in my belt in the front.. next I need a big boom box..
Sad part is this costum requires absolutely NO creatively... I just bring to mind the streets of ny and miami..
What is a dinosaur?
ReplyDeletelol hey, don't give them ideas!
ReplyDeleteYes! My sons Dragons costume is OK!
ReplyDeleteOh, and so they prove that dinosaurs are real, by the fact that they are a non-kosher - ma she'ain kayn my dragon costume!