Festive Must Stop Being a Jewish Word

People love using the word ‘Festive.’ These people in Jerusalem and all over the Jewish map have started using it to describe everything religious. You might as well tell them that this Pesach is going to be Easter. And you will be hiding eggs. Maybe making it more Jewish with chocolate covered eggs. The non-frum Jews are adding ‘festive’ to everything, and it has to stop. ‘It is going to be a festive feast.’ Confetti is now shooting out of my brisket on Friday nights. They festivate to lure the easily lured people who are willing to put on a yarmulke for a free dinner. A ‘Festive Prayer Service.’ I don’t even know if a Christian is that unJewish to put those three words together. You might as well put in the word ‘Lord.’ We do not do ‘Festive Prayer Services to the Lord.’ We daven to H’ (pray to Gd you heretic who needs me to translate into Hebrew). We don’t join in festivities, even if it is a festival. You don’t festivate. We enjoy. We do enjoyful prayer. We do not do a 2 hour service with a speech in the middle. We do not sing. We only sing when there is a rebbe sitting at a table, in front of us, eating. That is known as a Tish, and I have never seen somebody handed a piece of potato kugel out of rebbe’s hand call that ‘festive.’