The Hidden Wire Around New York City
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#religion #mystery #judaism
i love your vids so much, been binging since i found you recently and i feel like you and wendigoon are the only people rn that deserve sll of your subs and more (if you guys collabed, id die)
Thanks Justin! Great compliment. Wendigoon does a great job.
There's a bunch of practicing magicians disguised it as a religion.
I lije wendigoon and all but why do ppl praise him soon much, he just uses easily found info in the iceberg style videos, which are just like everyone elses iceberg style videos, none of em go into hardly any detail on the topics, or am I just mussing the reason everyone kisses the dudes feet??
Yes! I'd like to see these guys and Mr. Ballen do something together!
would be an amazing Collab!!!!
Imagine a people who have so much hubris, they feel that they can outsmart their god with semantics…
Don't we all
Like, buying off your sins with a donation at Sunday church, or reciting a couple of Hail Marys?!
Any thoughts on the religiously peaceful Muslims (the #1 protected demographic), btw? Nah, bc that might get a little hairy, they're a pretty 'sensitive' bunch who don't condone being mocked in any way, shape, or form...
Are you being Anti Semantic right now? Oy Vey
@@apachehelicopterah64 Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make those of the assembly of Satan who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying, behold I will make them come and fall prostrate at your feet, and they will realize that I love you.
@@FaladaenaI agree but to call a catholic a “Christian” is like calling a bull a cow…
So, I'm a little confused. Did God say that you could expand your "home" with a giant wire to include a huge city the size of Manhattan to get around the "no walking around rule"? Isn't that cheating?
Their God is easily fooled. That's why they chose him.
Good thing God doesn't exist or else we would be in a lot of trouble.
if you read the Talmud it's basically them trying to Jew god and thinking they're smart for finding loopholes around his commands.
Isreal is called Isreal because Jacob wrestled with God.
@@newsnco Who won?
I’m a landscaper and was hired To burry a wire around a customers house years ago for religion reasons. I remember there being so many rules like distance from the structure/house and how deep etc.
Woe!
Imagine wasting your hard earned cash on this bunk.
@@jadedpigeon5585 It's better than some other stuff, like $1000s a year on video games
And people say their isn't any Magic in the Bible thats Magix
How do they know you actually bury it.
This reminds me of that jumping on the bed rule for Amish kids. You’re not sleeping with her if your friend is jumping on the bed to keep you from using your hips.
This is written seemingly in English yet I have no idea what any of that means
@@dannydbrown90 It’s a joke about Amish people trying to take a detour around sinning by having premarital sex. The guy lays on the bed & the girl “falls” on top of him, then they have a friend who jump up & down on the bed so that they aren’t technically doing the deed.
@@replexity ohh lmao, ok got you 😂😂
It's called "soaking" and totally goes against the natural drive to thrust during sex
Oh yeah the Mormons do it too, not just the Amish
The "Get to heaven on a technicality" is a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off.
This to me proves that no matter how "divine" humans say something is, they will almost certainly always find the loopholes to justify their desires/actions anyways
Not a loophole, you mean rebellion against Almighty God. Furthermore, all of those so-called Jewish Sabbath restrictions are man made, not scriptural. This is why it's imperative that one reads the Holy Bible, and becomes familiar with the Word of God that you're not deceived. For example..Jesus Christ on one account gives correction regarding the Sabbath:
[Luke 14:1-6]
"One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?"
@BoZaK Dude, I need the contact for your dealer because that stuff is craaaaaazy
@@Andomosity Not crazy, I'm disseminating truth my friend. I don't do drugs, no need for personal attacks. Be respectful.
All life is divine. None of this mumbo-jumbo is needed.
I don't know why you are generalizing all human beings when this video is clearly talking about one religious group in particular.
Love "The Big Lebowski" reference from hecklefish! 😂 my all-time favorite movie. Didn't realize how badly I needed to hear him quote Walter! 🙏
Shomer shabbos!
Fascinating. I've saved and shared quite a few. This is definitely on that list. This is one of the ones that'll land me researching in the public library. Thank you!
There's literally a fine line between spirituality and stupidity.
No there isn’t. It’s perfectly see through.
Clever😃
This is accurate.
Some of the rules they get around by automated timed lighting. So they don't actually turn on a switch. A crock pot is turned on before Fri sundown & not turned off until after Shabbat is over sundown Sat. Those a just a couple of examples.
I’ve never seen a people make so many rules to circumvent the rules they think God made for them.
Hecklefish gets funnier everytime…gotta love him. Never too much or too little humor Good Job Goldy!
I love the little fish too!
I like it when AJ and hecklefish spontaneously argue
Hackle fish deserves an Oscar
I was thinking he would start an antisemitism rant.
Not really, it’s pretty annoying actually
I knew about a lot of the rules regarding the Sabbath but I didn’t know about this one. I guess you have to adjust things to make sense for the time and conditions you’re living in. For instance, a lot of buildings in New York, including hospitals on Long Island, have Sabbath elevators. I was in one of the hospitals recently and asked a worker if it stops on every floor on the Sabbath so they don’t have to push the buttons. I got a huge smile and he said “yes, that’s exactly right”.
You gotta do what you gotta do to make it work.
So basically they just changed the rules to suit them better. Sounds like a huge waist of money.
I worked in Manhattan for the past 30 years and about 20 years ago I was walking down the street and I noticed the wire as the sun was hitting it just right and made it visible down the entire block. Being a technology person, my first thought was that it was some kind of communication antenna. When I got to work I mentioned it to my boss who was Jewish and he told me the real story. Thanks for posting this. I’m sure people who actually noticed the wire were puzzled too.
Can u say more
Any link? Please
What do you want a link for? His job?
Who pays for the upkeep
I doubt he asked, people in person are usually more polite than people on the internet
@@jamesshipley1340 the shekels
Hecklefish converted pretty quickly when he found out Saturday is sex day
I noticed that!
probably the funniest hecklefish bit on the show yet! Shomer MOTHERF****IN Shabbos!!!!
AJ & Hecklefish remind me of a funny, cliched version of my family.
I love how there is no topic too large or small for you to talk about, thanks AJ!
This has become my favorite channel. Thank you and keep it up!
Hecklefish turning into Walter Sobchak is hilarious perfection😅
So hilarious. I laughed hard.
Hard enough to where you were entering a world of pain
"If I were a rich fish" 😂
Doobie doobie doobie doo....
Ugh, that was glorious
Omigosh, this was fabulous. “Fiddler on the Roof” is my favorite musical and I had to listen to Hecklefish sing that a few times!
Wealthy not rich..
I love the stuff hecklefish says
Great video! Thanks for sharing all of the interesting information that you do.
Love your show you’re doing it and doing it well. Keep it up! ❤
Had no clue!! Interesting!! My husband works with a CFO that strictly follows this and when they sold a company plane my husband was in charge of handling… I heard him talking to CFO on a Saturday due to urgent deal needs, and all the sudden his wife busts in (later we found out he was in the bathroom) and yells he can’t be working!! ;) that was my introduction to the practice!
Did you know of the Shabbat elevator? People can't press buttons on a Shabbat, because using electricity counts as "making a fire" which is forbidden. Still, some people need the elevator because of mobility issues. So what they do is, they program an elevator to automatically go up and down all day, and stop at every floor. Needless to say, it is a slow process, but if you are a believer in a wheelchair, I'm sure you'd appreciate that invention. 🙂
When my husband was a kid, his Jewish neighbor would come over and ask either him or his brother to go over to his house and turn on the radio for him so he could listen to his sports games. He figured as long as he didn't touch the radio, he couldn't be faulted for listening since it was on anyway. This is in a town in New Jersey that now has a very high concentration of othodox jews, there might be a wire there, too.
LMAO - I just looked it up. There is. It doesn't extend to the road my husband lived on but comes close and seems to cover a good portion of the town. Now I have to go see if there's any near me because apparently, there's a site for that.
That's pretty common, it's called a shabbos goy, it's a gentile that helps out an orthodox jew on sabbat. Some will even pay for such a service. They also use all sorts of electronics to program switches on sabbat.
Your husband was a DNJ, or Designated Non Jew
I learn the coolest stuff watching your show! Keep them coming!
Always a loop hole somewhere. Seems like it would have been easier to change a rule or two,and cheaper. Putting a wire around a city to signify that your within 4 walls doesn't change the fact that your not. Crazy way of thinking on my end of things. Love your videos. 👍
Thats the nature of religion. If you think that everything stated in religion is to be taken exactly as said then you will find that its impossible to abide by all the rules. This is why religious people are the biggest hypocrites. They constantly bend the rules and play semantics to make these laws fit into their life instead of understanding what these laws where really pointing to. Words are sloppy and can never hold True but are just pointers to help lead to Truth which can only be experienced not spoken.
It's weird.
My range and my fridge both have a sabbath setting.
@@davidlaidig9485 crazy lol
@@howlinwulf yeah the one on the fridge turns off the interior lighting. That's so God can't see that the door is open. No foolin'
This is the funniest episode of hecklefish. I think its great when he gets upset/frustrated or you guys argue. Maybe more of that ? Thanks 😀
He was much kinder as a Jew, I have to admit.
@@TheWhyFiles hahaha
You guys are great.... hats off to all the hard work , research, the production value is up there with the best I've seen on TH-cam.
High five 👋
I know, I Love it, too, its Hilarious!!
I always say you gotta love that fish!
@@TheWhyFiles He was Walter From The Big Lebowski for a moment there...lol
Wow never heard of this thanks for sharing!
That's pretty cool and great to know. I love learning about people traditions and being able to answer random questions from my kids when they ask or I can tell them random facts.
It is amazing how the religious people around the world will twist or construe words and their meanings in order to make it easier to justify breaking said laws.
exactly dude, its one of the reasons im atheist
You deserve a heck of a lot more subscribers my friend. This channel is top notch. 👌
I appreciate that, Misty!
Not sure then how fast it was going up but this past week he has got 10k + He deserves it. 👍👍❤️
what 1.34 million isnt enough?
@@Tolbat this was when they were at like...8 thousand subs. They grew quick!! So proud 😊
@@Anyu312.59 million now, and well deserved!
Wooow...just wow!! I always learn something on your channel but this video well you nailed it!! Interesting provocative and entertaining. You always give us good stuff ❤!!
Very informative factoid! Loved it! Thanks!
I really appreciate the combination of mystery, education, and comedy this channel brings. My new favorite sub. Thank you!
Perfect example of why I oppose all established religions. All of them have crazy rules that make no sense.
you think this is weird? TH-cam metzizah b'peh
That is not very intelligent
How did I not know about this channel?.. that goldfish character is hilarious 🤣🤣 ahhahaha subscribed !!!
❤🎉love all your vids please continue posting as they are very interesting and informative also educational! And you and heckle fish makes my night 🎉❤
Hahah! Ending is hilarious.
Hecklefish sometimes gets excited.
Wow... I'm a 66 year old gentile, and I live in a large city (Vancouver BC) that apparently has an eruv... and I've never ever heard it spoken of previously. Learn something new every day... especially from *this* channel. 😄
I’m a 46 year old Jew, and this was news to me. 😅
Fake profile
Find it and cut it
There is one of these wires in Niagara Falls ON as well surrounding the entire tourist area.
I've checked and we have one in Montreal surrounding the Cote-st-Luc/Hampstead/Snowdon area. Well, I've learned something new today.
Ahhhhh hahahahahaha
That fish man.....hahahaha.
I'm soooo glad I found this channel. I have sooooo many more to watch!
The reason for "eruv" is ancient. 2000 years ago the jewish communities would put this wire in about waist high around their houses so everyone in the community will stay together for Shabbat.
Today it's meaningless, and is only kept because it's an ancient tradition, written as a law in the bible.
I have a issue i have only found this channel like a week ago but have almost watched all the videos already. We need more content creators like you. Love you're work.
and do not ever stop EVER
The same thing exists in London UK , in Golders Green, Finchley, Mill Hill and Hendon , a 6 and half mile wire for the same reason.
Any video that quotes Lebowski is instantly elevated to genius. Nice work ❤🏴
I cannot comprehend that someone gave the authorization to build something like that in a city. Who is paying for that? 🤦♀️
I absolutely LOVE when AJ and Heckle argue! Cracks me up
I know me too🌈🌴Heckle is so obnoxious he's funnier and funnier🎶🐟🎵
😂😂😂
Working at a Manhattan gym on the sabbath, one of the guys would always refuse to press the electronic door buzzer system to get inside, he would then turn on an electric treadmill and get his 30 minutes of cardio in... it was a private gym for the building, now I wonder if the hallways were not considered his home but the common area inside the gym was? Another great informative episode!
I have a couple of friends that observe and they also have different rules. They pretty much go with "we do the best we can". I think that's OK. God would understand.
I don't know if you mean that as a joke or you mightve misunderstood the part when he said within the confinds of your home part, as that part only applies for the carrying objects, but all other rules (38 others) all still apply wherever you are, so at home you wouldn't be able to say turn on your cooker or use electronics etc... What my theory is, that gym friend of yours is conscious of someone from the community seeing him press the button so outside he tries to come across as If he keeps the Shabbat, but once in the gym, then his rabbi or other Jews will be less likely to see him do whatever...
If the machine/treadmill was already on and plugged in then it would most likely be already considered as something that was already running/functioning and not a buzzer that would create a spark and connection each time you pressed it.
@@TheWhyFiles it's all in the interpretation - there are some who believe that listening is work - so a guy i knew and his mates would intentionally walk up to jews on the Sabbath and talk to them- just to enjoy the sight of them running for cover with their ears blocked - ahh the rules that Yahweh comes up with
@@bennyrich7361 so, behave one way when others are looking and you might be accountable, but don't worry about it if there are no witnesses. That's just great.😏
That was both interesting and amusing, thanks, AJ!!! ❤
Nice Lebowski reference. Love your channel. Well done!
Informative..thank you😮
Gosh. You help us learn, you help us think and you help us laugh. A day should not go by without a little AJ and Hecklefish. I am planning on adding to my wardrobe with numerous WF clothing, so enchanted am I and so grateful to have found this channel!
So, do these people think they’re pulling a fast one on their god? As if he’s blind to what they’re doing, circumventing the so-called “laws” they have to follow? It’s really kind of arrogant when you think about it, thinking you can outsmart your own god.🤣
You should read the OT. Full of stories of humans trying to pull a fast one.
This was a flashback to Friday nights in Boro Park ,Brooklyn when my neighbors would ask me to come in to turn on their lights as a kid❤
I really enjoy your channel, all the cool conspiracy content is amazing, but id definitely enjoy more content like this as well!
Your videos are always so interesting! Love it!
ahaha the fish looked super cute
He certainly agrees with you, Nellie!
Fascinating!
I freakin' LOVE this channel!
OMG I laugh so hard when heckle says “checks out”. That fish is too funny. 😂
I love this kinda of learning entertainment !! It helps me after a stroke , I have trouble with focus, this channel helps me thanks.🖖
Super cool!! I so enjoy hearing something i have not heard before. And btw my favorite part of your videos is when you slowly come down in your office chair...so simple yet it makes me laugh myself silly every single time. Keep up the amazing job you do!!!
Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!
Man I love your little dance at the end of your videos 😂
w/bro I'm really trying not to watch your content. But it's really thought provoking and entertaining. Yes even with Heckle fish's singing. Keep up the great content. I will try and see a rehab for my WF? addiction.
Been binging this channel for a couple days now. And I gotta say at first I didn’t get the fish. But now the little bigger has grown on me. He’s hilarious. Definitely a keeper.
He grows on you like a wart, Big Mig.
Very well done as usual. And very interesting tidbit of information you dropped... that you are New Yorker, I always wondered where you were lol
O always look forward to these videos. It really creates interest.
Thanks for this channel WF 😍
I’m really enjoying each of your info sessions.
I stumbled across your yout tube channel and just love how it's layer out. Light hearted funny and as factual as you can be... dresses up a good mystery without feeling like it is an attempt to convince all the mysteries are completely proven and therefore fact. Even with that said still activates that childish excitement and wonderment of things in life that are still not fully understood. Keep it up 🙂
Please tell me that hecklefish did a throwback to John Goodman in the big lebouski. If so, genius! Good videos mate, very good indeed!
Hecklefish went full Walter Sobchak there
Be safe. Be kind. And know that you are appreciated! Keep up the good work you two 🤙
Thanks, Dillon!
More people need to honor these words - it’s not just a catch phrase.
What's the point of having a tradition if you look for any way to break the rules... Ridiculous
I didn’t know this, thanks for sharing!
The idea to put HeckleFish in your videos is absolutely amazing lmao your videos are great man, keep up the good work ❤
If you're just trying to put a border to make it a home, couldn't you just use the island's border and call it a day and just use that as your excuse?
Love you guys!!!
You guys always put up interesting videos…👏🏼
Sounds to me like a thousand years ago a bunch of Jewish rabbis got together made a bunch of Jewish laws that they didn't fully think through then later on decided to make loopholes in their own laws which were stupid laws to begin with!
Exactly right.
The thing is, thousands of years ago when the laws were wrote, life was much simpler, and the religeos laws now don't fit in with modern society. People didn't have electricity or public transport, or telephones etc.. they probably didn't even have a key on their front door in them times. On the sabat, which is the day of rest, they wouldn't have had the need to go out and do things anyway, and would probably just stay at home and rest. On a normal day, they would only go out to work, buy food and necessities then go home anyway, it's not like they would go and have a game of golf on their day off. The times were obviously much more simple, and the Rabi's didn't realise how much society would change over the next millenia.
The sabbath started when they left Egypt, in the desert with Moses, they literally didn’t left their “house for nothing
@@gutz323 sounds like rabbis weren't very insightful to perceive life would stay the same for thousands of years
Keep it up, AJ and Heckle. You have a great channel, and I love it!
🤣I have got to order a HeckleFish plushy! Hysterical sidekick!
Fantastic video. I had no idea. :)
It's little things like this that makes me reconsider the things Kanye says.
Kanye is not crazy. He knows a lot about deepstate control and he will die soon too!
yeah but only a LITTLLLEEEEEEE bit of what he says
I am familiar with this even though I do not follow their religion however I have worked in Manhattan for approximately 35 years of my life I had no idea that they had one running around the island of Manhattan to me that's shocking
on the other hand nothing surprises me when it comes to religion people will find every loophole possible to make things convenient for their lifestyle hypocritical mostly all religions
You sound bitter, though you do rightly call them hypocrites. But to lump all religions and believers together because some Jewish people act this way isn’t fair or right.
You might read Matthew 23 wherein Jesus had the harshest words for the religious, and also called them hypocrites. But is Jesus Christ or a true Christian a hypocrite because some Jews are? That’s silly.
That’s like if I found a dumb atheist and used him to make the point that all atheists are dumb. Or if I found a drug addicted atheist and said, “welp, this is where atheism leads”.
hardly went up for public debate. You want to live by weird and wonderful rules,, go to the country that you set up for such things and live there, not enforcing them on us.
Bro stop making this about all religions and generalizing things to all religious groups. This video is about one religious group in particular. Believe it or not but there are plenty of religious people who take their religious code extremely seriously and don't attempt to plqy fast and loose with the rules.
Tres cool! Never knew that.
The argument at the end was cute.
Fascinating! I did not know this.
I love your channel! This was pretty amazing - and accurate - coverage of the eruv. Thanks for the great explanation! Judith (who uses an eruv in my hometown every Shabbat)
Shalom, Judith! 🐠❤
Must be nice that you can twist the words of God to pretend that a massively long wire around a major city center is the same as walls. Your faith is surface level.
@@JourneysADRIFT Must be nice to be so judgemental about someone else's faith. Have a good day!
@@JudithYD in the end I follow the words of god, not betray them and twist them beyond their true intent and meaning to make my life easier. You're a fake.
What I can't wrap my brain around is, how did we get from "Remember the sabbath to keep it holy", to 'don't work on the sabbath'? Seems to me a lot of this could be avoided.
Amazing video 👍🏽👍🏻👍
I always see that wire at work and may have actually snagged it with a boom lift on occasion. that is not an admission of guilt btw. Heckle Fish killed it on this one🤣😂🤣
What the heck is an eruv doing on the ground?? OR... do you fly to work? You fly, don't you? DOES U FLY???
@@TheWhyFiles I feel like this was a Hecklefish comment. 🧐🤔😁🤣
Man this was interesting. When you think you know alot, BAM why files hits ya with a fact bomb!!!
When I first heard about this, I thought it was a super cool fact. Glad you agree, Jake!
@@TheWhyFiles i even went on google to see the eruv around Melbourne, never knew it was there, thanks again :)
Daamn, I missed this one. Fantastic
❤❤ love you guys!
Great vid!
Thanks, Cam!
thats a new fun fact i learn today. thankyou AJ !
Welcome, Adam!
That was really informative
Your channel is great man! You're really good at telling these stories.
It's just another example of this group bending rules. Their own rules in this case.
Maybe I'm merely a gullible Christian, but if I believe that God has given me a command, the LAST thing I'm trying to do is find a work around. That seems like a terrible, terrible idea.
@@ianmedford4855 Son of Sam listened to a dog.
@@ianmedford4855 Thou shall not kill: has plenty of moral Christian work arounds. War and Justice to name a couple.
@@kevincrusher2414 you deeply misunderstand the nature of God.
He is both merciful, and wrathful. Many wars are righteous, and sometimes you have to hang some folks.
"Fuck around and find out" is a deeply Christian/Abrahamic philosophy.
@@kevincrusher2414 wrong translation. Thou shall not murder.
I watch these videos over and over again and it never gets boring because your videos are well thought out and hilarious,. You don't know how much happiness you bring me through your knowledge and Hecklefishes humor. I am grateful for your genius, wisdom, skill in creating these videos, thank you!
OMG this episode is definately THE Hecklefish's Oscar most worthy appearance, I couldn't stop laughing when he got the hat and did the Big Lebowski's Walter Sobchak impression! Shomer F**king Shabbos! 🤣🤣🤣
Love to Hecklefish 🐠🐠.... Another AWESOME VID... Thanks AJ.. 😎✌🏻🤜🏻💥🤛🏻👌🏻👌🏻
As a NY City taxpayer, we better not be paying for this lol
Guarantee you are
oh dont worry you are :)