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The Goy “Joins” a Daf Yomi Shiur

A Boro Park reader sent us in these incriminating photos of a sanitation worker conveniently “learning” Daf Yomi in Shul instead of plowing the streets.

New York City’s Department of Investigation admitted it began a probe earlier this week into the motives behind the Sanitation Department bosses decision to sabotage the blizzard cleanup.

Sources told New York Post that Sanitation bosses issued verbal directives during the clean-up to give priority to streets near the homes of agency heads and other city bigwigs.

Despite Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s insistence that all roads would be plowed at least once by Thursday morning, many were untouched, with snow still piled high in Crown Heights and other Brooklyn neighborhoods.

Even as streets in the outer boroughs waited for a single plow to arrive, the Post reported, crews were clearing bicycle lanes on the Upper West Side. Bloomberg, however, insisted that was not happening.

Across the city, residents still confined to their homes by the storm’s after-effects had plenty of blame both for Bloomberg and the rogue Sanitation workers.

Shulamit, a CrownHeights.info reader, reported via email that on Wednesday night, at 8 PM, “an orange salt and plow truck driving into 45th Street from 14th Avenue in a the first attempt to clear the street.”

She said she learned from a resident that after driving in about 100 feet the driver conveniently decided that he was stuck.

“He sat in the truck for 2 hours,” she said.

“At 10 PM, he decided to ”join“ the English Daf Yomi Shiur in the Sefardishe Shul located on the corner of 14th Avenue and 45th Street. He sat out till the end of the shiur at 12 AM.”

The resident who photographed the worker was left wondering “what does a goy know about Mesechte Zevochim?”

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12 Comments

  • Miriam

    Give the guy a break! It’s not his fault! I am sure he has been working around the clock (although not in our neighborhood) and wanted an indoor place to rest from the cold and wait until he could be dug/towed out.

  • moshe

    You don’t know if his boss told him he shouldn’t plow!!!! I doubt he isn’t jewish.

  • yur kidding

    give the man a break. if he was stuck, it was better he keeps warm in shul. how do you know he is a goy!

  • simple explanation

    He was jut cold after working so hard so he went inside to a shul it doesnot show anywhere he was even learning it he jut came 4 a few minutes to warm up!

  • Morton

    I was just made aware of this posting by a friend of mine from yeshiva. I cannot believe how some of you are so so quick to judge my actions and call me a goy! I was instructed to stop plowing by my shift dispatcher and to just wait in my truck. I guess it was my mistake to think that my fellow yids would accept me as one of their one on that cold and physically exhausting day. I’m so very sad that because I’m not from crown heights I was looked down upon.

  • Itamar Rosenblatt

    Even if the sanitation worker wasn’t Jewish, don’t we as Jews, the so-called “light of the world” have a responsibilty to be respectful to all of Hashem’s creatures? We all the know the word “goy” is derogatory, so why use it?

    And, please don’t tell me it just means “nation”, b/c we all know that it was used in a negative sense in this article.

  • stop judging

    You extremely religious jews sicken me! As jews or anyone should NOT judge another person just by what they see and instead give them the benefit of the doubt. We dont know who Morton the snow cleaner is. Maybe he’s jewish and maybe he’s not. Either way maybe he was interested in what the shiur was about…especially since it was in english. Besides, it was late at night and VERY cold outside…i wouldnt want him to freeze! And as he said, his boss told him to stop! Guess what guys? In the real/working world, you listen to your boss or supervisor whether you agree or not, NOT your rabbi or yourself! If i didnt treat my patients the way my supervisor wanted me to, id be out of a job in a minute! STOP JUDGING PEOPLE!!!!!!

  • Miriam

    I am especially bothered that, here is a man, with a useful parnassah, supporting himself and his family instead of living off TAXPAYERS and WELFARE and our first impulse is to criticize?? Maybe not everyone was raised to live in Kollel. How many of your husbands have JOBS?