Everything bothers him
The main thing that bothers the haredi activist is to see happy haredim who go out and enjoy themselves as if they were secular
It bothers him that haredim go to singing performances. It bothers him that there are large ads for these performances. It bothers him that there is a mixture of men and women, even if they sit separately. It bothers him that they might meet outside. It bothers him that it’s a soccer stadium, a place for the secular and for Sabbat desecration.
It bothers him that people sit together and sing as if they were national-religious Jews, and it bothers him that there are singers that fill the concert hall instead of studying Torah in yeshiva. It bothers him that there is modern hassidic music and that there are haredi singers. If they’re haredi, how can they be singers, and if they’re singers, then they are not really haredi. It even bothers him that prayers are sung in the synagogue, as if it’s a Bnei Akiva chapter or a Reform temple.
It bothers him that that there is a secular culture, a culture of sinners, and it bothers him even more that there is a national-religious and haredi “culture” that is reminiscent of that culture. It bothers him that there are haredi radio staions or quasi-haredi radio stations. It bothers him that that women speak on the radio. It bothers him that women drive cars. It bothers him that women write for newspapers. In the end they’ll start to smoke, and where will it all lead to? Women in general bother him.
Against anything that smells of modernity
It bothers him that haredim eat pizza, and on the sidewalk next to the pizzeria no less. Don’t they have a home? The haredi weeklies bother him, especially those that are too colorful. A Jew doesn’t need to read a newspaper in color. Sleeves that are too short and skirts that are too long bother him, as does red nailpolish. Wigs bother him, and hats and excessively modern dress, and Sephardim in the building bother him, and sandals bother him. Computers bother him and especially the internet, and it bothers him that there are cellphones. 
Haredi concert in Teddy stadium (Photo: Yisrael Bardugo)
He recalls how once upon a time, everything was different. A haredi behaved exactly as a haredi ought to behave, and the important rabbis always knew themselves what to permit and what to prohibit.
A great many things bother him, this haredi activist. Anything that’s a bit new, anything that smells of modernity, anything that’s a bit different from what he is used to. And the main thing that bothers him is to see happy haredim who go out and enjoy themselves as if they were secular. After all, if they want to be happy, there are bar mitzvahs and weddings and shalom zachor ceremonies and circumcisions. And for social gatherings there are funerals and shiva calls; you don’t need to go to the stadium.
The rabbi's loyalist
It bothers him, and because he is so close to an important rabbi, really a loyalist, and because he is so familiar with the rabbi’s taste, he speaks to the rabbi about this politely, with respect, with reverence. The rabbi perhaps does not know exactly what is happening, but certainly every breach in the vineyard of the House of Israel hurts him greatly, and therefore he explains to him what bothers him. The rabbi nods and signs and returns to his studies; he doesn’t have time for the details.Perhaps this is why what is happening outside doesn’t bother him so much: the walls are being breached, people in the haredi world are going to work, and those on the fringes have even begun to go into the army. If the rabbi doesn’t announce that this bothers him as well, what will faithful Jews do?
Another marvelous day for the man whom everything bothers. Tomorrow is a new day.
