leaving Chabad Lubavitch

And Matisyahu is leaving Chabad Lubavitch. I hate to say it, but he rode the Chassidic pony to stardom. His marginal beatboxing and atonal (at times music) needed some kind of hook. Unfortunately, he's the kind of BT that makes the rest of us BTs look bad. BTs have a tendency, I know I've said it a thousand times, to be more Jewish than Jewish, to make up for lost time, to fit in with the frum-from-birth crowd. Of course, any FFB with misgivings about the sincerity of BTs just had their wariness validated by Matisyahu. In a culture that promulgates fad after fad, Matisyahu fits in with an established tradition of floating from one idea to the next, never wholly committing to any of them. He'd have been better off remaining Mr. Miller from the get-go.I hope Lubavitch critics such as our friends over at FailedMessiah.com recognize this as telling of Matisyahu, not so much Chabad. We've heard the cultish horror stories, but many of us have positive experiences with Chabad. No institution founded by men and maintained by men, even with a rebbe at the helm, can be without blemish. All we can hope is that our groups get it right more than they get it wrong.