Chabad-Lubavitch wins award from Amway

Chabad-Lubavitch wins award from Amway

By Rabbi Lamech Somayach Meshumad Meshubach
Mashgiach Ruchini, Yeshiva Aishes Eish HaTorah
Special to http://Meshumadmeshubach.blogspot.com

During the 2010 annual Awards dinner banquet at the Amway world headquarters in Ada, Michigan, there was a unique form of recognition given to Chabad-Lubavitch for their expansive international network. Jay Andel and Rich Devos got up in front of the crowd and declared their envy of the international Hassidic organization.

“We're rich, but they are rich and tax exempt. One day Amway will be up there with Scientology and Chabad,” Devos said. “Until then we use our tax havens, pay our taxes and get our customers to work for us as much as possible. But there is so much Amway could learn from this organization.”

A Shaliach, or emissary of the deceased rebbe was on hand to give an eloquent acceptance speech and ask for Amway members to think about Chabad-Lubavitch in their last will and testament and consider making their tithing to the organization.

“We don't ask for much, ten percent of your post tax, post cost of living expenses would not tax most people. We make it sound easy so that even people who are poor can donate and all those poor people eventually add up to as much as half of the donations of one rich person. Plus they all turn into sales people on their own right. This is a lesson Amway could learn from the occult,” Said Rabbi Shalom Ber Liberow, from Chabad of Western Michigan.

In an attempt to cudgel more donations, Rabbi Yosef Weingarten spiked the punch with pure grain alcohol, saying, “It worked with the college kids. Why not with these schmucks?” In his talk he motivated the sellers at Amway by sharing some of the techniques used by Chabad.

“Begin by catching people off guard and finding their weaknesses and then use that to manipulate the crowd. Usually they will be afraid of security for the future. Then you tell them how your product can solve that problem best. I always tell people why worry about retirement when they have no place in the imaginary world that doesn't exist? Then I promise them a seat with the dead guy upstairs! All for a low, low price.”

Then Andel, compared the techniques favorable to Amway motivational pamphlet #17-879.3, becoming your own best customer, page 447, where it says, “basically the same thing, except for the part about dosing your unsuspecting customer with large amounts of vodka.”