My Shul is Being Taken Over by the Lubavitcher Talibanistim
Okay, now back to the serious stuff. 

Apparently Rabbi E. gave over a sicha this past shabbos between mincha and maariv. It was something about chesed and gevurah and the need to push away with the left hand, but draw closer with the right and so on. At some point there was a footnote which read that although our initial approach is usually to bring people closer with the middah of chesed, when it comes to the yetzer horah or women or children, we must use the gevurah approach first. 

 At that point, Rabbi E.  carefully checked if any women were present ( there weren't)  and then gave a whole big drasha on... the halacha of stomping on your bride's foot under the chuppah right after the glass is broken. According to Rabbi E., this is an extremely important halacha (yes, he used that term) because right away the man needs to show his bride who is the boss, who is the mashpia and who will be the mekabel in this relationship. Apparently, there is a machlokes about whether this is allowed when the bride is niddah and so some people have stopped following this rule altogether, but this is a terrible mistake and Rabbi E. is hoping to correct it. He is, in fact, teaching his sons the correct way to behave under the chuppah and he hopes that his audience will take this message to heart and teach their own boys the proper way to start off their marriages as well. 

And, in case you are wondering, no, nobody stood up and told Rabbi E. to shut his pie hole and go back to Afganistan where he may find more like minded people as himself. I found out about it, almost by chance, when I made some joke about Rabbi E. to my husband over Yom Tov and he shared what he learned this past shabbos. 

Happy Post-Pesach cleaning, y'all.