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  • #600873
    Hermione
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    My teacher told us today that its a machlokes or not if you are aloud to walk around in P.J’s (meaning short sleeves and pants) in front of your father. She said it is not so pashut and it might be assur it’s a machlokes… she said in front of your brothers – for sure not… What do you think?

    #835296
    aries2756
    Participant

    What does your father think?

    #835297

    consult your LOR regarding this matter, your teacher is a mechanech NOT a posek!

    #835298
    Sam2
    Participant

    Ask a Posek, but as long as your father is not learning or Davening then there is no issue.

    #835299
    koillel101
    Member

    Wear a nightgown!

    #835300
    real-brisker
    Member

    You want us to belittle your teachers words?

    #835301

    koillel101

    tuna baigel

    Wear a nightgown!

    some people say that pajamas are more tznius than a nightgown, since a nightgown rides up and pajamas don’t.

    I remember when I was in seminary the aim habayis told everyone that slept on a bunkbed to wear pajamas under a nightgown…

    #835302
    Nechomah
    Participant

    I think the only time a nightgown is not tznius is when you are rolling around in bed and it hikes up during sleep. I don’t imagine that a girl’s father or brother is coming into her room to daaven or learn there, so that doesn’t seem to be the issue. But just for the sake of being tznius, it would be a good idea to put on the pants of the pajamas under the nightgown, but unfortunately things seem to have swung to the other side of the pendulum and daughters in frum families are sometimes only wearing the pajamas and the nightgown has been forgotten.

    #835303
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Mentch was that before or after they wrapped you in bandages?

    and did u miss your mummy?

    #835304
    real-brisker
    Member

    mods – mentsch. = qtpie……..

    #835305
    apushatayid
    Participant

    ask your father to ask the family rav. or call him yourself. or call the rebbetzin and ask her to ask the rav. or have your mother call the rebbetzin. lots of options. asking here, probably one of the worst options.

    #835306
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    My teacher told us today

    Understand that your teacher has ulterior motives into creating separation between you and your parents. Chances are she is not a posek, and she does not know Halacha.

    YOU go ask your own Rov (as in the Rabbi of the shul that you and your father daven). Not some “teacher” who never read a Shach.

    #835307
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    The Rambam Issurei Biyah 21 (and the SA agrees):

    ? ????: ???? ??? ???? ???, ??????, ????? ???? ?????? ???, ??? ??? ?? ???–?? ??? ??? ?????. ?????? ????? ??? ???? ???? ?????, ???? ????? “????? ????? ?????? ????” (?????? ??,?)–?? ??? ??????, ??? ??? ??????. ??? ????? ??? ???? ????? ???? ???? ?????, ?? ??????, ??? ?? ??? ???? ????? ???? ??? ?????, ?? ?? ?? ??? ?????–??????? ?????? ???, ??? ????? ????? ??? ??????.

    Go to your teacher, and ask her to show you sources. Never take her word for it.

    #835308
    oot for life
    Participant

    “your teacher has ulterior motives into creating separation between you and your parents”

    That is a pretty strong accusation care to elaborate?

    #835309
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    That is a pretty strong accusation care to elaborate?

    The old “who do you follow? The Gedolim or your parents?”

    Common enough.

    #835310
    aries2756
    Participant

    What is wrong with asking her father? Why is everyone assuming that her father doesn’t count here?

    #835311
    apushatayid
    Participant

    I doubt the teacher has an ulterior motive. The teacher is probably repeating what she asked her own husband or rav.

    #835312
    oot for life
    Participant

    I don’t understand. You are saying the choice is Gedolim or Parents. OK. But in your previous post it seemed to me as if you were saying it was teacher vs parents with rav. Is the teacher following gedolim and the parents/rav not?

    I’m used to a small town community where the teachers and parents work together very closely (and are often the same people). That could be why I’m shocked by the comment.

    #835313
    old man
    Participant

    “Understand that your teacher has ulterior motives into creating separation between you and your parents.”

    I agree with this statement and will elaborate according to my own point of view.

    The shul Rav is a spiritual guide whose duty and desire is to take care of his constituent families with halachic and other spiritual advice. He is in it for them, not for himself or a given institution, and his decisions take many factors into account.

    The “teacher” is charged with a very specific agenda, to inculcate the students with a very well-defined hashkafah which views itself as the only “right way”, and rejects other hashkafahs as not legitimate.

    The teacher is therefore suspect of ulterior motives, namely, forcing the the student into the mold of the school’s hashkafah at the expense of the parents’ hashkafah.

    #835314
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    oot for life

    I don’t understand. You are saying the choice is Gedolim or Parents. OK. But in your previous post it seemed to me as if you were saying it was teacher vs parents with rav. Is the teacher following gedolim and the parents/rav not?

    I’m used to a small town community where the teachers and parents work together very closely (and are often the same people). That could be why I’m shocked by the comment.

    My experience from Sem reports (which is what I base my comments on, not my children’s teachers, who I have good things to say (and don’t try to pasken)) is that they don’t really care about Halacha. They have an agenda to make everyone agree to there own personal feelings (or their husbands’) on what the halacha should be, and CLAIM that is what the Gedolim want. The last thing the teachers want want is for a girl to verify or ask questions to an actual Rov, Posek or Gadol.

    Both the Shulchan Aruch and the Rambam (which I understand why the mods don’t want to post it, it is Issurei Biyah 21:7) hold there is no problem whatsoever. For someone to make up a machlokes without showing any sources, when it is “Offen in Shulchan Aruch” that it is Muttar, is highly suspicious.

    I’ve just heard too many first hand stories of “If you don’t have two sinks, you’re eating traife” and “Girls are not allowed to talk on the street” from girls schools & Sems. They do not have a Chezkas Kashrus in my book.

    #835315
    oot for life
    Participant

    Gavra and Old man, thank you for explaining your point(s).

    #835316
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Points well taken. Question. If you disagree with the hashkafos taught by the school/seminary why are you (or your children) in that school?

    #835317
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    Points well taken. Question. If you disagree with the hashkafos taught by the school/seminary why are you (or your children) in that school?

    Mine are not (as I pointed out earlier).

    #835318
    apushatayid
    Participant

    GAW. Even if it wasnt clear, the question wasnt directed to you per se. My comment was address to those whose comments were behind your statement.

    #835319
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    apushatayid:

    This is what I hear from the girls that come back. They basicly tell the parents that the Sems are crazy. The parents? Good question. Partially for Shidduchim, partially because everyone else does it, and partially due to ignorance of what they are getting themselves into.

    #835320
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Yes, but now that you let the cat out of the bag, ignorance is no longer an excuse 🙂

    #835321
    nfgo3
    Member

    Hermione (first poster): Forget about pajamas and ask you teacher to explain the difference between “aloud” and “allowed.” The former is how I laughed when I read the word in your post.

    #835322
    Hermione
    Member

    update:

    So I asked her today for a source and she said mishne berura siman ayin daled.

    she said that it doesnt say that you cant walk around in front of your father with ervah showing, rather he cant make a bracha or say krias shema in front of you if ervah is showing so therfore some poskim hold that he cant see you in pajamas at all.

    she also told us that some people have a problem with swimming because the shechinah is resting at the pool…

    to everyone – I did ask my father and my brother but I wanted to hear what other folks had to say…

    apushatayid: I do agree with the overall haskafah of the school but your always going to have a couple of teachers that are super fanatic.

    #835323

    Are you still in Hogwarts? I thought you graduated already, how are Ron and Harry? [joke]

    #835324
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    she said that it doesnt say that you cant walk around in front of your father with ervah showing, rather he cant make a bracha or say krias shema in front of you if ervah is showing so therfore some poskim hold that he cant see you in pajamas at all.

    The “Therefore” is extremely weak, and contradictory to the Mishna Berurah that she quoted. Perhaps you should ask her for the “Posek” who holds it is assur? I believe if you challenge her, she will once again retract and say that some poskim “recommend” to always be fully covered, but no Issur exists (Perhaps something like Gur may say Assur, but that is their own quirk). Furthermore, we don’t pasken like these Poskim.

    Good for you that you that you asked. I’m impressed.

    #835325
    i said so
    Member

    hi its me!

    i wsn’t here for quiet some time!

    i missed u all!

    now bck to wht this thread is about, if ur father said ur allowed than u should go according to what he says!

    #835326
    dumblonde
    Member

    “if ur father said ur allowed than u should go according to what he says!”

    i second that.

    #835327
    i said so
    Member

    thanxs for agreeing with me!!!

    #835328
    mommamia22
    Participant

    I say this for the sake of other teachers out there:

    To say that something is Halacha and only later, upon being asked, to elaborate that it is the opinion of SOME poskim (and not to say whom), seems irresponsible and misleading to me.

    That’s like saying “in the name of some, you have to keep this Halacha”.

    If you are blessed to know how to spell, than please use your gift also to not hurt people. A joke is only hurtful when it’s said to make fun of a person.

    #835329
    old man
    Participant

    Sorry I got here so late, this quote is from a few weeks ago.

    “…she also told us that some people have a problem with swimming because the shechinah is resting at the pool…”

    I am having a difficult time understanding this, and I am resisting the temptation to ridicule. I’d rather an explanation as to what this means. Please.

    On another note,if by any means Sam2 sees this, then please note that this is exactly what I am referring to in another unrelated post.

    #835330
    Health
    Participant

    old man – “I am resisting the temptation to ridicule.”

    If you won’t, I will. Maybe Hashem decided to take a dip? Or maybe by her pool because the Shechina is on top of Sick people!

    #835331
    gavra_at_work
    Participant

    I’ll also add some Laitzanus, since it is of Avoda Zara:

    Why worry? The women are IN the water. J can only walk on top of it!

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