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    ANONANO
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    This weekend is supposed to be very nice weather for most of the northeast. Any suggestions for fun outdoor activities that doesn’t conflict with observance of the nine day?

    #965019
    akuperma
    Participant

    Go to the park, with wi-fi, log on to the news. It’s suitably depressing. Save the Israeli news for Tisha b’Av.

    #965020
    Rav Tuv
    Participant

    If you are in Chicago go to a Cubs game on the 9 days. It has been making people cry for over a hundred years

    #965021
    MorahRach
    Member

    Have a picnic in Central Park with your family them check out a free museum.

    #965022
    pixelate
    Member

    lolol

    #965023
    147
    Participant

    I adapted a picture of the Jews going into captivity at Churban haBayis for BackGround picture on my computer screen for duration of the 9 days.

    #965024
    Utah
    Member

    Go biking

    #965025
    Vogue
    Member

    um uhh go hiking

    #965026
    TheGoq
    Participant

    That’s true musser zoger but at least the are better than the sox this year.

    #965027
    rebdoniel
    Member

    How about checking out the Holocaust Memorials? There’s the one at Battery Park City and the one in Sheepshead Bay.

    Another idea would be to see if you can speak with survivors. I’d like to start a program where descendants of Jewish victims of Arab anti-semitism can speak. I can speak to the struggles faced by Jews in Syria and Yemen on a firsthand basis. Our story is one that needs to be told somehow. IY”H, I plan on speaking this week with a friend’s grandparents, who were Sephardic Survivors of the Shoah, whose story goes unnoticed and forgotten in many cases. The Nazis, y”s, destroyed countless Sephardic communities in Greece, Salonica, Monastir, Rhodes, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and other such places in the Balkans, where such greats as the Binyamin Ze’ev, Pele Yoetz, Hakham Salomon Gaon, and others hailed from.

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    “I can speak to the struggles faced by Jews in Syria and Yemen on a firsthand basis.”

    Really? Did you grow up in Syria and Yemen?

    #965029
    rebdoniel
    Member

    My grandparents did, and I have direct testimony to their struggles and persecutions. I can also speak of many other persecutions, sometimes endured at the hands of reshaim.

    This is a period for edifying one another and embodying ahavat yisrael. We have enough enemies from among the goyim. This is why I believe one Jew hurting another Jew is one of the saddest things that goes on. We need to stand together and accomplish our collective tafkid as a nation and as an am segulah. Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Reform, Conservative, Litvish, Chasidishe, etc. ought to make no difference. Regardless of whether Jews lived under Muslims or Christians, there was persecution, and I am called to make my family’s story known. I know where exactly my ancestors came from in Syria and Yemen (too bad I can’t know where my Syrian ancestors originally lived in Spain and Portugal), and to make the horrors they endured known to the world is one of my goals in life. I’d also like to learn more about my mother’s family’s Bnei Anusim roots (as many as 30% of Southern Italians have Jewish ancestry, and many of them are returning to the Jewish People) and make the story of the Jews of San Nicandro and other places in Italy known. We are living in remarkable times, where all of the dispersed seed of Israel, no matter how distant they may be, are being drawn back into klal yisrael.

    #965030
    notasheep
    Member

    For those who obviously never read the whole of the first post – in the northeast. So the poster is definitely not in Chicago and likely not in NY either. I don’t think the poster wants specific locations, just activities.

    I would avoid swimming, hiking and biking actually since one is supposed to avoid dangerous activities

    #965031
    ANONANO
    Participant

    Thanks Notasheep, I in fact do not live in the Tri-state area and nowhere close to Chicago but still appreciate these ideas. I’m just finding it difficult to come up with appropriate activities and for all those that say you shouldn’t be going on outings this week its not so realistic for everybody.

    #965032
    MorahRach
    Member

    How old are your kids? I’m taking my son to the Park today then maybe to the zoo

    #965033
    miritchka
    Member

    going to a park is a great idea. Any quality time spent with family is beautiful and should be taken advantage of to the fullest. a picnic lunch, a ball, a jumprope, skip-it, etc…are fun things to do in the park. Think about it, with all our busy schedules, when was the last time you played jumprope or ball with your kids? (rhetorical question) Enjoy it! I plan on going to the park with my kids, parents and grandparents so we can all spend time together!

    #965034
    sharp
    Member

    The park. Young children can never get enough of it.

    #965035
    notasheep
    Member

    ANON – I was merely suggesting that generic ideas are better than specific locations. Parks are good, as are forest areas, the beach, window shopping. If you have kids, jungle gyms or indoor play parks are also good

    #965036
    Toi
    Participant

    rd- “Reform, Conservative…” these people are kofrim. they are not a branch/sect of yiddishkeit. they dont practice judaism.

    #965037
    Rav Tuv
    Participant

    rd- “Reform, Conservative…” these people are kofrim. they are not a branch/sect of yiddishkeit. they dont practice judaism.

    Reform and conservative Jews are not kofrim. The Chazon Ish was clear that they are Tinok shenishbu. They don’t know any better. You are so smug and if everybody isnt as frum as you, they are kofrim and reshaim. They are Jews as much as you are. As the Ramban says they may be shogeg but the way you talk about fellow jews are Mazid. And during the nine tug! Hashem yerachem.

    #965039
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    musser: I don’t think that being a tinok shenishba is inconsistent with being a kofer.

    I think that is the whole point–that someone can be a kofer but can be excused because they are a tinok shenishba.

    #965040
    Toi
    Participant

    mz- i dont know which chazon ish you are speaking about, but i dont understand how anyone nowadays can be considered so . TS”N means they cant/dont know beter, due to a lack of coming in contact with frum jews. that doesnt apply to most reform and conservative jews.

    i am not being smug. my level of religious practice and adherence has nothing to do with their status. actually, you are accusing me of something for absolutely no reason, and are being cheshed bikshairim. and during the nein teg. wow.

    #965041
    Rav Tuv
    Participant

    Toi,

    The Chazon ish is YD Siman 2 sif 16 concerning Ts”n

    you are calling Yidden kofrim. How can one be kofer Hashem, when they have no idea about Hashem. Do you have any idea how many Yiden are taken in by Reform/Conservs because they have no Jewish education and don’t know what real yiddishkeit is. Ref/Cons is way more convenient just because they are all over. They are also more welcoming than most ortho shuls. This is the musser we need to take during these days.

    #965042
    Toi
    Participant

    mz- ill try to look it up. acc. to R chaim soloveitchik one neednt be kofer in HKBH on purpose to be an apikores. “nebach an apikores is oicht an apikores”. if one doesnt believe in the ikrim, he is a kofer. i dont see the pitiful state of our ability to be mekarev them makes the ois-apikorsim.

    #965043
    Rav Tuv
    Participant

    To be an apikores one has to know what he denies. How can H’ hold a Yid responsible if he has no clue about Hashem. Avraham Avinu was oich a koferoriginally according to R’ Chaim Brisker. He was modeh to a”z. Just like A”A came around to the truth so all Yidden who we call reform and conser should come around. But we have to help them or we cant fault them because the fault is really ours.

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