Hay musicman, I cant post my email but if you cld get it from the mods, then thanks alot!

Bein Hazmanim definitely is important, not because the guys are needed to help around the house, but because yeshiva bochurim need a break every once in a while and by the time pesach comes they are often burnt out from the long winter zman. In the week or two before pesach, there is plenty for the yeshiva boys to do, whether it is shopping for themselves, or helping shop for or clean their house, or even get a job if they need money.

However the idea of in-town yeshivos not starting the new zman until rosh chodesh Iyar is ridiculous. And yes lakewood is in-town. There is no reason that the yeshivos dont start 2 or 3 days after pesach. They had their time to chill out and now its time to go back and continue shteiging.

What type of dress shirt did you ever see with square buttons??

Is that like a new style?

On the yeshiva’s part, it is so wrong!

These boys who already spend 10 months a year in yeshiva need a break sometimes. It’s one thing if the yeshiva encourages their talmidim to come for a month in the summer. But to force every kid to go? It’s outrageous. Many boys live the whole year, literally counting down the days till summer. The summer is a time for kids to relax, make new friends, show their talents,and of course have fun, without the pressures they feel in school. Isn’t the summer time called “vacation?”

Also, all of the “good” batei medrashim now require their talmidim to attend this extra 1 month program. Many of the bochurim from these yeshivos would otherwise be working in camps as counselors and such, but yeshiva requires them to stay for at least a month. If all the good bochurim have to to be in yeshiva during the summer, who are our children’s counselors? Are the camps taking guys from not such great yeshivos as counselors since all the “good guys” are stuck in yeshiva?

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