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Newcastle (1 in South Africa; 1 in Australia; one in NE of England, and one in NW of England)
DaasYochid & Your Majesty (although I suspect you’re not really HM QE2, you can’t really be sure with the Royal Family nowadays),
I fully endorse your choice of Rabbi Damen, the famous Belzer baal menagen. All his nigunim have emmese yiddishe taam.
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Umhlanga (just north of Durban) South Africa
//*Gerusalem?? LOL*//
North Essex isn’t a place really. It’s an area. I’m going with Gabon. Any objections?
Nelspruit (Sunny Mpumalanga, South Africa)
B1g B0y, you’re going a bit off topic. I’ve never met Baruch Levine, but I know Avraham Fried and Shloime Gertner are also menschen.
Have to pick at this somehow!
Is Pesach sheini a yomtov? Some communities, (yekkes/yotzei ashkenaz) only leave out tachanun at mincha on this day.
Plenty people don’t keep the Torah and are Jewish. Some even don’t believe in Hashem r”l. Some people even put trolling questions on chat forums, but are nevertheless Jewish.
There is a sefer called ????? ????? by Rav Nosson Graff, which is segulos and tfilos for zivug hagun.
I’ve had a look online and can’t find it in the big US seforim shops. The only place I could find it available was Lehmanns bookstore in England.
?? ??? ???? ??? ??????? It’s all up to personal taste.
Nevertheless, I’m a huge Avraham Fried fan. I believe all his music fits the “nicest singer and the nicest CDs” of your original post.
Shloime Gertner is a very nice singer as well.
Gauteng (Province in South Africa)
Thank you Uncle Ben.
Rustenburg, South Africa
@Trust 789.
I know my dictionary is old, but like the shulchan oruch and indeed the Torah HaKedosha, it’s not outdated.
Unfortunately, we are stuck in a world of chitzoniyus, where it doesn’t matter if your kid keeps the Torah or even believes in Hashem, as long as he wears the right hat and shoes etc you’re OK.
How tragic is that!
Very interesting that the Lotto in the UK also has a mega jackpot this week.
Just to add to my previous post;
In my dictionary, Rebbish, is someone who has learned Torah and Chassidus and has a personality to be able to teach people and influence them in the ways of the Baal Shem.
It does NOT mean, someone who wears a colourful bekitche in the week, with a white scarf, schtrokkes (one of my newly learned words, it means the velvet patches on the collars and cuffs) and a silver topped stick.
A children’s illustration is not meant to be a realistic depiction of an event, it’s to explain a concept. In this case, that a Jew and a Mitzri could drink from the same cup, one getting water and the other blood.
I once saw a picture (in a book published by a certain large Chassidus) for parshas korach, with Moshe and Aharon wearing streimels and korach had a bend down hat. Now why would they have had streimels if it was during the week, and if it was Shabbos, nobody could’ve taken the photo anyway. It couldn’t have been motzei Shabbos because it would’ve been dark and flashes weren’t invented yet.
Xihua, Henan China
I haven’t read the other posts, but to answer the OP; The internet doesn’t cause OTD but it’s a place where a kid can feel accepted without having to conform to anything or get good grades on his tests.
Listen to Rabbi Wallerstein’s shiur on parshas Vayeshev, ‘es achai ani mevakesh’ for a full explanation of this.
‘such a kid’ is doomed because he nebbach comes from a ‘Rebbishe’ family. His family should wake up and stop putting pressure on him. Leave the kolpik at home, wear a normal chalat and shoes, and if he does well in yeshiva and kollel and is fit to become a rebbe, his talmidim will encourage him to ‘don the garb’.
Edgware, England
Salut Rbambi,
The 2nd & 3rd verses are here http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/lyrics-needed-quickly
Which Halifax did you mean? The original one in Yorkshire, or the Canadian copy?
In my school minyan in South Africa I remember that the chazan siddur had the tzeire under the alef of Go’eil Yisroel circled. But not as you would imagine, each dot of the tzeire was circled and then it was underlined, so you couldn’t miss it.
The problem was when it started to look like a weird smiling face and disturbed my concentration, but still I’ve never made that mistake.
—assuming that’s an actual place— Mossel Bay, South Africa
Graaff-Reinet, South Africa
Aberdeen, Scotland
1. I asked the poisek Rav Eliyahu Falk in Gateshead if the barchu after maariv is permissible for a latecomer, and he had no problem with it. (obviously that’s not where it’s expressly against the minhag hamokom)
2. Dayan Dunner in London said in his shul (i was there at the time), that there is nothing wrong with it, just that the chazan (for maariv) shouldn’t say it, because then it looks like it’s the shul’s minhag.
That is an extremely broad question. You have qualified best, by saying strongest learning. My honest answer is The Mirrer Yeshiva in Yerushalayim. You can get whatever type of learning and shiurim you want there. But on the flip side, it is also the easiest place for a bochur to ‘get lost’.
Is the boy a shtark learner who knows very well what his goals in life are? Or does he tend to get distracted?
Swakopmund (Namibia)
btw, can you tell I grew up in Africa?
CTLAWYER, You are truly lucky to have a close extended family, ka”h. Let us know what you decide, and whatever happens, May you and your family enjoy the simcha in good health, and have lots of nachas from the young couple and your other children.
Because it was baked in a meaty oven.
Maybe that’s why milky bread etc has to be a different shape or form, because otherwise it would be assumed to be meaty.
Huh! You can’t rely on Wikipedia. Next they’ll claim that the Kosherlamp was invented by a Jew.
Mazel tov to CTLAWYER and family.
I’ve never been to an American wedding. But in Europe it is standard to only come to the dinner in the evening. Chuppas and the reception following them are in the afternoon, when people are at work, and generally only attended by siblings and very close family and friends. In the evening, the dinner will take place in a hall (sometimes many miles away in big cities like London) and Chosson and Kallah arrive to a big entrance like ‘Shtusim’ was suggesting.
In light of that, I would be glad not to have to drive out of town and can’t understand why someone wouldn’t be.
Slightly digressing, but can someone define or describe a ‘shmorg’ for those of us who have never had the pleasure of attending one.
Ermelo, Mpulanga Province (formerly Eastern Transvaal), South Africa
It’s not up to us to identify the eruv rav. We have to do what we have to do. Tomim tihye…
Unless you are talking about Avi K’s eruv rav.
Innsbruck (Austria)
Nelspruit, (Northern Cape, South Africa)
Yeshiva L’Zeirem Tiferes Yaacov is usually known as Gateshead Yeshiva Ketana, although it now has an additional shiur, shiur Dalet, and a kibbutz.
Shiur Alef is for 14/15 year olds and, if I’m not mistaken has 3 parallel shiurim.
It is very structured, traditional yeshivish and is (arguably) the premier Yeshiva Ketana in Europe.
It was founded by HaRav Chaim Kaufman Ztvk”l. The Rosh Yeshiva is HaRav Ezriel Jaffe and other maggidei shiur are Rav Avrohom Osher Cohen, Rav Yaakov Moore, Rav Yehuda Leib Wittler, Rav Mordechai Steinhaus, Rav Zvi Bakst, Rav Boruch Shimon Barnett, Rav Nosson Connick among others.
What specific information are you looking for?
Any RZW fans, while you’re answering the OP, can you tell me where he says, “Get off the freakin internet! Get off Facebook!”.
555, Thank you. Point noted.
Sam2, Rabbi Sternbuch only arrived in South Africa in 1983. But I take your point, as there couldn’t have been too many women smokers in Bne Brak, where he was until then.
Regarding the OP, many places are now saying Yom Kippur Koton especially before Elul. It is often surprising which minyonim say it. For example in Gateshead, (a few years ago, I’m not sure what the current situation is) the only regular YKK minyan was in the Boarding School/Mechina l’Yeshiva.
We had this discussion 3 years ago about the minhogim of when Behab is ‘done’.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/behab-1
In England, the minhag in London is the Jekkisch minhag, other places say it earlier.
But I do find many places are opting out of saying these slichos. I can’t think why it has suddenly become ‘optional’. I was speaking to the Rav of a shul that is officially minhag Hamburg, and they stopped saying it when many people started davening elsewhere on those days. In the case of Yom Kippur Kotton it is only recent that it has become widespread. But Behab is a very old minhag. Does anyone have anything on this?
“pahk yaw cah neah”?? That sounds English!
I hear they like tea parties in Boston, just like in England.
NeutiquamErro, Thank you for taking up the task of explaining this fascinating subject to our transatlantic cousins. You have done so most eloquently.
I had no idea that the range of accents in England was unique. But it always did fascinate me that the 15/20 sq mile area which includes Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Ashington and Hexham, contains four distinctly different accents. Although even Americans may not call Geordie a ‘British accent’, it would probably confuse most southerners.
So, what did you do, how was it?
zahavasdad, you’re right. The Jews of Gateshead, including The mashgiach shlit”a, don’t speak geordie. Neither do they speak Queen’s English. It’s more of a middle class northern english accent and quite different to how Jews in London speak.
Joseph, I have to apologise, I don’t know how to describe accents. Anyone else here that can do it? (How do you describe the difference between East coast and Midwest accents?)
Joseph: I had to laugh. “British, Australian, Irish and South African”, each one is sooooo different to each other.
Zahavasdad, you’re right, we struggle with US and Canadian. I don’t know if this is funny or not, but I once asked – sorry, as you would say – one time I asked someone from Detroit if he was from Montreal. Are they similar, at all?
Now, geordie, (which anyone who has spent time in Gateshead will be familiar with) does sound very different from any other ‘British’ accent.
I love how Americans think Europe is one place, and there is one british accent!
Which places in Europe seem cool, Milton Keynes? Newcastle-under-Lyme? or do you mean the more classic Paris, London and Milano etc?
Correction to my earlier post:
Birkas Cohanim at the kosel in on Wednesday of chol hamoed. I am informed that it is always the first day of “Chutznik Chol Hamoed”.
I would make an effort to get to the big Birkas Kohanim at the kosel. It will be taking place this year on Thursday, October 1st. Shacharis begins at 8:15 a.m. and Birkas Kohanim will be at about 9:00 a.m. and then again in musaf at about 10:00 a.m.