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How soon does Moshiach have to come that we can get tahor in time?
DaMoshe, Very interesting. You sound like the type of baal tfila I’d like to listen to on Yom tov for shachris and hallel. For yomin noroim, I am very traditional, and big into ‘nusach’. I could maybe handle Yigal calek for Chamoil and be’ein meilitz yosher (maybe because they’re older than me), but shiru lamelech for anything, no way. And Unesaneh tokef, in my mesorah, is the highlight of the tefila, and should be done in chazonus or strict nusach.
I like ItcheSrulik’s idea of Yedid nefesh for Vchol maaminim. I assume you sing the whole thing straight through, not stopping after every two lines.
Any Mirrers out there? Is there anything more beautiful than Rav Arye Finkel Shlit”a’s kedusha? (Besides his personal kedusha, I mean his nusach for that part of davening?)
Is there any particular mesorah that you follow? For example, In Gateshead yeshiva, the mesorah for the nigunim goes back to the Menahel Zatzal, HaRav Eliezer Kahan, who came from (I think) Novardok, and it has changed very little since.
This mesorah is followed, more or less by most yeshivishe kehillos in England. Obviously, nigunim are added and changed by individual chazonim, but I would be surprised if they used the YWN CR as their mekor.
Avraham Fried’s ‘Ki Hirbeisa’. Also special mention for ‘A freilichen Tisha b’av’ on Ah Mechayeh yiddish album.
No idea, it’s men’s deodorant and shower products range.
Yeah we do. I believe in the US it’s sold as ‘Axe’.
In 2 shuls which daven according to Vizhnitz minhogim that I’ve been to (Hagers in Golders Green, London & Shteible Prestwich, Manchester) they do NOT say Avinu Malkeinu on Taaniyos.
Docelisheva,
In Israel there is a different pressure. Civil marriage for Jews doesn’t exist. (I don’t know what the situation is for two non-Jews marrying each other.) The Chief Rabbinate and Halacha have sole authority over marriage.
How can people speak against a group keeping the minhagim of their Rebbe?! The Lubavitcher Rebbe Zatzal was an Odom Godol. He paskened for his chasidim, and therefore they are obliged to follow.
Someone once said, The mishna brura is for baalei tshuva and geirim, meaning that if you have a mesorah and an established minhag, you follow that even if it may be contrary to the accepted halocha. Minhag Yisroel Torah.
For example, as Yekkes, we go by the psakim of the Maharil, who was before the Shulchan oruch. Therefore you may find an Ashkenaz shul with a minhag to daven mincha after shkiah. Now, most people don’t know that, and it is contrary to the mishnah brura, but that is the minhag.
Depends how strongly you hold of the shitah hakedosha
Those who are ready early in the winter will be ready early in the summer, those who are late in winter, will be late in summer too.
Unicorns are a-maize-ing
Is it near Austin or Manchester?
R’ Paysach Krohn says, if you marry for money, you’ll soon lose interest.
As far as I know, Gateshead is not in Manchester, nor is, I am told, Austin or any other part of Texas.
Rav Schneebalg (aka The Ruv) is Rav of the Machzikei HaDass communities, which officially do not sanction the Eruv, but many of the shuls do allow. I believe Belz do allow the eruv. I also heard that The Ruv’s family used the eruv publicly recently.
But USING OR NOT USING THE ERUV DOESN’T MAKE IT FRUMMER OR NOT FRUMMER!!! It is your Rav’s psak that allows you to use an eruv. And if you are frum, you follow your Rav.
There is a Jewish radio station in South Africa called ChaiFM. I think it is available online 24 hours.
Bein Hazmanim in EY has been cancelled, so you won’t need the hat.
My great grand father was 3 1/2 years younger than my great grand mother. Whenever someone wished him ad meah v’esrim, he answered “und drei un halb!”
’twas was ever thus…
Notasheep, I may or may not know you, but as you may have gathered from my screenname, I do come from your part of the world.
I am not suggesting you bring in Shabbos at shkia, but even in Gateshead the early (1st plag) minyonim, (Mechina, Beis hatalmud, zichron shaul, etc.) are a relatively recent development. In fact, going back 40 years or so, there is a cute story when they started the first ‘plag’ minyan in Gateshead Shul.
It was during Rav Shakovitsky’s time, and a few young people made a minyan at plag on Friday. As they came out of shul, they met the Rov zt”l coming down Bewick Road, to the main minyan, and as I was told it was almost 10pm. Someone said “Gut Shabbos, Rov”, to which he replied, “Gut Friday, Mr so-and-so!”
One of Dedi’s songs is taken from Abba (a non jewish pop group). The composer is given as ????? ???? ???.
I’ve never had to defend PBA before, but I can explain a bit what he’s trying to say.
In last week’s pirkei ovos, there were 10 things created bein hashmoshos. Now granted Odom wasn’t one of them, but clearly Hashem didn’t make Shabbos early.
We should all migrate to the southern hemisphere like the birds.
These corny jokes are a-maize-ing!
midwesterner,
Disappointing. anyone else?
midwesterner,
Any chance of a route around all 48 ceremonial counties of England? A lot quicker than the 48 states, unless you get on to the M25.
Mine is a Springbok, to reflect my South African upbringing.
Little froggie. Who has indian names in the African jungle?!
How would big chief bwonga give you an indian name? he lived in deepest darkest africa.
BHE, The Arizal was sefaradi, and did not daven nusach Ari or nusach sfard.
bhe, The Arizal had nothing to do with nusach sefard. He established the sefaradi nusach, also known as ???? ???? ?????. That is what people from North Africa, Syria, Persia etc. use.
The Nusach sefard that chasidim use, is essentially nusach ashkenaz, but incorporates the tikunim of the Arizal and the other mekubalim, and was established by the talmidei Baal Shem Tov, from the Baal HaTanya/Alter Rebbe (hence Nusach Ari) and onwards.
The sense it makes , is that you can go to a mesora that goes back further, because even if your father davens sefard, his great great grandfather from 300 years ago, davened Ashkenaz (because there was no sefard then).
Always a pleasure. There is a video added on to the YWN video section on May 19th entitled “Lag Baomer 5774 With Toldos Aharon Rebbe In Miron” where you can see this being done.
Logician, Rav Ovadia ztzuk”l said you can change from sfaradi to ashkenazi. That is NOT the same as what you say.
The current day Nusach Sefard is not Sefardi/oriental. It was made by the early Chassidim, around the time of the Ba’al HaTanya. The Ba’al HaTanya, took the tikunim that the Arizal made in davening and applied them to Nusach Ashkenaz, hence the name nusach Ari (used by Chabad). Later it was developed further and became what is known now as Nusach sefard, which is the tikunim al pi sod/kabalah which were previously only in sefaradi davening applied to nusach ashkenaz. It has nothing to do with the people known as sefardim.
So when litvishe tshuvos who say you can change from Nusach Sefard to Ashkenaz but not the other way around, it is because the mesorah of Nusach Ashkenaz is around 1000 years older than sefard. However, sefardi is probably just as old if not older than ashkenazi, and then you would not be able to change to ashkenazi.
The things that look like towels are in fact rolls of cotton wool. I’ve been at Toldos Aharon on Lag B’omer night and what happens is, the chassidim all have turns to put cotton wool on, and douse it in olive oil. When everyone has finished the Rebbe comes and puts his piece of cotton wool on, and pours a bottle of oil over it all, and then lights it.
Pixelate, I’m not sure where you’re looking, its very clear in the be’er hetev
See Be’er Hetev, i dont have it in from of me now. He says that the Maharil assered, but the the Mahari Veil is mattir. But if the minhag in your place is to shave, then you should and there is no mokom to be machmir.
As far as i know, the minhag in London (and everywhere else that i have lived) is to shave for Shabbos erev lag ba’omer.
GG Yekke,
I found out that in GGBH (Munks) tfilin are removed during hagba glila of the first sefer torah on 1st day chol hamoed pesach.
I would be very interested to hear what other established minhagim there are around the world.
I also know that in Bobov, bochurim wear tfilin on chol hamoed. Does anyone know the reason for this?
Good question. I don’t know. What do they do in the GGBH?
Most people I have seen taking them off during revi’i, or hagba etc, but i don’t feel this is correct. (I personally don’t wear tfilin in shul on chol hamoed, but that is another story)
PBA, (even though I feel this is a wind-up, I’ll explain for people who may genuinely want to know)
What yeshivaguy means, is that it is no longer called chodosh after the first days of pesach.
Chodosh is from grain planted after pesach, and becomes yoshon at the next pesach. It does not hit the market until sukkos, hence there being no problem until then.
nishtdayngesheft,
On Chol hamoed tefilin are removed before hallel, except 1st day chh”m pesach, because we lain (not kol habechor) kadesh and vehoyo ki yeviacho which are two of the parshes in the tfilin
Proud Yekke here!!!
I. M. Shluffin, “I need to know if I should be taking offense or not.” That is a very yekkishe comment.
Bau before chatzaus, my opa used to say.
To clarify, The OP probably means on chol hamoed.
slightly off topic, but My cousin once brought a can of coke to Rav YY Fisher in Yerushalayim and asked if you can open this on shabbos.
Rav Fisher’s reply, What is it?
As far as I understand, Children of Silence refers to the Soviet Era.
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Everyone’s missing the point.
Iraq was invaded to rid the world of a cruel dictator. We thought then that he had stockpiles of WMD and could attack Israel with chemical weapons with only 47 minutes notice. It’s not as if he never tried to attack Israel before.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but faced with that reality, they had to go in and remove him.