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Rabbi of Crawley.
Please change your plans. Why would you put yourself in sakana to tour these places where our enemies are not afraid to take life?!
Please find somewhere else to tour Jewish historical sites.If you can have two Satmar rebbes, two Bobover Rebbes, Hey dum diddly dum, why can’t you have two Uncle Moishy’s?
The original Uncle Moishy has parted with Suki & Ding. He is actually Uncle Moishy. So he’s gone with Sonic Duo. But Suki & Ding own the name Uncle Moishy, so they’ve created their own new Uncle Moishy complete with black hat with big Mem.
The Mitzva men and cousin Nachum are all fighting amongst each other now. Some are Sukoinim, others are Duoinim. It’s all very sad. Big Gedalia Goomber hasn’t decided yet what he’s doing.LB. Ner Mitzvah, which seems to be the biggest name in ‘fire’ items, like shabbos candles, chanuka candles and single use menoras, havdola candles, etc, do make a menora with plastic oil cups. It sounds crazy and should really be banned.
A few years ago I bought a 3 day candle for shavuos, and only realised on the first day, (it was Shabbos, sunday, monday yom tov) that it was plastic. The sides of the cup started melting on shabbos day. I figured its a sakana, and took it outside and left it on the stone ground in front of the house.
In the end it lasted til well into monday when the rain put it out. But I’m horrified when I think what could’ve happened in the middle of the night.
Oh, it’s got a safety warning, “do not leave unattended!”. Like the folks at ner mitzva expect people to sit with this candle for three straight days and nights.(He’s trying to find out what sports English and South Africans would follow. At the moment he’s probably trying to understand cricket. Good luck)
Of course it was real. Just because we have more advanced technology today, doesn’t mean they had no technology then.
They haven’t been again because there is no need to.Joseph & apushatayid,
Yes it is better than some of the rubbish here, especially the recent vintage. What happened to a good game of Geography?Joseph, HP is probably the only non-sports culture thing I know about. Sadly, even though it’s complete rubbish, it’s the best rubbish I’ve ever read.
This is a common difference between American and English/British pronunciation. For names we tend to use the European pronunciation, whereas generally Americans anglicise it.
I met someone called Gutman, and he introduced himself to me as Gut (rhyme with nut) man. I did not know what he meant until he wrote his name down. Then I said “Oh! Gut (rhyme with foot) man!”. Or, when my boss’s daughter got engaged to an American called Levin, which we would pronounce ‘Leveen’. When I asked him where the ‘Leveen’ family were from, he snapped and said “its LEVin!” (to rhyme with Kevin).To answer LB’s question, I think you can’t force people to pronounce anything the way you want them to. Just say it your way often enough until they copy you.
Incidentally, JK Rowling (whose name rhymes with bowling). has said that she is the only person to pronounce the name Voldemort correctly. She intended the final ‘t’ to be silent, giving it a French twist. Now who calls him that, (if they are brave enough mention his name at all)?
If you actually read the article, it is fine and in good context.
Achdus, get off your high horse, and start practicing some achdus.
The Lost Scotch and Other Tales of Money and Strife by Rabbi Avrohom Bookman. Intriguing Stories With a Twist of Halacha, published by Israel Bookshop in 2006. Have you ever…warred over a cleaning lady? been let down by a babysitter? waited endlessly for a delivery? been caught by the fine print? fallen out over a will? What went wrong?How did it happen?Who was really right?Find the answers to these and more in this enthralling short-story collection.
There is a 2nd volume available as well
I’m going to pop my head in just to say “Shkoyach” and “Hear hear!” to GadolHadorah for comment #1405940. Very well put!
Why do we need to accentuate differences between groups of Yiedden?! All the criticisms mentioned here about Chabad Lubavitch also apply in some way or form to another group in Frum Yiddishkeit.
Let’s have a thread to show how much Hashem’s children love each other instead!!
To answer the OP, I’ll say, “Well, yes and no, depends on the context.” Other than that I’m out of this machlokes discussion.
Bye!@Syag,
Not sure why you think I wouldn’t post that. I went to a Lubavitch primary school in South Africa in the 80s. But about your point about your neighbours, I wouldn’t know the specifics, but all sorts of people have rules about whom their children play with.
Another point, here in Manchester, many Lubavitchers mix with the general Litvishe/Chassidishe crowd. Most Ashkenaz & Sfard shuls have a few Tehillas Hashem siddurim available because Lubavitchers come to daven often enough. Chabad kids come on Pirchim chol hamoed outings, as well as non-Chabad kids go to Gan Yisroel camps. By no means all, but it’s not total separation.
One of the most popular public speakers here is a Lubavitcher Rov, and the Lubavitch Rabonim and mashpi’im speak in other shuls.Wolf, I commend your knowledge of the British Monarchy. well done. I have nothing to add, even though this is my pet subject.
This whole question is flawed.
WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU THINK THAT LUBAVITCH IS NOT A CHASSIDUS???
A chassidus is defined as a group of followers of the Besh”t’s derech, who follow and are attached to a Rebbe.
Now, being followers of the Besh”t, that is not even a debate. And followers of a Rebbe? There is no chassidus that follows their rebbes more than Chabad!!
Levush and language, and living all in one NJ village or living in towns and cities all over the world? That’s just ‘by the way’ things. Satmar have their levush, (two types actually) because that’s what their rebbes have taught them. Vizhnitz and Belz build their own chadorim, because that’s what their rebbes want. Ger don’t, and send their children to other chasidus’s chadorim, because that’s what their rebbes taught.Going back to Neville ChaimBerlin, “Lubavitcher’s use pronunciation like Litvaks, they hold by the Gra’s times, they don’t dress like other Chassidim, they don’t seem to get married as early at other Chassidim, etc.“. They actually pronounce like Russians, as that’s where the chassidus comes from. The Gra’s times happen to be the same as the Alte Rebbe’s. They don’t dress like other chassidim? Well, Ger don’t wear streimels and Belz wear black socks on Shabbos. No one besides Skver wear boots and amshinov klaps hoshanos on shmini atzeres night (or close to it). That doesn’t make them not chassidim. They don’t get married as early as other chassidim because they follow their Rebbes instructions.
What people forget, is that Chabad doesn’t only mean going to live in the back of beyond and giving kosher food to Israeli backpackers. Chabad Torah and machshavah is very deep and profound and the greatest talmidei chachomim learn these works.
Yigal Calek, Yossi Green,
Marvelous Middos Machine…
Ah, a Journey down memory lane
I know this thread is over six years old, But the song that YW Moderator-42 referred to is of course, Journeys’ Yes, We’ve got the music. The song ends at Yeedle.
Can anyone suggest how it would continue if it was made today?Ich gai yeider voch essen… nohr nisht Yom Kippur
This year’s version of the question is much better than last year https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/apple-throwing-tish
Thank you CTL
Whoever does a better job of it
Welcome back Yekke2. Hope you had a good zman!
There’s a very good one downstairs from my office. So when you’re next in Manchester, look me up.
iacisrmma,
My son has very thin hair around the Peyos area, so it would be impractical. But I was told by others that our Rov always cuts the tefilin area for 3 year old boys.None that I can think of. There are no vows at a Jewish wedding at all.
It sounds like you have listed all the possible minhagim. People do some or a lot of these.
I would suggest you ask your own personal Rav what is done in your community. A lot of people in my city do what is fashionable, not necessarily what their minhag is.
Personally, my minhag, (Yekkish) is not to wait until three at all. But we trimmed my son’s hair a bit before he turned three. On the day, we had a barber come in and give him a haircut, before a small buffet style party for family and close friends. We then went to the Rov’s house, and he cut a piece of hair from the tefillin area. The next day, he went to kindergarten (not wrapped up or anything), and the Rebbe who would teach him alef beis the next year, gathered the children round. They sang mazel tov, and he say him on his lap, put honey on a laminated card of the letters and read the first few with my son. And that was it. That’s all a lot more than I had at that age.
Just remember that for a typical three year old, it is quite traumatic to have all those big people around making a fuss, and you’re expected to perform, when all you’re interested in are the presents that you get.Anyway, mazel tov and have lots of nachas
I went to shul and paid £65 for a palm branch a citron fruit and some myrtle twigs. They told me to come back next monday for willow twigs.
How wierd is that?If you search for Nusach Tefillah Ezra Lubelsky online, you will find an excellent resource for nusach with correct emphasis and dikduk.
GadolHadorah,
Yes they have Rabonim in their yeshivos, but being chassidim means they belong to a chassidus which is led by a Rebbe. So for yomim noroim they would leave their yeshiva and go to the main centre of their chassidus to be near the Rebbe. So a Vizhnitzer would go to Bnei Brak, a Bobover to Bobov in NY, Pshevorsker to Antwerp, etc.
There is a Beis Yaakov school near the Mir, and I remember that the rooms were rented out so Gerrer Bochrim and possibly Yingerleit as well, would dorm there from RH until after YK.It’s because so many chassidish bochurim go to their Rebbes fir Rosh Hashonoh that there’s no point staying open.
In Gateshead bochrim are only accepted for Elul if they are committed to staying until and including Yom Kippur
If the traveller paid for his seat, it is his. The second person can have a chazaka on it when the traveller is away, but not if the owner is there.
If he didn’t pay for it, even if he he has a shtender there, or a siddur and chumash in the shelf under the table etc, it isn’t his if he’s been away.Don’t let it become an addiction. I myself was having trouble in this field. I went totally off the CR for 3 weeks just to make myself get off it.
The Poppa (not PBA, but the Zeidy of the CR) CTL is absolutely right.How is using mesivta being lazy; it gives youi the mareiy mekomos
Mesivta (and Artscroll) is not meant for bnei torah who learn all day. When I said lazy, I meant for a Yeshiva-man who is learning all day, not a baalabos (like me) who has only a few hours a day to learn. Btw, I use a talman shas (if you know what that is…) and still think that is too modern, coz it has bold diburei hamaschil in Rashi.
If you’re hoping for Brisk, you should know, der Rov volt kein mol niet azei getohn.
Stop being lazy and horeveh oif der sugyah!
Hatzlocheh RabbehI post but not as frequently as I used to. Does this apply to me?
I nearly actually met Yekke2 last night. He texted me that he was at a wedding that I was invited to but could not attend.
We’ll get there…I have heard in the name of Gedolim, (I forget who but perhaps someone can let us know) that any girl who studies in a seminary nowadays, has the status of of a bas Talmid Chochom of old. This is the great achievement of Sarah Schneirer
I had a question, should I compliment someone who’s lost weight? Perhaps they are ill and the weight loss is not good for them.
Please correct me if I’m wrong. Rav Akiva Eiger was the Chasam Sofer’s second wife’s father. The CS may have had children from his first wife who are therefore not RAE einiklach.
Sorry I’m late to this discussion which involves me. Yes, it was nice to discover Yekke2 and that our families have old old connections.
I’d love to meet many people here. I think I’d enjoy a long shmooze with CTLawyer about his experiences in the 60s and 70s. I’d like to see what Joseph is really like. And I think I’ve met Rabbi of Crawley but haven’t positively identified him except by process of elimination.Mazel tov CTL
Alles van die besteYeah, I did. Will look even better tonight when I’m shaved and shorn, and with a freshly ironed shirt on.
Are you a Levy. by any chance? You must come back to that minyan, we are usually short of levi’im. Mind you if you’re a Cohen, you might get two aliyas.
Sorry Joseph.
Actually I think I saw you today. Were you in Manchester this morning?
Joseph and Mod. We’ve made contact, so you won’t be feeling left out anymore.
Hello. I haven’t identified your family name, but I’ve worked out two possibilities. And Chaim knows both of them well!! 😉
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Hi Yekke2. Replying to your message of 25th April. Hope you had a shtarke zman. Well have you asked cousin Chaim who I am?Where’s Lilmode gone? This is her speciality.
This is the Millon Dollar/Pound/Euro question. The only effective way is what the Israelis do. But uber-PC Europe and even Trump’s White House can’t get away with that. Civil liberty is the holy grail. We just have to get used to armed police and troops on the streets, and security checks to go into shopping malls.
Welcome to Golus Yishmoel.I heard this anecdote about ‘self-certification’
A man went into a restaurant/fallafel place/pizza shop/insert your own in Geulah, and asked the owner who provides hashgacha here. The typical Israeli store owner pointed to a portrait on the wall of an elderly distinguished looking long-bearded Jew, and said “You see this man, he is my grandfather!”.
The potential customer replied, “If your grandfather was serving and there was a picture of you on the wall, I would buy here.”Btw, Joseph, the tag for italics is em not i, but unfortunately, you can’t edit posts here.
Hatoras Nedorim
Golfer, Classics are usually old.
I think the average age is around 35.DY, Bring the House Down is classic in the following way. Jewish music has to inspire people. That is the difference between authentic Jewish music, and the (I’m going to say it…) utter drivel that the rest of the world listens to (with some exceptions). On this album every song is inspiring in a ruchniosdikke way, and enjoyable to listen to just for the music.
Given the details you have hinted to here, I thought you may know him …. or be him!