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A YWN Mod (and no need to wait till you grow up).
If male – godol hador.
If female – ezer kinegdo.
If none of the above – phycologist.“I have never been asked to chip in.”
“I have been to many weddings and never once seen or heard of such a thing.”
“that makes two of us.”
Only the chosson’s friends!
Sorry to say, the chosson doesn’t consider you among his friends.Some hold that the unlimited speeches at sheva brochos is like breaking the glass at the chupah – a bit of availus zecher l’churbon.
Akup, guess what – you can start tying everything to goyish customs: the wedding gown – goyish brides wear them, so let’s nix it. The wedding music – mamash goyish (even a question if music is muttar after the churban!). The photograper – oy, is that halacha l’moshe mi’sinai? We can make it all goyish and alien to our traditions, but then what? DO you know if traditionally – before the automobile, the chosson kallah did not leave weddings in a horse drawn carriage?
Dad of Zahava, “What better way to start a new life than drive your new Kallah home” – a chosson is technically pottur from kriyas shema because he is so distracted. Do you want this distracted driver driving on the road – and with his kallah, no less?
Akup, Excuse me, but since when is “two ring ceremonies” or “bachelor parties contrary to halacha?? We actually do them, BUT in a kosher yiddisheh way! IT has long been a Jewish custom to have a “bachelor” AND “bachelorette” party, except we call it “Shabbos Ofruf” an “Shabbos Kallah”! It is also a custom among many that the Kallah and Chosson exchange gifts in the yichud room. And indeed, we DO have a “honeymoon” – seven days of simcha with friends and relatives showering us with sheva brochos and unlimited speeches. We do all this our way, and l’havdil, the goyim do it their way.
The mishloach monos of fried locusts got mixed up with the rov’s mishloach monos of fried gribben, and that became my best purim-horor story. – not for anyone with a weak stomach, after reaching ‘ad dlo yada’ it is a great story.
For my friends from Teiman – a basket of deep fried locusts.
(I already commented about the issue of giving food that one would not eat themselves due to kashrus – but the pool is open if anyone wants to jump in, of course separate hours for men)
A melech and a malka should be driven in style.
Is it lip service to say chosson domeh l’melech?
A levayeh is stopped to allow the chosson-kallah entourage to pass!
You think the chosson should drive the kallak himself in the beat up family-car?!
A melech and a malka gets chauffeured in a limo!
That’s poshut!
And while we are at it – rabbonim are also called melochim (‘maan malka – rabbonon), so every rov and rosh yeshiva should be driven in a limo like royalty, but in this WE lack the acceptance of rabbonon as melochim. That’s OUR chisoron, and the rabbonim don’t expect too much of us, so they are mochel. [Not sure about din of ‘melech she’mochal al kivodo’ if it applies to rabbonim or chassanim].
For a moment I thought you were talking about the limos for the bochurim collecting on purim getting driven around in a limo. Now THAT is another whole ball of bees wax.
But that is v’na’hapoch hu – the bochurim are chauffeured in limos while the rosh yeshiva drives around in a jalopy.
So…you are saying that a Vegan can’t give cold cuts, chicken or meat,,,or a recovering alcoholic can’t give you a 15year scotch “because it gives the impression that you’re just offloading your garbage onto the recipient”? Wow, I did not know that. As a Vegan I will make sure to send you only s celery and carrot stick.
There is a Yiddish saying: one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. The chassidish way it goes: one man’s trash is another man’s ungarbage. But us Litvish say: one man’s trash is another man’s shalach manos. I think in Chabad they say: one man’s Rebbe is another man’s Moshiach. But for all girls in shidduchim, we wish them to easily find their one man without going through too much garbage.
Reb Yid, you certainly CAN give foods that don’t suit your kashrus standards IF you consider it only a CHUMRA (like some are machmir to only use ‘chassidish hechsher’ and won’t use OU but CAN give it to others who do. HOWVER, if you hold that a certain hechsher is OSSUR – like Triangle K (or if you hold Cholov Akum in USA is Ossur), then you CAN’T give this issur to someone, even if they do use it.
In every jest there is a grain of truth. Rabbayim not getting paid on time makes them aniyim, and an oni is choshuv k’mess, so when schools don’t pay the rebbe, they give the students a chance to do chessed shel emess. Missing the flueshot for the anti vaxers is the same as overdosing on tangy taffy (purple flavored – zecher l’yayin, although not chamar medina, it has become ochel hamedina). But how does one say tangy taffy in yiddish – with an oy or an ay? TheGeulah is coming and soon Tishbi will answer all are kashas.
Someone’s gotta be the cheftza shel mitzva,but depends if they wear white shirts and the dialect of their Yinglish. Not everyone has the zchus to be mezakeh ess harabbim.
R’ Yid, In Ailu Dvorim, right after bikur cholim which makes a yid into a cheftza shel mitzvah, comes hachnosas kallah which is the solution to the shidduch crisis!, followed by halvayas haMes – chesed shel emes…so the outcome of missing the flue shot, is not just bikur cholim but could also give the students tremendous opportunity to do a chesed shel emes.
Your kids need to do shlach monos. They want to give their Rebbe the monos. Therefore, the Rebbe must cater to their needs and desires. Makes sense. After all he is a public servant. He should attend the yeshiva on Purim and sit there with all the other educational servants awaiting the appearance of the gift bearers. He will graciously thank each one for the zazas, laffy taffy and bissli – telling each one how thoughtful it was of them to give him nash. If it is a terrible imposition on the Rebbe (and his family) – well, that`s mesirus nefesh, dedication!
I wrote in another thread re: bikkor cholim, that the choleh is the
cheftza shel mitzvah, and like the lulov he can be shaken up when rsting, to enable the visitor to do his mitzvah. The Rebbe too is required to complete the mitzva of shlach monos, so shake him like a lulov, bang him like an aravah, because your child need to do the mitzvah of shlach monos to the Rebbe!Although the Rebbe appreciates some items in the shlach monos – liquoréwine, chocolate etc. and the well wishes behind the gifts, I think most Rebbes, given the choice between raisins and a juice box or money, would be MUCH happier to get a check as Maos Purim, mailed to them in advance of Purim.
Smarten up, people. Treat the Rebbe no worse tha you would want to be treated. Would you want to be in your office on Purim so that all employees or co-workers will be able to give you shlach monos (without the inconvenience of running around to your home)É!
So here is a
progressive idea– why impose on everyone to run around the neighborhood causing traffic jams etc. Lets make a TAKANA (yep, I LOVE TAKONAS to solve all of lifes troubles): Mishloach Monos MUST only be given in shul, immediately after megilah!This is genious! No traffic, triple parking, ringing bells with no one home,…this Moray V`Rabbosei and Rebbitzens is a brilliant TAKANA..
You might ask, what if the recepient davens in another shul? Good kasha! We solve it with takana #2 – all must daven in the same shul.
I think this will also help solve the shidduch crisis , and maybe also the tuition crisis, and maybe even bring the Geula…as long as everyone wears white shirts and speaks Yinglish.
There is only one Loshon HaKodesh and that is …(drum roll)…Loshon Hakodesh!
Everything else is Loshon CHOL.