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I don’t know if anyone mentioned this…because I didn’t read through all the responses…
I think it’s a good idea to give them a heads up BEFORE the interview. Maybe you can email them a short explanation, so you won’t be uncomfortable and they won’t be uncomfortable. Hopefully, they will pass on this information to whoever will be coming into contact with you.
I used to buy the type with the hechsher. Then I started to follow what AinOhdMilvado mentioned and what I had heard: that as long as the ingredients match up it’s ok, which totally makes sense. They don’t have a special recipe for the ones with the kosher symbol. It is sort of the same thing with twizzlers, which have an o-u, but paskesz repackages with a different hechsher. It’s just put there the reassure people that what they are eating is actually kosher – up to their standard in the twizzler example.
I know a girl from seminary who has a Lebanese name that sound very similar to a common Hebrew girls name (which doesn’t have roots in Tanach). Her high school teachers and principal called her by that Hebrew name.
ramateshkolian – I do agree with you.
The essence of tznius is penimius over chitzonius. That a person’s soul is the thing that runs his life, not things that merely cover the cover to the soul i.e. the body
ostentatiousness, and labels, which put ostentatiousness front and center, are about chitzonius. Decorating the body to such an extent, that it’s not about covering the body anymore, but about drawing attraction to it. Making people forget that the body is merely a container for the soul and not an entity with any value by itself.
When a person dresses ostentatiously, he or she is putting the body first and the soul second and emphasizing the chitzoni over the pnimi and undermining tznius, which is about protecting/hiding inner beauty by covering outer beauty.
I think being moser nefesh comes on many levels and it does have a lot to do with the times.
Being moser nefesh can be something as simple as having pasta 2x a week or even 3 or 4 times a week!
If you give up some material comfort, no matter how small, for the sake of spending more time learning Torah, you are being moser nefesh for Torah.
Today, we are fortunate to enjoy many material comforts. We are blessed by HKBH. It’s now easier than ever to sit and learn. Maybe not with the same sincerity and dvekus of previous generations, but we can do it and we should as much as possible. We should be moser nefesh for Torah, each to his ability.
I bought a ticket (the $1 kind) a few days after my 18th birthday. I pretty much said if Hashem wants me to win, it might as well be now.
If I won, I would not spend the money all at once. I would limit myself to using 150,000 a year… This way I wouldn’t go “sick with new-found wealth.”
If I won, I would pay off all mortgages and debts of my family, open up my own BY, start a Yeshiva in a small Torah community, give tzedakah – especially to people in E’Y, invest and save it. I would still work – although not as much.
Our shabbos guests, who we have been trying to get for weeks to come, didn’t/forgot to show up.
I think the best way to get a person to stop arguing/annoying you/always contradicting what you say is to 1) stop arguing back (even if your honor is hurt) 2)try to be extra nice to that person. It works!
Wolf – The store used to be on a street called 7 Mile Lane. Now it’s moving around the corner.
they aren’t having the babysitter center – some people suggested it, but it didn’t end up happening.
some info
http://baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-detail.php?SECTION_ID=1&ARTICLE_ID=1980
1) Yes. Most of the classes were really interesting. There are maybe one or two boring ones, but the teachers are very good and engaging and like when the class participates and discusses.
2) Because there are electives, the schedule after lunch was random. The morning classes ended at about 1-1:30, and then we went back to the dorm for lunch. Then there were afternoon classes and night classes, of which some were electives, so the schedule became a little inconsistent. Some days after lunch you could have a couple hours free, and some days you could have a free hour here and there between classes. Also, Thursday afternoon is free because we have chessed.
3) Yes. Although many of the teachers have busy lives – teach at other seminaries, have many young children, they still have time/make time for their students. You can call them with no problem and go to their house for meals. Seminar encourages students to connect to the staff. Each class has a homeroom teacher, which is that class’s mechaneches. Also, the school is divided into groups of 20-30 girls that meet with mechanchos, (not the homeroom teacher), once a week.
4) What I liked
– The dorm atmosphere
– the food is really good compared to many places
– the work was challenging but not impossible. Also, there are tutors in the library 2 times a week that tons of girls use.
– tiyulim were awesome – i loved the hikes
– production is really amazing and fun and everyone is involved
– the school puts on a huge carnival for sderot kids and kids from shelach lachmicha – which is an organization run by one of seminar’s teachers for special needs kids and their families
– lots of places to lounge – couches all over the place and hammocks on the roof.
– awesome pressure in the showers
– they also gave extensions for huge papers that everyone complained about
– girls from all over that are amazing
– the most normal and abnormal seminary at the same time
what I did not like (does not compare to what i did like)
– the computers are extremely slow
– don’t have showers on every floor
– the curfew is at 10:30
Do you want any of the following?
Small or big seminary
Warm
Connection with teachers
Relaxed
Not stressful
Also – just to get a clear view of your hashkafa -Do you listen to not Jewish music? Do you watch movies?
rabbiofberlin – I believe that the shulchan aruch is speaking about women actually making the tzitzis – i.e. weaving the thread and material. It says that is ok
However, the remah says that it’s preferable for women not to tie tzitzis.
About the lulav – I must have been remembering incorrectly. women are allowed to tie the knots, but they are advised not to bind the hadassim and aravos to the lulav. This is in sync with what rabbiofberlin said about the knots not having to do anything with the mitzvah.
“For those of you who felt the need to knock the CJLS teshuvot, I would suggest you actually read them. Out of curiosity, why exactly would you say a woman can’t tie tzitzit knots?”
Read them?! The suggestion!
Women can’t tie tzizis knots because women are not supposed to participate is preparation for a mitzvos that they are not obligated in. Similarly, women cannot tie the knots for a lulav.
Now the question is why all this supposed “discrimination” against women that they aren’t obligated to fulfill the mitzvos of tzitzis, tefillin, torah learning etc.
The answer is simply that women have different roles than men, and require different mitzvos in order to come close to G-d. Women have the laws of ritual purity, and the mitzvah of challah, and the mitzvah of lighting candles for shabbos and festivals. Men have their mitzvos. Each mitzvah has a different affect on a person’s soul that changes the person, eventually transforming a person to greatness. Men and women are different creations, so they need different mitzvos to achieve greatness. Another answer is that the mitzvos of tefillin and tzitzis remind a person of G-d’s greatness, oneness, and rulership of the world. Women are naturally more spiritual and closer to G-d, so they don’t need these mitzvos. This is shown by the fact that adam was created from dust – a very physical thing, and given a breath of G-d in order to come alive. But Chava (eve) she was created from the side of Adam – a thing G-d made of dust that was elevated because it had the breath of G-d making it alive. Then Chava was given her own soul. Chava was created from 2 spiritual things, but Adam was only created from one.
To answer your first question. Generally speaking, I think that many conservative jews are indeed jewish, because they have stronger identity with Judaism that the reform movement. I don’t want to lump all conservative people together or all reform people together, or the two groups together because there are exceptions.
I think that the conservative movement and the reform movement are both wrong. You can’t say that one is wronger than the other because this is black and white halacha (jewish law). You are either wrong or right. There is no in between state or justifications allowed.
To cynical – I’m sure you can sense the frustration on this forum. Orthodox Jews just don’t understand how Jews in 19th century Germany could decide that the truest religion in the world that had been practiced the same way for 1500+ years could be considered wrong and irrelevant to being a Jew. These people wanted a Jewish culture, without a mention of God. And sadly, they succeeded to an extent by mere means of justification. They twisted our precious heritage and turned it into watered down soup. And people went after them – there was a tremendous urge to follow them. The conservative and reform today are innocent victims of their parent’s missteps on the wrong path. We call them “babies that were captured” – children that were taken during war and never knew their parent’s way of life. It is just so frustrating and saddening and maddening that something like this could happen.
Were your white chocolate chips actually chocolate or were they the parve type?
If they were part, then the dark ones were heavier (because they were actually chocolate) and they sunk.
Just a thought…
There are many things girls do…
Speakers, learning a musser or machshava sefer, listening to shiurim, doing chessed, and keeping in touch with teachers from sem…the list goes on and on.