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Anytime GumBall! =)
And thanks for writing this inspiring post!
Thank G-d I never had bees (or wasps) in my sukkah. I only get flies if its hot outside. Does having bees in your sukkah have to do with certain places where you live and season? I never heard of this.
I also love Hashem! I might get angry with Him in tough situations, but Im learning that NO MATTER WHAT I should always love Him because HE knows what is best.
I have so many personal examples for my self where, thank G-d I can see the positive after the negative which reminds me that I should never be upset at Hashem.
Why dont you ask a cousin, friend, neighbor, an aunt around your age if you have one, etc. ?
btw, I’d love to come, but can’t. Im way too busy!
And who’s paying for this?
hey brotherofurs, Im Sephardic too but I’m not so American to realize that Jack was for Yaakov. Sorry. I guess I need to assimilate a little more here in America 🙂
So mebg, did you like any of the names posted here?
“Jack is for Yaacov, Albert or Berah is for Avraham…”
thanks mustangrider! I didnt know. And yes, I know plenty with the name Jack now that I think of it. Didnt know its for Yaakov.
If you want Israeli names I’ll add to onegoal’s list-
Girls: Moriah, Orly, Tehilla, Gadit, Oriyah, Yaffa, Yaffit, Liat, Meital, Avishag, Murielle, Stav, Shiraz, Adele, Amit, Arlet, Hila, Nava, Sarin, Shanit, Shaked, Yaarit, Yaala, Ronit, (the list is endless)
Boys: Ori, Orelle, Natan, Zohar, Eitan, Noam, Yonah, Nir, Nissim, Yohai, Yishai, Gad, Lior, Ananiah, …
mustangrinder- “Jack, David (pronounced Daviiiid or the regular english way), Joey, Albert, Isaac, Sam, Danny…”
Jack and Albert are goyishe names. I dont know why you think they are Sephardic. Probably because you know some Sephardi kids/ppl that have them? Let me know if I’m wrong please.
Joey,Sam,and Danny is the nickname for Joseph, Samuel, and Daniel. Ashkenazim have them too.
ps. good job with the pronunciation. I wasnt sure how to right it in my previous post.
I never posted much. I just love reading!
Sometimes I would post on a topic that interests me, or if and when I have the time.
Alot of Sephardim have Israeli names but so do the Ashkenazim. If you want something that really sounds Sephardic (Spanish) and not “Israeli” I would go with GumBalls sugestions of Fortune (Mazal) and I would also add Gloria(Simcha),Reina(Malka),Blanca, Estrella(Esther), Perla(Penina), etc.
There are also the Biblical names like Raquel (Rachel) Rebecca (Rivka), Sara, etc. Ps. Pronunciation is key!
Boys:Simon (Shimon), Jaime (Chaim),Jacobo(Yakov),Yoseph, Manuel (Emmanuel),Moises (Moshe), etc.
Depending also on which type of Sephardi you are the names can come from all over. You really need to be specific for which type of name you are looking for.
Hope this was helpfull!
Are you kidding pba?! Its stands for the United Kingdom.
I seriously hope that was a joke…
minyan gal- Bamba looks like a cheese puff but instead of being made from cheese its made from peanut butter. Now there are some new ones that have hazelnut fillings or sesame (halva). They are really good. Once you try’em you cant stop.
Funny you mention them. I just had two whole bags this shabbat!
They are so good and addicting. I love halva and bamba together!
YUM =)
So, whats the secret? 😉
Thanks Popa. I see you know Arabic too! Cool.
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good.jew- what did you write? Is that Arabic?
WOW MiddlePath. You are amazing! Just heard your songs. They are great! Keep on going. I cant stop listening to them. I like song 3 at 4:03 (my fave part)and my fovorite is song 4! It’s the best!!!
i know plenty of sephardim including myself who put the havdalah wine in pockets. I always thought it was a sephardic minhag.
My pleasure! I dont know much from NJ but there are a couple in NY. There is the bais yaakov teachers seminary (seminar l’moros)in brooklyn. I hears its really good. I could do some more research and let you know. I have been doing alot of research for other girls going to seminary but most were sems from Israel.
Here I just copied and pasted some info from their pamphlet. Hope it’s usefull.
OVERVIEW
Bnos Chaim Seminary will be opening its doors ? ???”??September 2011/Elul 5771 in Lakewood,
NJ. The Seminary offers High School graduates the unique opportunity to attend a comprehensive full-time, high-level Seminary that features a strong student-teacher kesher and
serves as a valuable alternative to traveling overseas.
The Seminary is under the leadership of Horav Ari Mintz, a veteran Menahel and experienced seminary teacher. The Seminary is being established to offer talmidos a first choice option to
remain in the U.S.A. while pursuing the full Seminary educational experience. Our program is
geared to bnos aliya who will appreciate a full schedule with a close student-teacher kesher and
an emphasis on acquiring a derech hachayim.
by imbuing them with a derech hachayim that will enable them to fulfill their ultimate roles as
environment.
Teacher/Member of Hanhalla. Her shiurim on ? ???? ??????are based on the shiurim of Horav
Shternbuch and Horav Miller of Gateshead.
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Seminary. In order to develop a close bond with their students, the teachers will be available to
meet with talmidos outside of class time.
Mrs. Miriam Reiss, a warm dynamic personality, is the Seminary Coordinator. She is known for
her close kesher to seminary talmidos and for building a positive ruach. She was formerly a
popular staff member at Mesores Rochel Seminary and Shoshanim Seminary and is very beloved
by all her students.
PREPARATION FOR LIFE
The Seminary aims to instill in every student the highest level of preparation to become exemplary wives and mothers. The talmidos will be imbued with a ? ??? ??????so that they will be
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Halberstadt.
BNOS CHAIM SEMINARY
Phone: (732) 534-2078
Fax: (732) 965-2675
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Bnos Chaim Seminary is dedicated to offering a stimulating, high-level educational program,overing a broad range of subjects.
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and review class work with peer and staff support.
Tuesday afternoons are dedicated to Mini-Series featuring relevant, contemporary topics of interest to the Jewish woman, presented by a variety of speakers. The Mini-Series will also
encompass panel discussions and question/answer sessions. The Enrichment Program on Wednesday evenings features courses with a focus on practical life skills.
Every Rosh Chodesh, a ? ??? ?????will be dedicated to dealing with specific, relevant issues such as
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YehudaTzvi- Generally the Jews from Spain nowadays pray Eida Mizrachi since most moved out to Morrocco and the middle east. Then you have those few exceptions of the Sephardim who are from Italy, Gibraltar, and a couple of others, and their prayers just consists a slight change. Nothing major.
This is so funny. I think we’re all going to go insane.
So now we have come down to chewing gum, sunglasses, and typos. Whats next?
I guess the halachah books need to get updated…
Finally today I got my paycheck and I got a raise, thank G-d.
hi aries2756- Thank you for your advice! I guess I just needed someone to tell me to start acting like an adult if I wanted to be treated like one. I spoke with the one in charge of camp, and he is going to talk to the one incharge of the money dealings. Hopefully I get a better pay. I was just so pissed off, but I approched the one in charge very calmly and respectfully and hopefully I’ll get what I want (and deserve). 🙂
I feel that they called me so they can take advantage of me.
I went to the head director the day I found out why I was getting paid less than the other girl. She was “shocked” (as if she didnt know about it) and told me that she isnt the one in charge of payments, and that I should go to Mr.___.
So I emailed him but he didnt respond yet. The head counselor asked me the folowing day if I spoke to him yet and I said that I emailed him and he didnt respond yet. So, the head counselor told me that he is probably going to tell me that he is paying the other girl 4x more than me because the other girl works as a teacher during the year at their camp site and all the teachers who work at camp during the summer get paid the same as all year round and if not, the teachers make calculations so that their kids could go to the camp for less $ and the expense of their paychecks.
I really think that he is just finding easy ways to save money and is stealing it from me. Another claim is that they have a certain budget that they can spend. If so, then how did they plan to pay the other teacher that i replaced for the next couple of weeks? they didn’t know that she was going to leave early…
The pay me as a junior counslor yet at the newsletter tht they send every week they have a paper to notify parents for tips and how much is sugested for each counslor and they put me as counslor(not junior counslor). I find this very perplexing…
whatelseisleft- Are you talking to me? If so, then yes, you might say that they are doing me the favour because I need the money, but arent I doing them the favour of working for them? They did need a counselor really badly and I was called very last minute kind of thing. I could have made much more money elsewhere if I knew they were going to pay me this much. I feel like they just stole from me and my dignity.
well since we are on the topic of camp and how much they pay their counselors, here is my problem.
I have been working at a certain day camp every summer since I was really young and they love me because I do a good job and not just sit around and do nothing. Every summer they place me with the little kids (2-5years old)because they trust me and I do my job well, (I like to work for my money). So, this summer I havn’t really decided yet if I wanted to work there since I had many other important things to take care of first. A couple of weeks after camp had already started I get a call from them asking me if i could work there. I said okay, without asking for too many details like how much I would get paid since the people who run the camp and my family are friends and i assumed they would pay me decently and I needed the money.
So, on my first day of camp, the camp director (family friend) tells me that the one in charge of camp( not the family “friend”) is going to pay me the same as every other summer but the camp director would try to ask for a little more for me (about $20 extra). Now here is my problem. Every other summer I was underage so I took whatever they gave me which was fine with me. But now that I was of age, how could they pay me the same as when I was 12?!!! I worked my butt off and sweated in the hot sun taking care of snotty little kids with years of experience and never taking a break to sit at the bench and instead im trying to deserve the money that I get paid, but now this summer they want to pay me the same as every other summer?!!!!! (I would caps evertything if I could, since im really upset right now) But that’s not the worst part. About 2 days later I find out that a couselor around my age is getting paid FOUR times as much as me for the same work. I was shocked. I felt like I was taken advantage of and abused all these summers. I try to work hard for my money. But now I feel like all of my summers of hard work have been nothing. I feel like I wasnt noticed except that they “trust” me with the younger kids (for the camps advantage so they wont have to pay much for a real adult/teacher). I feel like just quitting without to much notice and let them deal with the problem of trying to find a new counselor. How could they do this to me? Sorry this was long. What should I do? I need some direction please.
kylbdnr-same here.
I went to a school where half my class were Ashkenazim and half my class Sephardim. The school itself was a big mix of Sephardim and Ashkenazim. Every class had atleast 4 students that were Sephardim and the class was no bigger than 9-15 students (it was a fairly small school).
So, during halacha class the Rebbi was Ashkenaz and therefore taught us Ashkenaz halachot. For me I thought it was a waste of time being in class since most of the halachot didnt pertain to me. Whenever he would teach us something I would get very annoyed because it was either something something that I dont do, or it would be a topic very intricate and my whole class were hearing of all kinds of “new” halachot and I would never be sure if it pertained to me or to the rest of the class. The teacher made no effort to mention that a certain halacha was only for Ashkenaz. I would always try to “stir the pot” and ask “so what about sephardim, do we also do this”, (even though I knew we didnt). The Sephardim in the class were either clueless or werent even paying attention to the class since they didnt care.
But, I did care. I was going to school because I wanted to learn. Yet, I dont think I gained much from that class. It was VERY frustrating and I would always have to go home do all of my homework from school (which was plenty) and then late at night take out the halacha book and start learning. And then dont get me started with testing… When we had a test and one of the questions would be “Are we alowed to do xyz?” I would write “no”, even though I knew that for Ashkenazim it was “yes”. And when I got my test paper back I would always get a wrong mark.
B”H he has been found. I was getting so worried.
Me too. It’s so sad. I couldn’t believe that there was another lost child. I dont think I have enough strength to take any more bad news. I just hope he is found soon and safely.
Health- You should probably ask her or find out where she learnt to do energy healing. Are these women who go to her aware that they need to be careful and not just go to some random person who claims she can do “energy healing”?
“Just avoid anything dealing with “energy” type of healing because they all involve kochos hatumah.”
You are right. The energy healing is NOT kosher. BUT, in Israel there is such a thing as Jewish Energy Healing by Rabbi Bar-Ami Ben-Zion. This one IS kosher. It is the “OHR-LEV” system of natural healing in accordance with the Kabalistic tradition symbols.
Health- I hope this answers your question.
Shein and arwsf: oh dont worry. I was old enough to understand why my parents divorced and the reason why I dont see my father today is because I didnt want to. It’s a sad case but I cant change the facts the way they are. I just have to deal with the truth and know what is best for myself.
Tzippi: Baruch Hashem my family moved on and we are leading very healthy lives. It’s just sad that that had to be my fate, but thats the truth. We try to lead a true Torah life and have many rabbanim guiding us. I cant thank my mother enough for what she has done for me. Who knows what could have happened to me if my mother didnt divorce. I would have been an unhappy child in an unhealthy family chas v’shalom.