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We made our own bonfire in our sandbox. It was beautiful, if I do say so myself. Even better than the one my brother made in our toaster once, or than the one I made in the microwave when I left some foil on the tradition soup.
If we can’t do much about the older girls, begin with the younger ones. Ateres is a tznius organization which is targeted at school-age girls. High-school girls teach groups of girls about hilchos tznius on Friday nights, after candle-lighting. They teach from a manual, which includes different halachos, stories, games, and ideas for each week, based off of the tznius sefer, Oz Vehadar Levusha, set in practical terms. The Ateres leaders also benefit – they have to be the role models for their gilrs. If you don’t have Ateres in your community, get it quick!
Uh, yeah. It’s far. But it’s fun! Especially if you go with your friends.
Rina is the teenage division of camp within Raninu, for girls going into 10th and 11th grades. They have their own bunks, activities and schedules, shul, play, etc. They share the same grounds as raninu, and use the same things, for the most part.
I know what platypuses are 🙂 Yeah. they’re really cute. Hey, we’re related! I’m a turtle sometimes. Turtles also swim.
Aw, some people feel left out of the club. Sorry, them’s the breaks. Reb yid, wou should come to sem anyway. I think you’d like it. There are a lot of people there like you. Jewish, human – you are jewish and human, right?
wait – fried pickles? Thats a real thing? Gevalt! What is this world coming to?!
a sweet little jet black kitty cat that never ever grows up or gets any bigger. If the store happens to be out of them, we can get a newborn fluffy chick that never grows up or gets bigger and lands in the soup pot on erev shabbos.
it’s not really a hashkafic difference more than an in-town/oot difference. Everyone is tznius (aside from on-the-knee skirts with juicy socks that just reach the hemline, but barely. Tons of exceptions, of course. Everyone davens, though some might not if they weren’t in camp. Idk. It’s hard to explain. Raninu is a certain type, in and of itself. Like shopping613 said, Raninu has it’s snobs and politics, but that’s mainly with campers. There are so many super sweet people who just you to have a good time. Just go – it’ll be worth it, fer sure!
Yes, many staff memebers double and triple and sometimes quadruple up, if they have the flexibilty in their job. I know someone who was a sports counselor, canteen, shiur, and something else. I think most staff are OD at one time or another.
There is one main big trip each half (and a trip for girls who don’t have visitors on visiting day), and bunks can earn walmart. I think staff can hitch rides with walmart winners. Big trips include dorney park, hershey park, six flags… i don’t remember what else. I haven’t been there in two years.
Activities: banana boating on the lake, night activity, first half production (cantata)/second half parade, color war, mini race cars, ropes course, iceberg climbing thing on the lake, trampoline on the lake, and some new stuff they’ve added since I’ve been there.
You must be english, right? (uk, ta… what does platy mean?)
The food is beyond description. SO much of it! SO so so so good! You’ll never have the same food twice in a week. The cook is incredible. Erev shabbos kugel is scrumptious. I think some parents come on visiting day just to get the big lunch 🙂 jk
I’m going first half, iyh. I’ve never been there for second half, but one of my sisters has.
Raninu is an amazing camp, kinayna hara. I’m going there this year as a counselor, iy”h (shucks, I finally revealed my gender!), and my sister is going there as a first-time camper. I’ve been there for three years. Also not hashkafically my level. Think on-the-knee skirts, and juicy brand socks and sweatshirts. You could call it new-yorky, but there are tons of out-of-towners (such as I). The camp rav lifts the kedusha level of the camp by miles. Also, the staff is friendly and fun. Activities are amazing, trips are amazing… what else do you want to know? I’m pretty sure waitresses go on trips.
It’s very much worth going as a waitress. You don’t work that hard. Waitresses get up in the morning to prep the dining room, and they only work during breakfast, lunch, and dinner, so they have the rest of the time free. There’s a lot to do even when you’re not working – pool, lake, basketball, archery, baseball, volleyball, tetherball, canteen… Tips are great, especially if you have large bunks at your regular tables. You’ll have some days off. There are shops within a drive-able distance.
My teacher was a rebbe there. He’s a good guy.
But no, not a clue. Hatzlacha.
ben D: “I’ve never seen your brain, so you have no one. Prove me wrong.”
*try none, instead of no one. Don’t get mad at me for correcting your grammar (though it could very well have been a typo.) Your sentence could have been interpreted as “I’ve never seen your brain, so you have nobody,” which doesn’t exactly make sense in any language.
K, I’ll stop now.
K, so everyone has to interpret it now. No one is allowed to have the same interpretation. I’ll go first.
Jews are crazy as regards to the second definition given when a person (namely, I) searches for “the defintion of crazy” through a popular online search engine (as opposed to searching in a dictionary – THAT would be crazy).
The second definition reads as follows: (I’ve already mentioned this, but I know some people don’t like reading long posts, like this one is turning into.)
2. extremely enthusiastic.
“I’m crazy about cholent.”
synonyms: passionate about, (very) keen on, enamored of, infatuated with, smitten with, devoted to.
I’d say Jews are pretty keen on Hashem.
Where do you live that you have such religious parrots? No, don’t tell me. We already discussed this, I think.
Not as good as pickled fries, I’ll bet.
There’s a pickle place in the lower east side that pickles everything. Celery, string beans, pineapples, mangos, olives, okra, watermelon, you name it.
Sometimes I feel like a turtle. I like taking it slow.
Before my rabbit died (don’t say I killed it. I didn’t kill it. It died. All by itself) we raced my turtle against it (think tortoise vs. hare), and no one won. The turtle crawled to the side, and then back to the starting point, and the rabbit hopped forward, made it almost to the end, and sat down.
Sometimes I feel like a turtle and want to eat some worms.
Sometimes I feel like a turtle in a tank, and sometimes I feel like a turtle in the ocean.
Sometimes I feel like a turtle, retreating into my shell when the world gets too weird for me.
Sometimes I feel like a turtle when I peek my head out again, check if the coast is clear, and start walking.
Sometimes I feel like a turtle when I wear a green shirt.
My friend never comes to visit my house because of all the pet spiders she claims we keep. She’s always seeing spiders, but I’m not sure if they really exist.
?kr?z?
informal
adjective
1. mentally deranged, especially as manifested in a wild or aggressive way.
“Shmuli went crazy and jumped on the lion.”
synonyms: mad, insane, out of one’s mind, deranged, demented, not in one’s right mind, crazed, lunatic, non compos mentis, unhinged, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare; (antonyms: sane);
extremely annoyed or angry.
“The noise they made was driving me crazy”
foolish.
“It was crazy to hope that I could ever become a Rebbetzin.”
synonyms: stupid, foolish, idiotic, silly, absurd, ridiculous, ludicrous, preposterous, farcical, laughable, risible, nonsensical, imbecilic, harebrained, cockamamie, half-baked, impracticable, unworkable, ill-conceived, senseless; (antonyms: sensible)
2. extremely enthusiastic.
“I’m crazy about cholent.”
synonyms: passionate about, (very) keen on, enamored of, infatuated with, smitten with, devoted to;
(antonyms: indifferent, apathetic)
3. (of an angle) appearing absurdly out of place or in an unlikely position.
“The monument leaned at a crazy angle”
archaic
(of a ship or building) full of cracks or flaws; unsound or shaky.
North American: noun: crazy; plural noun: crazies
1. a mentally deranged person.
Which definition do you think Jews fall under the category of?
Who’s not busy? Does that exist? I’m always busy in that I always have things to do, but I create more time by procrastinating and generally ignoring the fact that there’s any work to be done.
OP – “I recently had a close encounter with an alien spacecraft. If anyone experienced such a thing lately, I have a few questions.”
I once thought I had a close encounter with ETs. First I thought it was a pizza pie flying towards me at 100 MPH. Turns out, it was just a pizza slice. It landed in my mouth, as it usually does. So, ask away.
Was there anything attached to the top of the foot?
Who’s marmion? I read that in a comic book, I think.
Achdus. Between rocks, dogs and turtles? Didn’t think that was even a problem in our present-day society.
It’s weaving.
So give us the deets already.
Duct tape can fix you all!
I didn’t hear that tape.
I am an important government executive. I live in the White House as the pet turtle. If I reveal any more information I will become tomorrow’s soup du jour.
Why don’t you move to…. Mercury? It has a gorgeous view of the sun. In fact, it’s the closest planet to the sun in our solar system. Only 35,980,000 miles (57,910,000 km) away. If you want a small, out of town place, Mercury is the smallest planet. It has an orbital period of about 88 days, so the years will just fly by. Mercury is rich in iron, so you’ll never have to worry about wrinkled shirts or the losing pleats.
Sorry if I piqued your interest – the last spacecraft landed there in 2004. You missed the bus. You should have read this post sooner.
Because there’s no internet connection in Loch Ness.
Ahh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to tie every thread into every other thread…
We should let the dogs have an opinion. All in favor, say woof.
I bet they’ll say that the human owns the dog food, and the dog food bowl owns the dog food, and the dog owns the dog food bowl. Package deal.
Wow – I really misunderstand this thread. I thought we were talking about LAg B’Omer, which is why I thought people wanted music, and I volunteered to sing (yes, with my voice, 2b. How else? Would you like to read my sound waves?) for the music-deprived souls in the CR. Only Hashem knows what made me think that we were talking about Lag B”omer being on the 14th day of the Omer…
Turtles can be very good. Dogs have a hard time with that sometimes, but it’s true. And dogs can be good, too – when they give turtles piggy-back rides. (It’s not the piggy-back’s fault that Hashem made it a piggy-back.)
Ahh, milkshakes. Hashem’s gift to the world. It doesn’t get much better than milkshakes, lemme tell you. Good luck in your search, 2b!
For goodness’ sakes, why is everyone so desperate for what passes for music nowadays? Would you like me to sing for you?
One who says hi: Ok. I wouldn’t qualify my post as ranting as much as curiosity, but wtvr it is, it’s over. Thank you for clarifying that I don’t need to take offense – it’s too time-consuming, to tell you the truth.
Aaron Chaim: Why, thank you.
Yekke2 +1
Anyone know a passuk starting with a samach and ending with an ayin? (It’s for a friend of mine.)
How’s this: I went thrift shopping today. I’m quite exhilarated. The place I went to shop at had a keyboard that no longer worked, and for this reason, I bought the keyboard. In addition to the keyboard, I purchased some things that a grandfather of yours could have possessed. I will adopt this grandfather’s modus operandi.
Thank you, reb yid, for opening up my eyes to this phenomenon. I will tell people who want their children to have jobs to simply stick their children’s fingers (or metal paraphernalia) into others’ mouths. And I will tell anyone who doesn’t want a tooth-pulling, insurance-draining, time-consuming, pain-creating child to pull out their children’s fingers from the above-mentioned mouths.
Never in all my life have I ever heard “issur” and “dog” in the same sentence. Call me ignorant, but I’ve never heard that a person can’t have a pet dog. Call me biased, though, cus I have a dog. Who happens to be uber-cute. And serves a holy purpose in our house:
Thanks to our dog, we’ve realized that the bar for ???? ?????? ??? is extremely low (our dog will eat anything but lox and pesach dog food);
Thanks to our dog, our family has learned the halachos of walking/petting/picking up a dog on Shabbos;
Thanks to our dog, we’ve made friends with every other person in our neighborhood who owns a dog;
Thanks to our dog, our kitchen floor rarely needs cleaning.
Thanks to our dog, we rarely feel lonely – there’s always a puppy at the end of a tough day 🙂
Thanks to our dog, I’ve learned how to act more pleasantly with humans, like my dog does. Sometimes. Seriously – I’ve learned from my dog’s middos. I’ve also learned how to deal with kids by dealing with and training my dog. Don’t judge – there’s good stuff you can learn from training a dog. Patience, requisite punishment, always end with a smile and a hug (or a tummy-rub), etc.
Soften up, everyone! I’m glad the posts have become more dog-appreciative than 4 years ago.
I must be a yekke, cus my father is, and his father came from Germany. But my father was a ba’al teshuva, so we keep on learning more minhagim that are supposedly ours, and sometimes we take them on.
Is the term yekke meant to be derogatory in this thread? I need to know if I should be taking offense or not.
If you had a turtle shell….
wow…
It’s hashgacha pratis that my brother was born tomorrow, cus then it’ll be his birthday! I just love open nissim.
I always thought about highlighting either v’sein bracha or v’sein tal umatar, and I figured the bright yellow would make me think each time I said it, and remind me of what I’m supposed to say. But I never did it. And I haven’t messed up once this year! Of course, the machzor helps by not even giving me the choice to say the wrong thing. But I have to be looking in the machzor for that to work.
Interesting… But Israeli Hebrew does recognize certain sounds by adding an apostrophe after the letter. Like, ?? is th, and ?? is j. For instance, ??? ??? (cup of joe, cafe joe, whatever it is – it has a j sound).
I thought the original ? was “t” and it was the ? that sounded like “th”. However, I’ve been known to occasionally make a mistake. Feel free to correct me without hurting my feelings.
I feed my turtle maror (romaine lettuce, NOT horseradish) and uncooked, unsweetened tzimmes. And dried shrimp, as a treat. I was going to feed him goldfish, too, but all ten died a few hours after I bought them, so no goldfish for my toitle. 🙁
Good one, Goq!
No comment. I can’t help clean this thing even if you wanted me to. I just took over two hours to clean my turtle tank. But not my turtle. He cleans himself.