How about Bnos Avigail? From what I heard, it is going to be a new seminary opening this year by Rebbitzin Tzipporah Heller who does have a lot of experience in these things. It is supposed to be VERY academic, everything is going to be text based. They are going to split up the year into 3 terms. Each term will have a theme – bein adam lamakom, bein adam lachaveiro, and bein adam leatzmo, and everything that will be taught, all tiyulim, and extracurricular things that they do during that term will have to do with the theme.

It sounds like it will be a great seminary, and maybe since it is going to be the first year they will be more open to accepting people coming from different places.

On most ipods with radios (ex ipod nano) there is a way to block the radio from your computer.

Hashem loves all Jews equally, because He loves us the most possible. If Hashem loves me the most that is possible, then if I do more mitzvos, Hashem doesn’t love me any more then He did before, because He already loved me the most possible because I am a Jew. What changed was our relationship. Now Hashem can be closer to me.

For example, a parent loves all of their children equally, but might feel closer to some of their children. If one child is constantly fighting with his/her parents, and the other has a great relationship, the parents are probably closer to the child with the great relationship. But that doesn’t mean that they love the first child any less then the other one.

I think when we are discussing superiority here, we are talking about their closeness to Hashem, because if we are talking about how much Hashem loves different Jews, its all the same.

Secularfrummy, I think that you should find out more of the story before u go judging. Listen to some of his recent shiurim, and you will see that he says that he was speaking in Boro park to a group of woman who never listens to English music, and yes, listening to it at Zumba might make them want to listen to it at other times as well.

The same Rabbi Wallerstein that gave that speech that u heard about how you shouldn’t do Zumba (which btw only started at the 38th minute of his speech – and let me guess that you only heard that part and not the whole beginning) hired a DJ to play English music for his students from his high school on New Years from 12-3 am so that they shouldn’t be in other places.

So for the crowd that he was speaking to, it was wrong for then to go to Zumba, and for his high school, it was the right thing for them to be doing. He was only speaking to the crowd that he was standing in front of. I think that a Rav that gives advice to people based on the individual is much better then one that gives the same advice to everyone, regardless of the situation.

I saw something funny the other day…

A mom was trying to tell to her son about the miracle of the oil lasting for 8 days but the son was having a hard time understanding, so she said imagine u charged your phone one night and the battery lasted for 8 days without recharging…he finally understood

This world is not the world of reward and punishment. The next world (olam haba) is. This means that anything that is happening to you now is not because you deserve it or don’t deserve it.

This can explain why good people sometimes have very hard lives while and bad people can have everything going for them. Everyone will get what they deserve in the next world.

What is happening to you is probably not because of something that you did before you were 14.

If that was true, why would non-Jewish people have that same exhilaration?

But it is a cool thought!

Never read it, but sounds like a book I would want to read. Who is the author?

What about someone who is promised to get olam haba (by learning halachos every day – kol hashoneh halachos buchul yom muvtach lo shehu ben olam haba or by saying ashrei 3 times a day) and then commits suicide?

Raninu’s the greatest R-A-N-I-N-UUU 🙂

I read it and thought that it was very interesting. Could be creepy, but it is a reality that some people are gilgulim.

Awesome poem, ikno.

Bump!

Thank you jbaldy! So then what from the Chevra is acapella? (from yekke’s post)

The Goq +1000000

Is the new Chevra album called Chai acapella?

They probably closed it cuz they don’t want us trying to guess who people are here. Sorry about that, but I guess that you can still write about the other stuff here.

Shopping I can see why you would say that without hearing the song but they are very different – the one from zevi is a fast song. I just listened to the song from Abie Rotteberg (I never heard it before) and it was really nice especially with the music video that the special needs camp made for it.

MorahRach, you are a amazing mom and your kids are so lucky to have you.

You should get pictures taken of your kids and keep them with you or on your desk at work.

Cheilek elokah mima’al means a part of God up above. Like Dr. Horse said, when Hashem created man, He Created Adam’s body from the earth. However the real you, you neshama, was given to you by God Himself blowing into the nostrils “vayipach biapo chayim.” Therefore, your essence is a cheilek of Hashem.

Nechoma, I definitely think that 8 weeks is a good minimum. Many of us in school are always stressed out about all the tests and work and need that break in the summer just to relax and not be so pressured all the time.

nope sorry shopping, its not from journeys

I once heard that the Arizal says that if someone who is not sefardic davens in a sefardic shul, he should daven sefardic like them, but if a sefardic person davens in a shul that is not sefardic, he should still daven sefardic because the nusach of adut mizrach goes through all 12 gates of tefillah while the other nusachim each only go through their own gate.

slichosgenendel the beats tour earbuds are amazing. If you want something cheaper, the sony EX10LP EX Series earbud headphones are also really good (but not as good as the beats tour!)

Not a bad topic! but usually I thought that when they give the revolution theme they only make you do one..