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Wow Health, I thought you were just taking a break from the CR. Sorry to hear that it was more serious than that. You should have a refuah shleimah.
Outsider, have you ever considered learning online or on the phone? There are programs available for that. PartnersinTorah.com has chavrusas available to learn over the phone. Aish Hatorah has a program called Jewish Pathways that has online courses available. You can find them at Jewishpathways.com (original, right?). Anyway, the discomfort that you felt would probably get less over time if you continued to go to such a place frequently and if you attempted to dress one step up from jeans – say slacks and a decent shirt (not necessary to be in black suit). Yes, people would still remain distant from you, but once you become a frequenter of such a place, then once they recognize you as being part of their group the distance will slowly decrease.
Hatzlacha in whatever you decide to do, but keep in mind that orthodoxy is a matter of mitzvah observance, not how you dress.
Assaf, I’m not sure what “logical” arguments you have gone through to come to the conclusion that it is difficult to believe in religion, since I would guess that you’re somewhere between 20 and 25 (closer to 20 would be my guess), but when I was growing up, being fed secular education my whole life, I also had difficulty believing in the first page of the Torah, since “logically” how could I believe in it since I did not believe that Hashem created the world, so if page 1 was false, logically the rest was also. I felt that it was a good argument and carried on with my life without compunction.
Many messengers were sent to me through different means at a particular point in my life, when I was almost 30, which sent me to a Discovery seminar being held in my area. I felt that I was going to gain nothing and was really going just to satisfy these various messengers without any intention of doing anything different afterwards.
I was seriously wrong on many counts. Listening to the lecturers at Discovery gave me such insight into the “illogic” of my arguments and presented me with such evidence to the opposite(and not just fancy “codes” in the Torah – which for me were just icing on the cake), that I was simply not able to logically maintain a secular life anymore and made my way to becoming shomer mitzvot.
Only people who have spent time answering logical questions that people like yourself ask are the people for you to turn to if you want to confirm your “logical” arguments. Maybe you should ask them some of them before you permanently alter the relationship you so value with your parents. Obviously for some reason they decided that a religious life is the best thing for themselves and wanted to bring their children up as such. What do you think, that they were brainwashed or they are simply not thinking through things? If you respect them, then you most probably feel that they are intelligent people, and it is their due that you should fully investigate the basis for their lifestyle before you reject it. Discovery has seminars routinely in the Old City in Jerusalem. If you have a furlough from the army, maybe you should look into it. It’s only a day or two, aren’t your parents worth that much of your time, considering how much of their time they have given you?
What do you do with the pieces? Eat them? Throw them on the ground? I had this problem years ago (maybe not as severe as you, but also biting nails since childhood – which is a nervous habit) and I spoke to a rabbi about it. He told me that if I’m eating the nails, they have tumah and that I’m putting the tumah into my body. If you are leaving them on the floor, then there are issues with a pregnant woman walking over them. Maybe if you focus on what are the consequences in this world of what you are doing it will help give you a sufficient deterrent. It’s not always possible to worry about what’s going to happen after you die unless you are already ill with a terminal illness, since then death has more of a reality to it than something that will happen “eventually”. This finally got me to stop biting my nails.
Another thing would be to see if you can figure out why you do it? As I said above, it is usually a nervous habit. When you find yourself that you are already biting them without realizing it, as you put it? If you are doing it out of stress, see if there are ways to lower your stress level before it gets to the point that you start biting.
Hatzlacha finding a solution to your problem.
WIY, I have a couple of ?s – How do you wave that cow?
What will you do when, byz”H, your wife will be pregnant?
What do you do if it has an “accident” in the middle?
Oh eclipse, such good advice. I really worked on that this year. I had a problem with seating in shul – the seat for my 7 1/2 yo was in a completely different room, no help when she wants to sit next to Mommy. I was so upset since I had donated a large sum of $ to the shul not so very long ago and there were others who got much better seating than I. I vented to my husband, but I kept thinking that being angry was just going to create me bigger problems. I talked to my daughter before daavening and explained that we were going to deal with things the way they were with hopefully a few adjustments – she could sit next to me in the aisle if the other people in my row wouldn’t mind switching over seats to let me sit at the end – and that we would deal with the nisayon in a better way than being angry. Oh, do I hope I got bonus points for that. The gabbai is my downstairs neighbor, so I really did not want to start up with him on YT. Now that things are not so pressing, I’ll go and nicely ask if he can switch things around for Yom Kippur. Hopefully it will all work out.
Everybody should have a gut gebentched yahr!
There are extremists who put up a mechitzah between the chosson and kallah, but we don’t put a mechitzah at a chassanah possibly because nobody except for the C&K are engaging in any religious ceremony. Their kedushah comes from joining together, so I would imagine that a mechitzah would be unproductive to this. You don’t need to separate the kahal watching the ceremony because that’s all they’re doing – watching. When there are activities that require separation, such as when the men daaven mincha or maariv or during the dancing, then there is a mechitzah. I would probably personally not object to optional mixed seating during the meal except for the fact that the dancing is in the same room and all of the men sitting around the women’s dance floor have front row seats, which I do not think is appropriate.
I think the answer depends on where you want to go and where you are coming from. Are you a hugging type of person with your friends or are you generally not a touchy/feely kind of person? I would suggest starting off slowly with simple thanks and do it repeatedly, consciously aware that you are getting yourself used to these types of behaviors with your parents. Set a small goal ahead of where you are now and work towards achieving it – maybe giving your dad a handshake if you’re a guy or squeezing your mom’s arm if you’re a girl (not saying that girls can’t touch dads and boys can’t touch moms, only that touching the parent of the same sex is probably easier to start with). You can make incremental changes in how you speak and behave physically.
Regarding a letter, that may be a good idea for yourself so that you can read it and realize how much you have to be grateful to and have appreciation for your parents. Building up the hakores hatov in your heart may make it easier for you to express it verbally and/or physically.
Just a point – kibud av v’em is not a middah, it’s a mitzvah. Middos are personality traits or attitudes, like anger, happiness, etc. Doing the mitzvos helps us perfect our middos if we do them properly, but working on your middos can be a completely separate project for you.
Oomis, I have tremendous respect for you and how you are so careful in how you speak to everyone here on the site, so I don’t want to offend you with what I’m going to say. I have read your comments to this same effect numerous times and know that you mean this to sincerely help people find their bashert.
My objection to this is that life is so much more complicated than when you were going out to meet your husband and unfortunately the boys and girls in shidduchim are much more naive and often more sheltered than you (or even I) was in your day. People are not always what they seem on the outside and I would hope that a parent might be perceptive enough, having more experience in life, than their child to help weed out the inappropriate prospects that are out there. How is someone supposed to know if they are compatible, just based on meeting someone? I know that I went out with boys that I “just met”, even at properly organized singles events, and I felt that it was such a meat market and all any of them was looking for was a thin, attractive girl. The shy (I’m not) or heavier (I am) girls were totally overlooked and made to feel second rate. What girl would want to put herself through that? Where should we meet? You mentioned previously at chassanahs of friends, or other such places, but who says that just because our friends are getting married does that make us compatible?
Even a single person who makes a list of all the qualities he/she is looking for in a spouse does not see everything in the person when they meet socially. By the time any type of investigation can be made, there is already some sort of emotional investment, which may be hard to ignore if any reasons are brought up to discontinue the “relationship”.
I do appreciate that you mean well, but I think the world has changed so much that in the best interests of our children, investigation beforehand is prudent, but not pickiness to the point of rejecting girls (or even boys) out of hand without really solid reasons. I certainly would not want my daughter (who just turned 17) to be meeting boys in this manner.
I do hope that you do not take offense and that I presented my case in as pleasant a manner as you have presented yours on many an occasion.
I did forget one last item. When mehadrin buses became “popular” Egged even went to the extent of having a “puncher” hooked up in the back section of the bus so that women could simply punch their own cartissia. Now that everybody has to use a RavKav, things have become more problematic because yes, we do have to get on the front of the bus in order to pass the RavKav through the reader in order to pay for our ride on the bus. Walking through a crowded men’s section does sort of defeat the purpose, but I have been known to ask the driver for permission to get off at the next step that there are passengers getting on and getting back on at the back door (I simply don’t want him to close the door before I have to chance to get back on the bus), this way avoiding any unnecessary contact.
I think the issue of the back of bus being inherently demeaning is putting the cart before the horse. Was the back of the bus demeaning before the blacks were allowed to sit only in that part of the bus? I don’t think so.
Why can’t men sit at the back versus the women? I think I heard once that since people are usually looking towards the front of the bus in order to make sure that they get off at the correct stop, if the front section has women dressed pritzusdig, then what purpose did separating us have other than not sitting one next to the other? This is obviously not the only problem that exists vis-a-vis men and women.
I have no doubt that R’ Shlomo Zalman got up if a woman tried to sit next to him.
I just want to make a couple of points:
1) 402 is NOT a bus that is mehadrin.
2) Intercity Egged buses in Yerushalayim have 3 and some even have 4 doors, all of which are regularly opened and closed at stops, on request from riders if the driver does not open the doors at the very back of the bus.
3) There is absolutely no connotation of “putting women in their place” by having us sit at the back of the buses. Intercity buses are not at all like the NY buses where the sits are the same on both sides of the bus except opposite the back door. Here, there are single seats on buses designed for handicapped access, some buses have more seats in the front than others meaning that many men would have to stand in the front of the bus. I live in an area where people attempted to make the new bus route be mehadrin, but due to the construction of the bus and the seating, there is some mixing, but people do try to sit separately if possible.
While I do think that men could and should take a little responsibility and avoid looking at places that they shouldn’t, people can only take responsibility for their own actions/thoughts, so I would still rather not cause someone to be nichshol and would rather sit at the back if necessary to prevent that.
Just as a side note, I was on a bus that comes from a newish chareidi neighborhood and goes through a chiloni neighborhood. The askonim in the chareidi neighborhood worked tirelessly for an extended period of time to get properly established bus route(s) to the chareidi neighborhood, which at the same time have benefitted the chiloni neighborhoods immensely. These same chilonim had been given buses by Egged for the last 30 years that ended up being packed like sardines every time one left the vicinity. There was one bus per hour for each of 3 major neighborhoods in this vicinity and each one was packed to the gills and had tremendously long, winding routes before reaching the destination. Now that the chareidim came, they put much pressure on Misrad HaTachburah to fulfill the previously determined plan to bring a new bus company to the area and they finally succeeded. They added an additional 3 bus lines and greatly increased the total number of buses traveling to and from each neighborhood in the vicinity throughout the day. The fact that the buses coming from the chareidi neighborhood are full testifies to the fact that there are many people without cars who rely on public transportation and would indicate a need for more buses, but definitely not fewer.
Now this chiloni lady who sat opposite me says to me that it’s “lo beseder” that all of the buses come from the chareidi neighborhood already full. She said (beshem someone else that I could not understand) that we should worry for our own selves. The thrust of her comment was that we should not be on the buses that are for their neighborhood because we take up the whole bus. I would have very happily told her that we should cancel the bus that she was on and she simply would have had to wait for another 20 minutes before a different bus would pass by her stop. Can anyone explain to me this logic? By the way, no one told her to sit at the back of the bus.
Add boat to the list of crashes – there was that one in the Hudson several days ago
nisht – he’s French, they use the J in their transliteration.
I have one big question about this OP – everybody seems to be assuming that the girl was going to seminary, implying that she’s frum/BY or something like that. What frum/BY girl would be walking in the MIDDLE of a group of bochurim? I would usually get to the side and let them pass me by.
Sam, I know that there are blood spots that are kosher, but how can one tell them apart? I was told by someone that if the eggs have a stamp from Tnuva here in EY, then there are no male chickens present and the blood spot is from something like the hen getting frightened during the egg production and you could just discard the blood and keep the rest of the yolk and white. I’m really not certain though, so I would probably rather err on the side of caution and just throw it out, but it would be a question of baal tashchis.
An egg is not a chicken fetus. It is unfertilized and cannot develop into anything. It is the food source for the potential chicken that would grow there is the egg were fertilized. Any presence of blood in the egg (meaning it was fertilized, but can be from other reasons as well) is not allowed and that egg is thrown out, so no you can’t eat the undeveloped fetus of a cow.
I think all of the tzniuz shmoozen ought to be given to the men, asking them the simple question if they want all of the men who see their wives to be ogling them and imagining all of kinds things since that is what their wives seem to want with their pritzusdige dress? IMO, any woman who has respect for herself will understand that a little bit more modesty in the style of clothes will go a long way in getting her respect by others and not having them ogle her as she walks by. In America, the goyim whistle at “attractively dressed” women and that is deemed a compliment, but for us it is not. Why can’t she save this for her husband at home? If the husband cannot influence his wife to dress properly, then
RD – While your idea of gluten-free bread might be a good idea after Pesach, when everybody has had enough matza for a while, I am sure you are aware that the Vilna Gaon holds that each kezias of matza you eat during Pesach is a separate mitzva, so if you want to satisfy your appetite, go ahead and make GF bread from products that will hopefully have a hechsher by next Pesach, but if there is a higher purpose to our eating than just stuffing our boich and whetting our palate, I would just as soon stick with matza. Maybe others would agree with me.
In this case, I totally agree with SG – conquering the yetzer and understanding that these are not people to admire for anything other than a talent given to them by The One Above and no more is a tremendous thing. I heard that these kinds of battles go into your
“ruchnius genes” and can be passed down to your children, so who knows what ultimate benefits you will have gotten from that encounter and your battle.
Sam, as far as keeping a picture of Mr. Clinton, who admittedly we might have said a bracha upon seeing him when he was President of the United States, I think now that he is no longer in that position and the fact that he did such publicly-known immoral acts would discount anybody of any stature, such as a rabbi, from keeping a picture of him, much less having it up on his wall as a sign of pride.
playtime, IMO, what you did was terrific and you should not regret it for one minute.
Popa – they’ve gotten much stricter since your days. Now they make people pay big huge fines when leaving the country if their visa expired too long ago. They will also refuse to allow you back into the country and if your parents paid $20,000 for your year in sem, you’d sure better be able to get back in here to finish it. The procedure to renew your tourist visa is the same as getting a student visa, so they figure out who you are then anyway. It’s a lot of bureaucracy. They also changed the rules and it’s either free or pretty cheap now to get a student visa. It used to cost a fortune. I remember paying almost 200 shekels per person in my family, including the kids. Now you just pay one fee for the head of the family.
Why don’t you take a trip outside of Israel when your tourist visa is going to expire or a few weeks later and then make sure to go home for Pesach. (I am assuming you are going to be a seminary student, so ignore this if you’re not). If you are only going to be here for the school year then you won’t ever have to apply for a student visa.
Toi, my husband would love you! You’re just his type!
I know of people who did a favor to a friend and loaned out their apartment. They knew the friend, but they did not know the people coming in to the apartment. How can they “trust” these people that they don’t know. They can only hope that they will treat their possessions with the respect that they obviously deserve. This friend of mine came home to find their house trashed. It was supposed to have been a couple and a small child coming to only sleep in their apartment. It turns out that there were 8 people there and they ate and had a big party there. What gives? These are frum people I would imagine.
Other cases I know of are people who are making a simcha and make an agreement with other neighbors in the area who are making a simcha but at a different week, so they agree to give their apartment to the other when they won’t be home. But in this case you can imagine that someone making a chassanah or Bar Mitzvah on Thursday has little time to make all the rooms spotless and presentable, or even throw out all the garbage and put all the laundry away before they dash off to their simcha out of town. They just throw everything into the master bedroom and lock it. Why do they have to clean it up just because someone is going to be staying in the other room/s of the house?
JF02, I think that sometimes people crack the door, see they made a mistake, and then become curious later on and go back to see personal effects. A person can feel invaded by this even if they planned on trusting the person.
Sidewalk chalk washes off. If it really bothers you, take some floor cleaner (I have Fantastik, which is Israeli and is great on all floors, including sidewalks) and scrub it a bit. It will go off. Children do need some inexpensive outlets for their energy and creativity. I’m not sure why you’re so bothered by this.
OK, for your questions:
Is it noisy? – Yes. That is the answer in I would guess 100% of the apartments, especially in the frum neighborhoods. Just based on the sheer number of people living in each apartment, the number of apartments in each building, and the number of buildings close to each other, you are talking lots and lots of people living close together, so things get noisy. If you want to go somewhere quiet, go to a desert island.
Frum neighborhoods – for example Ezrat Torah, Sorotzkin, HaMem Gimmel, Zichron Yaakov, Panim Meirot, Belz, Geulah, Mattersdorf, Unsdorf, Maalot Dafna, Sanhedria/Murhevet, Ramat Eshkol, Ramat Shlomo, Ramot (not Beit, but Gimmel and Daled are mostly frum and Aleph is half/half), Neve Yaakov.
Shuls – There is a shul on most streets in Yerushalayim, so that is not a big question unless you are physically handicapped and cannot walk a block or two.
Shopping – There are supermarkets in many main areas, but if you need to get a loaf of bread/milk and even a few extra things (higher prices), there is usually a makolet central in the neighborhoods. Again, unless you are physically handicapped, you can easily walk the distance.
Buses are the main source of transportation, unless you plan on taking taxis everywhere. Try to get ahold of Egged bus route maps so that you will know how to get where you want.
Yes Sam, I am in EY, and I posted well after our fast was done here. But OP said that s/he had been fasting for 12 hours. How many more hours is the fast than 12 hours? I know NY is farther to the north, meaning a later sunset/longer day. Is it longer than 15 hours? Here a 14 hour long is about the longest, give or take 15 minutes. I just guestimating right now since I don’t know when alos was this morning, and we hold the shortest time for waiting until tzeis hakochavim on the “easier” fasts. I could have been totally off base and if I was I apologize to OP. I did mention that if OP could not find someone that should tell him/her to break the fast early, only then should s/he just rest. Again, no judgements/offense intended.
You’ve made it this far, lie down and rest. If you can’t find someone who can tell you to break the fast early, just rest until it’s over, not long now.
I was just at my daughter’s 8th grade end-of-year play/graduation last night. There are no extravagant expenses on hiring carpenters, drama coaches, etc. I know that for the high school play, which is all 4 classes together, the 12th grade class is told the story and then the girls pick what part of the event they want to work with – play, dance, choir, etc. The girls themselves make up the play, write the lines, choreograph the dances and decide what songs to sing and make up lines of special songs throughout the play. Each group of 12th grade girls gets the girls in 9th, 10th and 11th who want to be in that particular part of the event (girls can be in more than one thing) and then they have to teach them and work with them on their part. So it is the girls working with the girls. They have a great creative outlet that they don’t really have time for during the rest of the school year (although I do not agree with being at school until 11 at night for any reason). Rehearsals are done over a 2-3 week period around end of first semester and the girls in 12th grade are probably busy since Chanukah getting their things ready. It’s really something. No the scenery is not professional, but it is terrific to see them all work together. The 8th grade play is taught by the teachers and maybe one instructor brought from the outside and they do it on the school premises in an open space and, while crowded, is surely enjoyed by all.
Next year will be fun for me – I’ll have one in 12th and one in 9th, so I’ll be lucky if I ever see my daughters.
JF2 – If you’re questioning the use of the term “by”, it comes from the use of the Hebrew term ??? which is what you would use in that sentence in Hebrew.
To chance:
There is no vaccine for scarlet fever because it is not a virus. It is a regular Streptococcus bacterial infection that happens to affect the entire body, resulting in a red rash and giving the body a reddish appearance.
My daughter had it when she was a child (as did I myself). Doctor prescribed Penicillin/Amoxicillin and told me to keep her home for a week since apparently if the bacteria affects the whole body in this manner it is a longer recovery than from a simple Strep throat and there are complications, such as hepatitis and rheumatic fever, that are not usually associated with Strep throat.
OK, well those (and as far as almost all kippas that I’ve seen) are worn on the top and back of head, not the forehead, where the tefillin go. I’m not sure what’s the question.
What exactly is a yerushalmi style kippah? How does it sit on the head?
Mitzvahgirl – Is that because you are going to camp and you want time back at home to do a few things as well? What if you didn’t go to camp? Don’t mean to be nosy, just curious about how kids look at vacation time.
As my daughter would say, “Not soon enough!!!” Here in EY the girls in BY get off at end of June. My girls are in private school. High school finishes in 2 weeks. Lower grades on 26/27 Tammuz.
My question is, though, how long do you think is a long enough summer break?
RD – I want to add that it is very annoying to me that you insist upon using the transliteration that the British began rather than using the common transliteration that most people are comfortable with. Like you write here “halakha” but you refer to a “hatan”. Now that kh is the same sound (we can hardly differentiate between a chof and a chet) but there is definitely a difference between a chet and a heh, so there is no meaning to your word “Heh – tet/taf – nun sofit”. You also use the term “halak” but you write “hechsherim”. Living in EY and seeing these ridiculous transliterations that we can’t seem to get rid of makes this issue bother me more. Would it be a problem for you to use a ch rather than h or kh for the chof/chet sound? I for one would really appreciate it.
From what I know, it’s a great neighborhood. Nice people, a big mix of Litvish/Sephardim/Chassidim (new area with lots of Belzer chassidim recently opened up for people to move in). Many Americans. Lots of apartments being built.
I know that people had complained that it was not close to Yerushalayim (for sure not as close at the sellers of the neighborhood would want you to believe), but in the last several months they have new transportation to the neighborhood with many new buses, even direct ones, back and forth to Yerushalayim, and the best thing is that you don’t have to pay more to get there anymore (before the Light Rail Train started operating it was a higher fare).
The prices of the apartments are going up all the time, but they are still probably the lowest around for an area that really is just outside of Yerushalayim. I’ve heard of apartments not yet finished being built going for 1.2 mil sh”ch for 4 rooms and 1.4 for 5 rooms. Those prices are up 50% from the original buyers in the neighborhood. The prices for finished apartments are probably 200,000 sh”ch more than the above prices, respectively. Rents are also lower than Yerushalayim.
Like I said, you can get my contact info from the mods if you want more info. BTW – I don’t think that “Ramat GZ”Ch” is another one, just an extension of what is already there with much fancier apartments/houses planned for building.
Are you looking at Ramat GZHc like what’s advertised on YWN or what already exists? I know lots of people who live there and can tell you what you want. You can ask the mods for my info and contact me directly.
You definitely do not have to spend Shabbos alone! Go to a friend’s house after licht bentching and shmooze.
If you live in an area with younger children, you could think of organizing some activity for them and be the madricha. My daughter is part of a shmiras haloshon kabbalos Shabbos program. She has a class from the local school a few grades below hers and they get together to say kabbalos Shabbos and she usually plays a game with them and learns a little about shmiras haloshon with them. Her class loves her and wants her to continue next year.
In the afternoon she helps out at a tehillim gathering for girls. They say tehillim together and someone could say a short story related to the parsha or some other topic of interest.
My other daughter is a madricha for Batya, which is like B’nos in America. They have an activity on Shabbos afternoon for a couple of hours.
It is so good for the younger kids to be busy (especially during the hours that their parents would like to take a nap) and doing something other than just playing.
If you live not far from friends, you could chip in together and buy a few games and spread them around to each others houses. Go over to one friend each week and play games over there.
Shabbos is a great time to relax without pressure of doing homework, going to school, being at school early in the morning, etc, etc. Part of it is looking at the cup as half-full (it’s really overflowing) but unfortunately it sounds like some of your friends look at it as empty, so we have to start somewhere.
Hatzlacha with finding ideas to increase Shabbos appreciation in your area. It’s a terrific idea.
takahmamash – they’re going to be here for 1 month. I don’t think she’s planning no working on the books.
Toi, I heard a great pshat on that from one of my teachers. She said that a doctor needs to know that he is just a shaliach from the Ribono Shel Olam.
The doctor who thinks that he is “Toiv Sheberofim”, he goes to gehinom.
No. Leave it go 613. It was a bad scene for awhile. Hard feelings abounded. No need to dredge them up again.
Well, why don’t you pose the question to the person who does. In the meantime, avoid to the best of your ability the things that you think you might be allergic to and go for a second opinion. Find ways to raise the money to buy the epipen as you don’t need to take any extra risks.
Vogue, assuming fiddlestick is right, isn’t your life worth something more than $100?
t613 and interjection – +1,000,000!
Haifagirl, while you are right and bad grammar bothers me also, only an idiot would make any of the assumptions you list in your post.
Can you explain why you went to the allergist in the first place? Did your primary doctor send you? If so, then why does s/he not agree with the recommendations of the doctor. If not, why did you go without a referral?
In the Old City there are numerous museums. A must-see is the Kosel tunnel tour. I believe there is also a tour of the southern side of the area of the kosel, it’s to the right side of Dung Gate. In the Jewish Quarter, there are houses that were found from the times of the Second Bais Hamikdosh and they have found mikvaos and beautiful mosaics, etc. There is also a museum where they have samples of the keilim that were used in the Bais Hamikdosh.
In Jerusalem proper, there is the Israel Museum and the Dead Sea Scrolls. To visit kevarim, go to Har HaMenuchos. There is a chelkas harabonim there with many gedolim buried there.
Also don’t forget that everything in Israel is close. There are buses and tours going out from Yerushalayim to all parts of Israel, including Tzefas, Amukah, Tiveriah, Haifa, etc. If you are here in June/July, there may be an erev Rosh Chodesh that you will be here and there are tours to the kevarim of tzaddikim in the north that day. Look at signs at bus stops, particularly if you are in the frum neighborhoods. Signs will be up the week before. Reserve a spot if you’re interested.
Enjoy your visit!
Shmuel – father
Rivky – daughter of marriageable age
Reuven – Likely OTD son of Shmuel and brother of Rivky
You can buy Crest and Colgate here.
Sam2, while there may be heterim for the chosson and kallah seeing each other during the week before the chassanah for something important like going to a godol for a brocho (but why couldn’t they find time to go before this last week?), but should we just throw this inyan out because of taking pictures before the chuppah in order not to inconvenience people?
What about the detail that the chosson and kallah do not see each other for 7 days before chassanah?