i’m really pleased that someone is actually putting their foot down to soemthing around here.

Keep going, there is a lot more improvement needed.

147, i do not think 17 years make that much difference when you are 82 years old.

BTW, the wife of R’ tuvia weiss is also twenty years younger than him, as is the almana of the last vizhnitzer rebbe, as is the wife of r’ dovid solovaitchik.

Just interested, but how do you pronunce shoe? The English say the “shu” – as in pull, while americans say shoe as in boot. Who is really correct? Or is there a third pronounciation special for “oE”

Aurora, there was a very traumatising event in my childhood hwich i describe in the confiscating shoes thread, so it is very ironic that i ended up un in a shoe shop.

I suggest you work in a shoe shop for two weeks, especially for frum teenagers, i assure you that will always notice what shoes everyone is wearing.

What about a jewish cookbook. Traditional foods have gone a long way in bringing people back.

Aurora, i’d really love to run a survey on that maths questions in the other thread.

I’m out to prove that children function better when they are not wearing their shoes!!!!!

Hey i missed out some of the best parts.

1) the mil told her daughter in law that the children should wear their knew shabbos shoes all day, that they should be more comfortable by the chasuna, but they shouldn’t go to the park, or anywhere not to truin them.

2) since the kids came in sneakers, which normally end higher and fit the foot tighter than regular shoes, i always wait a few minutes to give the feet a chance to relax and resume their natural shape before fitting them. so they really ran all over in their socks. hope they are not realated to your mil.

And i asked her if the kids school has ever told her kids to remove their shoes. By this stage she was really amazed, however she explained that Israeli schools have concrete floors in the classrooms, and you wouldn’t want your kids using their bathrooms unshod.

So, mrs. katz, i have some real good ideas if you want your kids to keep their shoes on….

Could i have “boki but not a lamdan”

pleeeeeeeaze

ZD, i always thought that EVERYONE ALWAYS listens to rabbis, whatever they say/

if your rov told you not to wear sneakers on shabbos would you not listen?

I have been doing an informal survey on my customers to see whether their children have ever had to remove their shoes in school.

a) every child has been asked to remove their shoes as part of “regular” activities, i.e. soft play, ball ponds, doctors or nurses doing checkups, various sport activities done without footwear.

b) Most schools do not allow children to come in crocs, and some do not allow sneakers too. Many schools ignore it if the children come in once or twice, but eventually warn the children the first time, and then either send them home, or confiscate the footwear.

Some also insist on sneakers for sport activites, and at least one boy said that if they forget their sneakers at home two weeks running they have to forfeit their shoes for AN ENTIRE DAY.

And now some interesting ones.

C) a maths teacher who told all the childrfen to remove their shoes and then showed them how to measure all the feet, and taught the chidlren how to make graphs.

d) a rebbi who if he sends a boy out of class first confiscates his shoes, he says he doesn’t want the boys playing soccer in the yard when he sent them out of class!!!!

e) one school take off both the shoes and socks and CLIMB ROPES BAREFOOT!!!

f) a rebbi who runs a quiz, where if you don’t know a question you take off your shoe. if you lose both shoes you’re out.

g) a sports teacher who tells the boys to do head stands and tumble overs in stocking feet.

There were quite a few more, each stranger than the next, including art – draw round your barefoot, or draw your shoe! science activities, plays… you name it.

Venahpoich, did ypur rebbis teachers and parents not care? Mine ttooki it really seriously.

Shortly after Rabbi yosef was diagnosed, a cure was discovered, a most remarkable neis for disease that was until recently virtually untreatable, and a sure sign that Hashem is listening to our tefillos.

His father made a mi shebeirach for him by pesichat ha’Aron on simchat tora, so he obviously feels it is still included in mat’riyin afillu be’shabbat.

I actually have an admission to make, I suffered a very traumatic event in my childhood.

I only bought My first pair of lace ups in the middle of fourth grade, and of course I went to school without knowing how to tie a lace. Our teacher then was an older ennglish lady told me a few times to tie my sheolaces, and eventually made me take off my shoes. To add to my trauma, she actaully chose a day on which we had sports/ (which we did in the school lunch room).

Of course i wore my old shoes to school for the next few days, until my mother realised, and then i had to start asking my friends to tie my laces during recess. In all honesty i don’t think it really bothered me that much.

Someone told me in the store recently that their son always removes his shoes in school and the rebbi eventually confiscated them, but I think that it is a bit different if the child takes them off himself.

Anyway, isn’t it geneiva?

I’m looking for someone with shoe fever. Perhaps YWN can give me some of their email addresses? [they should first make that their mothers will allow me to buy our children shabbos shoes.]

shabos shoes are like shtreimels, you don’t need a source, it’s just soemthing that everyone you know does.

You guys really have shoe fever.

Confiscating shoes is not a fair punishment for a very simple reason, some kids will probably be traumatised – like twisted, while others would love it. [Parents are always telling me that their children’s teachers complain that they kick their shoes under their desks and what should they do.