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I used to be part of a chevra kadisha on the yishuv where we used to live, and we fasted on zayin Adar, had a big shiur, davened mincha as a ta’anit, and broke our fast on goodies after arvit. It was nice, as the whole group participated, men and women, and it’s about the only time the entire chevra kadisha got together as one group.
If I buy my shmura matza from my usual source, it will cost me ₪120 for a kilo. If I did the conversions correctly, that works out to $16.80/lb., I think. ($1 = ₪3.57). Unfortunately, I’m not sure I can get it from my regular source this year.
Unless you are somehow related to this family, why do you care what happens? Does it somehow affect you or your life? You don’t have more important things to think or worry about?
Thanks to the Coffee Room, I learned yeshivish terms like “Harry” and “Hot Chanie.” Today I learned a new word!
Chareidim shouldn’t be out protesting at all. If they have that much extra time, they should be in the beis medrash, or in the IDF.
Rocky, I thought the equivalent term for a male is “Yoily.” “I made our date later so Yoily wouldn’t miss his chavrusa.”
I seriously think there are more important problems in the world to worry about.
Maskildoresh: my daughter had the entire poem memorized when she was 11; we both have Jabberwocky memorized.
“I cannot imagine anyone walking from shul to shul begging for money to pay for his son’s/daughter’s chassanah.”
We once had someone show up who announced after davening that he was there to collect money to fly family in from the U.S. for a family wedding.
Back in my younger days, every morning after shacharit the oldish men would put herring on stale kichel left over from Shabbat, and wash it down with a shot or two of cheap rye whiskey. Then they’d go off to work. Now that I’m their age, I have yet to duplicate that feat.
Want to reduce the cost of a wedding? Walk through shules and ask strangers to pay for it. It must work, since so many seem to do it.
Zushy, while I appreciate the effort it took to answer my question, like a politician, you didn’t answer my question: where is all the money going to come from to pay for all this?
And Participant, there’s no need to raise the speed limit on Kvish 6, because nobody drives that speed anyway. I drove to Yerushalayim and back today, and my cruising speed on Kvish 6 from Beersheva to Soreq was 120, and there were many cars passing me.
Zushy, I’m curious. Where is all the money coming from to implement your plans?
It’s “they’re,” not “there.”
What’s the difference what they show in YWN? All the alleged “chareidi” and “haimish” people who use this site, yet they claim to cling to a Rebbe or Rosh Yeshiva who in no circumstances would allow them to use the internet.
Filtered, unfiltered, makes no difference.The short answer is yes, all Yehudim should know Hebrew. IY”H Mashiach will be here before you know it, y’all will be moving here, and how do you expect to find jobs here without speaking the language?
“Jersey City happens almost every month in Israel”
I think you’ve lost your mind.
Of course, if you all lived where you’re supposed to be living, this entire discussion would be moot.
Why do people have shidduch resumes at all? They certainly didn’t have them in the alter heim.
*low lifes, not low lives
jdf007, what are you talking about?
“Which American Chareidim are moving to EY? Chasidim are staying put. Lakewood is growing.”
There’s no mitzvah to live in America.Show us reliable and unbiased proof of this.
Don’t they have a break in the middle of the day? They can’t go and vote then?
Tanach should be taught, along with English, math, and science.
Be’er Sheva would come out ahead against any of these places. It’s a shame people won’t look beyond their dalet amot.
“-Esrog pitom or not? Yes Why? Otherwise it’s possul. ”
You’d have a hard time in E”Y with that one. I’ve not seen one with a pitum here since we made aliyah. Are etrogim with a pitum even available here?
The only time I’ve had a etrog with a pitum in the last 15 years was in 2020, when I was in Pittsburgh due to a family medical emergency. After I bought mine from one of the shules, I asked the Rav if there were any without a pitum, and he said no.ברוך דין האמת
“One more note. If you’ve been sick since Monday, don’t be surprised if your insurance co refuses to pay for your outpatient visit on Thursday. Why? Because it’s not an emergency.”
Interesting story. Many years ago, I was playing with my kids outside, and my oldest accidentally kicked me in the center of my chest. That night, I had some chest pain, and I couldn’t get comfortable – couldn’t lie down, couldn’t sit, couldn’t fall asleep. Finally, around 2:30 in the morning, I woke my wife, and said I was having pain in my chest, and I thought E broke a rib. I was going to drive myself to the hospital. My wife’s famous line to me: “You know, if it’s not an emergency, the insurance won’t pay.”
My wife woke the next morning, and I still wasn’t home. She got the kids off to school, and went to work – at the hospital where I was still in the ER. I had suffered a heart attack, and a few days later I had 4 bypass grafts. It was an emergency after all!
(BTW, my hospital stay between diagnosis until the day of the surgery was over a weekend. I found out a few months later that the insurance company wanted me to go home over the weekend, over the strong objections of my cardiologist. I stayed in the hospital, and I don’t know if the insurance covered those few days or not.)Reb CTL, wishing your wife a refuah shlayma, and wishing koach to you and your family.
“Nowadays yeshivos only allow touro/other “Jewish” colleges.”
Not Ner Yisrael.ujm: “Yiddish has historically been the lingua franca of Jews across countries.”
Really? Sfardim spoke Yiddish? I’m sure they’d be surprised to hear it. Ladino was just a popular amongst the Sfardim as Yiddish was in Eastern Europe/Russia.
@common saychel
“Wrong, its the MO crowd that is changing, they are going black hat or going frie.
The average kippa sruga minyan resembles a geriatrics ward.”In America, perhaps, but you’ve obviously never been to a datei leumi/chardal minyan in E”Y.
I was reading the beginning of this thread, and so many wrote comments about having the rebbetzin talk to the women who were allegedly failing with a lack of tznius. How do we know that it wasn’t the rebbetzin who was the problem?
Beis medrashes???
Seriously? People pay that much in rent? You can move to Immanuel and live much cheaper. B”H we bought several years ago, and a mortgage is much less than what you’re paying in rent.
ujm: That would be hard to do, since their kids would be in school in E”Y, and there are no “A” grades here. Besides, I know my kids, and they’re not built that way.
My children are well past the school parsha, but I will tell you that if a teacher or school administrator had EVER laid a hand on any of my children, that teacher or administrator would have been nursing some black eyes and broken arms. I would not have regretted it, either.
Years ago, in Baltimore, I had a chavruta who learned in yeshiva in the mornings, worked in a law firm in the afternoons, and attended law school at night. It was hard, but B”H he graduated, opened his own law firm, and still learns in the mornings. (And I might add he married a nice girl from a yeshivish family; she had no problems with him either working or going to law school.)
“the Negev, they are give houses away there”
Where are “they” giving away houses in the Negev? I live in the Negev, and I haven’t seen or heard of any houses being given away down here.“but the communities suggested here are not my style and too Israeli”
This is Israel – what do you expect the communities to be here? If you want to live here, you learn to deal with it and become Israeli.” . . . Lakewood being the fulfillment of R Aharon’s dream.”
I would imagine that being in E”Y would be the fulfillment of R. Aharon’s dream, at least that’s supposed to be the fulfillment of everyone’s dream. I don’t see Lakewood mentioned anywhere in Tanach.
“you will find pictures of a Beis Hamedrash filled with women, Rachmona Litzlan”
There is a problem with women learning Torah, or are you simply trolling?When we made aliyah, we first lived on a yishuv for 9 1/2 years. Every year for Yom Kippur we’d daven at the local Hesder yeshiva, and there were always plenty of people carrying weapons – including the gabbai. I always felt sad that the weapons were needed, even if they weren’t used.
Anyone outside of E”Y is OOT, so I don’t understand what you’re complaining about.
“Is it kdai for bochurim to be using YWN coffee room during bein hazmanim?”
You’re asking the wrong question. The proper question should be “is it kdai for any alleged Chasid or Chareidi person to be on YW at all, since we all know that there is not one Chassidich Rebbe or Chareidi Rosh Yeshiva that would give reshus to any of their Chassidim/talmidim/followers to be using the internet in this manner.”
What does that mean, nobody eats it after Pesach? I eat matza year round, and I make sure to finish the shmura first so it doesn’t go stale. This year it will be a bit of a problem because I’m flying to the states on chol hamoed. Such is life.
When I asked our Rav back in the olden days when I was a teen, he answered, “The Rebbetzin always serves a slice of bread on the side, so there won’t be a question.”