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Ruach Revival a/k/a Ruach Orchestra
Stanley Miller“30 year ago this was normal.”
Ha! 30 years ago this August I went out with the young lady who became my wife. She lived in Flatbush. We went out, on our first date, to Bernstein’s. (I didn’t live in NY, and that was the only place I knew.) It was a Monday night, so the place was empty. Afterwards we went over to South Street Seaport and sat and talked until some early hour of the morning. We were married the following June, and still B”H married 29+ years.
The moral of the story: there’s nothing wrong with going to a restaurant on the first date.
“The Brisker R”Y said circumstances imposed by the Israeli government upon Bnei Torah living in Eretz Yisroel may compel us to move out to chutz l’aaretz to continue our Torah life.”
That would be impossible, as other civilized countries do not put up with rioting in the streets the way the Israeli government does.
Anyone not in E”Y IS OOT!
“We once had an adom gadol for a sukkos yom tov meal, we had a bar-b-q going on a low flame, so we served hamburgers, hot dogs and bar-b-q wings. The adom gadol complained that it is not yom tov’dik.”
An adom gadol should have enough common sense not to complain about the food at a meal to which he was invited. And by the way, our minhag for last day of Pesach is to BBQ for the day seuda. We had hot dogs, hamburgers, wings, and kebobs. A nice time was had by all, and nobody complained that the food was not fit for a meal on chag.
I said a (mostly) Shabbat morning P’sukei D’zimra, and Hallel (in it’s proper place in davening) with a bracha.
A meshuloch wandered into shule this morning 10 minutes after the last minyan ended. He still got up on the bima and made a speech to the 3 people left in the shule.
“Hot dogs and hamburgers off the grill . . .”
That’s what we’re having for lunch on the last day of the chag. Chicken wings too, I think.
Why wear a suit at all? I’ve worn a suit (and tie) exactly once in the last 11 1/2 years.
Funny thing is, at Osher Ad the big plastic bottles of Kedem are cheaper than the Israeli grape juice, so that is what we use. And I did ask our LOR about this tonight, and he told me the Kedem (regular, I didn’t ask about the lite version) is fine for use all year round, including for the Seder.
I’ll take a bus to Yerushalayim. If he’s not Moshiach, I can always take a bus home.
First thing you have to do is get off the internet.
“Im confused why people proudly announce they have no filter. No Rabbanim condone that.”
For all the “chareidim” here who claim to follow this or that Rebbe, shlit”a, or this or that Rosh Yeshiva, shlit”a – none of their Rebbiem would allow their followers to be on this website, let alone be on the internet for non-parnassa reasons. So all the people on the internet, even with filters, well, that defeats the whole reason of “following a Rebbe” to begin with.
“Did the gedolim say to move to Eretz Yisrael? Please name them.”
The Torah says to live in E”Y. Gedolim aren’t always correct.
As long as her parents have the required $100,000 check for the boy, there’s no problem.
“It’s assur to leave Eretz Yisroel for a visit.”
My parents were ill and dying, and then for the shiva,. Still going to maintain that it’s assur?“You Zionists will really jump on any opportunity to derail a thread, won’t you?”
Yes.“It’s amazing to me that i can visit מדינת ישראל and see people that think it’s not גלות even with a pride parade going on in ירושלים
Still better to be here than there.I have an LG 3. I think I bought it used, and I have no idea how much I paid for it. It works, that’s what’s important.
“. . . 5T may seem OOT but it really has it all from the perspective of a frum couple or family seeking to relocate but stay close to real world . . .”
You’re living in a fantasy world, my friend. The “real world,” such as it is, is not anywhere on the western side of the Atlantic. Your 5T is certainly OOT, as is Monsey, Williamsburg, Boro Park, Flatbush, Lakewood, and the list goes on and on.
It’s sad that the “frum couple or family” you mention so often treats E”Y as a spiritual Disneyland, but never gives a thought to what Hashem has written in his Torah over and over again. It’s amazing to me that I can visit the U.S. and see people read the words “וקבצנו מארבע כנפות הארץ לארצנו “, yet it apparently makes no impact.
Shwekey, Im Eshkachech.
If he’s singing it, he needs to make sure he can hit the high notes, or it ruins the song.
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I’ve got about 1800 songs, and my music is always set on shuffle. I never know what’s coming up next.
I hope by now that mik5 has learned to be on time for davening!
True story:
Many years ago, I davened regularly in a largish shule. My makom was in the front. In the row in front of me were several talkers, who happened to be machers in the shule. On one Shabbat, they were talking particularly loudly. I turned around (so I was not facing them), and shushed them quietly. One of the men took exception to this, and berated me right then and there.I changed seats the next Shabbat, and I never did move back to that spot.
Right before Rosh Hashana that year, he came up to me, apologized, and asked mechila for embarrassing me the way he did. He said he realized that he was wrong, and that he had been working on not talking during davening. He even invited me to move back to the original seat. Of course, I forgave him, but I didn’t move back to the old seat.
And by the way, to 1: There is a conservative shule down the street from where I daven in the mornings – they have well attended minyanim 3 times a day, every day. So yes, many go only 3 times a year, but there are some who go 3 times a day.
“Please, no home made stuff!”
You’ve obviously never tasted my wife’s chocolate chip cookies, have you. You’d be begging for more.
I wanted to update my post “upthread” concerning the no longer published Minchas Yerushalayim siddur.
One of my daughters was looking through my old Coffee Room posts, and saw what I had written about this particular siddur. She took it upon herself to ask on a few Yerushalayim based Facebook groups if anyone had this siddur to sell or give away. One woman did; all my kids chipped in and had it rebound, and gave it to me as a birthday present. I was (and still am) ecstatic!
(BTW, as it turns out, I knew the woman who gave the siddur to my daughter!)
Poor boy learning from Artscroll will probably have less shidduchim redt to him, thereby increasing the shidduch crisis.
I shop at the bigger stores. The makolet will invariably be more expensive. Many of the makolets will insist on a minimum charge to use a credit card, which is in violation of their agreements with the credit card companies.
“Davening in chutz l’aretz is of poor quality. It is rote. Plain an simple. ”
Not any more or less so than in E”Y.
joseph, yes, he would say that. What people do on their own is between them and Hashem.
I think y’all need to start worrying about yourselves and your immediate families. As my Dad z”l used to say, “MYOB!”
How about you go and take your abortion discussion and open another thread? T22t, did you seriously have to hijack a thread about one topic and turn it into another? Where’s your derech eretz?
“Besides this is where it all starts, we know what r’l comes next.”
Two of my daughters learned Gemara in midrasha, before they went into the IDF. I assume that’s what you mean by “what r’l what comes next.” Despite what you think, they came out OK, despite having learned Gemara and two years in the IDF, B”H.
Joseph, I have tried. The uninterested ones don’t reply to VMs I’ve left, or emails, or messages on Facebook. One of my cousins even flew to Israel for 10 days, and never attempted to reach out to me while she was here. (And yes, she knows I live in Israel.)
I keep in touch with some of my cousins via Facebook. Others, I call every once in a while to catch up. Some other of my cousins are simply not interested in keeping in touch at all, so I don’t bother.
Yes.
Next topic please.
This debate has already been done. Do you really need to do this again? You can’t just find the old debate and see what everyone thinks?
Spread some hummus or chopped liver on your computer. That’s how you add a Jewish flavor to working online.
Cheaper to live in E”Y, and certainly better for one’s spiritual life as well.
CTLawyer: wishing you and your wife the best, hoping that she is able to come home soon and have a complete recovery.
The simple solution is to do it yourself. I mean, seriously, people can’t manage to clean a house once a week?
Popa need’s a few warmup threads, he hasn’t been active in a while. Give him 3 or 4, he’ll be back to trolling in no time.
Adisrael, why don’t you just call them yourself and ask?
Unless a young man of 18 or 21 or whatever is ready to take a job and support his wife according to the obligations of their ketuba, he is not ready for marriage.
The city of PittsburgH has an “h” at the end.
As for the rest, well, you’re supposed to be uncomfortable in America. There’s no mitzvah to live there.
Shwarma is geschmak!
Do we not read the Torah every Thanksgiving?
Case closed.