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QB, you really are better off using a made-up name for the seminary, especially if your character goes there and anything important to the plot of your novel will happen there.
If you want her to apply to a few sems and then have her go to your fake, you can do that – use a handful of real names from the ones people suggest above and list your made-up name among them.
For made up names, you can either use something like Bnos Sara (which is good b/c it looks like the reference is to Sara Schenirer AH) or Bnos Torah, or Ateres Bas Torah etc. Just do NOT steal any names of Creedmoor sems, like Bnos Burqa, or my trademarked “120-denier seminary” line!
-Hatzlocho
Yakov – hmm…sure!
The Lubavitcher Rebbe ZYA was NOT a posek. When he spoke about wine vs mashke, he was rightfully concerned because Chabad was expanding far and wide, physically and socially outside its old base of Russian chassidim in NY, EY and Paris, and newcomers could have various issues with kiddush on mashke.
He deferred to a community rov for simpler shylas and to Rav Moshe Feinstein for complex issues. The only real psak halacha the Rebbe was involved with had to do with ships traveling on Shabbos, and he was consulted davka because of his engineering knowledge.
” Who dethroned MBD? “
Overwork and aging.
There is a huge difference.
Those names are Yiddish, and Yiddish is a Jewish language. They may have come from German and Slavic roots, but they were absorbed into Yiddish.
English is not a Jewish language. Yeshivish and haymish are not Jewish languages; they are euphemisms for bad English or tzibruchene Aynglish. The turning point for English names came and went when assimilation was considered the in thing. That changed was over after the war and really ended in the 60s.
It almost happened that French names became accepted among North Africans in place of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic names. Sadly, it is happening again in EY because of the desire to be “European;” names like Nathalie that have no business being given to Jews are back in style in EY – and those same names are being dropped in France and Canada in favor of proper shmos beYisroel.
A true fact:
Lipa was adopted!
He was found under a power line on Long Island by a Skverer couple, and when the man stopped his car to check why he heard crying near a downed power line, he called Hatzolo and screamed “Er ken tzi schmeltzen do! Kim schnell!” (He can melt here, come fast!)
The Hatzoloh crew leader came and immediately called LIPA – the Long Island Power Authority. Since he was haimish, he said – Hello, is this Lipa? Please send an emergency crew etc… The Skverers thought he was calling a dispatcher named Lipa!
And the Skvere couple adopted him; not wanting to give him their own surname for reasons that are now 1000% understandable, they named him..Lipa Schmeltzer!
(Needless to say, this is 1000% shtus. Lipa’s brother Zishe Schmeltzer is a well-known character in New Square.)
Carlos, solamente un pendejo piense que Pesaj esta un partido. Callate!
Rapidly advancing technology will make traditional degrees useless in all but a few fields. It is those who keep up learning and acquire new skill sets on their own, both by learning and by doing, who will succeed in the new economy.
Watch this space (or more probably the YWN headlines as I will be gone from here Shushan Peerim :)). I happen to be working on something that will provide both training and work online so I will turn my own prediction into reality. I have not decided whether I will roll out a separate platform for the frum community but I do have it set up that way at present.
Regardless of whether I have a separate section for frum clients and workers, there will be plenty of ways for those who “missed out” on learning something in school to catch up through online instruction. Then, you take tests that qualify you to do various legitimate jobs that we line up in writing, design, programming, marketing and much else, so you get right to work at whatever hours suit you. Most work will be done that way in the future; this already exists for some types of remote work but I am bringing it to a new level with training and a more streamlined process.
ETA Pesach Sheini 5772.
Now, back to hachonos lePeerim – and frankly, this memoir is one bad Peerimshpiel – an exaggeration of what goes on in certain communities that in the end will subject its author to nothing but ridicule.
I know of a top Jewish music performer who takes one or even two intense sessions with Dr. Yarden or Dr. Herzog, or perhaps even Dr. Bokobza from France, before each concert to avoid performance anxiety. He is very open about it as well. In his case, it probably improves his rather energetic performance on stage; it may not have the same effect for plain public speaking.
Otisville should open a Pesach hotel! I probably eat no more and no better than the yingerleit there do for Pesach. It would also serve as a great “scared straight” program for budding Federal Kollel yingerleit.
If you want to see examples of frum men who remain frum, and have no secular education, somehow learning proper English and a lot more, speak to any Chabad shluchim who are originally from Brooklyn and have been on shlichus for a couple of years. Oholei Torah has zero secular studies – it makes the Satmar system look like Choate or Philips Exeter – and somehow graduates from there manage to learn English, computers and a lot more on their own once they need to gain skills to get ahead in their shlichus or even regular careers.
I have an Ivy League degree and I did not learn ONE thing I use in my real life at college. If I could have done it all again, I would have used those four years for learning Torah.
Anyone can now catch up on missed secular learning online. That means that only those who really observe Internet bans and library bans will be left in the dark.
I have seen a dash between an aleph and a lamed many times in names. There really is no point to it, but does it bother anyone?
Lipa is in a category by himself. He really does not compete against any other singer – he is a musical comedian and entertainer. The only other performer remotely in his category is Michoel Schnitzler, who really is the Yom Tov Ehrlich of today and is far more musardige and serious than Lipa.
Lipa has a real stage act that no one can copy – well, at least no one who is allowed out at night without supervision :))).
Sorry, no pity for someone who is trying to make a quick buck off of her most probably exaggerated stories. If someone told me such stories personally to explain why he is OTD, I might understand so long as he is not telling me to join him. I also would not listen to an oisvorf who makes himself out to be a hero or better than me because he is OTD whereas I returned after bad experiences.
Most OTD who make a big deal out of it are baalei gayva vetayva who think that Yiddishkeit will not survive without them and their friends. They also think they found something better, when they actually have nothing but a whole bunch of new tsuris.
This one is like the Kook Klutz Kartel nutters – just out to shock people, and best ignored.
Her goal is to make a quick buck. She is nothing and she has nothing. She’ll get her 15 minutes of fame, blow all her money in Vegas and on flashy clothing, and then end up on welfare. Believe me, she won’t need our klalois to meet a bad end.
For us, this, too, will pass. Remember Gitty from KJ? She had her 15 minutes too, and now no one knows what happened to her. Remember Unchosen? Who even reads it anymore and what is the author up to? Even Footsteps has a very small intake rate B”H and the founder is now in law school. We have survived far worse. Ignore her. She is an unintellectual version of Boteach.
Bloggers, who have a very wide audience, have been spreading far worse schmutz than this schvache maysele can hope to spread. They think they’ve started an OTD movement, but about all they’ve done is given oisvorfen a place to hang out online.
the hand that signs our paycheck at the end of every other week
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Your work should be feeding whoever signs your paycheck at a rate of at least 20% more than what you are being paid. Otherwise, that hand is either Uncle Sam’s hand on a velfare-chekale or a hand that will soon break under the burden of too many employees or not enough work.
Tawil means tall. Do you mean that only Tawils who are Cohanim go back to Eli? There must be some Tawils who are not Cohanim considering that Jews were probably taller and healthier than Arabs and many were called Tawil which then became a surname. Maslatons as in Ahi Ezer are Cohanim? This I did not know.
I do not doubt that names in every community got taken by other families. In my community, this was done to fool the not-too-bright KGB as well as to obtain Polish passports which facilitated escape from the old USSR.
The original Mr. Friedman would be 90+ if not 100; I remember him as far back as 1986 when he had the smaller store on the corner. He was not a young man then.
Ashkenazi for Ari is an old error. I don’t have time to post the hundreds of links that show this – please just do a Google search.
Shufra with hay – Hebrew cognate of Aramaic version with aleph at end.
🙂 it is proper halacha from the Shulchan Aruch to make on wine. The Shulchan Aruch haRav does not mention using mashke either. It was hardly the Rebbe’s chiddush.
Those who did make kiddush on mashke and continued to do so in the US and EY included many who lived into their 9th decade.
Ari = ADONENU Rabbi Itzhak or ELOKI Rabbi Itzhak but certainly not Ashkenazi!!!!
However, the many Ashkenazi/Schinasi/Esquenazi families from the old Ottoman Empire are descendants of migrants from Europe. They have completely assumed local minhagim and are no different from their “Sefardi” neighbors.
There is definitely a conflation of Speyer and shefer/shufra etc to get to Shapiro/Shapira as opposed to Spiro/Spira (same Speyer origin).
What interests me is whether there was a mass emigration from France to No. Africa or whether it was France->Spain->forced migration to North Africa.
(though again, I have never seen anyone make havdalah on any amount of whiskey).
I made it once on a reviis of 96! There is a segula to do this and then to pour the remaining 96 on the candle if you are in a property that is insured for more than it is worth.
Sarfati/y is common among Tunisian Jews as well. There was a famous Tunisian-Jewish comedian whose main character was a Tunisian version of a Yiddishe Mamme combined with the Creedmoorer Rebbetzin, and she was called Mme (Mrs) Sarfaty.
So is Narboni, which seems to indicate an origin in Narbonne, France – no idea how it got to Tunisia or whether I am perhaps making a mistake with its origins. I will see what I can find about the historical origins of those surnames and whether there was a particular known migration of Jews directly from today’s France to North Africa (as those names would suggest) on motzash or Sunday when I have some time.
yes, Shapiro comes from Speyer. Horowitz (often a Levi) comes from Horovice in Bohemia or Moravia.
Sam, I am sorry, but I do not hold by that and it looks out of context. Bubbamaises are NOT Torah. They are Peerim Torah.
If I did not know better, that maase that I wrote about would have made me into another anti-frum blogger. In fact, I would have become an active member of Daat Emet had I believed that was Torah.
Those names are 1000% Jewish now. No one else uses them for centuries now. So is Shraga Feivel, regardless of its origin.
Kaplan is Polish for priest. Kaploun is a variant.
Kogan is another variant of Kagan; it came about because of the lack of a hay sound in Russian. Sometimes it is followed by typical -ov and -sky type Russian endings.
Persian Cohanim are called Betaharon and Cohenzedek (Kohanzadegh) as well as Kohanian.
There are a couple of Bukharan Cohen families whose names have nothing to do with kehuna.
In Creedmoor, the Admou”r receives pidyon gelt for every baby born, bechor or otherwise, but his surname is Schmoigerman (Shoiteh, Menivel, veGas Ruach), hardly a sign of kehuna.
Then again:
“I have heard that schlock, meaning junk, comes from schlag – to hit, as if the merchandise had been hit and bruised. However, the correct etymology stems from a Lower East Side peddler whose last name was Schlackman.
Schlackman specialized in buying damaged merchandise from other peddlers and selling it to greenhorns at full price. His competitor was a Syrian Jew by the name of Raphael “Fat Ralphie” Dweck, a true reprobate who accepted merchandise that even Schlackman would never touch, and who met his end at the hands of the Mafia during Prohibition (during that dry period, Dweck distilled arak from banana peels, dung, and wood; he sold it to a speakeasy whose owner died of its effects, so that the owner’s brother iced the esteemed distiller).
Other pushcart merchants, when stuck with bad merchandise, would scream out “Schlackman” or “Dweck” depending on just how bad it was, so that one or the other entrepreneur would come running, ill-gotten pennies in hand, to purchase the detritus at far below cost, only to sell it later to some unsuspecting mark at a price far above its true value.
Eventually, the -man was deleted from Schlackman, (the A was always pronounced as AH), and Dweck, a name often uttered in an incorrect fashion by Ashkenazi peddlers and Irish cops alike, became Dreck.”
(quoting a shtick post I made years ago on Usenet)
I have heard 2 different origins for the name Dweck (all Dwecks are related regardless of spelling, and that includes the French Doueck spelling and Spanish Duek). One, which makes sense because Arabs have it as well, is goldsmith. The other is that it comes from the same root as “duke” through Latin and it was a Spanish title.
In any case, whoever took it was a Cohen; the name has nothing to do with kehuna (and Solomon notwithstanding, nothing to do with a similar unpleasant Yiddish word either).
Rapaport is an acronym for Rofe da Porto, and while there are Rapaports who have the name and are not Cohanim, the original Rav Meir Rofe da Porto was a Cohen. The non-Cohanim have it either from mothers (widows sometimes passed down family names due to bureaucratic error) or Ellis Island.
The wine switch might be happening more in EY which is where most shluchim where I am are from. The Lubavitcher Rebbe ZYA was against using mashke, but it was an old minhag from the former USSR, where there was no wine during Communist times, and making your own kosher wine was risky. All most people could do in Communist times was to make wine in small batches from raisins.
Hmmm..never saw this anywhere but in MO shuls.
In Chabad, the trend is going away from mashke and to wine, but the holdouts, including myself on Shabbos Mevorchim and special shabbosim, are very careful to use Rav Noeh’s shiur for mashke.
There are probably two or more minyanim in Otisville. It is Federal Kollel, a prison designed specially for the needs of frum white collar criminals. How low have we fallen?
There is another Federal Kollel in Fort Dix, New Jersey.
LOL you rarely get a lifetime appointment to Federal Kollel.
Yes, we seize all leftover herring and salmon after every simcha :)!
LOL if you step all over a bear (except when hibernating) you won’t have to worry about stepping over a child.
I assume the Mormons baptize dead Muslims as well. May they have the zechus to perform as many posthumous baptisms as they want on Ahmadinejad and Khamenei starting today.
Seizures are not even what is considered mental illness. They are a manifestation of a physical, medical problem that involves messages sent by the brain to the body. Epilepsy and febrile convulsions are only two examples of conditions that manifest as seizures.
Do not go to anyone who can remove shin daletim or any other sort of alternative practitioner if you have repeated seizures. Go to a board certified or otherwise qualified neurologist. Fast. I didn’t bother when it happened to me, but you probably should get an EEG or even an MRI after a febrile convulsion and you definitely should have your child examined after even a one-off seizure.
Ah, so when you’ve done it once, you should do it again as a sign of respect? Step once retards growth – step twice reverses the effect?
Like Ahron Cohen, who went to Iran once, was welcomed back to Manchester with a full cherem and 1000 eggs, so he went again this week?
Cohen is from Szarkonosvary. Creedmoor shtams from Szarkonosvary. The difference between Chelm and Szarkonosvary is that in Chelm they sell bagel holes. In Szarkonosvary, they sell bagel hole options, derivatives and futures!
They behave properly in EY as well; the famous Mormon center (Yerushalayim is Not For Sale was written about it) is not at all involved in shmadding Yidden.
Yiddishe ‘inyanim’???
Shirayim = an example of Yiddishe inyanim that may be controversial. Since the practice is neither deorisa nor derabonnon, it is up to you to decide as there is nothing harmful either way.
Superstition = goyishe inyanim that crept into our world from the same neighbors who tormented us for centuries. Anyone who believes that stepping over a child retards growth needs to learn very basic human biology – or ask a frum doctor to explain that growth hormone cannot be affected by such an action.
Malignant superstition or misplaced belief = believing that anything can take the place of modern medicine in treating diagnosed illnesses or of work in creating parnosso. When we say tehillim for Rav Elyashiv shlita, we know full well that Hashem will grant refuah shelema through his doctors. If anyone were to recommend disconnecting so much as one machine or discontinuing so much as one medication based on anything other than sound medical advice or a clear examination showing this is the right course of treatment, that person is a murderer. Even in documented stories of nissim, the doctor made the final determination that the disease was no longer present – and many of the stories of nissim are of patients who went to the doctor because they were told to do so by Rebbes/tzaddikim or rabbonim.
The parliament building in Teheran, if you are of a certain persuasion and you want a photo op with the Naye Homon. If anyone asks you what you’re doing there, just say Aron from Manchester sends his regards.
I am not judging him in any way and my question was strictly technical as it pertains to this thread. I made it clear that he is a godol beYisroel. I just do not think that he functions or sees himself as a traditional Chassidishe rebbe, which is what we are discussing here. Dash’s post clears it all up.
I believe this practice stopped some years ago, at least as far as Jews are concerned.
Ami is tied to certain segments of the Jewish world that must have the Democrats in power in order to get benefits.
ZeesKite – both your darshening and your attitude is what drives people OTD. It would be perfect in the Beis Medrash d’ Westboro. Enjoy your life.
Shirayim is something you can take or leave (we don’t have it in my Chassidus and I never went to a tish where a Rebbe gave them out though I probably would if time ever permits me to do so). You either go to the tish to get it – or you don’t. You either hold by Rebbe Aleph or Beis – or by Gimmel – or by no one. All is well and I fully do understand those who have no interest in shirayim. It certainly does not compare to superstitions except if you misunderstand them and the role of a Rebbe who may give them out.
If you think chapping shirayim will cure illness, and you use it instead of medicine, then yes, by all means it belongs in that category and if you tell people to go to get them for that reason, you are a dangerous fool.
I purposely used some wine I got from my Rebbe years ago to rid myself of a skin infection that I noticed one night – and as I expected, it did not work. The cream I picked up the next morning did the job. My Rebbe would have told me on no uncertain terms to <b>cut it out</b> if he had been with us at the time and I had written him to tell him it did work and that I was going to hand it out to others. If I had arak from Baba Sali – or from Nissim SuperZol in Machane Yehuda – it probably would have worked because arak has mild antibacterial properties and wine does not. If your reason for shirayim is based on Chassidus, and therefore far more than I can explain al regel achas, then it is not in that category at all. And if you have no interest – don’t go – it is not a doraisa!
Baba Sali ZYA himself said that if you truly believe in Hashem and His infinite power you don’t need his water for a brocho – ordinary tap water will do.
We pasken water is a liquid too.
I would want the ability to create billions of birth certificates from thin air and then to register all of them for MOIFES (Medicaid, Velfare, Food Shtemps, Section 8).
My second choice would be to be able to speak fluent Hungarian!
got it!
It is after chatzois here and I was not able to say any tehillim earlier. Pls give me any 5 prakim (except 119). I’ll check the board as soon as I wake up and I will say the prakim before or after shacharis tomorrow morning.
Hodu = Hodu Lashem
Cush = cush in well, you know.
Hodu therefore refers to the mouth, which is in the head (elu pinu malei shira kayam…ein anachnu maspikim lehoidois)
Cush refers to something else that is round, albeit bifurcated.
Whichever way you look at it, Hodu and Cush are both related to round.
Therefore, the world is round.
Well, there is someone, nebach a formerly frum Yid, who landed over seven centuries in FEDERAL koilel. He will be a great-to-the-30th-power grandfather on his release date!
Seriously, though, how common is lifelong kollel with no outside income or responsibilities whatsoever?