Full lyrics:

A song without an introduction

is like (our school) without production

Dum dum dum

My menheles just looked at me and nodded

i think she wants me to get started

Testing testing ein svien dri

I eat cholev yisroel every bite

My tznisdik skirt is quite a hielege sight

You think i stack my dishes

Dont even wonder

I say tehillim for my grandmother

I walk behind my bashert

I say shir hashirim to get married

I never sing zmiros at the shabbos seuda

Besides kol isha its a boosha!

I have a date in the hotel lobby

Ill so my best to not act snobby

Every day i get inspired

Running to shiurim i never get tired

I spoke to my yeshivishe friend named shprinzta

She helped me write this little stanza

We sing it out in a tziniusdik way

Now listen to what we have to say

Hes in yeshiva he has no plan

But thats just how i like my man!

Funny cuz i think it can be just as funny with mitzvos. (Like put in chumros and real mitzvos just like here)

For a school thing we wrote a mitzva song as a parody

“A song without an introduction

Is like (our school) without production”

“My menaheles just looked at me and nodded

I think she wants me to get started

Testing testing

Ein svien drien

I do mitzvos dont even wonder

I say tehillim for my grandmother

My tznisdik skirt is a hielege sieght

I say shir hashirim every night”

“Hes in yehiva he has no plan

But thats just how i like my man!”

Im missing lyrics so doesnt completely make sense…but read it in the same yiddish accent and then it sorta rhymes 🙂

most kiruv shabbatons ive been to the rule is no public chilul shabbos. at an aish shabbaton, i was walking through the halls late friday night and yes i can hear the TV on and radio in other rooms, but barging in and making sure?

in megillas rus it naomi pushed rus away by explaining all the halachos of yichud and tchum shabbos, etc. paying close attention, after pushing her away exactly 3 times and rus still persisted, naomi did not continue mussairng her with nitty gritty halachos as to not overwhelm her. once someone makes the commitment now we welcome them with open arms and first let them see the beauty before what may seem to “diss” them. save that for when they value the reasons for such delicate halachos. i think you could have let that go….

Rebdoniel

Sorry, i didnt specify, she wasnt learning gemara with him, just some seder, not sure what it was but probably something tanach based since that is her area of expertise. Yes i do understand that a moters role is the nurture and love but i find it beautiful that this is how it is expressed. At her table all her children say their sivrieh torah which their rebbe or teacher really prepared. I an see my teacher theough and through as I watch her family question their 9 year old brother and look up his little 4th grade dvar torah in the Rambam to clarify something. Yes, my teacher doesnt HAVE TO instill these values and e the one to bring this into her home but she is doing her job. She nurtures her kids and this is how she does it. They are walking copies of her in the way they think and learn. Is this a bad thing? Should a brilliant woman not instill her love for learning (and when i say learning i mean tanach very very in depth as well as sifrieh mussar)?

Jewishfeminist

Respect yes, but respect as someone to learn with? Who else do you know learns with her 20 year old son?

Ah same here! A teacher and I learn every erev shabbos and another and i already made a deal for this summer.

One beautiful thing I learned from a teacher was when I was by her for Shabbos and I saw her learning a sefer with her 20 year old son! That just struck me as wow, for a mother to have such respect from her yeshiva bachur son that he finds it worthwhile to learn with her….was beautiful!

Wait why are we just being proud of all the not frum ones?

What about our awesomely famous and incredible gedollim to be proud of?

A teacher once said “at a certain point in my life i knew more names of actors and singers than of gedolieh torah.”

We have a publication in school we put out for yom tov and theres a section which girls quote inspiring things teachers say. So a friend of mine quoted that but wanted to ask her permission before printing. So time went on and we were both under the impression that the other had asked. The day came when the magazines were printed and we both realized neither has asked. I approached the teacher and asked her permission and se said she would rather not since doesnt reflect her class material. I said i was really uncomfortable but it was already printed. Without missing a beat she smiled and said “oh well then bH it was bashert, someone needed to read that!”

I LOVE HER!

SecularFrummy

yes you’re right so if you want another thing which won’t help you but connects, i heard rebbetzin heller say something really cool. she said that rabbi akiva says that this is “klal gadol baTorah.” Well Ben Azia says that “Zeh toldos adam, zeh klal gadol baTorah”

So what does toldos adam mean? it means the generation of the people. so she said that Hashem is infinite and therefore His tzelem Elokim in each of us is just a tiney winey piece of Him, so the only way to fully “get to know” Hashem is by loving all people since every person has a different tiney aspect of Him.

pretty cool…

i heard chevi garfinkel say “everyone talks about viahavta lirayacha kamocha- they should start talking about the kamocha part”

NAGEELA! (sorry dancestar we’re your competition but know people going it will be amazing for you!)

By Ohr Naava you’re talking specificlly about Bnot Chaya Academy, The high school? The Seminary is a different ball game.

I always read comments. A teacher of mine gives the best comments, she writes things like “yay queens people we are so smart” and stuff. Not all comments have to be corrections, a teacher once wrote she never knew that (in a report i wrote)

Once a teacher wrote please see me and i did and turns out she loved an example i gabe and has a sefer which connects to that topic. Guess what now we learn it together! Teaching isnt just lecturing and grading and by these teachers i see that more and more

I met one of their teachers at a Project Inspire Shabbaton. She spoke there and was this adorable lady who i cannot imagine ever not liking. Wish she taught in my school! (Her kids are soooo cute too!) she teaches a class called Drachim, very hashkafa/life skills type of class but fun and interactive too.

Her motives are very sincere and genuine. She really teaches for the greater good of klal yisroel- she never used to be a teacher, ha a different job but realized te need so went into the field. Cute, approachable, inspiring, the whole package.

Thats just one teacher but if they had the good sense to hire her maybe the others are just as amazing!

In Bronys defense, its true people have a streotype for frum Jews (especially those who live out of NY and highly Jewishly populated areas. One of the main reasons i wanted to go on SEED was to make that kiddush Hashem of showing people that frum Jews are normal enjoyable people to be around. Its about making commections with a whole family and community. Thats one thing i like

More vs just being im a camp like Oorah or Nageela…

Funny, i went through the same thing recently.

For me it was a machshava for a while but something i was scared to vioce since i knew once i said t outloud i would have to follow through.

For me what happened was i was sitting in the train my non jewish music blasting in my ears and i was contemplating a shiur i was on the way home from. And thats when it started to make no sense! Im thinking about this relationship i want to have with Hashem and at the same time listening to some guy sing about some superficial relationship he has with a girl?

So i pulled my headphones out of my ears and went the rest of the ride silently. Untill i got a chance to delete my iTunes library and put jewish music on i just never took headphones with me anywhere. I once heard Charlie Harary say “you have to burn the bridge” meaning you have to make sure you have no way back. For me cold turkey worked though i know a lot of people say take small steps.

Yeah its still hard. When you’re in a store and that song is playing and it used to be your favorite its hard! I cant say i hate non hewish music and have no taayva for it. But as someone said above, your taste does end up slowly changing. You know there is some really enjoyable jewish music out there too!

Good luck!!!!

@squek

Im not saying there isnt anything wrong with the motzieh shabbos theme. Dont worry i would be the first one to vote agaisnt girls and guys hanging out!

The thing is that by usin threats and force they arent going to stop the situation. There is obviously something much deeper which is wrong. I dont know, im no rocket scientist but usually you look for the root of a problem to get rid of it. The root isnt that these kids dont realize their menhahel disapproves! The root is much much much deeper, probably touching things like messed up chinuch, hashkafos skewed in their mind, lack of loving teaching ingraining these values in them, etc.

By using negative reinforcment they accomplished 3 things:

1) made kids who already dont love Judaism and Rabbis HATE rabbanim

2) made kids put their parents on the black list if they arent already on it since now its not just their Rebbbe giving them mussar but their parents telling them where to go

3) moved the hangouts to somewhere else

I dont see anything fixed by this, do you?

I just dont understand how threatening people will stop the issue. I usually have a great respect for Rabanim

But I dont understand. They didnt stop anyone from talking to the opposite gender since every kid will just find a different way to do it and getting a letter isnt going to be a miraculous “oh yes i totally didnt realize i was doing something so different but thank you rabbis now i realize.”

All they accomplished is have these kids continue and on top of that hate rabbanim

Please please please dont describe our religion through Christianity!

Ummm we just interpret the Torah differently? We stem from different roots so different traditions remain? I dont know but just not the baptist route…makes no difference to them anyways so its imporatant to make sure you give off a positive answer since ultimately thats their understand forever…

amosphere in streets is unpleasant because of the very open antisemitism there which bH we dont get in the US as much.

if i would want to apply for next year where do i get more info and application and stuff?

True when it comes to those kind of questions the answers arent so satisfactory…as i said beause really if you just take away all the results of te problem theres no way to actually fix it properly…if you get killed for asking a question ask rabbanim these questions about emunah, they have great answers for that…

And WIY what i was saying what as teens thats our biggests thing agianst that because its a rationalization and that its not right aince at the end if the day we are being close minded, not saying anything about what any ine actually is and as you said it is off topic

Well i wasnt nearly as off and many other people who have answered similar kinds of posts sound like they were

.1) I was still in a bais yaakov and most of my friends were bais yaakov girls. That was one of the amazing aspects. I had friends who cheered me kn for thr tiniest things i did. From 9th grade till now, looking back i was no tzadiekes though they made me feel like i was the best person they knew. But b”H there were times when they were honest and harsh but its always different coming from a friend vs a parent.

2) i still was OPEN to hearing it…see i find amongst some of mu friends that they ask and challenge not bc they are looking for an amswer but because they want to prove it wrong. So when my teacher stTts answering they dont even listen of think about what shes saying. Many teens have some hashkafa problem but they dont neccasarily want to fix it=> the problem sort of valiadates them not doing it and if they do get it answered then they will have to stop.

So i wasnt scared of hearing the answers. That was another saving grace. My friend reccomended me a rav and i emailed him. My major “problem” was boys and not really a question if belief, as the guys i talked too. Youd be surprised how muh hashkafa they learnt from me. My rav sort of helped me through the whole stage. It was LONG i was on and off from elul through purim (with the main guys) and then till shvuos with another one who i just kept rationalizing as “doesnt count”

I wasnt scared to read the books and hear the speeches, but i know many people are, i thibk i posted this before but someone in school said “im afriad they are going to inspire me.” AFRAID!

And i just got so caught up in te shuirim and sforim and i sort of had less time for the movies and tv- no i didnt just stop it just wasnt a priority. And i eas thibkibg about it this elul and came to the conclusion if uts not a priorty and i can go so ling without it without noticing till im sick in bed and bored then what do i need it fir at all? And the music i stopped bc i was on my way home from a shuir and listening to music and it felt wrong to listen to this shtus right after such an amazing teshuva drasha so i had recorded the speech on my phone so i listened to it the whole subway ride and the next thing i knew i deleted my entire itune lubrary amd stared over…

Im not sure how the whole fire thing works bottom line, bc there were times i couldnt control my yetzer hara but its still in me now though i feel like the taayvos for all the past things it drove me to are gone…but then there are so many ither areas it tries tripping me up.

So i dont know and really it wont be something you can do.

My parents had little to do with it they just started to realize what i was doing now that i stopped…

I dont think this really helps since my situation is sooooo different but alll i want to say is that the yetzer hara can be defeated as long as theres a will inside to fight it…and u cant put the will inside your son he has to put it in himself

Have a restful Sukkos and you are so lucky to be in Eretz Yisroel for the yom tov!!!