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No, you are not chicken. You could have asked for a Xanax or Valium and they would have given it to you. Many people feel claustrophobic in an MRI. There are “Open MRIs” out here in LA. Much less confining.
Ein Od Milvado. There is no “luck” just the Ratzon of Hashem.
If it makes you feel better… good luck, may the stars and planets all align for you and may positive energy flow to you.
Nah, I take it back… just daven.
YOSSI151, who cares if they are? Unless you are doing a chilul Hashem, I wouldn’t worry about it. Just smile. Always have in mind that you were created b’Tzelem Elokim and Hashem loves you. Nothing to worry about!
Fun little fact: It is physically impossible to not blush when seeing someone else blushing.
Nahapochu, that is very sad.
“Your argument should be everyone should adapt the Temanim’s dress.”
Amen. But I’m not convinced that Yemenite dress is authentic as they rap their turbans around a Fez which is Turkish.
Yes. Avraham did come from there. therefore I have less of a problem “re”adopting the dress of the Temanim or the Beduin than see Mizrachim and Sephardim dressing like they came from Volozhin. It is this precisely this ethnocentric thought that has defined black suits and fedoras as “Jewish” dress.
My Rav who has semicha from Chofitz Chaim was medakdek to not where a black hat (he wore gray) as he was taught that a black hat was gaivadik as people wore them to look “frummer”. Twenty years later he is now wearing a black hat. Why? Because his daughters all married Yeshivish guys and he was pressured.
FYI, i am black hat on Shabbos. Why? My wife’s cousins in Monsey guilted me into getting one.
Again, all I am saying is that we are Middle eastern and thus perhaps our dress should reflect Rav Amnon Yitzchak Shlita’s rather than mobsters from the 1940s.
Correct MDG. Thank you. That was the point I was trying to convey.
Obaminator, I am not talking about traditions. I am talking about dress. Jewish dress has changed throughout the centuries among all Jews (except perhaps the Temanim). That being said, Israel is a Middle Eastern country and that is where we are all from. Ergo, our original dress would more than likely be closer to those other groups from the Middle east: Jalabiya, turban, etc.
No one is telling you to forgo your Shtreimel or fedora. All I’m saying is that we are not indigenous to Europe.
Yes, but the dress is that of the Middle East since there are no Jews in Spain. If it makes you feel better, substitute Eidat HaMizrach for Sephardic.
Hacham Ovadia, though once the Chief “Sephardic” Rabbi was born in Iraq.
Sister Bear is correct. Lancaster and the surrounding areas are perfect for just driving and meeting the locals. It is beautiful, peaceful and relaxing.
Seriously, Will? We are a Middle Eastern People and thus our dress was therefore closer to what is worn in the Middle East, not Eastern Europe. Think it was probably a bit hot in the Midbar to wear a fox fur hat and long black coat.
I think that all frum Yidden should have moved toward Sephardic dress and turbans as it is most assuredly closer to the original.
I respect Chabad Shluchim for getting down and dirty in places where very few Jews tread. They are always there to help a wayward Yid anytime any place.
I respect the brave Jews living in Chevron and the shtachim for their Ahavat Eretz Yirael and zrizut!
Had the pleasure of stopping there for a Shabbos. Very sweet community. Humid as heck in the Summer, though!
apushatayid, my comment above was for you, not for shlishi who asked a valid question. Don’t know why you couldn’t chop that and quoted his post.
(Noun) SNARK… Snide remarks.
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To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
I was referring to: “That was the yekkeshe part of lita.”
Oh and before apushatayid can snark off another obnoxious comment. We found a distant cousin who had a family tree showing that my recent paternal family lived in Lithuania. Again, I ashed a sheila and was tol,d not to change from the German Minhagim I hold.
I am Baal Teshuva and my father’s fathers died when my father was very young. My father had no idea where his father was from. I therefore took on my Mother’s family minhagim.
Of course we don’t change minhagim due to DNA testing. The idea is to show that minhagim change and people move around. If not, how could the entire Chasidische velt take on Nusach Sefard?
I come from a Yiddish speaking, gefilte fish eating home. My great great grandfather was from Lithuania. Turns out that we are actually Sephardic as was proven from a DNA test.
All the differences are merely cultural. What I will say is, until very recently, it seems as if Sephardim were always believers even if they didn’t follow all the halachos. I hadn’t ever met an atheist Sephardi or one who didn’t believe in Matan Torah. Ashkenazim seem to have a huge gap. Zrisus for Torah on one end and reform/”humanistic” kafirus on the other.
Just my two dinars worth.
I am a Yekke who just found out that my family is actually Sephardic. My wife’s family is Satmar but she follows Breslov philosophy. She follows what I follow when it comes to Minhag and yes, I asked if I needed to”revert” to my Sephardic roots and was told no by two big poskim. So there you go…
Here’s the thing. My best friends are Gerim who follow Lubavitch and an Ashkenazi who was mekareiv Eidat HaMizrach. Who cares? We are all Jews. Wives follow their husbands and everyone is happy.