I thought it was in the medrash that it was an apple tree. I’ll have to look into that more. Sorry

Is Kirby Card still around? They had good rates many years ago

Someone I know asked a Rosh yeshiva about the minhag of not saying tachanun from after isru chag sukkos thru Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan. He said that it’s a chassidishe minhag and chassidim don’t want to “drop their hat” (put their head down for tachanun) so they look for ways to get out of tachanun.

Sam, I don’t know if you tried that but if you did, then you got different results than me as I tried and I couldn’t find any info on him whatsoever. I even tried switching the spelling to Vakspress but that didn’t give any info either.

Leyzer, sorry that I left out the hey. I assumed everyone would know what I was referring to. (In case you didn’t realize, I was referring to the chumash from the Netziv. It could be you are referring to something else)
Zei mir mochel

Avira-you’re probably referring to the yeshiva Lakewood East (BMG of Lakewood in E. Israel) run by Rav Shwartzman, Shlita. I think what Sam was referring to was that there were several people in Lakewood that are starting/started 2 Lakewood style communities in EY.

I haven’t been in EY for many years, but when I was there, I know there was a minyan in Zichron Moshe and also in Minyan Avreichim (I think that was on Ohalei Yosef, near R’Dovid Soloveitchik’s yeshiva)

There’s a Hilton Garden Inn on Rt 70. There’s also a Marriot Courtyard in Wall Township, about 25 min out of Lakewood

I think they’re back in town, because they started tweeting simchas again

Lior, it’s a davar shaino miskaven and also it might not necessarily happen. (There’s an igros Moshe that talks about the motor running which was quoted in a previous post) In the Shabbos Kitchen on the last page, R’ Simcha Bunim Cohen shlita writes that R’ Moshe told him that you can open the fridge even while the motor is off.

Moshe kapoyer, these questions are a matter of opinion, so the best thing is to ask your mentor these questions

Malbim, I don’t mean to sound mean or anything like that, but are you trying to get everyone to move to austin? You started 3 threads about it!

and that doesn’t include the deleted ones

TBONTB, Mod 29-Thank you

Mazel Tov to yeshivaguy45 on his engagement!

I don’t think it was right of him to text it like that. He should have told the shadchan. However, I don’t know the full story. He didn’t want to answer her phone calls, or he was just busy? Maybe something happened and he wasn’t able to pick up the phone whenever she called. Even if he was deliberately not answering her, he still should have gone to the shadchan (and if he really was yeshivish, he wouldn’t have ended it that way. He would have gone to his rebbe who most probably would not have told him to text it.)

I did research on this online just now to find out when chodosh starts. According to an article on the star-k website, the halachic problem is whatever is planted after the 4th day of pesach. That’s called the spring crop and it doesn’t hit the market until the end of the summer.

Little Froggie, sometimes people ask for other people. Another reason could be that she has 2 names. It could be anything. It really doesn’t matter why she needs to know.

I looked this up in the back of an Artscroll siddur: ?????? ???,?? ??? ? ?????? ??…

Several weeks ago, I listened to a shiur on cd from R’ Yitzchak Sorotzkin shlita on Kedushas Beis Haknesses and not speaking during davening. He said over several stories about this. One story was about an individual who’s daughter had cancer, lo aleinu. The doctors had told him that there was no hope for his daughter. A little while later, the man met another Yid and this yid told him that he had a similar problem and he went to a rebbe and the rebbe told him to be mekabel not to talk during davening. He said after several weeks of taking on the kabbala he went back to the doctor and there was no trace of the sickness left. This man heard the story and he took on to be mekabel not to talk during davening and his daughter was healed.

No, we don’t know why things in this world happen. But we can take on extra zechuyos and those zechuyos can fight for us.

Mazel Tov!

DY, I agree with you. I personally know of someone who was smoking and it led to drugs.He was caught and expelled from his yeshiva. This guy couldn’t find anywhere to go, and ended up in a yeshiva for off the derech guys. Today he’s not frum. Does that mean that the rebbeim who expelled him are responsible? Does that mean that they shouldn’t have expelled him? No! He was doing something against yeshiva policy and disrupting other bochurim.

I also know someone who was starting to go off the derech in yeshiva. He was talking to girls and skipping seder. Then slowly his life started changing. He stopped talking to girls as much and started learning more. Then his cell phone got taken away. That was a big disappointment for him and he started going back to the way he was before. He eventually left yeshiva and went to a drop out yeshiva and went downhill from there. (I haven’t seen him for awhile, but I heard he’s getting back on track.)Does this mean that the Rebbeim were wrong for doing something like that? No! They were doing something that was against the policy of yeshiva and it was disrupting other bochurim. (This bochur had several friends and so the Rebbeim knew that his cell phone was disrupting others.)

zehavasdad, I know burning out can happen. I have a friend who snapped because he was learning too much. I know what it’s like. However there are ways how to deal with it. If you’re in that situation, you should talk to a mashgiach, or a rebbe who understands you. Don’t decide something like that on your own.

zahavasdad, I believe the end of the story was that the bochur was on time from then on. He took the message to heart. Bli neder, I’ll check it up again. If that was the case, then that couldn’t have been the bochur was burned out, otherwise he wouldn’t have come on time after that

old man, the point is not to intermingle with goyim. Therefore, their point is not to go to stadiums and intermingle with goyim and follow in their ways. That’s why these Roshei Yeshiva are ridiculing how the game is played to show you how stupid watching the game is. Not necessarily are they ridiculing the actual sport, but they’re ridiculing the fact that you’re watching such a game, watching how the goyim play.

There’s a story about a bochur that missed night seder several nights in a row. His Rosh yeshiva went over to him and asked him why he was missing night seder. He said that the soccer championships were on and he didn’t want to miss it. The Rosh Yeshiva asked him, “Tell me, how do you play soccer?” The bochur answered, “There’s a net and you have to kick the ball into a net.” The Rosh Yeshiva said, That’s easy. I can kick the ball in thousands of times.” The bochur said, “No, Rebbe there’s a goalie who blocks the ball.” The Rosh Yeshiva said, “He’s there 24/7? Wait until he goes home and kick the ball when he leaves and you can win easily.” The bochur said, “No Rebbe, there are obstacles in the game. This is an obstacle and you need to overcome it.” The Rosh Yeshiva answered, “In learning, there are also obstacles, like learning when there’s a soccer championship. The same way you need to overcome the obstacles in sports, you also have to overcome the obstacles in learning.”

(No, the point of that story is not to show you how the goyim play, but you see how Roshei Yeshiva can take sports and make a mussar shmuz out of it.)

Personally, I am shocked at people’s posts on here. If a rebbe said something, fine you may not agree with it, but there are ways how to say that you don’t agree. These rebbeim (R’ Shlomo Heiman zatzal etc.) are people that know what they’re talking about. Give them some respect. Say it in a way that’s respectful.

There are ways to show that you are different without making it look like you’re better than everyone else. You can respect others, and tell them that my religion doesn’t allow certain things. I would certainly not do it in a way that makes it look like you’re being rude.

I would advise you to look into Sefer Mekadshei Shemecha, by Rabbi Shraga Freedman, available through Feldheim. I personally know the author. He researched the topic of Kiddush Hashem for 10 years and he has haskamos from Rabbis Shmuel Kamenetzky Shlita, Yitzchak Sheiner Shlita and others. This sefer talks all about the importance of making a kiddush Hashem and how to do it.