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ourtorah, I do feel like I’m being attacked. I’m trying to go through each person’s comments one by one.
My Rebbeim explained that to make a Kiddush Hashem, you have to show that the Jews are different from everyone else. If you show people that you are different and do things in a different way, then people will respect you. It sounds like you’re doing the best you can.
If you know me, you’ll know that I’m not the type to sit in my home and do nothing because of pritzus. There are things to do. I go out and do things. I am definitely not ignorant of the fact that there’s pritzus out there. I live in an out of town community, I know what it’s all about. The way I was raised is that you should be a frum yid even where there’s tumah.
You have banned Beaches, Waterparks , Amusement parks,Sporting Events , The Mall ..And other thingsthat werent mentioned but Im sure they are not good either
I haven’t banned it, the Torah has banned it.
You can go out to a park where people usually don’t go to and take a walk. You can go hiking. You can go to museums, the list is endless of what you could do.
There’s a story of a family who went to the airport on chol hamoed to ride the train for several hours. A pilot saw them and told them, “I fly all the time but I barely ever see my family.You probably barely ever fly because you have a big family but you guys spend time together as a family. I fly, but I’m going nowhere, and you don’t fly but you’re going places.”
old man,Makcklemore-I’m not talking about playing sports. I happen to be athletic. I’m talking about going to a game in general. I happen to like playing sports. these Roshei Yeshiva are talking about watching a game at a stadium.
old man, an added note. I heard a shmuz from a rebbe at the current yeshiva I am in. He spoke about daas Torah and If a gadol says something, you listen. He said, “On Yeshiva World News, sometimes they have a statement from a gadol, and on the bottom, they have comments about it. People just write their comments on what the gadol said, whether it was right or wrong to say such a thing. It’s daas Torah! If a Gadol said it, then listen to him. We don’t need your comments!”
akuperma, if your account hasn’t been hijacked, the way my rebbe explained it to me (or rather to my parents who asked him what to do as an outlet) is that yes there is pritzus out there and there are places you shouldn’t go (beaches, waterparks, amusement parks that have waterparks attached to them, etc.) But at the same time, you have to live. You have to be able to live and enjoy life.
yes, I am aware that there are Jews who play on professional sports teams. But they’re not frum. In any case, I wasn’t talking about playing for a professional team. I was talking about going to a game in general.
benignuman, I see that I have a typo. My last post should have been, If you’ve ever been to a baseball game, you’ll see that it’s NOT the most clean place entertainment you could possibly get.
benignuman, I posted before I saw your post. I went to an elementary school which was mainly run by chassidim but most kids in the school were litvish. They would never go out to a baseball game. On lag b’omer, we either went to the zoo or went to the park and played baseball and had a barbecue.
If you ever went to a baseball game, I think you would agree that it’s the most clean entertainment you could possibly get. Baseball itself is not bad, it’s the atmosphere around it that is.
Hashkafically, football has issues. As a rebbe in a yeshiva that I attended (yes that same yeshiva) put it in a shmuz “You go to a game to watch 22 goyim beat up another 22 goyim.” (That yeshiva wasn’t against sports, they were against going to sports games.) I agree that people need breaks, but you can definitely find kosher entertainment.
No, it’s still part of kedusha
akuperma, if you noticed I raised the issue of cheerleaders by football and basketball, not by baseball. There are other issues by baseball, as I mentioned. You’re right, it’s fewer issues, but if you ask your local hashkafic rabbi, you’ll realize that there are still issues. As for pritzus by baseball games, the people sitting next to you aren’t exactly dressed the way a regular bais yaakov girl would dress, to put it mildly. If it’s cold, then that takes care of that problem,. but there are other issues as well.
oomis, there’s a cookbook for vegans that someone made for pesach. If you want eggless recipes there might be some desserts and side dishes in there. It’s called Vegan Passover recipes and it’s written by Nancy Berkoff
L’maaseh it’s not a kosher activity. You’re telling me yeshivish people do go. Personally, I was brought up to not go to baseball game. I went to a baseball game when I was in camp about 15 years ago. That was about it. However, it’s not a kosher activity, being with non jews like that and the people there aren’t exactly the type of people you’d want to hang around with. There are also issues with Lo Selech B’chokos Hagoy.
zehavasdad, there are other issues besides for the ones I just mentioned when going to basketball and football games and that is that there’s definite pritzus as there are cheerleaders.
It’s definitely not in the sppirit of Chol Hamoed. In major cities, they try to have a big attraction on Chol Hamoed so people won’t get bored.
The things you need to hear are the divrei shebikdusha-Kaddosh until Kevodo, Baruch Kevod until Mimkomo and Yimloch. After that (Mimkomcha, Mimkomo, etc.) you can sing
zahavasdad, that’s unusual because most yeshivish guys that I know would never go to a game. My Rosh Yeshiva (I call him my Rosh Yeshiva even though I’m not in that yeshiva anymore) always says over from R’ Shlomo Heiman, (It’s a line in Yiddish. I’ll translate) Ein mentsh varft a pilka, noch a mentch shlept a shteckin, un fiftzig goyim shreiin Eiy! (One person throws a ball, Another person drags a stick and fifty goyim scream Eiy!)
jack777, Boruch Hashem, you obviously never went to a baseball game or even imagined what it looks like. However, the atmosphere is definitely different than a zoo. There’s no comparison whatsoever
oy, now I understand.No I never heard of that before, sorry. I did hear that if you know that you won’t hear the chazzan, (like you’re in a big place and you won’t hear the chazzan say kadosh kadosh etc.) then you can just continue davening.
zahavasdad, your average yeshivish family doesn’t go to baseball games.
oy, what exactly is this case? I lost you. If you’re in middle of shemone esrei, what happened after that?
Now that we’re on the topic of males jumping, I’ve heard of a minhag that the chazzan jumps when he says Kaddish. I haven’t seen this brought down anywhere. This sounds like it might be the same minhag by jumping at the end of shemone esrei. Does anyone know where this is from?
It sounds like you’re trolling. It sounds like the question of what’s the color of George Washington’s WHITE horse?
It is not a chol hamoed outing. It’s not in the spirit of chol hamoed. In my opinion, you should never go to a baseball game to begin with, but that’s the way I was brought. Different people from different backgrounds have different decisions.
postsemgirl, I was looking up a halacha shaila online and I came across a certain site. I noticed that there was an article on there by someone who I enjoy listening to. I clicked on it and at the end of the article he said that there are 3 places with 5 words in a row of 2 letter words. He only said the first two places and he was looking for the last place. The editor’s note said it.
Makcklemore, what happened, Caps was broken on your computer or something?
Chassidish is a part of Ashkenaz. Ashkenaz is basically Europe. Chassidim come from Europe. The other part is Litvaks. Sephardim originated from Sfard, which was Spain. For Generations there has been controversy between Ashkenaz and Sephard. Therefore this song was about that they were next door neighbors and they each thought the other one was strange. They each thought this is my minhag and the other has weird minhagim. Then they discovered that they have the same tune for Baruch Kel Elyon on Shabbos and then they realized that they could be friends.
no longer, I could be wrong but I believe the words are ” So I’ll ignore him and he’ll ignore me”
I did the search again and it came up as the second option. I can’t post the link, but I’ll try in a different way. jewishsonglyrics dot com (the dot is a period) Once you’re on the site, scroll down and on the left side there’s a category for artists and click on yaakov shwekey
lz, I was looking something up online and I came across someone looking for that last answer, and I saw the answer. If you want I’ll post it or I could keep everyone guessing and I won’t give it away
In the book that recently came out, The Mountain Family (for all those that don’t know, it’s a book about a woman and her family that grew up in the Appalachian Mountains as christians and became geirim later on in life), she writes that her husband asked her to marry her on the first date. She said yes because she knew he was the right one. They weren’t Jewish yet. The Hashgacha Pratis of this was that after having many kids together, she gave birth to a down syndrome child who died after a month and they got divorced about a year later because of that. One event led to another and she became Jewish and got remarried years after that.
If you google yaakov shwekey kolot lyrics and go to the fourth option, you’ll get a website from jewish song lyrics with lyrics to the songs from the cd.
DY, If you google bracha on wraps, you’ll get a blog from Kollel Sharei Horaah which has the article that hello99 copied from. In the comments there, Rabbi Peretz Moncharsh adresses this point.
Only Hashem knows what’s going to happen. If nobody traveled by plane, how would anybody go to Eretz Yisroel nowadays? (In the olden days it took weeks, months to reach Eretz Yisroel. Also, flying nowadays is so common, how could nobody fly at all if you want to travel? These things are so unpredictable. This is the first time this ever happened. Nobody ever thought such a thing would happen nowadys with radar and signals.
The lesson which we’re supposed to take from the plane, (I heard this b’shem several rabbonim) is that Hashem is showing us that We think we’re in control. We have modern technology today- radar, signals, we think we control everything. Hashem is telling us that He runs the worls and even with technology we are not in control. Hashem is in control. Ain Od Milvado There’s only Hashem
Check out this thread http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/interesting-facts-and-stories-about-our-gedolim
Additionally I have a gedolim story (or 2). I learnt in a certain yeshiva once. The Rosh Yeshiva gave(and still gives) shiur every day. One day he mentioned the Rambam in shiur and tried to say pshat on it. The next day, the first thing he said in shiur, “Right before I was going to sleep, I was thinking about the Rambam and I think pshat can be a little different than what I said yesterday.” Fr5om this I got inspiration. This is what a gadol thinks before going to sleep. That’s gadlus.
In a different yeshiva where I am learning now, A friend of mine told me a story about the Rosh Yeshiva (who was niftar not too long ago) My friend is a kohen. One day,as he was about to walk into the building of the yeshiva, he noticed the Rosh Yeshiva also about to walk inside. He stopped to let the Rosh Yeshiva in. The Rosh Yeshiva told him, ” You’re a Kohein, you go first.” My friend didn’t want to, he wanted to let the Rosh Yeshiva go first. The Rosh Yeshiva just stood there. My friend didn’t want to keep the Rosh Yeshiva waiting, so he ran inside. Later, he asked the Rosh Yeshiva, “The Halacha is that a Talmid Chocham comes before Kohen, so why did Rebbe want me to go in first.” The Rosh Yeshiva answered him, “I don’t understand you. I have a mitzva to be mechabed a Kohein, and you want to take that mitzva away from me?!”
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A friend of mine told me a story. He was going to pick up the girl at her house. He parked and started walking up what he thought was her walkway to het house. On the walkway of the house next to him, a man strated yelling at him, “Boy, the house is over here!” It turned out that it was the house next door and that man was her father.
I had a story once, at the time it wasn’t so funny. I went out in a hotel and I parked in a parking garage. The way it worked in there is that you get a ticket when you come in and when you’re ready to leave there’s a machine inside the garage to insert the ticket in. You pay for parking, the ticket comes out and when you leave the garage you insert the ticket into the slot and the gate opens. So I inserted the ticket and paid for parking and got the ticket back. While we were in the car getting ready to leave, the ticket fell from my fingers between the two seats in front. We spent ten minutes looking for it. She told me to give up, I said another 5 minutes then I’ll give up. I couldn’t find it after 5 minutes. She said she needed to get a tissue anyways so she’ll ask them inside the hotel what to do. She came back out several minutes later and said that they said that there’s someone at the exit who can help us. We drove to the exit and told the attendant what happened. He told us to keep looking, there’s no other way out that ticket controls the system.The attendant was on her side of the window, so she told him we searched for 10 min and wer couldn’t find it. The attendant was a black person, he said “I knew I shouldn’t have been drinking today, it’s been a bad day!” There were other cars in the other lane, so he let them go, then he came out of his booth and said “You guys were looking for a lot more than 10 minutes. I heard you guys looking for it from where I was. I’m going to get into trouble for this, but I’ll let you go.” He pressed a button and the gate opened up.
I heard a nice vort on purim that’s related to this. It says in Megillas Esther, ??????? ???? ???? ???? ????? ????. We also say these words in Havdala. Why do we say it in Havdala? The gemara in Megilla tes zayin amud beis says this pasuk refers to Torah, Mila, Yom Tov and Tefilin. These things make us different than Goyim. We have these mitzvos and the Goyim don’t. In fact, if a goy does any of these things, he’s chayiv misa. Yom tov also refers Shabbos. The Gemara says ??? ???? ???? ????. This is why we say it in Havdala, which means seperation. This Pasuk refers to how we are seperate from the Goyim.
Have a good Shabbos!
If we’re talking about the same song- I googled the lachatz song and I got a video on ywn, then you can figure it out for yourself. It sounds like a rap. It sounds like a variation of a non jewish song. It’s “Yeshiva Bochur style”. That is NOT yeshiva bochur style. It sounds like a non jewish song and therefore has no place on ywn.
There are so many things you can do. You can visit kevarim on Har Hemenuchos- there’s 2 chelkas Rabbonim sections. You can go tour the Old city, go to the kosel (that’s a must). You can go up north and visit tzfas.
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It doesn’t belong on ywn.
Tomo (short for Toras Moshe) is a black hat non yeshivish place. It’s run by Rabbi Moshe Meiselman. Mir is also a good choice but most people don’t go there in first year. Torah Ore is a first year place. There’s an american section and an israeli section.
shopping, it’s a tape so technically I could upload it but it will take a long time, it may not be muttar al pi halacha and I’m a boy and it’s kol isha so I wouldn’t exactly do it. Sorry
On my dor yesharim sheet, it says that if you submitted your social security number at the time of testing, then you can retrieve it that way if you lose the number. However it may take 2-3 days.
Shopping, hashgacha pratis. After I saw your post on Julia Blum, I googled it but couldn’t find any place that sold it. Then later I saw a tape of Julia Blum lying around. There’s a phone number and an address on it.
Management: Chumie Meisels (732)905-9787
305 Squankum Road Lakewood NJ 08701
There’s a machlokes between R’ Moshe Feinsten Zatzal and R” Aharon Kotler Zatzal. R’ Moshe held you light where you sleep. R’ Aharon held you light where you eat. Peacefull, as you pointed out, it’s dangerous to light in the dorm. This isn’t the only story I’ve heard about this happening. Therefore, a lot of yeshivos go like R’ Aharon
Sam2, According to what you’re saying, what’s wrong with having peanut butter on Pesach? I don’t know where you live, but wherever I go shopping for Pesach items, I won’t find kosher l’pesach peanut butter (or any other peanut products).
There’s a link on the side panel called Ride Sharing. You can check and see if anyone is going.
Put up signs in the schools.
I’m a boy so I don’t really have a place on this thread. But I would recommend you to go to seminary. You may think you’re not missing any hashkafa but once you get there you’ll find a whole world out there that you didn’t know about. There are different seminaries for different types of girls. There are ones who are for girls like you who grew up in a solid torah home. There are ones for girls on a less hashkafic level and so on and so forth down to ones for girls who are newly baalei teshuva. Ask your teachers for help on where to go. You can continue to grow. (I also don’t know if you’re thinking about this now but it would do better for shidduchim if you went to seminary than college.)
the goq- lol. jwashing- Did you ever hear of Fiddler on the Roof?
Contact a shadchan and tell him/her what you’re looking for. Also, people try to suggest shidduchim to other people. So someone might suggest a shiddduch to you. Hatzlacha Rabba.
I don’t really know so much about Yeshiva Ohavei Torah. I have a friend who went there. That’s how I know about it.
Yeshiva of the Telshe Alumni (a.k.a Telshe Riverdale), Yeshiva Ohavei Torah
I did hear of that shita but I believe the Minhag Haolam is that corn and peanuts are kitniyos. (If potatoes would be kitniyos, Ashkenazim wouldn’t really be able to eat anything!) If I remeber correctly, the Kosher L’Pesach symbol on bamba says that it’s kitniyos.
I know someone who lives there. He says he feels safe living there, but he doesn’t know if anyone living in Yerushalyim would feel safe. Regarding traveling to, from Yerushalyim, he says it’s not as unsafe as it looks. I met him in Ramat Beit Shemesh, it’s about 40 minutes away by car. I really have no idea but it sounds like there’s not that frequent public transportation there. I just checked it online for you. You can google Ma`ale Amos and you’ll get a page from Gush Etzion that tells you about it. It says that Egged #165 comes there 4 times a day. You can also check out the egged website at egged. co. il (take out the spaces.)
rebdoniel, I’m not trying to hurt you in any way shape or form. Either you’re sefardi or they changed the recipe of bamba because bamba is made from peanuts which is kitniyos.