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NOYB, Clearly Avi K disagrees with you.
When I was growing up in South Africa, we had a very long Shvuos night. It’s the middle of winter, nacht is around 6pm and the earliest you can daven shachris is around 6am. So you have after the seuda 9 or 10 hours to learn. There were a lot of programs for men and women.
That is called staying up all night.I suppose I’m giving away my age. I thought Chazak was new
Is it Avrohom Fried’s udvorov from the Chazak album?
People do teshuva when they have time and space to think. Nowadays with the overload of technology, there is no quiet or down time to contemplate life and what it’s really about.
It’s become more popular recently since yhe excellent book by Yisroel Besser came out
YO, I think it’s in the Mishna Brura, I’ll have a look later.
Lower…, Nacht generally Shavuos time is around 11pm, alos 1.45 and misheyakir is 2.30 ish. So we have to rush a seuda and get back to shul to learn something before alos.
Joseph,
As I’m sure you know, there are three nights a year when there is an “inyan” to stay up all night. Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba and Shavuos. The one with the least mekor is Shavuos. It is nevertheless the one which is most kept, possibly due to being the shortest night of those three. What I think charliehall means, is that of course many kedoshim stayed up on Shavuos, but the hamon am only caught on to this when it became more possible.lowerourtuition11210, personally I always found Shavuos davening the most inspiring after a ‘whole’ night learninmg (max 2.5 hours in northern England), and stood all the way through and felt very uplifted. It is the only time everyone is there on time and davens together. This was all until I joined my current shul, where very very sadly, they plapper through the davening in very quick time. I sadly go home to sleep. But I happily come back for the ‘main’ minyan with my family.
If you are referring to Kedem Light Grape Juice, there is a hechsher on the bottle from The Rav of Zehelem and The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (Is that the OU?) and states, “Kosher lePesach for Kiddush and the Arba Kosos”.
I highly doubt that this is simply watered down Grape Juice, and would be happy to hear what the two Kashrus authorities mentioned above have to say.Rabbi Fischel Schachter
Rabbi Dovid KaplanTwo different styles, but both geshmak, easy to listen to and always with a message to learn.
A white shirt is no more or less frum than any other colour. It’s a symbol of where you belong or where you want to belong.
Is a knitted kappel or a rimless one or leather etc any more or less frum than a black rimmed kappel? No. But it is a symbol of where you are in your yiddishkeit. Yerushalmim wear knitted kappels, and they are very frum.
I would say he same argument for white shirts.YIGAL CALEK
I’ve been asked by so many of you to re-start the choir once again. I am therefore delighted to announce that I will be auditioning boys age 9 and over for the relaunch of my choir.
THIS MOTZAI SHABBOS
פרשת כי תשא
To reserve a place for your son, please contact me by Thursday 21st February on 07727 199 573
Best regards
YigalGH, correct. Although one thing I would correct. We don’t “keep the lunar calendar in cycle with the seasonal cycles of the Gregorian calendar”. We keep the lunar calendar in cycle with the actual sun or solar year. The Gregorian calendar is only around 500 years old, so is relatively new, and tries to keep in sync with us.
Funnybone, That is a quote from Rav Sholom Schwadron.
In Manchester and Gateshead girls do go to primary school on Sundays.It all started with a YWN report years ago…
How could people shoot if you’ve taken away their ability to buy a gun?
It sounds so petty. How many mass murders will it take to change this crazy mindset?
Explain to us across the pond, Why on earth are guns so important for Americans?? It does not make sense to us.
Why can’t they just repeal the 2nd amendment!??
The popular English author Ruthie Pearlman has posted here very recently
I posted this a couple of days ago but it wasn’t put up.
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Mods is this allowed?What do sefaradim call a yahrtzeit?
Mazal Tov Yekke2/Chortkov.
Hope to see you round townJust popping in for a moment to say this; I heard the following in about 2002 from Rav Yaakov Yehuda Salomon, son of Rav Matisyahu Shlit”a. His father said that the change for bochurim and yungerleit to stop wearing hats and jackets in the street happened so fast, that we couldn’t catch the trend and reverse it. It was just a few years and the street looked different.
I think he was talking about Gateshead, but could be Lakewood as well.I miss Ka’eyleh already. How long til Parshas Pinchas?
Great news CTL, hope everything goes well for you and the family.
As far as naming goes, I think the minhag of the mother choosing first goes way back. You reminded me of when my son was born, after we had decided on a name, I playfully asked my mother to guess the name, and she refused. She said that I might take her guess as pressure so she wouldn’t even do that. We told my parents in law before the bris as a courtesy, since he wasn’t named after their side of the family.
Avi K has reminded me that I was wrong in my previous post. Rav YC Sonnenfeld was awarded the title Morenu at his aufruf. I need to look in the book again.
147, not necessarily. In Hungary the title was awarded for outstanding scholarship. In ‘Guardian of Jerusalem’ it says that Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld’ was awarded the title of Chover at his aufruf. He was called up as Hachoson Hachover Harav Chaim ben … (as far as I remember. If anyone has the book to hand I would be happy to be corrected)
Joseph, the same as what stops any yodel entitling themselves Dr, Professor, Duke, Prince, etc etc. I.e. nothing but self respect.
Littleeema is correct. The title is an award for outstanding service to the kehilla. This would be appropriate in the cases of Yekke2’s grandfather and great grandfather.
There was a gentleman in Manchester who was awarded the title of Chover a few years ago. It was a surprise to him as part of a hachnosas sefer torah that he was part of. He later said it was the best moment of his life. This is a flavour of how significant the title is to a “Yotzei Ashkenaz” (yekke).@thefrumguy
Yuntif is Yomtov obviously. I’m taking your question at face value even though I’m sure you’re being sarcastic.
Please realise we have people from across the Jewish spectrum posting here, and pronunciations from all parts of klal Yisroel. We even had a spanish sounding Jiyub a few weeks ago, which as we know is a chiyuv in English transliteration. Isn’t that beautiful?Mazel tov CTL & family
I’m assuming there is an eruv in your town. There definitely is a halachic preference for a bris to be held in shul, although I’ve never heard of a bris before davening.
What would generally happen here in England, is that the bris would take place after davening. You would provide mezonos cakes and wine so the vicinity could participate in the simcha after shul. Then you would have the Yom tov seuda at jome as the seudas mitzva and invite a few close friends for dessert and benching.
Why would you need to make another kiddush next week? Assuming you’re doing a sholom zochor on last night Yomtov also, isn’t it a bit unnecessary?
Whatever you and the family decide, may it be besimcha, and may you, Mrs CTL and the whole family have much nachas from all the CTEiniklach. Thank you for letting us be part of the simcha.In reply to Meno, I’m sure there is an ordainment ceremony but don’t know what it involves. There is a very long nusach in a certificate that is awarded. I suppose שרשי מנהג אשכנז duscusses it.
@Rational Dude,
Oh. I’m not familiar with that, and it seems nor is iacisrmma.Also, I apologise for the “boy’s” above. Of course a plural doesn’t get an apostrophe.
I think it’s Yigal Celek’s London School of Jewish Song, the album with boy’s standing in the snow.
There is one song by Dedi, taken straight from Swedish pop group ABBA. He even had in the credits, ניגון מבית אבא.
Jakob,
Many of the very old traditional songs were taken from goyishe sources. The story of the old Chabad nigun Shamil is very well known.Two songs that I’ve heard recently at chasunas and really loved; Va’afilu behastara, and Rebbe Rebbe, Ich vil miskasher zein tzu dir.
@ratty, Have you made peace with your chavrusa yet?
In Manchester at the moment it is -2 Celcius, there is still snow on the ground and not a blossom to be seen. So, no one’s saying that particular brocho yet.
Golfer, In the southern hemisphere the seasons are not “mixed up”. They are in the same order as the rest of the world. Just, opposite from the northern hemisphere. In South Africa, we said the brocho for blossoms in Av/Ellul. I remember as a child once saying it together with Rav Moshe Sternbuch, on Shabbos Chazon, which happened to be Tisha B’Av.
CTL – Kol hakavod. I must say it is very different baking pizza and kugel compared to the huge achrayos of baking matzos mitzva.
RichardM, Do what your father did is of course the simplest solution. But, it doesn’t help when your circumstances change. E.g. moving to EY where the minhag is like the Bet Yosef or the Gr”a who both paskened Tfilin should not be worn on Chol Hamoed.
(I think I’m out of here now, as we’re just going in circles now, albeit this is a fascinating subject.)
CTL, I’m with you on the Yehuda matzos.
Who remembers the French matzos in the blue & brown boxes? Those are the matzos of my childhood in South Africa. Each matza was conveniently divided into four sections.The difference is that wearing Tfilin on chol hamoed is possibly an issur for those who don’t wear. Not wearing a talis isn’t even bitul asei.
…and Yekke2,
How do they deal with someone who is not noheg to wear tfilin if he comes in and davens?Yekke2, welcome back! 🙂
Actually my request to you was more to do with the Yekkishe minhag. Let’s say a baal tshuva or a ger joins the GGBH or Breuers. From the way you answered I would think you’re saying he would take on the minhag hamokom.Hml,
The Aleksander chosid is the key. That’s why he wouldn’t have worn tfilin on a regular chol hamoed day.Here’s an interesting one. Apparently in Sanz, bochurim do wear tfilin on chol hamoed. So that includes Bobov and klausenberg. Can anyone confirm that?
Golfer, I’ve written earlier on this thread that that is not the minhag for all people who refrain from gebrokts. Some are stricter than others. E.g. some will put mayonnaise on matza but many don’t. My cousins don’t let any matza get wet before acharon shel pesach at nacht. There is no rule for ALL.
Lesschumras,
Let’s call a spade a spade!! You can’t just change a halocho that people keep and all poskim hold of, just because YOU THINK that it doesn’t apply anymore. Where does that stop??? There are secular people who have told me that they eat pork and seafood, because hygiene is much better now than in the days of chazal, afra lepumayhu. That’s where the argument you are making can lead to.Joseph, I agree. It’s worth £30 for a box of komemiyus to make the mitzva nicer and more enjoyable.
btw, I only get one box. the rest of YT is machine shmura.
Hand Matza. Specifically, Komemiyus.