Comments on: Reflecting On Purim Madness

By: proud of KAJ WH TIDE

proud of KAJ WH TIDE — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:20:51 +0000

B”H in my community of fine,frum ,normal law-abiding,Torah-abiding Jews,no one gets drunk or makes a chillul Hashem. The young children deliver Mishloach Monos and get a few dollars as tips and dress up. People give simple but nice items like fruit,drinks,pastries small bottles of wine and some sweets. Halochos are followed and the spirit of Purim is respected in the way Chazal wanted it. Some of these other neighborhoods should get some Yir’as Shomayim and learn in their yeshiva, how to study Torah instead of learning evil ways.

By: Midwest2

Midwest2 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:33:44 +0000

In the Old Home in Europe, the Rabbis literally laid down the law to the members of their communities. This was not “socialism” – it was daas Torah, and why the Rabbis were leaders and not just functionaries.

Let our Rabbis here return to the minhagim we have lost and start actually acting like real Rabbis. For instance:

Make strict takanos for mishloach manos in terms of size and expense. When someone has gone too obviously outside the boundaries, let the Rav give him a private call, just to explain where he has gone wrong.

Make sure any boy who gets disgracefully bombed on Purim is EXPELLED, not just “suspended.”

When a boy has been seen to be drunk on Purim, READ HIS FATHER’S NAME ALOUD IN SHUL during the next Shabbos davening. Let the community know that the boy he is responsible for is committing Chillul HaShem and endangering the lives of himself and others.

Yiddishkeit (Judaism) is not a “do your own thing” libertarian religion. It is founded on obedience to Daas Torah and the Rabbonim who administer it in our time. We obey the Torah, not our own impulses. “Do your own thing” is one of those themes of Gentile American culture that we should be rejecting (along with the weird idea that getting repulsively drunk is “fun”).

By: Rowdy

Rowdy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:09:45 +0000

To #25- KRUNCH. Have you gone COMPLETELY MAD!!! They need an “OUTLET”? i cant believe i actually read that! getting drunk is NOT an outlet.it’s absolutely STUPID and IRRESPONSIBLE! i personally wittnessed this purim, “yeshiva bochurim” walking the streets completely innebriated, cursing like sailors, and basically making a complete chillul hashem. and wasnt only one incident. many of the houses they go to have non-jewish bouncers at the doors. i cant imagine hat they might be thinking. You want an outlet? start by making sure the yeshivos allow our children to have an outlet. let them join organized sports. Lipa isnt such a bad guy. (Neither is Matisyahu, for that matter). when you assur everything, they will find something, and usually not something thats appropriate. we need to teach our kids the propper outlets so they dont end up in the wrong ones.

By: Rowdy

Rowdy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:43:32 +0000

GROW UP Everyone!! It’s high time we become responsible for ourselves! We need to act as adults & know our limitations. What you are asking for is an Obama controlled religion. “heres what you should do, when you should do it, and how you should do it.”. If you cant afford it, dont do it. Soon we’ll have people telling us how to make our simchos…oh wait, sorry, there was an organization that did that already. it’s insane that this is what it has come to.
And as far as themes go, who cares. if it makes your spouse and kids happy (and bings joy to those receiving it, yes there are people out there who enjoy the poems)more power to them. Themes dont make a shlach manos expensive.

By: yitzy99

yitzy99 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:54:21 +0000

Drunkeness-dayenu,
Limos -dayenu,
fireworks -dayenu
what’s next?

By: PuhLease

PuhLease — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:35:39 +0000

BRAVO!!

By: love israel

love israel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:04:42 +0000

THIS IS THE BEST “OUT OF THE MAILBAG” THAT YESHIVA WORLD EVER POSTED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WISH THEY WOULD PRINT THIS IN EVERY JEWISH NEWSPAPER OUT THERE..
NOBODY HAS THE “GUTS” IN TODAYS DAY AND AGE TO STOP ALL THIS NONSENSE. AND PEOPLE ARE JUST DIEING YOUNGER BECAUSE OF ALL OF THIS GARBAGE…..
WHO EVER WROTE THIS LETTER SHOULD BE HIRED RIGHT AWAY BY A MAJOR NEWSPAPER.
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS.

By: daboss

daboss — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:49:29 +0000

#31, Thanks buddy, I was just about to respond accordingly to this obvious rebel. Mr. AEF, we ALL wish you the best of luck in life (and you’ll need lots of it with your attitude). BTW, if you read carefully, the word used was “expelled” not suspended. An expulsion will almost assure that you ain’t gettin into another “real” yeshiva anytime soon. (The cracker-jack, just-to-have-a-name-attached-to-my-shiduch-resume yeshivos clearly don’t count) That’s how people like you learn. But then again, you may grow up and mature one day. Then you might look back and wonder: “Did I really think like that”?

By: YonafromNinveh

YonafromNinveh — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:49:20 +0000

My son the 18 year old Yeshiva bochur, told me that it’s not the “the son of a wealthy supporter of the Yeshiva” who will be suspended first. It would be a Rebbe’s son!

By: mrjones

mrjones — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:37:54 +0000

To #20, AEF, a minor CAN be arrested for mere possesion of alcohol and for public inebriation.
I know from personal experience. It carries a fine AND license suspension.