Comments on: New Hampshire elects Frum person

By: lbrinin

lbrinin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:33:22 +0000

bs’d
You are so my hero! Yashar Koach!!
eliezer be eli

By: Ish Yehudi

Ish Yehudi — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:45:25 +0000

About 17 years ago, a female Park Avenue doctor came to meet me to discuss becoming a client of our business. When she came to my office, she extended her hand. I explained to her that for religious reasons I did not touch any women besides my wife, mother, and daughters. We had our meeting, and as she was about to leave, she said, “it bothers me that you would not shake hands with a woman.” ( Keep in mind this was a Mount Sinai doctor who was used to receiving a great deal of respect — kovod m’lochim — and she felt put out that I would not shake her hand.) The borei olam gave me the seichel to say just the right thing at that time, and I told her, “But my wife does shake hands with men either.” The doctor was satisfied with my comment and she responded, “In that case it is egalitarian.” She later did become a client of ours. I think the lesson here is if a frum yid maintains consistency in his/her behavior, then he/she will be respected for it and adherence to the ways of the Torah will not lead to any antagonism.

By: Reb Moshe

Reb Moshe — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:30:27 +0000

Envoy:
You are right! He lives in NH & traveles daily to MA. He also spends Shabbos in MA. As to the people who ask what he is doing there… He is a bal teshuvah and he is from there.
By the way, although he is very involved with Chabad in Wellesley (he became frum while in college in Wellesley with Chabad Rav, Moshe Bleich) there are a few Chabad communities in NH as well. At least 2 of them are very established, one in Manchester, NH and one in Dartmouth, NH with minyanim etc.
RM

By: sammyg

sammyg — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:11:40 +0000

NH neighbors MA and from where he is to get to Wellesley MA is only a couple of miles.

It is an amazing story! A true Kiddish Hashem.

By: Envoy

Envoy — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:07:59 +0000

I guess he lives in NH and travels daily to MA?

By: Reb Moshe

Reb Moshe — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:20:06 +0000

He happens to be a frum fellow, who davens every day with a minayn and uses the mikvah every day, not only that but he is the gabbai at the Wellesley-Weston Chabad shul in Wellesley, MA.

By: Shtender

Shtender — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:51:45 +0000

but what about a minyon, mikva…?

If he’s a frum man, he obviously has it figured out.
He probably does not need you as his armchair mashgiach, especially since you apparently don’t know much about him or his community.

By: smeel

smeel — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:36:20 +0000

but what about a minyon, mikva…?

By: expatriate owl

expatriate owl — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:10:46 +0000

Smeel, your attention is directed to the Hamodia of 1 Kislev 5767 / 22 November 2006, page 11, specifically, the Letter to the Editor from one Y. Rose of Boro Park. Mr/Ms Rose observes that frum Jews “in New York’s Torah enclaves … underestimate and even dismiss the significance of growth of Yiddishkeit outside the New York area — meaning the five boroughs of New York City, Monsey and Lakewood.”

– The Expatriate Owl (who lives outside the five boroughs of New York City, Monsey and Lakewood).

By: smeel

smeel — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:41:49 +0000

What is this fruma yid doing there? weard!