Reply To: Yeshivos and Seminaries in Eretz Yisroel

Lomed –

This is very encouraging news.. with any luck, it will gain momentum and wider acceptance.

I’m still a few years away but hopefully we’ll be in touch when my tzadik’l is ready to swim…unless my prevoius posts have squashed my chances flatter than day old soda :O

Laguy – I could’nt agree with you more. The out of town / dorm experience did wonders for me too. But I dormed 50 miles from home.. not 8,000! And I was home once a month.

One week, back in HS, I called home for my weekly “hi-ma-hi-ta-how-are-you phone call. The next day, my father showed up at school becuase he said I “didn’t sound right”. Try that with you kid whose on another continent.

Of course I want my kids to grow into adults, and cut the apron string (uh, oh.. here’e comes the barrage of hate mail from all the moms). But what gets me is, even the boys who really dont want to go (as SRP pointed out) are being “forced” to go.. becuase “everyone does it”

Lastly, Whatrutalkingabout –

Your shabbos table is most likely NOT what we are afraid of. I wish he is lucky enough to get invites from normal, adjusted balbateishe families.

Its the homes that are open to all sorts of transients, character and odd folks who deserve to be taken in.. but not where young bochurim and sem girls are being seated at the same table. Can a chiloni soldier (male or female) benefit from seeing what an authentic Shabbos observant home looks like? Sure they can. But does my 22 year old need to be there at the same time?

No.. not until he is mature enough to face that part of our world.