Reply To: Choosing a Seminary

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A600KiloBear
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BS”D

I do not know the names of any sems in EY. However, the questions to ask when selecting a sem for your precious daughter are:

1) What color tablecloth does the principal use on Shabbos? Does she use disposables or china? Plastic cups or glass?

2) Does her husband wear shoes with laces or otherwise in general? On Shabbos?

3) What is the average dress size of talmidois in the sem when they enter versus when they leave?

4) What does the principal cover her hair with? What size and brim style hat does her husband wear and what type and size of yarmulke does he wear under it. Even for more modern sems it is very important to find out how many pins the principal’s husband uses to secure his kippa sruga and how wide it is.

5) What is the average income of the fathers of the chossonim of graduates of the sem?

6) What kind of kugel does the principal serve on Shabbos and what type are girls in the sem taught to make?

7) What medications do the principal of the seminary, her mother, her grandmother, her husband and each of her children take? Include OTC remedies and vitamins from age three.

Other points to consider include color of nail polish, exact length of skirt worn to the nanometer, and similar chashive nekidois.

Remember that your precious daughter will be very influenced by this menaheles whom she may even see every other day for an hour and that you do not want her to emulate anyone who has minhagim that may be problematic come shidduch time.