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June 30, 2013 6:13 am at 6:13 am #609846chofetzchaimMember
I spent Shabbos in Henderson, NV. It was a very warm community – about 116 degrees or so by the time we walked back from shul…
We did a very un-frum thing – we walked back from shul without our hats and jackets. 🙂
For Shalosh Seudos we took bagels out of the freezer and put them on a plate outside for a few minutes to defrost. It was still well over 100 at 8pm.
June 30, 2013 6:23 am at 6:23 am #962804UtahMemberCan you please explain why walking without a hat and a jacket is un-frum?
You were hot so you took off your hat and jacket like a NORMAL person. How does this make you not frum?
June 30, 2013 6:25 am at 6:25 am #962805popa_bar_abbaParticipantWhat a chillul Hashem. Do you think Moshe rabeinu took off his hat and jacket in the midbar?
June 30, 2013 7:33 am at 7:33 am #962806rebdonielMemberI hope you didn’t have a far walk to shul. I was leining and davened for the amud, and walked a mile to get home in NYC, where it was sp that I had to change my shirt when I got home.
June 30, 2013 8:33 am at 8:33 am #962807Biology (joseph)ParticipantWhy are you sharing with us this experience?
June 30, 2013 9:15 am at 9:15 am #962808rebdonielMemberThe poster is conveying his experiences on a shabbos where the news said it was as hot as meah v’esrim. You don’t have to read these posts if you don’t care.
June 30, 2013 9:24 am at 9:24 am #962809ZachKessinMemberIf you are in the desert, in Israel or elsewhere please drink LOTS of water, at least 2x what you think you need. You can get really sick in the heat really quickly if you don’t.
–Zach
June 30, 2013 11:14 am at 11:14 am #962810MorahRachMemberBetter to overheat and pass out?
June 30, 2013 11:35 am at 11:35 am #962811TheGoqParticipantPopa on really hot days Moshe Rabeinu didnt even give his staff the day off.
June 30, 2013 12:31 pm at 12:31 pm #962812playtimeMemberBy the way, you should be very careful when you speak out against people that are not wearing a hat and jacket.
There was an alter buchur in my Yesheva who was spotted Bain Hazmanim davening without his hat.
(I think the Mishna Brira says you have to wear a double covering on your head when you daven.)
When the Rosh Yeshevah found out, he was so angry at him that he started screaming, “I don’t mind if it wasn’t a borsalini, but chodsht (atleast) a baseball cap…it is an embarrassment for the yesheva, and if you belong to something, either a company, or a yesheva, you have to know that you represent it, etc.. The Rosh Yesheva was yelling at him, and the alte buchur was all red in the face, then the rosh yeshiva slapped him across the face, so hard, that his Toupee’ and yamike fell off. So the Rosh Yesheva asked him mechilla.
June 30, 2013 1:07 pm at 1:07 pm #962813oomisParticipantIf someone were genuinely concerned that he was being “un-frum” to remove a hat and jacket in sweltering heat, then I would be even more concerned that he has no clue as to what constitutes frumkeit. However, it was clear int his post that the poster was writing just a tad tongue in cheek.
June 30, 2013 4:14 pm at 4:14 pm #962814Cheery On The TopMemberPlaytime, I don’t believe your story. Slapping for not wearing a hat? C’mon, even I wouldn’t do that.
June 30, 2013 4:16 pm at 4:16 pm #962815popa_bar_abbaParticipantGoq: Excellent.
June 30, 2013 4:16 pm at 4:16 pm #962816jewishfeminist02MemberWe had to stay home from shul yesterday because of the heat. We did go on Friday night and nearly fainted from heat exhaustion on our way home (no, I am not exaggerating). This is the worst heat wave Vegas has had in 8 years. Iy”h they are saying it should break by tomorrow.
Incidentally, the shuls here start at 7:30 A.M. in summertime so everyone can get out early before the worst heat of the day settles.
June 30, 2013 4:17 pm at 4:17 pm #962817Cheery On The TopMemberOomis, it’s quite obvious!!
June 30, 2013 4:32 pm at 4:32 pm #962818TheGoqParticipantThanks popa.
June 30, 2013 4:32 pm at 4:32 pm #962819popa_bar_abbaParticipantIs chofetzchaim gonna meet up with JF02 while he’s in vegas?????
June 30, 2013 4:54 pm at 4:54 pm #962820kesherMemberYay Henderson!!!!!!
June 30, 2013 5:03 pm at 5:03 pm #962821🍫Syag LchochmaParticipantPopa- I think she actually had him as a shabbos guest, but shhh, don’t give them away.
June 30, 2013 5:12 pm at 5:12 pm #962822jewishfeminist02Memberchofetzchaim, did you go home or are you still in NV? come for shabbos!! lol
June 30, 2013 5:40 pm at 5:40 pm #962823YW Moderator-42ModeratorCC, your hat and jacket were probably brown or gray so they are un-frum even when you wear them. ^_^
June 30, 2013 6:55 pm at 6:55 pm #962825UtahMember@yw moderator because you have to wear a BLACK hat to be frum?
I thought being frum was being shomer torah umitzvot
not by what you wear
you must be from mars. or utah.
June 30, 2013 7:03 pm at 7:03 pm #962826UtahMember@mod so your saying that all modern orthodox people are not frum?
rabbis schachter and willig wear black hats, no?
June 30, 2013 7:15 pm at 7:15 pm #962827June 30, 2013 7:36 pm at 7:36 pm #962828rebdonielMemberI cannot think of one RIETS rosh yeshiva that doesn’t wear a black hat. Rabbi Chaim Brovender even wears one.
June 30, 2013 8:02 pm at 8:02 pm #962829CuriosityParticipantPBA +5 … had a good laugh from the Moshe in the Midbar line.
Anyone seen pics of alter-bochurim from the 40s and 50s in their shpitzy pinstriped gray suits and short brimmed, white, straw hats? Suspenders, tobacco pipes, and all the bells and whistles… Quite the well dressed boys they were, back when today’s gedolim were in still in beis midrash.
June 30, 2013 8:10 pm at 8:10 pm #962830golferParticipantGreat Goq!
June 30, 2013 9:44 pm at 9:44 pm #962831chofetzchaimMemberUtah, as mentioned by others, that was said tongue in cheek.
JF02, the Rabbi spoke about feminism in his speech. Our shul started at 8:45am and the walk back was quite hot. One of the Rabbis offered for people to stop at his house for water and AC on the way back for people passing his way.
Goq, my mother hires a staff on Erev Pesach Zecher L’yitzias Mitzraim.
July 1, 2013 6:50 pm at 6:50 pm #962832Sam2ParticipantR’ Schachter himself wears a hat but if you ask him if you have to he says no. He says when he was growing up you had to for Davening because that was a Kavod’dik way of dress. Nowadays it’s not. He still wears his because he’s used to it and would feel uncomfortable without it. But he says you don’t have to anymore.
Oh, and the Mishnah B’rurah does not say, anywhere, that you need a double covering for Davening. It is a myth and a gross misinterpretation (and I don’t think it’s unintentional on the part of some) of 91:2.
July 2, 2013 2:26 am at 2:26 am #962833jewishfeminist02MemberWe would love to spend a shabbos in Henderson. It sounds like a very warm community. Hopefully we will get there at some point before the end of the summer. It’s only about 20 miles away, but without a car, that’s complicated.
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