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  • #1554646
    jakob
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    This is a Poll.

    What do you do if you receive a birthday card or anniversary card in the mail?

    1)read it (& show it to my family) and then throw it out
    2)put it on my refrigerator
    3)add it to my pile of other cards I received earlier years
    4)I don’t receive any cards. I get it call as text messages and on social media etc….
    5)other (if other then what do you do with it?)

    #1555642
    iacisrmma
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    1)read it (& show it to my family) and then throw it out Just as I would expect others to do with the ones that I send.

    #1555619
    jakob
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    Guess in today’s day of a technological world people don’t get cards anymore. Its all a 5 second text or email etc….

    #1555701
    Midwest2
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    I occasionally get cards. Depending on who it’s from, I may throw it out or put in my “keepers” box. Mostly I get greetings on Facebook, and then I just reply, “Thanks!” I don’t Twitter, Instagram, or whatever else is out there now. Us old fogy types pretty much stick with FB, and then mostly only friend people we’ve known in person and want to keep up with.

    #1555707
    zionflag
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    Read it, hang on fridge for 2-3 days, share with family members, tell sender thank you & throw out..

    #1555736
    Joseph
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    Ehriche Yidden don’t celebrate birthdays.

    #1555840
    ubiquitin
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    Joseph

    See the newest Nitei Gavriel on birthdays

    I know Know R’ Gavriel Tzinner isnt ehrlich

    #1556207

    5) Specifically, read it and only then add it it to the pile (I usually get 1 card a year).

    #1557531
    jakob
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    Some of the card I have saved in a pile are from over 10 years ago, they really bring back happy memories and friends or family who value you nd it really doesn’t take up a lot of space. If I ever go back to them it’s like taking out an old photo album of a few special events or a big family Simcha.

    #1557533
    funnybone
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    Option 4.
    Joseph, who is talking about celebrating? Sending someone best wishes isnt a celebration!
    BTW, whose is there a sefer of halachos for erliche yidden that you are quoting?

    #1557552
    Takes2-2tango
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    I recycle them by using white out. Works every time and no one questions me about it. After all ,what is white out for if not for whiting out?

    #1557554
    Takes2-2tango
    Participant

    Joseph ehriche yidden dont sit on the internet all day and comment.

    #1558363
    knaidlach
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    ehrliche yidden celebrate birthdays by learning exrtra toireh. extra tsdaka. extra tehilim. cheshbon hanefesh to see where to emprove and take on kabolos

    #1558591
    knaidlach
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    in todays world with so many chalanges and נסיונות in our face, we should take advantage of every oportunity to add in yiddishkeit and make yidishkeit more exciting. for example: celebrating birthdays in a toiredige way, using the day to increase in learning toirreh and strengthen our commitment to keeping mitsvos and taking on good resolutions.

    #1559239
    jakob
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    how about sending your friend or family member a birthday card for the mitzva of making someone happy & to let them know that your thinking of them, thus raising their self-esteem & self-image letting them know they mean alot to you

    #1559373
    knaidlach
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    jakob
    i agree. especialy nowadays we have to find ways to increas in ahavas yisroel

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