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Who has the smallest bonfire… Lowest music… Smallest crowd…
Has anyone entered?
I turned on my stove with some quiet classical music, it’s just me here.
every year there is a huge celebration with a band and “bonfire” that most of the community goes to. except my kids. because we can’t listen to live music tonight, we don’t let the kids go to the celebration. what we can’t understand is why, if the dayan of the city is the one who says it is not permitted, do we not know anyone else who has to sit home tonight. My kids will “swear” they are the only ones who aren’t there.
This year a neighbor made a fire in his backyard for his kids and mine. He can go to the celebration if he wants to but he is antisocial. Gd bless my neighbor.
Sounds like the rabbinic overseers of the bonfire have a larger following in your community than the dayan you speak of.
not really, it’s more like a live band, fire and food is more of a draw than sitting in your house waiting for morning.
but the overseer of the bonfire does have a bigger shul. He is chassidish and tho we only have about 5 chassidish families in the whole city (okay, 25 families), that shul is really at the center of most of the parties.
How large of a following can the dayan have if most of the town is disregarding his admonishments that it is not permitted?
here’s my guess. if someone legit is making a party, why would you think you couldn’t go? If you don’t know you have a question, you don’t ask it, and if you don’t ask him, you won’t know (he made no public admonishments).
If there was a chassidish community and a non-chassidish community and each had lag b’omer activities, or the chassidim had several and the non-chassidim had none, it is possible you may wonder if it is permissible to go to the “other” party. But this is a very small large community and we do things together. When Rabbi Eichenstein makes a party, everyone comes. it’s the only party in town and the lack of party elsewhere is just the norm, i wouldn’t have attributed it to halacha.
I assume there are others who don’t go, and it is possible that if one asked a shaila, they would be told they could take the kids so they don’t feel isolated.
in the end tho, i dont really get it.
hey midwesterner, were you at the bonfire? (gefen – noone asked you :P)
Thats Rabbi Eichenstein on Devon not Rabbi Shuey on Touhy I assume.
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