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What are we (the ppl turning 21) going to do to bring ourselves closer to Hashem and to serve Hashem better at this age? Lets do something every1 keneged What the goyim look forward to this age for (Drinking,bars,Clubs) Lets take this age and strengthen ourselves in avodat Hashem…How are we going to do that??????
By Jews the key age is 20, not 21.
dhl144 – I wish I had your hashkafic insight at your age! What a great concept. My thought is that since 21 is when they exercise independence and freedom to do what they want to do, maybe we can “counter” that in parallel with exercising restraint and control. Building on middos that specifically address saying “no” to extra junk food, being extra careful about what you say to someone, thinking twice about something you wear or spend money on. Not just within halacha, but even beyond that into the halachically appropriate but, perhaps, spiritually lacking. I am far from turning 21, but it is a couple of months before my 21st anniversary so can I qualify?
20 is the age a person becomes chayiv for dinei shamayim.
Dhl: You can show that we are holier than those who do all sorts of Shtusim and stupidities when they turn 21.
There’s actually a very interesting Chasam Sofer where he says that the whole twenty-years-old-chayav-in-dinei-shamayim thing isn’t really true. According to him, the only difference is that when in certain times in history there was a gezeira for people to be wiped out – such as the dor hamidbar – it only applied to those over the age of twenty, but this rule has no application to us.
In other news, today is the fourth anniversary of my twentieth birthday. I’m getting old.
Happy birthday Yitay.
lol. Happy birthday!
Thanks guys 🙂 🙂
Did you just grow another head? o_0
Happy anniv… I mean birthday.
Lol thanks kapusta!
OneOfMany, it took me a reeaaallly long time to get that (I said I’m getting old), but now I can’t stop laughing 😀
Heh, you’re gonna need the extra head to keep up with us nimble young’uns. 😛
“In other news, today is the fourth anniversary of my twentieth birthday. I’m getting old.”
Ur 100 yrs. old?
Umm…
Okay Gefen, confess. You took math with Debra Feldman. Fourth anniversary since his twentieth . . .he’s been twenty for four years!
hehe
Syag: He wrote 4th ann OF his twentieth birthday not SINCE. I take things very literally 😉
Anyway – who’s Debra Feldman?
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