Yeshivish Lite?

maybe they were saying two seperate things

1)hes yeshivish

2)hes light, not heavy

or maybe they were saying hes light for a yeshivish guy but compared to the rest of the world hes heavy

no sillies…it means hes a chiller!!

I have only ever met one person who claims to be Yeshivish lite. Basically, he is very Yeshivish in Hashkafah but doesn’t mind chilling by watching TV and sports and stuff.

i dont think watching TV has anything to do with being yeshivish

A BEN TORAH SHUDNT WATCH TV

watching sports may be an issue of yeshivshness

If it tastes too watery i’d go with reg beer.

If you dont mind, why not? probably will only take you for a

chevy instead of lexus, apt instead of mansion.

1/2 ur paycheck instead of two mortgages.

Yeshivish in hashkafa, learning, and dress but not affectations.

maybe they meant that he is one of the yeshiveleit

is the person who redt the shidduch a yiddish speaker? for people who speak yinlish or english sprinkled with yiddish, yeshivaleit is a way of referring to yeshivish people. if everything else sounds good maybe that’s what the person meant.

HipFlasker and Mewho –

Great lines!

maybe he’s light/in shape/not heavy…or easy to “carry” financially…

I think it means he smokes “lite” cigarettes, and drinks light beer.

Definitely a “no go”. I wouldn’t trust anyone who drinks light beer.

Labels mean little. I know those who wear tzitzis, a black suede kippa and polo shirts and jeans and colored shirts and khakis during the week, a black hat and white on shabbos and yontiff, doesn’t keep cholov yisroel or pas yisroel, studies at a CUNY college, learns daf yomi and goes to minyan three times a day, yet daven Nusach Sfard, and keep many heimishe-type minhagim, do kiruv with Oorah, NCSY, went to places like KBY, and identify equally as either RWMO or LW Yeshivish. I don’t see much of a difference.

Yeshivish lite usually is someone who grew up yeshivish and went to bais medrash. His lifestyle and hashkafahs are yeshivish but inside he’s not really yeshivish. Not necessarally a bum, but not your classic yeshiva bochur. More lax about his Judiasm in some areas but not the main ones like shabbos and kashrus

Hello mommamia, I hope all is well with you!

To coffee addict: If he’s Yeshivish Lite, there is no shadchan.

Hip flasker: you are on the right track, but how about this: great taste, less fulfilling mitzvahs.

Yeshivish lite (Chassidish lite, tuna beigel) refers to someone who holds onto the ideology and the social norms of the community as best as possible, while bending either due to weakness or a mistaken feeling that he needs to bend to get ahead begashmius. Much of the bending has to do with external appearance, and many of those who bend later snap back or at least hope their children snap back.

A bum or an oisvorf is another story altogether – these unfortunates don’t believe and don’t want to keep the mitzvos or even lead productive lives, but they want to retain the benefits of community membership along with a certain superior attitude (really fear and a deep inferiority complex) that makes them want to rub their OTD status into everyone’s faces and take others down with them. These unfortunates need help, but really they can’t get help without being removed from our dalet amois so they do not continue to create a destructive subculture within our world. (Not all OTD are bums and oisvorfen either.)