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A kasheh oif a maiseh…
This brings back sweet memories of happy hours with MMM tapes, brought back by Oorah’s animated videos for the next generation to enjoy!!
Note that there is plenty of humor in MMM that was above the children’s head, but served as great entertainment for parents!
BTW, does anyone know who’s taking orders for the Bein Hazmanim radio as we approach Rosh Chodesh Nissan?S’is emmes that most yeshivisha shprach shtams from Yiddish, uber it’s andersh if most of the words are Yiddish with a bissel sprinkling of English or punkt farkert. The way you two were writing, the language was just plain Yiddish with English letters. S’iz nisht kein pele that eimetzer who knows a shtik’l Yeshivish but not Yiddish couldn’t farshtei. That’s punkt how American Yidden talk Yiddish, efsher with a bissel less Aramish. You should hear Israelis speak Yiddish. You wouldn’t understand their Eretzyisroeldigge Yiddish just like they wouldn’t understand your Amerikanisher Yiddish. Every third word is Hebrew – punkt azoi vi unzere shprach, nor bei unz mit English.
Matbucha is a garlicky, delicately sharp tomato-based dip – no mayo ;-)!
Gadolhadorah, I don’t know what circles you come from or identify with. In yeshivish circles which the writer claims to belong to (I believe he really meant this to be a dig – or in ‘Yeshivish’ – a shtoch) if someone yeshivish meets a yeshivish friend who’s on a date, he/she will either nod and look the other way or simply look the other way and pretend that s/he didn’t notice them. There would never be a need to introduce a date to someone you bump into. Who one is dating is a private matter – introductions are inappropriate.
This thread is so full of bias and ignorance, it’s really sad.
Very few Chareidi men and women have spare time and therefore have empty hours on their hands to volunteer. Many of the chareidi men who work, spend their “free time” after work learning – going to a shiur, learning with a chavrusa, etc. and those who are full-time learning and learning many more hours than your average working 9-5 working man – 3 sedarim a day. So if such a hard-working man volunteers once a week for Lev l’Achim, for example, he is being very generous with his time. Ditto for chareidi women, many of whom are juggling a demanding job with a large family plus giving some volunteer time to bake a cake for Ezer miTzion, prepare food for their local chessed organization to help a mother after birth, learn in person or on the phone with another less knowledgeable woman, do Bikur Cholim or other such volunteer work.
I have also heard (from a Reform Jew who has a fundraising consulting company) that the more religious the Jew, the more tzedaka s/he gives in proportion to his income.
The non-chareidi public doesn’t subsidize chareidi healthcare and education from their salaries and from VAT any more than the chareidi public subsidizes health, education, the theatre and the defense budget from their salaries and VAT although the salary/VAT ratio may be different.
In addition to more charity and volunteerism in the chareidi sector, I’ll just add that the largest chessed organizations – who serve the entire public – were founded and are run by chareidim.
But sure, if you’re looking to put down the chareidi public, you’ll add some more blah blah and carry on with your skewed views.
In Hashem’s view there are no such labels as chiloni, dati and chareidi.
After all is said and done, when the neshama leaves the body, the only thing that remains and what counts is what the combined efforts of body and soul during our lifetime accomplished in building a relationship with Hashem. That relationship is created by using our free choice to do His Will (i.e. Torah and mitzvos – both the law and the spirit of the law) – with no labels attached.Besides for learning, what about yashrus, anava, ayin tova, ahavas Yisroel, behaving in a way that you KNOW Hashem is watching you (as in shivisi Hashem l’negdi tomid) and behaving with the knowledge that goyim and Yidden of all types and stripes are also watching you and judging Am Yisroel by your actions. So many middos we need to work on – the list is endless. It doesn’t start and end with learning Torah and giving tzedaka. There is so much more and we are trying. Hashem sees our efforts and He obviously knows that we can do better and wants more from us.
Ever since a close relative went OTD, I say the perek of t’shuva daily (nun-alef) and have added others to the way-too-long list (friends’ and neighbors’ kids, etc.) . If you want me to add your kids, send the names and I’ll have them in mind as well. I must admit that I don’t usually read off all the names (but occasionally I do!). But before I say the perek I do say that I have everyone on the list in mind. In addition to the basic bakasha that they find their path back to Hashem, I add that Hashem should heal the pain in their hearts that distanced them and implant in them the emotional insight and intellectual knowledge that their happiness will come only from a close relationship with Hashem via kiyum Torah and mitzvos. And that He should give them the courage to act on that insight and knowledge to return to sh’miras Torah and mitzvos with a happy heart, in good physical, emotional and spiritual health. I honestly don’t believe that they’re atheists who have struggled on an intellectual level and didn’t find answers. I think most of them are troubled souls who for whatever reason did not find their place in “the system” whether LD, ADD, non-academic, social difficulties, oppositional, restless, suffered abuse, mental health issues and so on. They abandoned religion as a result of suffering and need to heal in order to return. Some fell victim to laziness and taavos, and after feeling the emptiness, don’t have the courage to come back because they feel too “dirty” and hopeless. This can cause depression and escape into sustance abuse, alcoholism and so on. They are not atheists. They are sweet kids who care underneath it all, want to find meaning but have abandoned hope. We need to make place for them where they’ll feel cherished and treasured and step one is to make place for them in our hearts. May “veheishiv leiv avos al bonim v’leiv bonim al avosom” come to pass very soon, and until then, we will keep davening for them with love and compassion.