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Having grown up (and lived) in the Baltimore community for many years, I find it sad that what was once a large and vibrant MO community has dwindled.

Just remember that there is no mitzvah to live in Baltimore, Chicago, Monsey, Boro Park, or any other of the places mentioned in this discussion. Yes, they are all places with nice frum communities, but they are all really OOT from E”Y, the place that matters most.

The Egyptians aren’t stupid. This will never happen.

I wish them well.
Many or most Israeli banks won’t deal with U.S. citizens at all because of the paperwork the banks have to file with the IRS. The banks charge an arm and a leg for every transaction. If the couple does manage to open an account, tell them always to deposit cash via a machine, as the banks charge for depositing with the tellers.

@Gadolhatorah they’re not making aliyah – the OP clearly states the couple is going for a few years, R”L.

“Now there are reasons not to live there; the shmad, ease of raising children, parnosa, etc..”

If you want it badly enough, it can be done. These are only excuses. Living in E”Y is a mitzvah. Too bad so many don’t see it that way.

I guess not.

To common saychel, the oilem thinks you posted in the wrong place.

I’m wondering why the Chabad shule I attended last Shabbat now ranks as one of the noisiest minyanim I’ve ever davened at. Kids running around yelling, adults talking at full volume . . . One would think that frum people would supposedly know how to behave better in a shule. I’ll save my visits there for rain, snow, and cold weather, since it’s closer than the shule where I normally daven.

The baal t’fila needs to know his audience in the shule. He needs to pick a tune that people know. He needs to sing it in the proper key, so that people will be able to sing along. (Many a baal t’fila will sing in a key that is too high.) He needs to pick faster tunes in the summer, because it’s late and people don’t want to dray out the davening with slow songs. Ultimately, the baal t’filla can only do so much, but if he knows what he’s doing, people will sing along.

You should stay in EY: the Torah you learn there is a higher madreiga than anything you’ll learn in chu”l.

“No, my daughter does not have a school yet. But then again, my daughter is more than 25 years old.” I was thinking the same thing – except my youngest daughter is 28.

The Gadol HaDor, Moreinu v’Rabbeinu Harav HaGaon Sar HaTorah Shloimele Rosenbaum, the heilige Admor of Shaputz (a/k/a The Shaputzniker Rebbe) shlit’a, lives in a community he leads outside of Tzfas. His Gadlus isn’t well know because of his deep humility, but he heads both a yeshiva gadola and a kollel there. His opinions on such things as women wearing sunglasses, dressing in a tzniyusdike manner, setting the dining room table inside on Sukkos, chewing gum, kashrus, and davening every day with a minyan, are know the world over, and have attracted hundreds of new followers to his community. There are Shaputznik communities in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boro Park, and the Lower East Side.
His seforim on halacha and hashkafa are available wherever fine Judaica is sold.

@lopman 23
The world doesn’t revolve around what other people think of you. Maybe if people worried less about what other people think, there would be a great deal less mental stress in the world.

You must mean that guy wearing the blue shirt.

Yiddish is not any more or less holy than English. Find me someplace in Tanach or the Gemara that says Yiddish is holy, then I’ll believe it.

Sam Klein, are you for real, or are you just trolling?

What’s the difference? There’s no halacha that one needs to light, or even attend, such a fire.

Text? People still use SMS?

Our ancestors in the alte heim didn’t know from such shtus as “chol hamoed trips.”

Did you think of asking, oh I don’t know, a DOCTOR or PA or NURSE PRACTICIONER, instead of bringing this up to anonymous posters who don’t know what they’re talking about??

“And not for a foreign country and army.”

Spoken like a true chutznik.

And what high level bachur would be on the internet, certainly defying the wishes of his Rabbe/Rosh Yeshiva?

“Fly Play to Iceland then Wizz to Krakow then Ryanair to Tel Aviv”

Why on earth would you fly with two stops? The OP says the trip is for a week; why would you waste all that time travelling?

I used to be part of a chevra kadisha on the yishuv where we used to live, and we fasted on zayin Adar, had a big shiur, davened mincha as a ta’anit, and broke our fast on goodies after arvit. It was nice, as the whole group participated, men and women, and it’s about the only time the entire chevra kadisha got together as one group.

Unless you are somehow related to this family, why do you care what happens? Does it somehow affect you or your life? You don’t have more important things to think or worry about?