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My Rav (who has 6 daughters) does it. he just leaves the table while they do. He has semicha from Chofetz Chaim.
We had read the story in LA. From the account we read the fish was speaking Aramaic about Mashiach. The Hispanic worker rushed to get the owner who also heard the fish speaking. My favorite was the ending of the story when the own apparently still killed it and sold it.
“how about washing before kiddish both fri night and shabbos day
waiting after eatomg fleishig to milchig either 1hr or 3 hrs”
This is Yekkish and my family proudly follows these customs (three hours, not one which is Dutch).
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Retarded people are not “stupid.” The Chazon Ish would stand up when he saw a retarded person because he considered them holy individuals.
“Secondly, who said anything about mental retardation? I meant flame retardant.”
Joke if you must, but words have consequences and you are obviously insensitive to other people’s feelings.
popa_bar_abba: It is dergrading to refer to something that you don’t like as “retarded.” Mental retardation is a disability.
I wear tefillin on chol hamoed WITH a bracha.
And for the record I was being extreme about my Yichus. I have family trees for both sides going back to when everyone was frum a few generations ago. The pre-war German Jews tried to be just like the Goyim. Even after the war, my relatives spoke German (never Yiddish). My dad’s side was the gefilte fish eating Yiddish speaking Yidden (who were actually Sephardic).
Chein: No, mom’s side are are not converts, just very assimilated Jews in German/Austrian/Swiss culture. My grandparents met at a HaShomer HaZtair youth camp in Vienna. My family then fled to Bolivia during the war.
I should have been more clear. My mother’s brothers married goyim, so I have many cousins who think they are Jewish but are not. Interestingly, most people on my Father’s side ARE Jews but consider themselves Catholic (R”L) due to all the women marrying Italian men. My father is the only son of an only son (as am I). This small strand has stayed Jewish, kosher Kohanim with no intermarriage. B”H, I have revived my family from destruction and have (BA”H) four frum, holy children.
Oy Vey, unfortunately for me neither my Father’s (A”H) or mother’s family were frum.
Again, I assumed we were Ashkenaz but recently found out that were are indeed Sephardim who migrated east to Lithuania at some point (confirmed Sephardic using a DNA test).
I am not harping on what you do, mind you. I actually tried switching from Ashkenaz to Sephard (my wife’s family are originally Satmar – she has an incredible Shtar Yichus to King Dovid, I got nuthin’) and I got very ill.
When i became frum, I decided to take on Yekke minhagim as my Mother’s family were very assimlated Germans/Austrians. Since there was no one JEWISH, let alone frum from that side, I took it on. 3 hours, washing before Kiddush, Tefillin on Chol HaMoed WITH a bracha, no Mayim Acronim, use Rodelheim siddur, etc. I had all their grandparents’ old machsorim (replete with prayers for the Kaiser) and use them on the Chagim. When I got married, I tried to get out of it and switch to regular Ashkenaz but was told by a Rav that my minhagim were mehudar and not to switch. Then when I found out I was Sephardic I asked the question again and Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky poskened that I should keep the Yekkish ways and not switch.
It is a hodgepodge of nusachim. My wife is a Breslov at heart. Her family is Yeshivish but originally Satmar. I am a Sephardic Yekke and that’s how we roll.
I am always wondering if I am doing it wrong.
Oy vey…
“It was instituted by one of the gedolei hador who, in his expertise in all areas of Torah, decided which is the most accurate way to daven.”
Then…
“No one is telling you to daven the nusach that I do. “Because” should be enough to let you know that I have a good reason. It should also be enough to tell you that I don’t want you to know what that reason is.”
No, sorry, this makes no sense. In effect, you are placing a stumbling block in front of all of us in regard to tefillah if, in fact, it is the most accurate way to daven. Others ahve posted about the proper way to bow during oseh shalom and other correct ways of doing things. If we are not davening the most accurate nusach then I would hope you would enlighten us or at least let us know the Gadol Ha-Dor to whom you refer. I am not judging or inquiring for no reason. i take tefilah very seriously and if I am making a mistake or doing something incorrectly, I would like to fix it or at least ask my Rav if there is validity.
Also, where is Sepharadi (Spain)? Not the same as Sefard (Chassidische).
Well, I’m satisfied. Sure, I may be davening incorrectly, but because” is good enough for me!
“It was instituted by one of the gedolei hador who, in his expertise in all areas of Torah, decided which is the most accurate way to daven.”
Then why not share the source?
Of course not… is this a real situation or a metaphor?
Ellul! Daven, learn, say tehillim, make peace, give tzedukkah, cheer someone up!
Ashkenaz (though I am Sephardi according to recent DNA test confirmation and dark skin). 🙂
They say non cigar smokers don’t live longer… it just feels that way.
Cigars in the sukkah… nothing better.
So here’s the question. Although my family is genetically Sephardic, we have been “Ashkenaz” for quite a few generations. I have always felt weird about the hamsa. We have one that someone gave us with Birkas Habayis on it. Can I get rid of it? Is it shaimos?
Just wear two pairs of pants. Ah, but if those too were to fall down, then three? No. Ain sof l’davar!
Not on Kosherquest site of reliable hechshers (Rabbi Eidlitz). Imamother dot com has a string about it if you want to search.
“I reen” in urban slang means “I smoke Marijuana.”
See where I’m going with this? Yes, the hurricane IS a message from Hashem but let’s not derive meaning out of names given to the storm by meteorologists. Reflect on your life, do teshuvah and help your fellow man get through this pending disaster.
THAT is the message.
Irene happens to mean “peace” in Greek.
And for the Sephardim?
Interesting that it was centered near Washington DC and was felt all the way up to Martha’s Vineyard, where President Obama is vacationing. I’m just sayin’.
Perhaps you are mashgiach Ben Dovid. The for whom we all have been waiting.
I think I hit on something… TOP HATS for EVERYONE!
For better or for worse, I love hats. JFK killed the hat industry as he was the first President to go w/o one. The fashion of not wearing hats followed his lead. My only problem is when the Fedora is seen as a religious obligation or as a holy item. It’s a hat.
I wear my black hat when a) it’s raining or b) when it’s too sunny out. Again it’s just a hat. To those people defending hats as an obligation: would you be fine with me coming to shul in a Fez or a Top Hat?
“times” Sorry.
As a professional writer (albeit, comedy) I appreciate Haifagirl’s grammar zealotry. English is a wonderful and now universal language and it shows intelligence and class when it is spoken and written correctly. Many time I have been asked “Are you eating by the _________s on Shabbos?” My reply, “Oh, no. I’m actually planning on eating AT their house.”
When we moved to Lakewood 15 years ago (and moved out 14 11/12th years ago) we met a woman in a supermarket who introduced herself using a fairly common English name. My wife said she was surprised to meet a frum lady in Lakewood who goes by an English name. The woman replied: “My birth name is Gnendl Kraindl.” We all nodded our understanding.
Drive Pacific Coast Highway.
Shhhhhh. Writer in Hollywood. Can’t and won’t say anything more identifying.
A Rabbi walks into a bar with a frog on his shoulder. The bartender says, “Where did you find him?” The frog says, “Brooklyn, there’s thousands of them there!”