Shmais would tell you that shabbos this week in CH was pretty normal. Mendy Herz Davened Shachris @ the Umud downstairs. There were 3 Chasanim. Tully Silberberg spoke before Mussaf. Chezky Herz Davened Mussaf @ the Umud. In the Rebbe's room, Levi Yitzchok Abramowitz Davened Shachris the Umud. There were 2 Chasanim. Sholom Mendel Kluwgant Davened Mussaf @ the Umud. The regular Kiddushim including those for 12 Tammuz and the Chasanim were held both upstairs & downstairs in 770 and went on all afternoon long. Downstairs in 770 before the end of Shabbos, R' Nachman Schapiro Chazzered a Maamer. Would that be all there was? Of course not.
On Friday night there were at least 6 Sholom Zochors k"ah.
Meanwhile, in other news, I davened in the new minyan (Beis Shmuel Daled?) in the back of 770 this week. It was quite cute to see how all the people who originally founded the minyan now stand on the side and talk while the minyan itself is made up of bums like me who missed the main minyan in the front. Of course, when it comes time for the kiddush these founders take their rightful place at the front of the que.
Later today I came to 770 for afternoon prayers and some 2 reading/1 aramaic. As Maariv started I noticed the quite disturbing phenomenon of a mincha minyan in the process of beginning. Far be it from me to criticize anyone's religious devotional shtuff, but I thought this was taking things a little far. I would understand if this were the winter, and maariv was starting at 5:30. But we're in summer now (though you'd never know it from all the rain), and maariv was beginning at 9:20. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. At least the moon made an appearance for Kiddush Levana.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Chukas-Balak in Crown Heights
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If you forgot about the serial slapper on the loose. What's "pretty normal" about that? lol
I actually walked by that incident whenI was walking to mincha (girls, boys, cops) and when I was walking back from maariv (more girls, more boys, different cops).
Wow. So this girl was so violated when she got slapped, but it wasn't equally demeaning for her to have a whole bunch of horny CH boys crowding around her acting busy?
Actually, I think it was her brothers or something.
Incest, even worse.
You have a disgusting thought process :)
Hm, sounds like a good excuse for mingling...
What happened exactly?
thanks for the update. now im not so homesick, cuz it seems like i havent missed much.
Sara: http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=19679
Altie: Au contraire!
ha. u are wishing u are here in gorgeous california, and not in boring old crown heights. just keep telling urself there is so much happening there, and u might just be able to convince yourself...
I spent two summers in LA. I'm not missing anything by being on the east coast.
thats what u say now....
And what I'll say at the end of the summer as well.
thats only cuz ur getting married. otherwise, cali is a cool place to be during the summer. new york is just so... boring.
but then again, coming from a little hicktown like minassota like u do, new york must be so cool, and exciting, and happening for u. oh joy of joys! enjoy it, country boy.
LA is boring at any time of the year, unless you enjoy movie studios, theme parks, and the beach. Seeing as I don't enjoy any of those...
theme parks, no. movies, ya. beach, ish.
too bad for u.
honestly, california isnt that exciting. and its cold here! but its just the excitement of being in a new place, the change of scenery.
What a sicko.
TRS- They probably had a late flight and just arrived in CH at 9:30.
TRS/Altie- Very meraglim-ish. At least you stopped short of saying LA is a land that devours her inhabitants.
The truth is tova haaretz meod meod.
LE7- what was that sicko comment in reference to?
a. The leydiger mincha minyan.
b. TRS's LA bashing.
c. Nemo's comment.
d. Altie's movie watching and occasional beach visitation.
e. The slapper.
I knew I should put a none of the above answer choice.
lol excuse me, what is sick abt watching movies and occasionally going to the beach?
All right, what's going on here? Hmm...
Dovid: This is Shabbos we're talking about-anyone flying in then probably isn't running straight away to 770 to daven mincha.
LA: shvach
Altie: Somethings.
No candies?
Must have been a calmer shabbos than usual in 770
I'm not sure if that's the word I'd use...
TRS- unless they don't keep Shabbos but are makpid to daven with a minyan.
Altie- The correct answer choice was not d. (I personally thought answer choice b was correct.)
Dovid: They presumably they'd daven with a minyan b'zmana.
Perhaps they're not holding there yet. They're prepared to daven with a minyan but not yet minyan b'zmana.
When i was in CH they were throwing brown bags of something, it didn't feel heavy enough to be candy. Maybe pop-corn or nuts.
So they rush in from the airport to daven mincha? Why didn't they just daven before they took off?
Right, they always throw soft shtuff, but this time...nothing.
They are makpid to daven in 770.
Ya, in CH you're throwing brown bags at chossonim and you say LA is shvach.
Skeptical I remain.
I never said CH was in any way better than anywhere else.
dovid, are u from LA?
trs- there is nothing wroing with watching movies, or going to the beach. unless maybe u are a little country boy from a hicktown called minnasota. ya, then maybe it is baaaaaad for u.
dovid and trs, i think LA is cool. but i aint sticking up for it, dovid, u gonna have to do that all on your own.
There is something wrong with watching movies and going to the beach, regardless of where you come from.
Tell me, what is cool about LA?
no there is not.
truthfully, nothing. it is a city just like any other. only it has famous ppl here, and palm trees, and nice weather all year round.
whats so cool abt italy? or france? or any other cool tourist attraction that ppl love to go to?
I suppose we will simply have to agree to disagree.
What does having famous people have to do with anything?
Palm trees can be found in many cities.
Nice weather all year round=not true.
Tourist attractions: Who says they are cool?
fine. we seem to do that a lot in arguments.
i dont really care, i doubt ill see anyone famous here, and no, they are not that cool.
true, but i dont see them much.
sort of. though it has been chilly ltely.
they arent. they are overpriced, and boring.
i am not going to argue abt something that i dont even care abt. i have better things to do. argue with dovid, he seems to stick up for LA a lot, for some reason.
Yup.
Yup.
Yup.
Trust me, I spent two years there...
OK
Perhaps because he lives there.
i never trust u.
really? that is a fact i did not know until presently.
That's a good basis for a relationship.
Well, now you know.
lol. im sorry, i guess i was not informed that we are in a relationship. either way, u have to earn the other persons trust, and u have not earned my trust.
u learn new things every day.
We aren't, Miss. Relationship Guru.
Yup.
altie: i never trust u.
trs: That's a good basis for a relationship.
altie: i guess i was not informed that we are in a relationship.
trs: We aren't, Miss. Relationship Guru.
(that took me forever to copy and paste. i hate laptops.)
YOU said it, not me.
i have nothing for or against relationships, so dont be all insulting against me.
VERY ARGUMENTATIVE NEVER-WANTS-TO-LOSE-A-FIGHT- country boy from minnasota.
Do me a favor though, learn how to spell.
excuse me, i know how to spell perfectly well. ive gotten 100%'s on my spelling tests.
Minnesota
ok. u are just not worth the time it takes to look the stupid word up in a dictionary.
Kol hamisnabel...
Kol hamisnabel...
?? that is not the words to a yeshiva boys choir song, im guessing.
Correct.
so then what does it mean?
just a guess, but in english we say,
why u go'a be so ha'in?? (why u gotta be so hating, kinda in black slang.)
Who is hating? I merely expressed the sentiment that I remembered my hachlota not to get into these types of discussions because, as it says in tanya, he who wrestles with a filthy man gets filthy himself.
lol are u calling me filthy??
which argument are u refering to? i stopped counting after the first few.
It was an analogy. Basically, even if I think I have a valid argument, when it descends into stupidity, I come out looking stupid too.
Well, after the first several I made this hachlota. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't.
i think it is a very good hachlata. but notice how YOU are the one who took the conversation into the 'mud'.
dont correct me on my spelling, and we'll be juuuuust fine.
We have different standards for mud.
I merely resented your consistent misspelling of my state.
well, at the risk of being called a nice person, I do aplogize for the spelling mistake. I understand how annoying it can be, when people can hardly find your city on the map, AND they mispell it. I sympathize.
either way, u have it easier. either u can write NY, or CH and everyone knows what you are talking abt.
now, try spelling the state of which Boston is the capital, without any help from a dictionary. That is where I am from.
Actually, I'm also from Massachusetts.
u always manage to surprise me. and u can spell!! yay for u!
really. where are u from?
Good 'ol Brookline.
cool. parents lived there at one point.
i'm from a little hicktown called Sharon.
Yup. I lived there for a whole year.5.
Got some friends there.
wow. u are super duper cool.
i dont. i lived there for 3 years. not enough time to make friends.
You got that right.
Oh well.
im bored of this convo. check out my new post. and do not comment 'yup'. i dont like when u do that.
Re LA, I disagree with TRS. I thing LA is cool because of the weather. Since the weather is good, good stuff happens all the time.
Re movies, I agree with TRS. Movies and the beach are definetely not good stuff (and thats not what makes LA good).
You might be correct if the weather was always good. But it's not.
Its always better than anywhere else. No one leaves to the country for the summer or goes to miami for the winter.
Stuff and nonsense. I can think of ten places off the top of my head which are far superior in every aspect.
there is nothing wrong with beach and movies. maybe cuz u are guys, it is harsher.
trs- ya there are better places, but are u IN those better places? no. dovid is in LA, which is better than new york at any given time, therefore, at this moment, in this argument, LA is the best.
i cant believe u ppl are arguing abt this. it is so pointless
Altie stop arguing with TRS. TRS stop responding.
le7 r u playing moderator?
u forgot dovid. he's arguing too.
Yeah. but I didn't get as many notifications from him.
thats cuz he's not online as much as trs. NO ONE is online as much as trs. lucky him, he has one of those cool itouch thingies.
Not true. He's busy with other stuff... okay I'm not getting into this game.
smart. run, as fast as u can!! dont look back!!! quick before theres time. otherwise trs will pull u into these rediculous arguments, and try to get u to be on his side.
Even if I don't agree with him I'm always on his side.
awwww that made me smile.
Ok, I just got back from a farbrengen with Mendy Shapiro, can you do that anywhere else but LA? I rest my case.
Mazel tov. You found the one good thing about LA (the hanhola of YOEC). Doesn't mean the city itself is anything special.
I was at 770 for a chupa several years ago. While waiting the three minutes it took the olam to get there from ohalei torah I was inside (@ about 8pm in the winter) and saw some people taking off their tfillin. 770 is known to be worse about zmanim than amshinov.
I didn't know Amshinov was notorious for anything besides the Amshinover Rebbe.
Amshinov is well known for davening at crazy hours.
Maybe we should make a merger.
Well we already took Rabbi Raichik from them.
You should all move to Oregon. Rolling green hills and happy flaming liberals who jog at the wee hours with their golden retrievers. We're known for our rose gardens and fantastic bike lanes.
AND we have a lovely shul with a close knit community.
is "close knit community" code for barely makes minyan on Shabbos?
Just like in Russia, we have mesiros nefesh.
TRS: beis shmuel daled, huh? So that's what you call the corner with all the nigleh sforim.
Dovid: So that's where he went! Give him back!
Dovid2:yes
sarabonne: for flaming liberals and rose gardens?
There are flaming liberals in Russia?
I was referring to the mesiros nefesh necessary of men to trudge to shul and make the minyan. In the rain.
Trudging to shul in the rain? What happened to jogging on green hills with golden retrievers?
The rain is after you move there.
Sara: where did that infomercial come from?
And yeah, if you get me a job there, I'll move.
Modeh: no, that's a different minyan. This one is next to the back door by the shelves with the sichos.
Everyone: who wants rain?
Dovid-we don't jog on shabbas.
TRS-I go home in less than a week, I need people to talk to. You could teach in our school, I went there and came out alright...sorta.
Wait. You want me to move there in a week?
Well I was kinda hoping for Le7 but you can come too. Road trip anyone?
Sounds good to me.
Fantastic, I'll make you some apple pie.
Awesome!!
You're driving to Oregon?
Nope, I'm flying but it seems your lady Le7 is...
Taking a road trip? Why am I skeptical?
i... am speechless.
california is great - northern better than southern, though.
trs - i support your hachlata!
re: CA: you're nogea b'davar
re: hachlata: me too.
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