This video is totally awesome, but instead of focusing on this teacher, I was focused on the kid in the blue shirt with a suede yarmulke and clips – isn’t this against yeshiva policy. I was kind of shocked, I know Ner guys are cool – but I wonder if this showing of them on goyishe zachen like TV will lead other yeshivas to ostracize them?
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Ha, I think they consider that off the D.
Who knows what other yeshivas will do, but Ner gets less uptight about things like this. I knew a guy there who was tired of them always telling him to cut his hair, so he shaved his head. They weren’t amused but they didn’t throw him out or anything. On 9/11 the rebbeim were all in the dorms listening to the news on all the illegal radios and TVs. The next day everyone just agreed that it never happened.
There is a dress code at Ner Israel, but no rules about blue shirts or fabric of head covering.
The yeshivish places call Ner Israel MO and the YU yeshivot call it yeshivish. Turns out it’s right in the middle.
That’s kind of what happened at Rochester – we knew nothing of Ner because the kids who got kicked out of Ner didn’t come to Rochester.
Except Rochester is a Chofetz Chaim which another story entirely…
wow! what an amazing story. thanks for posting this . it is so inspiring.
The idiocy of blue shirts, suede yamakas and bobby pins is unique to the Ner Israel in Toronto, which has always felt inferior to its Maryland namesake and overcompensated with holier (sillier) than thou dictates.
That’s why most of its graduates are no longer practicing Orthodox Jews.
MOST?!
That seems a bit of a stretch. Bitter much?
The high school in Ner has frummed out like crazy over the last 10 years.
Back in the day everyone wore colored shirts. Now you’re “weird” if you do.
Oh and if you shaved your head nowadays it would be an automatic expulsion.
Heshy great video, Though you being shocked by the blue shirt and suede yarmulka is just another example of what ive often pointed out, of how little you actually know about frummy society.
John do you actually think I was shocked?
I’m just pulling your chain, out of all the yeshivos around the globe most of my friends are Ner guys. I always point out that the most successful and normal guys come out of Ner and it’s mostly for their highly intellectual atmosphere minus the crazy yeshivaness.
Friends like me?
Nice video, thanks for posting. For some reason I was a bit disturb that none of his children appear religious….not that it’s a reflection on his teaching skills….
See my post linked in the trackbacks below: He is not frum.
the kids name is uziel milefski and he is switching from ner to chofetz chaim next year, in no way does he represent the typical ner kid.
what is your point? It is obvious from the video that he isnt the typical ner kid.
Are all ner kids as dumb as you, do you represent the typical ner kid?
haha donni ur grt…not cc btw
i went to ner for highschool and yes i had mr miller as a teacher for geometry, trig, and pre-cal. he rocks!! as for the 9/11 thing. i was there when it happened . 9/11 happened in the morning so their were no rebbeim in the dorms when the news got out. as for how they did find out. some rebbeim have a radio in their house but i do remember that many of them were listening to the news on their car radios. that was to see what was happening and it was later that night. there is only one rebbe that i could think of that mightve listened to the news in the dorm because he was probably trying to get guys to sleep and in the meantime got to overhear some of the news from the radio. i wont say his name but hes quite chilled and hes the type of rebbi that wouldnt rat out.
and now for the main thing that seemed to get everyones attention, colored shirts. yea we wore them, no big deal. in my day (i left around 6 years ago) you had around 1 out of every 10 guys wearing colored shirts. no one cared really. if a guy has long hair they would tell him to cut it because they dont want their guys to look unkempt. a nice colored shirt though they dont say anything about. they only care if the shirt is very fancy. then they tell you to change it. this applied even if it was a very fancy white shirt. they also didnt like it when a guy wore clothing that was very loud. i remember a guy walking into the beis with a neon yellow shirt. the menahel walked over to him and told him to change it immediately. the guy didnt even get a chance to get to his seat. but thats cause the guy was crying for attention so they told him to grow up. the same applied to ties on shabbos, if it was too loud it had to go. most of the rules were common sense actually and werent really rules but accepted protocol.
efink, the yeshiva world doesnt call ner mo, ever!! i went to yeshivish yeshivas following ner i should know. mo for them is not frum. they hold of ner yisrael though so for yeshivish people ner yisrael is “modeernish” not mo. youll never hear anyone calling it mo but modeernish. i happen to agree with you that its smack dab in middle of the two worlds but really its not ideologically. ner isnt against college as most of their guys go to college. thats why they attract a certain crowd. but at the same time, they would rather have their guys not go to college and learn instead full time. period. the reality isnt like that but thats still a far cry from mo since they are not actively pro college ideologically either.
Im the kid in the video-in case u couldnt tell, there was another kid in there with a colored shirt…also one of the things behind ner is that just bc someone comes froma more modern background and doesnt fit perfectly in to the yshivhsih culture doesnt mean they cnt learn
The “blue shirt , suede keepah guy” is a terrific, frum” kid” … who is making a mistake by switching…. Ner Baltimore has always been and still is fab. Yeshiva.
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