Hey Hesh, Been reading your blog for years, biggest fan, love your work, etc, etc…I’ll save the ass kissing for another time. Since you’ve written a bit on the women wearing tefillin crisis that has suddenly hit the frum community…
Tag: tradition
My Rav told me not buy my wife flowers this past erev shabbos
My Rav is a nice guy, but he’s firm in his p’sak and although I don’t always like the answer I usually abide by his rulings. My motto is that if you’re going to violate your Ravs p’sak, don’t ask…
Eating Chinese Food on Christmas is not frum
I didn’t know from this Chinese Food Christmas minhag until I first met non-religious Jews. All I can remember from the Christmas of my youth is asking our doorman if we could take candy canes off of our lobbies tree,…
So you’re like, into Kabbalah, man?
I’m not quite sure how I feel about chabad marketing chassidus as kabbalah and throwing around the “kabbalistic sources” thing to attract a more new age audience, but I can tell you that the whole Kabbalah new age thing is…
Interesting Rabba Sara Hurwitz interview
The debate can go on forever, I myself see the good and the bad, but I think the good far outweighs the bad.
What are the most bizarre frum Jewish beliefs?
Fellow bloggers Dov Bear and Eliyahu Fink have been tweeting and blogging about some strange or over the top frum beliefs out there and I guess they want me to enter the mix of things. My facebook status update received…
Kol Koreh against flying – it’s not mentioned in any seforim
From YWN: I, along with many prominent and well-known askonim, am currently circulating a kol koreh among many rabbonim, gedolim, and roshei yeshiva to decry not only Spirit Airlines, but the practice of flying in general. It is a known…
Sara Hurwitz speaks out and my thoughts of Jewish feminists
Sara Hurwitz and Jewish feminism bugs me a bit: If she is all about keeping the tradition why go and screw with it? Any shmo can be a rabbi, does it really effect how you can give advice if you…
Too much tolerance seems to make people intolerant
At what point does tolerance make people intolerant?This is a question I have been pondering more than ever as I am exposed to some very “open minded” individuals here on the left coast. These open minded individuals tend to remain…
Black Hats are just like Kugel
Guest Post By E. Fink Post stolen from the Dov Bear Blog Please don’t take this post too seriously. It’s partly written tongue in cheek. I bear no grudge against hat wearers. I myself was a devout hat wearer for…
Mohel gets lambasted on You Tube
I posted a simple video of the local Mohel telling a funny story and the anti-bris milah people chimed in. Its kind of expected that with every video I post to my you tube page, there will be several comments…