Category: Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Shomer Negia Loopholes: Quarantine and Getting Engaged
[Image missing from the archive] Seriously though, Mazel Tov to the couple, Adina Lichtman and Avi Popack. Full story here: https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/meet-the-couples-who-got-engaged-while-quarantining-together/ On a more…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
An Answer to All Those Saying Tu Bishvat Isn’t a Real Holiday
Here's another great one:
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
7 Instant Steps How to Be a Fake Mekubal/Healer
Kabbalah is an ancient tradition allegedly hearkening to the days of Adam HaRishon. Aside from the Zohar (commonly attributed to R' Shimon bar…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Happy Tu B’Shvat
Tu B'Shvat fills with no memories except for eating Carob in Riverside Park while one of the Israeli teachers from Manhattan Day School led…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
American Apparel chassidish model and Shomer shabbos heroine dealers!!!
For some reason, this past week has been terribly active with interesting happenings in the Jewish world. So many interesting links, yet so little…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Halachic Debate: Is there kosher sefira music?
I am not a learned guy, sure I pasken for myself, can leaf through a mishna brura and try to talk in learning with…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Are you still counting the Omer?
I hate Meme's, but my wife made this one that rings true. Bli-Eyin Harah I'm having a record Omer counting year. I have made…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
An argument against shomer negiah?
January's been a slow work month for me so I've been wandering around the J-blogesphere a little at night. I came across Masculine Jew…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
What shomer negiah really means
Find out more about shomer negiah on 4torah.com
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Celebrate Tu B’av Upper West Side style
No, everyone isn't going to dance through the halls of Oheb Tzedek wearing white in the hopes of a tefillin date, besides most of…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Post shomer negiah philosophy
Dear Heshy, Let me start off by commending you on creating one of my favorite websites and a place I can go to escape…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Lag BaOmer pickup lines
Every once in a while I feel the need to pull out a very cheesy pickup lines post out of my back pocket and…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
I’ve broken my personal omer record
I cannot honestly remember the last time I actually made it this far in the omer counting, like most post yeshiva types who don't…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
So you think you can shomer?
So You Think You Can Shomer? by Anshel M. Shomer negiah is a fine institution and all that, don’t get me wrong, but you…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Tu B’Shvat – the least celebrated Jewish holiday
If my dear friend Gary Levine wouldn't have sent me an awfully hippie Tu B'shvat text message yesterday there is no way I would…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Just because you’re shomer negiah, doesn’t mean you’re tznius
The other day when I wrote about the awkward shomer negiah moments in that proposal video one of the commenters posited that it was…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Awkward Shomer Negiah Moments: Marriage proposals without touching
So I'm searching on You Tube for any interesting Maccabeats response videos and I found this one of this dude proposing to his girlfriend…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Shomer negiah tefillin date
This is a work of fiction I met the girl on frumster and after several conversations we agreed to meet. This was going to…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
How did keeping shomer negiah become a choice?
How did it happen that keeping the laws of shomer negiah became that one thing that many frum people like to brag about picking…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Lag Baomer hilarity
The smart ones of you and the folks who know me well will understand why the following video made me laugh out loud, everyone…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Frummies burn Slifkin books, rainbow flags and denim skirts in lag baomer bonfires
Environmentalists have decided to attack the Jewish tradition of bonfires on Lag Baomer, so many orthodox Jews have decided to scrap the bonfire tradition…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Sefiras Haomer is the perfect time to be extra frum
Just because we just finished Pesach and it's chumra madness doesn’t mean you can’t one up all of your neighbors with chumros. If not…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Letters to the editor: shomer negiah
Every once in a while I publish hate mail I receive, but rarely do I publish the fan mail - which thank the Lord…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Have you decided to break shomer negiah?
Debating whether to take your relationship to the next level, by touching? Well you should consider what this video has to say...
