Category: Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Lag Baomer is a time for exercise
While riding my bike around Prospect Park tonight I realized something very interesting, it is the only time during the year when exercise is…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Do you keep selective shomer negiah?
I wonder how many people keep selective negiah? Meaning they tell some people they do not touch the opposite sex and with others they…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Shomer Negiah in the workplace from a converts point of view
Sent to me via email from an anonymous convert - in response to Awkward Shomer Negiah Moments I should explain that I am a…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Awkward shomer negiah moments
Everyone has a moment when they are not sure what the other persons views on touching of the opposite sex are, and these are…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Are you Shomer but with it?
I know I posted this and deleted it last week, it was a mistake to delete it, it turned out. I know multiple people…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Can you be frum if your not shomer negiah?
So I’m having this discussion about shomer negia with fellow blogger Material Maidel over facebook chat and of course it gets to that question.…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
What heterim do you utilize during the Omer?
Do you do blank during sefiras haomer? It’s a simple enough but it seems that every question what “we” do during the omer has…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Do You Keep Fictional Shomer Negiah?
I was talking to one of my friends who had recently got engaged, in the middle of the conversation I piped in “by the…