While riding my bike around Prospect Park tonight I realized something very interesting, it is the only time during the year when exercise is encouraged in the frum community. I ride my bike around Prospect Park almost every night and rarely see any frum males in the park, I see plenty of women power walking, riding their bikes with billowing skirts and even jogging with skirts and sweat drenched T-shirts – but rarely a man.
Yet tonight I saw men, multitudes of them in their undershirts, and tzitzis fluttering about drenched in sweat getting a workout on the fields while throwing a baseball, flinging a Frisbee or even riding a bike. Never understood why once a year in the middle of a plague – frum people decided they could actually do something good for themselves outside.
I know what your thinking, I’m frum and I go to the gym, it doesn’t count – to me the gym is a n enclosed area with regimens and diet drinks – it just doesn’t seem like real activity done for the sake of activity.
In honor of it being Lag Baomer and many people listening to music again – I leave you with a live video of one of my favorite metal songs.
In honer of Lag Baomer I road the L train for the first time this month. This is the Lag Baomer train. If this were a horoscope Lag Baomer is a time where you should publicly shave your beard and listen to loud music. Preferably music thats not Jewish.
Hammerfall rocks. I saw them last year with Electric Wizard. Still want to get a copy of ‘No Sacrifice, No Victory’ but so far it’s only available in the UK.
Oh, poogle…. guess who happens to be in the UK…?
if Heshy can;t give you my email address, I will.
Not True! I live 1.5 miles from shul. That means I walked over 30 miles back and forth to shul over Pesach (Including Shabbos)
Besides… We may have gotten exercise during our Lag B’Omer picnic, but that was offset by the massive consumption of Hot Dogs and Hamburgers.
Be consumptive! Have a Gut Yontif
Why davka Hammerfall and not something that sounds a bit more Heimishe, like Sabaton or Dragonland maybe?
yeah metal! (should’ve played creeping death by metallica for tf|cholent, at least it has torah;)
speaking of exercise, “the frum Jew @ the gym” would be a very humorous post
This is still one of my favorite bands, but I’m trying to forget how the latest 2 cd’s could be such a downhill for them. What on earth happened after ChapterV?
@Sergeant J
How is it? I have read good things about it.
@Hammerfall Rocks
They just changed their sound. You know, a bit more like Mastodon and a little less like Zao.
Chapter V was great though. Nice to see another admirer.
It’s ok here, but everything on the roads are mirror to the rest of the civilized world..looks just lik in Doctor Who..
Good ol hairspray rock bands, reminds me a bit of the Scorpions. Don’t think they qualify as metal, probably hard rock.
I ride my bike in Prospect Park all the time and it isn’t all that rare to see frum males riding with tzitits blowing in the wind