Tag: tefillin
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Chassidim & Chabad
Chabad women will start asking other women to put on tefillin
One of the biggest complaints that the Orthodox Jewish world has against chabad is that they are too open minded with regards to the…
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Dating & Marriage
What would you do if you caught your wife wearing tefillin?
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…
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Yeshivish
The fallout from allowing women to wear tefillin
While the entire frum community is in up in arms over whether or not women can wear tefillin without hurting their chances at a…
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Dating & Marriage
5 reasons why girls should be able to put tefillin on
I'm pretty sure that the frum world is on high alert at the possible infiltration of Open Orthodoxy to our heimishe institutions such as…
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December Dilemmas
Chabadnicks put tefillin on Santa Clause
Every year, the chabad propaganda machine spews out some picture of chabadnicks putting tefillin on someone you wouldn't expect. Last year it was the…
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Dating & Marriage
The worst thing about being married so far…
I know it's only a week in, but I already have a complaint. Sure, a lot of my miserably married friends told me not…
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Shul Life
Going to shul in the morning sucks
I'm sitting in shul slumped in my chair. I look like a drunk with a bad hangover. By this juncture, I'm wondering what on…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Buddhist putting on tefillin with chabad
It's not as good as putting tefillin on Santa, but here we go with another "not sure if it's real" promotional campaign from the…
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December Dilemmas
Santa puts on tefillin
I'm sure that most of you have seen the picture of Santa putting on tefllin, but since I keep getting emails about it I…
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Jewish Life
Off the derech garage sale: Tefillin, hats, tzitzis, etc
Hey Hesh, I'm a long time reader of your blog and I have a bunch of interesting stuff for sale that you or maybe…
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Jewish Life
Indian Tefillin
Once in a while someone sends me the link to a blog that entertains enough for me to feel competent in posting one of…
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Jewish Life
Women who say shema should put on talis and tefillin
Looking for an open door by Shira Salamone A few days ago, I took some flack for the following comment of mine to Heshy’s…
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Purim
What non-Jews may think of some Jewish rituals
I wrote this post last night and just this morning I received word that a flight was diverted from New York to Philly because…
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Chassidim & Chabad
My first Lubavitcher
Guest post by Jeremy Shadow Despite currently being a neo-pagan, I was born and raised a Conservative Jew in South Orange New Jersey. South…
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Jewish Life
Do people wash their yarmulkes?
Someone told me that its something I have never written about, but when you think of it the yarmulke is a pretty dirty article…