Who Wants To Be An Askan

"Additionally, Askonim in the medicine field have been rushed to the hospital. Reb Miliech Firer of Ezra LeMarpeh is enroute from Bnei Brak via police escort." (from jewish website yeshiva world)

Klal Yisroel is furiously and anxiously saying Tehilim for our Gadol Hador, Rav Eliyashiv, Shlita. He is in the hospital under expert medical care. Between medicine and our Tefilos hopefully Hashem will hear our pleas for mercy in sending a speedy Refua Shelaima to our leader.


so what exactly can this guy from Bnei Brak do? like, the doctors in the hospital need him to... what? and the police need to escort him cuz he has to rush...why?

random "complaints"

doesn't every yeshiva kid learn that we aren't supposed to kneel?

from whence came this trend of these frum guys proposing on one knee? it's like, so goyish. blech.


and I am really "fed up" with the misuse of quotation marks on "store" signs.

for example:
please give your "key tags" to the cashier at the register.
Specials: "turkey" salad, "chicken" salad.

and my favorite:
mazel tov to Yanky on his new baby "boy".

Joke

Rivka emainu tells her father: "I want to get married!"
Her father responds in confusion :"You are only 3 years old!"
Rivka responds: "But I'm in the parsha!"

Spend One of The Holiest Days of the Year in the Cemetery!

Once I again I rant against going to Uman for Yom Tov.

I don't care what the holy Breslover Rebbe said. I don't think he meant for 40,000 Jews to leave their families and regular shuls to go daven at his grave. And his supposed statement of daven here and you'll be saved sounds sort of like some other religion that talks about being saved...
Do mitzvos- that will "save" you.

Daven with your sons at your side. On real chairs in a real building that is B'kovodik for the prayers you will be saying. Then go home to your family and enjoy a beautiful Yom Tov Seuda that your wife prepared, not some caterer. And say and listen to divrei Torah from your children.

Don't throw money at a bunch of Ukrainians who hate you and tried to obliterate you once before in the not so distant past.

Sorry, I don't think it's beautiful that there are rooms set aside in European airports for overflow and minyanim. I don't think it's wonderful that hundreds of store owners are shlepping over there with cots, tents, food, concessions, etc. I am all for capitalism but doesn't anyone feel like standing up and saying THIS IS UTTER NONSENSE AND NOT THE WAY JEWS SHOULD BE CELEBRATING ROSH HASHANA!! I don't think it's amazing the way Jews from Israel and America and other parts of Europe are all gathering together. Let them gather together in their shuls. Or at the Kosel. Or gather the money they are spending and give it to the Aniyim of Eretz Yisroel. Or of their country.


Utter Lunacy.

I Am Not Picky and Please Follow Up

that's actually just a title for two issues about shidduchim that have been bothering me lately. not related.

picky:
I hate that term. People have likes and dislikes. My daughter is not "picky". Just because your daughter was lucky enough to find her mate and get married 20 seconds after she came back from Israel doesn't mean she wasn't "picky". she just found what she wanted right away.

Is a girl picky because she finds fat guys unappealing?
Is a girl picky because she wants someone who is a particular personality?
Is a girl picky because she wants a guy for a husband who is similar to the men in her life (father/brothers/uncles/close relatives) whom she respects, admires, and is comfortable with?

Next time I am with you and you start talking about being picky I will say, or ask you:
why do you live in THAT neighborhood? Weren't you being picky when you chose it?
Why do serve that type of chicken, is your family picky?
Why aren't you eating the mushrooms in your food? Shopping at the same grocery store as I do? Attending a particular shiur? and last: WHY ARE YOU SAYING NO TO SOME SHIDDUCHIM BEING RHEDT TO YOUR SON? OR DAUGHTER?

follow up:
please don't tell me every time you see me "Oh, I am working on this and this shidduch".
either work on it - or don't.
either suggest it - or don't.
it doesn't take two years for a mother of a boy to say "we are not interested" or "we looked into it". If youpre serious, then call the mother frequently. Yes. Be. A. Pest. You want to help girls get married? FOLLOW UP

I Did NOT Post on Shabbos!

shout out thanks to my sis at icebergcarwash.blogspot.com for pointing out the date stamp on my last blog post. which I posted mid week but for some reasons shows up as being posted 18 minutes before Nacht on Motzei Shabbos. So until I change the time stamp, don't worry.


I will not be amongst those teens who text on shabbos.

It Stinks...Like Chickens

Big question as to how a proposed chicken slaughterhouse at the edge of New Square got a government grant. Question, because everyone in the area was against it. Including many residents of New Square. It will be built along Rt. 45, which is a main street but goes through residential homes.
We can thank other elected officials who do their job by pushing the agenda of the block vote: Charles Schumer and Eliot Engel.


Yich.