Photos: Beis Rivka Celebrates Lag Ba’omer
Photos by Rivka Lifshitz
Girls from Beis Rivka High School had a special Lag Ba’omer evening, which included a bonfire as well as a barbeque, arranged by the school administration. The event included meaningful programing for the girls, ensuring that the evening was celebrated appropriately.
shocking
that beis rivka lets girls wear sweatshirts with such bold flashy print on them! no wounder the girls loose all feeling and sensitivity for tznius. some people cant even understand whats wrong with such proster sweatshirts!
confused
whts going on?? why no faces? this is a shandig!!
sweatshirts
Our Rabbi MInkowitz in MOntreal,does NOT allow such sweatshirts.All the girls know it and eventually even those that disagree, get to respect and appreciate his standards.
sweatshirts! thats the big deal!
seriosly! what are you trying to do! compleately control these girls!?! let them wear normal sweatshirts. if u don’t like them, don’t let your duaghter waer them thats your business! so stop writing rude coment about“how shocking it is” to allow such sweatshirts. really, get a life. and just by the way, the more you try to close up and control these girls, the more they feel stifeled, and then one day they will exploded. just look around crown heights. all these kids, from good familys, bummed out, and fankly, doing nothing with there lifes. instead of having support, and getting a chance to maybe not be the most chasidish person on earth, but still a good person and jew, they are stiffeled and controled, and locked in a fence. i just have one thing to say:THINK HOW THIS WILL AFFECT THE KIDS> NOT ONLY IN THE NEGATIVE BUT IN THE POSOTIVE TOO. maybe by being a littel leniant on a sweatshirt, you can show your kids that you care about them, rather than the chumros, and can evantually get them to be a littel more cearful. i speak out of experiance.
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Inspirational pictures, wonderful evening of unity and fun. These kids need our encouragement and praise…They’re all good kids, in the right place this evening, enjoying Lag B’omer with friends and school staff. Look at the beauty of the scene, and don’t “sweat” the silly stuff.
!! wow!
seriously???? thats flashy for u …. thats sad!
and i totally agree with number 4…
to number four
this is a good question.
you see, this is the real question; are the kids you and i know, that are “not doing anything with their lives” etc, a result of stringency, or negligent leniency? rather, lets say it like this: is it because of people being too controlling, or a result of people being afraid to educate?
this is a serious question, and both sides have a point. certainly, there are cases where either were the cause.
however, i feel that the most dominant reason for this is the slak in upholding standards, not the way you see it that the standards are the culprits.
why do i say so?
1) look at communities where there are stronger boundaries. sure, some go off, but the vast majority that stay are on a real standard. so i conclude that the laxness is the culprit, not the stringency’s.
2) as a rule, the more stringent homes have better results. again, sure every rule has an exception, but mostly, lower standrds have lower results.
this is only my opinion, your welcome to disagree. please do, lets dialog.
Brhs
Yayyyy!!! Stop complaining about our sweaters!!!!
teenager
I totally agree with #4
i am a teenager that comes from a VERY strict family and i felt very stifled and completely broke free.
i ended up coming back on my own. but people like #1 are those that are causing these teenagers to go off the derech.
if u would only just start treating them with love and actually listen to them and talk to them instead of judging them, then that would make a huge difference. i know because i met one frum person who was willing to sit down and listen to me instead of telling me off and judging me, and she was the one that helped me get my life back on track.
so i think that people like #1 better get a different approach fast!
To #1
Ever heard Of a graduating class wearing sweaters with their names on it !!!!!!!!! If you hadn’t i welcome u to the 21st century please get a life and stop bothering ppl
BRHS ROCKS
WOW YOU GUYS ARE SERIOUSLY KIDDING ME RIGHT GO GET A LIFE BRHS IS ALLOWED TO DO WHAT THEY WANT WE MADE THE SWEATERS AND WE LIKE THEM NOT EVERYONE NEEDS TO LIKE IT
Unrelated comments
i find it absolutely abhorent that some people find the most trivial things to comment on. these photos are showing a lag abomer event,why is it that some pople find the need to coment on what they are wearing. you should be glad that they are there, rather than at a place that is not so chssidish. please try to take this comment in stead and maybe next time, write something like: “wow, what a lovely function, they seem like they are having a good time with a fantastic atmosphere!”
ITS #4 AGAIN!!
yup, you got it, #12. you are totally right. we should focus on the postive. it dose seem like a beutiful way to spend lag baomer. it’s just that, i wanted to bring to mind the issue of over-controllment. of course we have to be mechanech our kids. of course we gotta educate them. but when you focus so much on the negative, it turns them away. now, about #7, what you said about extreamly strict communites having less not frum kids than us, i disagree.
plenty of those kids just do tora and mitzvos, becuase the have to, or becuase their parnets force hem, and just becuase thats the way their society works.they just do it. not becuase they wanted, or becuase it comes from the haert,. which, is verry sad. now, i’m not telling anybody how to run their lives. i’m just saying that you have to be awaer how much damage over-controllment can do. be more lenient, show the kids you care, and than help them to become more strict or chassidish or whatever, BECUASE THEY WANT TO!!!!! obliously, we can’t tke it to the extreame, but it goes both ways, this is #4 again.
i love u #4!
#4, this is #9. i totally agree with u. if only there were more people like u.