The following is an excerpt from a piece the Daily News ran today on the “off-the-radar” Jewish holiday of Tu-B'av, referring to it as the Jewish equivalent to (lehavdil) Valentines day:
Daily News Profiles C.A.Y. Tu B’av Celebration
The following is an excerpt from a piece the Daily News ran today on the “off-the-radar” Jewish holiday of Tu-B’av, referring to it as the Jewish equivalent to (lehavdil) Valentines day:
Loud gatherings of the unattached have popped up in Jewish enclaves across the city – including Crown Heights, where a basement synagogue turned into a drum circle bash, complete with a beer keg and barbecue beef, Sunday night.
“Marriage is very important in the Jewish culture and belief system,” said Sima Denebeim, 24, the rebbetzin – Hebrew for rabbi’s wife – at the Ahavas Yisroel synagogue on President St. “We don’t want the Jewish nation to die out.”
Tu B’Av goes back 2,000 years, when Israelite maidens would put on their best white clothes and dance in fields while single men watched.
Eyes would meet. Names would be exchanged – and then marriages would be arranged.
Tu B’Av lost appeal for centuries until Israelis embraced it in the last 10 years, turning the date into the equivalent of Valentine’s Day.
gives somewhat of a wrong idea
“when Israelite maidens would put on their best white clothes and dance in fields while single men watched”
They actually wore each others clothing so that no one knew if that girl was wealthy or not…
And just in general, it was a lot more than just ‘girls danced and the men watched’
Yossi
Ahhhh Nachas for the Rebbe Rashab
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Kol Hakoved!!
What a great event!! I hope it will lead to the purpose (people should meet and marry)
okkkk
hmmm
mmozes
a mechitza at a singles barbeque for tubiav
no wonder there are so many singles
yuma daf yud ches omud beis
.“!רב, כי מקלע לדרשיש, מכריז ”מאן הויא ליומא
.“!רב נחמן, כד מקלע לשכנציב, מכריז ”מאן הויא ליומא“
רש”י: מאן הויא ליומא. יש אשה שתנשא לי ליומא שאתעכב כאן ותצא]
[אחר מכאן
והתניא: ר’ אליעזר בן יעקב אומר, “לא ישא אדם אשה במדינה זו וילך וישא אשה במדינה אחרת, שמא יזדווגו זה אצל זה ונמצא אח נושא אחותו (ואב נושא בתו) וממלא כל העולם כולו ממזרות. ועל זה
”.’נאמר: ‘ומלאה הארץ זמה
.אמרי רבנן קלא אית להו
[:רש“י: קלא אית להו. ושמם קרוי על בניהם]
”.והאמר רבא, “תבעוה להנשא ונתפייסה, צריכה לישב שבעה נקיים
.רבנן אודועי הוו מודעו להו; מקדם הוו מקדמי, ומשדרי שלוחא
ואי בעית אימא: ”יחודי הוו מיחדי להו, לפי שאינו דומה מי שיש לו
“.פת בסלו, למי שאין לו פת בסלו
rav and r nachman would come to a city and announce is there a woman who wants to be mine for the day (in the way of marriage)
uhm ok
kookoo’s
mmozes
sorry the aramaic get garbled
here is a link to the sugya (9 lines down, from “rav ki…” until the next mishnah) note rashi.
http://hebrewbooks.org/shas…
point being, amoraim are taking concubines at rest-stops they come to, by announcing “who will be with me tonight”, and chassidim have a mechitza on tubiav. (but the rabbi can move the mechitza aside so he “sees” the women in the middle of davening when he decides to give a speech).
Truth seeker
They make a mixed lag bomer event, where there were CRAZY things going on, they do many things that are very questionalble,
Then they tell everyone that Chezy has a Mehudar Mechitza thats 8 feet tall, “lets call them for what they are” FREAKS.
I will tell you all, I’m a single 25 year old that’s serious about getting married, I go speak with Shadchonim, I speak with freinds that set me up in a Kosher way, and I see a bright future very soon, to go to Ahavas Yisroel cause that will get u a Shiduch is a stupid crazy thing to say.
Kosher
A pig tells u, he has split hooves, EAT ME I’M KOSHER,
Ahavas Yisroel is a cult! And they say everything is perfectly Kosher, if that’s the case why is everyone talking about them, and not the 25 other Shuls that recently started.
770
I will tell you this, and I bet I’m the only one saying it, Ahavas Yisroel made the Shiduch problem much worse.
Does anyone think people don’t get married cause they dont see the opposite gender enough,All my Chasidh frinds that Daven in 770, are married with kids, and my modern freinds that hang aroung Chezzy (ahavas yisroel)are having beers with girls, while they, and the girls get old, and stay single!!!!
Even worse they then blame the whole world on the Shiduch crisis!
Vinny
really.. just an excerpt? What did the rest of the article say?
AA
MMozes, have you read the last line of the Gemara there? It ends up saying that they didn’t actually marry these women, just designate them as potential spouses, because that alone would be enough to keep their yetzer hara in check.
Anyway, though, are you seriously comparing the Amoraim to young men and women today?
i don-t think so
mmozes,so should we go back to concubines now too? i mean what’s your point? obviously those were different times.
please be more careful
is it so hard to try and post only tzneeus photos of lubavitcher women on crown height’s web site?
Voice of reason.
You people are hilarious…. first you complain and express concern that there should be a mechitza at the event, not only is there one but its potentially the most opaque and highest in CH…. and yet, you still find something negative to say about the Rabbi making announcements in Shul to both sides…. FYL…. You got alot of work to do, my friend, May G-d have mercy on your soul, dou defined yourself in one quick sentance… you are a pessimist and someone who seeks out negativity, so that is what you will find… I hope otherwise for you and hope you can find good in your life.
funny.
you all a buncha’ Nerds! jk. he he
even just in song...
I was fascinated to see how Chezzy Denenbein, the Rabbe, was such a central figure – as experienced during his rousing havdala tefilla. When he repeats the refrain of the “niggun” (maybe a Carlbach niggun?) – the congregation repeats, as long as he sings it again everyone does. When he stops, the congregation stops. Seemed a bit cultish to me – as I have only seen one person who leads in such a similar style (that everybody follows on his lead like that) – and you know who that might be!
It was quite strange for me to see him playing such an emtionally central role – as leading a song with :lemmelach” following faithfully. Something didn’t sit quite right. Seemed from that point of view – a bit cultish, chas v’shalom – although, as the congregation are all Chabad yungerleit and I know there is no confusion – but superficially it was weird to see such leadership and followers of the leader – even just in song.
Curious
Have any matches actually been made through this shul?
Let-s call a Spade a Spade
This is crazy. Anyone & everyone who wants can call themselves Lubavitch even if everything they do & everything they stand for is completely opposite Lubavitch doctrine. This is a Carlebach Shul not lubavitch. Its constituents range from modern orthodox to non observant. Chezy Denenbeim their leader was struggling with religion and wasn’t a normal bochur in yeshiva. Actually he hung out in Israel for quitre a long time w/o being in any Yeshiva. BTW,The argument about Shidduchim is a very strong one. The Lubavitcher Bochurim in 770 get married and have better marriages then those who leave the fold . These guys are just having fun and never go anywhere in life. Prove me wrong!
just wondering
why dont they upload the pictures of the drunk girls on purim, spread out on the floor…
th leaders are drug addicts, and thir folowers suicide seekers
Very true
Very well said “voice of reason.
To #19
You’re not a real chossid if you’re speaking Loshon Hara on a public website. I guess it wasn’t so hard to prove you wrong… your entire comment is wrong. WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!