Comments on: G-d Bless America

By: IsraeliMom

IsraeliMom — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:54:01 +0000

And I was hoping on converting you into secular Zionism someday too. I guess we need to work on our coffee and sushi first, huh?

By: Yeshiva Guy

Yeshiva Guy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:16:17 +0000

That’s what the “Search” field on the upper right is for.
Search on “goodbye” pulls up two posts…was this the one?:

http://yeshivaguy.com/goodbye-but-not-for-long/2009/09/24/

And the explanation would be as you say, appreciating where I am…

Mommy Vekker post still a WIP; asked and answered.

By: Yeshiva Guy

Yeshiva Guy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:13:57 +0000

See the above comment.

By: Yeshiva Guy

Yeshiva Guy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:13:45 +0000

I’ll have you know that in fact, my native tongue is English. It tooks years of studying before I became so proficient in Yeshivish.

By: Yeshiva Guy

Yeshiva Guy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:13:04 +0000

Nicely put. Of course, you know where I stand on that, but the moshel was cute and the point well made.

By: SIS

SIS — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:38:33 +0000

Very different tone in this post than in the last bein hazmanim one (I tried finding it but you don’t have links to all your posts on the side!…The one I’m thinking of might be “Goodbye, but not for Long” ). Care to explain that? Or are you just appreciating whatever locale you happen to be in?

p.s. Welcome back to your blog. I know twitter’s been keeping you very busy…what happened to the Mommy Vekker post? Also, I’m still waiting to hear what my dilemma was in “Doublethought.”

By: John

John — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:50:36 +0000

English – My native tongue.

I don’t know what you speak, but the language you write in isn’t English.

By: stam

stam — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:37:50 +0000

“English – My native tongue. ” — coulda fooled me!!

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:02:19 +0000

all of the wonderful benefits of not praying –

- you can sleep in all morning! No pesky zmanim to worry about.

- you don’t have to decide which minyan to go to, or what time to go.

- you don’t have to interrupt your day to go daven minchah.

- you can get rid of that guilt that you may sometimes feel from praying. After all, if you don’t pray, it’s much easier to feel that you run everything in your own life! All of that talking to Hashem can really ruin a guy’s ego.

- no problems of having kavannah. People who pray are constantly concerned that they don’t have proper intention, and the constant struggle for improvement can just be such a drain.

Now, have you ever seen a yeshiva guy make a list like that? Why not?

Tefilah is only a mitzvah d’rabbanan

Living in Eretz Yisrael is a mitzvah d’oraita!