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I hear both sides. While I am fairly certain that this will ultimately have a negative effect on the kids that were there, I understand that this protest was never intended to be for their benefit but rather to protest against public chilul shabbos. Is that a fair trade-off?

I did speak with a rabbi who I consider to be one of the world's foremost experts on helping OTD kids (and I have personal experience with way too many of them), and he was vehemently against it. He felt that a protest like this will cause significantly more kids to go off, as it now created an us-vs-them mentality that until now only simmered below the surface but is now being forced on them.

12 years ago I was ordered to leave Lakewood because of a (in hindsight) very trivial incident. Do you know what that type of ostracization does to an angry teenager? It makes them angrier and more eager to do the things that caused them to be ostracized in the first place. Some of these kids may have been only testing the waters, hanging out with friends who are much more brazen than them right now. Now they feel like they there's no return. Some of these kids have friends that they will now convince to join them who otherwise were only being mechalel shabbos behind closed doors. There are plenty of kids who are currently in yeshiva and looking the part, but also engaging in all forms of illicit activities including drugs and chilul shabbos. Many of these kids will now feel emboldened to join a "community" of like minded kids. Etc etc etc.

Chop off the limb to save the body, I get that concept even if I don't agree with it. But what about anything connected to that limb? This has consequences reaching far beyond the kids that were physically being mechalel shabbos at the  lake, and I don't think anyone thought about this beyond how it would affect the protesters and the protestees.

My 2 cents.

Lakewood shabbos DO (singing kah echsof in the park, while smoking electric cigarettes using a shabbos switch

Confirmed:
Grodnoking (Need a shabbos switch for my Ecig, who can bring one?)

Probable:

Impossible:
henche


תניא פרק ל"ב

ומ"ש בגמ' שמי שרואה בחבירו שחטא מצוה לשנאותו וגם לומר לרבו שישנאהו. היינו בחבירו בתורה ומצות וכבר קיים בו מצות הוכח תוכיח את עמיתך עם שאתך בתורה ובמצות ואעפ"כ לא שב מחטאו כמ"ש בס' חרדים

 אבל מי שאינו חבירו ואינו מקורב אצלו הנה ע"ז אמר הלל הזקן הוי מתלמידיו של אהרן אוהב שלום וכו' אוהב את הבריות ומקרבן לתורה. לומר שאף הרחוקים מתורת ה' ועבודתו ולכן נקראי' בשם בריות בעלמא צריך למשכן בחבלי עבותו' אהבה וכולי האי ואולי יוכל לקרבן לתורה ועבודת ה' והן לא לא הפסיד שכר מצות אהבת ריעים

וגם המקורבים אליו והוכיחם ולא שבו מעונותיהם שמצוה לשנאותם מצוה לאהבם ג"כ ושתיהן הן אמת שנאה מצד הרע שבהם ואהבה מצד בחי' הטוב הגנוז שבהם שהוא ניצוץ אלקות שבתוכם המחיה נפשם האלקית וגם לעורר רחמים בלבו עליה כי היא בבחי' גלות בתוך הרע מס"א הגובר עליה ברשעי' והרחמנות מבטלת השנאה ומעוררת האהבה כנודע ממ"ש ליעקב אשר פדה את אברהם [ולא אמר דה"עה תכלית שנאה שנאתים וגו' אלא על המינים והאפיקורסים שאין להם חלק באלהי ישראל כדאיתא בגמרא ר"פ ט"ז דשבת]:

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #680 on: May 20, 2015, 06:51:51 PM »
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #681 on: May 20, 2015, 07:07:33 PM »
Where do you think it may be
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #682 on: May 20, 2015, 07:09:22 PM »
Where do you think it may be
I don't know but I can't think of anywhere that's more private than down by the lake unless the minyan opens on shabbos
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #683 on: May 20, 2015, 07:10:37 PM »
Maybe there is nowhere at all in the center of Lakewood
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #684 on: May 20, 2015, 07:11:35 PM »
Maybe there is nowhere at all in the center of Lakewood
There definitely are public places
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #685 on: May 20, 2015, 07:12:09 PM »
Such as
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #686 on: May 20, 2015, 07:12:43 PM »
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #687 on: May 20, 2015, 07:13:33 PM »
Not happening. They will be chased away by the police.
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #688 on: May 20, 2015, 07:14:09 PM »

What a liar!

Which "half were menacing and displaying anger"?

He is just trying to justify his leitzonus by making up stories.

There was no mention of his " agenda" in his original joke.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #689 on: May 20, 2015, 07:17:26 PM »
Such as
They currently use behind shop right and behind kosher west for example..

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #690 on: May 20, 2015, 07:17:57 PM »

What a liar!

Which "half were menacing and displaying anger"?

He is just trying to justify his leitzonus by making up stories.

There was no mention of his " agenda" in his original joke.
You don't explain agendas in jokes you do it after idiots react to it the way you did.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #691 on: May 20, 2015, 07:19:05 PM »
They currently use behind shop right and behind kosher west for example..
Both of those are significantly less public than by the lake.
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #692 on: May 20, 2015, 07:19:25 PM »
What a liar!

Which "half were menacing and displaying anger"?

He is just trying to justify his leitzonus by making up stories.

There was no mention of his " agenda" in his original joke.
Stop twisting every word into a lie
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #693 on: May 20, 2015, 07:20:25 PM »
Stop twisting every word into a lie
So explain the menacing anger?
Its a lie

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #694 on: May 20, 2015, 07:21:49 PM »
So explain the menacing anger?
Its a lie
Anger does not need to be spoken
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #695 on: May 20, 2015, 07:21:51 PM »
Both of those are significantly less public than by the lake.
Exactly... Let them do what they do in private

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #696 on: May 20, 2015, 07:23:06 PM »
Exactly... Let them do what they do in private
Do you know how to follow a conversation?
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #697 on: May 20, 2015, 07:24:31 PM »
Do you know how to follow a conversation?
I do know how but I wasn't

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #698 on: May 20, 2015, 07:25:29 PM »
I do know how but I wasn't
So look back at what I was responding to
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #699 on: May 20, 2015, 07:27:54 PM »
What a liar!

Which "half were menacing and displaying anger"?

He is just trying to justify his leitzonus by making up stories.

There was no mention of his " agenda" in his original joke.
Were you at this protest