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What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« on: May 22, 2020, 10:56:08 AM »
As many people start returning to shul now, I’m curious what people’s mindset is. I’ve seen videos of people singing and some dancing in the sifrei Torah.
 Will you be going in b’simcha?
With more koived rosh than before?
Or just the same as any other day?

If anyone heard a good drasha about this, please post

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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2020, 11:03:52 AM »
I definitely won't be making a kiddish upon reopening as I think that's horribly insensitive to the fact that over a thousand Jews lost their lives due to this Mageifa.
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2020, 11:13:05 AM »
Definitely agree with that,
But I was thinking maybe every person that survived has a chiyuv hodaah. Similar to singing uz yashir eventhough masei yadai just drowned in the yam suf. but maybe that was different, that was mitzrim and here many Yidden died

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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2020, 11:17:39 AM »
Definitely agree with that,
But I was thinking maybe every person that survived has a chiyuv hodaah. Similar to singing uz yashir eventhough masei yadai just drowned in the yam suf. but maybe that was different, that was mitzrim and here many Yidden died

A seudas hodaah can be done tastefully, with a measured emphasis on the hodaah, along with proper and appropriate attention given to those who perished.
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2020, 11:18:57 AM »
Also bear in mind those who didn't get a slot in shul and are still davening at home
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2020, 11:19:21 AM »
A seudas hodaah can be done tastefully, with a measured emphasis on the hodaah, along with proper and appropriate attention given to those who perished.
True. It's also way too soon for that. Even if we open shuls now with proper precautions, we are not out of the woods yet.

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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2020, 11:22:44 AM »
Definitely too early.
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2020, 11:24:03 AM »
True. It's also way too soon for that. Even if we open shuls now with proper precautions, we are not out of the woods yet.
Right, seudas hodaah wasn’t supposed to be the point of this thread, I was more curious to know what would be going through people’s minds as they walk back into shul

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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2020, 11:39:50 AM »
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2020, 12:51:03 PM »
@Yehudaa just uploaded divrei Torah on the parsha. I sped read Rabbi Reismans drasha and he mentions that when you go into shul you should go with an ayin Tova, make sure not to get into machlokes

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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2020, 12:56:43 PM »
Will you wear a mask in shul ?

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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2020, 01:01:53 PM »
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2020, 08:49:14 PM »
When I found out that I was to be counted as part of the minyan in the B"M for shachris for the 1st time in a really long time, the feeling I experienced was that of וגילו ברעדה. Joy over the opportunity to once again be allowed in the 'שמחתתי...בית ה נלך   .בית ה. But there was also a fear, I didn't want to mess it up. Friday night, I had a hard time sleeping, knowing that I had to be up on time and they were relying on me. But when I got there I realized that I was in fact not "part" of the actual minyan in the B"M. Rather, I was to be mitzteref from the Ezras Nashim. Because the seats in the B"M were given out in age order and there were 10 people older than me who signed up before  שבת. But, by mincha one of them decided to go back to the outside minyan that had less strict guidelines. At this point, I was allowed in the B"M. Its hard to describe, but it was a feeling of הביאני המלך חדריו. That Hashem finally let me in to his inner chambers. הלואי, that I would continue to feel that way whenever I daven in a Bais Medresh.
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2020, 10:37:42 PM »
@Yehudaa just uploaded divrei Torah on the parsha. I sped read Rabbi Reismans drasha and he mentions that when you go into shul you should go with an ayin Tova, make sure not to get into machlokes
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2020, 10:40:24 PM »
Sounds like your drinking koolaid
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2020, 10:46:05 PM »
Those are thoughts which should stay in your own head, if they need to be thought at all.
I've been thinking a lot about Rav Yisrael Salanter's saying recently...

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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2020, 12:18:20 AM »
I imagine (and would love ) dancing like simchas torah in the street when all restrictions are lifted.
To be honest i can get a little emotional at times and felt it a drop when I started my first shacaris  kedusha In 2 1/2 months.
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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2020, 04:29:34 AM »
As many people start returning to shul now, I’m curious what people’s mindset is. I’ve seen videos of people singing and some dancing in the sifrei Torah.
 Will you be going in b’simcha?
With more koived rosh than before?
Or just the same as any other day?

If anyone heard a good drasha about this, please post

https://www.torahanytime.com/#/lectures?v=110484  R.Z.Wallerstein says that when you do something 40 days you get used to it......
https://www.torahanytime.com/#/lectures?v=112444  R.D.Glatstein:" Does one have to daven with minyan ?"

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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2020, 09:19:04 AM »
No talking in my shul since we have returned. And that's w/o any mention from rav or signs.

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Re: What are your thoughts as you return to shul?
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2020, 09:21:45 AM »
No talking in my shul since we have returned. And that's w/o any mention from rav or signs.
Masks help for this...