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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #900 on: July 30, 2021, 11:50:36 AM »
Meh. Bundle up.
@whYME would move to Svalbard for more snow if there was a community there  ;D

For what? What's the reward for bundling up?

And bundling up means unbundling in a (presumably) crowded place, bundling, and unbundling again.

I don't have a problem with the cold. It's the wind, snow, sleet etc.

And Svalbard has different issues, such as days that are too short in the winter, and nights that are too short in the summer.

Bottom line is:
https://www.sefaria.org/Leviticus.26.4?with=Rashi
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #901 on: July 30, 2021, 12:05:22 PM »
FTFY

Is going in the winter any better? It's different but just as bad.

Paging @TimT, kindly link to my posts (and the responses) about this issue.
If we're talking about antisemitism, I have been contending for a long time that the minhag of holding a שלום זכר after a Friday night meal is definitely something that some antisemite devised.
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Let's wait six months till there are 8-hour Friday-nights again and see if you're still singing that same tune.

Yes, when you finish your seudah at 11:30 on a summer Friday, your statement may be meritorious. But as a generalization, I beg to differ.

(I know, I sometimes use overly fancy linguistics after a prolonged fast. Sorry.)
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #902 on: July 30, 2021, 12:28:02 PM »


As usual. @TimT is more reliable than a Swiss watch!
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #903 on: July 30, 2021, 12:49:41 PM »
Meh. Bundle up.
@whYME would move to Svalbard for more snow if there was a community there  ;D

Count me in. The cold in Norway never fazed me.
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #904 on: July 30, 2021, 12:51:54 PM »
And Svalbard has different issues, such as days that are too short in the winter, and nights that are too short in the summer.

Even Oslo is crazy, with the earliest Shabbos at like 2:30pm and tisha b’av fast ending at 11:30pm.
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #905 on: July 30, 2021, 01:29:04 PM »
Even Oslo is crazy, with the earliest Shabbos at like 2:30pm and tisha b’av fast ending at 11:30pm.

You don't need to go that far. Some places with significantly larger Jewish communities aren't that far off from those times, such as London, Manchester, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, or Antwerp. And in North America Detroit and Toronto aren't that much better.
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #906 on: July 30, 2021, 01:51:04 PM »
You don't need to go that far. Some places with significantly larger Jewish communities aren't that far off from those times, such as London, Manchester, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, or Antwerp. And in North America Detroit and Toronto aren't that much better.

Correct. But most of those don’t get as cold as Oslo. S. Petersburg might be the closest corollary, but I doubt @whYME is moving to Russia anytime soon.

Now I’m wondering if the context is cold places, weird zmanim, places without communities, shalom zochors, or going OTD. I’ve certainly lost my derech in this topic :D
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #907 on: July 30, 2021, 05:07:39 PM »
Meh. Bundle up.
@whYME would move to Svalbard for more snow if there was a community there  ;D
Nah Svalbard is great to visit for a couple of months a year, not a place to live.

For a community with cold and snow I should just move to CLE

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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #908 on: July 30, 2021, 05:12:22 PM »
Nah Svalbard is great to visit for a couple of months a year, not a place to live.

For a community with cold and snow I should just move to CLE
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #909 on: July 31, 2021, 09:14:47 PM »
Nah Svalbard is great to visit for a couple of months a year, not a place to live.

For a community with cold and snow I should just move to CLE

Just realized that in Svalbard you might have to give your sons brisim at 8 years old, and there’s no LOR to ask :P
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #910 on: August 01, 2021, 09:59:11 AM »
Just realized that in Svalbard you might have to give your sons brisim at 8 years old, and there’s no LOR to ask :P
check wth the rabbi in Iceland

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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #911 on: August 01, 2021, 10:49:58 AM »
check wth the rabbi in Iceland

You can’t compare. Svalbard goes 100 days without sunlight, you can’t say the same for Reykjavik.
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #912 on: August 03, 2021, 10:58:33 PM »


You can’t compare. Svalbard goes 100 days without sunlight,

So, like CLE, basically

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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #913 on: August 04, 2021, 12:47:06 AM »
Meh. Bundle up.
@whYME would move to Svalbard for more snow if there was a community there  ;D

Heh. I had a dream recently that I joined the new chassidisha community in Svalbard. Pure heaven.

Was quite disappointed when I woke up lol.
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #914 on: August 04, 2021, 12:53:26 AM »
Heh. I had a dream recently that I joined the new chassidisha community in Svalbard. Pure heaven.

Was quite disappointed when I woke up lol.
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #915 on: August 04, 2021, 12:55:44 AM »
If you build it, they will come.
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« Reply #916 on: August 04, 2021, 12:56:37 AM »
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #917 on: August 04, 2021, 01:02:28 AM »
If you build it, they will come.
Or not.

Not with the zmanim issue (and forgetting about the 400 other reasons this is a terrible idea ;D)
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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #918 on: August 04, 2021, 01:06:00 AM »
Not with the zmanim issue (and forgetting about the 400 other reasons this is a terrible idea ;D)
So much so that it isn't really meant even for dreams :)

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Re: Top Reasons To Go OTD
« Reply #919 on: August 04, 2021, 01:10:13 AM »
Not with the zmanim issue (and forgetting about the 400 other reasons this is a terrible idea ;D)
When Chabad Rabonim were debating the Shabbos times for the Antarctica cruise, one said not to go if the boat will go far enough south that there's a question.
Another responded that a p'sak is needed...when humankind goes to the Moon and Mars, the halachic answer can't just be don't go.
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