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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


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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 #960 on: June 02, 2015, 02:58:37 PM »
So you think it's okay to insult me because you don't like my screen name?

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #961 on: June 02, 2015, 03:04:26 PM »
What's worse, parve cholent or parve cheesecake?

I'm not sure what I've done to warrant that...

You're a cheesecake.

Freddie likes cholent, its a matter of taste.
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #962 on: June 02, 2015, 03:05:35 PM »
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #963 on: June 02, 2015, 03:06:19 PM »
Based on your first post, I assumed that you are either a troll or a sock puppet and that you are pretending to be an actual cheesecake.
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=52172.msg1155958#msg1155958

If you're here to be a regular forum member, then I apologize. I am sure I am not the only one who got this impression though.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #964 on: June 02, 2015, 03:11:18 PM »
What was for dessert?

cheesecake.

So you made a new username just so you can post this cheesy joke? ???

Well, how would I know what henche had for dessert?

You still don't. You just know what he answers when you ask what he had and anyone could have told you that.
As I see can see from here, henche played on his name.
I'm not who you think I am.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #965 on: June 02, 2015, 03:15:23 PM »
Oops, wrong username.

As I see can see from here, henche played on his name.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #966 on: June 02, 2015, 03:15:30 PM »
Understood, and apology accepted. I did start off to try to be humorous, with the predictable result that some found it funny, and some found it (me) annoying.

I'm being serious here, though (although not about one hour).

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #967 on: June 02, 2015, 03:15:59 PM »
And no, I'm not henche.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #968 on: June 02, 2015, 03:16:50 PM »
He is a fictitious entity created by a crazy lawyer cuz that's what lawyers do. They can't help themselves..

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #969 on: June 02, 2015, 03:18:48 PM »

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #970 on: June 02, 2015, 03:19:16 PM »
Does anybody else feel that what happened in Lakewood on Shabbos - all the singing etc. was the wrong way to go about dealing with such a situation... Here is a small clip of said event...
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #971 on: June 02, 2015, 03:20:50 PM »

Of course not.
You are a separate entity. There are probably a few layers of entities between you and the entity called Henche.

Its not your fault..

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #972 on: June 02, 2015, 03:20:55 PM »
Does anybody else feel that what happened in Lakewood on Shabbos - all the singing etc. was the wrong way to go about dealing with such a situation... Here is a small clip of said event...
REPOST!!!
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #973 on: June 02, 2015, 03:21:02 PM »
What's the etc.? Walking?

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #974 on: June 02, 2015, 03:23:01 PM »
Does anybody else feel that what happened in Lakewood on Shabbos - all the singing etc. was the wrong way to go about dealing with such a situation... Here is a small clip of said event...
I'm really confused we've been talking about that the whole time.
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Understood, and apology accepted. I did start off to try to be humorous, with the predictable result that some found it funny, and some found it (me) annoying.

I'm being serious here, though (although not about one hour).
Don't expect everybody to like you, especially not on this forum.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #975 on: June 02, 2015, 03:25:57 PM »
I would certainly hope that people can separate differences of opinion from disliking the person.

If not, then Dan really should be aggravated.
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #977 on: June 05, 2015, 12:29:49 PM »
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