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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:
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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
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #402 on: May 19, 2015, 10:19:17 PM »


Kah Echsof? Now you got me. I'm in. But only if we sing it properly, like Yidden, not like the goyishe tziyonistin

Wait, is there an eruv? I don't hold of your eruv. I'm out.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #403 on: May 19, 2015, 10:28:05 PM »
What's Kah Echsof?  ???

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #404 on: May 19, 2015, 10:34:39 PM »
What's Kah Echsof?  ???

Do you have a neshama?


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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #405 on: May 19, 2015, 10:35:44 PM »
What's Kah Echsof?  ???

Oy. I'm speechless.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #407 on: May 19, 2015, 10:39:15 PM »
I'm partial to this version: https://youtu.be/nhfyGl_SNFQ?t=1m27s

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #408 on: May 19, 2015, 10:45:16 PM »
What's Kah Echsof?  ???
Come on, even I knew that... :P

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #409 on: May 19, 2015, 10:45:42 PM »
I can't play these music links until shloshes yemei hagbalah.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #410 on: May 19, 2015, 10:46:44 PM »
Come on, even I knew that... :P

I think Freddie just outed himself as a BT.

I can't play these music links until shloshes yemei hagbalah.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #411 on: May 19, 2015, 11:00:25 PM »
I think Freddie just outed himself as a BT.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #412 on: May 19, 2015, 11:24:50 PM »
I think Freddie just outed himself as a BT.

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While i believe he was kidding,I know plenty of FFBs in Freddie's circles who wouldn't know what Kah Echsof was..

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #413 on: May 19, 2015, 11:27:51 PM »
While i believe he was kidding,I know plenty of FFBs in Freddie's circles who wouldn't know what Kah Echsof was..
Let me guess, you also know FFBs who don't listen to music until shloshes ymei hagballah?

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #414 on: May 19, 2015, 11:39:48 PM »
Let me guess, you also know FFBs who don't listen to music until shloshes ymei hagballah?
Where I come from that's the norm.

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #415 on: May 19, 2015, 11:42:19 PM »
I count myself amongst them...
So you see it was a joke, right?

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #416 on: May 20, 2015, 12:10:38 AM »
ETA: I don't know anything about this person and I'm sure if he's in J2 every MS he's very dedicated but that quote sounds like someone who has given up or never really cared. (which is why I'd rather not believe it)
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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #417 on: May 20, 2015, 12:12:47 AM »

I can't play these music links until shloshes yemei hagbalah.
If you knew kah echsof you would understand the Yetzer Horah that I have right now to click the links...

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #418 on: May 20, 2015, 12:22:08 AM »
So you see it was a joke, right?
Cut me some slack, it's past midnight... :P

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Re: Lakewood Shabbos rally
« Reply #419 on: May 20, 2015, 12:23:06 AM »
Cut me some slack, it's past midnight... :P
It's 5 o'clock somewhere.