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gryp




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Dec 22 2004, 6:14 pm
anyone remember ridiculous things you believes as a child?

here are 2 of mine, I can think of now, im sure there are more!

1) if you drink the havdala wine/grape juice, you will grow a mustache!
2) if you daven looking in the mirror, it is like davening to yourself!

I wonder if anyone out there "shared" misconceptions.....?
or if theres actually some kind of truth to it, but I got it all wrong???
Smile
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Motek




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Dec 22 2004, 6:30 pm
women are discouraged from making havdala (though if they have to, they have to)

and you are not allowed to daven in front of a mirror!
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Rochel Leah




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Dec 22 2004, 6:34 pm
RG, I believed the same thing about drinking havdalah wine gives you a beard-not moustache and if you walk around a table seven times with a candle in front of a mirror you will see the face of your bashert in the mirror........What BOBE MAISES!!
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sara1b




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Dec 22 2004, 6:46 pm
rocheal leah-I forgot all about the candle and mirror one! haha the only thing I can remember is my zadie used to say that if we eat his home made pesach chrain we grow hair on our chests..{I ate it-nothing happened lol}
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Motek




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Dec 22 2004, 6:49 pm
sitting on the corner of the table ...
opening an umbrella indoors ...
if the clasp of your necklace moves to the front ...
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Tefila




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Dec 22 2004, 6:51 pm
Yea like the time England got the wrong message Rolling Eyes on Didan Notzach and I was told if I said Ad Mosai 3 times moshiach would come that day. Well I went running around asking machila from my teachers chabad and not chabad and let my parents go to a farbrengen whilst I woke my siblings got them dressed in shabbos clothes and gave tzedaka etc and sang for all we were worth ad mosai. With my whole being I truly believed moshiach would come that day...... shock what a let down! :( Now ...... almost, nonething .....phases me anymore. Exclamation
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imanut




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 7:17 am
if you hold the havdala candle low you'll have a short chosson.
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Motek




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 8:14 am
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With my whole being I truly believed moshiach would come that day.


and you post this as some ridiculous thing that you believed when you were younger?! shock
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Tefila




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 8:22 am
Motek you misunderstood NOT C"v ridiculous in the sense that I believed in Moshiach coming that day. Halavay I always felt the same way!!!!
But the fact I didn't verify on sources etc about England getting that message..... I was SO SO SO let down!!!!!! Sad
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gryp




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 8:26 am
Quote:
and you are not allowed to daven in front of a mirror!


I am so glad to hear that. at least one of those things had some truth to it.
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sarahd




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 9:08 am
Well, my parents always scared me into coming home on time for havdala by telling me that if I missed it, I wouldn't be able to eat till Tuesday. Very effective. Very Happy

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gryp




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 9:17 am
why Tuesday?
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Rochel Leah




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 9:18 am
I was told, and believed that if you put on makepu or nailpolish on shabbos, it willa ll turn bright red so that everybody will know you did it in shabbos!!!
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sara1b




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 9:34 am
funny you should mention that imanut-my eldest daughter and her friends were just talking about how they heard you should hold the havdalla candle at the hieght you want your chosson to be...I chuckled-
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zuncompany




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 9:37 am
I always held it the same height... very machmir about it.

My husband is exactly that tall!

Sara
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sarahd




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 9:37 am
RG wrote:
why Tuesday?


As an adult I realized why. The kedusha of Shabbos extends till Tuesday and there is something about someone in a certain situation not doing melacha till Tuesday because of this. I don't remember the circumstances.
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micki




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 9:38 am
hey imanut how high or low did YOU hold it?
Tongue Out
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sarahd




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 9:51 am
My sister used to measure off the top of her head and add about two inches, so her choson should be two inches taller than her, and this way she didn't have tô stretch her arm like the Statue of Liberty!
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imanut




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 10:19 am
micki, I guess I must have held it really high (at least from my low short standpoint!) LOL
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gryp




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Dec 23 2004, 11:43 am
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The kedusha of Shabbos extends till Tuesday


wow, thats true. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday are affected by the kedusha of the Shabbos before, and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday are affected by the kedusha of the approaching shabbos.

(which is why the Shir Shel Yom of Wednesday ends with 3 additional psukim of Lechu Neranina)
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