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which choice best describes your backround?
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| chasidish- lubavitch |
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39% |
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| chasidish- other |
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9% |
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| sefaradish |
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2% |
[ 2 ] |
| litvish |
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23% |
[ 23 ] |
| other |
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26% |
[ 26 ] |
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| Total Votes : 99 |
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happy
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 Sun, Apr 03 2005, 10:11 pm
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trying to figure out the diversity of this very fine group of people here.
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Pearl
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Mon, Apr 04 2005, 1:12 am
good for you!!!
looking forward to the development of this thread
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Rivka
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Mon, Apr 04 2005, 5:20 pm
There is no answer for normal frum. Either Chassidish/Lubavitch or Litvish.
I put myself under Lubavitch coz that is what my father claims us as, but if I look at my background I don't recall even knowing what Lubavitch was until I went to highschool. So really I would prefer seeing myself as just frum Jewish.
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Rivka
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Mon, Apr 04 2005, 5:21 pm
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Oh sorry, I just saw now the "other" one. Oh also is it what we are now or what we were as kids? Coz you can change from Litvish to Chassidish or Other to Litvish etc. Am I confusing you?
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roza
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Mon, Apr 04 2005, 10:38 pm
which choice best describes your backround?
chasidish- lubavitch
52% [ 11 ]
chasidish- other
4% [ 1 ]
sefaradish
0% [ 0 ]
litvish
28% [ 6 ]
other
14% [ 3 ]
Total Votes : 21
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Tefila
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Tue, Apr 05 2005, 7:50 am
My father who barely knew he was jewish aside from a bris performed by a fruma yid (by mistake since Dr couldn't make it B"H)! Turned into a real Litvishe masmid. So all his friends told me  And went to Manchester Yeshiva run by Rabbi Erentrau. My mother who grew up traditional followed her sisters footsteps and became Lubavitch! Lubavitch girl who marrys a Litvishe bochur voila becomes Lubavitch all the way.  So I'm Lubavitch!! 
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Pearl
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Tue, Apr 05 2005, 7:51 am
A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Channukah cards. She
says to the clerk "May I have 50 Channukah stamps please"
"What denomination?" says the clerk.
The woman says "Oy vay,...my god, has it come to this? Okay, give me 6
orthodox, 12 conservative and 32 reform!"
please forgive me, but couldn't resist this.......
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ForeverYoung
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Tue, Apr 05 2005, 8:14 am
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1stimer
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Tue, Apr 05 2005, 9:42 am
| roza wrote: | Vote and get a chance to have a star added to your profile.
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how many times can I vote??
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Pearl
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Wed, Apr 06 2005, 1:05 am
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hahaha! you can vote for every member of your extended family ha, that would give me tons of posts!!!
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supermom
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Wed, Apr 06 2005, 3:30 am
| Pearl wrote: | A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Channukah cards. She
says to the clerk "May I have 50 Channukah stamps please"
"What denomination?" says the clerk.
The woman says "Oy vay,...my god, has it come to this? Okay, give me 6
orthodox, 12 conservative and 32 reform!"
please forgive me, but couldn't resist this....... |
cute made me giggle sorry not will laugh as hard.
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daisy
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Wed, Apr 06 2005, 6:52 am
Until I started having contact with Lubavitchers, I always though "litvaks" were people who originated from lithuania (such as my grandfather) and said things like "bayray minei mizaynays" as opposed to "borei or boyrei" (ironically, lubavitchers do this to). Then, being around Lubavitchers, I realized they used it as a catch-all term for people that were frum, but not chasidish. Basically, what nonlubavitchers might call "yeshivish". I'm still not 100% sure if people who are not yeshivish (but not "modern") fall into this "litvish" category.
Anyway, just wanted to point out that we have to be careful with terms. I actually thought of posting such a poll, but could not come up with categories that I thought would be acceptable!
Last edited by daisy on Wed, Apr 06 2005, 11:06 am; edited 1 time in total
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micki
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Wed, Apr 06 2005, 9:57 am
sorry daisy but in our community the listvish are VERY different from the yeshivish!!!
TOTALLY different.
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daisy
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Wed, Apr 06 2005, 10:49 am
Micki, actually by disagreeing with me, you strengthen the argument - that we all have very different definitions about what litvish is!
BTW, I am curious. How do you define "litvish" in your community?
Also if that is the case, I am also curious what the original poster meant by "litvish" as it seems to be the only category in the poll representing non-chasidish ashkenazic frum jewry (aside from the "other" category).
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Pearl
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Thu, Apr 07 2005, 12:53 am
| Quote: | | daisy wrote: | | Also if that is the case, I am also curious what the original poster meant by "litvish" as it seems to be the only category in the poll representing non-chasidish ashkenazic frum jewry (aside from the "other" category). | |
good question!
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sarahd
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Thu, Apr 07 2005, 1:11 am
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which is why I voted "other".
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Chanie
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Thu, Apr 07 2005, 7:49 am
is this background as in lineage, how you were brought up or how you are today?
From my fathers side we are from Zushe of Anipalli, not Lubavitch, but was known as one of the Bal HaTanya's closest friends who studied with him by the Maggid of Mezritch.
My fathers family is Yerushalmi (8 generations)... which is again chassidic w/o a specific Rebbe.
My father attended Yeshiva Torahs Emes, which is Lubavitch, but at the time it was common for non-lubs to go there because it was a good yeshiva.
Somewhere along the way my father became Lubavitch.
My mother is from a traditional American family, became religious through some Boro Parkers (not lubavitch) Had Lubavitch friends who set her up with my father... a voila.....
I grew up Lubavitch, in Crown heights.. but with many customs from my diverse background.
I married a sfardic/lubavitcher, so now I'm even more mixed up... what would my children have to say to answer this question.....????
How am I supposed to answer the above poll????????
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amother
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Thu, Apr 07 2005, 8:17 am
| Quote: | sorry daisy but in our community the listvish are VERY different from the yeshivish!!!
TOTALLY different. |
Micki, how do you define litvish?
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Motek
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Thu, Apr 07 2005, 1:41 pm
was that an extremely personal post? 
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micki
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Thu, Apr 07 2005, 4:41 pm
for this community- litvish means people not affiliated with the yeshiva. they do not wear black hats, and are more closed to chassidim.
the yeshivish are a bit more "heis" hot- and wear b;ack hats and know more about chassidim.
then there are the just jews. frum more open to learn about lub and are close with lub.
I try not to categorize people cause they just surpriese uyou when you think you got them figured out...
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