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Children were seen picking from trees on Erev Tisha B'Av in the village of Kfar Chabad. Any idea what they were picking? More
Children were seen picking from trees on Erev Tisha B'Av in the village of Kfar Chabad. Any idea what they were picking? More
If they are edible – WHY!??! waste them?
What’s the point of wasting good food?
Yes all you are saying is true however the “fun” needs to ALSO come with the etzem inyan of tisha b’av NOT only the beralach on its own. I agree 100 percent with no. 32
It was the holy Reb Yisroel of Ruzhin and the Rebbe told this story at a Farbrengen and it is published. The Tzemach Tzedek held the Ruzhin Rebbe in very high regard.
In Eretz Yisroel Tisha B’Av is felt so much more than in the US being closer, and those shishkes(oh the Memories!) do make people feel different emotions (happy, mad etc.)
please do not be critical about the “fun” activity. this has an origin in a story about some great person. i can’t remember his name. maybe one of the readers would k now the story. that great man walked into his shul or his bais medrash and saw some people playing with that, throwing those things. he prayed to Hashem saying HASHEM, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE HOW YOUR PEOPLE KEEP THIS SAD DAY, TAKE IT AWAY FROM US! he asked Hashem to remove from us all our sad days and turn them into happy days. many continued with this… Read more »
Potatoes
in the olden days, chasidim who were b’emes “in danger” of becoming overly sad due to churban beis hamikdash needed this shtick to chear them up poshut for their avoidas hashem..
how sad and pathetic how we educate our kids to go picking berelach as a “cute and fun” activity lchvod tisha b’av… is this what has become of us? we deprive them from experiencing tisha bav like a yid… watch the next generation (ch’v) picking berelach in honor of gimel tamuz.. shame on us
stuff to trow on tisha b’av
Wow! Memories…
things to throw at ppl during eicha
Olives!
Beralach
‘Beralach’.
Yeah!!! When I was a kid I would pick those green things off the tree. My cousins told me they would throw them at some point in shul on the fast day. I’m not so sure why though..
Beralach? Bobkes?
To throw on 9 av
they throw them at each other on Tisha B’av
Is this that tisha Bav game?
almonds?
Don’t know what they’re called in English. As a kid, I would spend every summer in Kfar Chabad. All the kids would gather these “shishkes” from the trees and we would throw them at each other tisha b’av night outside of shul.
Bombolach
They even create slings out of toilet paper carboard rolls with a balloon attached these days… Such nostalgia!
moshiach cards!
🙂
Tisha b’av “stickers”
looks like olives
They were picking shishkes. They throw it on eachother on Tisha Bav night.
http://thepartialview.blogspot.com/2013/07/links-for-tisha-bav-2013-live-webcasts.html
or as some call them Bopkehs
NO not pomegranates obviously its food for before the fast!
a weed plantation, what else?
Pomegranates???
pomigranets ormore likely esrogim.