[Avodah] Cancel Simchas Torah!

[Prof. Levine via Avodah]

At 08:16 AM 10/9/2015, Saul Guberman wrote:
>To call your minyan a more genuine simcha when the Flatbush Jewish 
>area has between 50-100 more Shuls that do not follow your lead, is 
>difficult to gauge.  How many people show up to your shul's main 
>minyan and how is it run?

On ST we have at least twice as many men as the Main Minyan on the 
morning of ST.  I have never davened at the shul's Main Minyan on ST 
during the day,  but from what I have been told things are not very 
lively and attendance dwindles each year.  They have a Kiddush after 
davening.  We do not have one, although this year since the Kiddush 
for main minyan was in the Bais Medrash where we daven,  they offered 
us some cake and drinks.  Almost no one partook.  People went home.

We do not have our own davening at night on ST,  the Main Minyan 
does.  However,  they have to import some Lubavitchers on ST at night 
to make it lively.  The kids are given all sorts of nosh.


[Email #2]

At 11:31 AM 10/9/2015, Zev Sero wrote:
>On 10/09/2015 11:21 AM, Prof. Levine wrote:
>>At 11:03 AM 10/9/2015, Zev Sero wrote:
>>>Recife used to have a large Spanish-Portuguese kehillah, which was
>>>completely destroyed when Portugal conquered it.

>>The Jewish community of Recife was not "completely destroyed." The
>>Jews were allowed to leave and to take most of their possessions with
>>them.

>And this means it was not completely destroyed how?

Destroyed implies to me violence.  It ceased to exist would be a 
better terminology.

Did you read my article?  If not,  then please do.  It is informative.