http://thepartialview.blogspot.com/2012/02/weekend-without-frum-weeklies.html After much thought and contemplating we finally did it. We did not buy any of the frum weeklies , newspapers or magazines etc. It was a shabbos with no Yated Ne"eman or Hamodia no Mishpacha, Bina or Ami magazine not even the new issue o Zman or occasional other Jewish newspaper. Its not about the money or the $25 saved rather it was just spending shabbos like it used to be when there was only one paper.
Instead of reading forced or filler articles, having the kids hit the couch after the gefilte fish to read up on their favorite features. we had a nice shabbos meal with more participation than usual. It was actually not easy, giving up our addiction to the frum papers, but after the Friday night meal I had time to be Maavir sedrah, with some more insight on the parsha. My daughter dusted off a artscroll book we had on the shelf and read a nice biography of a Jewish family.We sat around the couch and spoke to one another, instead of all of us sitting there and each one engrossed in their favorite paper or waiting for next on a particular magazine.
Our dependence on newspapers and other magazines has started taking over our life and become a staple and a must, that we just can not do without. Unfortunatelyit has become that forgetting to buy the paper is equivalent as forgetting to buy Challah.
While this was a one time experience, yesim not looking to deprive myself of oneg shabbos, I'm actually going to buy the papers on Sunday. However its refreshing to know that we can appreciate a shabbos together with more quality time. We also didn't miss out much, by not knowing what was written in a paper that was almost a weeks old news anyway.
10 comments:
Ashrecha! A gehoibenah zach!
The only question is:
What are yereim v'shelaimim doing buying Mishpacha magazine in the first place with their krum hashkafos?
Imagine the World without tis site
I haven't bought those papers in years unless this was special reason to. Pesach mishpach maybe, but why would anybody buy those papers?
Only a magazine that claims to be a Mishpacha oriented magazine that claims to put Families First can fool the oilem by publishing articles encouraging the break up of frum homes and actively encouraging frum couples to stop having children. Be careful with the shmutz you bring into your homes, especially if your kids and teens read it. Yiddishe mishpachos need emmesse hadrachah not hashkafas Mishpacha!
Why buy a paper with the only news that they want you to see? Just a big propaganda machine.
The worst of all is the propaganda magazine published by the Queens Vaad with money forced out of their clients on top of the regular Vaad fee. All the articles are written by Queens Vaad cronies which is why they are worse than the Pravda newspaper of the Soviet Communists. When they take a stab at something in learning it consists of misquoting seforim to attack their critics.
we tell our schools we have no money to pay tuition and you go to their houses onm shabbos and you see every single frum paper in their houses, 25 bucks worth! and flanken and pastrami....
I BLOG FROM OUT OF TOWN TOO.
and pastrami....
When Dovid Korbman was in the din Torah with Jacobowitz from Kolatin he told the crook's kids in Shoprite that they have no recht to buy pastrami until he gets his money back.
Isn't anyone worried about the new Google "security measures"?
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