Mordechai Schmutter

1 week ago | jewishlink.news | Mordechai Schmutter

If you’re planning on getting married nowadays, you won’t get far without a shidduch resume. Ask anyone. Well, not anyone with a child of marriageable age because none of those people had shidduch resumes. Nor did any gedolim. In the old days, nobody had shidduch resumes. What on earth did we do? Maybe everyone kept it all in their heads, I don’t remember. There were a lot fewer people; I know that. Definitely for most of Jewish history there were no resumes.

1 week ago | queensjewishlink.com | Mordechai Schmutter

If you’re planning on getting married nowadays, you won’t get far without a shidduch resume. Ask anyone. Well, not anyone with a child of marriageable age, because none of those people had shidduch resumes. Nor did any gedolim. In the old days, nobody had shidduch resumes. What on earth did we do? Maybe everyone kept it all in their heads—I don’t remember. There were a lot fewer people; I know that. Definitely for most of Jewish history, there were no resumes.

2 weeks ago | jewishlink.news | Mordechai Schmutter

I feel like playground equipment has changed a lot since I was a kid. Apparently, they decided that playgrounds were a disaster. We didn’t know that back then. They were always seen as a good day trip for the kids because they were usually free and you would spend a half a day there, and then a half a day in the emergency room. The main purpose of playgrounds was to provide a structured space in which to teach kids the laws of physics and the numerous ways it could kill you.

4 weeks ago | jewishlink.news | Mordechai Schmutter

No one ever talks about Nach. Well, sometimes the rav talks about it. But most rabbis do not. They don’t even talk about the second half of the parsha. They’re saving that for some rainy day if they ever run out of things to talk about on the first half of the parsha. So most people have a pretty solid knowledge of what happens at the beginning of every parsha, and a fuzzy-at-best knowledge of the end.

1 month ago | queensjewishlink.com | Mordechai Schmutter

No one ever talks about Nach. Well, sometimes the rav talks about it. But most rabbis do not. They don’t even talk about the second half of the parshah. They’re saving that for some rainy day, if they ever run out of things to talk about on the first half of the parshah. So most people have a pretty solid knowledge of what happens at the beginning of every parsha, and a fuzzy-at-best knowledge of the end.