Wednesday, January 24, 2024

FREEZING temps tonight in Lakewood as freezer opens

No, not that freezing, not the snow or cold weather but the door to the Lakewood freezer will open as Tu Bshvat is the unofficial day when new Bochurim start the parsha of shidduchim. The official deadline for the takana is Rosh chodesh Adar, but the dating starts a bit early. Hatzlacha to all the bochurim in the parsha may they find their zivug and build a bayis Neeman Byisrael.
 Read more about the Freezer From a previous version of Wikipedia

 Upon acceptance to the yeshiva, a student must sign a document stating that he will not enter shidduchim for his first three months at the yeshiva. Students entering for the winter term can begin dating on Tu Bishvat; students entering for the summer term can begin dating on 17 Tammuz. The three month periods are known colloquially as "The Freezer." The Freezer policy is designed to minimize students' distractions during the crucial first few months of studies, allowing them to be better integrated into the yeshiva schedule and into the Yeshiva as a whole.

A loophole around the Freezer rule is that a student may continue to date a girl if he began dating her before the start of the semester.

In practice, students comply with the Freezer rule, and it is rarely violated. If a student is found to have violated the rule, the senior faculty (The Roshei Yeshiva) generally will not attend the wedding (which is considered an honor) in protest, and the student may be subject to other disciplinary measures, including suspension of the student from Yeshiva indefinitely, and preclusion from receiving Kolel stipends ($160 biweekly).

4 comments:

  1. Some require a longer thaw-out period from the deep freeze.
    Others have freezer burn as they weren't wrapped well enough.

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  2. That's old $160...

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  3. Like everything else on Wikipedia.There's a very modern guy in LA who has cred to publish thousands of articles with his slant on Jewish topics on Wikipedia.But my solid info will get knocked off

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  4. What's the excitement about opening the freezer there are more than enough girls on the market

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