We offered you some of our most ingenious ideas; here we present a few more. Here’s to a peaceful, prosperous Purim!
At Ballot Box, we’re all about keeping the peace. So as Purim approaches, our antennae are on high alert for the tension that sometimes erupts between well-meaning bochurim and the decent human beings they wish to transform into philanthropists.
We offered you some of our most ingenious ideas; here we present a few more. Here’s to a peaceful, prosperous Purim!
It’s a well-kept secret that we bochurim actually don’t love our costumes. Those dashing army fatigues… they lie all year in the yeshivah’s basement, and they smell like it. So while I’m not a full-blown psychologist yet, I did start a Dale Carnegie book, and here’s what I think.
The hot, stuffy, smelly, ill-fitting costumes are the real cause for our misbehavior. Call it “enclothed cognition” if you will; the undesirability of the clothing negatively affects our own self-perception, resulting in lots of trashed carpets and very stained tablecloths.
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