Should Families Spend The Summer In A Bungalow Colony?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is David with that question. Answer, we're in a few minutes. We try to answer listeners' questions. Rebby, thank you for your unflinching honesty regarding contemporary trends in Yiddishkeit. Would Rebby share his opinion regarding the growing trend of wives and children going up to vacation homes for the summer while husbands stay behind in the city to work, joining their families only on Shabbos? I'm torn. I'm torn about this and you know I have no problem sharing my opinion. I'm a little torn. I'll explain to you why. Um I didn't grow up in a bungalow. My wife grew up in a bungalow. And it is some of their her fondest memories was going to a bungalow colony. Um my good friend Yanky Yarmish had a bungalow on Heim Manor and he said, "Listen, I'm not using it you know, for July where we're going to America." He says, "You could use my bungalow." So we went with our kids up to the bungalow. Now, just so you appreciate it, we never went to a bungalow. My father used to go and take us to Grossinger's for 2 weeks. That was our summer vacation. Yeah. And we usually stayed in the pool G sometimes if it was really crowded we had to stay in the Jenny G never. You know what I mean? And there was an indoor swimming pool and an outdoor

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David with that question. Answer, we're in a few minutes. We try to…
2. 0:30I'm torn. I'm torn about this and you know I have no problem sharing my opinion.…
3. 1:31swimming pool and a golf course and you know, and three catered meals and activities and…
4. 2:02what I mean? >> [laughter] [gasps] >> Anyway, so we went to this bungalow. My brother…
5. 3:04>> And for some reason, there's this gigantic Walmart, 10,000 from people go there and there's…
6. 4:05uh I uh went to visit, as I told you, my friend Rabbi Hammer in his…
7. 4:36base medrish, and it's like, "Okay, I understand it's a problem. The only thing is, it's…
8. 5:37once. He didn't know who I was, but I was writing a column in the Hamodia,…
9. 6:07people come and go go to shul and have a chizuk, you know. They go and…
10. 7:09to state my opinion on anything. But I'm You know, I see for kids how wonderful…

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