What Should Teen Girls Do on a Long Shabbos?

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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 Deowski with our question and answer shorts which is a new project that we've started. Anonymous asks, "I have teen and post-teen girls. Do you have a suggestion for them for long shabas nights in the winter or long afternoons in the summer?" Unless this person lives in South Africa or in Australia and then just reverse the seasons here. They don't want to say Tahillim. They read magazines, play games, talk or sleep, and eat candy. I'm looking for something. Okay, let me tell you the attitude that I have because I have a girl. When my girls started growing up, I had one philosophy and that is I wanted my house to be the place where the girls hung out. I didn't want my girls out there without knowing where they were or what was happening. I wanted them and their friends to come in here. It started when the kids were very little. I used to make a shabas party every Shabas when my kids were little. They can invite in all of their friends. We had a whole stack of them and I'd give them out treats and we'd make brahas and we'd sing some songs, you know, and I'd ask a few very simple para questions and we'd make a little party and and the kids loved it. In fact, I had a friend of mine who was and he says to me, my son says to me, "You know, Tati, I love Shabas." He says, I started patting myself in the back. He says, "How come?" Says, "Koothski is having a shabas party.

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Deowski with our question and answer shorts which is a new project that…
2. 0:32and eat candy. I'm looking for something. Okay, let me tell you the attitude that I…
3. 1:03make a shabas party every Shabas when my kids were little. They can invite in all…
4. 2:05I would prepare jokes and brain teasers. I would give them brain teasers where they had…
5. 2:36The doors and windows were locked. There are two pieces of wood on the floor. That's…
6. 3:37don't remember them because I would make them up before each meal. But one of them…
7. 4:10that his first child had to be dedicated to a votar and Moshe had no choice.…
8. 4:42I say to my kids, that a good idea or not? Should you shelter your children…
9. 5:44Kids love that. It's more fun than reading the Mishbaka, except for the Kl. And it's…
10. 6:15if there's a girl in your class and she's doing bad things and you know about…

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