Observing the Role of a Fake Dikkie

One of the 1000's rules of my school, is that we have to wear collars. (I have a theory about collars i will talk about later.) It is annoying, because you are not always in the mood to wear uncomfortable, button-down shirts. Someone brilliant invented something called a "dikkie" for those of you who don't know what it is, it's a collar, (just a collar without the shirt part) the dikkie hidden under a shirt, and only the collar sticks out. So that is what i have been doing all year before i left for school each morning. I would put on a regular, non button-down shirt, and just stick in a dikkie, so while the tznius police thought i was wearing a whole button down shirt underneath, i was only wearing a tiny piece of fabric with a collar. But this morning, i happened to be extremely stressed out with studying for an A.P. exam, and putting on a dikkie slipped my mind. (in my school you never want to suffer the strict penalties of breaking the dress code). The secretary in the school told me, "The school won't be happy with..." She pointed to the neck. Then i suddenly realized i had a collarless neck, oy vey! I was in a panick! I walked into class, "Who has a dikkie, or a scarf i can borrow?" By the way scarfs aren't a safe bet, but safer than wearing no collar at all. No one had one for me, and i really did not want my tznius to affect my GPA. Then G-D directed my head towards the sink, where there was a stack of white (very papery) paper towels. I took one, ripped it a little and made the corners prop out of my shirt. So instead of wearing a button down shirt, i normally wear dikkies, but today instead of that, i wore a paper towel on my neck. I shockingly did not get caught, go paper towels!!! Now, my theory about collars and Bais Yakov. When you are an innocent pedestrian walking in a park, would you rather see a collarless dog, or one with a collar. Pshita! A dog with a collar, because it's not wild, or free, it has an owner, authority, guidance. That is the symbol of the collar. I couldn't help, but make the comparison with bais yakov girls, and the chiyuv medeoraysa to wear collars. We have authorities, we have guidance, we are not chas v shalom, wild! I am not criticizing anything, i just happen to despise collared shirts. :-)

Observing Murder!

What can i write about when it comes to murder? Today a man entered a Jewish school in Toulose and fired 15 gunshots. He killed a Rabbi, and the Rabbi's two sons. A six year old and a three year old. A 10 year old girl was killed too, and a 17 year old was severely injured? Why? What did these innocent human beings ever do to deserve such a fate? This same question is asked over and over, during so many repetitive events. Last year when the Fogel family was butchered in Itamar, i was shocked to see that almost no one outside the Jewish Community was informed of the event. And the NY Times had the nerve, to publish an article somehow blaming the Jews for being in settlements. Ridiculous! These disasters keep striking us! Why? What for? When will this stop!?!