Feelin’ Funny: Mordechai Schmutter

Brissin are one of the most chilled simchas, for everyone involved except probably the baby.  And maybe the mohel.  (And probably the sandak.) 

Should you bring your kids to shul?  This is a question that has been pestering Jewish fathers since the time of Yaakov and Eisav. 

Your wife says yes.  But we’re not asking your wife. 

Kive I. Strickoff CPA, AIF^® manages a Financial Planning and Wealthcare practice in Garden City, with offices in Manhattan and Florida.  Among other affiliations, he is active in FSI, the Financial Services Institute of Washington, D.C.  FSI is an organization which advocates on behalf of average American investors, as well as the financial advisors and broker dealers that serve them. 

I think I’ve figured out why I seem to be losing my memory.  And it’s not because I’m getting older.  I mean, I am getting older.  But that might not be it.

I’m not the only person this is happening to.  More and more, people say things like, “I’m getting forgetful in my old age.” 

- I have a minhag to come up with a list of minhagim for each yom tov that might not actually be minhagim, but that my kids might think are minhagim if I don’t actually say something at some point.

So your son is finally out of the house, headed toward his dorm-in yeshiva! Finally! I mean, you love him, but it’s definitely better right now to love him from a distance. Like the sun. He’s your sun. And if he stays too close, you will erupt in flame.