Borough Park, NY – Updating a VIN News (http://bit.ly/14fbe4o) story surrounding a reported “ban” on trendy glasses being worn at a local yeshiva, one local optical shop is reporting a large number of exchanges, while another says it has been visited by school officials intent on designating acceptable eyewear for its yeshiva students.
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The NEW YORK POST (http://bit.ly/10rCNDL) is reporting that the exchanges and visitations are a result of a recent letter sent home to parents by Borough Park’s Bobover Yeshiva B’Nei Zion requesting that all students buy “simple glasses.”
One local shop, Lumiere Eyemwear, has reported over 30 exchanges within the past two weeks, while another, MS Optical, says representatives from the school made a visit to the shop, designated which glasses are acceptable, and asked that they be kept in their own display away from trendier styles.
Excellent idea. So many adults are walking around with the most outlandish eyewear, at least this school is doing something to keep this disturbing trend from infiltrating their classrooms.
Once again another example of emphasizing externals over internals. Reminds me if the famous sheitl burnings.
I wonder if what Bloomberg would have to say about this ban?
they should be more concerned about derech eretz
Shtus.
Whats next? Frames with a hechsher?
They should recommend a price limit of expensive eyewear but other than that what’s the problem?
Someday hte youth or a large portion will utterly rebel against this suffocation of individual liberty. I understand that they feel this is against tznius etc but it is an expression of something within. If you keep suffocating every expression at some time yo uhave no choice but to throw it all away.
Mee kamcha yisroel what a nice thing that the parents willingly give up their choices for the greater good of the community in order not to follow the path of all the gemeine designers some of them are anti semites I think its the first step in ahavas yisroel so moshiach can come already
Good idea! Our kids need to be encouraged to avoid the disease of consumerism. L
Exactly the same glasses that my son was told by the Menahel not to wear, is worn by the Monsey Viznits Rebbeh. The Rebbeh always wore glasses with black rim all around.
Umm where are the parents in these frames purchases?
Oh dear maschiach please save us from our “rabbis”
Albeit I can for the most part agree with this schools policy, (which btw has been the policy of many other yeshivos for years). I can’t however fully agree with them. The torah was us to look good! A yid needs to have a certain ‘chein’. Many of these glasses which are permitted, are simply ‘fugly’. Which in turn makes the boys not to appealing. One second, I forgot to ask, does this ban apply to girls as well? Hashem yishmor if yes.
Pardon the pun, but why are they focusing on something so trivial? Small things for small minds, I suppose.
HOW far do they want to go with all the bans and their total control of every move? This is Judaism we are talking about, not taliban. One day soon, this will all explode in their face.
Just ban glasses all together and make them wear contacts.
Its ironic, that bubiv is doing this, the machlukes and chilul h. That’s ok??
As far as i recall the first bubivar rebbie here in the US r’ shlomo zy’u had the most upscaled glasses at that time, nice brass round glasses, so where are these self proclaimed frimaks take it from?? Are they intending to apply that there Rabbi was wrong?
Instead of spending time on the size, shape, and colors of eyeglasses, perhaps the Gedolim should sponsor an “Asifa” on the dangers of child abuse and molestation.
There has to be some sense of individualism – self identity. By producing clones, you are repressing minds, personalities, intellectual curiosity and creativity. We will have a generation of mindless and colorless drones.
This discourse is so nuts. The Lub. Rebbe wore the most fashionable clothes, especially hats, now imitated by all Chabadniks. They now look outdated because the style was from 1940, but it was the goyesha style then. So are we OK to style now, or only if the Rebbe styles?
hashem yerachim what’s going on with glasses.we finally got rid of the internet and now glasses r”l. I’m ready for Citi Field!
Maybe the Roshei Yeshiva should get new glasses. Ones without blinders.
If you want to tackle fashion – why not go to the real money grabbers, like granite counter tops, subzeros, wolf ovens, vacations in Miami, Switzerland, Las Vegas and Calif, 6 BR summer homes, Pella windows, 5K sheitels, eternity bands, Italian dining sets. Glasses seem kind of petty.
Really? is this our biggest problem? no wonder we look the way we look.
It always comes down to this: Some people love to tell other people what to do and certainly what not to do. If I new that the principal of my kids yeshiva went down to the optical store to control what eye-wear to display I would yank my kids of of such an instituion. Some one who does that is mentally ill.
I am so sick of everything being “banned” – the people running these schools are looking to create a major issue of every little thing. When I was in yeshiva (elementary school) the R”Y would gently tell a boy “tell your mother to give you a Jewish haircut” that was enough. Same here the rebbe couldve easily told the boys, “these glasses are not for a ben torah like you”.
Not everything has to be “banned” in writing – as if its “lehafrusha meisura”.
They should ban expensive and stylish shtreimlich and sheitels oichet.
There is a more serious problem than fancy glasses. In a recent visit to BP I saw yeshiva bochurim with pointy shoes! I discussed this with a rebbe and he agreed with me that this is mamash going too far. But he explained to me that there is nothing he can do about it because when they are at home it makes it easier to kill the cockroaches in the corners.
Like in photography, the equipment you use is not what’s important, it’s how your eyes see the subject and register it on the brain. Then snap the picture.
Learn what the Torah wants to teach you, absorb it, and then go out and do it.
If you learn it through purple,chartreuse or black glasses frames, why would this change the meaning?
Rebbeim, please LOOK at what you’re doing.
Once again, the inept, incapable and boorish “mechanchim” demonstrating that they are impotent educators – focusing (pun intended) on the chitzonios of a person, and not the penimios. If these were true educators they wouldn’t have to engage in these stupid power trips to exert their control. They teach nothing. They are fools.
Let the rabbonim ban trendy cars. Everyone should be driving boring 10 year old station wagons & minivans.
So the girls have to be content with ugly out of style glasses, and we wonder why there is a shidduch crisis?