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Motek ↓

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 5:48 pm

I don't. Didn't grow up doing it.

Do you go?

Pickle Lady

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 5:50 pm

Nope.

I watch the kids and my husband goes on the first night.

I am just happy if I daven a little let alone do slichos.

Last edited by Pickle Lady on Tue, Sep 11 2007, 5:55 pm; edited 1 time in total

Mitzvahmom

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 5:53 pm

Pickle Lady wrote:

Nope.

I am just happy if a daven a little let alone do slichos.

same here...hard with the kids

southernbubby ↓

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 5:54 pm

I do go because when I had little kids I wanted to go and couldn't. We go to the one at the yeshiva because the bochrim are so leibadik. I get to see my friends from 9Mile neighborhood and wish them a happy new year.

MrsS

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 6:24 pm

Its very hard in the moment with small kids.These things I leave for when my children are grown up.

Mama Bear

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 6:46 pm

I did it the firsst few years after I got married, then I found it too hard to get up at 4 a.m.

mimivan

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 6:47 pm

I don't know many women who go...
But I've always tried to say them at home, and that is a challenge.
I really enjoy saying selichos and do what I can (I.e. if not early, late, if in a hurry, a part in English etc..)
I felt really bad today about not doing it "right" I thought "Maybe I should just abandon this approach. Maybe I should read selichos standing up, on time, all in Hebrew, with perfect Kavanah or not do it at all!"

Then my one year old came up to my and tugged on my skirt indicated he wanted to nurse.

At that exact moment I was nursing him, I was at the passage about asking Hashem to have mercy on us on behalf of our nursing infants.

Maybe it was a sign I should continue? Wink

↑ Motek

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 6:52 pm

and as a single girl, did you go?

I did not.

chocolate moose ↓

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 7:14 pm

I went as a girl. several times.

↑ southernbubby

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 7:16 pm

Before I was married, I didn't know the whole thing existed. Dh and I became frum after we were married.

poelmamosh

Tue, Sep 11 2007, 7:22 pm

Yes, I go, the first night - 1 am - with 2 kids. I always found it very exciting as a child and will IYH continue to go as long as possible, so that my kids get that, too. As a girl, I would try to do the slichos with davenning. Now, I'm lucky if I really davven. embarrassed

↑ chocolate moose ↓

Wed, Sep 12 2007, 10:44 am

you don't have to be frum to go to slichos. my shul had it when I was growing up.

Ruchel

Wed, Sep 12 2007, 1:24 pm

I always thought only the men did.

ClaRivka

Wed, Sep 12 2007, 2:26 pm

I never knew women went to slichos ever!
I had one girl in my school in highschool who wa really frum who went but other than that noone ever talked abt it.

Beauty and the Beast

Wed, Sep 12 2007, 2:53 pm

I went as a girl, and as a young married woman. only the first night.
I felt that it really started off the week before rosh hashana in the right way, it helped me get into a frame of mind for it.

chochma73

Wed, Sep 12 2007, 3:06 pm

as a girl I always went the first night. now with the kids it is impossible to shlep everyone and then they are so cranky the next day so I just stay up and watch it online in 770 and follow the minyan

Dini

Wed, Sep 12 2007, 3:07 pm

the last two years I went at about 10pm at night, there was a shul that did it that early so dh could watch the kids while I went but this year even that didn't work out.

↑ chocolate moose

Wed, Sep 12 2007, 3:12 pm

I had a friend who went each morning, too. she went on every taynus.

amother

Sat, Sep 15 2007, 10:31 pm

I'm lubavitch and was going as a girl the first night, up untill I got married and had my first child.

in high school a bunch of us used to get up early in the morning and go as well. Special allowances were made for us to come late to school.

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