Shavua tov!
Yes, I’m still here. It’s just that the bar mitzvah is this coming Shabbat IY”H, and so things are understandably busy here in TRLEOOB.
And on a related note, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my real-life friend and commenter MB and her family for hosting us for the now-traditional Meal on the Shabbat Before the Simcha (or, in Our Shiputzim-speak, the MOTSBTS). May our families continue to share many, many future smachot!
As some of you know, the Shiputzim children are members of Ariel* – rather than Bnei Akiva. (Ariel uses the same names as Bnei Akiva does – hence, last week’s HaGevurah post.)
Anyway, this Shabbat was Shabbat Irgun for the girls. (This coming Shabbat – yes, the Shabbat of the bar mitzvah! – will IY”H be the boys’ Shabbat Irgun.)
The reason I mention this is to reassure our loyal readers that yes, there was an ooltra. And the truth is that – all kidding aside – the dances were, as always, quite beautiful.
In fact, the girls introduced a new twist to the ooltra dance. Usually, such a dance is done to fast, up-beat music. However, this time, they did something completely different.
This shevet’s (age group) theme was “Captives and MIAs”. After showing a short slide show about the Israeli MIAs, the girls did a slow ooltra to Boaz Sharabi’s haunting “K’she’tavo”, a song about Ron Arad. The entire audience agreed that dancing in the dark was a moving and fitting tribute to the MIAs.
And in conclusion, mazal tov to our resident HaGevurah member on the new name. (Admit it – the name is starting to grow on you, isn’t it? 
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* That is – some of the Shiputzim children are Ariel members. Others are adherents of what is euphemistically known as “Iyov” (aleph,yud,vav,vet – an acronym for אשרי יושבי ביתך – literally, “Praiseworthy are those who dwell in Your House”) – i.e. they prefer to stay home.
It was our pleasure, as always, to host you for the MOTSBTB (hope I got that right). Good luck with last minute preparations and lots of mazal tov!!
ReplyDeleteMalke -
ReplyDeletethe MOTSBTB (hope I got that right)
Although you're right that so far it's always been the MOTSBTB (i.e. the Shabbat before the bar/bat mitzvah), I took the liberty of unilaterally changing it to the MOTSBTS (i.e. the Shabbat before the simcha)... לרבות aufrufs, Shabbat Sheva Brachot, etc.
Hope everything went smoothly.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ilana-Davita.
ReplyDeleteOK, now I know why I visit your blog.
ReplyDeleteI never knew it was called the "oooltra" (even though Ive seen tons of them)!
However, on a personal note, I dislike "ooltra"s.
Our local snif's shabbat irgoon had every single shevet do a play/dance/whatever -- if they were boys.
Every single girls presentation was exclusively an ooltra.
Our Bnei Akiva is so far-froompt, that girls can't even perform a skit, but they are relegated to being ooltra-looltras?!
I for one, object.
PS: Your post about "what age are you/what did you think of the new shevet name" has gone like wildfire -- everyone I show it to/tell it to, loves it :)
Jameel - Thanks for your kind words.
ReplyDeletebeing ooltra-looltras...
...And so is coined a new expression. Don't forget, dear readers, you heard it here first!
:-)