We'll end where we started...

Shalom friends,

Here's how it is. For a while now we've wanted to end this blog. We came up with a great idea of making a spoof on the Maccabeans video and making a Stollel version to go out with a bang. That, however, is not going to happen because nobody has time for such things. If you want, you can imagine the video in your head. It was going to be a similar set up of the different boxes with different Stollelnicks in each box and a chorus of Tzidkas Azriel singing: 'I throw my peyos in the air sometimes.' Other shots included Gaby in the mikveh (above the shoulders of course), Zev NaNaching in the street, and other bearded, sidelocked, creatures doing things. It also would have incorporated videos from the past 2 1/2 years throughout the video. K. There is the final video.

The blog is not ending as a result of the many people asking me to always post things (though it's certainly a part of it) but rather because the founders of the Kollel Tamid blog felt that the blog had completed it's task and had reached it's end. We opt for the burn out over the fade away.

So this is how it's going to be. With much persistence from alicht2, as well as following the path of Jawbone Valley, we are moving to Twitter. Everyone can follow us over there and any announcements will be made there and sent to all followers. For example, if there is a minyan on a given day, we will send out a tweet: "Happy Minyan: 7:30 in Muss Quiet Room tomorrow morning!" If there is a gathering on a random night: "Gathering in MTA Basement with Rebbe Reichman and friends! 10:30 Tonight!" You get the idea.

Now, as opposed to Jawbone Valley which totally abandoned the blog after the Twitter-shift, the blog will still be up and used only for posts that require an actual blog (i.e. videos of Zev.) When such a post is added to the blog, we'll tweet: "New Video on Blog." The point is, essentially, you never have to check the blog again unless tweeted about because there will be nothing new.

With all that being said, we'll end where we started...

THE STOLLEL
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11 Shevat-17 Shevat 5771
January 16-January 22 2010
BEIS FREIDMAN
We will be learning Meseches Bikkurim this year.

THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT STOLLEL 5771:
1) The first day is Sunday. It is the day of ZPomerantz's wedding in Baltimore. Stollel will be open but I assume a bunch of people will be at the wedding.
2) Rabbi Judah Mischel of the Genesis Center will be joining for a guest lecture Monday morning.
3) Rav Avraham Schorr will be saying at the Stollel on Thursday Morning (11 AM).
4) Rebbe Reichman hopes to hold a Tu B'Shvat tish on whatever night that may be (Wednesday, I think)
5) Other speakers include HaRav Roberts of Yeshiva Gedolah (no tape recorders), The Springfielder Rav, and many others.

GENERAL DAILY SCHEDULE

7:00 - Bus to the Mikveh
7:30 - Pre-Shacharis Chassidus
8:00 - Shacharis
9:00 - Breakfast
9:30 - Opening Meseches Bikkurim remarks/Morning Seder
12:00 - Bikkurim Chabura #1
1:00 - Lunch/Break
3:15 - Mincha
3:40 - Mussar Seder
4:00 - Afternoon Seder
6:00 - Dinner
7:00 - 9:00 - Night Seder / Guest Shiur
10:00 - Ma'ariv
11:15 - (Shneur Zalman's) Seder Niggunim
12:07 - Chatzos

It's possible there will be other updates to add to the Stollel schedule so maybe check back to the lower half of this post in a while. Take care.