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These creative Chassidishe bochurim, in need of an outlet, fully garbed in kapattos, managed to figure out a way to play basketball, using a broken chair in lieu of a hoop.
Where there is a will there is a way.
Twitter commenters came up with creative nicknames for the players: John Shtarks, Patrick Jewing, Jason Yid, Moishe Malone, the Indiana Peyosers
as we approach camp season , lets remember there is NOTHING as refreshing for a child as good sports , and basketball is the king of them for many reasons…chssidishe yeshivos have so much going for them , but this flaw ( lack of sports) is the cause of so much churban . The benefits are huge bruchnius ubegashmiyus ( i’m not referring to leagues… PLAY BALL!!!
That’s using your cup!!
Sorry this has been done since I was a kid 80 years ago. Who had money for a hoop. Also used old broom handles for stick ball bat.
Is this news?
What issur is there in using an actual hoop? Is the ball round?
Old clip that just went viral. Its nothing new, but where was this – maybe we can start a Charidy campaign to raise money for a real basketball hoop!
They had a basket, it was a broken chair, one without a seat cushion. The idea is for the ball to go through the basket.
You probably are not aware that when the game of basketball started, it started by someone in the YMCA putting up peach BASKETS on two sides of the gym. The idea was to shoot the ball into the peach BASKET and I believe the ball had to stay in the basket, it could not fall out. You see, they didn’t take out the bottom of the basket until later on. Originally it was a basket, hence the word BASKET ball.
Where did this take place?
boring
Why would anybody want to play basketball without baskets?
There is a brilliant book by Chaim Potok called The Chosen which starts off with a baseball game by 2 yeshivot teams & goes onto detail their friendship despite one being ultra-orthodox & the son of the Rebbe (destined to be his heir but wants to study psychiatry) & the other from a more ‘modern’ home where the father (also a Rabbi) uses scientific criticism on the Torah (Oi Vey!). There is a second book which brings them into manhood called The Promise. I recommend them both very highly indeed.