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That moment when there’s some delicious milchig food available to eat and you remember you ate (often some not particularly good) meat/chicken meal and are fleishigs (t9 claims it should be flies hits). Add your own lol.
Buying something with an OU and noticing, only after opening the package, that it’s OU-D (makpid on CY, obviously).
Is this about frustration for being Jewish?
Talmud, I hope not. I thought it was about frustrating things that could only happen to Jewish people.
An extremely frustrating moment for me was when YUTorah had a bunch of shiurim from Spring 2010 that went missing, mostly in Bava Basra, but also many in Kesuvos (from R’ Aryeh Lebowitz).
Another frustrating moment that happened more recently was the fact that the daf yomi shiurim of R’ Shalom Rosner went missing on Project Sinai, although he tells me that they’re going to put them back up soon, IY”H.
Having 5 daughters who have been programed to marry boys who wont work for a living and being expected to foot the bill for it all.
Fell into a deep sleep and then reminded yourself that you didn’t daven maariv yet.
forgetting to shut your bedroom light before shabbos…
Being born, thinking “Wow! That was pretty traumatic… I bet it’s all downhill from here,” only to wake up one morning about a week later and discover you didn’t know the half of it…
People using Moser and Loshon Horah to cover up Reshaim
Curiosity – only if you are a boy!!!!! The girls get a kiddush and no trauma!
I personally think one shouldn’t view HaShem’s mitzvohs c”v as frustrating. Not that I really suspect the posters here of that.
I’ve heard (in the name of some Gedolim) that due to the previous generation’s viewing mitzvohs as such, even though they were meticulous, got the younger ones turned off.
ZeesKite,
I agree, which is why my example was one in which the frustration was caused by my own negligence.
ZeesKite: this is not a rant against mitzvos, it’s a “rant” about how for those mitzvos, usually ones that involve a time limit, can be difficult for many of us. The examples given: A) buying an OU product only realizing its OU-D afterward, is frustrating cuz you really want it, and wouldnt have bought it otherwise B) shiurim tapes missing, not a complaint about having to listen to shiurim, but the fact that he cant cuz they arent there C) forgetting to shut a light before shabbos, not a complaint about shabbos, but frustration that I forgot!
ZK- I disagree completely! The Rambam (and I think the Gemara too) says that a person should not say I don’t want to do something that’s assur (like eat pork) but rather we should say I want to do aveiros! I have a ta’ava for pork! But what can I do? Hashem told me not to and I follow His will.
We’re not supposed to ignore that which is frustrating, we’re supposed to embrace it and say even though it’s frustrating, Ill still do it because that is the ratzon Hashem.
- Lying down on your bed and realizing that you forgot Ma’ariv
- Waking up on a Friday morning and realizing that you’re fleishig
- Trying to avoid weird looks from your co-workers when you wash netilas yodayim in the bathroom sink
- Shidduchim. nuff said
- Not being able to rub my eyes first thing in the morning
- Worrying about the ever increasing pile of random literature at my seat in shul, where it came from and why there’s no sheimos box
simcha613, ZK- You are not really disagreeing. ZK is referring to the mentality back then “oy sis shver tzu zayn a yid”. “Oh, its difficult to be a yid”. That was all the younger generation heard and they said if its so difficult what do I need it for.
Simcha613- The younger generation didnt get a feel for yidishkeit and a desire to do ratzon Hashem, just oy sis shver tzu zayn a yid.
(This is obviously a generalization)
Two things that have caused me grief, are leaving something in the microwave that I cooked for Shabbos and remembering that right after I bensched licht, or leaving the fridge light on, same scenario. Regarding the fridge, I now shut the light on Thursday to avoid that mistake (yes, I DO need the light on most days).
Okay Simcha613, I’m all in.
1) Alarm clock going off Shabbos morning
2) Forgetting that your tzitzis are not out by ‘Vayomer’
3) Being called up to an Aliya on the way to the bathroom
4) Chrain on the shirt by a kiddush
5) Mailman tries to hand you mail on shabbos
6) Wrong machsur to shul on Yom Tov
7) Starts raining at the chuppah
8) Someone tells you you are sitting in Eliyahu Hanavi’s chair
9) Hit in the eye by someone putting on their tallis
9) The Ba’al Tefila is a self-proclaimed Chazzan
When I’m the only visible Jew in a very large class, and sitting in the front, and the teacher looks at me every time they write Aleph-null on the board and comments how, since they’re not Jewish, they don’t think they’re drawing the Aleph correctly. I just look back innocently and do not volunteer to demonstrate.
Re: The mailman on shabbos- wouldn’t it be better to take the mail than to embarrass the mailman, since embarrassment is an issur d’oraita, and making a chillul hashem is a serious concern?
What frustrates me is when it rains on shabbos and nobody holds by the Hatam Sofer on umbrellas, but that doesn’t matter, since I don’t use the eruv, anyways. Same is like finding money on the ground on shabbos and yom tov.
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What sort of class are you taking where ?? is written on the board more than once? Intro to Theoretical Infinite Sets?
Yserbius: Something like that, yeah.
Wow! How do you write that?
Like this ?? . What seems to be the problem?
I certainly don’t think following HaShem’s explicit commandments is making a chilul HaShem. What kind of issur d’oraita is there? And furthermore, as far as plain mentchlichkiet is concerned, just a bit of an explanation will do.
When you are asked at work why you are “wearing so many layers” by your bosses, who are buddhists.
Going to a random place expecting to see no one you know and out pops Jews!
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