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Do you sharaga18 have immigration papers for Canada? BTW:- Since moving to Quebec Province, there are additional documents that you may require.

Needless to say, make sure that you can communicate & converse in French. After all, Montreal is the 2nd biggest French speaking city, on this planet.

Sushee: I was hoping for Bayit Yehudi to get 15, Otzma 2, Shas 13 and UTJ 8. So as to force Netanyahu into a right wing, Chareidi coalition.

This would have happened if Satmar had not derailed nor sabotaged the elections.

Because of satmar’s unconscionable actions, I hereby am pledging to increase my Zionism:- Reshis Tzemichas Ge’uloseinu, by increasing my observance of Yom ha’Atzmaut & Yom Yerusholayim, by praying more fervently each Shabbos morning during the MisheBeirach for Medinat Yisroel Reshis Tzemichas Ge’uloseinu, and I shall be spending more money at the forthcoming YU Seforim Sale, and I have taken the unexpected decision to make a previously unplanned trip to Israel for Purim, to help boost the Israeli economy & patronize El Al.

However, to the credit of Satmar, I must confess 1 item which I gladly share in common with them:- We are both not members of Agudath Israel of America, due to irreconcilable differences with their Shita.

The lid is yes out there. Find it, and recognize it, when the correct lid does come thy way.

So how do you reconcile that Rav Kanivesky said one should vote in THIS election

That this is an absolute Pesack & requirement, and no-one including these 2 estranged brothers, has any right whatsoever to overrule this correct Pesack.

its the 9th month the 9th day

Purplicious:- To me this description sounds like Kisslev 9th, or perhaps Sivvon 9th, if counting the months from Rosh haShono.

Tuesday this week being Shevot 11th, is the Jewish 11/11, but clearly Tuesday of Beshalach is not every year, 11/11.

But more pertinently, why isn’t this Seguloh on Thursday of the week of BeShalch? since Parshas haMon commences in Parshas Chamishi of Beshalach.

Unfortunately, I have serious doubts about the whole thing

Because the literature states that this Seguloh is unique to Tu b’Shevat {Something along the lines of the fruit being fruitful and getting married to be fruitful} so either:-

1) Are they blowing the 1000 Shoforos on Tu b’Shevat on Shabbos? Certainly, 1000 people is enough to make a Sanhedrin.

2) Are they blowing the Shoforos on some day other than Tu b’Shevat so as not to carry 1000 Shoforos to Amuka in a Reshus hoRabim on Shabbos? thereby missing the Seguloh date of Tu b’Shevat.

I am only aware of 2 Rabbis doing “trash talking” vis a vis the upcoming Israeli Elections. One is a certain Rabbi who deplaned from Delta Airlines earlier today and went to Kikar Shabbos, and the other one, is his estranged brother.

All the other Rabbis including the Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovitz Yeshiva as reported by YWN, are correctly pointing out, that anyone who is religious but not casting a vote, is tantamount to tactical voting for the non-religious parties & increasing the chances of legislature to draft Bochurim out of Yeshiva into the Army. To my limited thinking, this couldn’t be further removed from “trash Taking” and couldn’t be described as anything other than “Sagely taking” and “Correct statistics”.

Yekkes historically wear the tallet gadol from the time of bar mitzvah, which the Chofetz Chaim believed was correct.

RebDoniel:- Actually scroll back 1 decade earlier, as Jekkes usually commence wearing a Tallis Godol from about age 3.

Of-course, as you RebDoniel so rightly said, waiting until marriage is not Halocho, and does not have sufficient grounding; i.e. It has no grounding.

This fallacy is based on 2 Pesukim in Parshas Ki-Setze:- 1) Gedilim Ta’aseh Loch etc., immediately followed by the Posuuk of 2) Ki Yikach Ish Isho etc.

The only problem with this ungrounded Limud is, that the verse to wear a Tallis comes before the Possuk of a marriage, so waiting until after the marriage for a Tallis is taking these 2 Pesukim in the wrong order.

Tragically we see bachelors in their 60’s & 70’s who apart from tragically having missed out on the Mitzvos of marriage & procreation, also have missed out on the Mitzwah of Tallis Godol.

http://www.campyamsurf.com/

Your kid can learn to surf whilst in a Torah environment.

BTW San Diego is a beautiful location, and very close to Tijuana over the Mexican Border.

I read your site about the forthcoming trip of the Satmar Rebbe to Israel; However, 2 pertinent facts were ominously missing:-

1) The news item mentioned that many of his followers are accompanying him. However, there was no mention made, if his wife, A.K.A. the grandmother of the Bride is going? & if she is going, is she flying with him? or on another flight exclusively for women?

2) There is no mention of who shall be Mesader Kiddushin? From the absence of this detail, I assume that the Satmar Rebbe isn’t the Mesader Kiddushin. Maybe a Mesader Kiddushin in Israel by law, has to be licensed by the local Rabbinate in Israel?

Where is Ronald Reagan when you need him?

Yenta:- Maybe:- How about George W. Taylor? He probably could draft a much better Taylor Law, that can Ronald Reagan.

Did R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerback sit on an egged bus?

More than 30 years ago, I was on a Egged bus going all the way from Yerusholayim to to Tzfat {which in those days went by the Jordan River}, sitting across from Rav Yisroel Zeev Gustman ZT’L. This was the 1st time I heard of him, but this left an indelible impression on me, and I met him several times subsequently, and even seriously considered enrolling at his Yeshiva Netzach Yisroel.

By the way, I also met Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ZT’L over a 100 times, as I spent 1/2 year in Shaarei Chessed where I saw him daily at Gra Shul, often with him hearing me leading services & doing Kerias haToroh.

So a resounding “Yes”, taht Gedolei Yisroel belong on buses & commercial aviation with the rest of mankind.

As this week’s Parsha says, bake “Ugos Matzos”, Cakes of Matzo, and I’ll heartily consume them 10 weeks from tonite.

Am I going to the wrong mikvah? How do I get to be in the know? Touch base with your spiritual advisor.

Va’eiro is hardest. Tzaria & Metzoroh are also hard, as is vaYishlach [Last 3 Aliyos >>> Aluf etc.}.

vaYikro is easy.

Be that as it may, making speeches/sermons surely is harder.

Even reading Esther is easier than blowing the Shofor.

You are welcome rebdoniel.

English is not one of the languages that the Torah was translated into on Teves 8th, which is a minor fast days in Megillas Ta’anis, mourning the translation of the Torah into Greek and some other languages, so nothing wrong with an English Translation.

By the way, the English in “Blackman Mishnayos” is excellent and very accurate & high quality.

Needless to say, Rav Gukavitzky’s translation into English & modern French is impeccable & on the ball.

You have exactly 1/2 year as of yesterday to consume this meat prior to the onset of the 9 days.

Actually today’s Parshas va’Eiro is the worst, as it is just about the very hardest Sidroh for Ba’al Koreh to read.

Chukas-Balak is a makeup double Parsha if the 8th day of Pesach or the 2nd day of Shavuos are Shabbos – This assertion vis a vis is absolutely correct via a vis 2nd day of Shovu’os on a Shabbos.

However if the 8th day pf Pesach is on a Shabbos, in a regular year it is made up with Behar Bechoosai doubling up in the diaspora, and if 8th day of Pessach is on a Shabbos, in a leap year, it is not made up all the way thru Mattos Massei.

rebdoniel hit the nail exactly on the head and straight to the point, just as s/he does in just about all of his/her postings to this coffee room.

It is clear as daylight, that his entire etiquette of not inviting a married or engaged person to a social function with his/her souse/fiance[e] stems entirely from the culture of mixed seating, where it is entirely unheard of, not to seat a married/engaged person next to his/her spouse/fiance[e]. In fact it can be considered so embarrassing for a married man to attend a function without his wife, that there are Halachic rulings allowing an “Isho Aveiles” in mourning to attend a Simcha as part of her marriage obligations to her husband.

Clearly this social etiquette’s reasoning is absolutely obsolete in separate seating functions, and more often than not, the spouse who doesn’t know the other party is so bored and feels so out of place in such scenarios.

Just because he quit NK does not make him mainstream.

Just like Obama’s renunciation of Jeremiah Wright as his spiritual mentor, doesn’t undo the filth Obama was spewed with for 20 years of his life.

If you wear you Tallis Kotton in the restroom, then Kal v’Chomer that you can wear your hat in the restroom.

and the atmosphere to walk on the streets can be unpleasant. Since they are still living in the middle ages, when the streets are segregated, with males & females not being allowed to roam the streets at the same hours.

Please check this out, because some people at work told me that they are taking off January 8th, for Greek/Russian Orthodox xmas.

Just as an FYI, if we do have a simcha, we usually leave after dinner and some dancing and spend some time talking in the car or sitting in Starbucks for a half an hour.

I hope you have a dispensation to only wait 1 hour from meat to milk [as per the ReMo is Yoreh De’ah] if this enhances your Sholom Bayis, so that you can have a dairy coffee at Starbucks, or if this late at nite, Vanilla Bean, assuming there was meat at the Simcha.