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If you suffer from multiple personality disorder, and one or more of your personalities are integrated or otherwise cease to exist, are you covered as if those personalities had indeed been niftr?
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People in my time zone did not find out the final outcome of the Mumbai tragedy until after Shabbos. However, I got the terrible news in a dream that Shabbos (Friday) night :(.
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And what of certain creatures who I have seen, such as Ahmadinejad YMS, who look like proofs for REVERSE evolution from a higher species to a lower? :)))))))
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True – it does not have terms blocking functions. But Safe Search once blocked something totally legit for me (in a foreign language IIRC) and I had to search it in Yahoo.
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In that case use k9 or similar to block the schmutz. But if someone else runs your network, then they can store schmutz on the main server anyway and anyone can stumble upon it.
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You mean you think I actually weigh *more* than 1320 funt? :)!
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Yes, I should have qualified that with “in many places in Europe.” And even in Paris where I think there are stores with hechsherim the lists say clearly that certain species of fish can be purchased anywhere so long as you can clearly see the simonim (and they are clearly identifiable as X species).
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Yes, but I eat only salmon, berries, honey and an occasional Internet troll. The moderators usually get the trolls before I do so everyone is safe here :).
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Mazel tov! Nor af simchas!
it is permissible to teach the Bible as literature, comparative religion, etc.
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That is nothing but secular proselytizing and a total disrespect for the beliefs of many students in public and private schools and universities. I know because it was part of required coursework when I went to college and it was taught with the aim of “proving” that the Torah is chas vesholom not of divine authorship or even authority.
Fortunately, in my particular class, the instructor had no real interest in the subject matter. He just regurgitated material he had probably read the day before, and I was able to argue (mostly against a Jewish self-professed atheist in the class) for Torah meSinai during the one or two sessions that we covered “the Bible as a founding document of Western civilization” or however it was presented.
As for the original (non) issue, it is one more example of the hypocrisy of the multicultural liberal crowd. Had she read from some African or Asian avoida zara text, I am sure she would not have had a single problem because then she is sharing her culture with the class (ditto for a poem by Amiri Baraka or some other such black radical). But chas vesholom to mention G-d..that is not acceptable because multiculturals have multi-getschkes that are more important than G-d who is seen by these misguided fools as white, male and imperialistic!
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If it makes you think of a 1200 pound bully, you have nothing to fear! Even if you learned math in the NYC public schools or were asleep during general studies classes in yeshiva, 600 kilos is 1320 pounds.
Sorry, no name change ***EDITED***
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I am from the US originally but no longer live there :).
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Rabbi Yehuda Levin once ran on a third party ticket for Mayor. (I voted for him against Koch as a protest against crime; I wanted to write in Bernhard Hugo Goetz but did not want to be bothered with a write-in vote).
Basically, he is a very vocal askan who spends most of his time protesting societal decay such as toeva rights. He shows up at various events with very bluntly worded placards. Whether he is effective or not is a good question.
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No shechita rules at all as far as I know.
I have no idea how fish are killed for commercial processing, but in Europe we do not have fish stores under kosher supervision, and if we were restricted according to how fish are killed, we would not be able to eat any fish at all, even if we can see the fins and scales.
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Schmutz in schmutz out! If you key in schmutz (and do a good enough job of it to fool the SafeSearch) then guess what results you get – schmutz :).
If you key in what you need for your work, or better yet divrei Torah, you get what you ask for as well.
The one problem that does occur when using any search engine to find divrei Torah is that nonsense, LH, MSR and kefira written by all kinds of malcontents or self appointed scholars are thrown in with the kosher divrei Torah. Sadly, key in the name of any of the Gedoilei Torah who lived from hmmm..the time the “Haskalah” started until now and you will see what I mean :(.
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How about “Bei inz nisht git”!
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Considering that FIAT will be calling the shots at Chrysler from now on, it may be hard to obtain parts for Chryslers made before the crisis. That is because FIAT (Fix It Again, Turkey!) is famous for their patented and exclusive method of making chassis structures, engines, axles etc from aluminum foil, margarine tubs, tin cans and the like, and they look to crushed wine and S. Pellegrino bottles for windshields and other auto glass.
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I gave Bing a quick spin yesterday. I would say that it really is not remarkable in any way – and safesearch does seem to work for me in Google.
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AS per prior post, 600 kilos = 1320 pounds at the standard exchange rate, which is rather heavy even for an ursine (of the non polar variety).
However, the Obama administration has cut the pound to 12 ounces in order to lower prices of goods per pound and to deal with the supposed American obesity crisis at the same time.
Therefore, unless the EU and the rest of the world accepts the new exchange rate and also reduces the number of grams in a kilo by 25%, 600 kilos = 1650 new 12 ounce pounds.
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If Shomrei Shabbos, which is a similar shul, has such a minyan, Rabbi Landau’s (and thanks, that is the shul I mean) may have one too. Check it out.
The Bear, about ten times bigger than a wolf.
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I am almost sure that the shul I am referring to in Midwood is known as “(Rabbi) Landau’s”.
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R’ Levin is what is called a guter meshuggener – but a meshuggener he is regardless of his correct motivations and good intentions. Lots of better things for wannabe Pinchases to do besides yell at nochrim like this.
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The only thing I can suggest is to call either Rabbi Shraga Zalmanov from the Chabad Vaada leDovrei Ivrit or Bnei Akiva to see if they have any information about such a minyan.
Rabbi Zalmanov is based in Queens; 718 380 7050. If there is a shaliach in Flatbush who is involved with the Israeli community I think he would know (and I think there is but I am not sure who he is, whether he has visitors from EY as opposed to former Israelis living in Brooklyn who come to his Chabad House, and where in Flatbush he is located).
Bnei Akiva is a longshot; phone is (212) 465-9536. They don’t list anyone or anything in Brooklyn which is contrary to my (fading) recollections.
Another possibility is the Chassidish minyan factory off of Coney Island Ave (Veretsky?? – it is referred to as Rabbi ???’s shul – someone please help me out here – when I went I walked from Coney Island somewhere between J and M); so many different people pass in and out that there just may be enough visitors from EY to make the minyan you need.
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Ummm…my post was not exactly serious :)! On the other hand, what you describe probably points to inefficiencies in the system caused by those on both sides who are too focused on things such as tablecloth color.
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If you are a bochur or parent of same then just point out that takkono d’Rabbeinu Gershom has expired and that there is a shidduch crisis which affects girls more than boys…(ducking LOL)!
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, John Demjanjuk and Hugo Chavez fall together from a 100 story tower. Who falls to the ground first?
Who cares?!?!
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No, the columnist was not a member of any intelligentsia (just a loudmouth of the kind that gets attention on both sides of the spectrum; if he were Jewish we’d call him a boor ve’am ha’aretz) – but a calumnist he indeed is/was.
I did not know who he was when I mistakenly called him a member of the intelligentsia :).
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If only I responded to every spam I received in my numerous inboxes:
I would be three or four times as wealthy as Bill Gates, Lakshmi Mittal and Warren Buffett combined and have a credit limit to match.
I would lose a total of thirty-five tons of body weight in three weeks, putting my body weight at 600 kilos minus 35 tons which is negative -34400 kilos or so assuming the spammers know I am in a metric zone where a ton = 1000 kgs.
I would have a warehouse full of free Mac Powerbooks, iPods, gas cards and Target gift cards.
I would have rescued the fortunes of the widows and children of countless African dictators, as well as that of former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky (spelled several ways) and that of Yasser Arafat der tzoirer ymach shmo 50 times a piece, and gotten 20% on each deal, thereby increasing item 1) to include the Sultan of Brunei as well.
I would have so many samples of different strength enhancers and vitamins that I would be able to lift the Empire State Building 1000 times without stopping.
I would grow so much hair that I would be able to provide sheitlach for Lakewood, Monsey and and most of frum Brooklyn after one haircut.
I would have so many free weeks in timeshares that I would have to take vacation for the next 150 years to enjoy them….
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Username is taken – I do remember username quite well:). Either this is username again or notitall has it right :).
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Google is my friend :). I am correct regarding the magnate in question, but I would be cheating if I now revealed the name of the columnist (more like a calumnist) after having googled and finding out that he did call Moonbeam a moonbeam (and regretted it) as well as having called Murdoch an alien.
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The magnate is probably Rupert Murdoch, because of his status as a non-US citizen and his not being a member of the leftist pseudointelligentsia to which this columnist belongs.
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WD-40, which is very familiar to anyone who has ever eaten fried food in a yeshiva or seminary dining room, stands for Water Displacement Formula #40. It took the manufacturer 40 tries to come up with the right formula, and then they distributed it via the US Army in soldiers’ rifle packs during the Vietnam War. When the servicemen came back, they used it around the house, on sports equipment etc and then somewhere along the line a Vietnam War vet who was sentenced to community service and forced to cook in a yeshiva kitchen after he vandalized a shul used it to fry latkes on Chanukah.
Someone in said yeshiva’s hanhala tasted the latkes and decided they were perfect to make sure bochurim would not concentrate on gashmius and WD-40 became the standard cooking oil used (and reused) in yeshiva and sem kitchens.
And one part of this story is true and the other one is not….. :))))!
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Filter out the sites that distract you – you can even ask the mod on Guard Your Eyes to hold your password after you add the sites you don’t want to your k9 protection filter. I used to do just that (I had a problem with LH, MSR and kefira sites that I would waste too much time arguing) but somewhere along the line my K9 created a problem for me and I had to remove it. Most people won’t have the particular problem I had with K9 – it had to do with downloads on my particular Ukrainian ISP when it changed hands, hardly a worry for anyone else out there!
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No, someone with an eating disorder is NOT OTD any more that chalila, someone who has leukemia is OTD.
I don’t pretend to know the first thing about eating disorders but what I do know is that eating disorders are diseases which can strike the frummest Beis Frime (yes that is the name of a school) girl just as much as the girl who is struggling with emunah and hangs out at the pool hall rather than going to class at her modern school.
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What about refusing to go on further with a shidduch because of your own personal issues that you then explained away as a problem on her end, and then realizing that you made a very big mistake?
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Nope – no birds LOL. Bears can’t fly or jump high enough to hunt birds LOL!
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The only technical improvements I can think of are:
1) An ignore feature so we can ignore pesky posters.
2) A way of mods being able to let us know in private that a post needs to be edited before it can be approved.
These are quite minor.
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LOL – I am not intimidating in the least. I feast on raspberries, salmon, an occasional deer – and Internet trolls!
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A600KiloBear was a logotype – mascot that I had wanted created for a project I did when I owned a marketing firm in Moscow.
In the end, the graphic designer created a smaller, friendlier bear image which worked better, but I had already registered A600KiloBear as a screen name somewhere and I kept it for personal use.
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“Better to shiver in the darkness than to burn down your own house for heat and light, but insurance is another matter altogether”.
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Before we had pizza in Russia, we used to take a flat Georgian bread and put sauce, cheese etc on it. Wasn’t bad but the breads really were too thick for that.
If anyone is in Boro Park, it would be interesting to try that with the flat Bukharan breads they sell fresh on one of the side streets (I think in the 50’s somewhere between 13th and 14th but it has been 2 years so I am not sure). You can get those breads in Queens as well but I am not sure which bakeries there have reliable kashrus – the one in BP is under one of the reliable hashgochos.
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Thanks! Gut yom tov/hag sameah everyone!
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Now where is the edit function when I need it – I forgot the “I want you to know” part :)!
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Thanks everyone!
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Add to those who really contributed real niggunim:
R’ Chaim Banet
R’ Boruch Chait
R’ Baruch Levine
The Belz baalei menagen – I forget who among R’ Yermiya Damen, R’ Yosef Tzvi Breier and the Kalish brothers are the actual composers.
Reb Michel Twerski (Milwaukee) – a couple of niggunim that we think are of unknown origin or that have been co-opted by Chabad and others are really his work – Hoshia es Amecho and To Love A Fellow Jew (Karev Yoim).
A handful of new Chassidish composers including “Pinky” Weber, Meshulim Greenberger and a couple of others.
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Let me tell you something, holy brothers and sisters…the year was 1990, I went to a shul on the West Side to hear the holy Reb Shlomo sing….mamash you know, it was called the West Side Institutional Synagogue, and let me tell you, most of the audience and also the performers were looking like they just walked out from an institution…it was mamash a gevald, so holy, for an hour he was so holy, Reb Shlomo, he jumped up and made noise and then, oy, it was so holy, so special, he had an hour and a half intermission and oy, such a gevald, there were only three of us who were normal and came for the music, me and two bochurim from Flatbush, and we were sitting in like a triangle near each other, and oy, it was mamash a gevald, so special, so high, so holy, how he went around during the intermission and kissed all those holy, so special, so high, freak sisters with the peace signs on their cheeks and let me tell you, this was 1990 but it looked like 1968…oy, such a gevald, too holy for me so I had with me a magazine to pass the time and when I was finished reading it he was still going on kissing all the holy maidelach so, oy, it was mamash too holy for me and mamash an hour and a half shoyn…so I walked out to get a slice of pizza, never to return.
Oy, he was so holy, let me tell you…but the audience was even holier, oy a gevald, so many holes in their head from two straight decades of you know what it is holy mushrooms for breakfast….not like the mushrooms I had on that pizza, but such holy, such special, such high mushrooms, you eat a few and you mamash see how holy, how special, such a gevald, you see such holiness…
The only redeeming feature about some of his recordings is that we can (almost) listen to them during sfira but they get repetitive after about the first time.
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As for this existing in the animal kingdom – we as human beings are supposed to rise above our animal desires – all humans are created betzelem elokim.
I had multiple pets at one time – and what I saw mirrored the worst in human behavior – fighting, theft, incest, even infanticide. If humans did what they did, they’d land Madoff size sentences or the death penalty pretty fast.
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My first RAZR v3 was awful when it came to battery life, and so was my short lived AMP’D RAZR (remember AMP’D – big haimishe hit because of the deals and despite the entertainment chozzerei they offered but they folded). However my new v3i has much longer battery life and a shorter charge; reasonably priced here and not loaded with features that I will never use.
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Ah, but according to Torah there is no such thing as a “gay” person; there is a person who was caught performing a certain act in front of 2 edim (very hard I would say) and is therefore subject to the death penalty. There is also no such thing as a “thief” – there is someone who is caught stealing and therefore must make restitution.
It is only in decadent secular society that one is defined by the direction which one’s yetzer horo takes.
And “gays” are not a traditional minority – they are a group that chooses to define itself by their particular inclination. They are no more deserving of any special rights than self-defined “thieves” are.
However, at the end of the day marriage in the US secular system is worth so little that this is really one for the lawyers to make a mint on as if toeva marriage goes through they will now be able to handle divorces among those who define themselves as “gay”. It is also a problem for the insurance companies and for inheritance tax law.
Our problem occurs only if the law forces us to rent or sell homes in our communities to those who openly proclaim themselves as defined by that toeva.