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I could not believe the stuff I saw for sale within walking distance of the San Ysidro border crossing.
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You used to be able to get post transplant immune system suppressants in Moscow (Sandimmune), at street kiosks, OTC. Ditto for chemotherapy (Cytoxan)!
That was in the early 90’s at the time when it was a status symbol to have anything imported in your house, and it was probably expired stock bought by someone with more money than brains who could have used it for just about anything including attempting to poison a business rival. The products themselves were sent to Russia in odd lots that contained a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Those days are long since over here but in general all of Europe except the UK is not as strict as the US, Canada and EY when it comes to RX laws. Mexico and Asia are free for alls.
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Pesach is common enough and plenty of Zecharias out there. Kolev – yes – fuggedaboutit!
Tzivia and Kayla are very common.
Yachne for girls is probably the most uncommon. Even Yenta gets some use.
Boys; Amram among Ashkenazim seems limited really to those who wish to name in memory of Reb Amram Bloy ZYA. Other than Reb Amram’s relatives I know of exactly one Amram who is not Moroccan and as he is certainly no Zionist, for all I know he, too, is named for Reb Amram and or related to him.
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In fact the clinic for foreigners that I went to in Moscow employed Canadian, UK and Australian doctors who wanted to earn real money and be free from the stifling bureaucracy and limits on the level of care they could provide back home.
Unfortunately, the French-Asian firm which owned the clinic I used went too far and ran a bit of a fraud scheme themselves on the backs of healthy and well insured “lifestyle” (allergy, skin, high cholesterol, corporate physical, well child checkups etc) patients like myself and the doctors burned out or left due to ethical considerations. I realized what was going on when I wanted to buy cardiac aspirin and the doctor immediately offered to put it on my insurance, which would have meant a bill of $10 plus another diagnosis and therefore another consulting fee from CIGNA rather than $1.25 from me. I refused to let that happen both on moral grounds and because I could end up being put on a watch list of coverage abusers.
They would go so far as to ask me “Do you want anything else”? and I would of course reply, “Sure, whatever I can sell on the street!”
They were replaced eventually by Asians.
Its more properly run competitor, which did not accept my insurance, retained its foreign professionals, including Americans.
What kind of shidduch can a boxer expect? What about if a girl has a brother who boxes?
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If a girl has a brother who boxes, shadchonim better watch out how much they charge her and what they say about her.
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Medical tourism is just the free market at its best. It is not ironic at all that the US could price itself out of non-emergency medical treatment as it has in everything else from software development to TV manufacturing.
EY doctors, especially US olim, also welcome patients from abroad in private centers to supplement or supplant their meager (but improving) Kupat Cholim compensation. British, Swiss and German doctors and clinics welcome wealthy patients from this part of the world (as do EY facilities since many of those patients are Jewish) and India is getting into the business now for the middle class. If insurance companies are squeezed more and more in the US and doctors refuse the lower and lower capitation payments then insurance companies will find it worthwhile to send patients abroad for non emergency treatment, and I could easily see Indian doctors from the US going back home to open clinics for that sole purpose.
Give the left enough time, and your average US emergency room will be as clean as a certain Rockland County poultry plant. And the doctors who aren’t good enough for the new Indian outsourcing clinics will be the ones staffing US emergency rooms.
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I should mention that Resh Lakish was said to have been a gladiator before he did tshuva. This is proof that yes, Jews did get involved in that kind of thing – but they were for the most part “oisvorfen”.
In the previous generation, before Dovid Salita, there was (now Harav) Refoel Halperin, who was similar to a gladiator of Roman times in that he exhibited his strength among lions and the like for show. He, too, always kept true to halachic observance even when traveling to perform.
Today, he is known as a talmid chochom, askan, and was a very successful businessman though he has passed his well known optical chain on to the next generation.
A rabbi boarded a train one day and as he was sitting there, 3 teenagers decided to have some fun with him, so each one passed by him and the 1st one said: Good evening Father Abraham, the 2nd: Good evening Father Isaac, and the 3rd: Good evening Father Jacob. The rabbi quickly responded, I am none of them, rather I am Shaul ben Kish who went out to look for his 3 donkeys, it seems I have found them!
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A true version of this goes as follows:
A well known rav and askan with many connections in government and business circles was traveling by train. He was approached by a highly assimilated maskil who asked his name, and when finding out who he was addressing, he was shocked.
So, he said: “I did not know Rav () was so old-fashioned. I was expecting a modern type…”
The rav replied: “On the contrary, it is YOU who are old fashioned. Does it not say ‘mitchila oivdei avoido zoro hoyu avoisenu….'”
(I wish I could remember who this maaseh involved – it took place before WWI, I believe in “Lita”).
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I do want to mention again that Reb Shayale ZYA’s family cannot verify the story that led to his picture being used as a segula against mice.
However, a picture of a tzaddik in any room can serve as a powerful reminder to increase in our avoda. Reb Shayale ZYA certainly was a tzaddik and a tremendous baal chesed as well.
When it comes to mice though, call in a pro and make sure your home is properly sealed outside. If you’re in an area where feral cats have bred and live outside for generations it is a good idea to let them play in your yard as they chase the mice away before they get into the house. The perils of cat ownership, as well as their domesticity once allowed to live indoors, outweigh any benefits of bringing a cat into the house as a pet.
bombmaniac, it wasn’t assur back then. The historical record is very clear. Jews were known for enjoying wrestling and for being quite good at it. Plenty of sources, Jewish and Gentile, report this. Wrestling wasn’t a Greek/pagan thing any more than wearing clothes, bathing, fishing or cooking.
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“Jews” did and do a lot of things that are ossur. We are not what is left of “all” the Jews who lived during the last days of Jewish rule over EY. We are the remnant of those who stayed true to Torah – and not of the ones who watched or participated in the wrestling matches. Sadly, there were many Jews of the second “ilu hu haya sham, lo haya nig’al variety in every generation, and in those days when there was a beis hamikdash, these were reshoim, not tinokois shenishbeu. We are not their descendants no matter how far we have strayed, and we don’t copy or justify what they did.
After all, historians of the modern Jewish era will write about all the intermarriage, total disregard for mitzvah observance and the lack of knowledge (and of course about the “movements”) – and sadly for 80% of Jews they will be right.
However, in this lowest of generations that precedes the Geula, a boxer who comes from a time and place where for a Jewish man to be the father of an halachic Jew as Salita’s father indeed is, and is coming back to Yiddishkeit as he maintains his sports career, is a kiddush Hashem.
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For the record, the old link to the pic of Reb Shayale Kerestirer does not work and instead links to a pic of an online friend of mine who had put the pic up before redoing his site :).
Search for kerestirer in Google Images to get a very small pic.
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You make a good point re: caustic clog removers.
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Yes – and not only that but some of the procedures he will use if he knows there are no chemicals in the drain could be destructive to your property as well if there are indeed chemicals there.
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I won’t be around again until their new year’s eve at the earliest – that does not mean shtika ke-hodaah. It means that as a believer in the free enterprise system I have to work hard to get where I want to go. While this is fun, it is of course a time waster as not one of us can make much of a difference as far as policy goes.
Either the US goes back to the way it was, or it will become not a magnet for the best and the brightest – but rather a dumping ground for the mediocre who cannot make it at home and therefore choose a place with a safety net – kind of like the UK or Canada or in some cases EY. Already, the best and the brightest in India and China, as well as in this part of the world, can do everything from home. And because Americans no longer demand or produce quality, drecque merchandise from China is flooding US shelves – part and parcel of the easy does it, disposable culture of the US. Add to that drecque ideas like New Age spirituality and vapid multiculturalism that lead to the opposite of self-reliance, and you have Rome at the time of Nero.
2010 and 2012 will be interesting. Will the US go back to being American? Sadly, I doubt it. The problem is not Obama; it is the dumbing down of the nation and the lack of proper moral standards. If Obama turns out to be an aberration like Carter, then so be it. If, as I fear, he represents the new Britney and Oprah America, then Moshiach better come or you better learn Mandarin.
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Lower physician incomes any more and there will be no more Jewish doctors.
Already I see an attitude of “Doctor? What kind of job is that for a nice Jewish boy” – from doctors who advise their sons to work on Wall Street or go into software engineering or law.
Worst case scenario? Muslim doctors from hotbeds of fundamentalism replace US trained doctors as India, the former source of doctors, prospers and fewer doctors from India want to deal with the US system. They get an order from their handler to start mistreating infidels on a given day or as a pattern.
It can happen. I saw a machshefa in a veil filling prescriptions in a major chain pharmacy in NJ three weeks before 9-11 when I was visiting family in the US. All she needs to do is to substitute a very similar looking pill for someone’s RX as part of a terror act…it is not as far-fetched as you might imagine.
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And you have no sympathy for someone who has worked all his life, loses his job at age 58, and gets sick? To tell this person he must die because he can’t pay for medical treatment or medicines is morally deficient!!!
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COBRA
Medicaid
Community assistance (something that seems to exist only in the Torah world and perhaps among lehavdil the Mormons and Amish).
Then again, I voted with my feet in 1992. I am happy to be living in a model Jewish community that is located in a flat tax, free enterprise system (even with the rampant corruption). Because of the lack of incentives for private enterprise to care for the poor and ill as our community does here, people will fall through your Federal safety net no matter what. Here, we (and another minority group) know to expect nothing from the government so we help each other. In the US, even bnei Torah know that the Federal keren hachessed is always there and they often find it best not to work in order to avail themselves of its services, leading to all kinds of ugliness.
And if tax rates go up and/or quality of health care goes down because of this bill (probably won’t happen because the bill is devoid of any real innovation), people will risk Federal koilel (as many do in EY) rather than essentially work their fingers to the bone for the benefit of the left, the bureaucracy that they spawn and their lazy charges.
Then, there will have to be a tax amnesty followed by a complete return to the old America as the founding fathers meant it to be, the “business of America is business” domestic policy and Teddy Roosevelt foreign policy. I’m not holding my breath, though, because just as with Rome, once rot and laziness sets in, it’s all over in a few generations.
You can also walk into any hardware store and buy really caustic stuff with nary a safety label.
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Yes, and they export that stuff to Eastern Europe where we have no safety regulations to speak of except that you have to bribe the local standards institute. The first and last time I used sulfuric acid drain opener was in Moscow – it was BAGI POTCHAN made (and packaged shoddily) in EY.
If you MUST use caustics, do NOT face the keli you are pouring the chemical into. Figure out the longest safe distance between you and the farshtopped sink or whatever, open the bottle, and then face AWAY from the keli while pouring the stuff in backhanded (back to the keli is best; side is OK if you can’t pour from behind). This way if chas vesholom something does happen, your face and eyes are safe B”H and the worst you get is chemical burns on your back LA.
Has anyone used any of these safe biological drain cleaners?
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When Purim came along in Chelm, it was very hard to find real aniyim because most of the townsfolk had money. Finally, Gimpel der Yold found a real, live ani living in the next town.
The rov of Chelm, Rav Kapoyer, said: “Gimpel, make sure that guy stays poor or we won’t have any aniyim for matnois le’evyoinim next year! Let’s bring him to Chelm, build him a mud hut, give him a job shoveling the streets with a teaspoon and we’ll pay him four kopeks a month! Then when Purim comes along we’ll give him a few copper crowns!”
This is the way of the left. They need to keep as many people on the bottom and dependent upon them for money, housing and makework jobs as possible – or they won’t have people to vote for them in the next election.
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Bilvavi is a very old song and was sung by Ohr Chodosh.
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just as they did in the US = should read just as they did in 2008.
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Drano is best left for kiddush. It is a total waste of time and a very dangerous chemical to boot. Just reminds me I haven’t made harif in ages and I’m going to pick up some Sano-installator with a Badatz hechsher to use instead of salt with the peppers and tomatoes.
Sulfuric acid has no business in the home unless you happen to be a trained professional. In most states, acid drain opener “Hercules Clobber” can only be sold to licenced plumbers.
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Eid Mubarak = blessed feast. Not an issue. Ramadan karim = “generous Ramadan” – hardly a problem. However, for radical Muslims the proper greeting is “Na’al andinak” – may your faith be cursed.
Krachtzmas = something like “the birth of the anointed”. Very big issue.
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As a former pipe and cigar smoker, I’d have to say that smoking probably detracts from the fun of Purim. I don’t think I ever smoked on Purim between all the mitzvos of the day and wanting to enjoy the taste of the food, wine and mashke.
Smoking something else would be another story as it probably would get you to ad d’loi yodo fast but it is of course ossur for many reasons and should be avoided at all costs even on Purim.
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Hopefully this bill will help trounce the leftists in the 2010 elections.
However, I fear that the Bart Simpson, Britney Spears leisure society that the US has become will vote for physically attractive candidates who deliver good sound bites again just as they did in the US.
As for the death panel, there was a great article in the NYT about a hospital that saves everyone until they can do no more. What was revealed about the attitudes of some doctors and cost cutters shows that the “malchus shel chessed” of old is in danger of disintegrating very quickly into a morally deficient socialist state if the damage of 2008 is not reversed ASAP.
Of course for those on the left who think tzedek means taking from someone who works hard all his life, and often gives others the opportunity to work and support themselves as well, and giving to those who never even make an attempt at working, the new Americhke is just what the doctor ordered.
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If you want to smoke on Purim, smoke a cigar that you inhale only into the mouth. It is more Purimdige, goes better with most costumes, and usually won’t get you addicted.
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The above description makes it sound as if the bill was authored and passed into law by the elders of Chelm.
Not altogether inaccurate.
The only ones who will benefit from this in the end are just those parties whom the socialist regime in the US wanted to sock it to – namely the insurance companies. They will come up with new bare bones policies that will cover so little so that in essence their profit is guaranteed as they will turn down most claims on those policies. And of course the crowd parodied on a certain blog will benefit as well because marbeh b’regulations, marbeh b’opportunities for fraud.
I am tempted to go back to the US and get into the business of providing these new policies. I’d sell them for $600 a year and make sure that the most they ever pay out is about $400 per year which is not hard at all – all I would have to do is set them up with a 30% copay and concentrate my sales efforts on immigrant small businessmen such as independent grocers, shoemakers, and barbers and others who are not very sophisticated.
The prospect of ending up in a certain place after whatever age koreis is does, however, dissuade me from wanting to profit from this ill advised new legislation. After all, I do not really relish spending time with Barack Hussein Obama for eternity.
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Twentieth century? We are in the 57th century. Thirty more years to go before we can pick the greatest Jew of the century.
The decade referred to here is (I hope) 5760 – 5769 (which happens to coincide with the secular decade).
And my choices are: (since there really is no clear choice):
1) Rav Yaakov Horowitz, for bringing certain issues to light in a way that is non-condemning and non-confrontational, and for working to make “the system” better rather than destroying it.
2) Lipa Schmeltzer. He is a baal chesed who is mesameach Yidden, and he showed how to act properly when confronted with a challenge from Daas Torah. He has also revived Yiddish in a way that it cannot be confused with the Yiddish of the maskilim or the “Forvetz” crowd of old.
3) R’ Pinchas Lipschutz (sp?) for his askanus that reaches across “party lines”.
4) (he is only at the bottom of the list because he could have won last decade as well); Harav Yitzchok Dovid Grossman (Migdal Ohr) – for true chessed and ahavas Yisroel and for being able to do what he does and cooperate with everyone without straying one inch from the path of Torah and from the ways of his distinguished family. Rav Grossman shlit”a and Rav Lau shlit”a probably do the most to show people what real Torah Jews are.
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Finally, a donor was found for a new ultra-kanoishe yeshive and tznius patrol training center in Yerushalayim.
The schnorrer-in-chief (fundraising director) asked the donor, a hymishe New Yorker, what he wanted put on the entrance plaques.
“Maybe you can make me two pleks? One mit myne nomen and one in the honer from Brooklyn Union Ges, or whatever it iz kallt now, eppes Keyspen?”
“Of course – but why?”
“If it wasn’t far all de ges explosions I am havink in myne bildinks over the past year, you tink I ken give all de gelt far dann naye yeshive in dis kind from an economy?”
“Yes, so this is not a problem. But tell me, what is the right name I should use?”
“How I am supposed to know? You tink I ever paid myne ges bills in the lest ten years? I just pay enough dey ken turn it on lang enough far mir tzi machn an explosion!”
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Ought I add thirteen kilos to my screen weight?
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As for C—-t, it is an EXACT Greek translation of the word Moshiach (the anointed one, referring to the anointing with oil in the Beis HaMikdash). It should indeed be avoided whenever possible.
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Also Beshetzef Ketzef by Avrumi Flam and the old Ani Maamin on JEP are very heartfelt. Probably because they are in English and I therefore don’t listen as closely, they don’t affect me the way the Yiddish songs I mentioned do.
Also, the Yiddish words added to the R Azriel Fastag HYD – Modzhitz Ani Maamin on Lipa’s Gam Zi LeToiva are very special.
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I use notzri and notzrus whenever I can (check my comments here and on the main page).
Online I wish people who I do business with in English “happy holidays”; here there is no problem with the traditional Russian language greeting as it is just “To the upcoming (holidays or New Year)”. As for Jews who don’t agree with me, I use the same greeting every day of the year and that is of course the Creedmoorer segile of “Shygetz Aross”.
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How about a “Zero Tolerance” club?
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I want to put an end to their suffering, through curing those who suffer now and making sure no further sufferers are born. Same as Dor Yeshorim and Tay Sachs. The world without toeva would be a far, far better place both for those who deal with it and for the world at large.
Letting them tell how they suffer may help people see toeva as what it is rather than what the oilem goilem says it is.
However, from the description given in the original post, these people apparently do NOT resist their temptation, and they therefore deserve no sympathy, but rather that indeed everyone should know who they are and know to keep a wide berth. If they were speaking as cured toevaniks, just as we hear cured alcoholics speak, then it is worthwhile.
And if YU has an undergraduate “Tolerance Club,” then there is something seriously wrong. However, if Rav Shachter made it clear it was not supported by the rabbinic leadership of YU then at least that leadership is doing its Torah mandated job.
Finally, does anyone know what the turnout was or how active the Tolerance Club really is? I was just arguing with an eccentric who despite living a frum life mourns the demise of Communism and says he’d take the old days over what he has now – there are weirdos everywhere and in a free world you can’t squelch their weirdness (it is good for comic relief anyway in this case). This wannabe Commie is just talking to the wall, and if that is how the Tolerance Club is seen then so be it and it already gave me an idea for a new theme for a certain blog…..
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Oh, really?! What about talkers in shul, as an example? Or kiddish-clubbers? Or computer bloggers?
HUH??????????????????????????? A freilichen Purim!
Talkers KNOW they are doing something wrong and hush up when told to do so (repeatedly). Kiddush clubbers – I barely know what that is but it sounds like they go off and do their own thing. If they’re going back into the main davening drunk and acting up then the club has to be canceled.
Bloggers are just stating their opinion and you pick and choose which ones you want to read (I have the worst kefira and LH/MSR blogs blocked by my filter along with other forms of schmutz).
The toeva crowd wants us to recognize marriages between members of the same gender (laughable if it weren’t so sad), sues employers for discrimination, insists on being able to live in places where their displays of their lifestyle are just plain offensive, and who knows what else.
And let us not forget for one moment the plague that they spread, which at one time affected and took innocent frum (and other) CHILDREN who received tainted blood.
Toeva is an illness. It needs to be cured because it is not gay in the least. I have had to deal with (non-Jewish) MZ’ers in business and even before I found out they were MZ’ers I could see something was abnormal about them.
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No one else is trying to impose their weakness as a lifestyle or to demand rights because of it.
And taking money from people who support that which is against Torah is just a fact of life across the board. Why should any Yid be deprived of the mitzvah of giving to a real tzedoko? Do we exempt Otisvillers from Shabbos when they are there? No Jew is exempt from any mitzvoh and the object is to get every Jew to do as many as he or she can.
MO and Torah true institutions alike accept money from mechalelei Shabbos and treyf eaters (I am not speaking of kiruv oriented institutions either, where the institutions are open to everyone and are often supported by those who are not frum because of the social aspects of their institutions, or because they feel at home there).
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Koma, the man in your story could have had an odd personal minhag regarding chassunes.
I had a friend who does not eat at chassunes – it is some strange minhag he brought with him from Yerushalayim.
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The situation with this toeva is even worse.
This toeva is a mental disease with a possible genetic component, and if that component were to be isolated, the disease could possibly be stamped out in a generation or two since toevaniks do not reproduce. We Jews did it with Tay Sachs and the world could do it with toeva if they only recognized it for what it is.
Instead of society recognizing toeva as a disease as it once did, thanks to this toeva pride and tolerance nonsense it is being celebrated! While there are some unusual disabled people who do embrace their disability as a sort of identity, these people are few and far between and most people who are suffering from any type of physical or mental limitation or disease are desperate to find a cure – except when it comes to the disability of toeva.
So, rather than science searching for cures for the toeva impulse the way it does for other mental illness, it finds ways to defend toeva as something natural. Just the physical mechanism of toeva relations is so obviously unnatural and abnormal that it boggles the mind as to how anyone could consider toeva a normal “lifestyle”. It is no more normal than schizophrenia, manic depression, or muscular dystrophy LA – it is a disease that needs to be cured. The action it leads to is a toeva that is in turn an issur skila. Reinstitution of skila is not an option nowadays (and there is no excuse to mistreat baalei toeva so long as they are not trying to encroach on our rights not to have to accept their lifestyle and actions as normal or to have to allow their behavior in our moisdos) – but if baalei toeva were seen as the ill people who they are it would lead to treatment that would wipe out the impulse and no cases of that impulse in future generations.
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Was this the undergraduate school which is frum students only, or one of the graduate schools?
If the latter, sadly the politically correct atmosphere in the US as expressed in various civil laws could land YU in trouble for not permitting this as part of study of certain subjects.
If the former, then it is very out of character and whoever organized it should be disciplined in some way.
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Yankel ended up in some very serious trouble when sent to EY to “learn” and he wound up in prison for three years. So, everyone was shocked to find out that upon his return to the US, he became engaged to a very eidel girl from a choshuve family. Finally, one of his friends asked him how he managed to pull it off. He replied: “It wasn’t me. It was my shadchonis. She told her father that I was such a good learner, they paid me to stay in EY for three years!”
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EY is the only place where you can find guys named Zakai in prison!
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Will add 121 to my daily tehillim for her and I hope I remember her name for mi-sheberach on Shabbos morning. Refuah sheleima now!
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MK has had a great reputation going back years. It is a non profit hashgocho which is under the Montreal Va’ad HoIr that in turn is headed by true talmidei chochomim as it always has been.
I do not know the first thing about the Winnipeg hechsher.
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Also the best song list feature – it refreshes properly and lists the next song as well.
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Best sound quality of the online Jewish music sites! Yasher koiach!
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Call your local wannabe mekubal and have a puisa denura placed on it. 1-800-DEAD-DOG is another service you can try. Finally, if you have a local Korean greengrocer, ask him to come over and collect the dog, and then warn your non-Jewish neighbors not to buy any prepared food from him for the next week or so.
Seriously I would purchase dog repellent at any garden center and apply it to the property in question. The dog could be ill and could pose a problem if it bites.
I wanted a giant breed dog both as a pet and for security (at one time I legitimately had to deal with large amounts of cash) but decided against it for many reasons.
Instead I got a 600 kilo polar bear from a circus and hence my nickname.
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And it is written in the Medrash Yalkut Shimoni.
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Responses include: “Kushen tzitzis,” “Who invited you anyway,” and of course when a machloikes is involves, the standard “Shygetz Aross”.
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A medical issue that nowadays is treatable BH and therefore will not shorten my own life meant that I never knew or even saw either of my zaides, and my bubbys were sadly victims not of the fire of the Churban but of the water of North American assimilation.
Regrettably, they left me no guidance, few positive memories, but rather only family feuds and the typical baggage of the post-immigrant secular Jewish malaise which was their legacy to my parents. Even the bit of Yiddish I heard from them was suppressed and even ridiculed by my parents, and it is not the same Yiddish I managed to learn on my own.
Of the descendants of a family of 9 immigrant children 2 generations ago (2 did not emigrate and were killed during the churban) of a talmid chochom, I am the only one who is shomer Shabbos.
Who will be the Zeidi of our children?
Who will be their Zeidis, if not we?
Who will be their Zeidis, if not we?
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For indigestion and gas (of the morning after a simcha variety); activated charcoal flushed down with real mineral water. For this I drink a 500ml bottle of Borjomi water from Georgia (Gruziya) which is available in Brighton Beach, and along Kings Highway in Brooklyn as well as from Raskin’s Fruits in Crown Heights. Here we buy activated charcoal in any pharmacy but I think you can get it in health food stores in the US.
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Rivkales, what you wrote is basically a translated summary of the Rambam above. However, you mean mekarev, to bring near, and not chas vesholom mecharev, to destroy!