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cherrybim…
Remember…
Donovan, Melanie, John Denver, Aliza Kashi (I think the FIRST Israeli entertainer to ever come over here, she was even on regular TV shows), The Four Ayalons, Pirchei Sings album (Pirchei Agudas Yisrael – with Noach Dear!)
Are we really going to go through this with every word???
Last time it was Kotel, Kosel, Koisel,
now it’s Torah, Toyrah.
Let’s not forget our Taiymani brothers, –
if there’s no dagesh, it’s THorah!
wellmeaning busybody
– I don’t think the blue covered Chumash w/linear Rash”i translation was done by JPS.
wellmeaning busybody…
This goes back to a known concept…
While you’re not supposed to shop around for kula’s,
it IS appropriate to talk to a rav who CAN relate to YOUR situation.
L’moshul – the case you mentioned. A rav who never, ever had a problem with allergies, is much more likely to be machmir about taking allergy meds than a rav who has suffered with allergy symptoms.
What aries2756 said is correct.
Additionally, there are numerous other situations where taking medications IS permissible on Shabbas.
Some of them might even surprise you!
Bottom line – you must check with a Rov about each individual case.
HaLeiVi…
Sorry, but it’s not that simple.
Ya see, SHE wants HIM to change and he DOESN”T!
HE wants HER to stay the same, and she DOESN’T!
apushatayid & mikehall12382 …
They’re also very good for when you’re cleaning your guns!
guy-ocho…
It’s not that “women get married BECAUSE they want to change their husband”.
They pick someone they, for whatever reasons, DO want, and they want him DESPITE certain flaws they DO see in him.
They are willing to overlook those flaws (for now), because they really believe that THEY will change him.
Later on they realize they ain’t never gonna change him!
C.A.D. —
Of course YOU are correct.
If the good, remaining sock of the pair is the same as another pair, why would you throw it out?
It stands to reason that eventually one of the socks of the good pair will develop a hole (or disappear) and then you have the one you saved to create another good pair!
usbaers…
No disrespect to Artscroll, but I really like the Birnbaum Siddur!
Remember the Soncino translations of Gemara?
Remember those blue-covered Chumashim with the linear translations of Rash”i? Are they still around? They were really very good. Don’t remember who published them.
Why rely on silly things like graphology when you can just read the lines on their forehead?!?
Mod-80
Grammatically it should be… Winston tastes well, or goodLY.
Good is an adjective and can only modify a noun.
Since it is modifying ‘tastes’, a verb, it is incorrect (technically) – eventhough people speak that way all the time, and it even sounds better to our ear the wrong way than the right way.
Examples…
Yakov eats WELL – not good.
Chaim throws a football WELL – not good
Asher designs houses WELL – not good.
Old TV jingle…
“Use Ajax the foaming cleanser,
and wash those stains, right down the drain!”
AND… – Remember the “Princess” telephone?
It was one of the first that came out as an option from the phone company other than the standard black phone. It was an oval shaped base, just slightly longer than the receiver that sat in it. It was available in a few colors, and also had a rotary dial.
The problem was, it was so light in weight that if you moved a bit while talking on the wired handset, the base of the phone would go flying off from wherever it was sitting.
I remember in the mid-’70s being able (in New York City!) to walk in to a Modells sporting goods store, and without needing any permit or license or ID check, one could buy an M-1 rifle (the quality standard issue 30 caliber rifle for most U.S. soldiers in WW2) for about $100!!!
Now, you would need an NYC rifle permit, AND and FBI background check and it would cost close to $1,000.00!!!
Now many of you might say that that’s a good thing.
I would say the fact that it’s necessary now, is just a sign of yeridas ha’doros!
hudi…
I once heard a vort about Gog/magog, that it comes from the concept of “GAG” i.e. roof.
A roof is a physical thing that gives us (we think) physical protection.
This is in contrast to the concept of Sukkah.
A sukkah is a very frail structure that we stay in on Sukkos. It represents the idea that protection or security does NOT come from anything physical, it comes from HKB”H.
So… The ultimate battle will be between those who believe in “GAG” (the physical) and those who believe in “SUKKAH” (the spiritual).
It is well known that for moslems, even their “spiritual” is really physical – look at what they believe their “olam haba” – paradise – will be… let’s just call it “physical pleasures”.
So – to answer your question…
I would say that what is going on in the moslem world is the preface to that ultimate battle.
The catering halls in Williamsburg always have (at the smorg) those very small rolls, some braided, some horn shape, that are DEEEElicious!!! WAY Better than standard bilkelach!
Anyone know where THOSE come from???
How about cigarette ads on TV!?!
The “Marlboro Man” – the mucho macho cowboy (who died of lung cancer)
The slogan “L.S.M.F.T.” – Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
Camel – “I’d Walk A Mile for a Camel!”
A number of different ads showing how the brilliant “technology” of a specific brand’s filter (multi-chambers, carbon chamber, etc.) made the cigarette better.
The campaign with longer, thinner cigarettes targeted at women.
Do boys still play punchball???
Of course the gas company was…
Brooklyn Union Gas
Keyspan
and now… National Grid.
Did I leave out any?
Anyone remember all the name changes of the phone company?
I only remember a few…
New York Telephone
NYNEX
and of course now… Verizon.
I know I’m skipping several in between those.
Help anyone?
The message is, that things CAN change in HUGE ways, k’heref ayin (in the blink of an eye).
Does it mean Mashiach is coming tomorrow?
Maybe.
But the point is, it COULD be.
And if it’s not tomorrow, it could well be the day after, or next week or next month, but certainly SOON.
So… the message is: Are you really ready for that day?!?
ronrsr…
I like your Italian (mouse) accent!!!
In the first case, I would tell her…
“I am so happy that you’re feeling better and want to resume inviting guests, AND I would truly love to come, as I have in the past, BUT, I really feel you’re going a bit too fast. I would feel too guilty to be causing you to do the preparations for my visit, when I think you should slow down and take some more time to recuperate. In a month from now I hope you’ll ask me again.”
In the second case I would definitely take the number so as not to insult the person, and if you don’t want to call, don’t.
If they ask at a later date, why you didn’t call, you can always claim to have been very busy or whatever.
You have to realize that this a yeshivisha oilam here.
Half the words used by commenters on this site would be unrecognizable to any spell checker and would probably cause it to go into cardiac arrest!!!
re: The Beatles when they appeared the first time on the Ed Sullivan show…
Everyone my parents’ age made such a big deal because they had “such long hair”.
The truth is, it wasn’t really THAT long, it’s just that they had bangs over their foreheads and hair in the back over the collar.
Someone with hair like that TODAY, wouldn’t even get a second look by ANYONE.
Also, they wore SUITS AND TIES!!!
Don’t believe it? I’m sure you can check it somewhere on youtube.
Remember teletype machines???
The sound of those machines typing away is STILL (I think) used as a background sound on WINS News radio, but I’m sure few people would know (now) what that sound is.
F.Y.I. – Statistics show that red cars are the most stolen color of car. Consequently, most insurance companies charge more on theft insurance for red cars (though they may not point that out to you.)
QUESTION: “When buying merchandise at a retailer, should the customer thank the merchant, or should the merchant thank the customer?
ANSWER: YES!
(It’s called mentshlichkeit.)
wanderingchana… (and others)
FYI… The LaSalle (mentioned in Archie Bunker’s “All in the Family” show theme song) was a General Motors car, from the 1930s and 40s. It was a “semi” luxury car, positioned in the GM line between the Oldsmobile and the Cadillac.
apushatayid…
re: kashering
I always find it funny when I see a recipe (from a non-Jewish source) where they tell you to use “Kosher Salt” (as opposed to Non-kosher salt???)
The truth is, of course, that it IS what it’s called on the box, but what they mean is kosherING salt, i.e. the coarse salt used for koshering meat.
well meaning busy body…
Yes, the RCA logo was of a dog with his head tipped toward the old fashioned “horn” type speaker, and it said…
“His master’s voice”
I remember when VIDEO first came out and only TV stations had them!!!
It was such a big chidush that when they showed a video report on the news, they’d put a special little icon in the corner of the screen that said something like “Via VideoNewsCam”.
Remember BEFORE cell phones, we had beepers.
The later model ones gave messages, the ones before that only gave numbers.
Originally only doctors carried beepers, and the original ones didn’t even give numbers, they just beeped, and the doctor would have to call his answering service to get the message.
phillybubby…
You wrote… “not too many people had washing machines and the clothes were hung outside to dry or in the winter they were put on the radiators to dry.”
I think most people DID have washing machines, but most did NOT have dryers. In the winter, we had a “clothes line” (do kids today even know what that term means?) strung across our basement where my mother a”h would hang the wet laundry to dry.
mytake…
When you talk to yourself,
do you really call yourself mytake?!?!
btw… when I talk to myself, I call myself – “self”!
Well a lot of jokes have been made.
Several critiques have been made.
Some halachic views have been expressed.
NOW…
Could someone who knows what “one brain” is, or means, please explain it to the rest of us???
mytake (and others)…
Please forgive me for being a male, but let me give you this to think about…
We know that the Torah forbids a Moavi from joining (i.e. converting) to become a Jew.
Yet we know the famous case of Rut who came from Moav, returned with Naomi, converted to become a Jewess, married Boaz and became the grandmother of David, from whose line Mashiach will come.
How was this possible?
Because the Rabanim poskened that the halacha refers to a Moavi, but not a Moavi’a, i.e. only males from Moav, not females.
Why is this the case?
Because the Moavim were cruel to B’nai Yisrael, but this cruelty was NOT done by the Moavi’ot (the females).
Why not?
Because it was accepted practice, even among the people of Moav, that out of a sense of female modesty, women did not come out to deal with foreigners (i.e. Am Yisrael) when we made our request to the Moavim, so they were not involved in the sin.
Where did this accepted concept of tzniyut for a woman come from?
From Sara Eemainu, when Avraham told the 3 malachim (when they asked where Sara was) he replied “Heenai hee ba’ohel” -She is inside, in the tent.
So we see that it was this concept of tzniyut, originating with Sara Eemainu, that ultimately enabled Rut to convert to Judaism, and will ultimately lead to the birth of Mashiach tzidkaiynu!
So dear nashim tzidkaniyot, take this message to heart, realize the depth of the importance of dressing (and acting) modestly, and what it can lead to, and you will certainly understand how incredibly more important it is than the quickly passing pleasure of “feeling cute” in a too short skirt.
cherrybim…
Yes, I remember Howdy Doody (with Captain Bob Smith and Clarabell) and Hopalong Cassidy, and…
Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, The Mickey Mouse Club, Leave it To Beaver, Father Knows Best, Abbot and Costello, and The Three Stooges.
I remember enjoying watching with my father a”h, (who was an officer in the U.S. Army during WW2) the show “Combat” (which was about a squad of U.S. soldiers fighting in Europe during the war.)
Phillybubby…
Do you remember they also had knowledge-testing quiz show, like College Bowl, but for high school students.
Do you remember that one?
It was called “It’s Academic”.
EVERYONE…
Here’s a general observation about TV shows today.
I think these days everyone must have, at least a touch of, A.D.D.
Do you remember in the old days pretty much ALL TV shows (like, for example, “The Honeymooners”) started by giving titles and introductions, like “The Honeymooners, starring Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, … etc.”
NOW, most shows have NO intros like that. They go right into the heart of the show (I think because they’re afraid you’ll lose interest if they do it the old way) and then, three or four minutes later when they’ve ‘hooked you’ into watching, THEN they give the credits.
Some one made a comment above about the old Bell System black telephones.
They may not have had any of the features of today’s phones, just a rotary dial and a wired handset, but you know what – they worked, and… you NEVER had to replace them!
They NEVER broke!
You could throw them off a mountain and they would not break.
Not like today’s disposable (made in China) junk.
Remember when they (NBC, to be specific) first started broadcasting color TV, and they would begin each show by saying…
“The following program is brought to you in living color!”
btw… that was the origin of the NBC peacock symbol.
Remember when the TV news was only one or two people sitting at a desk telling you the news in a very serious voice?
No folksy conversations, no newsmen “in the field”.
The only one standing was the weatherman.
Some newsmen even smoked ON THE AIR!
Remember having to wait for (the tubes in) a radio or a TV to “warm up” before it started to work???
I personally don’t make a big thing out of this issue. Some days I’ll wear a seruga, some days velvet, some days- whatever that other material is.
I do NOT agree with a previous comment suggesting that a kipa seruga means you are less frum. There are kipa seruga people who are much MORE sincere in their frumkeit, AND much bigger learners, than some who will only wear black velvet.
But, nevertheless… some people DO feel that it identifies you with a certain “group” – yeshivish, Zionistic, chassidish, “modern orthodox”, or whatever, and to SOME degree this is true.
Of course there are also some groups that mess up some of this stereotyping.
L’mashal… Many chassidim (at least in Eretz Yisrael) wear a type of white kippa seruga and they are clearly NOT part of the modern OR Zionistic chevra.
ALSO, in Eretz Yisrael, mostly in the so-called “settlements” of Yehuda and Shomron, they mostly wear (large) kipot serugot and they are clearly NOT the “modern orthodox” or “conservatives” that are generally associated with wearing the (smaller) kipot serugot.
Bottom line is there is nothing inherently wrong with a non-black yarmulka or a non-white shirt, but you do have to realize that there are associations that go along with it, so you have to decide if you DO want to make that association, or if you care if others do.
“A person needs to cross a very narrow bridge, but the principle, most important thing, is not to be afraid at all.”
Rav Nachman of Breslov – zatz”l
“”Jewish survival and redemption are proof eternal and ultimate that the world is not governed by logic, by sanity or by man. It is controlled and decreed by G-d.”
-R’ Meir Kahane – ztzvk”l
“what the def of high maintenance is?” ….
Someone who requires a LOT of time and money to maintain the level of gashmiyus related aspects of their life that (they think) make them happy.
F’rinstance… Clothing, jewelry, perfume, dining-out, etc., etc., etc…
If you want EMES, stay away from the New York Slimes and stay away from Thomas Friedman.
I don’t have a Chumash accessible at the moment, so I don’t know if any of the meforshim say this, but it’s pretty safe to assume that if little old me just had this thought, that at least some of our chachamim had it long ago…
(anyway here goes…)
The pasuk says HaSh-m saw “kol” and it was “tov me’od”.
Perhaps this means (seeing “kol”) that He saw the universe in it’s entirety, ALL that He had created, the WHOLE picture, so to speak, and seeing ALL, it was very good.
Our problem is, we do not see ALL.
We generally have a very limited view of things, and davka because we do NOT see “kol”, i.e. we do NOT see the whole picture, we may, mistakenly, not realize that the world is “tov me’od.”
As I said in my previous comment, it’s something we need to work on.