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Flatbusher. The question posed is: Is authentic Judaism incompatible with being rich and famous? Unless Shlomo Hamelech, Rabbeinu Hakadosh, Rav Ashi, Rambam and others were not practicing authentic Judaism (c’v), I would answer yes, they are compatible. Did I write something that you disagree with?
Salesperson can not override owner. Unless they covet the title, former salesperson. Lecture the owner. The employee gave you your money back. What more do you want, a cheap pair of glasses, go to 39dollarglasses.com
Leftovers.
Maybe the salesperson took off the signs after the customer left. The salesperson did what he/she felt was the best thing in that situation. Return the money. Does the salesperson who is just an employee have to take mussar from a customer about old signs the boss didnt take down? Perhaps the salesperson was embarrassed about the incorrect pricing on the signs and on top of that is now being lectured by the customer. From his/her perspective that was the best thing to do. Is it the customers place to lecture the salesperson, she should have lectured the owner. If anything, I think there is small element of “jerk” in the customer too.
Some of the greatest yidden were fabulously wealthy and great talmidei cbachamim. The genera has a whole list of people who had Torah and gedula. To say they are incompatible with yiddishkeit is nonesense.
Jerk? Salesperson said posted price is wrong. What should a salesperson who isn’t authorized to give a 30% discount do, klap al cheit and beg for mechila? Even the op seems more concerned with the signs than the salesperson behavior.
Local law governs this type of situation. In NYC it is illegal to charge more than the posted price. I have heard that in colorado the price in the computer (scanned price) is THE price the store must honor and if there is a discrepency between the posted price and scanned price, the scanned price “wins”.
Sounds to me like someone in the store is lazy. The salesperson was likely not he owner and I wouldnt blame him/her for not honoring a lower price if he/she would be responsible for the shortfall.
Are the signs still hanging 3 days after your incident in the store? If they are, sounds to me like a serious case of bait and switch.
1: Bait and switch is illegal.
2: He showed you a card that the sale price ended, was it also printed on the window signs and perhaps you missed it?
I think the propeller would break off if someone tried to crush, bend or fold the hat. Its why I went with the baseball cap.
Joseph, why dont you call their public relations department and ask them.
I guess if you need a foldable, bendable, crushable fedora then you shouldnt buy one from Macys. If it is these qualities you are looking for, a baseball cap from Modells would do the trick. They bounce right back into shape.
One of lifes big mysteries. How can eating a 1 pound box of cookies make you gain 15 pounds.
A picture might be worth 1000 words, but if your teacher asked for a 1000 word essay and you turned in a picture you would get a zero.
Why would someone so drastically alter a photo when an in person meeting would reveal the photo manipulation.
So squeak is a mechaber seforim too? When did you sneak into homes to retrieve your cash.
Excellent questions. Its a good thing you have a Rav to ask when the situation arises.
Do you need a government permit to date?
We have told shadchanim a number of times already, “no, no photo, our Rav quoting Rav dovid Feinstien Shlita says it is a horrible idea, if the fact that we listen to our Rav is a problem for the other side, then this is not a shidduch we are interested in”.
So, dont call it a superbowl party. Call it thursday night chulent on sunday night.
I’m more concerned with “photoshopped” information.
So thats why there arent many people who own a copy of the Gri’z in “stenslach”.
Nutritionists recommend 8 cups a day. The folks in Flint Michigan are desperate for some.
“Do they look like a typical yeshivish fedora?”
Meaning, they have 2 pinches, a brim etc…? Yes.
“Do you know frum people who wear those Macy’s hats to shul?”
Me. I dont question people where they buy their hats so I dont know about anyone else.
Besides, who cares.
Kangol is a brand.
For what its worth, for $60 you can buy a black fedora at Macys.
Ok. If you say so. I have no basis to disagree. I have no clue what schools do and dont exist in Lakewood.
Poison Ivy is natural. Context is everything.
YTT. Yeshiva of Torah and Technology?
good questions. ill have to call the school to find out.
Thanks for the info. I better tell my wife to skip the local beis yackov production this year.
we are considering sending two manos to one of our friends.
“If the school has a no internet at home rule must they also have rules outlawing kids from homes where the parents talk during davening in shul or dress less than tznius outside?”
Of course not. It is important to specialize. One yeshiva will cater exclusively to those who have no internet at home. Another will cater to those whose parents never talk in shul while another will cater exclusively to those who excel in dressing in accordance with halacha. Of course it will be important to have competent poskim available to ask a shayla to when there is a parent who has wifi on their smartphone, but the wifi is disabled at home if that qualifies as “no internet at home”.
So, how does the yeshiva know the father has netflix?
I have so many really, really funny answers to this
why do we want to replace the fat lady?
“open internet”.
How do yeshivas determine who does and does not have internet in their home and if they do have, have proper filters etc…
Do they employ a team of crack agents who infiltrate homes when everyone is out? Do they roam the streets with smartphones and tablets looking to find open wifi, what it connects to and then work backwards to the modem? Do they subpoena Verizon and Time Warner Cable for lists of their fios and internet subscribers? Do they have ruach hakodesh?
Does a Kangol cap?
The solution is to create one large boys elementary school and one large girls elementary school, one boys mesivta and one beis yackov high school, each with 120 parallel grades. This way everyone is vying to get into the same yeshiva/beis yackov.
I think the sign is referring to the satmar style hats
“the style of the chareidim will change”
On whose order?
About 5 years ago a former NY Giants football player and several NJ State Troopers got into trouble for an illegal “caravan” down the Garden State Parkway. I hope this video doesnt reach the wrong eyes.
I’m wondering who felt the video was worth taking altogether. Once taken who felt it was newsworthy or even something people are interested in. The whole thing is rather childish.
That said, the invective against the rebbe is at the very least rechilus and “you reap what you sow” is not a legitimate response.
So maybe next month a dinner in honor of Lakewood families and then he can raise those problems.
Why would he speak about Shalom bayis or another social problem at a dinner that was all about chinuch in Lakewood?
If his way demands acceptance of a certain child, then so be it.
I think it would be morally reprehensible to solicit someone who you turned down. To accept a donation on the other hand, I personally see no issues with it. The donor is offering the money (perhaps naively thinking it will get them another shot at acceptance – as long as the school doesnt lead them along this path then) I see nothing wrong with accepting it.
A number of years ago when our first child was entering elementary school, we dutifully filled out an application for a particular school and they simply ignored the application (yes, we called and confirmed it was received and was being reviewed) and obviously had no interest in us as parents in the school or our child as their student. That’s fine, and in our opinion, their loss. However, when they called several months later following up on the invitation they sent to their annual dinner, we politely asked them to remove us from their mailing list. They did.
How do the meforshim explain it?
Lets up the ante. shiluach hakan, eating the eggs.
“Stop with your hypocrisy!”
Hypocricy? I think I am being very consistent here. These mosdos are private businesses, as such they can be run as the management sees fit and they are beholden to noone except their clientele. Once they start asking other people for money, they open themselves up to those peoples input as well whether they like it, or not.
Regarding taking money from someone who you would never accept into your mossad, that is not something new or unique to Lakewood.
It isn’t anything new that mosdos take money from those who they wouldn’t accept in a million years.
Health. When they came running they asked for his money. With that he has the right to say whatever he wants because he now has skin in the game.
Regarding your second statement. I’m not sure what it has to do with anything I wrote. I wrote from the perspective of the yeshiva achrayus and you, well I have no idea what you are saying.
There is a cynical side of me that says these mosdos are all privately owned. Nobody tells Mr rechnitz how to run his business and he shouldn’t tell others how to run theirs. Unless of course they ask for a capital investment (donation) them he has a right to make suggestions.
The community yeshiva doesn’t exist and these private yeshivas have no achrayus to anyone except their tuition paying parents and those who they solicit for money.
But, I’m trying not to be cynical.
Read the preceding posts?!? 🙂
“Why can’t moshiach come in fourteen years?”
(Note: I didnt read the preceding comments and dont know what this references. I am commenting on this sentence (which may or may not be taken out of context and I am not accusing the writer of this line of anything).
He can. He can also come in 14 days, minutes or seconds. Its what we daven for every day. Its what we wait for daily. Hayom, im bikolo tishma’u. Why do you want to write off the coming of moshiach for 14 years? I suspect that might border on apikorsus to say moshiach wont come for at least 14 years.