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Wouldnt it be better to wait for them to thaw out?

Perhaps. Perhaps not. There is more than one way to show some form of kavod to someone.

Depending on the size of the chair/car, they might just “move it” out of the way with the car.

Ironically, the speech was given at an event celebrating 30 years of chinuch in Lakewood.

What he did say was, if anyone bullies you into not accepting kids and you are worried about the financial implications of people voting with their dollars, dont worry, you have my dollars to fall back on.

GAW. I understand that, but the gemaras kal vechomer applies to anyone. If they taught you something, then they are due some measure of kavod from you, perhaps even to be called Rabbi by you. I am not suggesting ?????? ????????? ????????????.

Its interesting. When Rav Mattisyahu Salomon Shlita talks about this, it gets swept under the rug. People murmur while school openings are delayed a few days and then life goes on. When Mr. Rechnitz gives a speech on the topic……

“We have a car, and my daughter has a car.”

You have one house on the block, but two cars? I think we should pass a law, one car per home, why should you have a right to take up more parking spaces than homes you own on the block?

So, what it really boils down to is that in general, snow or no snow, you live on a block that many people come and look for parking every day and you have to compete with them day in and day out. Compounding your frustration is that some of those people dont respect others and hog two spots. Your frustration is further compounded when it snows and parking becomes that much more difficult. Despite your frustration, you are not guaranteed a parking space on your block. If you wish to guarantee yourself a spot work with the local politicians to institute residential parking only. Perhaps have one or two handicapped spots created and get a permit. Your age and/or physical limitations are a) not known to everyone who passes through and is looking for parking and b) does not guarantee you a parking space unless it is a clearly designated spot and you have a permit to park in such a space. This doesnt mean people should be mean, but that is entirely different than “I shoveled it, its mine”. Perhaps if you tried a different approach and appealed to the mench in people you might be pleasantly surprised.

“I don’t want to be moser on them.”

For what it is worth, I have asked my own Rav and was told this is not being “moser”.

Your last parapgraph only reinforces our disagreement. It is not your spot or your neighbors spot. Your frustration will simply grow for as long as you live in a highly trafficked area.

Apparantly the stature of the teacher is irrelevant since the gemara makes the kal vechomer anyway.

So, now that you couldnt spread your rechilus you resort to childish name calling? Whats next, you call me a edited head and I run home crying to mommy?

“Do you think that every principal and rosh ha’yeshivah has not anguished and cried over every child who can not find a place?”

A red herring. The speech was not addressed to the principals it was addressed to the parent body to stop with their ridiculous elitist demands which place unfair pressure on those in charge.

” if hd doesn’t get in, he will be a failure.”

rightly, or wrongly, why do you think they will feel that way.

“may we better learn to remember what is appropriate public speech and what is not.”

I dont know if he is right or wrong, but until I hear someone slightly up the daas torah ladder from your vantage point say he was wrong for discussing it publicly I will stick with my opinion that he is not at fault for discussing this publicly.

Oomis, while I feel your pain, I completely disagree with you. This is called life in the big city. Sometimes it stinks, but you obviously feel the positives outweigh the negatives and continue to live in the big city. You want your spot, dont move the car. they are blocking your driveway, have them towed. You need groceries, call the store and pay for delivery. You want your own parking spot waiting for you every time you come home, then buy a house with a driveway and enforce your rights to your driveway.

the friend was messing with them. they think they ate a pb sandwhich. she really ate styrofoam peanuts, but as a little girl peanuts are peanuts to her and she reported it as such.

I’m back in from the snow. Let me ask you. What do you have against this person who deals with at risk girls and runs a pesach program. Whether he has semicha or not I don’t know and I don’t care. If you are soliciting people to say something negative about him let me say how very brave of you to take shots at someone in an anonymous forum. For what it’s worth I go by mister.

You and about 2% of the population. the other 98% misuse the word and it has taken on a new meaning (or as I said previously, it is meaningless).

Like those who love the shoes they just bought, but of course love their friends and the fried chicken they ate last night. Another word used to imply one thing even though it means something else (unless of course they have a strong emotional attachment to that chicken, or really dont have much of an emotional connection to their friend).

Wolf, you confirmed it again. The fact that people call you “rabbi” shows just how meaningless the term is since by your own admission you are far from being one.

“…not to give non-rabbis a title which they have not earned….”

As Wolf so eloquently pointed out, the title “Rabbi” is meaningless. It does not mean what it did, say 200 years ago (or even 30 years ago) in its general usage. Sure, the technical meaning has not changed, but people are not using the term for its technical meaning.

It’s like the term “Askan”. Now, anyone who can photobomb a picture with a politician or some other knocker calls himself an Askan. The term as it is used today does not have the same meaning as the term when it was used 40 or 50 years ago.

Using some of the “logic” posited here, we should call “married” two people of the same gender who profess their commitment to each other. After all, it is merely a formal title.

Yidden throughout the years have had the fortunate ability to recognize their great leaders no matter what they called themselves. There is a famous story about a court officer from Seattle, who interviewed Rav Moshe Z’l and asked him how he came to be the “greatest Rabbi in North America”. He is reported to have answered that someone asked him a question and was satisfied that he gave a proper answer and told his friend, who in turn told his friend and before you knew it, everyone started sending him their questions.

Titles and degrees are meaningless.

Rav Moshe Z’l used to refer to reform and conservative clergymen as rabbis, those true to mesora he would call a Rav.

I guess rabbi isnt such a flattering term.

Actually, they are Temani and wouldnt know a chassid if they wandered into new square.

Perhaps they were names unique to those countries so while we wont find any children named poppa (except in the coffee room) or zevid we have plenty of “hebrew” names found in shas, such Yackov, Yosef, Nachman, elozor etc throughout the generations

“It’s happened where they won and quit.”

If they are smart, they would buy the company and become the boss.

they dont have beards…….

“one of his sisters (23) learns gemera very seriously and has finished 2 sedarim of gemera”

I agree, do not let your daughter go out with his sister.

If I wore heels, my wife would refuse to leave the house with me.

James Harden.