BaalHabooze

I once asked my Rosh Yeshiva if I should say korbonos every day, he told me to say at least one shtikel -korbon Tomid. So that is what I say every day.

Avon (Indiana)

Oregon

OOOOOOh Sam2 I hope not!!! Please tell me people won’t replace their printed edition for electonic ones. (I can just see it happening but I dread the thought.) There’s NOTHING like learning from a good old fashioned sefer, taking in the scent from the binding, drinking the delicious words thirstily, feeling the pages in betwen your fingers. E-Sefer? doesn’t even sound geshmak.

..”and there is nothing magical about vitamins

they are CHEMICALS that our bodies need in minimal amounts for proper functioning.”

call it what you want, Chemicals, dietary minerals, nutritional elements, whatever, the FACT is that it is HEALTHY. What is it that you are so against “their reliance to treat normal life events” with good nutritious, healthy vitamins?? Of course, one needs to be wary of the company vitamins you purchase (some are phoney baloney), however a proven, illustrious company like Shaklee products which are PROVEN to be TOP quality (I did do research on this company -personally!) is SO NOT a problem. Is it better to give a nosh to your kid if it helps him fall asleep better? You know what garbage ingredients are in nosh these days? What if I have seen with my eyes, a better quality of health in my kids since we started taking them. They used to get sick so often. Now, they HARDLY ever get sick. Hardly ever…and they see the results too, so I can’t be convinced the other way if I witness it daily in my family’s health. So yes, there is nothing wrong on relying on a quality vitamins to treat normal life events such as insomnia.

I don’t know WHAT your talking about Mod80. I don’t give my kids high doses of anything. I’m not a vitamin fanatic or someone who jumps on the bandwagon and does things just because others do. So I don’t know what you take me for, but before you start rattling off your “History of the Vitamin” lecture, I would recommend that you educate yourself with what vitamins are, enough to diffrentiate them from the pharmaseutical drugs.

I will reiterate: Don’t just lump all pills into the same catagory and label them as bad!!

Mod 80. I know where you are coming from. However, you MUST diffentiate, between a drug pill and a vitamin pill. The pharmaseutical pill, a pill with unnatural drugs, may releive, soothe pain but can unfortunately cause addictiveness. But a vitamin pill?? Our bodies NEED vitamins! what on earth scares you about vitamins?? Why do you eat? For the taste? To fill you up? It is a basic necessity and is not only totally harmless, but something the body starves, yearns for. You can’t just lump all pills into the same catagory and label them as bad. We taught our kids, my wife and I, to know what each vitamin is good for, and they take them with happiness, knowing that it is good for them.

Albuquerque (NM)

I don’t know, zahavasdad, about the printing press, that’s a good question and comparison. But clearly in our day and age, these e-gadgets were fundamental tools used for terrible acts and wickedness in this world. Sure we can use these inventions for business, for gemilas chassodim, and other worthy uses, but he should have taken all POTENTIAL crime into account and integate a prevention feature in them. If that’s not possible, then y’ gotta think twice! I know I would!

smartcookie: one reason is because in Loshon HaKodesh, the word gever means both person and chicken. We daven that whatever gezeiro that is decreed on us(gever) should just transfer over to the chicken (gever). I don’t know the reason how this minhag became more prevalent over using fish or money. But I’d guess it is the “Lechatchila”, and the main option for this minhag when it first began.

Awendaw, (South Carolina)

New Brunswick

ok, i have a solution that helped so many chldren that I know personally. mothers called my wife to thank her for this “magic”. It is simply calcium pills (they have chewable ones for kids). i can’t promise you with all brands. The one that we use is the Shaklee pills and they work like magic every time. You cn’t get Shaklee in stores though only through certified members.

Toi_ ha, you’re a panic! That’s so crazy but true!! After I was colorwar general in camp (and won!) I felt that I did all my craziness, boyishkeit, (and other forms of bocherish expressions of mishigassin,) I felt that I was finished with my single life, camps, dorm life etc.

I got married several monthes later, B”H.

never did the tzfas thing though 🙁

Shaila for R’ kapusta: Can I use my gummy fish?

clap, clap, clap, wonderful kapusta, wonderful!!! Can you be my posek 🙂

but all seriousness aside, folks, the way it’s done is you first put on your scubadiving suit/gear, lower yoursef into the water…..

whaaaaat….?

I don’t remember for sure, but I think it was on a Rabbi Avigdor Miller tape, that he mentioned that one of the greatest mussar sefer that jews have is actually the good ‘ol siddur! If one would study the translation, meforshim, and even an english sefer on tefilla, one can grow very great in that area, and gain just as much as any mussar seforim can accomplish.

Mazel Tov to dealz, you should enjoy being engagement, feel the excitement, and cherish your chosson that Hashem gave you. Then bottle up all that simcha and keep it in an open place for all of your married lives!! Mazel tov! you should be zoiche to build a beautiful jewish home, a bayis ne’eman, one of brocha, mazel, gezunt, and lots of happiness forever and ever.

Egypt

Just a cute story:

Someone once asked the Vilna Goan which is the best mussar sefer. He pointed the the wall in the back of the room. So the person went to the back, but the only seforim on the shelf were meforshim on the gemorah, some gemorahs, etc, but no musser sefer. So he tells the VG there aren’t any mussar seforim here on the shelf!? The Vilna Goan smiles and points up, just above the seforim shrank where a clock was hanging on the wall. “That clock is the bestmussar sefer!”

🙂

Toi: A chashuva rov I know would say, “Hey, you don’t lose points for feeling bad for somebody stuck in a difficult situation.”

With much sensitivity and love for our brothers and sisters, we must put ourselves in their shoes sometimes, especially at this time of year. There’s nothing wrong with venting, it’s maybe even HEALTHY to “let it out” (and what better forum then the CR to do so.)

Y’know, I’ll tell you something personal. (Perhaps even too personal.) When I got married the world seemed perfect. I had the perfect wife from the perfect family, perfect chassuna, house, and everything just seemed perfect. Until we realized we couldn’t have kids, without the help from fertility treatments. (After many years, we B”H had a baby.) Until we were blessed with a child, people would make comments to us, some nice, others down right embarrassing and insulting. From the oft repeated “I”Y by you”, to ” it must be hard. I feel for you”, to “Nu, what’s taking so long?”. Comments that people make can really make your day brighter, or C”V literally ruin your entire week.

kapusta, I want to tell you that I feel for you, and with a sincere heartfelt “I”Y by you”, may you see a yeshuah bekorov, with mazel and brocha.

Hoisington