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Ur Kassdim
that’s for you gr82bagrandma:)
Onyx (CA)
Fantastic!! That was a great decision to go with the box of chocolates! I second gefen’s comment, and hope you find your bashert bekorov, if you haven’t already!! best wishes, and hatzlachah rabbah.
Oxford
HaLeiVi: That’s what I meant. my bad.
Interesting that the only thing possible that really REALLY goes back in time is Teshuva. After 120 yrs people who did teshuva literally erased sins that were done in the past, so when you watch the movie of your life, those sins WON’T BE THERE….
If you didn’t do Tashlich yet, take it along!
Also you can always make a challah kugel, my wife usually makes that after Yom Tov when we have lots of left over challos. Yum, she has a most delicious recipe for that!!
I always said Tzom Gedalia comes at a great time in the calander- after all those Yom Tov meals 🙂
I just wish I could switch Yom Kipper till after Simchas Torah….that’s when it’s Diet Season anyways! 🙂
gr82bagrandma: that was a cute one!!!
Monsey
A Gut Gebenchteh yur, and a refuah Shlayma b’korov. Thank you for the updates, and I hope you will enjoy Yom Tov!
with warm & friendly wishes,
BaalHabooze
Raleigh
Abbotsford (Canada)
Horseshoe Bay (TX)
Hungary
Eilat (E”Y)
***We love you, kapusta!!!!***
This thread is looooong overdue!
BaalHabooze,
a fan of kapusta
Richmond
Fredricton
adorable – yw and thank you for the compliment!! May i take this opportunity to wish you a hearty mazel tov, and may your wedding be B’Shaah Tova, awesome and the greatest night of your life!!
Some friendly advice: Enjoy your engagement!! That too is a fantastic and exciting time of your life. The more creative and imaginitive your gift exchanges the better, and more exciting it will be. BTW it doesn’t have to be expensive at all. Just a thoughtful line in a letter, share a joke, buy a cute keychain, or any little pitchifkes that will make each other smile.
My Rosh Yeshiva instructed me with the following and it worked like a charm up until today: You date a girl in order to know each other. You talk, shmooze, laugh, and get comfortable. But that’s it. First, see if you’re compatible, and if this is who you’d like to spend your life with. Save the mushy stuff, and yes, even flower’s for AFTER the engagement. You don’t want to send any false messages, especially if she’s not your bashert! Flowers to a girl can be an agressive and powerful statement.
When engaged, the less you speak the better. He told me twice a week, (we ended up speaking a bit more :)), but I saw a sense of excitement build before each phonecall/visit. I sent gifts throughout the engagment, and flowers & a cards for Shabbos EACH WEEK. Again, no mushiness and no “I love you”s yet. That is for after marriage. Just HINT your love and that she’s special.
After marriage, go ALL OUT!! She’s your queen, your love, your life, the mother of your kids etc. The trick is, don’t stop!! So far, 10 years and 4 kids later, I can honestly say it just gets better and better.
Feif un – Thank you for the link!!! I never saw that picture of the Chofetz Chaim! Whoever is the “other” picture, must have had some zechus having his pic plastered on all of the Chofetz Chaim’s works!
Oakland
Ayin Horah means that if someone flaunts his fortune, or item of envy, in public, with full awareness that it potentially will cause jealousy, he can be wary that he will be subjegated to the evil effects of A.H.
That is another reason why it is so important to live modestly and simply. People who have the privilege to own expensive cars and beautiful homes should try even harder to be modest in public and try not to show off.
Some wear a red string bracelet to ward off A.H. I asked my LOR for the mekor for that and, after searching, he said it is mentioned in many seforim but couldn’t locate the source.
Barren couples on waiting lists can expect it to take somewhere like 5 YEARS to adopt a jewish baby! Anyone who adopts before is considered lucky! This is what I heard, can not confirm though.
How about these:
olives and peas- “we should ALL LIVE IN PEACE”
or: sole fish and rice- “may our SOULS RISE and be elevated to new spiritual heights
or (for all you dieters out there): a thin fig- “to have a SLIM FIGure (okay, now THAT was my WIFE’S)
don’t forget to have a Shehechiyanu for the second night! We usually have a star fruit or chinese apple.
I was at my cousins once in Williamsburg, they served the head of the fish, and the kids were literally fighting who gets to eat the “bally”, (they all wanted the eye ball!!) EEEEEW!!
San Diego
Tzvi Hirsh: They say over that the Rogatchover Goan used to pay ALL his Shadchonim who set him up with a date, citing this Medrash, that even if it wasn’t his intended, but now he is one step closer to finding his true zivug. One time he was set up and the date was a total flop, so the shadchan of course went to get his “Shadchonus gelt”, but the Rogatchover told him, ” Not a chance, this one was so off target, I beleive that even the MALACHIM couldn’t have suggest this one!
This parsha is veeeeeeeeeeery difficult, I would get emotionally drained and totally exhausted. I have been married now for 10 years BA”H, and I always tell my wife, B”H I’m up to THIS stage, and not shidduchim!
As far as your parents are concerned it seems they don’t want to hurt you by saying point blank, “the guy rejected you.” Most girls would find that difficult to swallow if it was said straight to their face. Like he saw s/t wrong with you, as if u have a flaw. The truth is it just wasn’t bashert.
I know we don’t eat pickles, olives, hot peppers, horseradish or anything sour/sharp flavored until Shmini Atzeres. No pickled meat?? never heard that, but like sam2 said, maybe bec of the sour flavor
I heard that the chofetz Chaim’s daughter said the pic going around looked NOTHING LIKE HIM.
There are different versions of what the story is, but I often hear that the pic is in actuality the butcher of Radin. Anyone know the story behind that?
“….Because on Friday we have too much time. That is why for yontiff we make round challos. Because on Erev Yontiff we only have time to mush it into a blob and throw it in the oven.
That is also why we have raisins in the challah on yontiff. So we shouldn’t notice the pieces of potato kugel or whatever that also got accidentally mushed in.”
popa- LOL, sounds like the life story of my daughter’s hair!!
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Denver
Detroit
Sioux
10 points to the next poster:)
squeak: Of course it’s a hoax! But it’s moyradig!! Got me thinking about travelling back in time….
Get out the flux capacitator boys!!!
Y’know, what you wrote N.A.N.A. reminds me of a powerful vort. Rabbi Shimon Shwab says an absolutely amazing thing.
Why do we need to lein on Rosh Hashona the last shtikel in parshas VaYeira? We have enough pesukim with the story of Akeiidas Yitzchok to cover the required aliyos! Why read all the names of relatives of Avrohom? So Rash”i says it’s all just to mention Rivka. But what does that portion have to do with R”H?? What possible hisoirerus can we gain from these names?
He says, imagine you are given permission to be able to look in this year’s Sefer HaChaim! So you nervously flip through it, page after page, with shaking hands, your eyes frightfully scanning all the names, and muttering….c’mon where is it, where’s my name….??? Whew, you finally find it, you’re in the there. imagine the RELEIF, the sweat, the tension, your beating heart etc.
..and what if you weren’t in there, C”V,…….?
If you look at the pesukim, says R’Shwab, there’s one outstanding omission! There’s a name missing!?
Lavan’s name is not there! But he was Rivks’s brother?? Why isn’t he included in the family list? Says R’ Shwab, because he was a rasha! And therefore didn’t DESERVE his name to be included and mentioned (at that time) in the torah!
May we all be zoiche to be written in Sefer HaChayim L’Toiva!!
by the end of the year she’ll be crying to stay in E”Y. It’s harder for the parents, but beleive me she’s gonna LOVE it.However, it really shouldn’t be the standard to have to send daughters to E”Y. My wife stayed in town for seminary and loved it, learned plenty and grew spiritually.
MiddlePath: “…And during that time that you are slowed down, everything else in the universe is happening and moving at the usual speed. So in essence, 5 minutes of your “slowed down” time can be 10 minutes in the rest of the world, since time for you is slower.”
Sorry my friend, but you made an error. Just the opposite! When one travels the speed of light for 5 minutes HE RETURNS A FEW SECONDS EARLIER then everyone elses 5 MINUTES. His 5 minutes was everyone elses 4 minutes! That’s what the experiment, that Sam2 and Mod80 referred to, proved. In 1971 2 atomic clocks were put on a passanger plane that traveled around the world, and another one kept at the naval base. when they returned the clocks on the plane showed a SLOWER READ THAN THE ONE KEPT ON EARTH.
The significance of this theory tells us that if one were to travel at the SPEED OF LIGHT, i.e. the fastest known speed, one would actually return without LOSING ANY TIME ON EARTH! So when Middlepath mentioned that this new discovery had impact on “time travel” he is correct!! Because if things that travel at the speed of light, lose NO TIME on earth, what if you travel FASTER THAN LIGHT…..well, according to this theory, one WOULD GO BACK IN TIME!! Albert Einstein, when asked about that, said “NOTHING physical goes faster that the speed of light. So no going back in time……”
But with this new discovery…..
ROLL OVER EINSTEIN….-that was for you Goq!!