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phdmom wrote:
“….when you think of all the aveiros and tayvos that ppl have, is this one really so bad? and remember that if this was put in your face, then it’s a test for you, how are YOU going to respond”
Oh come on! That is the oldest excuse in the book for doing all the ‘little’ avairos, or to give in to ‘little’ tayvos!
“It’s better than what other people do out there” (*rolls eyes*).
Excuse me, but that is just pathetic! And although it is a test for me when you stick that $40,000 watch in my face, but the issue here is the WEARER of the watch! What’s HIS excuse for being insensitive to others walking around struggling to make end’s meet – which unfortunately is NOT an exaggeration). Where’s the tzniyus??
But getting back to the ads, it doesn’t belong in our frum Magazines, newspapers.
I happen to agree to WIY. Ferociously!
I don’t know about anyone here reading these posts, but to me IMHO these ads reek of insensitivity, and the type of gashmiyus Rabbonim scream against since we were kids.
What do you ‘frum’ posters mean ‘If he can afford it, and meets his tzedaka obligation, he’s entitled to spend his money as he wishes’???! What? On $40,000 watches?! ?”?! I don’t care how rich they are, if they are jewish & frum, they are sick (i.e. spiritually.), deeply sucked into Olam Hazeh and gashmiyus. I’m mesupik if there is an issur, I honestly don’t know, but I wonder if it goes into the violation of Kedoshim Tihiyu. But that’s all Bein Odom La’Mokom.
Then there is the insensitivity issue. To walk proudly with a luxurios $40,000 fashion accessory among your struggling jewish brothers and sisters who can’t afford basic tuition, food for their families, or to make a simple wedding. I don’t care if he gave $1 million dollars to tzaddaka! Where’s the sensitivity to the next person? Where is the tzniyus? and where’s the Middas Anavah? Out the window…
Parnassa? Sell it to the rich goyim, gezunterheit. Put such ads in their magazines for the wealthy. Beleive me, there’s plenty of them. But in our jewish frum papers, advertisements definitely should be strictly on something more low key, affordable and nice.
(*exhales*)
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WIY +1
Well said! I really hope crisisoftheweek and zahavasdad reads and rereads that post.
Thank you, Nechomah, for the update. That’s such great news!!!
“If you can’t be a good example, be a warning!”
~ Bump ~
l’chaim yidden, l’chaim!
On a scale of 1 to 10 what is your favorite color in the alphabet?
If life gives you lemons, keep them, because, hey, free lemons!
The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself…. and spiders.
If life gives you melons, you may be dyslexic.
This is a job for a Navi. Don’t start making a gezeira shoveh of “Sandy-Sandy” and say they are connected. Ask the gedolim what this means and perhaps your local rav, who is all that we have left in the absence of Nevi’im. Now, I could be wrong, I’ll admit it right now, but I don’t think you can start assuming the 2 events are automatically connected because they share a similar name.
Mazel Tov, MiddlePath!!! We’re so happy with the news, thank you for sharing!! You and your Kallah should be zoich to build a BN”B!
L’chaim MP, l’chaim!
I left out one part in the previous vort. There is another “high” similarity between the two.
Belated Chanukah vort
I thought of this on Shabbos Chanukah Parshas Mikeitz.
Then, we reach a tremendous high, as Yosef is now not only free he is crowned as the second to most powerful in the land. That parallels another high in the Chanukah story where the yidden not only got freedom back to learn torah and do mitzvohs but were even zoiche to a neis with the pach shemen.
Obviously, it’s a matter of affording it, but on the other hand many don’t, choosing other ‘priorities’ over school tuition. For some it’s a second car, a second house, fancy expensive clothes. Choosing your ‘priority’ over full tuition is very commonplace, opting for a school reduction or not paying at all. I never go on vacation with my family, as our budget doesn’t fit that lifestyle. I have invested in a villa for our summer monthes and that’s our vacation. I don’t have expensive clothes, I don’t drive a fancy car, and never eat out in restaurants.
I don’t know about presents, but that’s a good question. One thing I do know for sure – My FIL told me years ago that boys whose parents pay full tuition always have more hatzlochah and siyato dishmaya in learning than other boys whose parents don’t pay full tuition. We pay full tuition every year and are b”h reaping ‘rewards’ as a result. My children are excellent students and have zero negative issues bl”h.
The battle of Chanukah although blessed with temporary victory in the days of the Chashmonaim, never really ended – it continues to this very day. It was essentially a struggle against the forces that had set as their goal to assimilate the Jewish masses by subturfuge and internal subversion. Thus, we find no specific command of ‘Simcha’ on Chanukah since this battle to confuse and betray true Yiddishkeit still rages in our times, and while engulfed in the smoke of battle one does not pause to rejoice. In such a continuing crisis, one must concentrate with greater vigor towards the Geulah goal: total Torah commitment must replace tokenism; complete consecration must replace crippling compromise.
– Rabbi Moshe Sherer zt”l (Former President of Agudas Yisroel)
“That we live is a gift from the Almighty. How we live is our gift to the Almighty!”
Whoa, diz booze iz goooooood!! I kin hardely see anymore…
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110123163523/glee/images/3/34/Dizzy.gif
LOL! Great thread, Goq!
sw33t –
*(pause for) standing ovation*
Bravo for coming forward and bringing up this most important topic for discussion!
Kudos for speaking out here on YWN CR- EVEN if you are anonymous- and for the record NO ONE looks down upon any victim such as yourself, as such you need not feel any shame whatsoever. I’m so inspired by your courage and determination to push this topic to the forefront of our communities’ agendas, and to dig our ‘buried far-frumpteh heads out of the sand’.
The facts are that it’s a HUGE problem in our time, it’s affecting/destoying too many people, “Deal with it, Don’t ignore it!” should be the outcry to each communities’ Askanim and Rabbonim.
Thank you, sw33t!!
~ BUMP ~
Anyone in the mood?
…blechhh, I hate alchohol, you can get drunk from those things!
Milk. Now that’s a drink!
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Hellooooo! booooze…yummm! Coffee doesn’t quite do it for me on those cold winter days like a good cup of schnaps!
😉
Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol, I always say.
*BUMP*
any other answers to “The Kasha”?
what a great thread!
I think we eat donuts
1) to remind us of the oil
2) Traaaaadition!
3) because what else are you gonna do with them?
4) makes a great dessert to my bagels and lox sandwich.
Nuuuu Popa where you holding in the donuts count on day 3?
Wisey – Wondering how your dvar torah went. It definitely was a chiddush IMHO to suggest the brothers considered Yosef to be a mamzer- never saw that one brought down anywhere. Interesting theory though.
Anyone have a nice vort on Chanukah?
“How about just doing whatever will make the two of you happy?”
The Wolf
+1
It is glatt kosher and is considered oineg shabbos and a great way to end your shabbos seudah, all the way down to its chocolatey, chewy center 🙂
I personally knew of a very choshuv Rosh Yeshiva years ago who would stand by the Beis Medrash door before Shabbos Mincha and send any bochur not wearing a tie back to his dorm room. The “tieless look” is no more than a mishigas and laziness. It is still Shabbos at that time, no reason to dress down.
shmendrick- sorry, but your comparison of women’s jewelery being parallel to a man’s tie is a (bad) excuse and nonsense IMHO. You dress with a suit and tie from Friday night till Havdala Motzei Shabbos, period. Your first post was brilliant and you seem like a talmud chochom quoting those marei mekomos and being dan l’kaf zechus for all those who go tie-less. But I don’t buy it.
ARWSF – It is inexcusable and a crime what your ex-spouse did to you, may Hashem give you strength.
Shmoel: it is part machala, and part weakness.
Torah is THE biggest antidote to one’s Yeitzer Hara. if one is not into torah, he is vulnerable to even the sickest of evils.
Secondly, the Roshei Yeshivas have been screaming the idea till blue in the face, but few listen, and even few act. I am refering to learning mussar. People just aren’t machshiv it, yet this generation of all generations needs it the most.
Does he regret it? I have a feeling that he does. It is an addiction, he most certainly understands that he let it overpower him and ruin his life and his spouses’. He probably WAS a tzaddik, and a wonderful man – and might I add, maybe he still is- but this one area was too overpowering until it spiraled out of control, destroying his life and family.
May Hashem bless you with only happiness in the future and strength to carry on, and to forget the pain of the past.
An old tzaddeikis from Yerusholayim once told my MIL that she davens for all her kids’ shidduchim since they’re born.
ARWSF????? LOL!
WELCOME BACK!!
When I was a chosson someone told me that if your wife ever asks you something like ,”does this (sheital, dress, etc) look good or funny to you?” never say “yeah it looks fine” and run out the door. Give a suggestion, maybe if you wear it like this or like this, etc. If she ASKED you, then something was bothering her about the look, she doesn’t want to hear you say, ‘Yeah, it’s fine, now let’s go!’, that means you don’t care how she looks and being on time is more important to you than how she looks.
With that little eitzah, we were NEVER late to ANY of our sheva brochos!
WIY – that story happened to me once, but I was the guy who didn’t remember. I only remembered later that evening that,’oh yeah, I DID speak to him about a week ago’. But it was such a short conversation i didn’t remember what it was about (probably because I was preoccupied with other important things) but it was very uncommon and unusual. (I hope!)
First of all, mazel tov! I wish you so much brochoh, happiness, and gezunt to you and your kallah!
Answer : C.
I have more snippets I’ll post later. Hatzlochoh!
L’chaim LemoneySnicket, l’chaim!
uh….booze?
Our company ran out of coffee this morning and it was, to say the least, absolute pandemonium and chaos, you’d think it was the beginning of an Apocalypts or Apocolytis (however you spell that word).
Anyhow it reminded me of this thread, lol.
PARSHAS VAYEISHEV
Yehuda suggests not to kill Yosef.
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Rash”i says,” ?? ??? ” to mean,” ?? ????”, what monetary gain is there if we kill him!
What does MONEY have to do with Yosef’s verdict?? If he deserves to die, kill him. If not, let him live. Was Yehuda trying to make a fast buck??
