BasYisroel2

To the new mod 77.I wish you much Hatzlacha on your new journey -you are going to need it.I would like to recommend that you bring a sword , sheild and a strong pot of coffee with you!!

to dovid shmuel- I hear your point and you are right! However if you give teenagers boring Jewish music then they will look for it in the wrong places.I am not refering to teens who are at risk.But regular frum kids.Rather let people hear beaty music coming from a frum Jew than from a goy!

Bain hasedorim I agree with you to a point.Overall most girls are more mature than boys that is why a girl is bas mitzvah at the age of 12 and a boy is at the age of 13- not that all girls are so mature to begin with.The biggest problem with boys that I find is thir mothers.I get the most insane questions from them regarding my friends does she smoke,what size is she,what summer camps did her grandmother go to ect… Mothers of boys are only intersted in someone who is beautiful,yichus,big name out there,went to Seminary X, forever support and it makes me sick.My friend and myself only want erliche boys from erliche families but apparently they have been brainwashed by their mommies who are looking for a barbie doll with big yichus and money!Don’t tell me it’s not a most people because I have no idea where the normal boys and there mothers are hiding.You can’t win.One woman told my mother that she didn’t want her son to go out with a girl because she was too pretty-this is a normal erliche frum girl.People only want a Rosh Yeshiva’s daughter,billonare’s daughter.Why can’t people pick peole based opn their middos, their avodas Hashem as long as someone comes from a decent erliche family is open to chesed has simmilar goals and values.Why is our generation obsesssed with only the outer things!Don’t get me wrong a person has to be attracted to whom they marry, and marrying a rich person isn’t a bad thing.The problem lies with people’s priorities.What is the most imortant to them.Oh all the mothers who call me up want to know if the girl has good middos but they only dwell on the girl’s middos for a second, they spend more like a half an hour findidng out about the girl’s money,house and yichus.

ENOUGH is ENOUGH!

As general principle, Jewish holidays are divided between days on which you must starve and days on which you must overeat.

Many Jews observe no fewer than 16 fasts throughout the Jewish year, based on the time-honored principle that even if you are sure that you are ritually purified, you definitely aren’t.

Though there are many feasts and fasts, there are no holidays requiring light snacking.

Jews take the whole day off for holidays. This is because Jews, for historical and personal reasons, are more stressed out.

The Diet Guide to the Jewish Holidays:

Rosh Hashanah

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Feast

Tzom Gedalia

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Fast

Yom Kippur

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— More fasting

Sukkot

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Feast for a week +

Hashanah Rabbah —- More feasting

Simchat Torah

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Keep right on feasting

Month of Heshvan

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No feasts or fasts for a whole month. Get a grip on yourself.

Hanukkah

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—- Eat potato pancakes

Tenth of Tevet

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Do not eat potato pancakes

Tu B’Shevat

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Feast

Fast of Esther

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Fast

Purim

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Eat pastry

Passover

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—- Do not eat pastry for a week

Shavuot

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Dairy feast (cheesecake, blintzes, etc.)

17th of Tammuz

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Fast (definitely no cheesecake or blintzes)

Tish B’Av

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Serious fast (don’t even think about cheesecake or blintzes)

Month of Elul

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End of cycle. Enroll in Center for Eating Disorders before High Holidays arrive again.

ames and yossi z. thank you for the welcome back!I am fine baruch Hashem!

Ames-there hasn’t been much improvement in my relatives condition, but thanks for asking! We are just davening!

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there is no issur for a girl who is in shidduchim or a kallah to wear makeup .Or any one else for that manner as long as it is refined.If in your circles you don’t wear makeup then fine.

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BBQ yum I’ll bring some salds, french fries and dessert! It’s partee time ames and jax! I think the whole world has gone to sleep!

I won’t be bringing any frozen drinks- (ames the moshe exploding beer joke)!

basyisroel2 checking in for duty-

a bit of free time! Shout out to my friend ames!

hello Jax!I guess it’s just you, ames, the mods and myself!

To mepal, lgbg, nooseisko mazel tov, may the YWN coffee room be zocheh to see many more simchas!

I get very annoyed at people who double or triple park, or those who block off the road while everybody else just sits there in their cars!

I cannot stand people who are inconsiderate of others!

mchemtob-

Happy birthday and many more til 120 I”YH!

May Hakadosh Baruch Hu shower you with much mazel brocha and hatzlacha!

ames my friend I am so glad that you were not hurt!

One thing that made my day: a man pushing a full wagon insisted that i go ahead of him as I was only carrying 2 items!

Another thing: I saw a Rav close the garbage cans of a stranger after the garbage men had so carelessly strewn them around!

Mi keamcha Yisroel!

A rubber band was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption

Building the ark

And the Lord spoke to Noah and said: “In six months I’m going to make it rain until the whole earth is covered with water and all the evil people are destroyed. But I want to save a few good people, and two of every kind ofliving thing on the planet. I am ordering you to build Me an Ark.”

And in a flash of lightning he delivered the specifications for an Ark. “OK,” said Noah, trembling in fear and fumbling with the blueprints. “Six months, and it starts to rain,” thundered the Lord. “You’d better have my Ark completed, or learn how to swim for a very long time.” And six months passed. The skies began to cloud up and rain began to fall.

The Lord saw that Noah was sitting in his front yard, weeping. And there was no Ark. “Noah,” shouted the Lord, “where is my Ark?” A lightning bolt crashed into the ground next to Noah.

“Lord, please forgive me!” begged Noah. “I did my best. But there were big problems. First I had to get a building permit for the Ark construction project, and your plans didn’t meet code. So I had to hire an engineer to redraw the plans. Then I got into a big fight over whether or not the Ark needed a fire sprinkler system. My neighbors objected, claiming I was violating zoning by building the Ark in my front yard, so I had to get a variance from the city planning commission.

Then I had a big problem getting enough wood for the Ark because there was a ban on cutting trees to save the Spotted Owl. I had to convince U.S. Fish and Wildlife that I needed the wood to save the owls. But they wouldn’t let me catch any owls. So no owls.

Then the carpenters formed a union and went out on strike. I had to negotiate a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board before anyone would pick up a saw or a hammer. Now we have 16 carpenters going on the boat, and still no owls.

Then I started gathering up animals, and got sued by an animal rights group. They objected to me taking only two of each kind. Just when I got the suit dismissed, EPA notified me that I couldn’t complete the Ark without filing an environmental impact statement on your proposed flood. They didn’t take kindly to the idea that they had no jurisdiction over the conduct of a Supreme Being.

Then the Army Corps of Engineers wanted a map of the Proposed new flood plain. I sent them a globe.

Right now I’m still trying to resolve a complaint from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over how many Croatians I’m supposed to hire, the IRS has seized all my assets claiming I’m trying to avoid paying taxes by leaving the country, and I just got a notice from the state about owing some kind of use tax. I really don’t think I can finish your Ark for at least another five years,” Noah wailed.

The sky began to clear. The sun began to shine. A rainbow arched across the sky. Noah looked up and smiled. “You mean you’re not going to destroy the earth?” Noah asked, hopefully.

“No,” said the Lord sadly, “Government already has.”

-The boss was complaining in our staff meeting the other day that he wasn’t getting any respect. Later that morning he went to a local sign shop and bought a small sign that read:

“I’m the Boss!”

He then taped it to his office door.

Later that day when he returned from lunch, he found that someone had taped a note to the sign that said:

“Your wife called, she wants her sign back!”

bein hasdorim

you are a billion percent correct! However coming from the girls side I’m not accusing anyone I just would like to know from a boy’s perspective how you would feel about a few things that bother me:

1.What is up with boy’s mother’s asking what size the girl is- who cares you can have a skinny girl that wears a big size and a fat girl that wears a small size, as long as the person appears to be neat,slim and put together-maybe we should start asking what size pants is the boy!

2.Why do boy’s have to see girl’s pictures, it is kosher for boy’s mothers and boys themselves-to see the picture but why isn’t it kosher for a girl’s mother or a girl to ask to see the boy’s picture?

Welcome to the YWN coffee room I’d advise you to get a sheild and sword!

AZ

Are you a mathmatecian or do you do survey’s of populations in your free time?!

Bain hasedorim

you mised my point why keep on giving boys thousands of names you just make more girls to wait around.the mother of the boys know that they have the upper hand so they will take years to look into all the girls.These people wouldn’t be so high and mighty if their sons didn’t have a thousand names.the point is to try and lessen the upper hand.You have to look at reality.Reality-easier for boys so why on earth do we make it even harder for girls and easier for boys .why are you offering three thousand girls to the mother of the boy.it should be a rule you can’t look in to more than a few at a time.It is disgusting that we have fallen so low that to get a date you have to be on some royal highnesses list.We girls should start having lists and we should start being picky then perhaps no boys would have an equal time in shidduchim as the girls!

you said “What the shaddchan is supposed to do, is instead of rolling down a list 1st,

is to ask what type of girl is your son looking for? Not too loud not too quiet?

then on his list should omit from metioning girls A & C & redt Girl B”

Yes you should omit.you said so yourself that the tachlis of dating is to get the right person in our case mention the right person.How in the world does redting a thousand girls serve that purpose?The only purpose it serves is to blow up boy’s and their mothers egos who all need to get off of their high trojan horses and face reality!A few girls doesn’t mean a thousand! why on earth do mother’s of boys harbor names?

I understanding redting a few but lists?! That should be banned! I am sorry if you disagree but as someone who is has made shidduchim I see only flaws in boys having a lists no good can come out of it.

You have to put yourself in someone else’s shoes! I am sure that you like the list after all your a boy who wouldn’t be happy if they had the whole world running after them!

Lists serve no purpose.Girls are just degradaded,humilated and dragged through the mud!

Maybe I should get a list of boys from all over and start rating them!

postsemgirl

Happy Birthday and many more till 120.”Viyemalei HAshem kol Meshalos lebecha letova”

Da-

A belated Happy to you-

May HAkadosh boruch Hu bentch you with gezunt,Mazel,Health , brocha,Hatzlacha and whatever you wish yourselves till 120!

areivimzehlazeh

you are a billion percent right.

It makes sense.if you have options then you can choose.if you only have one then you can only deal with that one.Which is why in my opinion that the one thing that is contributing greatley to the shidduch crisis is the lists.

My friends who have brothers in the parsha and shadchanim that my family knows described the boys list scenerios to me.

Most(not all) boys have lists of girls names.Their mothers find out which girls are the richest, prettiest and compare and which ever one is the best catch in their mind .And all the other girls fall to the waste side( yes I know that if Hashem wants some one to get married he will find a way but why do we have to be the cause of someone not getting married right away we don’t have to be the shaliach of that- “Megalgilin Zechus al yedei Zakai vechova al yedei chayav)These other girls get -excuse me for a better lack of words – “recycled”.

WE NEED TO PUT A STOP TO BOYS HAVING LISTS!

As a shadchan when you call up a boy tell his mother I have an idea for your son and ask her if she has any other names.If she says yes then tell her when you are done with those then call me up and I will be glad to give you this girl’s name.What is the point of adding another girls name to a boy that already has girls just so that she becomes another girl to compare to.This isn’t a cattle market.You are dealing with people.You are dealing with yiddishe neshamos!And belive it or not a lot of girls find out who they are being redt to.And these girls sit and pray that one boy will say yes to them.They and their parents sit by the phone and cry every night! These ridiculous lists are destroying people!The lists make some boy’s balei gavah,their mothers ask ridiculous questions because they can’t choose between the “rich girls” and “they all sound the same”, it makes girls cry that they are not good enough!Girls don’t have lists -good girls go months with out having one date!

Is this what Hashem wants?! Is this the way we build a bais neeman! Do you think that by making people cry Hashem will bring bracha?!

By making people cry do you think that the Bais Hamekdash will be built any faster? I don’t think so!

Klal Yisroel has suffered enough!

By shlomo hamelech they lost the milchamos because Klal Yisroel wasn’t beachdus- and they were a dor of Tzaddikim.And by Achav who was a rasha they won their milchamos because they were achdusdik.When there is achdus Hashem brings Bracha! Perhaps in the zechus of us helping to take away other people’s pain or try to prevent someone else’s pain, Hashem will look down on us and see our pain in galus and bring the Geulah bemhaira veameinu amen!

New Year’s Resolutions for peopel who are addicted to YWN coffe room…

I will try to figure out why I *really* need 9 e-mail addresses.

I will stop sending e-mail to my wife (husband).

I resolve to work with neglected children — my own.

I will answer my snail mail with the same enthusiasm with which I answer my e-mail.

I will stop sending e-mail, ICQ, Instant Messages and be on the phone at the same time with the same person.

I resolve to back up my 12GB hard drive daily…well, once a week… okay, monthly then…or maybe…

I will spend less than one hour a day on the Internet. This, of course, will be hard

to estimate since I’m not a clock watcher.

When I hear “Where do you want to go today?” I will not reply “MS Tech Support.”

When I hear a funny joke I will not reply, “LOL… LOL!”

I will read the manual… just as soon as I can find it.

I will think of a password other than “password.”

I will stop checking my e-mail at 3:00 in the morning… 6:30 is much more practical.

I resolve… I resolve to… I resolve to, uh… I resolve to, uh, get my, er…

I resolve to, uh, get my, er, off-line work done, too!

If i were you I would check into why did the boy break his engagment BEFORE i would agree to date him.This is because there may be emotional issues that you may not be aware of, and you do not want to be the rebound girl!

Also once you start dating a person you become emotionally involved and if there really is an issue it’s going to be very hard for you to stop seing the person! That is why it’s best to find out whatever you can before the date!

MAzel tov PM and to your wife and your future established minyan!

I heard that swiss air has good food, and when I flew El Al had the best kosher snacks-edible crackers and pretzels!

ames that sounds like fun.I am seriously considering art lessons!