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i think what cantoresq means to say is that he is qualified to finally settle the nussach debate that has been raging for longer than his grandparents have or had been alive. hes is being presumptuous. simple as that.

as for carlebach shabasos. they are beautiful…if and only if they ae done for teh right reasons. i had a taaneh on them a while ago and i still do because a lot of the attendees are there not because of tefillah, but because of carlebach. kind of like how unfortunately there were a couple of YU students at a shmulie boteach and christopher hitchins debate for christopher hitchens (but thats a complicated matter…and one of teh worst mistakes of my life…)

assuming everyone is there for the right reason i think its beautiful. barring dovid hamelech (who’s tunes i have never heard but i assume they were divine…) i think shlomo carlebach’s music did teh most for klal yisrael. (yes i know i just shafted 2 thousand years of jewish music.) his music isnt very complex, and his voice wasnt the greates, but boy if he didnt know how to fire up a crowd!

his niggunim bring out your emotions like no others. simple tunes…can make you feel liek you have never felt in your life. tehy can bring you together like nothing else can. pay attention at the next kumzits you go to…look at the crowd. are they all of one group, or every possible group imaginable? chassidish (yes, i know…blasphemy) litcish, yeshivish, lubavitch, chiloni, srugies, rebellious teenagers…everyone feels touched by the nuggunim. by shlomo carlebach’s niggunim.

i think that to dislike carlebach’s niggunim is to lack an understanding of ruchniyus and human emotion.

Wolf may or may not be well learned…asking ridiculous and irrelevant questions is no indication of erudition.

“I did date a graphics designer, and I hate all of them.”

I hate people who use underscores in their usernames.

actually, when used in different settings it can mean different things. gossiping in shul it means well off/heimish. in yeshiva it means one step up from am ha’aretz or cute but simple.

my advice…give it to a technician and tell them what you want. if you use DBAN you will get a computer with a perfectly clean hard drive. no windows no nothing. everything would be gone. you would have to reinstall windows and all your programs.

yeah…100 years ago you probably had a bunch of trash marriages with people too scared of stigma to get divorced…

oh lets see…maybe its because the chosson and kallah dont know each other when they get married? especially by the chassidim where theyre sat at two ends of a table and have the marriage arranged…true you can get to know each other, but that doesnt always work.

maybe its because girls have such pressure to get married young, before they are actually mature enough to handle marriage,for fear of being labeled an old maid…

maybe its because a lot of people have a fantasy of what marriage should be which is out of touch with reality?

maybe its money issues? maybe the husband is a lazy bum, or the wife spends beyond their means?

maybe its because of some more “personal” issues?

maybe its because the husband or wife is abusive? (yes it can go both ways)

personally i dont think that “frum” divorces are any different from any other kind of divoce. marriagte is marriage…i dont see how it changes based on ideology or religion…

i once wrote an article on teh subject of online personas and how they interact with our real life personas…ill post it if i find it

um…satisfaction? fulfillment? stroking of your ego? self esteem? recognition?

or perhaps the best answer…DUH!!!

you know…you people are really overreacting. it’s a satirical analysis of what “frummaks” do that is completely ridiculous and unnecessary. lighten up…for heavens sake!

i was told that you can only pet an animal that depends on you and which you own on shabbos…i used to pet my friends dog but when i heard that i stopped doing it…but he can, its his dog

yeah…for example you can have yossel poshut who comes from a long line of yossel pushutehs or you can be descendants of teh abarbanel and be from the foremost messianics…nothing against the abarbanel, but yichus means almost nothing.

a jew’s calling in life is to follow the shulchan aruch. essentially it is your job to folow halacha and the torah to the very best of your ability. what happens past that is out of our control, but that is our calling.

it may not sound as glamourous as we may like, but one an never know the impact they have on the world by simply doing what they are supposed to. everybody wants something glorious with their life. everyone has big dreams, goals, and aspirations. however we dont realize what we can and do accomplish on a daily basis by simply living our lives according to the torah.

there is a difference between average and mediocre. that difference is that while mediocre is simply acceptable, average can be extraordinary.

picture this scene: you’re walking down the street and you see a man walking opposite you with a distraught look on his face and a tear in his eye. you know the torah says v’ahavta l’reacha kamocha so you make eye contact with him and wish him a good morning and hatzlacha. you continue on your way.

what you don’t know is that earlier that day, that man lost his job because he had been coming late for the past month. his wife is in the hospital with cancer, and the doctors aren’t sure she will make it. they are trying everything they can, but she isnt responding well to treatment. she has begun losing hope, and as a result so has her husband.

he was on his way to see her when you smiled at him and offered your friendly greeting. he was worried, how he would pay for the treatment now that he had lost his job, and how he and his 6 children will manage without their beloved mother. but there you were, offering him a kind word and a smile when it seemed that the world was closing in on him ready to devour him. when it seemed that he had nothing left. when it seemed he had not a friend at all, you were there for him to offer your smile and a kind word.

your phone rings. it’s your wife asking you to pick up a few things from the grocery. you smile to yourself, roll your eyes, and get to it. your exchange with that man already forgotten.

that man however, because of you, wipes the tear from his eyes. he looks up at heaven, and with a hint of a smile on his lips he thanks Hashem for all that he has and offers a prayer for his wife and children. he continues to the hospital where he sees his wife lying there on the bed white as the sheets enveloping her, wasting away. tubes trail out of her arm, and her face is contorted in pain. he sits down beside her on the bed and smiles down at his wife. “Chana, are you awake?” she nods her head. still she does not look at him.

he takes her face in his hands and turn it toward him. “everything will be alright. B’ezras Hashem you will get better. you will return home in time for pesach, and we will celebrate your liberation from this hospital and your disease. never give up hope. we’re all here for you.”

she looks up at him with hope in her eyes and barely manages to whisper “yekusiel, what changed?” you seem different.”

“i met a friend on the way over here” he says with a smile on his face and a tear in his eye, “he reminded me that we are not alone in this world. he reminded me that no matter how bleak a situation may seem, one should never lose hope.”

she looks away from her husband, a smile on her face now as well and falls into a gentle sleep as he sits by her bedside holding her hand.

weeks pass and miraculously she recovers. the doctors cannot explain it, but somehow her tumors have shrunk and the chemo seems to be working. she arrives home a week before pesach, and the entire family celebrates their mothers liberation from sickness and the hospital.

all because of one simple action that you did. a seemingly insignificant action. a seemingly AVERAGE action. however, it was far from average. it was extraordinary.

you don’t need to find your calling in life. live life as you should and your calling will find you.

no…what we NEED is for some radical conservative to get into office, and cut every single social program in existence. that way you wont get arrogant kolel brat types who think that they are entitled to everything they want with no need to do anything themselves.

and perhaps your average bright eyed brainwashed seminary clone will realize that those who do not or can not sit in kolel are jewish as well.

dont get me wrong…i have no problem with kolel. simply the mentality. the mentality that can allow some 20 something year old shnook to demand that his and her parents pay for everything while he sits all day and possibly learns. (or sits around the coffee room and schmoozes)

if a guy wants to sit in kolel he has to realize that he has nothing coming to him and that if teh time comes where he needs more money, he is NOT to demand it from someone else, rather he MUST get a job.

the guys have to realize that teh burden of parnassah is on THEM and NOT on their parents. the girls have to realize that there werent always kollelim for every young idiot to go to. they have to realize that their own grandparents did not sit in kolel. that the majority of jews in europe did not go to beis medrash. that frum ehrlich people and work are not mutually exclusive.

so you’re right…but you’re preaching to the converted. the people on this forum obviously agree…its everyone else who ISNT here that youll have to convince.

but this topic is discussed with slight variations every single week over here. is it really impossible for people to remember what was said in those threads? i mean honestly…heres the conversation:

1) is it OK not to marry a kolel guy?

2) why not

3) but i wont look good in the eyes of X

4) dont marry for X marry for you

5) quote from rambam or other commentary

END OF DISCUSSION!

have i summed it up succinctly and correctly? can we stop going over the same subjects ad nauseum? perhaps the mods should sticky this thread and place a new rule in the guidelines: “if you plan on making a thread about kolel vs working/college, DONT! instead CLICK HERE!” with a link to the thread? just a suggestion…

design a computer virus…infect all teh computers in your area…then charge an arm and a leg to fix them 🙂

its just that they have teh tools youd need for everyday computing…but watered down. like google docs CAN work…its just not as good as office…media players are good, but not THAT good…etc…

i have tested Chromium and i really did not like it. just like the ipad it will take off, but serious users will still use windows and linux for their netbooks.