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  • in reply to: Is Costco Worth it? #1193362
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    Like others said, the quality of what they sell, including notably their store brand “Kirkland Signature” (unlike most other places store brands), is generally absolutely top notch.

    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822598
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    Correct, the downward spiral has been long in coming.

    in reply to: Broken Telephone #5 #706223
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    And my passenger never even blinked!

    in reply to: Secular Library – Frum Children #702633
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    ICOT: Once he mistakenly reads inappropriate material, even considering how quickly he slams that book shut, it has the potential to have already corrupted the mind.

    in reply to: Broken Telephone #5 #706221
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    Of course, I was on the hot air balloon!

    in reply to: Secular Library – Frum Children #702632
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    RSRH: See the Mishna in Sanhedrin 10:1.

    in reply to: Broken Telephone #5 #706218
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    Go fly a balloon, you know.

    in reply to: Secular Library – Frum Children #702627
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    And who said Barnes and Noble is anymore kosher?

    in reply to: Will Rav Amnon Yitzchak manage to change the music industry? #701568
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    WIY: Rav Moshe has a specific psak muttiring sitting on a train/bus next to them for the reason he gives — which are not necessarily applicable to a concert or potentially unruly situation.

    in reply to: The Word Chain Game #706575
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    Workhorse

    in reply to: Broken Telephone #5 #706213
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    He needs a truck.

    in reply to: Broken Telephone #5 #706211
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    He’s shooting, duck!

    in reply to: Secular Library – Frum Children #702624
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    gaw: I take it you are opposed without, and support with. Correct analysis?

    arc: Whatever internet censoring might exist, is bare minimum. Not the kind of stuff you would allow into your home. (At home you can filter the internet for business and sites like YW.)

    in reply to: Tuition and Report Cards #701470
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    SJS: Will you give up your Air Conditioning in the summer, if you cannot afford the full school tuition?

    in reply to: Will Rav Amnon Yitzchak manage to change the music industry? #701566
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    You can always ask the gedolim in question who are named as having assured the concerts. Many are reachable.

    in reply to: The Word Chain Game #706573
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    Plate Frames.

    in reply to: Secular Library – Frum Children #702619
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    Virtually every public library in America has uncensored internet access.

    in reply to: The Word Chain Game #706561
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    Ginger Ale

    in reply to: Secular Library – Frum Children #702613
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    ICOT: How do you know what your kids read in the library (and don’t bring home)?

    in reply to: The Word Chain Game #706559
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    Door Knob

    in reply to: Common Hungarian Words #701276
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    in reply to: Rabbi Yehuda Levin – Open Discussion #701338
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    Moq: That is your contention. I know of no source the psak of Rav Elyashev was ever retracted. Please present it. Even reading FMF’s above comments seems to indicate his wife abides by Rav Elashev’s original shaitel psak. The idea Rav Elyashev “quietly retracted” comes across as a way out of abiding by the psak. What about the Lipa (and others) concert? Was Rav Elyashev and the other gedolim’s decree thereof forbidding it also “quietly retracted”? Or are we still forbidden from attending such concerts? (FMF is consistent on this point, as he said he avoids the concerts and shaitels. But others are picking which psak gedolim they like.)

    in reply to: Secular Library – Frum Children #702610
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    charliehall – were you frum at the time (as a child)?

    in reply to: Other Uses For Tallesim #701998
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    I once observed someone blow (or wipe) his nose into his talis.

    in reply to: Will Rav Amnon Yitzchak manage to change the music industry? #701561
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    It’s mixed seating.

    in reply to: Will Rav Amnon Yitzchak manage to change the music industry? #701559
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    I always sit with family and we never have an issue of men sitting next to women they aren’t related to.

    How is that possible? Your family has a mechitza all around it? Where are the “other” families sitting? Not at where your family ends?

    in reply to: Some basic Halacha that is ignored in 100% of shuls by 99% of the Kahal #708612
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    if someone is davening in a public aisle he’s a nuisance and one may lift him up and put him somewhere that he will not be in anyones way.

    What if the two or three guys moving him, drop him?

    in reply to: Global Warming #701592
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    It’s getting cold in my neighborhood.

    in reply to: Limericks! #1221133
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    A YOUNG YESHIVA BOCHER NAMED MOSES

    DRESSED IN BLACK FROM HIS HEAD TO HIS TOESES.

    HE LEARNED DAY AND NIGHT,

    EVEN BY CANDLELIGHT,

    HE SO TIRED THAT IN CLASS HE JUST DOZES!!

    THERE’S A YOUNG JEWISH LADY NAMED CARRIE

    TOLD HER FOLKS SHE WAS READY TO MARRY!

    HER DAD SAID “COR BLIMEY”

    “I HOPE IT’S A HYMIE

    AND NOT ANY TOM, DICK OR HARRY”!!

    MR.LEVY BUMPED INTO MR. COHEN,

    “TELL ME MAX ARE YOU COMING OR GOIN'”

    “MY TAX INSPECTER IS DUE

    THAT’S ALWAYS A TO-DO,

    I’M NOT SURE IF I’M TO-ING OR FRO-ING”!!

    THERE’S NO FUTURE FOR OUR MOTHERHOOD,

    AS YOUNG GIRLS WILL BE MISUNDERSTOOD.

    LOW CUT BLOUSES AND SHORT SKIRTS

    MAKE THEM ALL LOOK LIKE FLIRTS,

    AND GO AGAINST THE RULES OF THE TALMUD!!

    THERE WAS A YOUNG RABBI NAMED HADLEY

    WHOSE CONGREGATION TREATED HIM BADLY.

    A HOUSE IN A POOR STREET

    HE COULD NOT MAKE ENDS MEET,

    HE WALKED FROM HIS POST RATHER SADLY.

    THE CONGREGATION BUILT A NEW SHUL* *BET KNESSET

    THE COMMITTEE SAID “LET’S HAVE A POOL”

    THE POOL DREW IN THE FLOCK

    AT ALL HOURS OF THE CLOCK,

    IT WAS LIKENED TO AN ADULT PLAYSCHOOL!!

    in reply to: Common Hungarian Words #701273
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    in reply to: Rabbi Yehuda Levin – Open Discussion #701332
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    R. Levin’s contention was by the Corzine voting issue in NJ and the John Heyer voting issue in Willi, that the gedolim were misled as to the underlying facts that were used to render a decision. That is similar to what Moq is describing regarding the Indian sheitel situation.

    My point is to remain consistent. Truthfully I am troubled anytime, including here, that it is contended that the gedolim were misled. Troubled by those making such a contention. And I was similarly troubled by those making that contention by the Indian sheitel issue and the Lipa concert. The fact remains that in both those cases the gedolim issued a declaration it was assur — and NEVER retracted. If in fact they were misled as to the underlying facts leading to the decision, they would make public — just as they had the prohibition — that it was based on faulty underlying info. They hadn’t by neither the sheitels or concerts. So yes, I’m troubled by this contention too on this issue.

    in reply to: Some basic Halacha that is ignored in 100% of shuls by 99% of the Kahal #708607
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    WIY: My underlying point is that often, in some shuls, you will find yourself “stuck” when trying to go to the Sefer Torah by laining, leave after davening, etc. — all times the minyan finished S”A, but some latecomers are still saying it in a strategic place that prevents some mispallelim from moving anywhere.

    I’m not saying you are wrong, just pointing out the problem.

    in reply to: Shidduchim, What do boys look for in a girl? #712693
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    i find it hurtful that it matters what a girl’s brother and father are like

    Chazal tell us to look at a girls brothers (as her children may turn out like them) and Chazal also say to marry a bas talmid chochom.

    in reply to: Other Uses For Tallesim #701986
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    HLM: Someone that does that is very much an exception. Few men would c”v do something like that.

    in reply to: Rabbi Yehuda Levin – Open Discussion #701328
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    FMF: Do you take the same position about those that say the gedolim were misinformed about Indian sheitels or concerts (i.e. Lipa, etc.)?

    Do you maintain that those who makes such claims (that the gedolim were misinformed about such issues — sheitels, concerts, et al) are being mevaze the gedolim, and that we must in fact boycott Indian sheitels and the concerts in question per the decisions of the gedolim?

    in reply to: Some basic Halacha that is ignored in 100% of shuls by 99% of the Kahal #708603
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    WIY: What do you do when leaving Shomer Shabbos and the only path out is through in front of someone in middle of S”A (and the minyan is not in middle of S”A — the minyan is finished.) The person must stand there for 5 minutes until the latecomer who just started S”A finishes?

    in reply to: Common Hungarian Words #701271
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    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822586
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    [we should do so]

    Even those gays who do not engage in Sodomy are still prohibited from marrying each other. This is because, as the Rema mi’Panu records [3:21], there is even a prohibition for Noachides merely to draw up marriage contracts for homosexuals [Chullin 92a-b] [Bava Metzia 75b] this passage to prohibit causing a person to be in a situation in which he is likely to transgress a commandment. In addition, it is clear from Tosafos (throughout the first perek/chapter of Avodah Zarah) that this rule (of not causing others to sin) applies even to a Noachide.

    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822585
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    RSRH: The aforementioned gemorah is clear that toeiva marriage is a clear-cut violation of the 7 mitzvos.

    Additionally it is clear, that these abominable promoters are openly, gleefully, and unashamedly engaged in the forbidden “action” in question. And THAT (the action) is what they are demanding be legitimized.

    And like others above have mentioned, why are you and the toeiva marriage supporters not promoting legalized marriage between Mother and Son as well as between Brother and Sister?

    Do us all a favor and read the gemorah. It is difficult to believe someone who believes in the Torah is taking your position. And it will be doubly difficult to believe you maintain that position after correctly understanding the gemorah.

    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822576
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    Yes, RSRS, there is a difference between action and taaivos. When these degenerates demand marriage, they are saying loud and clear they mean ACTION. It is difficult to believe I am reading a Jew actually defending these deviants. A “domestic relationship” is action. I doubt anyone who attends those filth pride parades will deny they are engaged in action. In fact, they will cheerfully spit in your face that they mean action. And that is even without “marriage” — which by definition stands for action.

    The gemora (Chullin 92a) that says that the nations of the world, however sinful, corrupt or perverse, still have the merit of at least three behaviors, one of which is “they do not write a kesubah for males.”

    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822573
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    RSRH: Mishkav zochor is a violation of the Sheva mitzvos and carries a death penalty for goyim. They are required to observe the sheva mitzvos by the force of law. Furthermore, the gemora says goyim outlawing mishkav zochor marriage is the reason they are not destroyed.

    fabie: charlie regularly distorts historical accounts completely out of context to promote his leftist agenda.

    in reply to: Some basic Halacha that is ignored in 100% of shuls by 99% of the Kahal #708590
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    BTW, what is someone (who is properly makpid on this) supposed to do when walking into or out of a packed shul, with there being no way to move almost anywhere without passing someone in middle of S”A? (Including times when the minyan is NOT in middle of the quiet S”A.)

    in reply to: Shemoneh Esrei – starting with minyan #1139913
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    “IF YOU CANNOT SAY FROM ???? ??? BEFORE AMIDA FORGET ????? ??????”

    What you are saying is that you must start saying from ???? ??? through the Amida, and then afterwards can say what was missed (before ???? ???)?

    in reply to: Shabbat at a hotel? #702763
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    But you can’t ask a goy directly to violate Shabbos for you.

    in reply to: Some basic Halacha that is ignored in 100% of shuls by 99% of the Kahal #708589
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    Ignored in 100% of shuls by 99% of the Kahal ??? What in the world are you talking about? This is followed by quite a number of people!!

    in reply to: Shemoneh Esrei – starting with minyan #1139908
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    If arriving right before Shemoneh Esrei for the last or only minyan in town, should you start S”A with the minyan — and daven everything else afterwards?

    Does it make a difference between Shachris/Mincha/Maariv?

    in reply to: Common Hungarian Words #701268
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    in reply to: Good Haskafah Sefer #867113
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    WIY: Are you an Artscoll sales agent? 🙂

    in reply to: Common Hungarian Words #701266
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    Pont itt, most!

    in reply to: Broken Telephone #5 #706205
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    There you can dance.

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