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I’d rather someone ask for a shul in Midwood where there is a wonderful Rav who says a wonderful d’rashah every Shabbos morning. Food for the soul is preferable to kishke for the boich.
Nonetheless, his resignation is a great Kiddush Hashem.
I mentioned that my info came from websites so that you could look the data up and would not accuse me of making it up, but it did not help as I was vilified anyway. So be it.
After my last post, I was calling it quits with regard to posting further about this topic. But I think this will be my very last.
apushatayid/ubiquitin: Every fact stated on my posts were copied from certified diabetic medical sites on the web and every one can be verified by anyone reading this post by checking the sites.
Sorry, next.
I’d love for anyone to correct me on the facts I’ve presented.
As you are aware, not all diabetics have similar requirements or reactions to devices. Continuous glucose monitoring systems are invasive and the sensor which is placed in the body is replaced every few days.
And you are correct; the continuous glucose monitors are very expensive: the monitor itself can cost up to $2000 and other material expenses are about $2500 per year. Whereas, the standard monitor is usually obtained free of charge and costs pennies per day to operate.
But even if you can own a continuous glucose monitor, the device is not as accurate and reliable as the standard monitor and still requires calibration with a regular blood glucose testing meters every few hours.
Maybe this is why I am not aware of any diabetics who own a continuous glucose monitoring system. Most insurance companies as well as Medicare do not cover continuous glucose monitoring systems and feel the higher costs are not justified.
What is the point of letting you know, it’s too late by then. A diabetic should be checking his blood on a regular basis anyway. And if it’s so great, why don’t all endocrinologists have their patients wear it.
“Continuous Glucose Monitors. Much more efficient insulin. Insulin pumps. Just to name a few.”
Your shirts can get cleaned by taking them to the river; scrubbing them using a wash board; hanging them on the line to dry; dissolving starch into water; and heating the iron on the coals. Or, you can just throw the shirts into the washer and dryer, take out the starch spray; and turn on the iron. Either way, your shirts get cleaned and pressed.
Same thing with diabetes: They can produce smaller test monitors/meters which retain all your blood sugar results, using test strips which can read a droplet of blood in three seconds; produce insulin pens which makes it more convenient to inject the insulin into the body; produce thinner pricking needles and injection needles; produce loads of support publications; and form support groups. However, for the majority, the disease is a killer which does not go away. Those suffering with it must be on top of it with great self-control to conquer life-long food practices and cravings.
Advancement? Like what? Either a diabetic changes his eating habits and starts to exercise daily (like telling a drug addict to just stop his habit), or he is finished.
And if you are frum, it is more difficult. Given there is a strong connection of frumkeit culture to food; it is especially tough for the frum diabetic to limit himself of foods which are harmful to him. Most times, either the food contains sugar or will turn into sugar after ingestion.
Most diabetics control the disease with diet, medication, and exercise. However, it’s not an exact science and at any time blood sugar levels can shoot dangerously high, or plummet seriously low.
Thankfully, most diabetics are already long into their marriages when the disease becomes full blown.
“Who are those poskim that don’t require a hechsher on regular cheese that contains multiple ingredients including rennet, albeit mostly microbial”
Rav Yoseph Ber Soloveitchik for one.
In order for this to succeed, they need to either split up or one escapee will need to kill the other.
mazal77 – I hope you see this.
Although your last posted four years ago on this topic, I just happened to read it. I hope your situation is not worse than it was back then. Your post is on target. You deserve and will receive a lot for managing and caring and loving; not everyone is able to handle it.
Some spouses do not become involved and that can be tragic for the diabetic. The illness is the cause of severe depression and this escalates the diabetic’s condition.
“We were actually thinking of just sending “please join us for dancing” cards to the entire list.”
Don’t be surprised if you only receive “please join us for dancing” gifts.
apushatayid, what you post is proof that what passes for “Jewish Music” today, is no different than the non-Jewish rock/rap/punk/yaba-daba-doo rubbush.
I think it’s wonderful that a thread which died four years ago had a t’chiyas ha’meisim. There are alot more which should be brought back.
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It would be a z’chus for me to receive tochacha from a tzadik. I’m ready Joseph when you are.
“I’ve never met a frum native Jew in my life.”
There is another fellow who married a girl from a g’yores background. His parents rejected their son eventhough he received a b’racha from Rav Moshe and his Rav before going ahead with the marriage.
So basically in these cases, it depends on how much emotional support one is receiving from friends and family and how much one is willing and able to endure (or lose).
“When my first child was born, my husband wanted to set up a “college fund” that we would contribute to, on a small basis, every month.”
There are couples who did not have money and paid the cheapest hall caterer, for the cheapest wedding, on the morning after the wedding, with the cash gifts given by the guests the night before. They went home after the wedding to an apartment that had a set of mattresses and a table and some chairs.
You can make a wedding in the gym of a local shul and have some start-up musicians and a start-up photographer. Who cares?
My feeling is that money does not have to stand in the way of marriage.
“Rav Dovid does hold like that since we don’t say tachunan by mincha already.”
But he probably does not listen to music except when at a seudas mitzvah.
So, since you have already consulted with your Rav, how did he advise you to handle this? Is the girl a shomeres mitzvos as well? Are your parents Orthodox and how are they handling this?
Generally, I think we could remove the racism issue if a perspective black chossen was a top learner in Lakewood or came with a huge realestate/stock portfolio.
The passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the beginning of the end in terms of real safety for Jews in the United States. It removed the diversions that had protected them.
A – Too many details missing from this story.
B – Speak to your Rav and if you don’t have one, get one.
C – You need to be armed with the blessings of a Gadol before you proceed.
Insulting a location where frum people live, especially with lies, via a frum website, shows a lack of sensitivity to the frum people who live there and who take the insults personally. My retort was meant to show that there is no ideal community, and I am privy to quite a few; we may have differing circumstances and issues but we all need to learn musser, work on our midos and yiras shomayim.
Is it my imagination, or is it true that just about every Rav and Posek and Jewish leader in Balimore was brought up in communities outside of Balimore. Hmmm…
If you are not going repudiate lies and attacks, then I won’t waste my time.
Interesting; I came to the defense of Brooklyn in response and after we were attacked by akuperma as per his post shown below:
” Frankly I’ld worry about New York City more. You have a lot of anti-semitic leaders with real clout such as Al Sharpton. Until recently you had a mayor who made cracking down on Bris Milah as his leading health care priority. To a large extent, secular Jews control much of New York politics, and we are always “in their sights”. Several areas with large frum populations in New York have serious crime problems – which are likely to increase given your current mayor. Leaving New York City might be a good idea”
But the people of Balimore accepted akuperma’s loshon hara. They could not tolerate, however, that I showed “kol haposel b’mumar posel” rings true.
Al Sharpton- NY? Hardly, he goes wherever he can stir up the community; mostly outside of NY.
Mayor who made cracking down on Bris Milah a priority? You mean Metzitze B’peh? I think the Rav and Posek from Baltimore is the leading global advocate of tubular suction rather than oral Metzitze B’peh. So don’t pin it on Bloomberg.
Secular Jews control much of New York politics? You mean like Dov Hikind, Simcha Felder, David Greenfield, Philip Goldfeder, Sheldon Silver…to name a few (not to mention Orthodox judges). How many elected Orthodox politicians in Baltimore?
Serious crime in large frum New York City populations? Like Borough Park, or Midwood, or Marine Park, or Mill Basin, or Ocean Parkway, or Forest Hills, or Kew Garden Hills, or Staten Island, or Upper Westside, or Upper Eastside, or Riverdale, etc., etc.
What about the Jewish areas of upper Park Heights? Everyday it reads like the police blotter. And don’t miss your nightly patrol duty or you will hear about it from everyone. There must be some reason that Baltimore is #2 in crime in the nation.
And there is so much Sinas Chinom and Loshon Hora which revolves around the fact that there are no school buses for yeshiva children in Baltimore and the entire frum population must arrange their day around carpooling, morning and evening. Paleeze, this is normal living?
I think I’ll stay in New York.
In 2014, while New York City was ranked #2 in safest USA cities with populations over 500,000; Baltimore was ranked second most dangerous city (Detroit was most dangerous -#1).
I prefer bageless lox.
NYC Summer Youth Program – the vast majority of applicants are selected.
Get Sour Salt (citric acid) in the spices section.
Minimum wage? Supplement with NYC Summer Youth Program funding via Torah Umesora.
I think a better name for this device is the Nisht Oif Shabbos G’ret Switch.
Where is Sharpton?
I think that if you are koveia seudah on the rolls, you have to wash/hamotzi/bench regardless.
The Goq – Cherrybim i have a painful awakening every time i hear of a frum jew committing a crime.
Yes, and I get physically sick too.
DaasYochid – “a device whose purpose is to perform a certain action cannot be considered a grama no matter the mechanism it uses. It would be a full fledged melachah.”
Except in situations such as a refrigerator or water cooler according to Rav Shlomo Zalman and Rav Moshe and numerous other g’dolei poskim who hold it is permitted even if the motor is off and opening the device will cause the motor to turn on; it is permissible and this includes an oven door according to Rav Moshe.
Joseph, how is it that some “members” don’t have their CR histories accessible?
I didn’t suggest anything.
I too had a painful awakening with this thread because as long as I did not know for sure, I was hoping that Dennis Prager was shomer mitzvos. While I had some doubts, however, “If he seems frum, and speaks like he’s frum, then he must be frum”, I thought to myself.
Well, you can’t have it both ways; it doesn’t work.
DY: Notwithstanding that it is assur, how is it like cooking a chulant where the “malacha” process is begun before Shabbos and continues as Shabbos comes in without you doing anything else to the cooking. With the KS Tools, you are doing/starting the “mutter” actions on Shabbos and upon the completion of the actions there is a new entity built (mishkan) which has nothing directly to do with the individual actions of the KS Tools.
Are you serious? The sefer is currently published by Feldheim with an English translation. The original Hebrew version can be found in every yeshiva and bais medresh. Reb Yisroel Salanter had his talmidim republish it as well.
Even if it were permitted to do these “malochos” on Shabbos with the Kosher Switch Tools, but at the end it’s still Boneh when its all put together.
Josepf, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lefin of Satanov, the m’chaber of the musar seifer Cheshbon HaNefesh, based portions of the seifer on Benjamin Franklin’s Thirteen Virtues.
So much for an Orthodox person not getting Jewish inspiration from someone non-Orthodox, in fact, many ba’alei t’shuva received their initial inspirations from non-frum sources.
By the way, Benjamin Franklin was a m’nuval of a person whose behavior is pretty much the norm in much of society.
DaasYochid: “CB, only under very limited circumstances, specifically, that you know that your adjustment will not initiate or stop a flow of electricity. The indicator light doesn’t ordinarily help for this, as it merely indicates if it’s set to maintain the programmed temperature.”
You are correct. It’s interesting how the Psak has evolved. Years ago, in communities where gas ranges were not an option, the Psak for electric ranges was simply as how I previously stated. Now, the accepted way is either as shown in the Star K publication or to obtain the Shabbos Mode electric oven per Rav Heinemann.
DY:You are not allowed to turn on, turn off, or adjust an electric stove on Y”T.
Slight correction. One cannot adjust an electric stove on Yom Tov when the burners operate with two coils. However, one is permitted to adjust an electric stove when the burners operate with one coil.
Rav Moshe’s shita for turning OFF the gas has nothing to do with a pilot light. However a pilot light enabled one to turn on a gas range on Yom Tov.