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  • in reply to: The Chumrah Song #1458117

    He’s not actually reading this thread (as far as we know).

    in reply to: Do you take your shoes off when at home? #1457482

    (My previous 2 posts were approved in reverse order.)

    in reply to: Do you take your shoes off when at home? #1457455

    Volozhiner, Brisker, or Kanievsky? (Probably the latter.) Which sefer?

    in reply to: Drug addiction #1457454

    The condition that prompted the prescription may end,
    putting an end to the legal acquisition of the drug as well.

    (Who says that all problems must be someone’s fault?)

    in reply to: Do you take your shoes off when at home? #1457456

    Goldersgreener, do you have some kind of shoe-related-topic detector? 🙂

    in reply to: Games not for Shabbos #1456431

    [I guess I should update Kitchen Rush and Time ‘n’ Space
    to “timers for pieces.” A Tale of Pirates also does that.]
    Mask of Moai [modeling clay, app]
    Mask of the Pharoah – see Mask of Anubis
    Wordsy [writing, timer]
    Arboretum [Final scoring can be a pain without writing]
    Fantasy Realms [Final scoring can be a pain without writing]
    Ex Libris [Final scoring can be a pain without writing]
    Rising 5 – Runes of Asteros [app] (It’s playable with a non-playing person
    instead of the app, but who really wants to be a game component if you
    don’t get to wear a silly costume and stand on an oversized gameboard?)
    SteamRollers – [writing]
    Whitehall Mystery [writing]
    First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet [app]
    Planet Surprise [scratch-off (each set of cards can only be played once)]
    Shop ‘N Time [app]
    Zombie Slam [app]
    Hearing Things [battery-powered noise-generating headphones]
    Blast Box [involves popping balloons]

    in reply to: The Incomplete Guide to Nice Little Card Games #1456339

    We’ve passed Chanukah, so I’m going to forget about Candle Quest
    (by Yehuda Berlinger) for now. Food themes may happen eventually.
    For now, here’s a game you can play without having to actually buy it.

    Kobayakawa
    3-6p (I’ve heard it’s best with 4) / 8^? / 15-20m

    You will need:
    Cards numbered 1-15
    4 tokens per player, plus 8

    Initial setup:
    Players start with 4 tokens. Another 8 tokens are placed in the center.
    Choose a starting player.

    Round setup:
    In each round, the deck is shuffled, and each player is dealt a card.
    One card is put in the center, face up. The rest of the cards remain
    as a deck in the center.

    Playing a round:
    On their turn, players take 1 of 2 possible actions:
    1. Draw a card, then discard either of your cards face up.
    2. Replace the center card with the top card of the deck.

    After each player has had a turn, each player (in turn order) must
    choose whether or not to pay a token to stay in the round.
    The players who paid then reveal their cards. The player with the
    lowest card adds the value of the center card to their own card,
    and then the player with the highest card wins all of the tokens paid
    that round, plus 1 token from the center. They also become the first
    player for the next round. At this point, players with no tokens left
    are eliminated from the game.

    Play 7 rounds. In the last round, you must pay 2 tokens to stay in
    (exception – if you only have 1, you can pay 1), and the winner of
    the 7th round gets 2 tokens (not 1) from the center.
    After the 7th round, the player with the most tokens is the winner.

    in reply to: The Chumrah Song #1455675

    To see Part 2, come to The SOCIAL CUE at…

    They’ve put that one up now, too.

    in reply to: Could we have dinosaurs if we wanted them? #1455669

    That’s “Canada goose.”

    in reply to: Golden Age Shiduchim #1454980

    I would guess that they’re just not generally publicized,
    due to those involved not being such community figures.

    in reply to: Bais yisroel #1454983

    Joseph, those guys probably don’t own hats.

    in reply to: Yisroel or Yisrael #1454978

    Please give examples of songs that sound out “Yisrael” as yis-roy-el.

    in reply to: Yeridas Hadoros #1453792

    Ultimately, we go back to the notion that there are objective standards through which one can measure the “gadlus” of the gadolim of today versus those of prior generations

    Actually, we simply trust in the gedolim of today – and of yesteryear –
    when they tell us that they are not as great as the earlier gedolim.
    They have also made such statements about the general population.

    in reply to: Yeridas Hadoros #1453782

    Blubluh:
    Rav Avigdor Miller interpreted it as meaning that you should not say
    “If only I had lived in a previous era, I would have been able to serve
    Hashem in a better way.”

    in reply to: Closing of the PETA Thread: Your Views On the Matter #1453781

    After looking over the usernames in the thread, I figured
    that was the one you meant.
    (The one I was talking about is not present in the thread.)

    in reply to: Yisroel or Yisrael #1453780

    It might help if you used actual pronunciation notation
    (I don’t know which non-kamatz sound you mean).

    How someone was grinded in his own grinding plant, because
    he didn’t listen to the Rav’s warnings about having a Mechitza.

    According to Tales for the Soul, the issue was mixed dancing.

    in reply to: Closing of the PETA Thread: Your Views On the Matter #1452677

    A certain username is a reference to an inappropriate work, but sounds fairly innocuous.
    I don’t know if that’s the one you’re talking about, though.

    in reply to: Is recreational cannabis muttar? #1451329

    But they know they can’t drive while high, right?

    in reply to: Can a live person be soulless? #1450368

    Avi, that Rambam doesn’t say what you claimed it said.
    Was your remark about the Narcotics Eviction Program a joke?

    in reply to: Every vote counts #1450501

    I remember seeing a news item a while ago in the Lakewood Shopper
    about a man winning a minor local office due to his own vote for
    himself because no one else had voted in that particular election.

    in reply to: Goral Hagra #1450267

    I don’t think the Goral haGRA is in the category of Kabbalah, Common Sense.

    in reply to: Is recreational cannabis muttar? #1450229

    Marijuana doesn’t impair judgment in the way alcohol does
    (causing users to drive despite their impaired ability), does it?

    in reply to: Natural #1450181

    (This thread has a terrible title.)

    I told them he received enough vaccinations in his life so just
    send me the religious exemption form and so they did.

    I wasn’t aware of the part of Judaism that mandates
    not being vaccinated under the circumstances.

    in reply to: Natural #1450114

    A common answer to this question is flight,
    but invulnerability is probably most useful.

    in reply to: OBGYN and best pregnancy book for first time #1448499

    What might such goals be?

    in reply to: Yeridas Hadoros #1448500

    does yeridas hadoros mean that people are intrinsically on a lower level
    than they used to be … or does it mean that the later generations have the same
    potential for greatness as earlier generations…

    The former.

    in reply to: The Chumrah Song #1448488

    To see Part 2, come to The SOCIAL CUE at Epstein’s Meats
    in Lakewood on January 21st, from 7:00 PM and on. All proceeds to
    Yeshiva Ateres Yisroel building campaign.

    in reply to: Goral Hagra #1448491

    So that’s what happens when you raw-link other threads…
    To see Some Common Sense’s post, highlight its text by
    starting from higher up, then copy and paste it.

    in reply to: Can a live person be soulless? #1446752

    Avi, are you absolutely sure that the Rambam says a sheid is a
    (human) body without a soul, and not a soul without a body?

    in reply to: Cognitive Dissonance: Marrying a Smoker. #1446748

    Some of the same poskim posken that sports are assur.

    (Not to play, I’m sure.) Which poskim would that be?

    in reply to: Can a live person be soulless? #1446753

    If such forces taking over dead bodies was a thing, I would
    think that we’d hear of it in more than a single story.

    (“Shedim taking over the apartment is an dead couple” is gibberish.)

    in reply to: What do you think? #1446739

    I regret bumping this one.
    Ubiquitin, my intention was to point out the absurdity of the
    OP’s question, not to raise actual concerns of my own.

    in reply to: Can a live person be soulless? #1444424

    Sheidim/demons are not humans, just as, for example,
    potatoes or elephants are not humans.

    in reply to: Can a live person be soulless? #1444423

    “[O]ne who does not feel any holiness within himself at all
    can be sure that he does not possess even* a neshama;
    he has no contact with the neshama, for it has completely
    left him. It will return only if and when he does teshuva.”
    -Strive for Truth, vol. 1, page 211. Rav Dessler says this in the name of
    his rebbi – I think he was Rav Tzvi Hirsch Braude (son of the Alter of Kelm).

    *An earlier part of the paragraph was about the neshama yeseira of Shabbos.

    in reply to: Aleph beis is programming code #1444422

    let’s not argue about their kashrus

    Seeing as they were written by non-Jews,
    there will certainly be no argument.

    in reply to: Cosmetics Safety #1444400

    Having read some of Ready Now’s posts in the past,
    I suggest that you ignore him/her entirely.

    in reply to: song #1443306

    I think you should have put at least the name of the song in the thread title.

    in reply to: Sharing Your Armrest on the Plane… Amusing Solutions #1441465

    ( q costa rica dot com)

    That seems to be a Costa Rican news website.

    in reply to: Why Would a Girl Even Want to Learn Talmud? #1441434

    Like try learning the story of rabba shechting Rav Zeira on Purim one year,
    reviving him the next day through davening, and then not only NOT doing
    teshuva for slaughtering someone, but cheerfully offering to do it again
    the next year.

    His host offered to eat again together the next year, not to slaughter
    him again. Also, some interpret the wording to mean that Rav Zeira
    was forced to drink too much wine (as opposed to having his throat slit).
    As for doing teshuvah, serious intoxication was involved – perhaps
    things done only due to such a state do not require teshuvah.

    in reply to: Bochur not getting dates #1441435

    so much for the myth that the bochurim have lists

    A post that does not actually confirm the perception that
    frum people don’t understand what “anecdotal evidence” is.
    (In this case, it wouldn’t make sense anyway.)

    in reply to: Gog umagog #1441383

    The holocaust didn’t result in much teshuva in fact many people went off.
    Ours is a very weak generation and we need positive reinforcement.

    You make it sound like the Ribbono shel Olam needs
    a lesson in how to be mechanech this generation…

    in reply to: Must a Shul Select Only Someone Who Is Married To Be Chazan? #1441373

    It is by far more important that the person who will lead the davening
    suffer and cry through the screaming of the words be married.

    You might want to rewrite that.

    I forgot about Codenames Duet, a cooperative 2-player version with
    double-sided grid cards in which both players give clues to each other.
    (They have 15 words, 3 of which appear on both players’ sides, and
    each side has 3 Assassins, 1 of which is one of the other side’s words.
    Players take turns in any order, but there’s a limit on the number of turns.)

    Would you have enjoyed the game more in this case if instead of
    posting more of the rules as the game went along, I would simply
    have marked guesses correct or incorrect and informed you that
    certain words were no longer in play?

    Here’s a game overview (not copied from any website).
    It doesn’t have the details of what clues are legal, but you
    don’t need those until you’re actually about to play.
    Codenames – A party game for 2 teams in which each team’s captain
    attempts to have their teammates correctly guess which of the
    words in a 5×5 grid of word cards their team has been assigned.
    (200 double-sided cards are included.)
    The captains sit on a different side of the table than the
    rest of the players, with a grid card in front of them that
    shows them which words belong to which team.
    8 words will be assigned to one team and 9 to the other,
    7 words will remain neutral, and one word will cause an
    instant loss for the team that guesses it. Demonstration:
    1 – 1 – 2 – 2 – N
    2 – N – X – 1 – 2
    1 – 2 – N – N – 1
    N – 1 – 2 – 2 – 1
    N – 1 – 2 – 1 – N

    The captains also have 25 corresponding markers.
    (The team with 9 words goes first.) On a team’s turn, their
    captain gives them a 1-word clue (following certain rules)
    and also gives them a number, which tells them how many
    of their words the clue refers to. (The captains may not communicate
    in any other way with their teammates over the course of the game.)
    The rest of the team must then attempt to guess words that belong
    to their team – they must make at least 1 guess, but can make up to
    one more than the number they were given (allowing them to also
    guess words from previous clues – the captain might give an inflated
    number for that reason – or to make random guesses when desperate).

    Teams can and should discuss their thoughts. To guess a word,
    a team member puts their finger on the word card. When a word
    is guessed, the team’s captain marks it with the correct marker;
    that is, whether the word was theirs or not, its identity is revealed.
    If the word did belong to the guessing team, their turn continues,
    but if they guessed a neutral word or one of the other team’s words,
    their turn is over. If the guessed word was the Assassin, the team
    immediately loses the game. Otherwise, play continues until all of
    one team’s words have been identified – that team wins.
    (The game includes a timer in case of slow players.)

    [2-player variant: The 2 players are the team with 9 words.
    After each of their turns, mark 1 of the other team’s words.
    The object is to win as quickly as possible (and not to lose).
    3-player variant: One player acts as guesser for both teams.]

    (Codenames Pictures has the same gameplay but instead uses a 4×5 grid
    of black-and-white pictures, each with strangely combined elements.)

    in reply to: Question I don’t know the answer to :) 🤔 #1440737

    I think your last paragraph is better than your second-to-last paragraph.
    That is, I’m unsure of this “system” concept, but the notion that there
    are things beyond our understanding is fine.

    in reply to: Why Would a Girl Even Want to Learn Talmud? #1440736
    in reply to: Socks #1440734

    The comment was obviously in jest, and plantation-owner-hatred isn’t a thing.

    Joseph, I do have multiple pairs of socks, but all except
    the ones I was wearing at the time had been washed.

    in reply to: Yeshivish Cars 🐎🐎 #1440732

    (Looks like the Editor himself still mods. Interesting.)

    CT Lawyer, do you specifically avoid Japanese cars? (If so, why?)

    older than half your age minus twenty
    Until you’re over 40, every car qualifies, and it doesn’t
    reach, for example, an 8-year minimum until you’re 56.

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