☢️ Rand0m3x 🎲

Do you know something I don’t, Neville?

(Maybe I’m just paranoid because an online game

I really like is closing at the end of the month.)

How old are they, what’s your budget, and what’s your time-frame?

(January 16)

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not a statement we fully agree with as Torah Jews,

but definitely something to keep in mind.

Perhaps you could try befriending a kollel family

and seeing some of the lifestyle yourself?

As regards general mentorship, I don’t know,

but I expect that someone here will have an idea.

either you get married young or wait and become an older single

Surely there’s an age in between…

I beg to differ. That thread is about books you want everyone to read, presumably because it would improve everyone’s lives, while

this thread is, I assume, a request for enjoyable books.

(Other book recommendation threads do of course exist, though.)

Also, I’m not sure that I remember anything so terrible from the Shakespeare plays we read in high school, but it could be it went past me or I wasn’t paying attention.

Some (probably not all) of Shakespeare’s inappropriate stuff

would most likely fly under the radar of a present-day frum

reader (especially, perhaps, at such a young age).

I think there’s a story about Rav Shach advising someone against

a shidduch with a boy who had made certain such conditions known,

saying that if he felt the need to make such statements before

marriage, he wasn’t very wise – these things could be arranged

after marriage, and his wife would respect his wishes. I don’t

know if this applies to all frum societies and in every generation…

I suggest asking Google such questions in the future.

I think you left out a word there. (The 1,825 what?)

After the 1967 there was a debate if it was a miracle or not and the Satmar Rebbe said it was no Miracle and either Rav Hutner or Rav Yaakov replied, I dont think Hashem needs the permission of the Satmar Rebbe to perform a miracle

As I read it, the Rebbe said that it was the work of the Samech-Mem;

Reb Yaakov disagreed.

That’s not the video’s title (and it isn’t a TED Talk itself).

The title is

What about a Chanukah sweater? Or Chanukah lights on a house?

By the way:

Xmas is a common abbreviation of the word Christmas. It is sometimes pronounced /??ksm?s/, but Xmas, and variants such as Xtemass, originated as handwriting abbreviations for the typical pronunciation /?kr?sm?s/. The “X” comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word ???????, which in English is “Christ.” The “-mas” part is from the Latin-derived Old English word for Mass. -Wikipedia

By “for a shidduch,” did you mean to date or to live with their husband?

One of my teachers-in-life always tells us not to go upside down near the mirrors. He stresses this in every group class. I avoid the mirrors because I’ve learned to trust him and his experience.

When I took his training, he told us how someone fell into the wall and two approx 10×6′ mirrors came shattering down.

Context, please.

Google tells me that he was in the Plashow work camp during World

War II, where he worked in the camp’s library along with other rabbanim

(from To Vanquish the Dragon, by Pearl Benisch – a book I’d recommend,

by the way), and that someone by that name published a sefer on

the Haggadah called Eretz Tzvi in New York in 1965. A genealogy

site has a listing for someone with his name (but with no date

of birth or death listed there, it can’t be confirmed) listed as

having been married to Reisel, daughter of Simcha Frankel, and

someone whose maiden name was Kartegener (first name unlisted).

There’s no problem with alphabet-shaped food not on Shabbos/ Yom Tov.

(Shabbos/Yom Tov might not be much of a problem either,

depending on the food in question.)

In case anyone doesn’t get the thread:

A while back (it was probably Purim time), the mods

changed a number of usernames to other usernames.

Someone beat me to it. From Rabbi Etan Tokayer:

[T]he Targum Yerushami cited by the Chizkuni explains that the malachim escorts were so excited by the presence of Yaakov Avinu that the went up to the Heavens to let all the other malachim know they had the chance to see a celebrity – Yaakov Avinu whose face was engraved on the Kisei Hakavod.”

(B1g B0y, that was this – “Another version reads (I think), malachim who said ?? ??????? ?????, they took credit for themselves, it was they who had to wait for this opportune time.”)

I didn’t foresee having to put myself here…

Randomex – original:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/profile/Comlink-X

(Clicking on my name brings up my original account’s profile.)

(Note: Codenames probably isn’t good for dates.)

You can get Perfect Matches from the PerfectMatchesGame website

(and probably in some Judaica stores).

Do you think a low-key restaurants would have

an issue with you playing a board game there?

I looked up this Brooklyn Strategist place.

Hours: Sun – Mon 11am – 8pm / Tue – Sat 11am – 11pm

Cost: $10-per-person to come in and play for 4 hours.

Address: 333 Court Street

What kind of games do you have in mind? I’m curious.

Can you post the Chizkuni too?

This was before we had You Tube to entertain ourselves. It makes me a little sad to think that the “Eggs” skit is no longer being performed anyplace. I hope that somewhere, somebody still knows what I’m talking about.

Have some kids do it, film them, and put it on YouTube. 🙂

Do you think it’s a problem for a girl to beat a boy at a game on a date?

…so I suspected he may have let me win the first time anyhow.

It shouldn’t be. (And that feeling is not one you want to give someone.)

This issue can be avoided with a cooperative game (a what?),

to the extent that one person cares more about the other’s

experience than about winning the game itself.

I’m surprised that so many here have a low opinion of playing boardgames. If you’ve gone out five times or so, how’s it different from dave and busters or bowling or archery?

I have a classroom speech from a sem teacher in which she says

that while Dave & Busters dates are accepted as essential, many

girls have told her they came back wondering what the point was…

(I have a high opinion of playing games in general, by the way.)

You can try to find a game that involves conversation. …there must be some… do you know of any? I actually recently saw a game that is meant for dates. It has questions to find out about the other person.

I wonder if I can guess what you saw. Pocket Ungame: Couples Edition (or some other version of The Ungame, called Tell It Like it IS in some editions)? The Jewish dating game, Perfect Matches? (I’d like to know more about that one, but my already-married brother won’t let me check out his opened-but-unused copy.)

That sort of thing is more conversation crutch than game, though.

Games in which you try to get another person to guess what you’re

hinting at might be fun to do as an activity (although they’re

usually designed for multiple teams of multiple people).

This includes things like Password, “$(amounts vary) Pyramid,” Taboo, Articulate!, etc. Probably the most modern one is Codenames or Codenames: Pictures, which include a 2-player cooperative mode. In them, there’s a grid of words (or pictures) on the table. One player tries to give one-word clues that apply to as many of them that are “yours” as possible while avoiding those that aren’t yours (especially the instant-loss one).

If taking turns adding to a story sounds good to you, you have

these options that I am aware of: 1. The competitive Once Upon a Time,

in which you try to get fairy-tale story element cards out of

your hand by using them in the story (or if the other person

mentions them, which passes the telling to you), then end the

story in a particular way. 2. Rory’s Story Cubes, which are a

bunch of dice with symbols on them that suggest story elements.

They can be used in a number of ways.