Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
The point of these stories is to show an instance in which you can see the point of what happened. A story consisting of “a man broke his foot” would not allow you to see the point, so we don’t tell such stories.
I first ask Hashem to give me Siyata D’Shmaya (I am
serious)
Isn’t it sad that that parenthetic statement could be thought necessary?
I thought this would be a post on Synesthesia. Google it.
I didn’t have to. 🙂 A day is not a sensory experience… think Black Friday.
Ohr Somayach and Sh’or Yoshuv come to mind.
Do you mean that husbands and wives should sit down and describe
the people they know to each other, trying to match them up?
2) if it drops do you need to kiss it?
For what it’s worth, I’m pretty sure I saw someone post that you don’t,
unless the device is used exclusively for davening.
And some married people are like that too.
🙂
limaysa he was mevayesh a guy berabim.
Is it so terrible to do it once?
There are sources indicating that doing it once does not
cause a person to lose their cheilek in Olam Habo.
I will (be”h) be posting lyrics from 4 songs by one
(Jewish) artist, going from most obscure to least.
Let’s see how long it takes until the artist is identified.
1 of 4:
Sometimes people tell me / That I’m tall
As if that ever meant something significant
Oh my G-d, you must play basketball
As if that ever meant something significant
Sometimes people tell me / That they like my hair
(It’s a lot funnier when my peyos are down)
As if that meant something significant
(Which it does, but that’s besides the point)
Sometimes I think / Perhaps ’bout twice a year
Someone somewhere says something significant
Oh, I’m trying not to fool ya
If you think you’re so cool, ya ain’t nothin’
Oh, recycled opinions are typical of the minions
Who don’t / Know / Anything at all about themselves
“kvetch di button ut azoi”
“Shabbos Goy,” by Country Yossi.
Personal customer service agent, businessman, psychologist,
online maggid, possible troll…
Yes, we must now deal with people bumping really old
threads, which they could not do 7 years ago. 😉
Whether it’s socially accepted or not, you have
the right to object if you don’t like it.
(I meant “pieces of foam shaped like guns,” not “guns that shoot foam.”)
I find a mention of anonymity from you amusing,
CTLAWYER (not that I know who you are yet).
Who’s the family patriarch when you’re wearing a skirt?
You are, assuming you’re Scottish… But if that was in response
to This name is already taken, he didn’t say he ever wore a skirt.
Quote:
“If this were a French coffee room, and such jokes and false rumors
were being told about Jews” – I think that’s as far as that needs to go.
multiple universes (so I guess its okay to talk about since
in the past that was only something that came up in kabbalah’dik literature).
Aren’t those all part of a single interlocking chain,
and reflective of each other, while those theorized by
scientists would have nothing to do with each other?
(I’ve seen it claimed that this theory is just a way
to sidestep the obviousness of this universe’s capability
to support life being ludicrously unlikely to exist,
so much so that one would assume it was specifically designed for it…)
Why is it always AFTER I hit the send post button,
that I notice all the typos & misorganized sentences?
I don’t know, but there’s an edit button for that.
Be more careful when starting threads, though,
because you can’t edit them until they’re approved.
why do you always think of the extremely witty rejoinder to
someone’s comment after you’re leaving the party, on the way
down the stairs?
The French have a term for this phenomenon – “l’esprit d’escalier,”
which translates as “the spirit of the stairway.” (Maybe that’s
where he got it from – the stairs are a rather specific reference.)
Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand?
Because it counts the seconds, of course.
Did Noach have woodpeckers on the Teivah?
If he did, where did he keep them?
Anywhere. Woodpeckers don’t peck at random –
they can hear insects moving underneath the bark.
Reb Betzalel Milchiger (not his actual last name, which I don’t remember).
According to a comment on another website,
it was sour milk that he dipped his hat in.
mw13, two thumbs up.
Ask yourself the following question: What’s the last thing
you look at before you go to bed and the first thing you touch
when you wake up in the morning?
And if the answer is “my alarm clock,” what does that imply?
Regarding the “parallel” to gun control, no one has the idea that
the very possibility of going out and shooting people will tempt
any normal person. The same is not true of the Internet.
How seriously the danger of the ‘Net is taken by someone
is generally how opposed they will be to a smartphone.
The questions of why we daven, seeing as Hashem knows what we need
and wants to give us whatever is best for us, and why we daven for specific things, despite not knowing if they would actually be what’s best, don’t appear to have anything to do with whether we are using our free will*. Our free will is not about controlling the course of events through prayer (although in a way, it might be possible, depending on the circumstances), but about the moral decisions we make – what we do,
not what Hashem does.
(*Of course, free will must be used in order to daven.)
#3, achake loi bechol yom sheyavoi. Period. Don’t doubt it for one second that Moshiach won’t come tomorrow. Part of the Ikrei Haemunah.
If it was an Ikar of Emunah yesterday that Moshiach would
come today, what now? Obviously, that is a misinterpretation.
It means to wait in anticipation for him to come, not to
believe that he is definitely coming at any specific time.
They probably didn’t look like that 25 years ago.
(One of these days, my subtitle is liable
to get “(and not a mod)” added to it…)
Kosher fandom? We really(NOT meant sarcastically) need one of
those.
For Harry Potter, or a general forum for fandom-type things?
(I’ve had this sitting around for a while now, since
shortly after I saw the ad with the information…)
An organization, by offering $10,000 for a successful match
between a girl* of age 25 or older and a boy within a year of
her age or younger, was able to bring about 58 engagements,
out of 882 couples who met. In other words, 93.4% of the
shidduchim did not result in an engagement.
*(Only if not previously married,
and living in North America)
So, what did you decide?
There is no question that I wasted much more time watching TV growing up than I currently do on my phone. Not sure if I can give a good explanation as to why that is so[…]
How’s this one? – You had much more free time as a kid.
Who wants to point foam guns at each other? (I do.)
Do you have any proof that Matisyahu’s father died before
he gave his son the same name? (I think I remember reading a
depiction of him being alive at the time of the Chanuka story.)
The word “Hellenist” sounds a teeny, tiny bit like “Chiloni.” Coincidence?
As much as anything can be said to be coincidental.
According to Wiktionary, “hellenist” is
from Ancient Greek ?????????? (hellenistes) “somebody who speaks Greek”, from ?????????? (hellenizein) “to speak Greek, to make Greek, to become Greek, hellenize”, from Ancient Greek ????? (Hellen) “Greek”.
“Chiloni,” on the other hand, is a Modern Hebrew word derived
from the Hebrew “chol,” meaning “ordinary, not holy.”
(I think what I meant was that I was writing about relying on a description. Someone’s middos can be described, and you then know
what their middos are (so far as the information was accurate),
but a description of looks isn’t nearly, if at all, as helpful.)
Perhaps they named after grandfathers and great-grandfathers first.
You need to find the page on Google, then click on the green
down-arrow which appears next to the URL, then click “Cached.”
What did he answer?
In any case, my point was that R’ Matisyohu encouraged the child
to take a particular food because it tasted better, which does
not fit with an idea presented in this thread by a poster.
There’s a story about Rav Eliyahu Dessler taking out a large sefer
and looking into it before telling a woman that her fish, which
was lacking a liver, was kosher (there is no halacha of a t’reifah
regarding fish). He explained to a talmid who was standing by that
if he did not treat every question with respect, people would
hesitate to come to him with their questions.
Welcome back. 🙂
You insinuate that music is nothing more than notes
I say so flat out, and if you have something else for it to be,
besides notes and percussion, please tell us what else it is.
and contains nothing of the composer
Where’s it meant to contain him? Is the composition a thing
that now exists, independent, somewhere in the universe?
(If there’s a sefer that says so, go ahead and quote it.)
and has little or no power
I didn’t even insinuate that. Music obviously has power, but its ability to,
say, bring people to do teshuva, does not mean that music which
is not experienced as life-changing has any significant ongoing
effect unbeknownst to the listener.
The power of music comes from your response to it – it is not something inherent in the music, as tone-deafness proves.
Exhibit A: A large majority of Jews (who listen to
classical music) who don't listen to Wagner.This has nothing to do with this. Whether music “contains its
composer” or not, it is identified with its composer and some Jews,
most of whom, in fact, aren’t religious, have an issue with Wagner.
…
[Ed.: – That last point is heavily disputed].
Zahavasdad, that sounds kind of like assuming anyone
who listens to Jewish music listens to “Hava Nagila.”
???? ????? ???? – My precious child
???? ?? ???? – Where you are
??? ???? – (I don’t know. ??? means only.)
????’? ???? ??????? ?????? – On the heart so many woes/pains
???? ???? ??? ??? ??? ?????? – My child, I hear you crying
????? ??? ???? ???? ??? ??? ??? ????? – For I stand beside you and I cry
?? ????? ??????? ???? ?????? – You should never think
?? ??? ?? ???? ??????? – That only you cry
????, ???? ????, ???? ??????? ???? ????? – No, my child,
you are never alone
(Note: ?????? means crying out,
whereas ??????? means crying as in weeping.)
Google Translate helped me with ????.
He is correct.
your having dismissed something based on not being sure if wikipedia’s definition fit
Actually, I wasn’t dismissing it, and said that it did fit
(although as I mentioned there, I might think it fit even if it didn’t).
Gut voch (I don’t want to be late for “Ezk’rah.”)
Meno, read all of RebYidd 23’s posts in the thread in order.
DaasYochid, I assume he cites a source, which you,
being (I assume) in possession of the work, could provide.
you reached out for help and seemed overwhelmed by the responses,and deleted the thread
I just thought the thread had run its course and
didn’t feel like having it out there permanently.
(Maybe I was too impatient for the CR’s pace.)
i am not one to move on from scenarios like that without knowing things are moving forward.
It’s not what you were taught, eh? Well, they’re not. :/
That you reached beyond google (which seems to
have misled you)and someone in your life is helping
When I said that it had been considered, I meant
“by a professional,” not “I’ve considered it.”
that I took note of and mentioned in your deleted thread
that comment made by that “specialist”
I don’t think I saw that post. Are you sure it was approved?
If so, it may have been posted between when I requested the
deletion and when it actually happened, while I wasn’t there.
Music has a serious effect on ones neshama (for good or bad)
Let’s accept this for argument’s sake.
and contains in it part of the neshama/soul/intentions of the composer
Music is notes. When a musician plays a song, how does the
neshama/soul/intention of the composer get into the notes
that are being produced by his instrument?
I can’t find any Kusiel Ball records in the music store.
I wonder why. Is this whole thing an inside joke?
By the way, “Bubby I Love You” is a real song. Here’s a transcription:
Happy Mother’s Day to you
I love you very much
You’re the best thing in my life
You’re always there for me
[Chorus:
Bubby I love you
Happy Mother’s Day
Bubby I love you
You help me find my way]
You show me your love
And I thank you for that
With all your hugs and kisses
You make me feel so loved
[Chorus]
I know you love me too
You show me your love with just one[?] [inaudible]
You love me for who I am
And that makes me feel so good
[Chorus]