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@ CharlieHall, ” he and Manchin tried to get a gin control bill through Congress” how very purimdik, lol

Yup a much of amaratzim pakening their own shailos, an even better idea encapsulated your whole house and protect it with a electric fence, I am not paskening just giving a eitzah, just my gesture of ahavas yisroel.

Amarizim who think they know how to learn are rightfully canceled

@rational Try tuning up your car or replacing your own roof, its less dangerous paskening and not being qualified.

@Godal: Lets see, Dems who were out of town during a crises? not hard to find
1. Dinkins at a tennis match clueless at about the Crown Heights riots [or so he claimed]
2. Bloomberg [ a dem who flew under a GOP flag of convivence] in Bermuda during a major snow storm.
3. DeBlazio out of the country during a heavy snowstorm.
4. DC Mayor Berry at the Superbowl during a 4 feet snowstorm
just some quick examples

We are going to have a huge sudah like achavorosh with everyone showing up and drinking whatever they want, then we take a loudmouth feminist and dispatch her, then we we take a break and fast for a while, we then will set up a gallows in our back yard and hang up some people and then party again

@Reb E, why burden your Dentist or Car Mechanic you can do it yourself

@GH lets see the bigger hypocrite is: “What is more hyprocacy is Cruz preaching small government, self-reliance, neighbors helping neighbors, etc. When the going get tough in Texas, the tough get going (to Cancun) leaving their neighbors and constituents to freeze in the Dark.”
or
Mayor Bill de Blasio New York City Goes to gym after cautioning others to avoid them
Mayor Becky Ames Beaumont, Texas Goes to nail salon in violation of state guidelines
Gov. Andrew Cuomo Savannah, Ga. Engages in non-essential travel to Georgia despite strict N.Y. guidelines
District Attorney Diana Becton Contra Costa County, Calif. Prosecutes COVID restriction violators, but holds wedding in backyard
Mayor Jim Kenney Philadelphia, Pa. Travels to Maryland to dine indoors while indoor dining is prohibited in own city
Gov. Gavin Newsom Yountville, Calif. Attends fancy dinner party with no distancing, then lies about it
Judge Glen Whitley Fort Worth, Texas Hosts large Thanksgiving gathering after telling others not to host parties
County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl Los Angeles Votes to prohibit outdoor dining, then goes dining outdoors hours later
Mayor Michael Hancock Denver, Colo. Travels out of state for holiday despite telling citizens not to travel
Rep. Gwen Moore Washington, D.C. Shows up to House to vote for Speaker Pelosi despite COVID diagnosis
Just ten random examples of Democratic hypocrites in the fight against covid.
Please be intellectually honest and admit the above ten are the bigger hypocrites.

@Reb E, do you also do DIY root canal or limit yourself to paskening your own shailos?

@charlie hall,
“Cruz has opposed efforts to make Texas power suppliers and T&D companies in the ERCOT portions of the state, comply with the same reliability requirements as non-ERCOT Texas utilities and those in the other 47 states subject to FERC jurisdiction.”
Energy deregulation was pushed by both parties in Texas including Gov. Ann Richards, Around 1992 Texas governor Ann Richards started planning policy and technical initiatives for renewable energy, convinced that most of the previous attempts at energy independence had been little more than “a declaration of war in one place or another.”
Richards’ initiatives fed into the 1999 state electric market deregulation, signed by then-governor GW Bush, which included a 2,000 MW target for wind energy. By 2005, then-governor Rick Perry signed a bill that more than tripled the requirement with a goal of 2015.
So hardly a GOP plot.
And you have yet to respond to the very long long long list of Democat Covid hypocrites.
PS there are millions of NE snowbirds who are guilty of the same the that Cruz did, flee bad weather

Sorry, Ted Cruz is a Senator and there was nothing he could do about the cold snap other then being there and being cold with everyone, [the crises was brought on the the use of renewable energy when the wind turbines froze].
Far different then the liberal pols who were preaching social distance and no travel and doing the opposite. here is two prime examples:
Exhibit #1
The finance minister for Canada’s most populous province resigned Thursday after going on a Caribbean vacation during the pandemic and seemingly trying to hide the fact by sending social media posts showing him in a sweater before a fireplace.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he had accepted Rod Phillips’s resignation as minister hours after Phillips returned home from a more than two-week stay on the island of St. Barts despite government guidelines urging people to avoid nonessential travel.

“Travelling over the holidays was the wrong decision, and I once again offer my unreserved apology,” Phillips said in a statement confirming his resignation.

In a video posted on Twitter on Christmas Eve, the sweater-wearing finance minister was shown drinking eggnog beside a fireplace with a gingerbread house and a little Christmas tree.

“I want to thank every one of you for what we are doing to protect our most vulnerable,” Phillips said about Ontarians hunkered down at home because of the pandemic over the Christmas holidays.

But Phillips himself had been enjoying a Caribbean vacation since Dec. 13 on St. Barts, a French island popular with the rich and famous, even as his Twitter account had suggested he was in snowbound Ontario.

Opposition parties and health officials had called for Phillips to be fired from Cabinet. One party released video of a Zoom call showing Phillips participating — also while wearing a sweater — with a picture of the legislature as his backdrop, but with sounds like waves heard in the background.

The incident created a political problem for Ford, who acknowledged on Wednesday he knew Phillips was outside the country before it became public because Ford said he called Phillips “shortly after he arrived” in the Caribbean.
Ontario began a province-wide lockdown on Saturday and Ford has been blaming travelers for bringing the new coronavirus to the province.
“This is a devastating blow to the government and Ford personally because, as he has admitted, he knew that Phillips was in St. Bart’s and did not upbraid and order him back immediately,” said Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto. “Ford only did so once the news of Phillips’s absence became public,.”
Exhibit #2
More political fallout as a result of these exclusive photos FOX 11 obtained showing Governor Gavin Newsom attending an expensive dinner party. Tonight, we’re learning more about who else was at that party including two top California medical officials.

Not only do they call into question Governor Newsom’s explanation that the dinner was outside they also reveal that two high-level members of the California Medical Association were there at the dinner with the governor and has become a national symbol of do as I say, not as I do.

FOX 11 spoke to Jamie Court about the photos and said, “Well I was shocked, first of all, that they were so close together, and it didn’t appear they were outside.”
Court is president of the progressive organization Consumer Watchdog and his shock didn’t end with what he saw in the photos, but who he saw in them.

A closer look reveals that Janus Norman a top lobbyist for the California Medical Association who is sitting right next to Governor Newsom.
On Newsom’s other side is the CEO of the California Medical Association Dustin Corcoran.
Neither of them, as a matter of fact, no one at the table was wearing a mask or social-distancing despite the CMA funding an ad campaign this year urging people to wear masks.

Court says, “The message is to forget the pandemic, sit as close as you can, no face-coverings, no masks, no social-distancing, this is the state’s medical association, they speak for the doctors in the state, and their chief lobbyist and the president are sitting shoulder to shoulder with the governor as though its’ any time in American history not in the time of a pandemic.”

The gematria of the yeshiva world coffee room is the same as free exchange of thoughts and opinions.
Ah Frelichen Purim to all

@Ct Lawyer, as a officer of the court you know the term of Caveat emptor, so anyone who sends the children to yeshiva knows the compliance or lack there of

@always ask, “a good question – when do we need to ask, and whom? I heard and read enough questions about kaddish that I don’t see my situation as unique or risky. These questions do not seem to depend on the particular person, unless someone is uniquely OCD or disorganized …”
I assume you run your life where there are shades of gray the same way, a quick read and dont consult an expert.

@always ask
“>> ROFL China started this whole mess
mi hu haham? halomed mikol adam …”
Right and what did I learn, don’t trust China, because they could have contained this on the onset

@Ct Lawyer, I have full respect for how you saw fit to run your life, can you, Huju, Amil, Charlie etc. say the same about how I decided to run my life?

Story from Ksav sofer:

There was a woman who immediately upon her husband’s passing, as she had no sons, she asked the rosh yeshivah to arrange for Torah scholars to say kaddish for her husband for the entire eleven months, and also each successive year on the yahrzeit. She also requested that a second kaddish be said each day, having in mind all those souls who have no one saying kaddish for them. This went on for nearly ten years.

In time the window lost all her money but she continued to pay to say Kaddish, she asked Ksav Sofer if the kaddishes were still being said, and he comforted her that they were.

Suddenly the door opened. A distinguished-looking older man entered, turned to the widow, and asked her why she was crying. He told her that he knew of her desperate situation and that he was prepared to help. He then requested of the rosh yeshivah that they all go into his office, and that two scholars of the yeshivah join them. The rosh yeshivah acceded, and summoned two of his five great disciples present that year: his son, Rabbi Shimon Sofer, and Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.

When they were all assembled, the mysterious guest said, “I know you have five daughters of marriageable age. Let’s figure. Each one needs a thousand kroner for dowry money, and another thousand kroner each for the expenses of the wedding and for buying furniture and setting up a household. So, that is two thousand for each of the five, or ten thousand altogether. Plus, to put your business back on its feet, you need another ten thousand kroner, so that makes twenty thousand altogether.

“All right, then,” he said, “I’ll write you a check.” Whereupon he took a checkbook out of his pocket, tore off a check, wrote the woman’s name on it, inscribed it for twenty thousand kroner and signed it! Before handing it to her, however, he asked the two young scholars to sign on the back as witnesses to the transaction. He also asked them to take out their personal notebooks so he could sign in each a sample of his signature, in case the signature on the check would be challenged. Turning back to the woman, he told her that she should present the check at the government bank when it opened at nine o’clock, and they would honor it. Then he left as suddenly as he had come.

At nine the next morning, the widow was at the bank. The guard at the door directed her to one of the tellers, to whom she showed the check. He looked up the records and told her there was sufficient funds in the account to cover the check, but for such a huge sum he has to first get permission from the manager. He asked her to wait, and went to the administrative section. There he presented the check to the head of the bank, who took one look at it and fainted!

The doctor that was summoned quickly revived the bank manager. As soon as he gained consciousness, the manager asked that the woman who had brought the check be shown in to him. When told she had been locked up by security, he said that he must go to her; a great mistake had been made, to lock up such a righteous woman. He went quickly and, after apologizing, invited her to accompany her into his office.

“Tell me, please,” he opened, after they were seated, “how did you get this check?”

She told him of her difficulties and the sudden appearance of her unknown benefactor. She explained about her deceased husband and his practice of daily maaser, and of the kaddishes she had arranged through the yeshivah for him and for those souls who had no one to say kaddish for them.

He asked her: if she would see her benefactor again, or his picture, would she recognize him? She said yes. She added that two rabbis from the yeshivah were official witnesses to the whole episode, and that their signatures are on the back of the check, and that the man had also signed in their personal notebooks. The manager was excited to hear this, and after looking at their signatures, contacted the yeshivah to ask that Rabbi Sonnenfeld and Rabbi Shimon Sofer come to his office.

They came and confirmed all that the woman had said. The bank manager then told the three of them that he would personally honor the check, as it was drawn on his own family account, but that his wife had to endorse it too. He then sent for his wife with the message that she should come quickly, because people were waiting for her, but first she should collect all the family photographs in the house and bring them with her.

Although the bank manager was a Jew, his wife was not. When she arrived, he asked the widow and the two rabbis to wait in a different room. He told his wife what was going on, and said, “Let’s see if the woman can identify the man who signed the check from among these photographs.” She declared that if it all turned out to be true, she would convert to be Jewish.

The manager then spread out all of the photos on his desk. He asked each of the three to enter separately and see if the man who gave the check appeared in any of them. Each one confidently picked out the same person.

The bank manager called everyone in. “Do you know who is this man who gave the check?” he asked. “It is my father, the manager of the bank before me. But he has been dead for ten years!

“I must confess,” he told them, “that I never said kaddish for him. Last night he appeared to me in a dream. He said that he had been saved from Gehinnom by the kaddishes that she had arranged for the yeshivah scholars to say for those souls for whom kaddish was not being said, and now that she was in difficulty we must help her. He said that he would give her a check for twenty thousand kroner, and that if I didn’t pay it, he would strangle me in my sleep.

When the check was shown to me at the bank, I fainted.
“I woke up, frightened. In the morning I told my wife the dream, and she was disturbed too. When the check was shown to me at the bank, I fainted. I knew then that the dream was true.

“I will pay the twenty thousand my father promised, for it is certainly a deserving cause. Not only that,” he added, turning to the woman, “I will add another twenty thousand of my own, because you fulfilled my obligation for me, and helped my deceased father’s soul with the kaddish-saying you arranged.”

He addressed the three of them again. “I fully regret my lapse from Judaism. I see now that our G‑d is the one true G‑d, and He gives to all their just reward. I resolve that from now on I will fulfill His commandments as revealed in our Torah. My wife, too, has reaffirmed her promise to convert and to live in accordance with Jewish law. Please guide us to understand what we have to do.”

@always ask, I assume this was done after consultation with a leading posek? or was this done on your own volition?

@always ask questions, your opinion and $2.75 get you on the subway [if your brave enough]

@CT Lawyer, I am proud to say I did not miss a minyan since Covid, In the beginning I davened outdoors then as things abated in May I went indoors, regardless of where I was I followed that particular shuls rules, this past week I was out of state and the shul I daven in had three rules, 1, masks must be worn in the shul [kiddish was outdoors with no masks], 2, Cell phones must be turned off in the shul [weekdays of course, zero tolerance for chillul shabbos] 3, absolutely no talking during davening, the sign in shul said that chazen will stop davening until the talking stops.

#ujm, of for that matter does he know anything about anything besides coming up idea?

@CTlawyer, No Jared went to work for his schver in a time honored Jewish tradition