Curiosity

Interjection – I see. You are well within your rights to disagree. In case the poster u mentioned did think I was judging her, I was not. She asked for an opinion, and I volunteered mine and explained my reasoning.

Who said they can’t? Don’t be so uber-sensitive.

The problem is that there are so many different opinions, and so much politics, that it’s hard to know who to trust. For example, I don’t rely on Triangle K in America, but there are people who do. In Israel someone might tell you that a hashgacha with a similar status to Triangle K is acceptable, but you have no way of knowing whether it conforms to your standards. You just have to find someone you trust who lives in Israel, and ask them. Unfortunately, not all of us have such a contact. You assume that just because you rely on certain hechsherim that I should be able to as well, but you don’t know whether our standards here in America are the same, so you have no rightful basis to assert that.

I’ve always wished a developer would create an open, detailed world like the Elder Scroll series, but with a generator that has Fable style combat system. The only downside to all of the Elder Scrolls games including Skyrim (other than indestructible environments) is that melee combat feels so empty. You don’t feel anything when you slash through a dragon… In Fable you need to time your hits, you can counterattack, and move more fluidly in combat. This is true for the Assassin’s Creed games as well. Their combat systems make them so great. I guess you really can’t have your cake and eat it, too.

Your statement makes sense MorahRach, but that example isn’t fair. It’s different when it’s your own flesh and blood.

It’s almost impossible. I have a much, much harder time keeping kosher properly in Israel than I do in America. It’s sad and unfortunate.

I guess that’s why I couldn’t find it in the Hebrew-English dictionary I was using.. It’s made its way into modern Hebrew so seamlessly that I honestly thought it had Hebrew roots. It’s surely listed in newer Hebrew dictionaries.

I’m not sure what we did wrong either…

you didn’t do anything wrong. It is just not a topic we are discussing on this site.

Fig leaves?

Anyone who thinks the moon landing is a hoax should watch the Mythbusters episode in which they clearly bust all aspects of this myth. There are even methods to detect artifacts that were intentionally left behind on the moon by the astronauts who were up there. See the episode for more details.

Queen Bee, that’s too funny that they kept thinking u were a guy. Fallout, Mass Effect, CoD and Oblivion are all amazing in their own right! Haven’t played the rest of your list though. Aoe 2 was also a favorite, but I liked the AoE Rise of Rome expansion set the best. The only Dos game I remember playing was DOOM. There were a few others, but I don’t recall their names.

Sam2 I would have never guessed you played any video games, but that’s awesome that u can relate! I love Smash Bros! I would Falcon Kick many a Pikachu back in the day. Lol

Mod 42- you stir up some ancient memories of mine.. as a little boy growing up in Israel I believe I had an NES with duck hunt, tetris, ice climber, and some tank game where u had to defend your base against waves of AI tanks. Good times!

Queen Bee.. just to throw out a guess.. Command & Conquer Red Alert? If not… Maybe Starcraft? I was personally an Age of Empires junky as a kid.. I sometimes still fantasize about Ensemble Studios reuniting to remake the first AoE. I learned so much history from that game!

Sam2 – Thanks, I wish I had a contact there. I’ll ask around, but I live way Oot so I don’t expect to meet much success in finding a reference person here.

BaalHabooze +1000 Hysterical!

I wish I could find a girl who is a casual video gamer. I’m sure shadchannim probably don’t get that sort of information bc most frum girls probably keep it a secret. I would love to splitscreen through Halo 4 with my future wife… *sigh*

I don’t know how anyone can claim there was a gap in the Torah’s being handed down. It’s simply not true. Even when the Torah gives a narrative of how a scroll was found in the Beis Hamikdash and Torah was reintroduced to Klal Yisrael, the Torah did not disappear from the Nevi’im and chachamim, only from the general populous. Also, there is a tradition supported by archaeological evidence that proves the Geulei Teiman were already in Yemen since before Bayis Rishon, or at least during the early beginning of its establishment. This predates this proposed gap in Torah history, and the Teimani Jews’ unbroken Mesorah that survives to this day is a clear proof of the validity of the oral tradition of national revelation predating Ezra Hasofer or the above mentioned era in history. The proposed disproof of national revelation just has no room to squeeze itself in to Jewish history, chronologically speaking, and therefore is invalid.

Sort of joking. Objectively speaking, the Torah as we know it is just a physical manifestation of God’s commandments. The real proof for the Torah is exemplified in the idea of “national revelation”. So in reality, yes: the ultimate proof to believe in the Torah is “God said to.”

Soooo… You’re saying there’s probably not going to be a 2nd date?

How many times do I have to tell you guys… Don’t leave the door open, it lets the trolls in!

DY – Sam2 is correct. They didn’t have chemically engineered pesticides and bug repellants back then. Mistama they had a much higher incidence of infestation than we do today. Also, broccoli is an “Old World food”. They had it back in the day.. according to Wikipedia it has been cultivated since the 6th century BCE. That’s around 2600 years ago.

DY you’re stretching what I said. All I’m saying is that it shouldn’t be physically painful to have to eat something that’s inherently kosher. RoB put it well.. where’s the limit?

I find it very difficult to imagine vegetables with soil still on them, being washed in clay vessels, with no soap would have been inspected for black specks that are too small to identify as bug or dirt. The average Jew 3000 years ago didn’t have crystal clear running water, light-up cutting boards, or steel spoons to scoop black specks from tubs of water. Yet, they still ate their veggies somehow. Unless we have a bigger chiyuv of hishtadlus to not eat bugs (b/c of technology), I don’t see why it was okay for them to do it one way but not for us.

This apology confuses me so much. I always thought u were kidding.

Ivrit is just LK with some contemporary additions. I don’t understand the big deal in denying that it is LK. It’s like Ye Olde English and New English: Both are English, just one sounds funny if you use it in daily conversation.

I always wondered… We say bugs are only assur if they are visible, right? What if the bug is visible as a speck, but it’s impossible to identify as a bug with the unaided eye? Is that bug still assur?

I actually remember reading in a real halacha sefer that BS”D or something similar actually should be written on our letters, but I don’t have the foggiest memory as to where I saw this halacha. Maybe someone else knows.

It’s extremely difficult to make the case that any benefits of having multiple wives outweigh the detriments.