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Whoa, whoa, whoa….Syag Lchochma, is a girl!??? *jaw drops to floor*
He first quotes different psukim and gemaras that can be said if one is at risk of ayin hara, such as “ana mizar’ah d’Yosef kaatinah. Ben porat Yosef, ben porat aley ayin.” Then, he quotes the Chid”a that says the minhag haolam is to say “hamsa” to ward off ayin hara, and then he says that’s why the minhag is to hang a piece of wood shaped like a hand with five fingers with the letter “Hay” inscribed on it.
Hummingbird – no, the fig sap loses its medicinal properties shortly after contacting open air. You need to pluck a fig right off a tree and apply the white sap from the stem directly onto the afflicted area. When I was a kid I had a very nasty, deep rooted fungus on my thumb and after a few applications it got smaller and then went away completely. My cousin’s girlfriend had a wart on her elbow and after one application it literally fell off overnight. Some ppl on the internet claim it even helps skin cancer, but I don’t know about that. BTW, I mentioned moles earlier, but I meant to say warts, my mistake.
Shlishi, I would like to see the R’ Shach inside before I make any comments on it. Can you tell me the exact source of what you quoted?
Being someone who has worked as a mashgiach part time in several JEWISH owned restaurants I have no ideas how nichnas veyotzei can be allowed. These restaurants were owned by Jews who weren’t frum by any means, but they still felt it was allowed for them to wash their own leafy vegetables using their methods and check their own eggs when the mashgiach wasn’t around. Not trying to incite panic, but the whole kashrus industry is pretty scary when it comes to restaurants.
YehudaTzvi, did you follow that link to the old thread that has a link to the Ben Ish Chai? He’s a pretty reliable person.
The Goq, that’s terrible! The most religious thing I got for my bar mitzvah (other than tallis+tfillin) is a tallis clip. The rest was cash money baby!
With all due respect to the Satmarer Rebbe, his psak regarding eretz Yisrael is about as relevant today as a daas yochid yesh omrim regarding what bracha to make on the Mannah. It’s completely irrelevant to our times, and even if it was relevant most people don’t hold from it. There’s no way to abandon the state without leaving millions of Jews dead. So can we just stop bringing up his extreme sheeta?
Lol o I dunno Zeeskite.. who was it that posted the thread about having an image in your head about who everyone in the CR is? That’s just what I had pictured in my fleeting mind.
Yehuda Tzvi there’s someone out there with that exact social security number who just lost his bank accounts to an army of Nigerian hackers.
WIY – Sounds like they’re ready to get married to me.
Peerimsameach, have you ever asked someone in da grocery for da soup plates? 😉
Rosh Hashana is here. Just include it in your hataras nedarim and start eating Snickers.
Are you kidding? I’m shomer cholov stam! I am machmir to never touch cholov Yisrael unless I’m somewhere where cholov stam is too expensive or isn’t readily available.
Whoa, whoa, whoa….oomis, is a girl!??? *jaw drops to floor*
Golfer, does the person you think I am get into lamdusheh hoks with kitchen utensils? Does he often use the word “tzeushtel” more than twice in a single breath? Does he pace with his thumb out while riding the subway? Does he take more time making a cup of coffee than he does davening slichos?
But in all seriousness, fresh fig milk that comes right from the stem of the fruit when you pick a fig works miracles. I know people including myself who had fungus, moles, or other unattractive mutations and they got cured overnight or after only a few applications.
Amputate your toes?
abcd2 being that this is the “pranks I wouldn’t do” thread, I’ve never actually done it, but I didn’t know it could kill someone. Nonetheless, that story is hilarious!
Golfer, if you can give me a sign that you know me that wouldn’t reveal my identity or yours we could find out for sure. Can you say over a funny story that we experienced together?
Health – I never said anything about “holding of the Medina.” You don’t need to believe that the Knesset’s authority is Torah leMoshe miSinai to hold that the State of Israel shouldn’t be abolished. Some recent gedolim who hold that the state should continue to exist and be supported are Rav Kook. Rav Pam. Rav Hanoch Leibovitch of Chofetz Chaim and his father R’ Dovid Leibovitch. Rav Sheinberg. Rav Kaduri and the Baba Sali along with a long list of Rabbis from the Abuchatzera family. Rav Ovadia Yosef lehavdil lechayim. Just to name a few recognized Rabbis with a large following in a broad sample of different sects.
Sam2, that’s animal cruelty…
Yay! My first ever “+1”!! 🙂
Different time zone
Health that website is frighteningly similar to Neturei Karta’s website, and in the same manner as NK they refer to themselves as “True Torah Jews”; as if anyone who holds of a different sheeta is an imposter. Krum krum krum.
I used to be yeshivish…I used to wear black and white, even my bedsheets and shower curtains were black and white. One pillow case was black, the other was white. My shoes… were button downs. I used to have long tzitzis down to my knees. I would tie them to my chavrusa’s ankles and I wouldn’t untie them until seder was over. I used to wear Rabeinu Tams… Only Rabeinu Tams. When my shveir bought me a new car, I drove it through a mobile home to give it that “zecher lechurban” effect. I also made sure one headlight wasn’t working and that the gas light would always be on. My cat, Yekussiel, had payeos. I had him turned into a Fedora.. with three bows. One of the bows was going to be gray, but gray isn’t black and white. I wouldn’t eat fleishigs because it wasn’t cholov Yisroel, but I still managed to get cholent stains on my shirt before Shabbos mincha. I never took off my tzitzis. Don’t worry, I would wash them in the shower while wearing them, but only lekavod Shabbos. I didn’t want to spend any time bateling, so I bookmarked my Gemara pages… ALL my Gemara pages. I wear glasses, but I don’t need them. I sprained my thumb learning once, but to avoid batalah I didn’t mention it to my chavrusa until after seder, when he asked me to untie my tzitzis from his ankles. I daven in Yiddish and speak in Aramaic.
557 now I understand your riddle, but assuming they can each anticipate the other’s movements, I don’t have a clue what the answer is, unless the rodef can manipulate the circle.
As for a riddle, an oldy but a goody:
You are in a closed room that has two doors and two other people. One door leads to death, and one leads to life. One person speaks only the truth and one person speaks only lies. You do not know which person is which or which door leads to what. You are allowed to ask one question to either person of your choosing to help you exit through the correct door. What question can you ask to guarantee your survival?
If you’ve already heard this riddle or read the answer elsewhere, please don’t ruin it for others.
Take the chicken,
Go back empty handed,
Take the fox,
On the way back to the seeds return the chicken with you,
take the seeds over to the fox, leaving the chicken at the starting side,
Go back empty handed, and bring the chicken.
Shopping613 I loled at your second riddle…
If you ask a Sephardi Rav you can cover all your bases.
There’s a valid reason why nobody except the Satmarer Chassidim hold of the Satmarer Rebbe’s sheeta. Besides, the zionists of then are not around anymore. I think all that psak does for us today is lead to derision, machlokes, and sinas chinom, and it causes non frum Jews to hate chareidim and feel alienated from traditional Judaism. It makes it very hard for non frum Jews to associate with frum Jews and prevents their tshuva. It’s a very destructive and irrelevant sheeta all around.
What’s the family relation between oomis and OOM, and why do I always imagine Bucharians when I see the name Kozov?
The question is not ‘why are roaches disgusting?’ (which they are), but rather ‘why are we disgusted by roaches?’
Don’t say anything. Your friend will have dumb kids, but don’t worry he’ll think they’re smart. If they come out smart like you, he’ll think they’re dumb. Everything’s great and the shidduch crisis loses another battle!!
I don’t mind the cold, but I just can’t stand sweating when all I’m doing is collecting rock samples and snapping pictures. It wasn’t so much the heat, but it’s the radiation that’ll get ya :/
Shlishi, I haven’t seen R’ Shach’s quote inside, but you give no context to understand whether he is talking directly to poskim who need to follow a sheeta or to the average Jew in terms of who to ask shailas to, whether he is discussing following an Achron vs. a Rishon, or whether he is referring to following a chashuv Rosh Yeshiva vs. a recognized Gadol Hador. Your quote stands alone with absolutely no context so I couldn’t just apply it to all situations across the board. My Rosh Yeshiva’s statements, however, are in very specific context, and they don’t argue with this R’ Shach, except in the assumption that most people are equipped with the ability to rank gedolim – something that common sense says is highly unlikely. I dare say that if the average kollel guy thinks he can rank gedolim he is fooling himself and holds a bit too highly of himself.
I was also taught the same thing as Sam2 is describing. The parallel my Rosh Yeshiva described is that it’s like trying to look up in the night sky and telling which stars are closer and which are farther away. It’s impossible for us to tell because we’re so far away. The only thing you can do is ask someone who is closer to them to tell us. A gadol can tell you which gadol is greater, but for us it’s like looking up at two stars and telling which one is closer.
Yeah, it’s actually not so bad in the day, but at night it’s like -250 degrees…
Absolutely no hard feelings. Misunderstood your tone, sorry 🙂
Go to the orthopedic and ask him about my freakishly tiny hands.
PBA, that’s a great one! Wouldn’t have thought of doing that 😀 really original!!
Englishman is correct. Living in the land is undisputedly a big mitzva.
It was nice, but the beit Chabad there doesn’t have AC…
Gregaaron – there is a weird but very real human desire to not go in the way of tzniyus. This includes getting involved in the affairs of others and be privy to information that is otherwise private. This is, btw, the desire that “reality TV” plays on and is the base reason why it’s appealing to people.
Facebook, provides the means for people to show the world parts of their lives that other people would not otherwise show. Nobody needs to see you drinking coffee with your wife in the patio, nobody needs to hear about what you had for breakfast, or what shoes you bought. It’s not that these things are taboo, but the concept of putting a notification of all your daily activities on the town bulletin board is the antithesis of living a humble and tzniyus life. It ruins our sensitivities and wears away our refined appreciation for what’s private and what isn’t.
Friendships which are created and fostered through human interaction are put on the same plane as mere acquaintances through the convenience of virtual messaging. Thus, social skills and relationships are weakened.
People spend hours sifting through friends’ photo albums, messages, updates, etc. The whole thing is destructive in so many ways. The Facebook corporation spends plenty of research and money figuring out ways to get their users to spend more time online, and it works.
Oom, this is a really silly thing to turn into a debate. If you need to be “right” so badly, I can pretend I agree and let you “win”.
rabbiofberlin I disagree with everything you said except the last sentence, which I also said myself. Don’t turn me into Neturei Karta, I hate the Neturei Karta and hold they are chayav mita.
OOM. It could be that’s what she meant, but that’s not what she wrote.
OneOfMany, I never said anything that disagreed with that. NOMTW came out against seeking advice in shidduchim, labeling it “immature”. All I said is that second opinions in general are very important; I didn’t discuss from whom.