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FrumRav, you mentioned applesauce earlier. The cRc says that “Unflavored, unsweetened applesauce does not need a hechsher.” You can look it up, they sent it out as a Twitter message this past December.

With the vegetables, you left out the part where they listed the exceptions. Again, a quick look at the cRc website will show that they also say frozen vegetables are kosher, with a list of exceptions. The lists don’t sync up exactly, but some research of other hashgachos shows that there are disagreements on the veggies I looked up. A good example is potatoes – the cRc lists them as an exception. Others say they’re fine as long as they’re not fully cooked through.

There are plenty of issues with OO. The kashrus rules of one OO synagogue shouldn’t be your focus.

I’m usually rushing to finish the final preparations for Shabbos – I set up my wife’s candlesticks and put on the tablecloths, and obviously need a shower for Shabbos. I usually drive to shul on Friday afternoon, and I make sure I’m there before candle lighting time so I’m finished with any melachah by that time. I then read divrei Torah on the parshah until Mincha starts.

I don’t think it’s categorically assur to go to a mixed gym. It depends on the type of gym. If a woman wants to go, dressed appropriately, why should it be wrong? If a man wants to go, and he stays in an area where there aren’t women dressed inappropriately, what’s wrong with that?

Wow, you were gone for almost a whole week! It’s a wonder the CR didn’t fall apart without you!

Let’s get this straight. You joined the CR on December 6. You replied to a thread 6 days ago, and then stopped until today. You were active for all of a month then took a break for a week. How did you think the CR would do without you? You asked if people missed you? Honestly, I didn’t even notice you were gone.

I think the biggest thing that could help was mentioned by oomis – allow boys and girls to meet sometimes outside of the standard shidduch system!

R’ Yosef Breuer zt”l once said that he was against separate seating at weddings. But, even if people insisted on doing it, he stressed that single people who were “in the parshah” should have mixed seating. Why? Because, he said, “Mitzvah goreres mitzvah. We want to make shidduchim, and we want the boys and girls to meet each other! We want dates to come out of this wedding!”

I will tell Feif Un that you enjoyed and bumped the thread!

I did not get a chosson Shas. My Father-in-Law asked me if I wanted one, and I told him I already had a Shas I’d been using for years. Instead, he bought me other seforim which I did not yet have.

A dorm is usually done by the yeshiva the boy is attending. Since you’re asking, should I assume the yeshiva doesn’t have one?

I learned in Darchei Torah, which is in Far Rockaway, and they do have a dorm (I know, I stayed in it!)

Mods, is there a way to hide a post until the reader clicks a button?

Here are the steps I followed to solve it (it only took me 10 minutes to recreate). I put the clue number before the step where appropriate:

9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.

14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. – second house is blue

13. The German smokes Prince. – not the first house

8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.

12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. – not middle house

The second house can’t drink coffee, smoke Dunhills, or be the Brit, because it’s blue

4. The green house is just to the left of the white house. – House 3 can’t be white, house 5 can’t be green, and house 1 can’t be green or white

5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee. – not the middle house. Therefore, House #4 must be green, and drinks coffee. That means #5 is white.

1. The Brit lives in a red house. – the only colors left are yellow and red. We know the Norwegian is in house 1, so he must be yellow. That means House 3 is red, and is the Brit

7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. – house 1, the Norwegian

11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill. – house 2

So at this point we know the following:

House 1 – Norwegian, yellow, Dunhill

House 2 – Blue, horses

House 3 – Brit, red, milk

House 4 – Green, coffee

House 5 – White

3. The Dane drinks tea. – can’t be house 4

12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. – can’t be house 1, because he smoked Dunhill. Only drink left for house 1 is Water

15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water. – house 2

13. The German smokes Prince. – not house 3

For house 3, the only brand left is Pall Mall

6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. – Brit, in house 3

2. The Swede keeps dogs. – not house 2

13. The German smokes Prince. – not house 2

House 2 must be the Dane, and therefore drinks tea

Therefore, house 5 drinks beer

12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.

Therefore, house 4 smokes Prince

13. The German smokes Prince.

Therefore, house 5 is the Swede

10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. House 3 is birds, so house 1 must be cats

2. The Swede keeps dogs.

The only item left is the German keeping fish.

No, but you can post it in a separate thread and write “spoiler alert – answer to zebra puzzle” in the title.

My wife’s sister lives with her family in Ramat Beis Shemesh. They are definitely chareidim. They have a neighbor who is not frum at all, whose son was going into the army during the fighting in Gaza earlier this year.

The neighbor told my SIL how she’s nervous for her son, but also proud of what he was doing. My SIL told her children to daven for him. She got the full name of the boy, and gave it to her kids. They also took it to yeshiva, and told their Rebbe what the situation was. The Rebbe told the class that they need to appreciate the soldiers, and daven for their protection. He wrote the name of the boy on the side of the board (don’t know if it was chalk or a whiteboard), and said, “Have in mind that our learning should be a zchus to protect him! If anyone else has names of soldiers, we will add them to the list!”

Every morning after that, the Rebbe would start class by reading the names of the soldiers, and saying out loud that their learning should be a zchus to protect them.

My SIL told her neighbor this, and she broke down crying in appreciation of what they were doing. Showing appreciation causes a great kiddush Hashem!

I don’t think it’s the same. As frumnotyeshivish said, there are two parts to this – halachic and political. If your Rav holds it’s assur to go up, then don’t! But there are many big Rabbonim who hold that with the proper preparations, you can go on certain parts of the Har HaBayis. If you follow one of those Rabbonim, there is no reason not to go. Obviously you shouldn’t shop around for a heter!

The political question is a different one. My personal belief is that the Arabs claim it incites violence, but they’re really just looking for an excuse. If it wasn’t this, it would be something else. They want to kill Jews, plain and simple.

Lior: Ok, can you tell me what really happened?

My post from a few months ago http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/getting-closer-to-hashem easily relates to the story of Icarus. We all need to know our place!

Honestly, I don’t know enough about the details of Hilchos Shabbos to argue with them. I just know that my Rav told me it’s a bunch of garbage. I seem to recall reading an RCA statement on it, although I can’t find it now. It rejected the app.

I only hope that it never gets released. I think that anyone who actually uses it most likely wasn’t really keeping Shabbos beforehand either.

I have an iPhone 5. I avoided getting a smart phone for years, but after getting promoted at work, my company wanted me to have one. I said fine, you want me to have one, you pay for it! So they are! I was told that sometime in the next year I’ll be upgraded to an iPhone 6. I don’t care that much either way.

DaasYochid, I’m not aware of any teshuvos arguing on R’ Moshe. If you know of one, please let me know.

Here is a translation of the teshuva:

147, I don’t know, because the kibbud hasn’t been auctioned off yet for my shul.

I do know that the person who usually gets chosson Torah (the same person has been buying it for him for many years) has finished Shas many, many times. I believe he has taught the entire Shas to others (via Daf Yomi and other shiurim) about 6-7 times already. He has an incredible knowledge of Shailos u’teshuvos from the major poskim, and can quote from all of them with ease.

Definitely deserving of chosson Torah!

Ok, I haven’t seen any guesses on the first one I posted, so here’s the answer.

It’s also I Want to Know, by Miami Boys Choir. It’s even from the same part of the song – exactly the same part, in fact.

In the original release (on Miami Meets Toronto), the full line was “So now my days are filled with truth, It’s given me peace, feels like my youth”.

When it was performed at Miami Experience, that line was changed to, “So now my path becomes so clear, I’m part of a chain linking thousands of years”.

They actually changed a lot of lines from the song. I like the original version much better.

Ok.

The first one was sort of a trick question. The answer is staring you right in the face.

I recently sang at a chuppah. For Mi Adir, I used the tune from Chatzos Lailah, from Miami Boys Choir. For Mi Bon Siach, I used the one from Lev V’Nefesh 2. Then, I used Shwekey’s Im Eshkacheich.

catch yourself: throwing the PC out the window is like throwing your entire closet out just to get rid of the peanut butter.

Lenny Solomon makes Shlock Rock.

Country Yossi does have some touching songs (Deaf Man in the Shteeble, anyone?), but mostly does funny. He also doesn’t write much original music, although he does write his own lyrics.

IMO, Abie Rotenberg is one of the best (if not the best) composer of Jewish music over the last century. Look how many of his songs are known by almost the entire Jewish world! They have withstood the test of time. He also has some funny songs, but I don’t know if he wrote his own lyrics or someone else did it for him. They’re in the Journeys series: Ninth Man on the Team, The Wedding Song, Atheist Convention, etc.

But yes, AR does touching better than most. Some songs were pointed out already. I’d add In a Vinkaleh, Conversation in the Womb, Who Am I?, Memories, and some others.