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And, by the way, the question with which this topic was started gave me a good laugh.
I would think the biggest problem with mixed swimming is not seeing others, but others seeing you. That obviously applies to women first of all. Can husband and wife go the beach together? Sure, but, assuming the wife is also going into the water (otherwise I don’t see the issur at all), is the beach completely empty? I’d be worried, first and foremost, about other men seeing the wife!
Avira AntiVir Personal Edition, from http://www.free-av.com, is excellent and free as well. I’ve been using it for 5 years on 7 different computers with great success – I’ve also used it to clean several ‘chareidi’ computers (lke, Windows XP with no security software, no updates because no internet, and tens of USB flash drives and MP3 players being plugged in all the time) – it found and cleaned 260 viruses on one PC.
Windows Firewall + Avira AntiVir Personal Edition = no problems, ever.
I most certainly care. Not to an extreme degree – but I would certainly not have gone on a shidduch with an overweight girl.
While my wife is not really thin, she is definitely not overweight either (same for me, by the way). I’m 1.81m and 77 kg – nothing really extreme (though I’d prefer to lose 5 kg).
Most of those who say that one shouldn’t care are talking nonsense. It DOES matters, since it’s an issue of health. Being overweight is simply unhealthy. Aside from being ugly it’s a symbol of bad health. I don’t like both.
Bye bye, political correctness.
In Jerusalem, I absolutely recommend Weitzman, Rechov Givat Shaul (right next to Breslev and Chabad, a little beyond Yesh). Small store, very cheap, and great challos.
I just wash them in a bowl, by hand, using hand washing powder. Takes a while, but it does a decent job, though they don’t really look 100% white any more (but that’s ok, as long as they look decent, clean and smell good).
It is a very serious problem. I always look at smoking bochurim with a very disapproving look.
Smoking is killing yourself and others.
As for those who some on Yom Tov, may Hashem have rachmonus on them.
Sammygol: regarding the Chassam Sofer using German, let me clarify. Yiddish is basically a version of German. In the areas of the Chassam Sofer and related rabbonim, the main language was German.
I know some elderly chassidim here who speak German, with me, and with each other. Not Yiddish, but real German (though in a pre-WW2 style which would seem a bit archaic in Germany today). They are from Austria and areas right next to Austria.
The Rebbe of Dushinsky speaks German also. When my parents was here for my wedding, my father spoke with him in German (I’m not FFB). (The Rebbe came to my wedding, in Bnei Brak, though he wasn’t mesader kiddushin – that was the Clevelander Rebbe from Ra’anana, who is the rov of my wife’s family.)
I wear white 95% of the time (actually more). Sometimes chassidish (right-over-left), sometimes normal.
I do occasionally wear colored shirts, on occasions such as:
* Purim
* right after Pesach and Sukkos, when there is a huge amount of laundry waiting and I don’t have any clean white shirts left
* during and after the Nine Days – see above
* for trips/vacations: colored shirts get dirty less quickly, and the ones I have are a lot stronger also, so better suited for wearing large, heavy backpacks (which I wear a lot on hiking trips)
I have one blue shirt, one light blue Air Force shirt, and two light brown Army shirts. All just plain simple shirts. Bought the latter three at a surplus store a few years ago because they’re good-looking and yet very strong, they don’t get destroyed by wearing them with a backpack.
The plain and simple fact, which *nobody* here has brought yet, is that any language which is adopted by Jews (for Torah) becomes a language of kedusho. Yiddish is only used by Jews, nowadays almost exclusively by chareidim (and a few elderly secular Russians). Therefore, it does have an added kedushah which a language such as Chinese or Japanese lacks.
Whether Lakewood English (Yeshivish) has the same level of kedushah, I don’t know.
I myself speak, understand and read Yiddish very well, but unfortunately I cannot really write it. Unfortunately, many people – even chareidim – who speak Yiddish have lost the capability to write it.
I guess I should say “hi” also. What else are we supposed to use this topic for?
Well, what I wrote here is already worth a new topic.
Well, he sure was very strong in his Ahavas Yisroelios.
Areivim – in fact I do, but they’re respectively 18 and 20 years older than me, and left the house when I was very young, so for the purpose of your question, the answer would be that you’re more or less right.
Forgot to mention: the second story is one that every girl who is about to get married should remember very well. Men eat more than women, usually. To illustrate the difference: it took a while for my wife to understand that I eat 6 or 8 slices of bread in the morning, when she eats 1 or 2.
I’ll tell you two real stories. They actually happened some time after we got married, but I think they fit here anyway.
==== First maaseh ====
She: “I look horrible today, don’t I?”
Me: “Yes, you do.”
I thought I was merely confirming what my wife said. I will never forget her reaction.
==== Second maaseh ====
I come home from work. It’s 19:55 (7:55 PM); now you should know that the makolet (grocery store) across the street closed at 20:00 (8 PM) back then. I enter the house after a long day at work, look at the table (my wife had prepared dinner), and say: “I’m going to the makolet to get frozen french fries, be right back.” When I got back, my wife was less than happy.
What was the story? My wife had prepared enough food for two seminary girls. She forgot that a man who comes back from work eats more than that. In other words, my going to the makolet to get frozen french fries was *not* because the food she had prepared wasn’t in order – it was simply because it wasn’t enough, and the refrigerator was almost empty! After I had explained this (and a few months had passed), everything was fine again.
I myself usually go to sleep at 1 or 2 AM. If I don’t, I won’t make it to any minyan. Last time I tried to stay up, I ended up davening Netz at home (alone), skipping psukei d’zimroh, and falling asleep right after until the early afternoon.
GoldieLoxx: try it. Just give it a try.
I was among the first users, back in 2005 or so, and can’t imagine ever using a slow, annoying, spam-filled email service such as Yahoo or Live mail again.
Also, Gmail has the added benefit for frum people, that you won’t see any picture ads, only text ads. So it is the most ‘kosher’ email service. Just that, combined with the other features (speed, efficiency of spam filter, number of options, combined functionality with all other Google services) is absolutely decisive for me.
Hi Jax. I lost my job a few weeks ago, so I have some more time now… Might as well spend some of it here, at least (some of) the discussions here are things one can learn from.
For how long has this probleem been occuring? Has it always been this way, or did it only start recently?
And of course the obligatory question: did you change any settings?
Did you try to delete and reconfigure your Gmail account in Outlook?
Does it happen on days that aren’t business days also (for example Sunday afternoon)?
You do stupid silly things, you pay for them. Welcome to life.
Maybe if they had gotten a slightly more worldly education, they would have been more aware of what they were doing and of the risk they were taking. I guess their cheider rebbe never told them about this kind of thing going on in the world.
I’d prefer a yeshiva bochur (or myself, for that matter) being on the internet all day over smoking 1 cigarette a month.
I have pretty serious asthma, and, yes, the smoking really bothers me. At work also I can barely walk outside, because people are always smoking right at the door and all around the plaza.
And I barely go to shul to learn ever, because in just about every shul there are usually people smoking. I already abandoned one shul completely because of this. Once I had to daven Mincha alone outside, because at the only shul there where I was, someone inside was smoking while others were davening mincha. (And even if he would have gone outside, it would have taken at least an hour with all doors and windows open to get the smoke out.)
I also really, really don’t understand how people can smoke on Yom Tov.
There are some translations of interesting letters from the gedolim here: http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/chareidiview.htm under “Smoking”. (I assume YWN will allow this external link…)
Isn’t there some problem with bringing anything with kedushas shevi’is from Eretz Yisroel to Chu”l? I thought EY esrogim stayed here, because of this halocho.