“Still, I don’t think you should bring anything. They want to relate to you as family. You don’t bring a gift when you visit family.”

Yes, you do. Even when I go to my own mother I bring flowers + some food, aldough noting fancy but it takes off some of her workload.

with yogurt you can try to poke a hole with a straw instead of opening it.

“if a situation should be avoided because of yichud, it doesn’t matter if it’s thirty seconds or thiry minutes!”

Please check your school notes, it does make a difrence. There is a time frame for yichud and in an elevaitor that could be open from the outside by people pushing the button on any floor there is no yichud.

“therealmgama, Is there a problem with going on an elevator in a business building? “

besides the above rerason for not being yichud an elevaitor in an office building usealy has a security camara.

If it is so easy to stage a moon landing how come the russians didn’t stage one? Are they too honust to do that?

The Baal Shem Tov had a time that he was taken away from heaven all his lofty kavanos and was strugling with simple peirish hamilos and was told that davkah those tefilos where he strugled were reaching high up in heaven.

” I mean what did they do before they had their ipod?”

Do you think they didnt daven before there was printed sidurim, when the first sidurim started rolling off Guttenburgs presses some 500 years ago do you think people complained that a sidur is not approproate for davening, one should use a scroll?…

Where does it say that Moshe was told the future.

Early? Not at all, acording to halacha starting R”Ch Elul one should finish a letter by wishing a ksuvah vachasumah tovah. By chasidim the costum is to start Tu B’Av.

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If its not controversiol it will not go on for too long, on the other hand if it is then it might get closed by the mods so I guess it needs to be somewhere in between.

So I guess its “80”

We should never understand whats going on in Mr. Kletzkey’s head.

What are you drinking?

I don’t smoke, does that mean I have a stronger self control then a smoker? NO, it means smoking is not my nisoyoin. That dosen’t mean I don’t strugle with other nisyoinois.

If smoking is your justifecation for other eveiros please be awear that smoking is a sin by itself.

I know many people who dont have money and go on an expensive vacation every year.

Following proper spelling and grammer on a blog is like driving within the speed limit in the passing lane, you might be right but your’e still getting on peoples nerves. So all the correct spellers can you please move over to the right lane and get out of the way?…

Its one k’zeiyis (2 in Isreal)

The only problem with this thread is that its about something we can all agree…

“Once a Rav brought another rav to meet with the Chofetz Chaim , and the Chofetz Chaim threw the second rav out. As the Chofetz Chaim was not known to act this way. The came back a second time and he threw them out again.

The came back a third time and before he could throw them out, The 2nd rav (The one who was thrown out) asked, Why do you throw me out.

The Chofetz Chaim asked him do you remember Lev Bronstein. The rav answered. YES I do. I had to throw him out of the yeshiva..

The Chofetz Chaim told him that Lev Bronstein was now Leon Trotsky head of the Bolshevik Revolution”

But that melamed didn’t trow the kid out because of bad behavior, he refused to learn with the kid because his mother was a poor widow who couldn’t pay for him.