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The idea that “Modern” Orthodoxy is in any way different than what frum Jews were like 300 years ago is completely false.
I disagree.
My wife says (or would say, depending on if I’m married), that I can’t eat it until she serves it.
She agreed that if the CR says I’m right, she will let me.
What you meant was:
She agreed (or would have agreed, depending on if I’m married), that if the CT says I’m right, she will let me.
I stand in solidarity with you (or would stand in solidarity with you depending on if you were married) and vote (or would vote depending on if you were married-) ‘eat’.
Evangelicals are Protestant not Catholics, Some of them think Catholics are the worst thing on earth.
They are both anti-semites. The Catholics did the Crusades, Inquisition etc. Protestantism was formed by a guy who thought they should burn down all the Jewish homes and shuls and take away all the money from the Jews.
Pick your poison.
The “Who is a Christian” debate is as fun to follow
Now “Who is a Christian?”, but “Who is a TRUE Christian?” Then comes the No True Scotsman fallacy.
It makes sense. the average bochur is more likely to get in trouble with texting than a married one. I don’t mean that he will, just that there is more of a chance.
In E”Y almost nobody has texting, even yungerleit. The kosher phones only have calling and voice mail and that is what everyone uses since they are cheaper as well.
This is the answer to your question
What i heard was that after WW I he said that this was the first of three battles, that there would be another one in about a few years and then a last one. Don’t quote me on those exact words.
Its possible that I might have seen this inside somewhere too, but I have a terrible memory.
amc:
I’m wondering if it was necessary to include your first sentence on this auspicious day in Elul, the second part reflects your point totally.
I’m not sure I understand what you mean. Are you worried that I said loshon hora?
zd:
Actually I always wondered what would happend in an All Charedi society on Shabbos
You cant shut down everything for Shabbos…
Your question brings up a similar question in a completely Modern Orthodox community:
If people are monitoring the electrical grids for the electric company-
If people are manning the 911 call center-
If people are manning the pharmacies-
If people are manning the police, fire and EMS stations-
…
Then who’s keeping Shabbos?
Hydrocodone Bitartrate with Acetaminophen.
I’ve heard that the Chofetz Chaim said this about the World Wars
I imagine they ain’t gonna work on Saturday.
Because we learn Torah lishmah. Whichever definition of lishmah you use.
Recently I have noticed the increase of inappropriately dressed elderly woman walking around Ramat Beit Shemesh.
I’ve never been to beit shemesh but form everything that I’ve heard, this is not really so surprising.
Consider moving to Kiryat Sefer or Beitar. You won’t have this problem there.
The reason why even people who don’t touch their beards will trim their mustache is because swallowing hair is a sakana and sometimes mustache hair can get into the food if its too long (the mustache not the food).
I would say this is a shaylas chocham(ah). Obviously davening to you is not just simply mumbling words under your breath. How can you expect to push yourself to daven when you still have questions hovering around in the back of your mind. Instead you should be proud of yourself that you are true to your heart (this is called tocho k’boro) and instead focus your energy on learning seforim that will answer your questions.
I don’t hear that. The way you are describing it is something completely cerebral. Stop wearing a tie on Shabbos. If you are truly makir tov there is going to be some feeling of thankfulness. If she is tochah k’borah and she can express this feeling even to a chay, she is still not as great as Moshe who showed it to the sand. I don’t mean that a person should become a hippy and start hugging cows they pass on the way to upstate. But I see a maylah in privately having such a hargasha.
torah4ever:
However he must be able to support his family first. If one isnt accomplishing in kollel which is basically what is happening today then why hurt yourself and your family?! Kollel is just the “easy way out” in todays frum world and its ridiculous.
For something that you feel very strongly about, it doesn’t seem as though you’ve thought it all the way through.
“why hurt yourself and your family”
“Kollel is just the easy way out”
Is living well below the poverty line, without even enough money to buy enough food for Shabbos, in order to learn all day your definition of “the easy way out”? What is it “the easy way out” of?
Maybe you feel that having no furniture beyond simple beds, a table and 4 chairs is taking the “easy way out”?
How about the guy that has to buy a 50 shekel lulav and esrog package or the guy that has to be repayed for borrowing 3 shekel bus fair to make it through the month is taking “the easy way out”?
Maybe the guy that gets up at 5 am to go to a minyan to pays $200 a month even though he doesn’t get home until 11 pm is “taking the easy way out”.
How about the guy that goes to a night koillel (that is, until 10 pm) that pays in random food supplies from the local makolet to help get through the month, is that called “the easy way out”?
I know people who live like all of these. I’ll be honest. I just don’t see what you’re talking about.
People must attend college,work hard, thus enabling them to support their families.
Can you cite the pasuk that says “And thou shall work hard”? Supporting a family is a mitzvah like any other, if it is efshi al yedei acheirim how are you mevatel from Talmud Torah which is kneged kulam?
feif un:
When they tell me it’s my responsibility to support them so they can sit and learn without worrying about housing
So you recognize that it is your responsibility to support lomdei Torah, but you don’t appreciate being reminded of it. Like a husband whose wife nudges her husband to fulfill the terms of her kesubah. I can see why that would be annoying, although I’ve never seen anyone do it myself.
or feeding their families, while their wives are working two jobs (whenever they’re not on maternity leave!)
From this part of your comment it sounds as though you have a problem with Jewish people who don’t use birth control when it is not permitted to them. Can you clarify?
That’s not a half Jew that’s a whole Jew.
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New Game:
Estimate the amount of times an appeal to ridicule was used as a logical refutation in this thread.
#1) Are you fe or male.
Iron?
At what point in history did we not wear a hat, fez, turban or the like that we should stop now?
I’ve heard of plenty of cases where a couple got married on the second go around
Am I a chicken?
There’s an easy test to determine the answer to your question:
Walk around quacking and flapping.
If you start getting the urge to peck around on the floor, I would stay away from the shochet.
For what its worth, I’m on the other side of the fence and I’m also faced with the same thoughts. That shows that sending you a zivug is not a proof that Hashem wants or doesn’t “your connection”.
In E”Y they bury without coffins. I’m told that in the US they slip the bottom out.
It looks like the problem is some corrupted files that aren’t transferring. After I delete the file it works fine. The problem is that I have to keep watching it to watch where it stops and then I have to go back and delete that file and start copying all over again.
I didn’t want to spend the money on a HD reader although I suspect that at the end I may have to because I have an older laptop with a broken integrated videocard so I can’t even get into that one unless I buy an external video card. I was going to just plug that HD into my brother’s computer though.
ronsr:
Use the /c switch —- that directs xcopy to keep copying despite errors. Could also be a full flash drive or an unreadable sector on the hard drive.
I’ll try that, although I’m not sure if it is only giving me an error on a specific picture that is corrupted or something else. The flash drive works on other computers, so it can’t be that.
ICOT:
How about:
xcopy /e c:usersownerpictures*.* f:pictures*.*
That would have the same effect as what I’m doing now. It’s weird because it does copy some of the files, it just stops in between. I tried using my brothers external HD and I didn’t even get an error message even though it still stopped in the middle.
The “/e” switch copies empty directories. Are you sure this is what you want and not “/s” which only copies subdirectories that have files?
Yes, sorry that’s what I’m actually using.
With any dos command you can add “/?” to get syntax help.
If it scrolls off the screen, use the “|more” pipe, e.g.
xcopy/? |more this will prevent the screen from scrolling until you hit a key.
The command is working fine, its the execution that I’m having trouble with. Also, /p prevents the scroll off as well.
An old trick from 20 or more years ago to copy all files when your copy media can’t hold everything at once is:
My flash drive should have plenty of room for it all. In retrospect though i am going to check again.
Alternately, if you have the Windows disk, you can probably modify the BIOS to boot from the optical drive, and then perform the operations from within Windows.
My HD is partitioned so I have the disk on the X: drive. My brother might have the disk though. I’ve never done it before though, will this allow me to access my HD from Windows?
According to Mr. Pakistani over at Dell I’m having some registry trouble. Rather than spend the $100+ for him to fix it (including $300+ to buy a required one year warranty), I’m trying to move all my important files off my laptop to a flash drive using DOS since I can’t actually get into regular windows (or safe mode). I seem to be having trouble moving directories though. I’m using this command line:
xcopy /e “c:usersownerpictures” “f:pictures”
It will start copying some files into the flash drive and then stop and give me an I/O device error. Any idea what I can do?
When I was a wee little boy I dreamed about becoming a police man.
Then I realized there are very few Jewish policemen.
As a child, I realized I wanted to be a doctor.
Then I realized, there are very few frum doctors.
As a young lad, I wanted to be a rebbe in a yeshiva.
Then I found my self-confidence and realized that I should shoot for the stars.
Now I have reached a level where I dream the ultimate dream a Jewish boy can hope for:
A moderator for an orthodox Jewish website’s message board.
Would we be allowed to say whatever we want or would we have to whisper in a mods ear before we spoke?
You Win!
this thread is REALLY confusing! Why are guys so into their weird subconcsious, subtle fashion statements
Women, however, while they want to wear ALMOST the same dress as their friends/neighbors/children do not want to wear the EXACT same dress because then they are afraid others will compare them and think the other woman looks better in it, or they will find out they paid full price while the other woman got it 75% off.
I have a strong strong desire to finish up all the family names so that I can name a daughter Fraidel Knaidel. My sister has an Udle the Noodle, but I really want a Fraidel Knaidel.
I think the the root difference between chareidim and MO is whether you believe that our main job is to integrate into society and be ma’aleh the chol el hakodesh, or to cloister yourself lifnai v’lifnim in the kodesh hakedoshim – the walls of the beis medrish.
do u find urself addicted to the cr? Wat time do u stay up til bc of it?
You’re not supposed to go to the cr from about 6 hours before bedtime. If you feel the need to, then try to limit yourself to this forum:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/forum/decaffeinated-coffee
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I had an Iraqi friend in yeshiva who was afraid to take his shirt off by the doctor during the nine days.
Sender Av
At the year 6000, this world ends and Hoalam Haba begins.
Obviously only Hashem knows for sure, but I think at the end of 6,000 years is chad charuv and then olam habah.
I was proven wrong, he was only 6-10.
I hope you learned not to rely on first impressions.
And 5 years latter my kids still have good memories of mushrooms growing in the bathroom
Haha. You just reminded me of some old memories of the mushrooms growing in the bungalows. I haven’t been to the country in 20 years and I totally forgot about that.
I thought I was overly judgmental when it came to first impressions. Now I see everyone else does it too. Now I just feel plain old normal.
And as I explained, that “chumra” is Am HaAratzus. At least the people in the gemorah had logical chumros!
I don’t think this has anything to do with being smarter than chazal. For one thing, I don’t see this as a chumrah at all, but a private hanhaggah. Would you be upset if he decided to button his shirt from bottom to top because he wants to be oleh b’kedusha?
Second, this doesn’t fall under the category of a gezeirah sherov hatzibbur yecholin la’amod bah, because he is not trying to establish this as a minhag for the tzibbur but his own private hanhaggah.
Third of all, I imagine that not eating pizza is not in direct mourn but to facilitate a somber atmosphere in his house. For some people, pizza is a fun food.
This person told me her husband won’t let her eat pizza during the 9 days because it’s not an appropriate food for mourning.
I disagree with anyone who thinks this husband is wrong. We should be jealous that this husband actively tries to mourn, just a tiny bit more, out of ahava for the beis hamikdash.
How many of us are trying to do that, rather than trying to distance ourselves from the mourning with “instructional” swim and the like?
You don’t agree that not eating pizza isn’t a way of expressing mourning. That’s your subjective feeling. But at the very least, this man is trying to do the best he can with what he has.
Actually I found it. Its from the Chida in the sefer Caf Achas ois lamed alef.
If the mods let it through it can also be found here
Was it the tefilla from the Chofetz Chaim?