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CTL: When you’re cruising on your Harley, do you wear a leather jacket and listen to a tape of Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild”?
DovidBT: Any specific measurements?
Of course. I’m doing this from memory, so the numbers might be a little off:
Four cups yeast, six quarts water, two tablespoons flour.
Knead for 30 seconds.
Rise time: eight hours.
Bake at 500 deg. F for 90 minutes.Mix yeast with warm water.
Add flour to produce dough.
Knead dough.
Wait for dough to rise.
Bake dough in hot oven.
Eat.I noticed a verse in today’s Haftarah that seems relevant to this topic:
So said Hashem: Observe justice and perform righteousness, for imminent is My salvation to come about, and My righteousness to be revealed.
Isaiah 56:1In this context, what exactly counts as a “bracha”? Does it have to be associated with a distinct mitzvah?
There are many places in Shacharis where the words “Baruch Atah …” or the equivalent occur.
And you can say brachos throughout the day in the course of normal activities or thoughts.
The liberals would whine about schools promoting violence. Wait until the President gets another conservative justice on the Supreme Court.
Ehh, once again you all fell for it. When a chabadster brings up a subject, it’s not to teach you it’s to put you down by proving how much chabad is “better” and more “correct” than everyone else.
“Faith is the ability to hear the music beneath the noise.”
Rabbi Jonathan SacksFor me, the mindset is that once Moshiach comes, free choice will be gone as we will all see Hashem and the game of struggle to choose the good will be over. So today may be the last chance I have to make a positive difference in this world that helps it it a more Geula’dike kind of place.
@Chabadshlucha
Thanks for the explanation.Thanks, Joseph and WinnieThePooh. Those are the best explanations I’ve seen regarding davening at a burial site.
we are so close to Geula
How does that affect the way that we carry out our daily lives? Does it mean that we should live as if the Geula will happen tomorrow, and that today may be our last chance to show Hashem that we are deserving of His favorable judgement?
What do you mean by threads being pushed away?
Accept the mystery.
The Coffee Room uses off-the-shelf software called bbPress (which itself is a plug-in to WordPress, which the YWN main site uses.)
Thanks for that information, Joseph. That explains why the Coffee Room software resembles a project that a novice programmer did in his spare time. 🙂
You wouldn’t necessarily need expensive programmers to customize it. A dedicated and qualified volunteer could do it. But then there’s the issue of continued support and maintenance, security patches, etc.
Contact with skin and hair and being stored in a small leather bag imbues it with a less desirable odor.
What about replacing the bag with a new one, and leaving the bag open overnight so the tefillin can have more exposure to fresh air?
Would little pod-like ones work?
There’s only one way to find out.
What about something that can be put in the bag along with them to absorb odor?
You could try baking soda, maybe wrapped in some tissue paper or a paper towel.
Or Odor-Eaters Insoles. Would it be disrespectful to put in a tefillin bag something that’s intended to worn in a shoe?
Saddle soap is effective for cleaning and deodorizing leather. Is it permissible for use on tefillin?
It has a slight odor, but it’s a clean, “soapy” smell.
But I’m not sure it would be safe to use it on the batim, since the soap or water might penetrate the leather and damage the parchment.
Being an immigrant
There’s a difference between immigrating in accordance with the law, and sneaking across the border illegally.
I used to use a prescription fluoride toothpaste. There were two brands available, both with the same amount of fluoride. The less expensive brand was half the price, but had a terrible taste. If it were a pill or liquid medication that takes a couple of seconds to swallow, I wouldn’t care about the taste. But the taste of toothpaste remains in your mouth for a while (in this case, you’re not supposed to rinse for 30 minutes), so I used the more expensive brand.
They should be made criminal court judges, since they can emphasize with both the victims and the accused.
I came across a relevant quote yesterday:
Rabbi Yochanan HaSandlar says: Every assembly that is [dedicated] to the sake of Heaven will in the end endure, but one that is not for the sake of Heaven will not, in the end, endure.
Avos 4:14If there is no flour, there is no Torah.
Avos 3:21there’s even a word describing one negative aspect. “Phub.”
Huh. I’d not heard of that before.
phub = phone + snub
“To ignore (a person or one’s surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device.”
Source: dictionary DOT comIt’s a bigger Kiddush Hashem to die Al Kiddush Hashem. It’s something every Jews should hope for.
I’ve never come across that principle in my humble studies.
Suppose you’re davening from your phone, and the lithium battery explodes and kills you, cv”s. Would that be dying Al Kiddush Hashem? If so, that’s an argument in favor of smartphones. I never heard of a conventional bound siddur exploding.
But dying Al Kiddush Hashem is the biggest form of Kiddush Hashem that we can attain and hope for.
Dying Al Kiddush Hashem is better than living Al Kiddush Hashem?
You have two choices:
1. Ask the rav for advice on how to handle the problem, and follow the advice.
or
2. Ignore the participants. If their questions or comments are distracting to you, raise your voice until you can’t hear them, or wear earplugs.
Also, most yarmulkes have a lining and can possibly be considered a double covering.
Wouldn’t that depend on the reason for wearing two head coverings during prayer? If the purpose is to don special garments for prayer, then the fact that the kippa you wear all the time has a lining wouldn’t seem to serve that purpose.
Wait until he and Kim play golf together.
DovidBT, I think food wraps became necessary when leftover food storage became practical- with invention of fridge/freezer. Before that they managed because their need wan’t so great.
Or I suppose a bowl with a lid would accomplish the same thing as a food wrap. The wrap is merely more convenient.
grater?
Or simply a knife and cutting board.@K-cup
That’s a perfect explanation for the article series. Or in netspeak, “+1”.How did people manage without food wraps? E.g., plastic wrap, wax paper, aluminum foil.
Did they use leaves or animal skins?
The first article of the three-part series, published yesterday, was “Insular Hasidic Jews struggle to preserve customs as legal and social pressures build”.
The second article, published today, is “Hasidic leaders sharply limit members’ web, smartphone use: ‘It’s like we’re in North Korea’”.
I’ve read the article. I don’t know that I’d call it anti-semitic. It seems to at least attempt to provide a balanced point of view.
1) He has a smartphone.
2) He was smoking.Is it possible that he needs the smartphone to stay in touch with a Smokers Anonymous support group?
Unnecessary or inappropriate smartphone usage is a symptom. It’s not the underlying problem.
The relevant point here is that Reform organizations are social or political organizations, not religious organizations. There are lots of things a Reform “Rabbi” can do for which the members of the organization are willing to pay him. But it has little or no connection to Torah observance.
He is refering to Daf Yud Dalad amud aleph. …
Thanks, TAS.
My understanding of that Gemara (Horayos 14a) is that the dispute concerns:
(a) Someone who knows and understands all the Mishnayos and Baraisos, and has reasonably good deductive abilities; and
(b) Someone who doesn’t know all the Mishnayos and Baraisos, but who has exceptional deductive abilities.@laskern
In which daf/amud in Horayos is that paskened?Gun owners outnumber the US Army 80-1? A bunch of civilians with no military training is going to take out Special Forces units? You ever see a tank up close? I have. No group of civilian “gun owners” is going to have a chance against a tank, let alone a battalion of tanks and artillery.
That’s probably true if the military were focused on a small target.
But what if the federal government tried to use the military to take over the whole country? The military forces would be widely dispersed, and a large percentage of privately owned guns among the population would be a significant deterent.
Maybe they should all be equipped with GPS trackers, so we know where they are at all times.
דברים כג יח
I wasn’t aware that the same word was used in that context. Thanks for helping me increase my knowledge of Torah. 🙂
Yes
Where does the verse appear?