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June 30, 2020 6:53 pm at 6:53 pm in reply to: Frum non profit organizations disclosing financials. #1878264DovidBTParticipant
Joseph: The OP didn’t say anything about identifying individual charity recipients.
DovidBTParticipantWhat is more of a factor for inner city (black) kids. The disappearing middle class or, the biased judicial system?
Maybe the lack of proper values: cohesive families, education and hard work.
June 28, 2020 5:14 pm at 5:14 pm in reply to: If you’re curious about the board game “Bavli,” here you go #1877474DovidBTParticipantThis is apparently the game creator’s web site: bavli DOT org
DovidBTParticipantGemara can be learned effectively without Rashi.
Did Rashi quote himself in discussions with contemporaries?
Reuven: “Rashi, what’s the meaning of this passage in Shabbos 111b?”
Rashi: “Well, Rashi says it means ….”DovidBTParticipantTake a look at your electronic devices, such as computer accessories, and see how many of them are labeled “Made in China”. If our electric grid were destroyed, the market for those devices would be gone.
DovidBTParticipantCTL: Do you remember this?
Hey, hey, L-B-J,
How many boys did you kill to-day?DovidBTParticipantreligious exemptions was cover in the Mastercake decision last year, …
My understanding is that the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission decision had a very narrow scope, and basically had no impact on general freedom of religious practice.
DovidBTParticipantthat’s the problem if I’m in charge of a religious school …
The Supreme Court decision addresses that, and seems to imply that religious organizations are exempt. Of course, the existence of the decision also increases the likelihood that a religious organization will be prosecuted or sued, and be forced to spend the time and money defending itself.
DovidBTParticipantMaybe their training should be more like boot camp for the military
Military boot camp, at least in the case of the Army, is mostly focused on endurance for long walks and runs, and accurately shooting people with rifles.
For police work, I would think that intensive martial arts training would be more useful.
DovidBTParticipantWhy would being intoxicated matter?
DovidBTParticipantIn the 60’s, the need for police and the justice system was taken for granted by almost everyone. There were no responsible government leaders supporting violent riots. Violent criminals stopped by the police were not treated as heroes.
DovidBTParticipantThis isn’t new. Anything that doesn’t align with their agenda (whatever that is) is a target.
DovidBTParticipantCalling to “defund the police” is a scare tactic. No one really believes that it makes sense. It’s just a rallying cry by leftists to further their agenda.
DovidBTParticipantNOT ALL BLACKS LIVE IN INNER CITIES
But the violent riots are started by the blacks who live in the inner cities.
Why do the other blacks follow their lead?
DovidBTParticipantIf Democrats are in control of the big cities, probably.
June 3, 2020 3:25 pm at 3:25 pm in reply to: If N.Y. doesn’t allow summer camps to open, what’s your plan? #1867512DovidBTParticipantStart a movement called Summer Camps Matter. Implement it with street protests to keep it in the news every day. That’s the new American Way.
DovidBTParticipantIf you’re trying to control a cat who wants to bite and scratch you, an easy trick is to wrap it in a large towel or blanket.
I wonder why the police don’t carry big nets they could throw over a person and then secure. That seems as if would be safer for the police, and the person being detained as well.
June 2, 2020 3:49 pm at 3:49 pm in reply to: Dear Mr. President, Send in the National Guard! #1867112DovidBTParticipantSome of us are fortunate enough to live in a place with a Republican governor and mayor who know how to stop mob violence.
DovidBTParticipantM61 Vulcan
DovidBTParticipantIf you believe rioters should be shot, do you also believe that a counterfeiter should be strangled to death, while in handcuffs screaming “Help! I can’t breath!”. Please think before you post insensitively.
No one deserves to die.From what I’ve read, he was a felon who had served prison time for armed robbery. He was resisting arrest for trying to pass counterfeit money.
If he had cooperated with the police, they wouldn’t have needed to use force, and he wouldn’t have been harmed.
DovidBTParticipantPeople can work online.
Less than 30% of people can work online.
DovidBTParticipantWithout flour there is no Torah.
May 18, 2020 12:33 pm at 12:33 pm in reply to: Which cities in the US will have summer camp open? #1861824DovidBTParticipantJousting with six-foot lances could be a safe alternative to close-contact sports.
May 17, 2020 9:29 pm at 9:29 pm in reply to: Which cities in the US will have summer camp open? #1861653DovidBTParticipantalmost $300 a day per camper
What’s the normal cost?
DovidBTParticipant… whether noon and midnight (and hence the following day of the week) technically begin at …
They’re instants in time. They don’t “begin”, they occur.
DovidBTParticipantWhat about starting a sentence with “So …”? That’s a common trend these days.
DovidBTParticipantAside from the English grammatical atrocity, can you provide a Torah or Talmud source that defines the word “girl”?
DovidBTParticipantBy Jews at age 12.
Now is that proper English?
DovidBTParticipantto deliberately sound crude or vulgar
You’re a proponent of split infinitives?
DovidBTParticipantSmoetmies spllenig is worng, but you can undresatnd it if all the ltteres are trhee, and the frist and lsat ltteres of the wrods are corecrt.
DovidBTParticipantWould anybody like to contribute to – or simply read – a topic that posts a daily bit of information about proper English. For many posters, English is a second – or third, fourth or fifth – language, and it shows in the English mistakes they make in their posts. English is my first language. I learned more Yiddish from the Borscht Belt comedians on TV than from my parents and grandparents, and I can read a siddur and daven in Hebrew, but when I visit Israel, I cannot read a menu or the labels on the products in supermarkets.
The first sentence should end with a question mark rather than a period.
The fourth sentence is a run-on sentence and overuses commas.DovidBTParticipantIt’s like a modern day Gemara, and we’re wannabe Amoraim.
DovidBTParticipantWhat gave you the idea to experiment adding a question mark at the end of the URL?
Asking questions is the basis of learning.
DovidBTParticipantHow many doctors does it take to treat a coronavirus patient? (Make up your own answer.)
April 23, 2020 8:06 pm at 8:06 pm in reply to: Where can I upload my own Torah publications? #1852629DovidBTParticipantSetting up your own web site isn’t difficult.
DovidBTParticipantIs China our ally or our enemy? I can’t figure that out.
DovidBTParticipantMy source is from what other people were sending around
That’s always a reliable source of information.
DovidBTParticipantDoesn’t gematria, like gezeirah shavah, require a teacher-to-student path from Moshe Rabbeinu’s time to be meaningful?
DovidBTParticipantIn the meantime, these two [others came by the marketplace]. [Elijah] came [again and] said to [R’ Beroka]: These, too, are destined for the World to Come. [R’ Beroka] went up to them, [and] said to them: ‘What do you do?’ They said to him: ‘We are comedians, [and] we go to cheer up those who are depressed. Additionally, whenever we see two people involved in a quarrel, we strive hard to make peace between them.’
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DovidBTParticipantThere’s nothing stopping you from reading the weekly parshios on your own.
DovidBTParticipantIf you hang up on yourself in the middle of a sentence, the other party will think it was accidental and not be offended.
DovidBTParticipantWhy is halachah a factor in this context?
DovidBTParticipantI decided to stick with Gan Eden, where my earliest known ancestor lived. The instructions didn’t provide a definition for “origins”, so I was forced to use my own definition.
DovidBTParticipantDo you really think the government will use the information in that manner?
DovidBTParticipantSo place of birth is the appropriate response?
DovidBTParticipantSo what’s the consensus on this time-critical (one week left) issue? How should origins be filled in?
DovidBTParticipantThe only way to stop this is to stay at home. Stay at home. Don’t go anywhere. Don’t touch anyone.
Good advice.
Permanently seal your doors and windows. Never go outside again. Even after Coronavirus is gone, the world will be full of other hazards.
DovidBTParticipantThe seasonal flu is too boring for the news outlets. They get tons more advertising clicks by publishing scary headlines about Coronavirus.
DovidBTParticipantMy personal plan was to stock up on Vodka. It doesn’t have as much alcohol as hand sanitizer or Isopropyl Alcohol, so I need lots of it.
DovidBTParticipantThe Census has already been sent out and received by folks?
You can preview the questionnaire at 2020census DOT gov.
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