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therealmgama, do the ones from Yumi Lowy and Abish Brodt have the same words? I just remember a bit of the Abish Brodt version, and I don’t see the words on your post. It’s been years since I heard it, so I might be wrong, but I thought at the high part, he started with verse with “Heilige Bashefer”.
Peacemaker, as Sam2 said, there are heteirim out there. R’ Moshe Feinstein zt”l said that a widow can uncover her hair if it will help her to remarry (Igros Moshe, E.H. 1:57)
When I said much easier, I meant that it takes less of it to OD. Your body can handle more of the other stuff than it can of the Tylenol.
Abba: not necessarily. There are often closing costs involved that you have to take into consideration also. It may not pay to go to a lower rate if the closing costs are high.
Health: if you’re still bleeding, you should never take Advil, because it is a blood thinner. You should only take Tylenol.
As for the pain killers, acetaminophen can kill you if you OD on it much easier than the other stuff. When I had my kidney stone recently and needed pain killers, the doctor told me that I could use Vicodin or Percocet. He said Percocet might be better because it had less acetaminophen in it, and I could take 3 of them if I needed to, while Vicodin could only be taken 2 at a time. Not that I ever need 3 Percocet at a time… if I take 2, I’m in la-la land pretty quickly.
I try to always be on time to davening. However, on Shabbos morning, although I’m ready, sometimes I can’t leave to shul yet. I have small children, and I need to take care of them until my wife is ready to take over. Only then can I go to shul. If I realize I’m running late, I will sometimes daven pesukei d’zimrah during my walk so that I can say shemoneh esrei together with the tzibur.
It takes me about 15 minutes to walk to shul by myself. If I’m walking with my wife and kids, it takes longer.
What kind of painkillers did they give you? Tylenol with codeine? You need something better. Call the doctor and ask for a prescription for Vicodin.
trak443: Chalav Yisrael does not mean it was milked by a Jew. It means a Jew observed the process, to ensure that no milk from other animals was added.
R’ Moshe held that due to certain circumstances in the US, there did not need to be a Jew present – it was as if a Jew was there, even without it.
I was told that maaser can go towards tuition, so a large part of it goes there. I also give a lot to Bonei Olam, as I have some family and friends who were helped by them.
The Chofetz Chaim was known to study the halachos of doing the avodah so that when Mashiach comes, he’d be ready to serve in the Beis Hamikdash! How many kohanim and/or bechorim are doing that today?
Tell them too bad. It’s your simcha, not theirs. You don’t have to drive yourself crazy when you’re already under pressure just from making the simcha. If they won’t eat the food, so be it. Let them eat at home either before or after.
Your parents have real problems. It seems their love for your sister (and maybe all their children) is not unconditional, as it should be. They love her only if she conforms to their standards, where her husband will sit and learn for a long time. Tell them to get over themselves.
Turner did start the Jerry Springer Show. However, when he started it, it was nothing like what it is now. It was originally a regular talk show, covering political and social issues. The ratings for it were bad, and a different company bought the show from Turner’s company. They then changed the show to what it is now. Turner had nothing to do with that.
bein_hasdorim: Regarding those who didn’t work on Shabbos in the early 1900’s, for the most part, it wasn’t ingrained in their children. In fact, most of the children did not stay frum.
R’ Moshe Feinstein said about this that the problem was, while the parents were moser nefesh to keep Shabbos, they kept saying S’iz shver tsu zayn a Yid – it’s difficult to be a Jew. Their children heard them say this, and wanted no part in it when they got older.
Yes, it does take a long time. For Friday night, I’ll put the soup on a flame and boil it until right before Shabbos, then put it in the oven so it stays hot.
For Shabbos lunch, it’s usually only potato kugel. I’ll put it in first thing in the morning, before going to shul. When I have my meal, 4 hours later, it will be warm.
I was told it’s ok as long as the food is dry, and the oven is on extremely low. If I put food in there, it won’t really get hot – only warm.
When my son turned 3, he got gifts just like he got for his other birthdays, with 2 exceptions – one family member got him a few pairs of tzitzis, and a close friend bought him 3 kippot. Other than that, it was the same as his first and second birthdays.
Oh, and more people came to the party.
jewishness, you have it backwards – Weprin was the one who claims to be a frum Jew and voted for gay marriage.
Mod-20 – in a few weeks, on Erev Yom Kippur, make sure you say tefillas zakah. It answers your question.
Mod-80 – if your Rav says the phone is assur, would you stop using it?
adorable: Well, I’ve only been to 2 mitzvah tantzes, and I think they had the same badchan. When he did his rhyme for each person, he ended by saying “Good Shabbos, good Shabbos, good Shabbos…”
I know that one of the weddings was on a Sunday, I don’t remember the other one. I was wondering why he said Good Shabbos. I asked my father, and he told me it’s a minhag that badchanim say Good Shabbos at the end of each rhyme/introduction, no matter what day it is.
Weprin should have promised funding to yeshivos. Then all the Rabbis would have endorsed him.
Can a badchan post here whenever he wants?
Good Shabbos, good Shabbos, good Shabbos…
I was in a small yeshiva in Brooklyn. I had davened Shacharis and was walking to yeshiva. I was at a light when I noticed a large, dark cloud in the sky. I looked at it and realized it was smoke. I just thought there was a fire nearby – but then realized I couldn’t smell one. I walked to yeshiva and someone there with a radio told me what had just happened. We ran to a store on the corner, where the owner had put out a small TV to see the news. We watched for a bit, then went back to yeshiva. The Rebbe told us we would start seder as normal, but we should have in mind that our learning should be a merit to those in downtown Manhattan. We couldn’t concentrate on our learning very much, and the Rebbe noticed. He spoke about it for a few minutes, then told us that if anyone wanted to go be with their families, he understood. We went to the store again, and saw that the towers had collapsed.
I saw on the TV the smoke cloud that was enveloping the area. My father works near there, so I immediately tried calling him. There was no answer on his phone. I called my mother, and she told me that she’d spoken to him, and he was walking home over the Brooklyn Bridge. She asked me to go home and meet him, as she didn’t know what he’d be like. I went home, and found that my father was already there.
He told me that someone in our neighborhood worked in the WTC, and was missing. Another neighbor’s brother had been on one of the planes. I was friends with the son of one of them, and knew his father. To this day, thinking of it chokes me up.
The rest of the day? We stayed glued to the news, hoping to hear that the people we knew were found, that they were ok. Unfortunately, it was not to be.
I don’t know of any jobs offhand, but I hear things from time to time.
Sarah, do you have a degree in teaching? What subjects did you teach? If you don’t mind staying in the same line of work, maybe you can do some tutoring? You can often charge a decent amount per hour, and there’s no marking papers afterward. You just have to make sure to document everything for tax purposes, as you will be self-employed and responsible for reporting the income on your own.
Sarah, what skills do you have? Do you have a degree? In what field? What experience do you have?