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But chazal bring down that the remedy for the obvious consequences of having a bean-based chulent is not to add additional gas to the digestive tract. Yankel’s contrarian eitzah seems like using gasoline to extinguish a small fire.
“I can’t believe the Republicans have found someone dumber than MTG and Boboert”
Jackk: You underestimate the depth of their bench….lots of options to choose from.
In fairness, the Republican Jewish Coalition showed a lot more backbone than other Republican leadership. They just issued a statement castigating his claims to “Jewish” ancestry and said he would be thrown out if he showed up at any future RJC event.CS: Good point…I think you meant what “it” is.
“Bill Clinton set the record for a lying politician…”
Actually untrue. Another former occupant of the Oval Office clearly holds the record (under any possible metric) but WJC made the mistake of doing so under oath.
When Moishiach comes, every poster in the CR will appear with a “subtitles” reflecting his/her real profile. No more hiding behind anonymity.
Is there any record or documentation that any of our gedolim were chess players?
MDG: On a list of the top 10 “immoral” behaviors we are confronting in society today, having some clueless yid ask that we call him “they” is probably no. 77 or 78.
Lying (aka exaggeration, shading facts, omitting material informaiton etc) to get elected is a time honored tradition for political hacks on BOTH sides of the aisle. Santos seems to be more guilty of stupidity by lying about such easily checked facts. Zimmerman’s campaign was even more inept by NOT fact-checking during the campaign. In any event, he should be seated in Congress and its not even a close call.
However, Santos’ may be at greater risk if it turns out he lied about the sources of funds used for his campaign. It now appears some of those “family business” sources don’t exist. Even worse was lying about his grandparents escaping to Brazil from the Nazis when it appears they were born in Brazil. Now the Jewish Republicans who adopted him are having second thoughts.
It must be that time of year when bored CR posters (who weren’t invited to their office Chanukah party) have too much time on their hands. Just about EVERY major Fortune 500 firm offers their employees the option of adding a preferred gender pronoun in their signature block. It is NOT required and totally voluntary. Many Linked-in users simply adopt the same contact information as in their professional email contact. While I wouldn’t expect a Rav/ Rosh yeshiva or most ehrliche CR balabatim to incorporate such preferred pronouns its no big deal if a frum yid clones his/her/(“they’s”)[professional work contacts into their LinkedIn profiles.
Easier to link your laptop or iphone directly to a large LED screen, TV etc unless your planning to “project” old style slides/film on a conventional screen.
Jackk: National average is just above $3.00 and will likely drop down to the $2.80s if the economy slows early next year. I don’t give Biden any more credit now than I blamed him 18 months ago when prices spiked to $4.50 right after Putin invaded Ukraine. Presidents of either party have virtually no real impact on pricing of petroleum, distillate fuels or natural gas. With LNG exports, its now a global market.
So going forward, we shouldn’t expect to see stories in YWN showing photos of some chashuvah Rebbe with his entourage/gaaboim boarding a private jet chartered by his chassidim flying off to some high-end resort in Switzerland, California, Florida etc. to offer chizuk to the locals??
Where do chazal bring down that “gluttony” is an indirect form of hidur mitzvah and that your gashmius can be my ruchnius
Hopefully, Netanyahu will be smart enough to craft some nominal changes in the status quo with the stated intent of keeping the door open to some limited partition/self government to avoid triggering retaliatory actions in the U.S. Congress and EU. However, as the Palestinians have shown over and over, they will consistently refuse rational offers of some concessions that do not provide the immediate and total “territorial independence” demanded by their most extreme elements and an existential threat to EY.
You may find the “issue” separating you from your former chaverim is now “their” issues if you have legitimately made efforts to do social tshuvah for your unsocial actions that may have originally triggered this broigas. Accept the fact that they may not want to reconnect with yo after several years, perhaps because they have built new friendships etc and after trying, you may just have to move on as well. Hatzlacha in whatever direction you go.
AVD: Unclear why you are so consistently bitter regarding CR participants who have achieved a level of success and contribute to their communities while still adhering to a frum lifestyle. You are entitled to hold to your beliefs but your musar of others’ is really unwarranted.
With Trump on the right reminding American yidden to ‘be loyal [or else] and J Street lefties threatening to withhold arms funding in Congress if EY takes further steps to annex “occupied territories”, Bibi will have to call on his political skills to thread the needle between these polar extremes.
“That old canard again?”
Actually, according to the records of the catering firm in Florida (from 2002) it was cornish hen, not duck (a canard is a katshke in Francais’)
On a more serious note, having young men and women meet one another under normal social circumstances (such as at simchas) should be an option for some segments of the community while it certainly will not be an option for others where such interactions are deemed inappropriate. There is no single option that works for ALL.Although conversion therapy has been outlawed in most states, it is still possible for a Litvisher yid to realize the joys of a chassideshe lifestyle. Yid tes kislev is just the entry point.
“Thank you for sharing your boich svara”
Boich Svara: ” Something a yodle comes up with on his own to shlug up accepted psak or teitch. Certain commenters here [in the CR] have a tendency to practice this”.
Source: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/boich-svaras“There was no shidduch crisis [back in my day]. Things were simple. I could not survive under today’s system…
Reb Sholomo: There still is no shidduch crisis other than the among those hysterical yidden who are determined to impose additional pressures and stress on young men and women who should work on their own timelines for pursuing their educational and professional goals, meeting their beschert and starting a family.
Reb Yosef: Correct,with the caveat that even current generations are enriched by the sheer brilliance of these teshuvos.
A gutten shabbos.Gmail (and other messaging platforms) have a “learning” capability that identify your frequently used words or terms that are not in their dictionary and will “autocomplete” in certain circumstances and correct misspellings to conform with your preferred usage. Generally, though, you need to “opt-in” and turn on these features but perhaps you have done so or your other preferences roll in those features.
Some of the threads here have gotten so absurd that is difficult to distinguish a bad troll from a poorly conceived post. Rely on your local rav/posek for advice and if you don’t have confidence in their guidance, find a new one where you do. Importantly, don’t rely on advice you get here for a miracle worker to provide you with a guaranteed segulah.
“Obama didn’t get Rubashkin out of jail; Trump did…”
He also moved the nameplate on a building from Tel Aviv to Yerushalayim but what does that have to do with his deliberate efforts to legitimize anti-semitism by providing a platform for some of the worst Jew-haters in our country and promoting racist and anti-semitic tropes.
Once a Rav matirs, can you ask another Rav for an issur?
Context could be important. For example, if a couple has a disagreement regarding chinuch for their child and agree to consult their Rav for guidance, and the Rav provides a more permissive psak, it would seem inappropriate for the losing party that wanted the issur to then demand a “second opinion” hoping to get a more restrictive opinionl
“Where does it say you can’t go “Kulah shopping” ??
Maseches Shoteh (123:2)
Just to be aware that you can get a passport renewed in as little as 48 hours if you have “documentation” of a near-term trip. Just have your travel agent book a tentative travel itinerary for flights leaving within 15 days (w/hotel res) and that would be sufficient. Even routine passport applications are now being processed considerably more quickly and the Covid-backlog is essentially gone.
“>>>causing us more harm than good by being ultra sensitive to every fool who says or does something even remotely anti Jewish”
When these “fools” have a megaphone amplified by 32 million social media followers and are explicitly giving kovod to the murderer of 6 million yiddeshe neshomos, perhaps those who speak out are not being “ultra sensitive”.
“girls who work in a law firm for 20 years automatically wouldn’t classify themselves as “Yeshivish.”
AR: Nor would they classify themselves as “girls”. If you’ve been working as an attorney in a law firm for 20 years, you are likely in your mid-40s; even an LA would be in her late 30s/early 40s. Either way you are a WOMAN. Otherwise, I would agree that most frum women working in a law firm would likely identify as MO.
HaLevi: Its happening, whether you consider it “silly” or not. The political and religious culture wars have intensified efforts to ban or marginalize published materials that might not have been controversial several years ago but now are deemed offensive or even dangerous. I would agree that the media have been overly sensitive to the snowflakes whose “sensibilities” are offended by “trigger words” but censorship at both ends of the political and religious spectrum is clearly on the rise.
CA: I definitely WOULD vote for certain centrist Republicans and Democrats over either Biden or Trump. Its sad that our political system in general, and primary systems in particular, seems unable to yield outcomes that would reflect the incredible talent on both sides of the aisle but thats for another day.
We live in a time when it has become the norm to “ban” writings containing offensive ideas, disruptive methods of learning and analysis and cultural taboos, whether they be secular, religious or combinations of both. The notion is that exposure to this offensive material will cause irrevocable harm to the reader w/o any offsetting benefits. Often, the same materials have been reviewed and endorsed by other so called elites coming from a different world view. Seems that we have less and less confidence in the ability of individuals to make critical distinctions and form their own opinions and instead must rely upon some elite group of critics to filter what they are allowed to read and absorb.
Meir: Is this your idea of a “scientific” survey or just an effort to resuscitate the shidduch crisis scam?
Assuming the OP is accurately reporting anecdotal headlines unrelated to Trump (which I would dispute but willing to stipulate) the real issue here is that the recent events with Trump and Kanye West/Fuentes represent an unprecedented effort by a former President seeking to regain office to legitimize /provide a platform to blatant anti-Semites for his own personal aggrandizement and solidify support from the far right-wing of his base. Dems have their own anti-Semites on the far left but nothing at this level with a Presidential contender. YWN is correct to highlight this existential threat at the level it has.
“[This new sefer] has a haskamah from a reputable Rav…”
So you are suggesting that R’ Kotler, Schustal, Sorotzkin etc. are not “reputable” and their seemingly unanimous views regarding the sefer containing apikorsus are incorrect??
“we as Heimishe Yidden should take the initiative to stop wearing the shoes known as ‘Yeezys’,
Absolutely correct. Chazal bring down that an ehreliche yid should only wear certain models of Air Jordans, and even then, only on Yom Kippur and only after confirming they did not contain any leather or wood soles.
“The IDF shechted a terrorist who was in the process of neutralizing a cow preparing for a bovine chassanah on a bright sunny day”…
It apparently was a slow news day and the regular editor had taken a day off after working nonstop for the past several weeks covering the election.
These are real bochurim who need some “safe” downtime from their shteiging. They are not robots. Giving them the opportunity to unwind in a structured and supervised environment with a mashgiach ruchani and rabbonim nearby is a net positive.
Alternatively, you could use a portion of the winnings to purchase a social media network catering to the Yeshivish Velt
Also, is the relatively minor “speed” differential really a material factor for most “kosher” usage of a phone (unless you are live streaming a daf yomi class or face-timing with your yinglach on a business trip.
AAQ: So if the greatest “baal musar” of the past 200 years was unsuccessful in his own “self-help” musar than what hope is their for all the slightly lesser baalei musar here in the CR??
P.S. Tks for the google search tip…..On a list of the 10 most dysfunctional websites I frequently encounter, the CR is probably one of the least annoying. Indeed, some of its quirks are a bit endearing in a world where we worry about c’v the role of social media postings to trigger hate crimes and violence. Little things like a search functionality for archived threads and posts might be helpful in the next upgrade but overall, it seems to work well for what it is designed to do.
Think about it. Approximately 6 or 7 of the lamud vuv tzadikim are regulars here in the CR. Extrapolate that to the greater tzibur at large, many of whom have not received a heter from their LRPs to be here on the internet.
The “speed” of signal transmission across 4G and 5G networks and repeater stations at cell towers is identical for network owners and those wholesalers who lease capacity and resell under own brands. However, there are likely small but measurable speed differentials attributable to the server interfaces used to ID and validate those resale customers and record their information for billing purposes.
“I’m hoping she only knows that R’ Eli’s shiur is good because of what her husband, brothers, or sons told her….”
Actually, it was someone who knew of R’ Eli from his prior life in Chicago real estate.Very easy solution. Don’t violate the rules unless you are prepared to pay. While I’m sure some of the citations are for marginal violations, most are legit and they have photo or radar evidence to affirm.
“Don’t do the crime, don’t pay a dime”The law in NY is fairly clear that pedestrians should not enter a crosswalk once the “don’t walk” red or yellow warning lights begin flashing. However, unless there is an intervening median strip, drivers should not seek to complete a right turn if the pedestrian has already entered the crosswalk.