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Ladler: Just out of curiosity, what motivates one to resurrect a 14 YO thread that has no obvious link with an recent events?
“We all know that the current situation a person is going through is for their good and beneficial for them…”
Perhaps you would encounter some skepticism among the families of these still held hostage in Gaza…they’re having a hard time feeling the benefits.AVD: When I mentioned OOT communities, I was not referring to Cleveland or Baltimore but much smaller locations where there aren’t any shatnes labs in close proximity. B’H, there are many more locations today outside of major metro areas and the lower cost of overnight shipping makes it feasible to actually send packages to a lab for testing where there is no local capability.
Seems like Chabad has grown substantially in 30 years w/o a “Rebbe”. While there are these occasional hiccups, the absence of a successor doesn’t seem to have inhibited expansion in many new locations nor undermined its mosdos.
“Chazal say that one who wears shatnez does not have his tefilos answered….”
Imagine losing your chelek of olam haboh because of a trip to Men’s Warehouse. For yidden living OOT, with no shatnes lab in close proximity, sending new clothing, footwear, etc. to a lab is frequently not a viable or affordable option
“Joseph” Are those those all complaints from one of your wives or one from each of your wives?..
Dofi: Probably neither. Given the likely subject matter and objectionable language, the actual complaints from any the three would never make it past the Mods.
“Same as Pudonk state university is a university like Cambridge or Sorbonne.”
You miss the point entirely. YWN IS the Cambridge, Sorbonne, Ponevezh and Mir of the virtual world all rolled into one. You will never see demands from members of Congress for the resignation of the Chancellors, Presidents or Moderators of the CR
“IndoChino”
To the extent you are asking about their custom-made suits (or those of other custom tailors), you have the option of specifying fabrics and linings, to avoid any issues (although you still may want to check the finished product). I’m guessing they also have ready-made suits at lower prices points so those need to be treated like any other off-the-rack garments.
Better for shalom Bayis and the absence of physical and legal conflicts for a Chassidus to have at least TWO living Rebbes (aka Satmar, Bobov etc). Most observers agree that iit is difficult to litigate against yourself and punching yourself in the nose is a challenging endeavor
All good arguments to buy a top of the line Brooks Brothers polyester suit (made in China).
Host a dinner for him at Jose Andres’ new restauant (Bazaar) at the Waldorf Astoria in D.C. (formerly known as the Trump Hotel). Short, 2 minute driver from the WH and has received great reviews. Sadly, the hashgacha is lacking.
“Here we have a site which is the farthest thing from olam yeshivot v’ain kan makom lihaarich and call it yeshiva world…”
Actually, in the virtual velt, this is probably the CLOSEST THING we will ever have to “Olam Hayeshivos” (assuming such a homogeneous world exists) since those who are legitimate card-carrying members of that olam wouldn’t ever venture into the virtual velt to provide us what you might deem to be a more accurate depiction of the yeshiva velt.
“That checker could find Shatnez in a head of lettuce.”
Its a bit early in the AM here on the West Coast so I’ll ask if that is meant as a compliment to imply the checker is truly a rigorous, machmir expert or alternatively, less than the sharpest knife in the drawer.
I guess it all comes down to what a “tip” is supposed to represent in a post-Covid world: A token of appreciation for truly outstanding service OR a supplement to the waiter’s direct compensation from the restaurant to bring it up to a living wage OR perhaps a bit of both depending on the “minhag hamokom” in terms of whether local rules require paying wait staff a minimum wage and the type of restaurant.
Anyone have info on North Carolina communities?
Call the Chabad center in Charlotte. R’ Groner can give you a good idea about whether it would be a good fit for your situation. As others have noted, there is a much more diverse range of options in Baltimore/Owings Mill
Erdogan is seeking to enhance his credentials as a soneh Yisroel in the Arab world by having his security police arrest these individuals on phony charges of working for the Mosad to assasinate Hamas leaders living in Turkey. Late today his Justice Minister announced that 26 of these suspects were indicted on espionage charges; 11 were released on bail, 8 were awaiting deportation and the rest were held in jail
“You are around when there were dinosaurs?”
Most dinosaurs loved Moishe Oiysher but were definitely not as enamored of Matissyahu and Lipa.
P.S. The hottest new reptilian music group is a Finnish band callled Chevrasaurus (aka Hevisaurus)Many restaurants don’t even offer the 15% option tip option any longer on the credit card receipts and show 18%, 20% or 25%. I typically leave at least 20% but not everyone can afford that option.
What really annoys me is the “fair wage” surcharge being automatically added to bills to reflect higher “minimum wage” requirements or in some jurisdictions, a requirement to pay the standard minimum wage rather than relying solely on tip income for wait staff. Others are adding a surcharge for those who work in the kitchen who might not be directly “tipped” or where tips are not pooled among all the Staff.
Why are labor costs treated differently from rent, food and beverage, utilities, insurance and other costs which have ALL increased substantially in recent years but there are no special surcharges for those items. A surcharge might make sense if there is an expectation that the costs (e.g. fuel costs) might go down and the surcharge would then be eliminated. Labor costs are NOT going down. Restaurants should simply update their menu prices periodically to reflect their total costs. With computerized printing, it takes literally a few minutes to print out new menus every few months and slide them into the menu binder rather than alienating customers with these “surcharges” in addition to tips.
If the Dems were smart, they would dispense with debating and adopting a “platform” which only highlights internal divisions within the party and is ignored by the Presidential nominee anyway. Trump disowned the party platform in 2016 and they ditched it entirely in 2020.
Expect additional resignations, possibly including Penny Pritzker (sister of Illinois Gov) who is the chair of the Harvard Corporation and headed the search committee that selected her. They have been consistently late to address anti-semitism on campus, well before October 7th and the Congressional testimony fiasco.
“It depends how “OLE” you are…”
Valid point. Perhaps the appropriate time horizon is subsequent to the first sound recording by inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857 France (whose great-great-great eynikl was a roadie for Shlomo Carlbach in the first Yenavelt Tour)She was reasonably well-regarded but was clearly NOT the most “qualified” person to lead Harvard among the hundreds of candidates considered. Her selection was part of a broad national academic and corporate effort to increase diversity in their ranks, with race becoming a major weighting factor in candidate evaluation for leadership positions And while she clearly lacks common sense in terms of how words are interpreted in the real word (i.e. there is NO context for advocacy of genocide) she is not an anti-semite.
Are you sure those were the “Good ole Days”….
What about Moishe Oiysher, Duvid Koussevitsky, Yussel Rosenblatt? THOSE were the GOOD OLE DAYS and their work is readily available on Youtube and other streaming mediaThere are roughly 6,000 colleges in the U.S and about 2/3 of those institutions are research universities granting advanced degrees. Students at the large percentage of these schools are not preoccupied with political issues from the far left or right and go about their studies as they have for decades. A relatively small number of these schools (albeit some of the most “prestigious”) account for most of the demonstrations, incidents of suppression of unpopular political views and actual harassment. The events of the past several months are likely to be a wake up call to those small number of schools that they risk losing major public and private funding if they continue to tolerate blatant hate speech in the name of “academic freedom”.
Most yidden who work in secular/professional firms have no difficulty navigating the daily encounters with non-Jewish colleagues in a friendly and respectful way including a nod to have a happy holiday or New Years or whatever. We are not engaging in avodah zorah or acknowledging the legitimacy of others’ beliefs. Just being civil in the same way my colleagues always offer their best wishes to their Jewish colleagues around Rosh Hashanah etc.
If you work in a secular organization with goyim, it makes sense to offer a simple “best wishes for the new year” in emails and telephone conversations to clients or even to fellow workers. In my frame of reference, such polite comments have zero religious significance and are not taken as such by the recipient
“Minutes in to 2024 and we already have the troll post of the year! Bravo!..
Hard to say if Reb yosef actually meant to pose a serious question, which this is. The Israeli and American governments both have decades of experience in managing the politics of their public statements for local consumption. Netanyahu has to appease lunatics on hisright and Biden has his “progressive” wing. Both seem to be able to manage their messaging quite well w/o undermining their actual non-public coordination efforts.By not getting bent out of shape and responding every time the U.S. leadership has to issue certain statements which appear to be contrary to Israeli policy positions or doctrine. Just as Bibi has to posture for the right wing of his coalition, Biden has to posture for the “progressive” wing of his own party, especially when it comes to the perceived suffering of women and children in Gaza.
You can find the one about the Ketzos on a Vimeo link if you search for videos of his songs. I can’t post the link but it comes up after a link to one of his English divrei torah entitled (appropriately) “If you could implant a cellphone in your brain” and before one of his songs entitled “Emuhnah”
Sam: Not EVERYTHING is about tshuvah, olam haboh, etc. We do live in Olam Hazeh and we need to exercise common sense in how we live our lives and organize our financial arrangements. That doesn’t mean fixating on gashmius at the expense of ruchniyus but the two are NOT mutually exclusive. Maintaining strong personal and family finances provides the basis for pursuing more important spiritual endeavors without having the bill collectors knocking on the door
Jackson was criticized multiple times in the 70s and 80s for using Jewish stereotypes and memes. At the same time, in 1978 he also accused Billy Martin, Yankee manager, of making anti-Semitic jokes about Yankees pitcher Ken Holtzman, who was Jewish. Jackson himself grew up with many Jewish friends who repeatedly came to his defense as being grossly politically incorrect in his jokes about other Blacks, Hispanics and Jews but not really someone who was antisemitic.
A parve x/large “pizza’ topped with chulent, pineapple and veggie cheese will feed a family of 4 economically and would be a special treat for a Thursday night change from the usual gourmet fare
We sometimes hear (sadly jokingly) that various frauds perpetrated by Yiddishe scam artists are a “shanda fur die goyim” as if that is the primary concern and that its somehow “ok” if no Jews are hurt. Whether we are addressing the seemingly endless nursing home scandals of a decade ago, massive financial frauds of a Bernie Madoff or the garden variety frauds such as those described here by the OP, there is some combination of laziness, greed, inexplicable stupidity and financial desperation that feeds these scams. What would seem to be obvious to any poishete yid somehow fails to register as obvious fraud and yidden don’t really seem to care whether they are fleecing other Jews or limiting their theft to “the goyim” since the dollars are fungible. While the civil courts don’t really care, hopefully beis din shel maalah has reserved a special section in gehenom for those yidden who prey on their brethren.
Hopefully, the owner will be in Otisville NY or Butner NC this time next year so that some other ehrliche scam artists can start a GoFundMe campaign for pidyon shivuim
ANYONE can get a collateralize “credit card” with varying credit limit ratios without needing some scam artist without needing “special connections”. New business startups can access several SBA and other government subsidized business loan programs depending on your prior experience, other assets and status under programmatic criteria for location etc.
It is not unreasonable to charge $100/person for a fine-dining steak dinner in a restaurant with good service (inclusive of a glass of vintage wine, appetizer tax and tip). With the cost of kosher meat, hashgacha, commercial rents and labor costs, thats actually a relatively modest charge. Obviously, for most of us, its not a regular weekly indulgence but certainly a fair price for special occasions. There are still plenty of lower cost fast-food places where you can still feed a family of 4 for $100-$150.
Even gullible yidden cannot be THAT stupid to pay $6K to some some scam artist with the promise of future funding without any validation or diligence?? You can put payos and streimlach on a pig but that doesn’t convert a chazir to some ehrliche askan
AAQ: Many frum yidden with substantial yichus still don’t endorse Sulam Yaakov dance hierarchy
Given that virtually the entire Western world outside EY has adopted X’mas day as either a religious or secular holiday and a day off from work, it is newly found time for limud torah (versus playing chess or video games). Many MO shuls are offering special learning programs for those otherwise who don’t do DY or other structured daily learning
The Chofetz Chayim clearly wasn’t referring to loshon horah in a moderated virtual chat room on a frum social media site
Buy a shtreimal and make the local chapter of PETA happy
“I don’t know what planet your living on but it sure is not mine….”
I think you are being a bit harsh. SK is the CR’s resident “sky is falling” trollster who is incredibly able to hijack just about any post or topic and turn it into a clarion call for us to do Tshuvah because we are no better than dor h’mabul and we are about to get another wake up call from the Ebeshter ch”v
“One now needs a good education in Shakespeare to know what to do in these fancy restaurants”
The same thing you would do in the lav in a non-fancy restaurant. If still in doubt, use the gender neutral facilities many restaurants have now adopted“screaming” when davening is like posting an X (aka Twitter) message directed to @Ebeshter in ALL CAPS…
Not coolAdding that small sprig of parsley to a mediocre burger raises it to lofty gourmet levels that an unadorned burger could never aspire to….like everything else in life, its form over substance….b’tavon!!
Daas Yochid
I’m sure you are correct but could you explain why triggering melting by introducing warm air into the ice chest is not “analogous” to the malacha of triggering the compressor to operate by opening a refrigerator door absent a shabbos mode setting?In the alte heim, the truly affluent yidden may have had a metal storage chest style of “refrigerator” with a block of ice added every other day or two. Presumably, there was an analagous debate about whether it was ok to open the ice chest on shabbos since it arguably would accelerate the melting of the ice block. While it is generally agreed that if one allows the ice to melt into liquid on its own there is no concern, whereas there is presumably greater concern that by introducing warm air into the chest by opening the door one would directly be causing the ice block to melt faster.
The more important question brought down by chazal is when there is a chiyuv to use clear plastic slip covers on a couch in the living room where these ehrliche menchen will gather before moving to the TABLE ROOM where there is less of a sheilah regarding the obligation to use a clear plastic table cover. Whereas some hold it is OK to use a translucent plastic cover for the table, the slip covers must be totally clear except for the seams where some opacity is OK
“to the original poster: are you joking?”
Why would the OP “joke’ about such a heilege question which CLEARLY falls within the category of יהרג ואל יעבורWhat type of table and for what purposes?? Wouldn’t it depend on the material the table is made of (i.e. wood, glass, ceramic etc) and what the table would be used for. Also, if a covering is required, why “plastic” which didn’t exist until modern times so obivously couldn’t have been mandated by the Torah or shulchan aruch etc