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The intelligence failures and lack of high level government focus on an obvious threat is beyond understanding and demands answers once the immediate crisis has been mitigated to some degree. edited – Sorry, not doing this. Unless you want to go stand in his shoes right now, that can wait
Whether you agree with the hostage deal or believe in the ability to restrict expenditures, not a penny has been released as of yesterday. The gross stupidity and efforts to “blame” broad swaths of Yidden as reflected in some of these posts is beyond embarrassing. If you go on some of the right-wing social websites frequented by the MAGA crowd (e.g. GabSocial, etc.), you will see some of the most vile, hateful anti-semitic, anti-Israel posts saying the U.S. should NOT give a dollar of aid to Israel and linking the terrorist attacks to global Jewish elites “domination of the world”.
As has been conclusively demonstrated in peer reviewed studies, inside even the most ehrliche Litvishe yid beats the heart of a chassidishe wannabe.
Just hang around a newly affluent yid when he gets to Avinu Malkenu and see if you can understand a vert of his adopted sephardeshe nusach
Chaim: Your comment about costs and ostentatious lifestyles prevalent across “in-town” communities is a bit bizarre. There are those who live beyond their means EVERYWHERE and its not unique to (in-town) Brooklyn, Monsey and Lakewood frum neighborhoods. A trip to Orlando is not outrageously expensive nor do most yidden fress out at $500/person 5 star Moshelin Dining venues. Insecure people with a need to keep up with their more affluent neigbors live both IT and OOT, although in the latter case, you may have to drive a bit further to monitor the most recent displays of obscene opulence.
” Later the husband marries another wife….”
In the immoral words of R’ Ron Reagan, “there you go again”. Why is a certain CR participant so fixated on polygamy when most yidden have enough difficulty with a single spouse.CA: I’d rather do tshuvah than rely on a tarp to stay dry.
I’d be careful about using CBD for depression or any other emotional/mental health issues. Not a lot of verified data or peer reviewed studies aside from lots of anecdotal information. There are, however, some studies showing that CBD formulations can interfere with efficacy of certain prescribed medications and for certain individuals can actually have adverse effects.
you can get more info and watch a brief video at rubashkinhouse dot com……it appears to be a really massive operation going 24×7
If we all do Tshuvah, next year the Yidden controlling the weather might consider holding off on the Mabul before all the beautifully decorated succos become totally waterlogged. A wonderful seudah is best enjoyed w/o the kids’ decorations dropping down from the schach in your face while looking at what were once posters of gedolim which now all look like some psychedelic Rorschach inkblot test.
“Declare bankruptcy to solve your debt problems”
Great idea! Don’t pay your debts, stiff your contractors, and declare bankruptcy….even ex-Presidents do it. Leaving others holding the bag is what makes America Great
“Sneak up behind them and blow a shofar..”
And next year, you will be begging for mechilah for having caused them Tinnitus!!
Have you ever considered whispering “Tishrei” since shaarei Shamayim are still open for another 10 days or so. You’d be amazed that volume doesn’t always equate to efficacy.
Perhaps moishiach will come and we will be spared from having to deal with this….its just depressing to have to think about which is the less terrible choice. Alternatively, we can ask the Brits to forgive us and plead for them to allow the U.S. to revert to its status as a British Colony .
The many NYG fans here in the CR will recall that back in the late 1980s, Phil Simms was paid $100K after winning the Superbowl to say “We’re Going to Disneyworld”. Since that time, a player from every Super Bowl-winning team has said the phrase on-camera since. Its only fair that frum yidden, having survived the yamim noraim and the superbowl of bais din shel maahlah, will be also be able to say that as well.
So I correct my prior kvetch to stipulate that bored bochurim are overrunning the CR both during bein hazmanim and during the zman when they should be at least endeavor to create the appearance of shteiging.
Not= so-chashuvah bachurim, talimidim, kollel yungerleit and simply bored Trollsters
The new zman will be starting soon and the CR will soon be freed from the onslaught of childish rants and unintelligible musar. Perhaps in the interim, do something useful like cleaning and refinishing your shtender (good beeswax cleaner and water-based stain) or cleaning the walls outside shuls and batei medrashim from a year’s worth of pashkevilim warning that its assur and vadalism to glue a pashkevil on public walls (no matter how “important” the message”)
Some old-timers may remember the king of the day-traders during the internet stock frenzy of the late 1990s who went by the nickname of Tokyo Joe (R’ Yosef’s second cousin from Japan). Thousands of young day-traders were paying him hundreds of dollars a month to share his trading tips. He was subsequently charged by the SEC with failure to register as an investment advisor and building up a position in some small market cap stocks and then dumping his position simultaneously with hyping them for his chassidim. There are still some legit advisory services like Motley Fool, but they generally focus on “longer-term” (aka more than an hour or two) positions and also have good research staff backing up their recommendations.
Probably because frum yidden are too smart to deliberately engage in a demonstrated money-losing activity. You have better chance of making money at a Casino. SEC studies show the vast majority of day traders lose money.
AAQ: I think thats the point of the OP. A lot can be hidden in non-tapered Lulumon Hoisen
Papasmurf: My expertise in varbeshe lvushos is derived from non-stop chatter over nearly 3 years of zoom calls with clients and colleagues during Covid 19 as to the benefits of working from home in both tapered and baggy lululemon hoisen. I wouldn’t claim gadlus in any other segment of the varbeshe fashion world.
Takamamash: So we now need to include a label for every sarcastic phrase in a post? Obviously they’ve been around forever and thats why the original troll was so pathetic. Aside from the tzinius issue for women, most kollel yungerleit look terrible in yoga pants even if you put aside the question of whether they are consistent with the lvush of our ancestors in the alte heim.
“Do teshuvah now; avoid the holiday rush….”
Apparently, the malachim working in the IT Department in Shamayim have added a significant amount of new bandwidth to the http://WWW.Tshuvahnow.com website to accommodate the large numbers of yidden wanting to do tshuvah in the days before the yamim noraim. Thus, the website is unlikely to crash as has sometimes been the case in prior years.
CA: Its called the “law” of diminishing returns…….actually, you probably observed that my online presence is inversely related to time on the golf course or periodic moments of trolling the trolls.
“Never heard of this. Some new fad?”
Yup…a NEW fad….its called yoga and a publicly traded firm called Lululemon (NYSE: LULU) sells this newfangled lvush called “yogapants”. They became the official uniform of millions of women working from home during the Covid Pandemic since they didn’t show up on Zoom calls with clients. When our firm (and virtually all other law firms, banks etc.) sent around memos to their professional staff back in June ordering everyone back to the office 4 days/week after Labor Day, they included a special reminder that lululemon hoisen were NOT considered proper professional attire (even on casual Fridays). They have also become popular among some segments of the frum tzibur when worn as leggings under a tzinisusdike skirt. I suspect the OP is struggling to find a new subject for trolling that is not as mindless as most of the other “bein hazmanim” missives we have been suffering through the past few weeks.
“Of course Ger is another story…”
So are you saying that Ger chassidim are LESS likely to be supportive of a “mixed” marriage? Is that also true of those Ger who follow R’ Shaul Alter’s hashkafah and those who might arguably be less fixated on the “takunes” with respect to one of their kids finding a Litvish beschert?
CS: I never realized how few Chabad shalichim are based around Lakewood. There are 3 listed for Jackson, Toms River and Freehold. When you go to the “Chabad Locator” map on google search it appears to show literally dozens clustered around northern NJ and the Philly suburbs but a total Chabad desert around Lakewood. Rumor has it that the BG crowd has zoned out non-Litvish mosdos.
Baruch hashem today is the last day of August and those suffering from terminal (bein hazmanim) boredom will soon be back at their shtenders hokkin their chevrusahs rather than abusing the long-suffering CR tzibur.
“A lot of grocery prices are government regulated…”
noMesorah: Aside from federal and state marketing orders regulating “raw milk” prices, what other “grocery” price are regulated???
Linkedin for shidduchin is no big deal…
This is an American invention in the litvishe kehilos and should be abolished”
Rocky: Not everything Litvish is bad and should be abolished. Davening in nusach Ashkenaz, adding garlic by the kg to chulent, teffilin on chol hamoed….Where would you choose to live your life??
“The Government does not want the average person to have this [financial] knowledge, so they teach all sorts of STUPIDITY instead …….I wish i opened 5 credit card accounts when i was 18. ….I would be able to leverage high credit limits, and i would a millionaire by now….”
You clearly must have been all star student student in secular studies and top in your class in STUPIDITY to have the chachmah to share such a brilliant post.
Common Saychel: Ale mir zogn iz gebn shlum a gelegnhayt…
A gutten shabbos
Beast of a Dude….like Trump, who lies about everything, including the hilarious advance filing last night with the court that he weighs only 215 lb and his hair is “Strawberry Blonde”. He was desperate to avoid having the Sheriff’s deputies weigh him in as they do with most of those being arrested and processed at the jail.
If you think body-shaming is funny, I’ll send you a list of rabbonim and askanim who are obese by medical standards so you can start posting jokes about them as well.Its time to step back and reconsider the whole “color war” shtick at summer camps in the broader context of global geopolitics and militarism. Parents sending their pure yiddeshe neshamas to a summer camp do not expect them to be indoctrinated in the barbaric violence of milchama and instead hope they learn to peacefully engage with those bunks whose residents they disagree and sit around the campfire and sing “Oseh Shalom” to the melody of Kumbayah. As chazal bring down the inyan of “Make Love Not War”, summer camp must reinvest itself in this pacifist model.
GWB, GWB, GWB (and lying about it)
Among many stupid trolls recently, this one lacks any redeeming qualities.
Art Scroll generally does its annual (20% off) sale in June, not September. They will occasionally discount specific titles or some discontinued editions but not an across-the-board discount of the entire catalog.
CS: After extensive review of hundreds of UJM posts on multiple threads, I’m more convinced than ever that our revered R’ Yosef is really a closet feminist whose elegant misogynistic trolls are really an ingenious means of eliciting angry responses defending women.
“This thread has me completely lost….”
Menachem Shmiel: So nu, vats the chidush?? Your comment applies to just about every CR thread somewhere between posts nos. 11-14.
It is not unusual for men in their mid-40s experience some form of “mid-life crisis”. To begin with, in your 40’s you are no longer a “bochur” by any definition. You are a man who feels he is being repeatedly rejected by women, notwithstanding your acknowledging that there are many available women out there looking, but just not in your direction.
There are a small minority here in the CR who believe the “Shidduch Crisis” is mainly media hype and your perception of the statistics certainly would support that view.
Take a few months off from your “search” and use the time to critically look inward and assess whether there might be some personal attributes which might not be net positives from the perspective of a woman (not “girls”) in your age bracket (mid-30sto mid-40s) seeking her beschert and decide whether there are personal changes within your control that you want to undertake to make yourself more attractive to these women.
Whatever path you take, much hatzlacha in your search.Paying a private rebbe for WHAT??
Tutoring one of your kids in alef beis? Advising you on halachic issues for a new business venture? Learning with you on an ongoing basis as you would with a chavrusah?
Obviously, the applicable rate will depend on where you are located and what services you are seeking from this Rav.“Arabs are noble giving people…..”
CS: So are many yidden. Whats your point?I’m not sure this debate is remotely relevant to contemporary Islamic beliefs and behavior. Even assuming for arguments sake that Jewish-Muslim relations were peaceful and benevolent until the Zionists came along, which as other posts above note is not really accurate, that would NOT be the case today given the radicalization of generations of Arab youth for reasons that are both religious and cultural. You have to be truly crazy to believe that if the medinah was disolved, the IDF disbanded and Zionism extinguished yidden would be welcome in what is now EY and could live in peace and harmony with their neighbors until z’man moishiach.
“Either way, if there is no way to overturn a stolen election, other than fighting it in court systems which all turn it down due to technical reasons…”
Participant: Whatever you are smoking, I hope you are in a jurisdiction where it is legal. Of the 65 to 70 court proceedings dealing with challenges to the voting, certifications, electors, etc., at least half or more were MERITS cases and not procedural. Even those cases that were arguably “procedural”, many dealt with standing and late filings or were summarily dismissed because Trump’s lawyers never followed up an initial “complaint” with the require evidence or showings. When Trump’s own Attorney General, FBI Director, head of the election monitoring office at DHS etc. along with at least 17 Trump appointed federal judges all say conclusively there was no evidence of election irregularities that would have changed the outcome, its more than “procedural”.
Stick with the Metropolitan Museum of Art….thousands of years of incredible works of art and very little of that moderneshe stuff that looks much like something your eyniklekh might have brought home from preschool and hanging on your refrigerator door
What is the standard for “normal” these days? Given some of the other craziness going on in the frum velt, the Chabadniks who cling to the notion that the Rebbe will be “returning” in some spiritual context but otherwise are shomrei torah umitzvot, seem quite normal. I’d be more concerned about some of the fringe elements of other chassidus and the Litvishshe tzibur who engage in seemingly non-stop broigas with their neighbors and hafganot targeted at just about everyone on a particular day of the week (sometimes for reasons not entirely clear even to the demonstrators).
Seems like the YU-haters have too much time on their hands on a slow evev shabbos in August. Those who have strong disagreements with YU/RIETS will hold those views, irrespective of the facts. Many of us may disagree with some of the positions and programs they have initiated over the past decade but feel that overall, it is critically important to have an institution like YU available for those who seek that environment.
For those who lack the depth of knowledge of some of the CR posters regarding the niftar and may have had personal interactions with a particular Rav, the “BDE” response or similiar acronyms are simply the most expedient way of expressing respect when no other words or thoughts come to mind. It seems mindless to many who share more substantive words of hesped but it satisfies a need many feel so just acknowledge the loss.