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Sugar free Coke; simply not coke!!
Olam Habama = Stage world
No, people don’t buy BECAUSE it’s fashionable. But you buy what’s available, which happens to be what’s in fashion.
On the subject, is it true that bochurim in Chabad yeshivos davka wear hats with smaller brims?
My picture of a bungalow colony is from A Yid Cares by Yitzy Erps circa 1980. Everyone has those detailed Yitzy Erps hands. We don’t have them in England. (I mean the colonies, we do have hands. We got rid of most of the colonies in the 50s and 60s.)
yitzy99, of course ‘Yeshivish’ was used then.
“It’s good you warned me not to jump on you…. I probably would have if you hadn’t warned me :)”
The result of years of experience on these boards – or possibly… ‘bored’s.
LuL:
A trifecta is a bet in which the person betting forecasts the first three finishers in a race in the correct order. Not sure why that is associated with Monsey. Maybe it’s meant to say money. Not sure why that would be associated with Frum singles. Unless it’s coz they have more spare money than married people. (Don’t jump on me, this is a joke – thanks) But, frum people generally don’t bet.
HannahK. If you would relocate to England. Manchester has all those things. It is wet though, but no snow like New York, doesn’t get stiflingly hot like New York or Florida. Very warm people and every type of community you would want.
Joseph, Well said, nothing to add or take away.
huju, It’s called fashion. If Joe Borsalino decides to make a wider brim, within about 3 years all bochurim will be wearing wider brims.
I know someone who, when he was about 5 years old, I want to be a fireman in the morning and a tzadik in the afternoon.
He is now mid-30s and a (very competent) electrical engineer, who runs a morning chaburah in our shul.
But to the original question, the answer is; don’t take it too seriously when they are very little. Just today my son told me, he wants to be an astronaut, soldier, fisherman, pirate, deep sea diver and firefighter. Tomorrow it’ll be another load of things. If he’s still saying all that at 16, I would have to take advice.
HGG, it was?? What chumash do you use? Van’t remember ever seeing those words in tanach.
LuL, That joke appears in one of the Gadi Pollack books, if I’m not mistaken Forward Into the Past
My name doesn’t appear in davening, unless you’re davening in a pub in the North East of England.
I was talking once to the previous Gateshead Rov, who was certainly a godol. I wanted to say “Thank you”, and had to say, “I want to thank the Rov”, because I couldn’t work out how to say it any other way in the 5 seconds it took for him to walk me to the door. (Yes, he walked me to the door.)
Just make sure to take trumos and maasros from Israeli peppers which are very popular in the UK market at the minute.
Coke Zero (Do you have that in America?) actually has 1 calorie per 330 ml.
That is the point. You don’t need to check the parshiyos unless you have a real concern. like if they fell into water, or they get left in a boiling hot or freezing cold car often.
Of course, ribua needs to be checked, and the retzuos have to be black
A chickpea is neither a chick nor a pea
More like a pea than a chick
This is an extract from the Hansard (official record of parliament) on 30 January. Make of it what you wish…
Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty) (Con)
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Boris Johnson
I am glad my hon. Friend has pointed that out. I had alluded to it in an elliptical way, but it is right that the House should be aware of that discrimination and the ban that exists. By the way, the House should reflect on the fact that all immigration and visa policies are by their nature discriminatory as between individuals and nations.
The sofer told me, we try not to open tefillin to check them, as this can cause more problems than it solves. We rely on the chezkas kashrus (presumption of being acceptable), unless there is a specific reason to check them.
Monkeys and donkeys can’t open locks
ubiquitin
No, I’m making a point that we are not talking about the most democratic countries in the world. Just like a blanket ban by the US is undemocratic, so is this. UK Foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, made that point in parliament this week.
A pineapple is neither pine nor apple
It’s part of the Liberal controlled media campaign to discredit Trump, like they have been doing since day 1. If he blew his nose in public, they would protest that.
(btw, LUL & Joseph, thank you for your concern and comments on another thread, since closed)
I believe the OP was simply asking what is the normative behaviour between Rebbe and talmid.
alexhannahhakatan, is there anything specific you are asking about?
I think every yeshiva and Rebbe in a yeshiva has their own derech. But generally, one talks in 3rd person, unless the Rebbe prefers not too. In England, one calls the Rebbe, Reb and his firstname, e.g. “I want to thank Reb Yisroel for his shiur today, and I have a kashe…”. The exception would be a Rov, Dayan or Rosh yeshiva. “I want to thank the Rosh Yeshiva for his shiur today, and I have a kashe…”
Don’t make the Rebbe stop walking, IOW, walk with him continuing to talk. This can be awkward, like walking down a narrow beis medrash aisle, but that’s what’s done.
Consider this: How many of those countries admit Israeli Passport holders? The answer is 0. How many people have protested that fact?
((CONFUSED))
He’s good!! I have met him, but didn’t know then he was a comedian. There was as an article about him in the Mishpacha a few years ago, and my first reaction, “why is there an article about a random guy from Edgware?”
Have a look at the clips on his website, I’m interested what Americans think of his British style humour.
R’ Avi Wiesenfeld on TorahAnytime.com. It’s in English, but very clear.
The reason for the Chabad custom, is that the Shulchan Oruch HaRav/The Alter Rebbe holds that the brochos are on the general hanhogo of Hashem not on this specific day. E.g. Hamaavir sheino, is thanking Hashem that I wake up every day, not specifically today. So even if I haven’t slept, I can still say it.
Rabeinu Bachya says the tzefardea were crocodiles. Definitely not zees
I assure you the Israel Postal Service can read English better than the US PS or Royal Mail can read Hebrew. I would write everything in English with Kiryat/Qiryat/Qiriat being all equally valid spellings. Also, put Israel in large on the last line to be doubly sure.
“but if someone at the PO doesn’t know, they can Google it with the zip code and get it in Hebrew or English” – I can’t imagine they sit there looking up zip codes on google.
(Don’t do what a friend of mine did once and put ‘Zionist Occupied Palestine’ as the country.)
Litvos,
If you’re in Hungary, I suggest you look up Rabbi Oberlander in Budapest.
Just heard Rav Fischel Schechter’s shiur from last week on Torah Anytime. He quoted When Zaidy was Young tale I, when the little girl (someone remind me her name please) said “Why don’t you tell dem you got tummyache?”, and Zaidy replies “I won’t even tell a lie when it’s the truth”. – Great line
Both are valid. NB. If it’s Kiryat/Qiryat Sefer, the city’s official name is Modi’in Illit.
Thank you CTL. I was confident the Emmes would emerge.
The attitude is a bit worrying. I’ve been out of school for longer than I was in it now, and to be quite frank, That’s life ol’ boy! Make the best of it, because it doesn’t get any better or easier when you’re out of school and have to earn a living.
I would suggest, speaking to a responsible adult, maybe a teacher, your family’s Rabbi or the principal to see how you can get the best of your remaining years of school.
I feel I need to Defend the kovod of Chief Rabbi Hertz zatza”l. I don’t know about his past in the USA, but I do know that he was a fierce opponent of Reform. He also was instrumental in bringing the world renowned Dayan Yechezkel Abramsky Zatza”l to the London Beis Din, which raised the stature of the Beis din even among the newly arriving refugees from eastern Europe. Another point, his son in law was Rabbi Dr Schonfeld, son of the founding Av Beis Din of the Addath Yisroel kehila of London.
Please don’t be moitzie laaz on him by connecting his legacy (carefully chosen word) with Conservative ‘Judaism’.
The Hertz Chumash was the standard for, what is called in England, ‘Englisher’ shuls or United Synagogues, at least until many changed to Artscroll. But it is definitely and firmly Orthodox. It is used all over the UK and the Commonwealth, and it seems from what you are saying in former Crown possessions (ie the USA) too.
It’s difficult to know what is troubling you about mention of Christianity, without some context.
ZD, I asked Dayan Ehrentreu Shlit”a at the time about Chief Rabbi Sacks attending William and Kate’s wedding. Dayan Ehrentreu is the Emeritus (former) Rosh of London Beis Din and thereby head of the Chief Rabbi’s Beis Din.
His first reaction was, “Er hot mir gornisht gefrekt!” (he didn’t ask me). When I asked him what the heter was, he said (Don’t quote me, because it was 6 years ago and I may have forgotten details in the meantime) firstly, Rabbi Sacks wasn’t seated in the main area of the church, but in an area that is added for large ceremonies such as weddings, coronations etc. Secondly, it wasn’t a prayer service as such but a wedding, even though prayer was offered.
Another answer may be that an Anglican church isn’t the same as a Catholic church would be, as has been mentioned many times on this forum.
How are you defining “haftora book”? Is it a differnt haftorah to the one in the chumash for any given week?
HaRav Moshe Sternbuch is still writing ?????? ???????. You can write to him in English of course. He doesn’t usually have the name of the asker though.
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Interestingly enough there’s a picture of a old style telephone on the front of this week’s Mishpacha JR.
There must be someone here who’s involved in the Mishpacha. The OP, WinnieThePooh?
(The pasuk from Malachi is read as the haftarah of parshas Toldos.)
I think we need to just read the next few pesukim to understand this inyan. The Novi is saying, that Hashem loves us as a nation, but we have turned away from Him. “If I am your Father, where is My respect; if I am your Master, where is My fear?”.
Maybe the pshat is, that Hashem loves us despite the fact that we have turned away. Like a father whose child has strayed, He constantly waits for us to return.
Fax machines! Even fax machines are disappearing. and I remember when they arrived! I had to send a fax recently, and among about 10 friends I couldn’t find one. Eventually, a friend who is a software developer, scanned in the paper for me, and sent it somehow to the recipient’s fax.
Avi K. No it’s because they chant it in a beautiful traditional tune, that the hailigge zaides and elter zaides chanted it in. But don’t translate it into english at all. The kids can read hebrew, but don’t understand it.
LB – (whispering) … You forgot to post “4 y/o thread”
Yossi, I know of plenty of people who send their children to a yiddish speaking cheder I.e. chassidish(not just teitching in yiddish) and they can’t understand their chumash.