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Sent away with a $5 bill?
From a party people drove to in their multi-thousand dollar cars?
Or were driven to in limos?
Wearing multi-thousand dollars worth of finery?
And dining on the finest NYC has to offer the upper crust of kosher eaters?
While imbibing the sweet fragrance of exotic blooms and the effervescently bursting bubbles of bottles of bubbly?
Sniff …
Oh how fun it is to be judgmental!
Oh how fun it is to join the CR!
Wishing all a beautiful Chag celebrated in true cheirus!
True heimishe know exactly how to shape them so you’d never mistake them for wontons.
Haiku to Ms Plony
Ms Plony’s Daughter
Has great poetry talent
Wishing her Nachas
Woe unto us.
The CR has lost its sense of humor.
Dark days indeed.
Trust a Lakewood Wife to know how answer Joseph’s shayla!
I noticed everyone skipped right over her excellent response so I decided to step up to the plate…
Thank you lakewoodwife!
I see. I may be interested in what people have to say… but what people have to say is- nothing. Okay. If that’s the case then I’ll let you all continue arguing about what big reshaim or tzaddikim or possibly tzedukim the zionists are.
I haven’t taken the time to read every post here, so correct me if I’m wrong:
I think there’s something missing here.
Yishuv Eretz Yisrael is one of the Taryag Mitzvos.
The most relevant question for us is whether or not this is a Mitzvah b’zman ha’zeh. (As a side point there is also the question of the added benefit of being able to be mekayekm Mitzvos Ha’tluyos Ba’aretz when one lives in E”Y.)
As I’ve mentioned, none of us are going to do things according to SHU”T of the CR, but I’d be interested to hear what people have to say.
Oomis! Welcome! Where have you been hiding?
Please try to understand the complaints of people going away for Pesach. A hotel stay requires 2 outfits per meal (2 in case you need to change because you got matza crumbs on your skirt, or because you’re wearing cashmere and the sun came out, or you’re wearing pale pastels and it started to snow) per female. If the family includes one mother and only 2 daughters, well you do the math… 24 meals (8 days X 3)… i get 144 outfits. An alligator snapping his jaws at me could not stress me more than having to do that amount of shopping and packing.
While you’re mulling that over, enjoy the brand new granddaughter!! (Nothing can equal that joy, except of course a brand new grandson.)
I did feel bad hearing that LF breaks out in a sweat in middle of the night due to Pesach cleaning. Hope you were just kidding, LF. If not, your vaccum cleaner is your friend. You can vaccum a room in a few minutes. You can move lighter things, like a chair, or a pair of socks, and leave the heavier furniture in place. If you’re worried that some chametz made its way behind that heavy dresser you inherited from your Tante Minna, or is hiding all the way at the back of a drawer somewhere, please ask your Rav if you are permitted to lose sleep over that.
You already got so much great advice, I don’t have much to add besides:
Someone suggested something about parchment paper and a hot plate. I think it must have been some sort of typo or other error. I’m a big fan of parchment paper and shelf paper all over the place on Pesach. And a hot plate can be a good idea. But DO NOT put those 2 items – Paper & Hot Plate anywhere near each other, for any reason, b’shogeg or b’meizid, EVER.
Also, clearly the best potatoes for karpas, if you can get them, are Yukon Gold. But if you want that nostalgic ‘in der heim’ flavor and you’re not going gourmet, any humble brown-skinned spud will do.
And finally, You may want to keep in mind that the first Seder falls on Friday night this year. It’s always best to have all simanei ha’seder prepared before you light candles. This year it’s even more important! Peeling and grating and chopping and even preparing the mei melach create all sorts of Hilchos Shabbos issues. And you won’t be able to cook your karpas potatoes, if that’s what your family eats for karpas. And even if you prefer a radish, you’ll end up with a raw egg and an unbroiled z’roa on your ke’ara.
I think the correct term is “Edith”
LeiderL,
Call your Rav.
Discuss.
Post details of discussion.
Not because any of us are going to prepare our meals this Pesach based on piskei Halacha of the CR. Just to give us some interesting food for thought. That kind of food is (in most cases) muttar on Pesach, and can be quite satisfying.
A in MD,
Very much enjoyed your post. Partly for its candid honesty. Mainly because you succeeded where others failed- in being dan le’kaf z’chus a person whose actions seemed hard to explain away.
Zdad, if I saw someone with a gun on the way to kill someone, I would not try to stop him. I would run away as fast as I can (admittedly not that fast) and call 911.
Just trying to point out, as others have, that the Mitzva of tochacha requires making some judgment calls. (When not in immediate danger as above, speaking to someone wise and learned can be very helpful.)
CTL,
Hillary herself said at the Benghazi hearings that she as SOS was responsible for the State Department’s people all over the world. And you just said above that the SOS is responsible for calling the marines to defend embassy personnel. You can split all the hairs you want but the fact is that a few officials at the State Department were dismissed as a result of the Benghazi hearings, basically taking the fall for their superior. And what upset a lot of people was her pretending this was a random act, and not the act of muslim terrorists. Something her boss continues to do up to and including the Brussels attacks.
Islam, according to Hillary and her distinguished boss, is a religion of peace.
If you think we need a president who truly believes that and will act accordingly, please vote clinton in November.
As for me, she lost me when she kissed suha arafat.
Why do you listen to lectures from “someone who says they are a Rabbi”?
Would you eat a chicken slaughtered by someone who says he’s a shochet?
Or invest your money with someone who says he’s a banker (or a prince from Nigeria)?
Well said, Syag.
‘Live and let live’ is one of those expressions that sounds good with our born in the USA ideas of life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But it doesn’t always make sense in a life based on Torah. We’re more concerned with our unalienable obligations and responsibilities to our Creator and to our fellow man, than with our ‘rights’.
Me’od ME’OD hevei sh’fal ruach.
The double lashon indicates the extreme importance of attaining this Middah.
So I would say the ‘humility courses’ newbee declares a waste of time, are in fact very beneficial. Regardless of what career one has in mind.
Uhuh. Ok. Understood. Thanks, VM!
VM,
Are you trying to say that everything is either an obligation or shouldn’t be done, and there’s no such thing as a ‘r’shus’?
Where have I heard that before?
PBA, are you a Berditchever einikel?
Shopping6, I understand your puzzlement. Some of it comes from your having a hard time putting yourself into other people’s shoes. As someone already mentioned to you, in a family with, let’s say, 4 children and the oldest is 6, the mother is the one cleaning all the bedrooms. And trying desperately to keep the one and two year olds from sprinkling cheerios and pretzel crumbs all over the freshly cleaned carpets and furniture. And in a family with 4 teenage boys and 2 sons-in-law coming for Yom Tov, there’s going to have to be a well-stocked fridge and freezer and no amount of kugel will manage to satisfy them all. Every family is dealing with their own set of circumstances the best way they can. For many women, it’s a pleasure to sit down at a beautifully set Seder table in a gleaming house. And for others, just providing the requisite karpas, maror, charoses and a very abbreviated shulchan orech has sapped all their kochos to the limit.
It’s beautiful and amazing to see that 2,000 years after Yetzias Mitzrayim we’re all doing our utmost to fulfill “Tashbisu se’or mibateichem” and to pass on to our children sippur yetzias mitzrayim while observing the Mitzvos of Pesach, as a privilege and a joy. All of us to the best of our ability.
(I would tell DY though, that if I could afford one expensive vacation, I would take it AFTER spending Pesach in my own home. But that’s just me….)
Chas VeShalom, AbbaS! Not another marriage headed for divorce court or headed to beis din, or headed anywhere at all. Just a bunch of trolls and others entertaining themselves and each other. Possibly under the influence, but I think not.
Did somebody say L’chaim???
That’s ok, oyoy.
Presumably you were inebriated. And thus pattur.
Sorry, apushata, you are wrong.
According to arts and crafts porojects I have seen from preschools at the top Yeshivas in the US, it was Moshe Rabbeinu who wore a shtreimel.
The eirev rav wore Borsalinos.
And Haman indeed sported the hat, goatee and shoes (thank you, Queen) described above.
Any 5 year old whose parents managed to get him into one of these top Yeshivas will confirm gladly.
(I did not mean to say that ‘chur karpas u’techeles’ were in fact Persian rugs as we know them. I don’t know how those colorful fabrics looked. The decorations described at seudas Achashveirosh bring to mind the elaborate textiles still manufactured in Iran and Pakistan and India and that part of the world.)
Isfahan, Iran
Persian rugs
Chur karpas u’techeles…
Following Amberg >>>>
Grosswardein, Hungary
Vizhnitz Rebbes lived there
(Yes, there was also a Kleinwardein)
And Ah Freilichen Purim to you too, BB!
😉
Where do your bachurim come from, apushata?
I’ve never seen anything like that!
And I’ve had lots of bachurim in & out of the house on Purim.
You’re making me feel sorry. Because I always think I should call the Hanhala of their yeshivos afterwards to report how they behaved like gentlemen, and then I get busy cleaning up from Purim and getting ready for Pesach and the call is forgotten…
( I have to admit I’ve had some meshulachim who looked a little scary. But that’s a whole different story. I just added it because while we’re on the topic of staying safe on Purim, people need to be careful whom they let in to their homes.)
Xiuxian Habirah, Paras
Seat of a wicked king.
Or a melech tippesh, if you prefer.
(That was how his Chinese subjects spelled it.)
DON’T COUNT THIS POST (I couldn’t bring myself to delete something golfer wrote so I just added a disclaimer ;))
Salt lake CitY went up before Sunderland, so that was a Y we needed.
York, England
Massacre of Jewish community
Ein Gedi, Israel
Waterfall, ibex & view of Yam Hamelach
Haifa, Israel
Eliyahu HaNavi, Har HaCarmel
Do I delete this one or just let you all ignore it?
Ok Queen, you’re asking me to take the S? >>>>
Sde Boker, Israel
Ranch in the Negev
It gets confusing, Queen, when posts don’t go up immediately, and then when they’re up you find 2 or more posters who followed one post.
I propose adding to the rules that you follow the first post or answer and ignore later ones.
So- AllentowN is followed by your New Orleans and my Naples is ignored.
(Even though serendipitously we both ended with the same letter – S)
Sorry CTL, I missed your Amsterdam – it was on a previous page. But my Rotterdam was right above yours! And yes, we noticed it begins with R. Here’s one that begins with N >>>>
Naples, Italy
There’s one in Florida too.
Amsterdam, Holland
Chacham Zvi
His son-in-law was from Reisha, and also served as Rav of Amsterdam
No need to apologize, Queen.
Was nice to see we both had our minds in Hungary this morning!
Rotterdam, Holland
Sea port
To The Goq
I can’t believe
when I receive
the news that you’re
about to leave!
Adar is a month so joyous
And your departure just destroys us!
In the spirit of
Ve’Nahapoch hu
I’m asking you
to think this through
Stay and take us
from disbelief
to a feeling
of great relief!
Please excuse this amateurish
attempt to make you reassure us
that you won’t plunge into gloom
the members of the Coffee Room
Keresztur, Hungary
Home of a great Tzaddik
Mazel Tov!!!
Ramat Rachel, Israel
Kibbutz
Rishon LeTziyon, Israel
Chovevei Zion
El Arish, Sinai Desert
Six Day War
True of course, DY.
Do you happen to know the source for the quote about lev sarim u’melachim?
(And I still think your description of Hilary was one for the books…)
Here’s a Title for your post, DY:
“The Truth About The US Presidential Election, ’16”
The nooks and crannies are for melted butter.
Yum.
(Is that really what’s behind the shidduch crisis?)
Coffee ad, my intention was not to demote THE 5 Towns to a name denoting lesser status.
Please see mr ocho’s post.