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Nolonsemhelp, HaL is HaLeivi.
And instead of joining the doomsayers, he is giving us a hint from Yechezkel HaNavi of the Geulah coming in a time of shefa Brachos. We have already shed so many tears in this long Galus, may it end soon!
Of course, nolonsemhelp-
Matza & wine at the Seder.
But we already have a gebrochtz thread.
And you wouldn’t believe how seriously people take food around here.
So let’s not start another one.
Agree with DY.
Strife and Shalom Bayis issues over food??!?
How important exactly is food to you?
More important than getting along with your spouse or offspring?
I’ve had an argument (or two) in my life (trying not to divulge too much personal info) but over FOOD?
I have the greatest admiration, by the way, for a few acquaintances who got sons-in-law with major Pesach chumros and overhauled their menus to accomodate them.
For my own part I’ve been know to adjust the menu for picky eaters or guests’ preferences where no Halachos or minhagim were involved.
If the company is good and the table is set nicely I always feel it’s a beautiful seuda!
HaL, +1,000
I nominate your post #1 post of the month and for the month. (Even though we just started the month of Nisan.)
Thank you HaLeiVi.
Nothing like learning something inside from the source.
But that was a different thread.
Back to this one, that certainly puts a different perspective on things.
I still have a hard time with the thought of OTD problems resulting from bad parenting. But I may be wrong.
DY, I never took that to be a proof for what you’re saying. I understood it more to mean the things little kids (-yenuka-) talk about and the way they express themselves. Not the life choices they make when they get older. I would tend to agree more with what jewishfem wrote. Kids are influenced by parents, yeshiva / school, friends, the media, society at large, and have their own inclinations to deal with each. I’ve never been one for parent bashing or yeshiva bashing.
Do people out there in the CR really think the OTD problems we’re having come from parents?
HaL, +1
Just for the record, I only singled out Flatbush in response to yiddishmish.
I plan to be oleh regel with Yidden from Melbourne, Milwaukee, Manchester, Mumbai, and points in between.
Yiddishm, yishuv Eretz Yisrael is a Mitzvah that (according to many, not all authorities) is noheig now. And observing as many Mitzvos as we can is sure to hasten the Geulah.
I did want to ask you though, ever heard of kibbutz galuyos?
Fear not residents of Flatbush! AFAIK you’re joining the rest of Klal Yisrael in being mekabel p’nei Mashiach Tzidkeinu.
Thanks for bumping this thread, yekke.
It was so interesting to read the two oh oh nine predictions here in ’14. And all the ideas about Gog U’Magog, and the stock market & etc, four years later.
It can happen any minute.
But it’s always great to hear from the select few who are convinced they know when and how and why.
Sorry crazyb, don’t think a job makes you a feminist.
But for sure it’s cause for celebration!
Mazel Tov!!!!
Hope it’s a great success!!!
Lucky me they all pitch in round here.
Echad hamarbeh, v’echad hamam’it…
Hi oomis.
What does “Even the OU accepted…” mean? Yes the OU accepted it. That doesn’t mean every Possek says it’s ok.
I also don’t understand your “frustration” with the chumros of Ashkenazic Rabbanim. Do you think your string of exclamation marks will make them understand something they missed regarding chameishes minei dagan?
Pesach is not the only area where we follow the directions of our Chachamim, palatable or unpalatable as they may be. The issue of Chametz is one area in particular where many feel the need to be stringent (even though in other areas they would be more inclined to take a middle path or to be lenient.) Some people connect this to the fact that Chametz alludes to the Yetzer hara. I don’t pretend to understand that totally. I do know that any chumros accepted in the house my husband grew up in, are now part of my Pesach kitchen.
And if my husband liked quinoa, (which he does not) I’d call our Rav.
Definitely Charlie.
+1 more
Mods, I hold if someone is a blazing kanoey, you can let his post through before you see his original passport and driver’s license and marriage license and Medicaid card. Just saying.
Sounds good, I’ll put you down as his custodian
I read your whole post, pba.
Very well thought out. Very well written.
Seems to me the “se’ohr she’ba’issa” here is, as you describe it – The Shmorg.
So if we can get everyone to eliminate that frenzy of excessive consumption before the Chuppa, we’ve solved your crisis.
Ah, pba follows the Heilige Berditchever!
Agreeing with you again, oomis.
I never knew that kiddush clubs like that really existed. I was sure it was some kind of urban legend and that snopes would declare it all a hoax. Until one day I attended a simcha in an unfamiliar neighborhood at an unfamiliar shul. I walked out after sheini with a child that was getting antsy. And in a room off the main hallway I saw a couple of men wearing talleisim and eating. Also, it seemed, drinking. I later commented to my husband on this strange inexplicable phenomenon. I wondered if they belonged to a different minyan in that building that finished before us. Although there hadn’t seemed to be any place where there could have been one. My husband explained that no, there was no other minyan, and no, I wasn’t hallucinating.
Live and learn.
🙂 oomis!
(Am I the only mother-in-law in the whole CR & the whole world who loves her son-in-law ???)
Start after Purim.
There. That’s settled.
Ah freilichen!
We agree on at least one thing, oomis.
Were you being polite (as usual) when you referred to some of the things you read in “Ask the Shadchan” as “ill-advised”?
Some of the advice in that column has my hair standing up on end.
Literally.
(Under my sheitel, of course.)
So what was the answer?
I wonder if the Tosafosists could have imagined us filling them with chocolate chips…
So you’re telling me, Veltz M, as per your scientific analysis, that oomis is a guy in a law school class??!?
Boy, did he have me fooled…
Can anyone recommend a good Bourbon?
I got such a headache last Purim helping my husband finish his bottle of Scotch.
Phew!!
Thank you Wolf!!
I was waiting for a Ba’al Chessed to come forward and do that.
And you did it with such elegance and eloquence.
Guess you must be polishing up your Chessed feature just in time for Kol Ha’Poshet Yad…
Oh my.
This was so not what I intended on starting when I posted.
Purim is just a few days away.
I suppose Haman’s daughter didn’t exactly get what she intended on either when she spilled the trash out the window.
(Not that I’m comparing myself to any unsavory characters here.)
Lighten up all of you!
L’Chayim!
BUMP!!
In honor of the upcoming Chag, I invite all CR members, posters & lurkers, to read (or reread) RZ’s famous quiz (page 1, above). Those privileged to live in scenic Flatbush will surely recognize themselves. And those less fortunate who live in distant lands like Cleveland & Chicago, where it is difficult to find a minyan, a kosher chicken, a man with a black Borsalino & a grey beard, or a woman in a genuine European human-hair sheitel and the other accoutrements of Flatbush femininity, will gain greater understanding of our great borough.
Also notable and praiseworthy is Mr Zweig’s analysis of the shidduch crisis from A to N. After gallons of ink and gigabytes of cyber-ink have been spilled in a futile quest to resolve the Crisis, Mr Zweig defines it with clarity and precision. And having defined the crisis, the cure cannot be far behind.
Ah Freilichen Purim rebyid!!!!!!!!
L’Chayim!
Oomis, I see you believe that learning Torah “upholds the spiritual health of Klal Yisrael.”
What’s interesting is that it also ensures our physical wellbeing in this world. I’m sure I don’t need to try and prove to you that our existence through two thousand years in Galus, most recently through World War II and through numerous attacks by our enemies in Eretz Yisrael, is totally beyond the bounds of teva as we understand it. Our physical survival depends on Torah as much as our spiritual health does.
The yeshiva bachur staying late in the Bais Medrash to clarify the sugya, may be keeping the neighbors that he doesn’t even know, safe and sound in their beds.
This is not meant to disagree in any way with the rest of your comment!
Come on Health, you know better than that.
When oomis suggests a little respect and understanding on both sides, the correct response is Not for you to attack the lack of respect and understanding on the part of the Other side! They’re responsible for their actions; you’re in charge of your own. That means you start by showing some respect and consideration for the other guys, however misguided you may think they are.
Try it!
It’s painful to watch everyone tearing the other side apart. But we can each only start by trying to work on our own Ahavas Yisrael.
I see.
That was really a shocking headline.
The only question I have now is-
The story about a Gadol being asked about bringing the Jewish Press into the restroom, did that happen with Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky ZT”L or with the previous Gerrer Rebbe ZT”L ??
Yichusdik, you brought up a good point.
I think the answer to your question- “Does anybody realize…” is-
Nobody was really thinking about those implications; either because of the force of their convictions that precluded having any other considerations, or because of simply not bothering to be “ro’eh ess ha’nolad.”
I’m sure many people will want to say it was a case of adhering to ideological convictions, and not negligence or miscalculation.
As for the consequences, hopefully we”ll all be around to see what happens. And hopefully the positive consequences will outweigh any negatives.
Don’t get me started, HaL.
Yiras Hakovod? An old-fashioned outdated concept.
I wonder if you feel the same way I do about the Gedolim pics in every publication you pick up…
2032
Not following…
Do you care to clarify, gav-a-w, what/where was the shocking headline?
And why is anyone apologizing?
Good point, wallflower.
It can also mean lacking a few (not all) hubcaps, part of a bumper, and/or a muffler, as in, “this car is so yeshivish.”
Glad to hear!
Don’t worry Goq!
It’s really not that terrible most of the time. Depends on what kind of root canal exactly and on your pain tolerance, but you may be surprised to find you won’t have that much pain.
The fact that we can board a plane and land a few hours later in Tel Aviv, doesn’t mean we should forget the people who were interned on Cyprus after surviving the concentration camps, for trying to make the same trip in far less comfortable circumstances.
Anyone old enough to remember standing at Shaar Mandelbaum, looking from a distance at a small part of the Kosel and not allowed to approach, or anyone who knows such a person, would not ask your question.
Are there any updates on the condition of the little girl we have been saying Tehillim for?
Checking in here to agree with oomis, as always Best Bubby…
Been saying lei’hanos all these years.
Hope it’s correct.
And with the weather we’ve been having where I live, hope we get to see those fruit trees blossom…
Thank you, HaL & Wolf!!
That is a good question apushata, about the vomit smell. Because in my mind I always connect libisumei with bosem, which is fragrant.
Anyway, the same thing I wrote in the Megillah thread applies to Purim in general-
V’gilu bir’ada!
(And I have actually seen inebriated people manage that.)
Is there a Snowden in the house?
Is it a matter of dikduk, Wolf?
If so, then there should be a clear correct answer.
What do you say before Vidui on Yom Kippur- “al tis’aleim mit’chinaseinu,” or “al tis’alam …” ??
I’ve seen both in different machzorim.
Is it possible it is a matter of interpretation or minhag?
(I’ve been told to say “morid ha’geshem” but I have heard “ha’gashem” with a kamatz, and I’ve seen it in siddurim.)
Sam2, which Yeshiva Bachurim have you been listening to reminiscing?
And which college students’ spring break stories???
Totally agree, shauleli.
And you too, HaL.
All that matza on Pesach. Get rid of it, as HaL suggests. I have such a hard time losing the weight when it’s all over. I just love shmura matza. Especially slathered with butter. It’s for sure a shayla of v’nishmartem…
And while we’re on the topic, we should also ban that massive seuda on Purim. All those calories piling on, in most cases permanently. And then all those dishes. Standing on my feet til all hours of the night cleaning up is so bad for my legs.
Anybody else?
Yes akuperma, but do you feel it’s likely that an Arab government would fund Yeshivos? Would an Arab government provide funding for the educational, nutritional and health needs of the children of Jewish men who don’t earn a salary? Would they subsidize their rent and mortgages so they have a place to live in this Arab state?
And with regard to an Arab government (Ch”v) in E”Y, does “TARPAT” ring a bell to you at all?