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Popa & benign already gave you great advice.

I’m just here to wish you both-

MAZEL TOV!

May you build a beautiful home together and may the years ahead be filled with happiness!

Frum Shleppers Will Help You Move to the End of the World.

Is it assur to eat a sheretz-like Monster who eats Cookies?

For one thing it’s much much smaller, both in geographic area and in population.

I can’t give you exact figures; maybe another poster wants to provide them.

Or you can look them up and let us know.

Also Amona was already evacuated once about 10 years ago.

There have been other demolitions and evacuations of small hilltop communities, but that one resulted in some famously ugly and violent clashes.

I like your question, lightb.

I hope someone can give us a good solid answer.

Or at least hazard an educated guess.

Joseph, you are correct that one should daven for a boy.

In a case where someone already has a son, or many sons, is it even permissible to daven for a girl?

Not asking you to pasken here if it’s actually muttar/ assur. Just curious to hear what you (or anyone else) have to say.

Levs you should probably bake him a cake or send him a nice gift.

Where else could you find someone to help you out with something like this?

And now that you have the measurements, I hope you realize we’re all waiting to hear the conclusions you reach based on them.

Blue aerogrammes?

Blue aerogrammes!

What a wave of nostalgia that brought on!!!

There are so many things I remember from my childhood that don’t exist any more, I wouldn’t know where to start.

But it’s the people I miss most, WinnieTP.

The type of people that don’t exist any more (except a few very old ones) that I couldn’t describe if I tried. People who practiced a type of Yiddishkeit that doesn’t exist any more. People who didn’t pretend to have all the answers, and who didn’t need answers to all their questions. People who were happy to be able to a Mitzvah, without demanding an explanation for why it has to be done exactly that way and what exactly is in it for them, besides the simple joy of serving their Creator.

Geordie, seriously, “niggun mi’beis Abba”??

I’m the only one ROTFL?

Chattanooga TN

Oh

Sorry

Thought this was one of those geography game threads

Why do we need to form committees?

What’s next?

A committee in yshiva to make sure the bachurim put on Tefillin? Bentch after meals? Treat their friends respectfully?

It’s funny you brought this up today because I just got a call from a stranger trying to return an item a family member left behind in a place where he learns. And it’s not the first time such a thing happened.

Basing my conclusions purely on personal, anecdotal evidence and not a comprehensive double blind study (sorry), I say the likelihood of having a lost object returned if left in a shul, beis midrash or yeshiva is 90% higher than that of an item left in other public places such as an airport, train station, bank or department store.

(Please no anecdotally based studies to follow on the prevalence of forgetfulness in my family vs the general public.)

Yehuday, it depends where.

Northern Poland, Lithuania, yes, agreed- a lot of root vegetables, maybe apples and pears in summer.

But further South- and I’m not talking coast of the Mediterranean south, I’m talking about countries commonly considered part of Eastern Europe- there were Jews living in places that had a lot of fresh produce in the summer. Asparagus. Cauliflower. A great variety of berries, including raspberries, were used to make jams and preserves. I’ve often wondered how that worked. Dried fruits like raisins and dried figs were also quite common, by the way.

Anything involving deli will probably go over well. Any or all of the following: Deli salad. Deli roll. Deli platter. Anything with pastrami in it. For some inexplicable reason a dark dry form of salami is much appreciated.

Also, I was trying to avoid mentioning this, but since I think nobody else did I’ll tell you that some might feel their Shabbos seuda is incomplete if you don’t offer herring. A few types. Usually served with kichel. Often followed by a lechayim. I can’t make suggestions in that department but any yeshiva bochur worth his salt will help you out with that.

I hear you Joseph. I really do.

But I read lightbrite’s post and I couldn’t help agreeing with every word.

Think how precious some of those photographs might be to some future descendants you’re not even dreaming of yet who will see a picture of a great-grandparent they only heard stories about but never saw!

Maybe the photography at our weddings is a little overdone and over the top. But so are so many other things at our weddings.

I second DY in wishing you a Hartzlichen Mazel Tov!

And hire the best photographer you can afford.

ItisTimeforT,

Pachad Yitzchok by Rav Yitzchak Hutner?

Or Pachad Yitzchak by Rav Yitzchak Lampronti?

Care to tell us a little about what you’re referring to?

You know Avi-K, I could totally have a discussion with you.

But then my eyes see this phrase–

“…husbands wave their fat fingers…”

and I see where you’re coming from.

And I realize that even if I catch my breath and try having a conversation with you, you’ll find someone like me totally beneath your lofty level of discussion and not worthy of your valuable attention.

(For the record I’ll add that my fingers are thin; my husband has nice hands though he does in fact tend to gesticulate.)

Just feel a need to say that I had hoped to edit a lot of things from that post before approving

Same as regular schnitzel.

Dip chicken cutlets in flour, then beaten eggs, then follow with crushed pretzel crumbs (instead of corn flake crumbs or panko or whatever you normally use). Fry in hot oil, or spray baking pan with oil spray (Pam) then arrange cutlets, spray again, bake in oven.

You can add soy sauce (just a little) or ketchup or barbecue sauce to beaten eggs. Don’t add salt or other salty ingredients (onion soup mix and the like) to pretzel crumbs as they’re salty enough, but you can add some spices like garlic powder, onion powder, hot pepper flakes or whatever your family likes. I think most people just enjoy the salty pretzel-y flavor and don’t bother with much else.

Totally agree with you Zdad!

It seemed to me that Gaw felt the shouting and screaming in public was being sanctioned by a poster in the CR (based on the post he quoted from). That post seemed to say the same thing to me as well.

I’m not sure I’m necessarily in favor of speaking to Gedolim myself when I don’t understand something they’re doing.

But shouting and screaming in public is ill advised regardless of who’s perpetrating the perceived injustice.

Seems we agree on that!

Joseph wasn’t serious?!?

LU, Great, it’s a deal.

Joseph, Sorry, it’s not.

I’ll cut that in half.

$2,500.

And I’ll throw in a manicure for the young lady and a shoe shine for the young man.

And a (not leather bound) Tehillim for both sets of parents.

Geo613, DC

Dear tiny little lump of human,

Wecome.

Lesson 1:

In His infinite wisdom the culmination of the B’riya was a wondrous creature!

She will feed you and carry you with her wherever she goes. She will provide your needs graciously, free of charge.

If you spit up on her, wake her at 1, 2, 3, and 4 a.m., and get the crib sheet dirty (again), she will continue to care for you and cherish you.

If there are any problems, cry, and she’ll attend to them.

And when you turn into a full grown mature human she will continue to love you.

Rejoice! This is only the first of many wondrous gifts He has prepared for your enjoyment.

On this day of Chanukah, the 3rd

I’m sending a Bracha, a wish and a word

For Lilmod ulelamaid to hear

That at this time Chanukah next year

You’ll be so busy in your own home

You won’t have time to read this poem

I refuse to believe this is an actual minhag with any basis in anything real or holy.

As far as I know, chassidim, same as the rest of us, are born with a yetzer hara, and get a yetzer tov when it’s time for them to start behaving like good Jews who take responsibility for their actions. And as is the case with the rest of us Yidden, the two both have great influence on their actions.

Can’t keep up with you LU.

LOL was to your 1st.