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Are we talking about more than one MOTHER or more than one LAW? The plural of mother-in-law (note the hyphens) is mothers-in-law.
Haifa: Where else would you make the Seder? By yourself?
Yes, I do make a seder by myself. What’s wrong with that? If I had more time and energy, I would invite people, but I don’t.
And did someone tell you that you must mish? Otherwise, who said it is unacceptable?
Just look at your reply. You ask as if you can’t even imagine such a concept as making a seder at home, by myself. Why?
And while nobody tells me I must mish, but they give me a hard time about staying home all the time.
In fact, one person gave me a lecture about having to share the korban pesach during Beis Hamikdosh times. Now how is that relevant?
Does anyone know when the next Mensa event is?
What exactly do you mean? There are Regional Gatherings going on this weekend in Milwaukee, Farmington Hills and Greenvile. The next Leadership Development Workshop is May 21. The next Annual Gathering is June 30-July 4. Or were you talking about an event in a different country? Or did you mean a local event? Check your newsletter.
Too bad there isn’t a frum version of Mensa
There is a Jewish Special Interest Group, and there are frum members.
mensa is overrated
Why do you think so?
Why is it perfectly acceptable to say, “My husband and I don’t mish,” but if you can’t say those three words “my husband and,” it suddenly becomes unacceptable to say, “I don’t mish”?
So am I destined never to get married because I’m an only child?
An interesting thing happened in shul this morning. Since there was yizkor, there were a lot of people who aren’t regulars.
My shul has nice little booklets with the kriahs for Pesach so we don’t have to go searching through the chumashim. I had my booklet sitting on the table in front of me, next to my key and my glasses. I had finished shemoneh esrei and was standing back waiting for kedushah to take my three steps forward when one of the women in the row in front of me turned around and took my kriah booklet.
I’m assuming she didn’t realize I was intending to use it, although I’m not sure what she thought I would use.
I didn’t say anything (even after it was permissible to talk), and I certainly forgave her, but it was weird.
Back to the bridge vs. tunnel — there is another reason he may not want to take the tunnel. He could be claustrophobic.
We have a new tunnel here in Haifa, and I took a bus through it the other day. I thought long and hard before getting on the bus because I didn’t know if I’d be able to handle a ride through such a long tunnel. Turns out I can.
I have a friend who’s a chumra queen. I think she keeps every chumra anyone ever came up with, and a few she made up herself.
She frequently tells me I’m doing something wrong. I usually just ignore her. Once in a while, I’ll ask my rav, and he confirms that she’s wrong. (Not wrong about keeping a chumra, wrong about what the halacha is, and trying to impose her chumras on the rest of the world.)
I think beet like the red vegetable not beat like an egg
I’m sure that’s what he meant, but that isn’t what he wrote. I just answered the question as asked.
If people want me to answer the questions they mean, then they should write the questions they mean.
“Gretchen am Spinnrade,” sung by Elly Ameling.
I love chicago!!! And not just because my grandfather lives there. I used to go to chicago an skokie all the time (then my sister who lived in skokie moved to israel and my family pretty much stopped going to chicago)
So you stopped visiting your grandfather?
The science museum here is supposed to be very good. It’s just a very short walk from where I live. In fact, on Tuesdays my bus stop is right in front of the museum.
However, I’m usually broke. So I haven’t been inside yet. Perhaps I’ll make that a chol hamoed outing this year.
haifagirl – so, you’ve been to francisco. . .how ’bout Richmond? 😉
Never been to Richmond, but I’ve been to Wiliamsburg. (The one in VA, not the one in NY.)
My face has been red, but B”H has never been BEAT (or beaten).
The best science museum is there – so if it’s a matter of going to chicago – it’s worth it just for that; but don’t go if you’re a cohen (to the museum, i mean; but can still go to chicago). 😉
Obviously you’ve never been to the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Yes! Everything outside of Yerushalayim is out of town.
My first choice would be Mod 80.
However, since it was decreed it can’t be a mod, I would have to go with ronrsjr, ronsjr, ronrjr . . . whatever his name is. He always seems to be the voice of reason.
I asked abc why he listed me and he tried to explain that it “somehow happened” which I did not understand.
Facebook will make assumptions about people you may know based on the fact that they are friends of friends. For example, I am friends with two cousins of mine (they are sister and brother to each other). They are both friends with their mother. Since she and I have two friends in common (her two children), Facebook assumes I know her and asks me if I want to be friends with her.
The truth is, I did know their mother, but she and their father have been divorced for almost 30 years. So no, I don’t want to be friends with her.
I hope this isn’t too late. During the week they start 25 minutes before Netz. On Shabbos it’s 40 minutes.
Which reminds me . . .
When I said I was moving to Haifa, one member of the minyan said if I start a vasikin minyan in Haifa, he and his wife will come for a visit.
Turns out I didn’t have to start one. There are at least three. (And I’m still waiting for that visit.)
The other day I happened to mention to someone that I used to daven at the vasikin minyan on Shabbos. The conversation went something like this:
“You know, vasikin usually refers to Netz.”
“Right. That’s when we davened.”
“Really? In America?”
Several people have figured out who I am. I was surprised it took some people so long. I was even more surprised by someone who hadn’t figured it out.
Bar Shattya:
I find that story quite troublesome for so many reasons. I really think you need to consult your Rav and ask him for advice. Were you serious about the Ritalins? I really hope not.
Ah! One of the nice things about living in Israel. I usually have a short wait in the waiting room. Once I’m called into the exam room, it’s to see the doctor who is sitting there waiting for me.
I get most test results online. Depending on the test it may take only a few hours.
Music does effect your soul,
Music doesn’t effect my soul. It does affect it, however.
I say MODEH ani. I saw in a siddur MODA, and I asked and was told to keep saying MODEH. Upon further research, someone showed me a sephardi siddur that not only said MODA, but also ??? ???? ???? and ??? ???? ????. Asking again, the rabbi (who has a great sense of humor) told me to keep saying it the way I’m used to, “because if you daven for the omud, you don’t want to get confused.” 🙂
The error is “like” instead of “as.” Back then they were sticklers for grammar. Today such a correction would be considered the kind of “arrant pedantry,” as Winston Churchill stated, “up with which [he would] not put.”
Today, as evidenced by this thread, most people wouldn’t even realize it was an ungrammatical sentence.
Those of you who said it should be “as” instead of “like” get a gold star.
How about cigarette ads on TV!?!
One of my favorites:
What do you want, good grammar or good taste? Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.
For those too young to remember, back in those days, people knew grammar, and Winston got a lot of mail criticizing their slogan. So the made the new commercial with the added first line.
Every time I would get my hair cut whoever did the cutting would go on and on about how wonderful my hair is, and how they never see hair like mine. Then they would ask me my secret.
Here is the secret: I wash it twice a week (three times in the summer and sometimes only once in the winter if the weather has been really dry), and rarely blow dry it. By “rarely” I mean maybe two or three times a year when I need it dry in a hurry. I never use any curling irons or other hot devices on my hair.
if you mean cmb
Charles M Byner (D) was a US senator for IL from 1956-1988.
I’m extremely confused.
“cmb” is Carol Moseley Braun
The other opponents were
Miguel del Valle
Gery J. Chico
Patricia van Pelt Watkins
William Walls, III
Where does Charles M Byner enter into this discussion?
I wonder how much Placido Domingo charges?
I always check my spells. Double, double, toil and trouble . . .
I remember a few years ago the “going rate” was $1000 from each side, at least in the “circle” I hung with. I had a friend who was from a different “circle” and when her son got married, she told me she and the other side were so grateful, and they knew the shadchan was not wealthy, so they decided to give “extra” and they each gave $900 so that the total would be $1800.
Ditto machines in school? Your hands were blue from the ink and it got onto everything you touched.
And the papers always had that smell.
First diet cokes: RC Cola; Tab; Patio
And you could drink at 18 but had to wait until 21 to vote.
And Harvard was all-male, as were many other schools.
Walter Cronkite
The Huntley-Brinkley Report. (Goodnight Chet. Goodnight David.)
My Mother the Car
Dialing 0 for Operator and actually getting the information or service you needed.
Memorizing phone numbers for the police and fire departments because there was no 911. (In Chicago it was PO5-1313 and FI7-1313.) And of course, let’s not forget phone “numbers” had letters in them.
And speaking of phone numbers, all area codes had either a 1 or a 0 as the middle digit. There was no dialing 1 for a long distance call.
Let’s not forget Captain Kangaroo.
Just within the last 2-3 years I saw an Edsel parked on the street a block away from my home. It baffled me as it did not look well maintained at all.
A friend of mine has an Edsel.
My father has a broken record my mother a broken record player & it didn’t effect me, effect me,effect me, effect me,effect me, effect me,effect me, effect me,effect me, effect me,effect me, effect me,effect me, effect me,effect me, effect me,
Of course it didn’t. And I’ll bet it didn’t affect you either.
Oops! I see always here beat me to it.
I’d like to tell all the liberal Jews who voted for him -I told you so.
I’ve tried that. Repeatedly. They still like him and think he’s good for the U.S. and Israel. Go figure.
plus you are basically limited to geriatric care
And don’t forget the mentally ill. They make up a large percentage of the nursing home population.
I thought the teen years were awful. And so did most of my friends who were going through them at the same time.
Twenty-five was a good age. That’s why I’ve stayed 25 for so many years.
I know someone whose first child, a daughter, married someone whose parents had the minhag that the two mothers walked the kallah and the two fathers walked the chosson. I was at their house when they were leaving to go to the wedding hall. Since they couldn’t walk their daughter at the chuppah, the father decided he and his wife would walk her to the car. He has a sense of humor about these things.
Even though all my friends had pocket calculators, I had to wait until they came down in price. My first one cost $125. Remember slide rules?
What about those things you stuck in the hole in a 45 so you could play it on the same spindle as a 33?
My parents had a business, so I saw a lot of things before they were common.
My parents had Autotypists. These were probably the first word processors. Each one was a big machine, about the size of a small desk. A specially adapted IBM typewriter sat on it. It had a roll of paper that resembled a player piano roll. As the machine “read” the holes, bellows would cause little levers to pull the keys down on the typewriter. One could program in a pause so as to personalize each letter.
Our first answering machine was an Ansaphone. The telephone sat on the machine and two prongs sat under the handset. When the phone would ring, the two prongs would pick up the handset and the tape would start playing. If we were screening calls, we had to be quiet. Since the handset was off the hook, callers could hear everything going on.
I wouldn’t consider this a deal breaker but it bothered me a lot.
I would consider it a deal breaker.
In my community someone is called a girl until she gets married.
That’s abuse of language. Surprising to have that coming from the enforcer.
Would you have us call every female who is post-bas mitzvah a woman?
I remember punch cards, but my first data entry job was with diskettes. They were eight inches, I think.
haifa if your over 40 u need to change your screenname
Sorry. In my community someone is called a girl until she gets married.
Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. All by Ayn Rand.
Atlas Shrugged is by far the best novel I have ever read. And it gets better with each rereading.
The good old days? You mean when people were taught spelling and grammar in school? And their parents reinforced it at home?
and VIOLA you are dressed like always!
Or you could carry around a VIOLA, and VOILA! you’re a musician.