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4 potatoes
1 medium onion
1 tablespoon flour
1 egg
oil
Grate the potatoes and onion. Mix with the egg and the flour. Fry in oil.
Like Cantoresq said, chazzanus is usually found in more modern shuls and the Conservative ones. Clearly it can’t be that inspirational.
That’s one interpretation.
Perhaps the people in non-chazzanus shuls are already inspired by the tefillah and don’t need the extra inspiration that comes from chazzanus, whereas the people in more modern and Conservative shuls do.
I agree with the bring it with you but leave it silent and don’t look at it rule. The only exception would be if you might be getting some sort of important call (for example if you’re a doctor), in which case you apologize to your date at the beginning but let him/her know you might get such call. In that case you can leave the ringer on, check when it rings, but if it’s not that call, DON’T ANSWER IT!
If by keyboard you mean piano, I would say about 5 years, but that’s going back a long time, so my memory might be a little off.
Even in the case of halachah, there could be people who are new to frumkeit and have not yet established a relationship with a rav. People who did not grow up around rabbis are frequently intimidated.
Mazel tov.
Phyllis: I can’t even count the times I’ve gone to stores and been told, “I’m sorry, we’re closing.” And I’m not talking about Erev Shabbos, when it’s understandable they would want to close on time.
I think the owner of this restaurant did it because he is a mentsch.
I always got flu shots:
1) When my parents were alive and vulnerable
2) When I was in school and therefore around a lot of people
3) When I taught children
I have not had a flu shot in several years. I really don’t see the purpose in getting one this year.
Just for the record, Cat Stevens recorded “Morning has Broken” in 1971. He conversted to Islam in 1977.
Thank you Mod-80. I must say, this helped my kavanah when davening Ma’ariv last night.
From another web site:
Over 33,000 Israelis got immunized against swine flu this week.
The Ministry of Health considers the rate of vaccinations reasonable and said that among the recipients of the vaccinations there were no strong side effects.
I wonder what they mean by “strong side effects.” Does that mean there were mild side effects? I wonder what they were.
And for the record, my doctor told me I really need to get a flu shot. I haven’t decided yet if I will.
My impression usually, is that the “chazzan” is a big baal gaiva who wishes to impress everyone one with his great skill
I’ve heard those chazzanim daven. And I’ve heard chazzanim with just as much skill, but with kavanah. That is a beautiful davening. And you can tell the difference.
Actually, “Morning has Broken” was popularized by Cat Stevens. You’ll find it in many protestant hymnals.
Definitely defense of the city. Not murder.
Beautiful story. Thank you for posting it.
Considered murder by whom? Certainly not by the government. But wait . . .
One person kills another person. Yep. Sounds like murder to me. Government-sanctioned murder.
Luckily the district nixed it.
ronrsr: I still can’t stop laughing. After all the stale jokes that I’ve read at least three times each on various threads, it was nice to read something original.
A guy goes into a bar, orders four shots of the most expensive 30-year-old single-malt Scotch and downs them one after the other.
Sherry cask, bourbon cask, etc.?
bein_hasdorim: I would never try to pick up an entire cabbage roll. I would use the chopsticks to cut it into smaller pieces, as I do with egg foo yung.
I heard it is not assur for a woman to own a gun, but it is assur for her to wear it, as in a holster.
Thanks telegrok!
arc: plonie did not single out one place. He said:
Why do camps like Camp Aguda play any music at all? [emphasis added].
That sentence doesn’t even imply that Camp Agudah plays music. Camps like Camp Agudah do, not necessarily Camp Agudah.
Someone I know was recently in the hospital for surgery. A friend of his gave him a BIG basket full of jelly beans, and stack of disposable cups. With the jelly beans was a note asking people to help themselves. Whenever someone came in the room, be it a nurse, a doctor, a housekeeper, whatever, he not only thanked them, but encouraged them to help themselves to the jelly beans.
You’d better believe he got GREAT service while he was there. A little appreciation (and food) really does go a long way.
People really believe they know what other people think, or are interested in. A friend of mine tried to convince a man she knew not to divorce his wife. She told him nobody would be interested in a man with 7 kids. To prove her point to herself, she decided to ask single women in his age bracket if they would consider a man with 7 kids. Without exception they all said, “Where is he? I’m interested.”
So, I’m sorry if this sounds harsh, but I don’t care for the opinions of people who “know people who would not be interested.” Yes, there is at least one older single on this thread who doesn’t like this plan. Fair enough. But if you aren’t an older single, please don’t tell me in what you think your older single friends would or would not be interested.
A600: Good idea. Can you suggest some pesukim? I don’t have access to a piano for the next few weeks, but I’d love to take on the challenge.
Pashuteh Yid: Don’t let all these naysayers get you down. As an older single, I appreciated your suggestion. I wonder how many of those who don’t like it are actually older and/or single?
bein_hasdorim: I apologize for misspelling your name in my previous post.
Appreciation seems to be contagious. Sometimes when people see others express appreciation, they realize they should too.
Both my parents spent a lot of time in the hospital before the passed away (not at the same time, B”H). I made many trips on the shuttle bus to and from the parking lot of the hospital. One day I realized I should thank the driver. So I did. Nobody else did.
Some weeks or months later, I noticed that nearly everybody was thanking the driver. It takes just one person to start a trend.
Pashuteh Yid: Great proposal. But what about people who don’t have $10,000, or even anything close?
And also, kudos for the following:
. . . chosen completely at random for you from other singles who have agreed to enter . . .
(For everyone: Notice the use of “who” and not “that” when referring to people.)
AZ: Mezonos Maven answered your “critical question” for Pashuteh Yid:
That’s what the polygamy proposal aims to alleviate.
ben_hasdorim: I never tried it, but why would it be so difficult to eat stuffed cabbage with chopsticks?
tamazaball: Thank you, but my mother was niftar 11 years ago at the age of 80. The last two years of her life were quite wonderful.
This really has nothing to do with a stroke, but to answer mazca’s question about medicines, two different neurologists diagnosed my mother with Alzheimer’s. She was delusional, forgetful, sometimes violent. Sometime after that, we switched primary care physicians. The first thing he did was get her off of most of her medicines. She was no longer delusional, no longer forgetful, and no longer violent. She didn’t Alzheimer’s. She was overmedicated.
I think some of the people have missed the point of this thread. To recap:
Title: Dealing with a bully
Joe Schmo: Any suggestions?
tamazaball: tell me a little bit more about this bully, ?
Joe Shmo: Barack Hussein Obama…..
Amen!
That’s what I was going to say.
Are you asking as an adult dealing with an adult bully or a parent whose child is being bullied?
It seems we have a consensus here. May I add that in addition to lighting my menorah I intend to eat sufganiyot. (Had a sneak preview the other day. You can’t get sufganiyot that good anywhere else in the world.)
Bemused:
I feel the age gap is PART of the problem. Close in age marriages are a PARTIAL solution. There are other factors involved. If close in age marriages were an ideal situation, then the Avos and Imahos would have been closer in age.
Just a word about nurses, and I’m talking about legal ones.
At one time I had thought about becoming a nurse. Since I was missing one prerequisite by the application deadline, I wasn’t accepted into the program and I didn’t want to wait another year.
However, this was one of the top nursing programs in the area. They required a composite percentile score of 60 on the NLN test and an English score of 50. They had just raised the requirement from 50/40. The prequisite I was missing was chemistry. I missed 1/2 the questions on the chemistry section. I got a 99 composite.
How many questions can you miss before getting a 50? And these are the people they would be training as nurses.
Scary?
Bemused: Perhaps I don’t understand the question. The root cause is we have too many girls and not enough boys of the proper age. The “root cause” is because each succeding generation is larger and is having a lot of children. Perhaps we should have people stop having children for a while until things settle down? I don’t think that is a very practical solution.
Oh well. I guess I’m not getting Olam Habah. No husband, no children. Can I stop learning and doing mitzvos now, since obviously they don’t matter?
I enjoy chazzanus, but generally not for davening. However, a few years back, we had an out-of-town guest in our shul who was a great chazzan, and he didn’t repeat words (which is never allowed in our shul). That was a great, spiritually uplifting davening.
(Not to say the usual davening isn’t uplifting. It is.)
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I have very low self-esteem. But I would have no problem tying a man to me, knowing that he still has options. I think he’d be less likely to divorce me if he can have another (better) wife at the same time.
The added bonus is if I’m not in the mood to cook dinner, he has another wife to do that for him.
Wow! First an age gap, now a height gap.
I know a couple, very happily married. The woman said when she was younger they used to tell her to hold the havdalah candle as high as she wanted her chosson to be tall. She was embarrassed and would hold the candle low, about chest height.
She’s at least 5’10”, and possibly taller, he’s under 5′.
I realize it is difficult for tall girls, but when the right one comes along, height won’t matter.
The problem I saw was there were a lot of single girls, and not so many single boys. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure when you have 20 hamburgers and only 10 buns, you make double burgers.
Because I was told there was a problem. I saw for myself that the problem did exist. It just made sense.
Tour guide requires a two-year training.
That ban expired years ago. I keep complaining that rabbis don’t seem to be able to count to 1000, but nobody listens to me. I’m glad there are other people who feel as I do.
AZ: I’m so glad you are a mind reader. Actually, that’s the problem with the anonymity of the CR. Very few people here know who I am. But I can assure you that those who know me know quite well that I have been pushing to reinstate polygamy for at least 20 years now.
I am absolutely NOT being facetious. I was at a seminar for Jewish women about 25 years ago, and the keynote speaker (I’m sorry I don’t remember her name), spoke about the shidduch crisis way back then, and recommended polygamy. It made sense to me then, and it makes sense to me now.
This should not be controversial at all.
He must work, honor, feed, and support his wife.
He must provide her food, clothing, necessities of life.
It’s all spelled out in the kesubah.
Actually, there are plenty of polygamous families in the US, although to the best of my knowledge, none are Jewish. They seem to get along very well.