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Isn’t saving a life a mitzvah regardless of the motivation?
tzippi: And laws have never been changed or repealed?
Does that have the regular IRC of Iran hechsher or the Mehadrin hechsher?
And what’s wrong with polygamy?
As someone who as never been to NY, I am frequently amazed by what I hear coming out of New Yorkers’ mouths. They seem not to know anything outside of NY. (Notice I said “seem” not that they really do not know. I’m sure some do.)
A woman I know who is from Chicago, said when she was a girl at camp, a girl from NY asked her if she and another girl went to school together. She said, “I live in Chicago, she lives in Cleveland.”
To that, the New Yorker replied, “Right. So do you go to school together?”
(For those of you “in-town,” Chicago and Cleveland are a 5-hour or so drive apart.)
skates: Read your post aloud. Don’t read the words the abbreviations stand for. Read the abbreviations as written. Pleasant? I don’t think so.
smartcookie: The way he explained it to me was that it wasn’t a heter to wash, one is not supposed to wash. But I don’t remember why. I’ll see if I can find out. Or perhaps someone in the CR who is more knowledgeable than I can look it up.
Oooppp: Take it up with her accountant. He crunched the numbers for her.
jphone: I think what he really meant was the amount of time a horse breathes a certain number of breaths, which is the opposite of what you said.
Example 1: How long does it take a horse to breathe x times? Then that would be y amount of time of sleeping.
Example 2: How many times does a horse breathe in x amount of time? Irrelevant. How does that determine how long a person has to sleep for?
Hit send too soon.
Thanks feivel.
jphone: I’m with you. But my rav said not to even wash negel vasser.
I have a friend with a lot of tuition expenses. She looked at the possibility of getting a job. Because of where her husband’s income placed them in the tax bracket, if she had gotten a job, it would have pushed them in to the next bracket and they would have ended up paying more than she was making. So for her to get a job would have cost them money.
Before a woman gets a job, she should look at the tax ramifications, the amount she will have to pay in day care for her children, transportation costs to get to and from work, and any other expenses that she would not have if she didn’t work. In some cases, working just doesn’t pay.
smartcookie: My rav would disagree with you. I don’t remember the reasons.
feivel: Perhaps you can ask your rav where he holds on this issue.
Isn’t it better to do the right thing for the wrong reason than not to do the right thing at all?
You could also use baseball to teach math.
Okay. I guess I have to rephrase another post.
Skates: “pp” can be misinterpreted. Please use “people” instead.
Thank you.
I’m going to be in trouble now, but yes, I wash negel vasser if I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I was told by my Rav not to, and given really good halachic reasons, but I just don’t feel clean if I don’t.
ronrsr: I was trying to figure out how to work the Infield Fly Rule into a post. Thanks.
Four steps to throwing the ball correctly:
Thumb to thigh
Elbow high
Point to the sky
Wave bye-bye
English lessons? Tutoring of some sort? Translations? Typing CVs? Do you sew? A telecommuting job? I guess none of these are very original, but I hope they help.
Back in the olden days (when I was a teenager), long before that book came out, I used to carry a pen with me and correct signs in stores.
Oh. I bought the hardcover earlier. I guess I should have waited!
ronrsr: Where did you get the stick-on punctuation? My copy didn’t come with it.
I actually wanted to start thread on grammar, so I was thrilled to find one had been started for me.
I am wondering why it is that most of the people that post here cannot put together a proper sentence.
people that post here
Nobody seemed to notice the mod’s comment. He (she?) got it. Should have have been:
I am wondering why it is that most of the people WHO post here cannot put together a proper sentence.
As a frum female English teacher
“For every necessary comma ommitted, there is one superfluous comma added.” Ditto for apostrophes.
And there’s the necessary comma that was omitted. (Notice the use of “that” when referring to a thing, as opposed to “who” when referring to a person.)
Should have been:
As a frum, female English teacher . . . (Two or more adjectives in a row need commas separating them.)
Thank you to Yanky55 for starting this thread.
If you want your message to be understood by those who understand txt language, feel free to use it.
However, if you want your message to be understood by everybody, it is best to use proper grammar (not grammer). That way there is less room for confusion and misinterpretation.
And while we’re on the subject, do we all know the difference between people and things? When referring to people we use the word “who.” “That” is reserved for things.
Wrong: The man that was walking down the street . . .
Right: The man who was walking down the street . . .
A man I know in my previous city wanted a gun and his wife was against it. He finally told her he had one after it had been in the house for 3 years. I don’t recommend that method.
I will echo a lot of other people and say you should take your wife for a gun safety course and get her used to it.
I don’t currently own a gun as I don’t feel I need one. But there was a time I did. I made sure I knew how to use it.
And finally, I would recommend that people see the video “Innocents Betrayed” which was produced by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. It’s about various governments that enacted gun control laws and what happened after.
80: I should have known. You always seem to be on top of things.
Whoever is on right now is doing a great job. Everything is getting posted so quickly. It’s been a bit slow since Motzei Shabbos.
Funny. I first heard it as an Idi Amin joke, then later as an Arafat joke.
sammygol: That Nachman one is great!
Maybe it’s just time to get “mehadrin” buses in NY. Or perhaps, maybe it’s time for all Jews to move “out-of-town” to EY. Although, to be honest, you won’t like a lot of what you see on the buses here either. (And that goes for Yerushalayim too, not just Haifa.)
I’m sure Ramat Beit Shemesh is very nice. And probably so is Ramat Beit Shimush. However, I’ll stick with Haifa.
And chops, make sure you wear your seatbelt too.
Why, who will stay home and bake the cookies?
The men?
Okay starwolf. I think that will work. I’m still a bit uneasy. What happens if a woman needs surgery and the only doctor who can do it is a man? Will there be a mechitzah provided for him to stand behind? (Or a man who needs surgery and the only doctor is a woman.)
Actually I did know that. But it does illustrate that there are two parts to communication: a sender and a receiver. And if the sender sends a message that is unclear, he can’t be surprised when the receiver doeesn’t get it.
Separate wings? What about separate buildings instead!
If government is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question.
hud: I’m not “def.” I hear just fine.
Wow SJS. I’m glad that worked for you. I can’t imagine knowing by bashert for over 2 years before getting married. For me that would by torturous.
If the top button is high enough, then leaving it open isn’t a problem.
Okay. Let me rephrase that. Is the problem open collars that show the collar bone, or do you object to any buttons unbuttoned?
Collar bone (and everything below) should be covered.
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I do like the traditional Thanksgiving food. When I had my parents living with me, I would make the turkey and all the fixings for Shabbos Chanukah.
I never shop online. I don’t have a credit card. Nor do I want one.
It is about gratitude for the bounty we have been given. This seems like a very Jewish theme to me.
But here’s the problem. People will say, “What’s wrong with Thanksgiving? It’s an entire day set aside to give thanks to Hashem.”
To which I usually reply, “And what do you do the other 364?”
ronsr and starwolf: There are many Christian churches who hold Thanksgiving Day services, complete with special Thanksgiving hymns.
If you’re looking for the quintessential secular, American holiday, try Labor Day. It was made up because workers didn’t have any days off between July 4th and Thanksgiving.
Jewess, keep up the good work!
I believe there is a heter for a blue shirt. But it has to be worn within the Eruv in Brooklyn, while the siren is blowing in Baltimore and only if there’s no mixed dancing.
A friend of mine went to a certain mekubal. He didn’t really want to, but he knew his wife would be upset if he didn’t take her. He had a list of 4 questions. But before he went in he decided not to give him the list, and instead to ask the questions himself. He did, however, hand him a list of the names of everyone in his family. The mekubal then proceeded to answer every question that was on the first list. When he left, he checked his pocket to make sure he hadn’t given the wrong paper by mistake. It was still in his pocket.