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I’d rather talk about Mt. Washington than Seven Mile (or Jacks). Nothing ever gets better when it gets bigger. I think the only cooked, hot deli you could get in Jacks was Franks and Potato Kugel. Anyone remember?
RSRH -While I agree with your post, I don’t agree with your generalization. I consider myself Yeshivish and I don’t think like that.
WIY -Why aren’t you talking about kids not being let into school? This is the prevalent problem nowadays. Also, in the case I was talking about, actually it was the kids being thrown out, just the yeshiva worded it as not being let back in. This is semantics -so it doesn’t sound like the yeshiva is throwing them out.
WIY -While it’s true that there are cases that children should be thrown out like the case that happened to you in school. But how does that defend your starting this blog? Are you aware that 99% of the time the reason kids are not accepted or thrown out is because of things that aren’t as severe as you mentioned? Why do you keep insisting innocence for all yeshivos? Are you aware of what R. Krause said recently? I was recently involved in a case were the yeshiva didn’t accept children at first. They asked a “Rov” who said they shouldn’t. To their credit, they decided to ask a Odom Godol, who said they should.
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Don’t quit unless you have another lined up.
As a professional -I disagree with the term over-educated. I have experience in law and medicine. I think once upon a time, people had to be intelligent to get a graduate degree. Nowadays, it’s way overated. I find a lot of professionals coming out of schools that are incompetent. (Men & Women.) Partly because they just memorize to pass tests, amongst other reasons. I think boys have less self-confidence than girls for a variety of reasons, therefore they are reluctant to seek educated girls for spouses.
One of the times that I almost got arrested. I was in yeshiva and a baalhabus wanted to donate some furniture (beds) to the yeshiva. I went along to help schlep. We went in a uhaul to his deceased parents house in a quiet, not yeshivish town, at night. We finished loading up and were about to leave, when the cops blocked the driveway. A neighboor had called. B”H, the son hadn’t driven totally away and noticed what hapenned. He wasn’t parked in the driveway. He explained what was going on. I can just imagine what would have been a few seconds later. I don’t think the cops would have bought our story. We probably would have been in the town’s police jail for good few hours -till everything was cleared up.
Nurse – I posted before -“BTW, you CAN’T always scrub out, even though you can scrub in again -there are times you just can’t leave.” You can if you can leave the pt., but you can’t always leave. Scrubs and hair & shoe coverings have nothing to do with sterility -they just make things cleaner. The only sterile part is your gloves and gown. Also, the tools, equip, and drapes, but that’s not on you.
toomuch00 -how do you know you don’t have any medical conditions?
If it is just on top of the incoming wisdom tooth -then maybe it’s a reaction to the new tooth. Get a mouth guard. If it’s the whole gum, then the dentist is probably right and you need to see your medical doctor for a diagnosis.
Nurse -usually I’m not needed for anything critical -so I can scrub out. If the pants fall down that doesn’t make you un-sterile. Only if I touch them. I could have stood there without pants. If it was that I couldn’t leave the pt. – I’d have the nurse pull them up or just stand there with pants down. But of course I decided to scrub out -knowing that I’m not going to be needed. And guess what -I was needed. I tried to do something quietly and the whole place found out anyway. BTW, you CAN’T always scrub out, even though you can scrub in again -there are times you just can’t leave.
Ben Torah -Thank you for the shiur. But, all the Nosay Kaylim on S’A seem to learn in the Rema that shituf is mutter. As a matter of fact -they learn this pshat in many Remas. So they seem to hold that the Rema held this way in many places, not just by swearing. (Not like the N. B’yehudah.) I’m not going to quote all the places because you SEEM to be a learned guy and I’m sure you know them or can easily find them. BTW, when they say shituf -they’re talking about Christianity! As far as “Responsa Binyan Tzion I:63”, I don’t know what your point is, if you have one, but if you want to discuss it, please quote the whole thing preferably in Hebrew and I’ll be happy to.
So right- This time you’re so WRONG! Why don’t you clarify it with Prof. Sofer? If you grill him and somehow his story doesn’t add up -then you can question his veracity. But until that, this professor has a chezkas kashrus! R. Klein doesn’t have to find out what R. Eliashiv holds -he is issuing his own psak. That doesn’t mean like you say- “So even R. Klein’s psak is saying no source for such claim!” That means maybe he would be Mevatel his Daas to them if he knew Klorr what they held! And I wasn’t talking about what the Geder of proof is. Why mix it in?
I honestly don’t remember my most embarassing moment, because I have these moments all the time. My pants are always falling down.
Recently, I was taking part in surgery and I felt my scrub pants falling down. The pants are only held up by a belt which is part of the pants -a cloth belt -not too great. I couldn’t pick them up because I was scrubed in and couldn’t touch anything. It was near the end -so I quickly pulled off my gown & gloves and picked up my pants which was starting to fall down. No problem, but of course the Resident -for this time needed help. So he screamed at me- why did I scrub out? So now I had to explain to everyone in the OR why and listen to all their stories about incidents that happened to others. (Of course not themselves!)
toomuch00 – Why would you come to an internet blog to ask a bunch of self-proclaimed “medical professionals”? It’s fine that you went to a dentist, but now that he cleared you -you need to go to your PCP (doctor) for a workup. There are many diseases/disorders
that can be at the root of your problem!
Squeak -“Care to practice that here, too?”
When someone here decides to give me a check or cash. I have no professional responsibilty to anyone here. I’m free here to state my own opinions, whether others agree with me or not!
blinky -that’s not embarassing -that’s funny!
Ben Torah??- Huh? Since when do we pasken like the Noda B’yehudah over the Rema? If you want to be machmir fine, but don’t make it like it’s the halacha! So Wolf, if you want to be machmir for yourself on xianity -fine; but you have no right to be machmir on the cheshbon of your family!
As a med prof., I’m taught not to condem, but to empathize. Smokers whatever you did till now -you can still stop. We have a two-pronged approach. We will prescribe medications and send you for therapy. It’s never too late to quit!
The problem here with those who say that R. M. Klein paskens that you are not allowed to give over a molester to the police are misconstruing the psak. In other words the posters here are being mekaleh ponim b’torah shelo k’halacha. We all know the punishment for someone who does this -similiar to a moser. If you read the quote above -he says clearly the reason that molesters aren’t Rodfim is because once fired- end of story. So he brings a reason for his psak. But what implies in this psak that this must be the case -he must be fired and not rehired in other places. The reality is either the yeshiva doesn’t fire him or he gets rehired. Someone once informed me that he was molested in a chasuv yeshiva in NY. The Yeshiva fired him, but they didn’t publicize why. He was rehired somewhere else, out of town, either as a Rebbe or Principal. Right now, he works as a Principal somewhere in NJ. So since these yeshivos don’t stop the Redeefa, there is no way to say that the molester isn’t a Rodef! So R.M. Klein’s psak wouldn’t apply in today’s Yeshiva World!
A lot of people have difficulty controling their tongue- what goes into their mouth (carbs) and what comes out. It’s much easier to control others, than themselves.
Ask your OB -It probably depends on the pt.
I know so-called “Rabbis”, who will cover for any major aveirah done in their community. Yes, people there is a lot you don’t know. It’s not just molestation. They do it because they are scared that it will make a chillul Hashem, so better to hide it. But in my opinion, this just condones the bad behavior and the perpetrators continue thinking you see -I fooled the world. Sometimes (Most of the time) they even fool themselves -that they aren’t doing anything wrong. So we have all our problems swept under the carpet!
minyan gal -How many GI bleeds did you see from self-medicated NSAIDS as opposed to doc prescribed NSAIDS?
The medical name is dysmenorrhea. Must distinguish between primary and secondary. Secondary is caused by some pathology. Secondary usually begins after age 20. And pain is often present at times other than that specific time in the month. Tx. for primary – NSAIDS (eg. Advil, Aleve, ketoprofen, or Fenamates.) Next is OCP’s. (Not as effective as NSAIDS.) After this GnRH agonists. If pain isn’t relieved, you must consider it to be secondary dysmenorrhea!
A person shouldn’t take OTC medication on a regular basis w/o your PC’s recommendation. Once in awhile fine. I sometimes have to take tylenol, advil, aleve and narcotics together, but I think I know what I’m doing. I don’t do this everyday though. For people with chronic pain -you should go to a pain management specialist. Sometimes people need to be on high doses of narcotics constantly to manage their problems. I don’t recommend PC’s to do this, (even though I know some that do), because sometimes the gov. will come after you. Why bother having to prove to them medical necessity, that you’re not helping an addict? Let the specialists take the heat from the DEA.
Everyone should get the shot. Period -end of story. I was waiting for someone to write -we’re on page 14. You’re all so predictable.
SJS -“Health, you still haven’t explained how a US civil “marriage contract” is different from signing a legal contract with the same stipulations between 2 men.”
It isn’t different except that it makes gay marriage equal to heterosexual marriage. The problem with you is that you can’t listen to reason- you keep repeating the same old liberal dogma!
There is a problem for you to agree with their philosophy if you are a jew, because it’s against the Torah. Also, even if you don’t believe in the Torah, you as an American don’t have to legalize gay marriage. A lot of our laws are based on morals and I have the right to oppose gay marriage because it’s against our current morals. You have no right to shove your morals on everyone that they should be accepted. Most Americans hold gay marriage is immoral. By keep repeating your liberal mindset, you demonstrate to everyone that you know nothing about US law and have never studied philosopy (eg. in college)!
I try not to make the same mistake twice!
Charlie -This is from a website by Rabbi Greenbaum- “Gang-rape of two apparent visiting strangers was the Sodomites idea of a “gay” evening.” Right after that, Hashem said I’m destroying Sedom!
My pet peeve is when I’m davening S’E and the minyan has finished and there is a table in front me and in front of that -is a guy. So here is a guy, who wants to show the world that he won’t walk back into my daled amos even though there is table. So this Tzaddik instead keeps turning around every few seconds to see if I’m done, because he has to get out of there. Even if it wouldn’t be mutter to go back, I’d rather this guy go back anyway; the amount of distraction he does to me is a lot more than if he would go back in my daled amos and then leave. These people are so annoying!
WIY -“The reason I dont give up is because you are distorting Halacha! Im not kidding you, nobody heard of this Heter that you are claiming. Your Rabbi cant make up Heteirim and neither can you just because you dont want to keep Halacha.”
Actually, I find you quite amusing. The Rabbi just says I don’t know and you try to interpret that as a proof that you’re right??!! Talking about distortion!!
Also, how old is your Rabbi? He’s probably younger than me. He’s definitely younger than the poisek I’m talking about, who’s at least in his seventies.
Everyone should get a Flu shot!
WIY -Boy you never give up! You keep repeating your same old argument. I’ll repeat what I wrote before -At a certain level of not proper Kavana, like we have nowadays, this Halacha of not walking in front of them doesn’t apply. Also, at this level, there is no Shechina there. If you want to argue, come up with a reasonable argument.
Homeowner – We both start with H, maybe that’s why we agree.
This is what’s called a Kasha Oif A Meisa; who cares?
Haleivi -the gemorrah doesn’t say we don’t have Kavana at all. Even nowadays, we might have some Kavana. But the generations get weaker, so maybe the amount of Kavana we have nowadays, is not enough for this Halacha to apply, as opposed to the time of the gemorrah!
Hey Mod 80 -How about you? Are you still practicing?
CF- My advice is still to call and ask for an earlier appt. and cancel the one in Nov. You must explain to the secretary, that you feel it’s medically necessary to be seen ASAP. By doing this you’ll generally get the appt. Because their job is to push you off, but once you mention medical necessity, it takes the decision out of their hands. Most doctors will let you come in because now they are afraid if you have a turn for the worse ch’vs, they will get sued. If for some reason, even after you do this, she still doesn’t contact you or let you come in earlier; I’d drop her now and get a new doc ASAP!
Charlie -I’m surprised at you. You usually post with common sense, even though you’re a lib, now you are joining the ranks of people like SJS. To wipe off all these Chazals because it’s written in Agaddita, is not like you. If you would have read page 2, you would see it’s also a medrash in the Torah. Are you now claiming that you don’t have to take midrashim l’halacha, just like Aggaddita??!! Do you have any proof to this?
As far as the TWA case, I don’t understand why you are trying to distort it -just to push your liberal agenda? It doesn’t matter whether you and I agree with the dissent, that’s not the law. The law is with the majority. Even acc. to the majority, you have to try to accommodate religion.
” A major reason for the majority was that other employees would be required to work on Shabat”
They held you have to try to accommodate, but not to force it on others. This makes sense to me. In my case, they never tried. They could have asked their employees if one of them wanted to swap shifts or one of the other accommodations listed by case law. They never did. What they did was just say no, we won’t hire you. Later on they defended themselves in court saying undue hardship. So, acc. to this case (TWA) from the Supreme Court, my potential employers engaged in illegal discrimination. Why the Federal Judge ruled against me -I can only speculate. I listed three possible reasons above, maybe there are more!
Also, stop blaming conservatism on the rulings against me, Rubashkin, & Pollard. This has nothing to do with it. You could be a conservative and do bad things. There are people who on the outside look like the most frum yidden and do heinous acts. Being a Conservative (if they are) never forced these Judges to deny justice and equality to all!
Gavra -Thanks
CF – A doc telling their pt. not to call -only to email is basically saying -I don’t do emergencies. If I were you, since you seem to be stabilized, I would call the office and ask for an appt. ASAP. But, just to perhaps see her side, maybe she’s very busy at this time, maybe she’s on vacation. Anyway call and get that appt. If for some reason they won’t accommodate you, I’d look for a new doc. That’s what I’d do and I’m in the medical field. What would you do without me?
Eye Doc & Jewish fem – You’re both correct. The gov. on it’s web site lists both high cholesterol and high sugar with insulin resistance as causes of CAD.
Jew fem -“Many doctors recommend that obese or hypertensive patients dramatically lower their consumption of red meat”
This isn’t correct. All animals have cholesterol, even fish, not just what we call red meat. A person has to lower their intake of triglcerides and cholesterol (two types of fat). Fish that has the HDL cholesterol is good for you.
CF -that’s what ER’s are for. Unless your Doc specifically told you that he/she are available for emergencies, don’t expect them to respond. You just might have to make a regular appt. to go see him/her.
SJS, Charlie and Gavra,
” A gay couple is just asking for the right of a contract.” Quote from SJS. All of a sudden the libs come out in a pack to attack.
I wasn’t talking about contracts in general between men, only marriage contracts. She threw regular contracts in as a smokescreen. When I said this is Kefira, I was talking about being pro Gay marriage, even for a Goy. How do you know it’s kefira to believe in Gay marriage? Go to page 2 and you will see that Gay marriage brings destruction to this world. Obviously, no sane person wants to destroy the world they are living in, so therefore she must not believe in the words of Chazal.This is Kefira! Whether you distort my words or not.
As far as federal law does, I told you to read the case before you comment. If you would have read the case, you would have seen that the Supreme Court couldn’t throw out the law, so they said employers don’t have to accommodate religious beliefs if it’s an undue hardship. Acc. to case law, the burden of proof is on the employer to show they tried to accommodate, but couldn’t- due to undue hardship and state what the hardship is. The Supreme Court in the TWA case actually defines how companies can accommodate by giving three ways. Look it up. The companies I tried to work for never tried to accommodate, they just refused to hire. Then they defended themselves in court saying undue hardship. There was no hardship and even if there was, they have to prove that there is -their word is meaningless. All they proved was that they need Sat. workers. Obviously, they need workers because they made a business decision to be open on Sat. The federal court just rubber stamped what they said. I can speculate why the Judge came out with such a judgement, either she doesn’t read what Plaintiff’s write if they are Pro-se or she has no interest in Justice, but just wants to get as many cases as she can off her list/desk. (It takes a lot more energy on their part to precide over a trial than to dismiss it with a summary judgement.) Or she is vehemetly anti-semitic and got the chance to rule against a Jew and seized the moment! Either one of these reasons are a bad reflection on our federal court system. I will try to explain briefly why it wasn’t overturned in appeal. Appeals Courts only overturn rulings if something new comes about or something was missed. My arguments was the same as before, so there was no basis for appeal. As far as the Supreme Court is concerened they only take cases that fall within certain guidelines, even if the case has merit. We in this country expect fair and just treatment from our Court system. This we don’t have. If the Circuit Court and the Supreme Court were honest they would say -such a person isn’t qualified to be a Judge. She should have been removed from the bench and my case retried in front of a honest Judge whom is without predjudice, whatever that predjudice is. But our justice system is too haughty to admit there is something wrong with a lot of Judges. One day they will have to give judgement to the Almighty Judge and I don’t envy them! Any futher questions go to law school or get legal help. They charge between $200 -$400 per hour. I’m nice, I gave you all this legal info for free!
WIY – Is this last reply of yours’ saying -You’re right, I’m sorry what I wrote about the klal?
SJS -“Why do we decide to limit these benefits to a man and a woman? Why can’t two men have a legal contract? That is all “marriage” is.”
This statement is Kefira. Not only are you not allowed to publically say this statement, like you did here, you aren’t even allowed to think it. And if you want to know why -look at all the Chazal that was quoted previously about Gay marriage.
“Also, has Canada been zapped to the Ocean for allowing gay marriage? its been around for a while up there.”
This makes fun of Chazal -like they don’t tell the truth. Another big Aveirah!
“If they need saturday workers, that is a hardship”
Yea, that’s what my judge said, but neither the written law or the Supreme Court’s interpretation of this law says this!
You should first read the US federal case of TWA vs. Harding before you comment on things which you know nothing about! Your comparison to a disabled person is very funny! It’s not even the same law! There is a different law called the ADA, which was written clearly in it -that you don’t have to accommodate for severe hardship! The Supreme Court interpreted Title 7 (employment discrimination) that more than deminimis is an undue hardship that employers aren’t required to do. It doesn’t even mention this in the written law!
WIY -“its possuling everyone and saying that we waste our time 3 times a day.” “if its a fact theres no problem with stating the truth.”
I never said davening is a waste of time -you did.
Since when did your observations become a fact -anymore than this Rov’s idea that people don’t have Kavana? Also, you quote the Chofetz Chaim that they are B’maizid and then you claim that you’re not passuling them??!! At least not having Kavana is B’shogeg!
“if its a fact theres no problem with stating the truth.”
Also, since you mentioned the Chofetz Chaim, I’m sure you remember him saying that – LH is even when it’s true and even on a whole group or population!
SJS -What credentials do you have to give me advice on child support?
“Why do we decide to limit these benefits to a man and a woman? Why can’t two men have a legal contract? That is all “marriage” is. Well, besides for a fancy party that can help stimulate the economy.”
I don’t understand why you keep putting forth the same argument, when time and again you were told it’s against the Torah? Who brainwashed you with these liberal beliefs that you keep repeating over and over again like a broken record? Did you have frum parents? Did you get a frum education? Do you have frum friends? Do you believe everything that you hear on the media? I believe you want to live a frum life and that’s why you keep some mitzvos. But what you don’t understand is you can keep all the mitzvos, but it doesn’t mean anything if you don’t believe in Torah haskafos. If you don’t even believe in one small piece of the Torah you are a Kofer! Chazal say that Gay marriage brings about the destruction of the world, but you keep arguing for it! For some reason beyond my comprehension, you keep denying this fact. Unfortunately, this makes you a Kofer, even though you don’t think your philosophies are Kefira! BTW, the Holocaust happened because Hashem decreed it, not because the Germans were mean people and liked taking away people’s rights.(They also might have been horrible people, but that’s not the reason it happened!)
Charlie -“There is no right to force your employer to let you off on Shabat” Stick to medicine, because you don’t know law. Our federal legislators, more than once passed a law that employers do have to accomodate for Shabbos. But what happened was our Supreme Court interfered and wrote in something that wasn’t there, namely it can’t be undue hardship. On the outside, it sounds like they just want to give the companies a fair shake. But the truth is, since they didn’t define exactly what that was except for some term called “more than deminimis”, they threw out a just law. This is because now any Judge can decide for themselves what that means. In my case, they never even tried to accomodate me, they just refused to hire me. All they proved in court was that they need Sat. workers and the anti-semitic judge accepted this as undue hardship. The Courts from the top down are virulently Anti-semitic, even though they won’t say it openly.
WIY -You say you’re not pasuling anyone. Of course you are. Just because you say they are wonderful people doesn’t mean you’re not pasuling them. This is the difference between me and you. You say 99.9% of yidden don’t keep this halacha, although B’shogegg, even though they are wonderful people. I, on the other hand, don’t think everyone does aveiros, just that most people don’t have kavana. You can only comprehend that almost everyone doesn’t keep halacha, but you can’t comprehend that maybe most people don’t have kavana.