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  • in reply to: Broken Engagements #919278
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    SJSinNYC

    Now I understand your position! You think EVERYTHING is a anti women conspiracy!

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919276
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    Arosem I am so glad you have never been abused by feminists or abused in the name of feminism, becuase my life has been ruined by it from childhood till my 20’s or so.

    By that time a patters was set then other then stepped in to make sure I could never fix the wreck, my life had become.

    Speaking from experience, I have been directly involved with divorced people who were lied about and cheated by their feminist wives.

    Since you are (falsly)claiming that not supporting lies by femninists is supposedly “claiming that no abuse exists” which I never said.

    By YOUR claims against me your are by that same token claiming that women have never lied in divorces, or abused the court system;

    Aside from your outlandish and ignorant claims that women supposedly never abuse the system, and never LIE to judges and courts who are extremly sympathetic to the feminist man hating, aganda;

    My factual claims which you cannot refute and which are supported by my two examples that very much apply to the situation of a family and by statistical data, like all the court records which show MASSES of men convicted just because in each of THOSE (not ALL cases, but THOSE many, that I am talking about)

    cases, a woman claimed abuse and divorces where the woman was the abuse and the cheater etc…and who still was awarded everything by the pro feminist anti male judge.

    A prosecutor who deliberately withholds evidence to promote the feminist agenda in the Duke Lacross case,will do the same thing in divorce cases, so it DOES very clearly, prove my point.

    And you claims that the children in most cases are more damaged by parents staying together are refuted by the cghildren themselves who later talk about how they were the ones whi were traumatized and felt guilty that THEIR fighting with their siblings or not always getting the top grades or not keeping their rooms clean enough, was what they as kids, had thought CAUSED the divorce.

    This is besides the many many cases where the parents (usually by far, the mother) get custody and then very often uise that time to brainwash the kids into hating the other parent (again by far usually against the father since it is usually the mother, who does it)This happened to my step father and to a frend of mine and I just read about another case (among many that are ut there)where the mother had moved to another state to far for the father who had no money left after paying exhorbitant alimony to take time off from work to visit often.

    When he did visit there was always some sudden trip or other thing the mother suddenly had to take the kids to go do so he could not see them then.

    She lied that he did not care about them so he supposedly never came.

    She kept them out of sports because she was pocketing the money he sent for sports equipment (which was supposed to be taken out of the amlinony that he always paid in full every month) telling them he did not want to show any fatherly love for them.

    Years later one fo the boys who he had been very close with before the diviorce with said he never wanted to ever talk to his father again.

    That is how messed up he had been by feminist ways.

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919268
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    “They certainly have far more to do with feminism, then with broken engagements.

    Whatever.”


    That is just saying you have no argument, to refute what I said above, but you want it to seem like you do.


    “We discussed it over there. In fact, I still have an open question out to you there. Please respond there.”


    I have.

    Now lets see if you will stick to discussing it, only over there, as you seem to be implying that I supposedly should.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162656
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    “And I knew a family where the parents were mechallelei Shabbos, ate tarfus, etc. And, whoops, wouldn’t you know it, all six of their grandchildren and all 24 of their great-grandchildren are Shomrei Torah U’Mitzvos today.”


    Because if their families ever taught them to seek the truth, that seed, was enough for them to come back to the truth.

    But that cannot be relied on, they most certainly should have brought them up to be Shomrei Torah and Mitzvohs.


    “In addition, there are examples of even gedolim whose children have gone off the derech. Are you going to castigate their parenting as well?”


    I will leave that, for the G’dolim to judge, and many seforim have been written about it, which is where I learned about the apple not falling far from the tree, with few exceptions like the parents being killed or the children being kidnapped and raised as non Jews.

    I doubt you can find someone who was raised by a father and mother who were both recognized by EVERYONE as among the greatest tzaddikim of ours, or of the last generation, where they were not interrupted by any extreme evils or tragedies that tore the parents from the children or children from the parents; Where the children still went off the derech and started eating treif and stopped keeping Shabbos.


    “I’m sorry, the parent doesn’t take all the blame (or credit for that matter). At some point, you have to lay blame at the foot of the person who makes the decison — not his or her parents.”


    So why do seforim talk about the sins of the father being visited on the children and vice versa?

    Each person bears full responsibility for their own decisions, but if the parents raised them wrong they do not get off, based on saying “My children, were the ones to actuallly do it”

    Those influences are less or more based on how much the parents were or were not there for them.

    My point is you cannot possibly KNOW how much personal contact and personal raising the kids, even in the teenage years, is ‘enough’ that you can …….’decide’……. you do not have to do anymore.

    If the concept of Morris Ayen applies even to strangers

    Call V’Chomer for your own kids.


    ;;;;;;;;;;”And my response was not “G-d will judge you” with the implication that I had any knowledge HOW he would judge.

    YOU said that YOU THOUGHT G-d would approve.


    “No, I said that AFTER you said that HE would judge me.”


    Only after you made it out like G-d supported the feminist ideal.

    And I said G-d would judge me as well so if it was some kind of “insult” I was insulting myself as well.


    “But fine, let’s not argue on that point any more.”


    You mean you want to take your parting shot, and THEN, ‘not argue anymore’.


    ” I forgive you for making me upset.”


    That is a sarcastic remark, and there is no forgiveness whatsoever, in it.

    That is besides the fact I have been told many times

    (not sure how much I believe it myself, but others have said it to me and they certainly believed it)that no one can ‘make’ you get upset anyway.

    I did nothing to you, you did to yourself.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162655
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    SJSinNYC I was not taling cases of necessity I was always talking of cases where it is sp;ecifically because the women wants to express “her feminine power” when doing so is clearly not what

    G-d intended for people to do, in order to serve HIM.

    So if it is a true ‘necessity’, that is not a case, I was talking about.

    And I saw Bergen County mentioned, not Teaneck.

    If you will say Teaneck is in Bergen Country, I will respond that this was not specified and I could only go by, what was actually said.

    Besides; how “Jewish is it t be called Jewish”?

    It is like Crown Heights or some parts of Boro Park or most of the Jewish section of Williamsburg where just about every single family on both sides of the block and for several blocks around, are all Jewish?

    And saying “nice try” implies you think I am just trying to trip you up somehow, and not to get to the truth.

    I AM trying to get to the truth, no matter what you think.

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919267
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    SJSinNYC

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    Kasha, divorce shouldn’t be a dirty word at all. There are plenty of marriages that should disolve including:

    1) Physical/emotional Abuse

    2) Cheating

    3) Lying before marriage

    4) Drug and alcohol abuse”;;;;;;;;;;;;;

    And in Crown Heights or Williamsburg how often does a case like this come up?

    Very rarely unless you ARE talking about cases so mild, that they do not qualify as “bad marriages”.


    “And probably plenty more. We should support people who get divorced not make it a dirty word.”


    I challenge anyone, to find a qualified Rav who will agree with this statement about not making divorce a dirty word.

    Often such things are falsly claimed by women (or their families in a few cases) who have ulterior motives for breaking up the marriage, like for example; Where they can cheat the husband out of his business or inheritance.

    Sometimes it is because the women want to become secular and so they falsly claim abuse.

    Sometimes they falsly claim abuse of the children when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

    The feminist controlled courts, almost always side with the women with no m,ore evidence then a false claim by the women.

    There are many men (not necessasrily Jews, certainly not all or most are Jews, but some probably are)

    sitting in jail for no other reason then women told outright bald faced lies, about the men supposedly ‘abusing them’ and the courts believed them just because of the feminist influence on all of sciety.

    A couple of examples prove the point (even though they are nit marriage examples, the same ideas still apply) like;

    The Twanna Brawley case, where Al Sharpton used a woman as a false witness to lie that cops had suoposedly abused her and wa dismissed only because of massive publicity on behalf of the cops that embarrassed the judge into dropping the case for lack of evidence.

    Another case is the Duke Lacross case where the prosecutor went ahead forcing the case against the innocent boys, and would getting fired for prosecutorial miscinduct, again ONLY because of

    months of nationwide publicising of the case on FOX News and Talk radio.

    Cases of false charges in marriage are usually more private and les scritinized by conservative media so sometimes such cases can cause an innicent man ti be railroaded into jail on false charges.

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919265
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    When he is telling and encouraging her to think of her career as more important then anything else that is pushing, and like I said, I never heard of a feminist who would marry a man, who would NOT do that.

    That’s not pushing. That’s a woman saying “I want to do XYZ” and her husband supporting it.

    Pushing would be a man saying to his wife “I want you to go through medical school” even if she doesn’t want to. “;;;;;;;

    Supporting would be supporting whatever she wanted to do, pushing

    could also be(besides what you said)trying to steer someone into something that she may want to do but need a “push” to get going.

    It may not be ‘HARD’ pushing but it most certainly is pushing.

    If a someone considering marrying a feminist ‘supported’ her in following Torah more and feminism less, she and her feminist friends would most certainly claim he was ‘holding her back’.

    They most likely would tell her to break it off or at least to give it to him for supposedlty ‘seeing women only as objects’.

    This clash one way or another could easily cause a break up.

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919264
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    his is a topic for the feminism thread, so I will answer it there.

    It really has nothing to do with feminism (your assertions beside the point), but I responded there anyway.

    The Wolf ”


    They certainly have far more to do with feminism, then with broken engagements.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162649
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    SJSinNYC So you are saying that live in an expensive area that is mostly non Jewish (I think Bob Grant lives there and I know he once declared it “wall to wall Bob Grant country” and most of his listeners are NOT Jews) and so the feminist anti Torah ideals are very strong there and are saying that feminism helped you to live in a pro feminist anti Torah area.

    I do not see any advantage to someone living there since we are supposed to put following G-d, above everything else, and such an area would make that much harder then say, Borough Park or Flatbush.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162648
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    Wolf last time I tried using the bold not bold stuff, it got those parts of my posts deleted, so I will stick with, what is safe to use.

    I am talking about cases where the parent is NOT hime by the time the kids are or where the kids are home like with days off for whetever reason or have a cold or something that does not keep them in bed but still keeps them out of school.

    No I never had the money to get married and raise kids properly.

    But I have suffered………. ‘plenty’…….. at the hands many who were not raised properly.


    “Thirdly, you seem to be under the assumption that parents are responsible for every decision their children make when they get older. That’s not true. My job is to give my kids the tools to make decisions on their own as they get older. If they’re a CEO in the future and fire someone, then it’s because they made the call based on their judgment. It is unfair and wrong to hold parents eternally responsible for everything their kids do in life.”


    You are wrong “the apple does not fall far from the tree”.

    I knew one family where the parents (especially the father) had made their home “loshon Hara central” (not that…….’they’….. called it that, but that is what it was De-facto) and the kids espcially the boys grew up doing the same thing.

    I knew another family where they never said a single word of Loshon Hara (that I ever heard, not the slightest hint of any…..’ever’…….)

    So how the kids are raised is how they will be.

    If I could know a person and their parents personally all their lives, (this would not work with someone telling me about someone since in retelling, things are left out sometimes because the one saying it over, thinks a certain incident or something was not important and sometimes because they are covering up for someone or just trying to leave it out so that I would not be able to use it come to a proper understanding of the situation in order to ‘prove’ me wrong.

    It would only be certain to work if I had known them extremly well over the entire period that I stated) from before they had kids; Till the kids are parents themselves.

    I would be able to tell you about any flaw the kids had in their character and hashkafa and I would be able to tell you ….’exactly’…..what the parents did wrong, that caused the kid to have that flaw.


    “When YOU bring them up, and use them as examples with the OBVIOUS implication that others should take some lesson from it regarding the topic being discussed.

    No, it’s not OBVIOUS. Because something works for me, that doesn’t mean it works for everyone. Every parent needs to know their own situation. I know mine — and you don’t.”


    Then you are bringing it up with no purpose, just so I can comment on it just so you can feel rightously offended that I commented on something that YOU BROUGHT UP, for no reason, as you just admitted, and which had nothing to do with the GENERAL discussion that ……’I’….. was DISCUSSING.


    “See, a fair criticism would have been something like “I’m glad that works for you, Wolf, but I feel that in general…”


    If I had noticed that you were getting specific only about YOUR wife I would have said something like that.

    I am sorry for not noticing.

    However that does not excuse you for bringing it up in a discusion that had nothing to do with specific situations that could be exceptions.

    Most rules have exceptions.

    A man may not touch a woman wh is not his relative.

    But if he would let her drown because he not GENERALLY supposed to touch her he is called a “Chasid shota” or an idiot in the name of ‘righteousness’.

    So when for example someone is discussing not touching women and how to act on a shidduch/date, that has nothing to with someones case where his wife was drowning and some otrher man saved her and how greatful he is.

    It has no place in the discussion and is a waste of time to bring up, there.

    And if someone would comment on it like pointing out how in the story the man had said his wife was climbing on the rail and leaning way over to see what the under side of the dock looked like and someone said she should not have done that.

    For the man to then get all indignint and scream “how dare you judge my wife”. is the height of being illogical.

    And my response was not “G-d will judge you” with the implication that I had any knowledge HOW he would judge.

    YOU said that YOU THOUGHT G-d would approve.

    So I simply responded one day you will, know whether he does or not.

    AGAIN YOU brought it up, (in that context about G-d judging YOUR wife) not me.

    If you want to spend your life getting offended at things, people discuss after YOU bring them up, you may do so, but it does not make it MY fault that YOU choose, to do things that way.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162643
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    ;;;;;;;;;;”WolfishMusings

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    Look at how many people smoke, they almost never start smoking as adults.

    They do it as children or teenagers because of peer pressure.

    Peer pressure occurs with kids whether the mother works or not.”


    Obviously the parents must teach the kids and not just ignore what kinds of friends they have and what they do when they are with them.

    But that will not happen if they are not there in the first place.


    “There are many more indications that kids are not being raised properly, which are not as visible.

    I’m not even sure what you mean by this. Please explain.”


    Bullying and Loshon Hara for example which would be far less by many times less if the kids had the necessary active participation supervision throughout their lives and not just as little kids.


    “Actually there is a VERY strong and clear relation between vegetarianism and hatred of Jews.

    All the animal rights wackos, hate Israel and can’t wait to see it destroyed.

    In the end, she did both. When the kids were younger, she was a SAHM. Now that my kids are all teens and don’t need the full-time attention as much, she’s pursuing a career.

    You missed the point. The point is that you can’t take trait A about a person who did evil and say that that was the cause of his/her evil. What if I showed you that the Columnbine shooters liked peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch? Would you then ban PB&J? ”


    No I did not miss the point, because again that was one example and I SAID it was a more dramatic example then most others because most others do not get into the papers.

    All the street gangs that kids join is because they are not properly taught and supervised by their parents and some of these gngmembers who jois street gangs and other join motorcycle gangs. Some of them have killed more people then the Columbine shooters.

    But when for example members of the Pagans Motorcycle gang, shot a Mobster, in front of the cops in one city.

    That did not become as big a news story as Compumbine bnut it was the result of the same lack of proper upbringing as was the Columbine shootings.


    “I am not G-d, HE is the one you will one day have to defend yourself and the ideas YOU supported and advocated, as will I, as will your wife.

    I’m fairly certain that HE will not mind the fact that my wife did not just sit around the house while the kids were at school.”


    You will one day, find out.


    “If you are the exception where you have found a way to do it without missing on second of being with the kids so that when they make a decision later in life as a CEO to fire someone when they should have had compassion and not fired them, but did not know that because there would have been on day that G-d (not me)

    would judge you for

    Then good for you.

    Then this is not about “you”.?

    I have no idea what the heck you’re talking about here. Can you please explain more clearly?”


    You came up will all kinds of explanations to make it sound like you were not ion the catagory I was talking about, then complained I was talking about you.

    Make up your mind, if you think my posts apply to your situation or not?


    “I responded to your GENERAL statement, and too bad if you do not like THAT.

    Actually, you did not respond to a GENERAL statement. You responded to a VERY SPECIFIC statement that I made about MY family. In fact, I made no general statement at all.

    To refresh your memory, the statement of mine that you responded to was:

    In the end, she did both. When the kids were younger, she was a SAHM. Now that my kids are all teens and don’t need the full-time attention as much, she’s pursuing a career.”


    So you are playing G-d and deciding you have G-d like powers to know that all through their future they will NEVER make a wrong decision that they would have made the right choice about if your wife had been there to teach them a certain lesson (perhaps that they would just observed, rather then actually being lectured to)

    that will not change the course of their lives for the worse.


    “I did not say IN GENERAL that teens don’t need their mothers. I was talking about MY wife, MY kids and MY family, whom, frankly, you have never met and (aside from what I’ve said here) you know not one thing about. That being said, I DO take exception to your criticism of ME and MY family when there are others in the frum community who commit far more lax in the parenting of their kids.”


    No one asked you to bring up your family.

    I never brought them up.

    When YOU bring them up, and use them as examples with the OBVIOUS implication that others should take some lesson from it regarding the topic being discussed.

    Then you have no rightful expectations that no one will point out why those implications are not right and why people in general, s

    hould not follow those examples.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162632
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    WolfishMusings

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    I think this is fallacy that kids need parents so much less as they get to teenage years that there is “time to pursue a career” outside the home.

    Perhaps, perhaps not. I suppose it depends on the career and the kids.”;;;;;;;;;;;;

    Look at how many people smoke, they almost never start smoking as adults.

    They do it as children or teenagers because of peer pressure.

    There are many more indications that kids are not being raised properly, which are not as visible.

    ::::::::::”The Columbine shooters, were left alone while their parents pursued their high powered careers.

    And Hitler was a vegetarian. But vegeterianism (whatever else you might think of it) doesn’t lead one to kill six million people.”:::::::::

    Actually there is a VERY strong and clear relation between vegetarianism and hatred of Jews.

    All the animal rights wackos, hate Israel and can’t wait to see it destroyed.

    They also love to post peoples home addresses and phone numbers on the internet in order to promote violence against anyone they falsly accuse of abusing animals.

    ;;;;;;;;;;”like pursuing her Dressage hobby

    A hobby is much different than a career in terms of necessity and purpose.”;;;;;;;;

    How about power walking, in the Mall?

    “;;;;;;;;;In addition, bringing an example from one person who crazily values her horses more than her kids is hardly proof that mothers doing anything other than mothering is bad.”;;;;;;;;;

    It is just one example out of many I have brought, throughout this thread.

    ;;;;;;;;;”This is what feminism causes.

    No, that was caused by one person’s misplace values and bad judgement.”;;;;;;;;;;;

    It was an example of typical attitudes among feminists.

    ;;;;;;;;”That being aside, I don’t think I have to defend my wife to you, but I will say this.”;;;;;;;;;

    I am not G-d, HE is the one you will obne day have to defend yourself and the ideas YOU suoported and advocated, as will I, as will your wife.

    ;;;;;;;”Eeees remained at home for the kids through their formative years. She made sure to be there for them whenever it was necessary. My youngest (Wilma*) is now approaching fourteen and going to high school this year. For the past few years Wilma and her siblings have been in school during the day, so my wife took the opportunity to go back to school.

    Guess what? She makes sure to be home when they get home. It should be noted that we never left our kids with a babysitter on a regular basis.**

    Starting in September, Wilma and all her siblings will be in high school. They will be away for longer stretches of the day. There is absolutely no reason why she should just sit around the house while they are at school. If she can go to school while they are there, there is no reason for her not to do so.

    In addition, there is the fact that we need the extra salary that she will be bringing in. Yeshiva tuition is expensive and although I make a nice salary, it sometimes is just not enough. That was another motivation for her to go back to school.

    Lastly, when she does graduate this year, she will be in a profession where she can make her own hours and keep her schedule flexible. This will allow her to be free to attend to the needs of the kids if she so desires.”;;;;;;;;;;;

    If you are the exception where you have found a way to do it without missing on second of being with the kids so that when they make a decision later in life as a CEO to fire someone when they should have had compassion and not fired them, but did not know that because there would have been on day that G-d (not me)

    would judge you for

    Then good for you.

    Then this is not about “you”.

    ;;;;;;;;;”As I said, I don’t need to justify our family decisions to you or anyone else. Nonetheless, I chose to respond. If you don’t like it, well… too bad. “;;;;;;;;

    I responded to your GENERAL statement, and too bad if you do not like THAT.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162619
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    Wolfishmusings posted this inn the broken engagements thread but it really belongs here ;;;;;;;”In the end, she did both. When the kids were younger, she was a SAHM. Now that my kids are all teens and don’t need the full-time attention as much, she’s pursuing a career.”;;;;;;

    I think this is fallacy that kids need parents so much less as they get to teenage years that there is “time to pursue a career” outside the home.

    The Columbine shooters, were left alone while their parents pursued their high powered careers.

    And that is just one dramatic example there are plenty of others that may not have been that bad and did not make the headlines

    (like some who commit suicide because their parents were never around to talk to them, or at least not around ENOUGH).

    I once heard about a true story about a woman who left her kids alone while she was always out ‘doing things’ like pursuing her Dressage hobby (my best understanding of what Dressage is, is; a combination of horseback riding over a course, while also performing various elegant movements designed to show proper and precise control of the horse and harmony between horse and rider) and someone asked her about leaving her kids alone all the time and she said something about how they could fend for themselves and they’d be alright.

    So someone else asked her something like if she ever went on vacation away from her horses and she was actually shocked at the question.

    “Of course not! She declared” My horses are very emotional and delicate creatures, they need constant attention or they would suffer without the care and attention I need to give them”.

    This is what feminism causes…….A backwards non Torah attitude that children can be left alone that they do not always have questions and constant dilemmas where they need constant guidance, but animals do.

    Now this woman was not Jewish but the same principle applies in properly raising kids.

    This does not mean that the kids need ti follow mommy around, every second but many kids in one room playing will grow up with more confidence just because they knew their mother was in the house and they could talk to her and learn how to act on a daily basis just by watching and hearing her talk and make moral decisions at any random given time.

    All these subtle but extremely important minutes are lost to a kid who mother just had to be out all day at her oh so important career.

    People making these decisions have no idea of the harm they are doing because it is not easily quantifiable.

    You cannot know when a person is 55 and running a business and makes a decision nit to learn Torah or not to forgive someone who made an honest mistake for which the business owner fired him, just because he did not see his mother on a daily basis make compassionate choices that would have inculcated him with enough understanding not to fire that employee.

    Only H-sh-m can see those differences in peoples lives that deprive them of the necessary childhood training to have made a different decision that would have made someone else’s life far better.

    And H-sh-m will require an accounting from everyone and some who thought their career was so much more important then being there for her kids during the time when she erroneously thought (they don’t need me during those hours and days).

    Now she finds out G-d forbid, at the Beis Din Shell Mila, that she really should have been there after all.

    That was the important thing to have been doing then, even though at the time, it may have looked tedious and boring and far from “Glamorous” like being a doctor and saving all those lives and getting all that credit from everyone (instead of the other doctor who would be there, if she never had that career. Remember of those lives were meant to be saved, H-sh-m would make sure they were saved no matter who would choose “not to” have, that career) when there would be no one to teach her own children the life lessons that only she could teach them.

    EDITED for misspellings and typos. Also, the code is <strong>, not <bold> and the second one needs to begin with a slash (</strong>).

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919236
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    Wolfishmusings posted ;;;;;;;”In the end, she did both. When the kids were younger, she was a SAHM. Now that my kids are all teens and don’t need the full-time attention as much, she’s pursuing a career.”;;;;;;

    This is a topic for the feminism thread, so I will answer it there.

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919235
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    SJSinNYC

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    Hereorthere, clearly a career minded woman needs to marry someone who agrees with that philosophy. But you specified For example Feminism is infiltrating the Jewish communitry and often unless the man is going to push the women into becomming a doctor or lawyer or business executive or some other “high powered” career some of them think these days that he will “think of her only as an object”

    I’ve never heard of a man PUSHING the woman into a high powered position. “

    When he is telling and encouraging her to think of her career as more important then anything else that is pushing, and like I said, I never heard of a feminist who would marry a man, who would NOT do that.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162610
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    YW Moderator-80 so to get something in bold or italics I have to type in <X> every case?

    yes

    Is there no easier way to do it?

    no

    in reply to: Feminism #1162604
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    SJSinNYC

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    ;;;;;;;;;”Hereorthere, I apologize for reading your tone wrong. It sounded angry but its hard to read tone over the internet.”:::::::::

    OK, but then why try to do that?

    I just try to respond to the things that are said.

    I do not try and read anyones “tone”, unless it is obvious;

    Like if someone makes obviously sarcastic comments designed to make fun of someone else or if they say they are angry.

    The tone is obvious and I might comment on it then.

    If you thought I was angry because sometimes I use CAPS, that is only because I have very few other options to highlight and make stand out, words, which I want to emphasize.

    I cannot make a word bold or change the color or font style or size and there is no underlining, or option for Italics.

    But I fully accept your apology, it takes a mature person to make one, and I appreciate that.

    Thanks.

    ;;;;;;;;”I’ll be back later to answer your questions/statements.

    “;;;;;;;;;;;;

    Thanks.

    in reply to: Any recommended Jewish novels? #1125567
    hereorthere
    Member

    ShragaF I had meant to thank you for letting me know what I was missing in my thinking.

    Thanks 🙂

    But I repeat; But in that case, wouldn’t a frum novel possibly at some point mention some halacha or something a character learned somewhere and thus make the novel, Assur to read, in such a place?

    in reply to: Any recommended Jewish novels? #1125565
    hereorthere
    Member

    Mosherose, you are right of course.

    I had not thought of that.

    But in that case, wouldn’t a frum novel possibly at some point mention some halacha or something a character learned somewhere and thus make the novel, Assur to read, in such a place?

    in reply to: Feminism #1162566
    hereorthere
    Member

    Clearheaded;

    By your argument you are saying that in every individual instance with EVERY halacha all throughout time EVERY halacha is ALWAYS applied differently every single time it is applied anywhere.

    So what is your point, then?

    in reply to: Feminism #1162558
    hereorthere
    Member

    Clearheaded If your Rav has paskened that you may eat the Afikomen after Chatzos, then you are NOT going against Halacha.

    There is no such a thing as a Rav telling someone to go against Halacha.

    If he paskens that you may do it then by definition, you would be within Halacha to do so, even if someone elses Rav would tell THEM differently.

    If what you are doing has not been sanctioned by any Rav and there is no written Halacha that in any way permits it, then you would be doing wrong, and claiming “well it’s our minhag” woild not make it kosher, anymore then having a “minhag” to drive on Shabbos would make HAT ‘kosher’.

    Saying that; “But the metzias is that this halacha is lived differently today.”

    Is like saying, that to go from driving South to driving West

    you would be driving differently then if you had gone from driving South to driving East, because in one case, you make a right turn, and in the other case, you make a left turn.

    You are not driving differently, the car was origionally made to turn in either direction.

    You are not doing anything “different” with it, then how it was meant to be used.

    Same thing with Halacha, if you are following the same Halacha which already said that under certain circumstances, a man may not have multiple wives, and the G’dolim have said that these days ARE, those circumstances, then nothing has changed in the Halacha or in how it is followed.

    Perhaps you could say, that details of which aspect of the Halacha are in effect, have changed, but nothing in the Halacha has changed, since it includes all its details.

    You post; (not necessarily to me specifically) ;;;;”Take any of my examples and explain how you live them differently,”;;;;;

    I already have with your example about eating Matzoh after Chatzos.

    A psak by Rav, that you may do it = following Halacha.

    There is no such thing as violating Halacha and still doing what is right.

    If it is right, then by definition, is it not against Halacha.

    in reply to: Babies Looking Into Mirrors #692256
    hereorthere
    Member

    Mischiefmaker I would be surprised if YW Moderator-80, was misquoting Rav Moshe (though I do not ‘know’ for sure).

    So if Rav Moshe really said this, what would your Rav say in response?

    in reply to: Feminism #1162547
    hereorthere
    Member

    ;;;;;;;;”YW Moderator-80

    Moderator

    Kasha

    In general I tend to sympathize with your position, but NO Pasuk is explicit enough. Every Pasuk requires depth of study, time, reliance on Meforshim and Talmidai Chochomim, to just begin to understand the meaning, even the Pshat.”;;;;;

    OK; But then, the same would have be true of the pasuk about Avroham being told to listen to his wife, and all the instances of women leading or being in charge of things, many of which are in the Naviim or other places other then Torah, which would mean they would need even ‘greater’, in depth study, to understand properly.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162546
    hereorthere
    Member

    ;;;;;;;;”Now whether you like it or not, a large number of Chassidim including my husband’s rebbe are not makpid to eat the afikomin before chatzos. They expound on the Haggadah untill way after chatzos and only then eat the afikomin.”;;;;;;;;

    What the Rebbe does and what a Rav would pasken that a chassid could do can be two different things.

    In Crown Heights, sometimes we would wait for the Rebbe and then Davin Mincha, sometimes well after nightfall.

    But that was ONLY, if we were davening with the Rebbe.

    At no other time, did the Rabbonim give permission for the average person to davin so late just because “Well the Rebbe does it, so I can to”.

    That is wrong thinking and no Chassid with the proper hashkafa, ever thought that way.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162543
    hereorthere
    Member

    ;;;;;;”For example; while the Rambam said that a man can divorce a woman if she doesn’ wash his feet, I have stressed that in these times no Rabbi would agree that a man should divorce his wife because of that reason.”;;;;;;;

    Should and ‘could’ have very different meanings and can make ALL the difference when talking about halacha.

    If someone “shouldn’t”, that does not automatically mean, they are forbidden by halacha, from doing it.

    And from this it does not sound like the Rambam was making it Assur.

    ;;;;;;;”There are numerous such instances that halacha, while unchanging, is clearly applied differently than years ago”.;;;;;;

    If it is unchanging then what is the point of trying to imply that it DID, change?

    ;;;;;;;”I will bring a different example as well. According to halacha a man is allowed to have more than one wife. While cherem d’Rabbeinu Gershum was adopted it there never was an outright halacha ossuring a man from having multiple wives. In fact in Teiman, until very recently men had more than one wife. Why did that change? More specificly why did the Taimany adopt the practice of only marrying one wife if the cherem d’Rabbeini Gershem was never adopted as their minhag? Simply put, halacha does not change, but minhag hamokom changes the way we apply halacha.”:::::

    This one, I happen to remember having learned about, and the above statement I (strongly) believe, is not correct.

    This change was already IN the origional Halacha, because the Halacha states that a man may have ONLY as many wives as he can take care of to their satisfaction (not an exact quote but the basic halacha as I understand it).

    So, if the Sages have decided, that these days, men in general, can NOT take care of more then one wife, Al Pi Halacha; Therefore they have said that no man may have more then one wife.

    In other words, the Halacha and the application are still exactly as they were, origionally.

    ;;;;;;”The accepted APPLICATION of halacha can change(not halacha itself, but the application of it)to a stricter or more lenient practice – that’s called minhugim.”:::::::

    I have yet to see any minhag that the SAGES accept and approve of that is more lenient then Halacha.

    ;;;;;;;;”Sorry, but minhugim do exist and they can sometimes clearly clash with halacha.”:::::::

    Sure; Some people have the minhag to drive on Shabbos and eat treif and that clearly clashes with Halacha.

    ;;;;;;”An example of such a case would be where some families eat a kasieos afikomin after chatzos which is clearly against halacha.”;;;;

    Then they are obviously doing wrong just like those who eat treif.

    If it is ‘against’ Halacha then it is by definition, wrong.

    If kosher rabbonim pasken that it is not wrong then by definition it is NOT against Halacha.

    ;;;;;;;”Kasha, while in theory your arguments are strong, it is not the reality.”;;;;;;;;

    Actually that is not proven, by the above statements, as I have shown.

    in reply to: Any recommended Jewish novels? #1125558
    hereorthere
    Member

    One thing I do not understand so well.

    If people want something ‘frum’ to read, why not study Torah?

    Or read the midrash says?

    in reply to: Feminism #1162535
    hereorthere
    Member

    Wolf I appreciate your apology but that comment was to

    SJSinNYC who said I was angry (after complaining about my supposed extrapolation, LOL).

    Sorry, if I did not make that clear enough.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162533
    hereorthere
    Member

    WolfishMusings

    ;;;;;;;And no…..Men and women are not equally illogical, sorry but it just isn’t so.

    And to make it clear it is not the menn who are less logical.

    Case after case shows that to be true.

    “Please cite case after case”.;;;;;

    I already have, or did you not read what I said about the attacks by fenimists on Sarah Palin or all the feminists who were on TV and in interviews saying they voted for Clintin just because they “had to” because he was “so good looking”.

    Or the cases of female cops being so small that in the cases where there is no other option (like a raid on a motorcycle gang, full of big, tough, and extremly violent, thugs) then brute physical force, and these women could not handle that and the standards were lowered just because of feminism.

    If you want to ignore the evidence I have already posted, then there is no logic in continuing to ask for more.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162532
    hereorthere
    Member

    SJSinNYC

    ;;;;;;;;in order to make your claim that they never stayed in the relationship just because they believe that “he still lobves me”.

    “Please show me where I made that claim”.;;;;;;;;

    “Wolf, is it just me or is Hereorthere extrapolating from my words? I feel a little lost at his anger directed towards me based on things I didn’t say. “;;;;;;

    Talk about extrapolation, I never said anything about being angry.

    SJSinNYC ” As to women staying in abusive marriages – you think that’s because women are illogical? I guess you are lucky that you are so removed from the reality of why abusive women stay. Many reasons include financial (they can’t support their kids),”

    so if ‘the reason’ is claimed to be

    financial in a paragraph severly criticising my saying that SOMETIMES, they stay in such relationships just because they say

    “he loves me” (as evidenced by many cases on file with the oolice that after being out and in a shelter many have gone back to the abuser to ive with them) then it is by definition, saying that my claim ‘must be wrong’.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162524
    hereorthere
    Member

    ;;;;;;”I’ve been on construction jobs where someone came over and complained that only one of the crew was working. I always had a logical reason – one was a fire guard, one was waiting for a permit for different work, it was unsafe for multiple people to be working at the same time at that function etc. From the outside, it always looks like “the big bad utility/transit/road crews etc” is taking advantage of the little people. Con Ed negotiates with their union just as the MTA does. “;;;;;;

    And the unions got all kinds of stupid laws passed that have institutionalized inneffciency and laziness.

    If a fireguard for example is standing by a door with no one around and someone comes by who needs help getting some equipment through that door and he does not feel like doing it, and hides behind the “union rules” that it is ‘not his job’, that an illogical and lazy excuse to forcve the employeer to pay more money just to have someone extra standing around to help people get their equipment through the door.

    A welder who has nothing to weld cannot be asked to help move some hose for someone else doing another job because of corrupt union rules.

    Transit, ‘track workers’ spend more taxpayer dollars standing around by far then actually working.

    As I have said I have personally SEEN this, more then once.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162523
    hereorthere
    Member

    “I’m not ignoring facts”

    You could have fooled me.

    “and you seem to be getting worked up”

    No more then you seem to be getting worked up over that fact that radical feminism is at odds with a Torah lifestyle such as putting the premium on motherhood and rasing the kids and not just paying some babysitter or “nanny” to do it.

    “over this.”

    Nope, not because as you claim that you supposedly did not ignore facts, but because you actually DID ignore them.

    “I wonder if you are threatened by the idea that women can be great secular leaders? “

    More like by the fact that many are promoted as such when in fact

    they got there ONLY because of feminism and NOT because they were the most qualified ones to be there.

    The same feminists who claim that women are such great leaders, are exactly the same ones who helped bash Sarah Palin and lied about how qualifications claiming she had no leadership skills when hers were even better then McCain’s and also were far better then Hilliary Clinton who only got to a high position by hanging onto Bill’s coattails while Palin earned it on her own.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162522
    hereorthere
    Member

    SJSinNYC You are doing it again.

    When I said relationships you specifically SAID marriage AND KIDS in order to make your claim that they never stayed in the relationship just because they believe that “he still lobves me”.

    Anhd there is probably at least a little bit odf that attitude in at least 95% of all abusive relationships where the women is the abused one.

    You talked about several situations, none of which had anything to do with what I had actually said.

    And no…..Men and women are not equally illogical, sorry but it just isn’t so.

    And to make it clear it is not the menn who are less logical.

    Case after case shows that to be true.

    And no……Feminism has caused more abuse not less.

    It has ruined the very idea of marriage and family and promoted all kind of criminal activity that hurts everyone men as well as women and this is besides abuse and workplace discrimination faced by men from man hating feminists as well as reverse discrimination which is rampant throughout the entire private industry thanks to all kinds of feminist anti Constitutional laws.

    Before feminism……Families used to be together and raise the children to be civilized and respectful nwo the kids are raised as “latch key kids” who join violent gange like the Pagans which believe in gathering women and doing all kinds of things that can;t be mentioned here.

    Many Jews have become totally lost to Torah specifically because of feminist ideals.

    So no, it has done FAR FAR more harm, then good.

    And only a cop who has the strenght and power to do the job has the ability to choose not to use physical strength if he then chooses not to.

    There is no way you can be in any way logical in claiming that a tiny women can FULLY do EVERYTHING a cop needs to do, just as well as large powerful man can.

    It is impossible.

    Same thing with firefighters.

    The fire will not negotiate with people and when 200 LBS of plaster board, start falling onto the firefighters a 5’2″ 100 LB woman has a very good chance of getting trapped whereas a 6’2″ male with 250 LB os solid muscle very likely can knock it back and force his way out.

    No one said they could be stupid, as long as they have muscle.

    But your implication of that, is promoting a steriotype that muscle = stupidity, which it does not.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162465
    hereorthere
    Member

    ;;;;;;;;;”And no matter how much you jump up and down and deny it, in gemara Sanhedren, which we in daf yomi just completed and in other places, it’s apparent that chazal were not privy to certain facts concerning the sun’s movement around the earth. “;;;;;;;

    You THINK it’s apparant based on your very limited understanding.

    But I’ll bet you never studied the Kabbalah on this and you certainly do not know all the infinite depths of Gemarra.

    In any case, this has nothing to with the subject of this thread.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162460
    hereorthere
    Member

    Cherrybim

    I am not so sure that Chazal were lacking in any of the areas you mentioned, so much that they could not come to a proper decision on the halachic issues.

    Evberything is in Torah and for those who know enough, they can find anything they need without “modern science”.

    This is why if ‘science” for example claims that the Earth is older then 6000 years Torah true Jews realize there must be something wrong with the “science” NOT with Torah, G-d forbid.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162459
    hereorthere
    Member

    Response to SJSinNYC

    Continued;

    ;;;;;;;”Men are generally larger so they can generally wield more physical force. ;;;;;;;;;;;

    Which means they can do better on physical jobs like police and firefighters which means that in general that both genders are NOT doing ‘equal’ work to earn that ‘equal pay’.

    ;;;;;;;;;;”As to the Clinton thing – I bet I could find plenty of men who voted for Obama because of his race. In fact, there was some sort of radio broadcast done with that kind of thing – showcasing people voting for Obama because of his race. I’ll try to find the source later. People (both men AND women) make stupid decisions. “;;;;;;

    You are right; But in that case the men of that race are thinking that “one of their own will help them”.

    While still illogical it has a bit more substance them merly choosing a president purely because of his looks.

    ;;;;;”I work for Coned. I can honestly say that most of the workers are trying hard and do a great job. They had no problem submitting to my authority when I was supervising them.”;;;;;

    Coned being semi private, has some say so over it’s negotiations with it’s workers especially when it comes to dangerous jobs such as working with very high voltage lines and equipment.

    OSHA would not have it any other way.

    Coned has monopoly and thus can get away with charging plenty to pay high priced union workers to keep them happy and actually working.

    I said nothing about any workers submitting tp your authority over them on the job.

    But since you bring it up I would have problem doing that either

    as long as you treated me with respect and in a professional manner.

    Teachers on the other hand, often do a lousy job and constantly demand yet more pay and more vacations for worse work.

    I have personally seen (several times) Transit workers standing around with about 6 of them with onoly one working at any given time.

    The one actually on the tracks working, changes places with one of the ones standing around, after about 10 minutes.

    So each ‘worker’ gets about 50 minutes of rest for each hour on the job, besides their lunch and other breaks.

    This of course is while being paid union wages at taxpayer expense.

    ;;;;;;;;;”The women had to pass the same qualifications for the jobs (some mental, some physical and none washed down) for each position. Construction workers need to be able to lift about 50 lbs by themselves – anything else is classified as dangerous and is a “two man lift” or needs mechanical means. There are OSHA laws regulating things like this and its about safety. A lot of leniencies in job requirements today are actually about worker safety, not the feminist agenda.”;;;;;;;;

    So please tell me (especially since this is the third time I am mentioning it and you have never addressed this point) how lowering the height requirement for cops so that tiny women can get the job, improves either the safety of the cops themselves or of the public they are supposed to serve?

    This most definately is part of the feminist agenda.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162457
    hereorthere
    Member

    SJSinNYC

    “Hereorthere, in general, female waitresses get a lot more tips from men than women. Their dress often mandates what their tips are. Is that men thinking “logically”?::;;;;;;;

    The men in that case are not ‘on the job’, their decision to give their leisure money to whoever they wish, does not risk anyones lives or create a bad product that will break when someone needs it the most.

    ” As to women staying in abusive marriages – you think that’s because women are illogical? I guess you are lucky that you are so removed from the reality of why abusive women stay. Many reasons include financial (they can’t support their kids),”

    So you are telling me that all those women who SAID they wanted to stay because “he loves me” were lying?

    And I said RELATIONSHIPS not just marriage and not just in cases with kids.

    And I specifically SAID that this was whta happened in SOME cases not “ALL” cases.

    You have proven my point better then I could have done myself.

    You totally ignored the FACTS of I said and in an emotional response addressed the situation you WANTED to adress, NOT the actual FACTS of what I ACTUALLY said.

    To be continued;

    in reply to: Feminism #1162445
    hereorthere
    Member

    “If you have a brain in your head, you know when chazal is exaggerating, and you don’t need confirmation. “

    This is an example of the kind of emotional and non logical response, I was just talking about.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162443
    hereorthere
    Member

    SJSinNYC You may not personally know of any who ADMITTED to YOU that they voted for Clinton, because they thought he was good looking (not that I have any clue as to why anyone thought he was so good looking anyway. But perhaps men do not understand what women see in some men and not in others 🙂 but quite a few had admitted it, on the air, and in interviews, right after the election.

    On so many issues, women are quite often rulled by emotion over logic, like with abortions or women who are abused and who stay with the abuser and often (not always but often) the reason is because “I know he still loves me” or something like that.

    I have observed this both in the public sphere and in my personal experiences throughout my life.

    As for union jobs, as time has gone by the quality standards for union workers has dropped steadily.

    I know of many many cases (like in the New York Transit workers union) where people in the union did an honest days hard work and were physically threatened by their coworkers who were made to look bad and lazy in comparison.

    They lower the standards till even the weakest women can meet them and then say “look the women can do the job just as good as the (lazy) men and they deserve equal(ly LOW, or no) pay”.

    The problem is that in order for that to happen, the standard is now so low that no one is doing a good job and they ALL deserve to be fired with this new, rock bottom, standard.

    Like I said; Two tiny women cops walking together (I guess they were partners) who I could grab together with one arm, would not have a slight chance of protecting me from a gang of home invaders without using their guns, which I myself could do without waiting 10 minutes for the ineffective cops, to show up.

    The height requirements used to be a minimum of 5’9″ which some women could meet, but that was never good enough for the feminists who wanted far more of their own fellow feminists, in these jobs even when they could not meet the requirements.

    Chazal are not ‘infallible’ they can be wrong, but that can be decided ONLY by other G’dolim who are just as great as those they would say were ‘wrong’.

    And these generations are too low in comparison, to say the G’dolim of generations from over 1000 years ago (or earlier in history) were wrong.

    All they can do these days is to try and understand what the great and holy G’dolim, were telling us, so that we can try and live by their words.

    But is not for US to ‘judge’ them as ‘being wrong’ in anyway.

    This does not make them perfect or infallible.

    It just means that WE cannot be the ones, to judge such things.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162338
    hereorthere
    Member

    “women don’t share men’s intellectual acumen.”

    “Apparently not. From some of the statements I have read here recently,it is clear that some if not most of the women surpass the intellectual acumen of some men. And btw, women have bina yesairah, which makes us uniquely more than qualified to be better decision-makers than many of our male counterparts.”


    Having an emotional opinion and who you THINK is more intelligent does not make it so.

    Besides the difference regarding making decisions in public like in voting is not a lack of actual intelligence but the fact that many women allow their emotions to make the decisions for them more then (not that men don’t but not AS MUCH as women) men seem to.

    For example during the election fom Bill Clinton I was shocked to hear and see one woman after another interviewed or speaking as a ‘news reporter” taking about how they all seemed to go for Clinton and just about all of them gaves as the reason that “oh he is so good looking, I just HAD to vote for him”.

    So it had nothing to do with their intelligence or making any kind of rational decision on who would be the next leader of teh most powerful nation on the planet for so many women it was all about tehir emotions making t necessary for them to vote for someone who was “so good looking”.

    in reply to: Babies Looking Into Mirrors #692247
    hereorthere
    Member

    Maybe it has nothing to do with spirits or angels but might be more based on down to Earth, reasons?

    For example: Perhaps a baby that looks into mirrors will grow up being vain and could G-d forbid wind up being like some who always have to worry about their looks, and who can’t pass by a mirror without admiring themselves?

    So if as babies, they are taught not to look at mirors, perhaps they might be less likely to get that characteristic of being so vain, and self absorbed, later on in life?

    in reply to: Save Money on your Air Conditioner #960758
    hereorthere
    Member

    Squeak LOL

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919221
    hereorthere
    Member

    SJSinNYC I never heard of a feminist who would marry a man who would not say “go do it, get that high career climb the next rung of the ladder, your career is more important then anything else in life” and the like.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162268
    hereorthere
    Member

    Heck, I’m related to a hard-core feminist. And you know what? She actually married and had two daughters. Hardly sounds like the actions of someone dedicated to “destroying the traditional family unit.”

    The Wolf ;;;;;;

    I am also related to someone who at least at one time was a hard core feminist, and she also got married and had kids and even became mostly ‘frum’.

    And guess what?

    She raises her kids to believe that the G’dolim do not know what they are talking about, and that they supposedly “make up rules in halacha and give Psakim based on their own whims and desires and not on what H-sh-m wants”.

    And that is what feminism is REALLY all about not eqality but more then being just equal where the women get to decide if the G’dolim (and anyone else, the feminists decide in THEIR SUPERIOR WISDOM) are “Wrong”

    and where the police and fire fighters do not give equal pay for equal work but where the requirements for the work are lowered so that ANY weak and small womnan can get the job.

    More then once I have seen police women so tiny that I could have picked up both of them together with one arm and I am shorter then average ( for a male) size, myself.

    That is not “equality”

    That is destroying society.

    Why should women not vote, I can answer in one word, abortions.

    in reply to: Save Money on your Air Conditioner #960756
    hereorthere
    Member

    It is not that I am “comfortable” with a big range it is just that if I am too poor to KEEP it at 40 degrees I can tolerate it up to about 70 (if the humidity stays low) so if I can get down to that and it takes a long time to get back up to that, I save electricity.

    That would be way too hot for my fridge. milk spoils way too fast for me at 40 degrees.

    I try and keep it at around 33 degrees.

    Ice cold milk is a Mechiaya that can’t be beat 🙂

    If on Shabbos I need several fans going even according to you 4 fans would be like two light bulbs going and everyone I know worries about making sure even one bulb does not stay on longer then necessary.

    Places I eat for shabbos often have bulbs on timers going off before the meal ends and we have to bentsch in the semi darkness.

    If I had the money I would make my place like walk in fridge, i’d also have a horse ranch with thousands of acres and a large swimming pool.

    In my present place I do not have control over the electricity and I do not have even a single dedicated line just for my use.

    in reply to: online courses #686082
    hereorthere
    Member

    Anything that anyone can learn online?

    Just vocational like learning electronics?

    Torah courses?

    College courses?

    You need to say more about what you are looking for.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162230
    hereorthere
    Member

    Clearheaded there are numerous instances in Torah where the Jews were told to fight and kill the enemy.

    Does that mean that everytime any Jew sees anyone who might be an antisemite he sould instantly jump up and kill, him?

    Obviously not.

    So just because there are instances in Torah, of women being assertive, does not mean that the Torah ‘wasted words’ G-d forbid, in taking about women in general being submissive, or that they are not usually supposed to be, just because there were cases where they weren’t.

    Kasha posted:

    “Reading some of the comments on this thread, I must sadly conclude that even some of our Torah observant brothers and sisters are more influenced on this issue by the Gloria Steinem’s, Betty Friedan’s, and Bella Abzug’s of the world, than by our Torah HaKedosha and Gedolei Yisroel who are our guiding lights. “

    Exactly Kasha and that is why I started this thread, to get people to realize how much influence feminism has has even on the “frum” community where it can be ‘cloaked’ in halacha whioch can then be misused to promote things in the community that have no legitimate place in the community.

    I for example, said in another thread that some people think that if a husband does not push his wife intio becomming some high powered career woman (and one example was a doctor) then HE is looked at by some as some kind of woman hater whi sees women as only objects.

    And right on cue someone else asksd me “what is wrong with being a doctor” totally ignoring the part I said about the husband looking like a mysoginist for not PUSHING her to do it and b oth of them ignoring their primary responsibility of raising theur kids to follow Torah and not obsess over women having their ‘big career’.

    I have never heard of any halacha or Medresh or Kaballa or Halacha or Gemarra or anything that says when a woman will get to the beis Din Shel Milia that they will ask her “Why didn’t you have a high powered career as a doctor or business woman?”.

    I do think that one question could very well be; “Why didn’t you spend more time raising your children to be G-d fearing Jews?”

    Not that they didn’t do it at all, but why did they not do it MORE?

    They might be asked that there were many lessons on a daily basis they were supposed to teach them but they were too busy with their feminism and their big careers and were many times not there when they should have been and those lost lessons later on made a difference in how and what choices the grown children later made and why did those children have to make choices that wer poorer for the lack of those lost lessons and what did that big high powered career do that was so much more important then raising the children properly that later made such a difference in their lives?

    Why did those choldren have to lose out on something that might have been small and a subtle but that they would have remembered at a critical time in their later lives, that could have made a very big difference in some decision that they made wrong, that they would not have made wrong if they had learned that lesson their mother WAS supposed to have taught them, and was not there to teach?

    It’s not ‘just’ halacha it is also hashkafa.

    in reply to: Feminism #1162229
    hereorthere
    Member

    “Is being a top poker player something to be proud of?”

    Speak for yourself.

    Now, which part of this do you not understand?

    Where did I say that this said anything about Chazal.

    Are you claiming that Chazal told you to ask people about being a poker player?

    Really?

    When did they tell you go around talking about poker?

    Where is it written down?

    Or are you making things up, or just obsessed with gambling?

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919214
    hereorthere
    Member

    Chazal take a very dim view of not raising children properly by those who think being a good feminist is more important.

    If you hate gambling don’t do it.

    What do you want from me?

    If you are a compulsive gambler I can’t help you.

    I am not an addiction counselor and even if I were I couldn’t help you over the internet.

    I’m sorry.

    in reply to: A Safety Reminder For Parents Everywhere! #1022189
    hereorthere
    Member

    Also make sure you know every second where your kid is even inside a store.

    Someone can be in one aisle and in two seconds the kid can walk around the next asile and be out of sight where G-d forbid anything can happen.

    Do not leave strollers unattended, even inside.

    Would you leave your money unattended, even for a second?

    in reply to: Broken Engagements #919212
    hereorthere
    Member

    There is a big difference between knowing if the potential Chasson is compassionate and helps other people or if the potential Kallah is careful with Tznius, and trying to “remedy”

    someone gettimg annoyed because they ‘clink’ their coffee cup too loudly or too often with their soon.

    Researching the potential mate, finds out the necessary things before the first date, (and the dating itself helps find that out as long as it is short and intensive) and “therapy” usually just harps on making the less important things, into mountains that are then too big to climb.

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