HolyMoe

I keep a tub of ice cream in the freezer Every time the ice cream truck comes I take it out and scoop a portion into a cone
This costs me 20 to 30 cents instead of $4 and my kids are happy

All depends where.
I am about half a mile West of Woodridge and only ATT works there.
In Woodridge itself there is a bit of Verizon.
Go to Woodbourne and its different again.
So it very much depends where you are in the Catskills
And it keeps changing every year (usually to the better)

My favorite is Lev Yerushalayim near King George and Ben Yehuda. I was there a year ago and got to know the mashgiach Reb Aharon Twersky a cousin of the skverer Rebbe and a big yirai Shamayim. The lobby is small but the location couldn’t be better right in the center of the city but next to Batei Rand and the shuls there.

אם לפי האריז”ל אין תכלת אלא בזמן בית המקדש – איך אפשר שהובא במסכת מנחות שבזמן של האמורא אביי – כ400 שנה אחר חורבן הבית עדיין קשרו תכלת בציצית?

I know of a brother and sister. The sister remained Jewish and the brother opted out.

I heard a rumor of something very significant that happened last week.

A few kollel guys from Yerushalayim dissected the sac of the Murex and found that it consists of two inner sacs the large one contains a yellow liquid and the small one contains a minute amount of black liquid. When you break the Murex open the sacs also break and they mix.

However, if you carefully seperate the liquids before they mix, only the black liquid makes wool turn blue.

Why is this significant? Because the Rambam says that the liquid coming out of the Hilazon is black like ink.

If this finding is true, then it is another overwhelming proof of the authenticity of Murex as the actual Hilazon according to all understandings of the Rambam.

Can anybody verify if this is actually happened last week?

HDG wrote: ” The only explanation that I heard to be machria is that the Galut ended after 70 years, but that it took a very long time (165 more years) until Bayit Sheni was built. “

This is refuted by Ezra 3:12 describing the old men who still remembered the first bais hamikdosh weeping seeing the second bais hamikosh.

According to your theory, they would be over 200 years old !

This is very much a culture thing.

In Israel, there is no such thing as privacy.

Americans have a hard time getting used to sitting – say with a clerk – and having a strange person just walking up and not only listening in but even crooning their head over to see what you wrote in the forms (and sometimes giving you unsolicited advice).

Or sitting on a bus and stranger giving you mussar on how you talk to your child.

Israelis, on the other hand, have a hard time understanding how in America privacy is taken to such extremes that someone could be dying on the street and nobody would go help because it is “none of my business”.

Pizza is always a meal.

A snack is a nosh between meals. Pizza is, simply, not eaten that way – unless you are fooling yourself.

I do not understand how anyone can make a bracha of mezonos on even one slice of Pizza and be mevatel the mitzvas Asseh of Bentching.

Many (not all) chassidim keep them tucked in because the tallis katan is bechinas ohr pnimi on the inside and the talis gadol is bechinas ohr makif on the outside.

I have a good friend a tremendous talmid chacham and einikel of the Chofetz Chaim who says that he has a messora that the chafetz chaim did not wear the tzitzis of the tallis kattan out.

When he was asked how he wrote what he did about wearing them out, he replied that he meant that if one is wearing the talis katan outside then one should not hide the tzitzis by tucking them in, but he did not mean pulling them out if the the talis katan is under the shirt.

The Rabbi Blumenkrantz Pesach book – year after year – has been looked forward to by my family every time it comes out. The wealth of detailed information leaves nothing about Pesach to the imagination.

A Judaica store owner in New York told me that (even taking into account chumashim and sidurim)it is the most widely sold Jewish book in the world because so many people buy new ones every Pesach.

I don’t know if this is a fact, but it certainly deserves to have that title.

The layout of continental is different than ElAl.

Their galleys face each other in the back creating a small room that doesn’t interfere with passengers going to the bathroom and the sounds of our davening don’t disturb others.

I heard from old-timers that before the war many women kept Shabbos and were entitled to be buried in Shomer Shabbos sections while, sadly, most of their husbands and sons did not stand up to the incredibly difficult Nisayon of Shmiras Shabbos in those years and they were refused burial in Shomer Shabbos sections.

By the time the 1930s came around, cemeteries evolved into men’s and women’s sections originally being non-Shomer-Shabbos and Shomer-Shabbos sections.

People in our time just continued these policies of the old cemetaries. Many thinking that it is some sort of Tznius or Frumkeit when it is just a relic of a very sad chapter in Jewish American history.

To Oy Vei:

It is true.

I also saw that video recently.

I don’t know why we think that a Godol BaTorah is not allowed to change his mind.

There are numerous instances in the Gemara of Amoraim changing their mind.

On the seder night we read that the heiligge Tanna Rabi Elozor ben Azarya changed his mind.

In our times, Reb Shlomo Zalman and Reb Moshe changed their minds over time on several of their Psakim.

I am very sure that if Reb Chaim Kanievsky would be really meAyin in this Sugya of Tcheiles we might find him wearing Tcheiles himself.

to Sam2:

There’s a big difference.

Naturally occurring Treifos don’t have to be assumed. Treifos that we know about (in this case because they are man-made) do have to be taken into account according to most Poskim.

to only normal person around:

I live in America and am not familiar with what goes on in Israel and even less with Uruguay.

I did hear that a better feed is provided to the cows in Israel so this procedure is not used there.

I would like to make a statement here.

I am not a Posek. I am just very irked about the Letzonos and jokes about a Takana that were made by our CHaZa”L to prohibit Chalav Akum.

These were Baalei Ruach HaKodesh. Maybe they didn’t forsee the stapling problems we have today, but the Siyyata Shmaya of following this – sometimes very difficult – Takana has saved many from accidentally consuming Chalav Treife in our times.

If Reb Moshe ZaTZaL allowed a temporary leniency in America because of government inspection where Chalav Yisrael was not available, he certainly wouldn’t have done so so we should immerse ourselves in Frusen Gladje and Kinder Chocolate Eggs. It was meant for basic staples. But that is beside the point.

The point is that making light of our ChaZaL is – indeed – dangerous territory.

Hizoher B’Gachalassan

I am a Chassidic Jew and I wear trunculus tcheiles even though my Rebbe doesn’t.

My Rebbe probably doesn’t want to do anything different than his father, I never asked him.

I ask his advice about shidduchim, and minhagim and ask him for Brochos.

Many times in the Mikva I have seen others also wearing tcheiles and we give each other a knowing wink. (We wear a langge rekkel so we can’t know otherwise)

Because trunculus tcheiles is the real thing.

We know it.

The arguments against are so flimsy that it is hard to see anyone rationally accepting them.

Just because the Mizrachim accepted it first, is turning this into a political issue.

All I can say is that it takes a very powerful imagination to say that Chazal prohibited Kla Ilan because it so resembles tcheiles from some fish that was hidden away. While – at the same time – totally ignoring a snail (the persian word for a snail is chilazon) which was caught in the millions for dye and whose color is exactly like Kla Ilan.

So if you want to be an ostrich, bury your head in the sand. Or be worried about what will the other person say.

If you want truth and to be mekayem what the Ribbono Shel Olam asks us in the Parsha of Tzitzis, you can do it today.

The choice is yours.

About 30-40 years ago. I don’t remember exactly when, but I clearly remember hearing a speech from Menachem Begin at Beth-El before he was prime minister.

I also heard from many old-timers that Reb Meir Shapiro gave a speech there when he was in America shortly after the shul was built.

This shul is a masterpiece

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According to the way you do it, how do you explain the original Maamar ChaZa”L that a person should be Maavir the Parsha IM HATZIBUR.

The Tzibur – that you are a part of – is doing a totally different Parsha that week.

Perhaps you should ask a Rav.

My granddaughter is named Yenta and only Yenta and that is what everyone calls her.

She is about to become ten years old.

She is popular and full of self-esteem and is perfectly happy with the name.

There used to be a calypso song about 50 years ago:

“If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life –

Take an ugly woman to be your wife.”

What is the date of the chassuna or, at least, the week.

The parsha can sometimes be a great springboard.

Most important!

There should be something personal about the Choson and Kala.

I live in Boro Park.

You want to know why Boro Park doesn’t have a coffee shop? Because the people in Boro Park are not stupid.

No one in Boro Park will pay $4.50 for a cup of coffee that is described as “Arabic Colombian Fair Trade French Roast” served by a specially uniformed Barista.

The famous coffee shop chains know that. They savvy marketers also know that they can only succeed in areas populated by naive Harries willing to part with their hard-earned cash for a taste of ethereal “ambience” (with some Wi-Fi).

We’re too smart for that in Unzer Boro Park.

Karaites branched off from normative Judaism about 1300 years ago, after the Talmud was completed, that’s why they are never mentioned in the Gemara. It seems that Tzedokim disappeared shortly after the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash almost 2000 years ago (except for a few holdouts (see Shabbos 88a). Kussim (Samaritans) were around and are still around after 2600 years.

popa_bar_abba:

“HolyMoe: To the contrary, please tell us which beis din.”

OK – I will tell you.

It was the Tartikov Bes Din on 55th Street near 14th Avenue in Boro Park.

If you can’t spell “school”, you should stay in school until you learn how to spell “school”. Then graduate then get married.

It is no muitzva for a girl to get married. It’s only a mitzva for the boy.