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In this weeks krias hatorah among other places.
You’re missing the issurim.
Go to a well.
I wasn’t implying that you were guilty of any of those excesses. I was just mentioning the other way to be mevazah. Personally I drink one glass of dry wine, which I can handle without any issues and I actually like.
HaLeivi: In brooklyn we’re used to thinking of a driveway as a long narrow path enclosed on three sides. In places where there’s enough room to have landscapes and architecture that is not necessarily the case. Lots of large houses have round driveways so you can pull up at the front door and there is a yard in the center of the circle.
It’s a reshus hayachid in nezikin. In eruvin it’s some funky kind of a carm’lis. I was going to a shiur in the first perek of shabbos aliba d’hilchisa then college got in the way so I don’t know what to call it.
There are certain places where you can’t complain about bittul zman without sounding a little funny. The coffeeroom is one of them.
Mevazeh Es Hamo’ados also applies to excesses in celebrating. I wear shabbos clothes on Chol Hamoed, drink wine and don’t do anything either too stupid or assur so I don’t fast either. Since I don’t fast I just go somewhere that doesn’t say slichos and it doesn’t affect me. I don’t even remember the last time it happened. I don’t think it’s a common occurrence though.
147: Sorry, I forgot what the thread was called so I couldn’t find it. I’ll look there.
Good for you. I wish you much hatzlacha. Are you asking what you should be looking for or are you confused about how to do the “research”? If the former, this is not the place to go for advice.
Anything that a boy can say to a girl in person can be said via text message. However using txt spk is assur m’dioraisa m’shum lo sonu
147: There are a lot more nuschaos then that. And 200 years from now nussach Artscroll will be a legitimate variation too!
Havara: Isn’t that closer to a patach? A better illustration would be Kamatz gadol == the “u” in “thump” kamatz katan == the”O” in Go.
For the Cholom, you missed the third pronunciation. The Yemenite cholom which is halfway between our segol and tzerey which is also the linguistic ancestor of the litvishe Cheylem.
BTW, you haven’t yet answered me about Yom Ha’atzmaut and behab. I know what Rav Tzvi Yehuda did. What is the common practice?
Sam2:If you say so. I’ll tack it onto the bottom of my list of strange minhagim to research.
If you’re in a reshus hayachid, what exactly is the problem?
mdd: Several of the things Menucha mentioned were problems in parts of Europe as well.
To answer your questions in order:
1- Why would you want to? Ashkenaz is an ancient mesorah approximately 3 times as old as Nusach Sfard. More, when you take into account the fact that our contemporary “nussach sfard” is a composite and not what any of the earlier rebbes davened. If you have a kesher to some particular chasidus and follow their customs it’s another story.
2- There are Mizrachi, Aram Soba, Shami, Baladi, Sfardi, S&P (aka real sefardi), various girsaos in Nusach Ha’ari l’minehem, to give a partial list.
3- You can switch havaras. Whether or not you should is another story. Your havara is (or should be) determined by the tradition in the rules of dikduk you received from your parents and/or rebbeim.
Sam2: Minor quibble; didn’t the Christian custom also start more recently than a millennium ago? I thought it was a late-medieval thing.
How about telekinetic muzzles that you can put on people by snapping your fingers?
147: I’ve got an off-topic question for you. What do you do when Yom Haatzmaut falls out on behab?
popa, Sam2, Wolf.
mdd: It’s clear that the passuk of “lo sikr’vu” is an asmachta, as opposed to an explicit source (otherwise negia would be assur to all arayos). This obviously does not make it any less of a source, just a technical note
oomis: You’re right, though in other threads OP showed he has a pretty good grasp of yeshivish.
Try a different derech for a couple days. Maybe even a different topic. Ain adam lomed ela m’makom shelibo chofetz. If “exploring” doesn’t help, then you know you have to get back to work on developing a cheshek.
And the lesson?
ANANO: In general, when people say “Rav Kook” they mean Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook who passed away in 1935. When they talk about Rav Tzvi Yehuda they say “Rav Tzvi Yehudah.” If you don’t follow convention you confuse people.
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menuchah: You are talking about 4 very different things.
Don’t take them off until you’re about to fall asleep, as the original mitzvah was. Then you’re too tired to notice which hand you’re doing it with. Problem solved.
avhaben: what makes this “the gedolim?” Have you read the book?
zdad: Most of these yeshivos built their basketball courts before it became common to discourage ball playing.
If they are both civilized adults they work it out between themselves or defer to the gabbai. If they aren’t, kol d’alim gvar.
Target.
popa: Don’t worry about his tone. I’ve noticed that one of the specifically Jewish yetzer haras in our generation is to badmouth Jewish things. Just like secular Jews like to tell jokes about gefilte fish and laugh about “classless” Jewish cooking, many frum Jews like to talk bad about Israel. It’s just cultural.
There is a sefer of colleced sermons for all occasions written by a Conservative cantor named Noah Something-or-other, that I have buried somewhere. Unfortunately I have never been able to use them because my yiddish isn’t good enough. That and the fact that I’ve never been asked to speak at the ???????????? of a new rabbi.
yichusdik: I like that line about midrashim. A friend of mine told me something similar b’shem his rebbi. “Midrashim are meant to be taken seriously, not literally,” though I don’t know what either quote has to do with anything since this isn’t a medrash 🙂
It’s important for your health to have some kind of physical activity anyway. Whatever that activity is, doing it more intensely than usual is a good stress outlet (except for weightlifting. That’s dangerous)
Al the yiddishists on this thread are in good company between Golda Meir and Rav Shach.
popa: That song has no place on a frum website!
… not because it’s “goyish” but because I don’t like it. 😛
Stamfordhillbilly: I like soccer too. I probably won’t play when I’m their age either zohl zein gezunt un shtark.
147: That’s an interesting theory. I noticed it because this year I was using an reprint of an old German haggada with translation and thought it might have been left out for fear of blood libels due to antisemitic printers and censors reading it. Your explanation makes more sense because the haggada I was using (Rodelheim) was originally printed in a time and place where blood libels weren’t a serious issue.
Has excessive use of question marks and butchering of idioms gone (sic) out of hand?
Just speaking to a Red Sox fan is a lesson in bitachon. They waited, and waited, and waited … and were redeemed! And every year at the time of the world series they talk about it endlessly and they will never stop even after mashiach comes.
Loyal Jew: You haven’t answered the question…
Goq: Hey! My line! 🙂
zdad: This is a very complicated issue. Draw a Venn diagram. Draw one circle containing everything you want to do that the Torah forbids. Then draw another containing everything that you want to do that your local Calvinist preacher forbids. Lastly, draw a third circle containing everything that you want to do that the posters you take issue with have forbidden. Take a look at the two circles, note the very small overlap and make your own decision.
shmoel: It can be reconciled perfectly the second you let go of the idea that any power should be absolute.
Josh31: I appreciate knowing that someone is paying attention, but it’s still a little annoying — especially the people who pipe up with ka’eleh several words before I read it. As for Rosh Hashana mussaf, I’m not a chazzan (too young and can’t really sing) but the nussach provides many places during chazaras hashatz for people to sing so the chazzan can catch his breath including between all the uv’cheins in kedushat hayom.
Mods, Patri’s post got deleted. This thread would be a lot easier to read if everyone responding to him got deleted too. Could someone take care of that please?
tajikpashut: How do you say front axle in Tajik?
popa: Well played, sir.
Patri: “shulchan aruch” isn’t a good enough source. There are 10 volumes in the normal edition (more in the oz v’hadar). A citation would be helpful. I’ll give you a hint, it is not in Yoreh Deah 87.
When people do that with “ka’eyleh” I always think “yes, I know. Why can’t you be this helpful when I forget a trop?”
aproudbyg:Here you go. Includes the rest of maariv too. (Mods, if you don’t want to make an exception for a siddur link, I’ll try to find pastable text later)