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2- The number of people whose grammar I will most pointedly not correct at this time.
Will the organizers be able to find the place? They seem to think it was built on the site of the old Shea Stadium.
2- ??? ????? ?????
And so on until we hit 13.
New rule: Only those who are still counting with a bracha can play. 🙂
Call him Suleiman, it’s the best of both worlds. You can sound Muslim and illiterate!
Where does it say that there is any restriction on electricity on chol hamoed?
1 1/2 hours before shechitas hatamid.
Later than yours.
lesschumras: They didn’t care.
What did you do about the korban?
Ken Zayn: If you’re just talking about the shlichus, then mistama ken zayn ;-). If the first rav already sold it, then what exactly are you empowering the second rav to sell?
popa: Stop stepping on my lines!
zdad: YU is a hard commute but Stern would take me 40 minutes by mass transit from flatbush. (I once worked a 5 minute walk from Stern and my commute was 35 minutes)
Have your real name and email on a website.
Because they can get away with it.
Sam2: Fair enough, but you have to admit that there is a tzad to require getting drunk without any cheshbonos about kalus rosh.
I’m in. The Wolf is very learned and down-to-earth; he adds a healthy dose of common sense to the CR. His blog posts are also very enlightening.
Sam2: I’ve been told by several rabbanim that we generally do not pasken from the (majority of the) Me’iri that was lost for a long time.
Popa: You can get to ad d’lo yada b’hiddur l’chol hadeios without getting as drunk as some of the people I saw this Purim.
It follows Sephardic (Aram Soba) nussach and minhagim but has a yeshivish hashkafa and derech halimmud. Rav Raful managed to pull off the synthesis very well.
Sam2: If they stuck to such simple svaros it would be wonderful. Instead they feel the need to justify it from all sorts of other angles.
The source is an inyan that the we use these kits to have the four orders of being involved ????, ????, ??, ????. The spoon comes from Tzomeach, the feather comes from Chai, the domem is the father who knows not to be mafsik, and the medaber is represented by his kids who most definitely do not.
I didn’t like Grapes of Wrath either and that was supposedly his best book.
Wait, some more minhagim:
Minhag l’harbos b’seudah — fine, but NO MORE FALAFEL
Barbecues are great. V’chol hamarbeh harei zeh meshubach
You may only shave if you promise not to tell me your pipulim permitting it.
What did he do?
By receiving communion you serve A”Z at least 3 times that I can count.
1) No bracha is said over hallel. Anyone who begins saying the bracha for hallel is told to sit down and stop being such a frummak. (?????? ???? ??????)
2) We do not read a haftara. As Rav Soloveichik said when told about the practice “Nu, people have to get to work.” Anyone who even mentions using the haftara of Od Hayom is to be tied up in the main NK shul in London with the word Tziyoyni written on his forehead.
3) It is permitted to add the rabbanut liturgy at maariv as long as:
a- the baal tefilla can sing.
b- I am not there.
Anything else?
popa: Next time you receive communion let me know. That way we can stone you 3 times.
OOM: I don’t like Steinbeck much. Then again, the first thing I read by him was The Pearl so yeah…
writersoul: I was going to say “get a cat” but your way works too 🙂
Someone as knowledgeable as you are should know the ancient and time honored segula for dealing with mice.
Hint: It’s even older than R’ Yeshayele Kerestirer.
It doesn’t say to start lessening simcha any time before Av. Calm down. 😉
An inch lower than it had to be last year.
TL;DR.
sushe: I don’t know. If I did, I would say
cherrybim: I say Minhag lita.
From what I hear, the Israeli postal service rarely sees the public at all.
If you find out where it comes from that might give you some insight into who says it. (or should say it)
Rambam in hilkhos deios teaches that to overcome a bad mida you go to the opposite extreme. In the case of selfishness, give more than 10% to tzedaka for a while until it no longer feels “hard.” Then return to the middle-of-the-road.
hershi: You mean “other” classical languages. Most did choose Latin. Very few choose greek because classical Greek sounds like you’re talking with your mouth full of spit plus it has a ? which English speakers avoid like the plague (notice how even the Hebrew mottoes don’t have it.)
Fiveish saves, Rabbi Mintz invests 😉
pba: What can I do to get the same deal? We’re slowly eating down most of our chometz and all the good stuff is gone.
What names do I have to call you?
Lots of Ivy league schools have Hebrew words on their seals. Some even have ????
aish.com
ohr.edu
chabad.org
torahmates.org
To name just a few.
There are all sorts of programs for that. If you want to study on your own there are many Jewish books, especially primary sources, available in English online.
yitayningwut: Right you are. It says when people should get up to “be mischanen” not that they have to or what they should say. My other post was misleading. A number of sefarim (including halakha ones like mishneh torah) mention getting up at midnight.
I don’t read the press. It’s very low on content.
Along the lines of Gershonides
Philo = ??????
Fun fact about Ralbag (Gershonides): he has a crater on the moon named after him, and it isn’t and it isn’t called “Gershonides” — it’s called “Rabbi Levi.”
Feif Un: I don’t think the Shulchan Aruch says we say six chapters of tehillim and sing a piyyut before maariv on Fridays either. So?
I like Macbeth because it’s the least depressing of the tragedies. I’ve never read Antony and Cleopatra.
Derech: If you listen to a temani kria today, you will see that most of them do not comply. Of course that could just be a lack of dikduk on their part since the proper quf sound is somewhat between a kaf and a gimmel. (Parshas zachor is sloooowwww in my shul 😉 )
Read the Jew of Malta by Marlow. Similar plot to Merchant of Venice but much more antisemitic.
HaKatan:
1- The hhes (two h’s to differentiate from a hey and a chaf) is not a guttural. It is formed by the palate. Ahskenazim do have a mesorah for it. Check any ashkenazi dikduk sefer e.g. Minchas Shai.
2- Please explain your assertion that prounouncing a tav refuyah like a samekh is better than prounouncing it like a tes. (If you wanted to be super accurate, you would pronounce it like the “th” in bath)
3- You are only half-right about the kamatz. Real mizrahhi havaros differentiate between a kamatz gadhol and a kamatz katan but not between kamatz gadhol and patahh. Yemenites differentiate between both as do Ashkenaz-ashkenazim (yekkes).
Even closer than Teiman is Moroccan. Their havara is like the yemenite one except for three things:
1- a weaker arabic accent than the Yemenites
2- A gimmel degusha is notpronounced as J
3- Moroccans pronounce a quf with its own sound. Yemenites pronounce it like our gimmel.
The last two things on that list are things which Rabbenu Sa’adia Gaon said the Temanim do incorrectly.
Toi and OneOfMany: I wasn’t arguing that he wasn’t an antisemite. I was arguing that he was a “normal” antisemite no better nor worse than most other people in his time. BTW, which plays do you like best? I liked Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III and Macbeth.