yitayningwut has previously identified himself as a student of Rav Abadi.

Rav Abadi is a tremendous baki in kashrus both in halacha and “metzius” i.e. the facts about various ingredients including chemicals, where and how they’re processed etc. He is also a major proponent of people educating themselves to be able to shop in exactly the way yitayningwut describes. Obviously, someone who does not eat pas palter or chalav stam cannot shop this way.

shmoolik: Can’t. I lein. 🙂

gavra: The gemara specifically said that the amei ha’aretz did hate the talmidei chachomim during the middle of the tekufas hatannaim. Since the religious/secular political situation was even worse then than now (think much larger zealot factions on both the religious and secular side, secular zealots like Sarid (r”s) throwing stones as well, real sikrikim as opposed to our thankfully tame variety etc) this was no surprise. From the gemara it does not seem like that state is unchangeable. Maybe we can do something about that.

By the way, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for an intemperate remark I made on another thread. I lost my temper because of certain peoples’ actions and statements, but that is no excuse for my own behavior. I’m sorry.

My new minyan has one. Unfortuantely, it meets during pesukei d’zimra.

apushatayid: The problem with your idea is that something similar has been tried and one side refused to allow there followers to attend anything with the word achdus in the name. I won’t say which side it was but it’s a religion founded on Jew-hatred and its name begins with a chet.

Sometimes it is important to allow such remarks to get through, so that we should know what we are dealing with. This poster apparently feels that being chareidi is “a religion founded on Jew-hatred.”

This attitude exactly sums up a large part of the problem. -Moderator 95

KBY is also a great yeshiva. It differs from Gush in that they spend less time on non-talmudic areas of Torah and that they’re American program is less fully integrated with the Israelis.

chinesefood: It signifies that he either likes genes, works in a blue collar trade, or both.

chavalman:

1- We are talking about a religious school with a dress code that enforces tznius.

2- We (we meaning Jews bichlal) do not threaten peoples’ lives if they do klap on the bima demanding longer skirts.

3- Right now we are talking about grown men physically attacking little girls. We can address your ankle fetish another time.

Because of the associations with the word, I try to avoid using “charedi” to describe any hashkafos. A chossid is a “blanker chossid” (or rebbe for that matter). A person who believes that full time learning is the ideal and attempts to follow it as long as possible would be “yeshivish.” A person who believes that there is a positive inyan to follow Eastern European Jewish culture is “heimish” etc. Charedi is a purely political distinction and does not denote anything good.

popa: Yeah, now I get you. Though I actually did have peyos behind my ears until I grew sideburns.

One of the surest ways to make people hate you, is to correct the baal korei while you have an aliya.

LOL! I did that once a few years ago. Thanks to that event, I am leining this shabbos.

Popa: I did it too. Do you remember whether you said v’achar kein or v’achrei chein?

always runs with scissors fast: No, it’s a halacha brought in RaMBa”M and shulchan aruch. RaMBaM recommends looking over the special prayers before yomtov so you can say them. The mechaber, writing after printing gives looking at a siddur as a second option in general.

I don’t know what kind of an answer you’re expecting since nobody here knows you or has experience as a mashpia/mashgiach.

Anyone who is working on their middos will just tell you what to do what they started with because “hey, why not? It worked for me.”

Anyone who isn’t has nothing useful to add but will probably open their mouths anyway.

BaalHabooze: Isn’t there a gemara in zevachim about that? One of Rabbeinu Hakadosh’s talmidim asked him the question, Rebbi threw him out saying it can’t happen and immediately afterwards a man came in with a two headed baby? Tosfos there quote a different gemara (no clue where, I don’t even remember where what daf the one in zevachim is on) which has an aggada about Shlomo HaMelech. An adult with two heads demanded two shares of his father’s yerusha. Shlomo threw hot water at one head and the other screamed, proving that he was one person and gets one chelek.

yitayningwut: Which gemara in chagiga? There are 30 something blatt and I only know the first perek.

According to Hazmana l’piyut (an Israeli database of piyyutim zmiros and Hebrew poetry from Elazar Hakalir to the acharonim) it came from Germany in the 13th century and while there are some who claim it wasn’t written for Channuka, most say that it was because in addition to the channuka verse the chorus is about channuka.

Some people are inconsistent about how they apply their own rules. Generally, it’s considered rude to point this fact out to them.

PS This is an exact duplicate of an old thread that I’m too lazy to look for. This is an exact duplicate of my response there as well.

Haleivi: Fair point about them not being able to reopen kesuvim. As for parei hachag, I have no clue what the cheshbon was. Kasha oif ah mayseh.

yitayningwut: According to sefarim from the period (that chazal left out of kesuvim for reasons we don’t know) they made it eight days because they couldn’t celebrate sukkos for several years and on the first channuka they actually brought the parei hachag, which incidentally explains Beis Shammai’s shita.

To quote a chavrusa I once had: It is muttar to sell your 6-year-old daughter to a 65-year-old abusive ???? ???? but if you do it you are still a rasha and you will still burn.

1- There is a minyan on bedford between Campus Rd. and Ave. I on the same block as the main entrance to campus.

2- Daven at the Hillel minyan at 1:45. We need the help when everyone has finals between 1 and 3

There’s your answer.

Can you follow the pace of your local daf yomi zogger?

There once was an old man from Esser

whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser

it at last grew so small

he knew nothing at all

and now he’s a college professor.

Happy finals week everyone.

chayiv inish levisumai.