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Amen.
*Insert joke about gadolatry here*
popa: You mean baleibatim know stuff 馃檪
tzaddiq: Look the pasuk up again. The word Haman doesn’t appear.
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Given the way our local trolls operate, they are clearly working in a hothouse not a freezer.
Citibike is an abomination. It is assur, and against the Torah.
I would get in my weekly chillul shabbos by stirring the cholent on Friday night to get all the meat that sunk to the bottom.
I would get around the prohibition against learning Torah by only learning my chavrusa’s svarot (hope he doesn’t see this).
Sam2: You are part of the problem! Reshaim is a masculine plural. FOR SHAME!!
Women of the Wall is an Oynesh midda k’negged middah for the frum oylem’s insisntence on using awful dikduk and havara b’meyzid l’hachis. As proof I cite the worst of their sins — that they call themselve’ n’shot hakotel instead of n’shei. What in heaven’s name is a n’shot?
I sing ?? ?? ?????? …
mobico: Which version of the double dalet does he use?
According to Toi, getting hammered is only a mitzvah if you sit on your hat after you drink, not before.
just my happence: You lose your discworld points because we changed fandoms.
I tie a single dalet because my father does though the fact that the Rambam says the knot is “square like a dhol” and that two communities known for best preserving ancient minhagim in both Ashkenaz and the Mideast use the double seems to suggest that was the original custom. It is interesting to note that the Yemenite/Yekke double dalet is tied differently than the Hungarian one. It has been suggested that the Hungarian knot changed because the inside of the Yekke/Yemenite double dalet looks like a cross.
Charlie: ^This.
Reb Yerachmiel: While I haven’t (yet) done business with you, I’d like to compliment you on your site. The educational materials are a very nice touch.
Regarding holding the knot in place, another trick I’ve seen is to stuff a small piece of retzua into the ma’abarta. Never done it though because I’m always afraid it will fall out.
There are, however, more than one Hebrew word for pleasure. If you call it pleasure instead of fun does that make it holier?
There is no reason not to buy tefillin online if you do your due diligence. There are a number of reliable soferim who have websites you can purchase from. I have no affiliation with any of the sites as a customer to some of them.
I too can vouch for hasofer.com. The owner is a talmid chochom as well as a professional and known as an authority on STA”M shailos.
Tefillin Beit El is a relatively (safrus is by it’s nature a cottage industry) large operation with an excellent reputation for quality. They also offer free shipping which is a significant bonus if you’re in Scandinavia. A word of professional advice: though Beit-El recommends the “chofetz chaim” knot, most soferim and batim-machers don’t because it puts heavy stress on the ma’abarta. Ask them to fasten the knot with a gid instead.
torahscroll.com is the website of a senior sofer named Yitzchok Reisman. My own STA”M teacher remembers hearing of him as a veteran magiha 30+ years ago. There is no order form on his website and the site is kind of thin in general but he does have contact information.
OOM: Ganesh is a Hindu idol shaped like a six-legged elephant sometimes depicted with an extra trunk. Your friend’s parents probably didn’t know that, she probably should.
As any serious student of art knows, “Modern” ended in the 70’s. We are now all postmodern Orthodox Jews, though my own Orthodoxy still tends to show some dadaist tendencies.
You act like you believe i.e. keep halacha, do mitzvos, daven like you mean it not just like you’re expected to be seen in shul. Just “faith” without doing anything is a Christian concept.
mr: For a change, I second WIY. Emunah comes through practice. I would add that it is important to remember that while when we daven we talk to God, when we learn that is God talking back (Rav Soloveichik). Try learning sefarim on emunah in particular and Torah in general that discusses emunah. Haazinu is more than a segulah for Emunah, it is Moshe’s own mussar shmooze on Emunah. Many chapters of tehillim are also David’s teachings of Emunah. Try reading these perakim both simply and with mefarshim.
popa: You’re assuming everyone is competent.
Chalilah!
If you eat matza brei you are clearly a sheigetz and shouldn’t be making brachos anyway.
OOM: Both.
I’m currently reading I shall wear midnight
The joke was too easy. Everyone knows you can do better so we’re leaving this one alone.
This is true. Especially the yeshiva guys who think they’re daykanim.
In my shul we give hagba to the nebbachs, but we have a good reason. We only give it to the one particular nebbach who forgets that he has to bentch gomel until after the last aliya was called up.
Correction: It’s b’ras with a patach. I checked Jastrow.
Gamanit: Yeshiva bocherim who don’t know yiddish attempt to speak it anyway all the time. I know it’s painful to listen to (even for bad yiddish speakers like myself) but it happens.
I use seeds.
I have good friends for whom there is no heter for me to drink wine with and I’ve never had any problem. Beer tastes good too.
Don’t worry, the yeshiva is full of likeminded shkotzim.
Maskilishe grammar nitpick: I’m pretty sure ??? is given a chirik and shva nach in Aramaic similar to bint in Arabic.
My honor student beat up your kid and trashed your car when he saw that sticker.
Why should it be, first?
I last learned challa about six months ago and I’m pretty sure tevel refers to terumah gedola. That is definitely the colloquial usage. Either way, keep ’em coming. Your troll threads are the only reason I still frequent this place. (That and the discworld thread) The politics are aggravating and now that I’m learning full time, I don’t need to come here for halacha arguments.
You have a strange definition of “fit.”
talmud: What a helpful and informative post.
Booze is chametz.
rebdoniel: I hope so, but it probably isn’t.
No, because teruma gedola was either taken or not necessary. He’s shoretz ugzeilat hakohen b’yado. But then the pun is nowhere near as good, so tevel b’yado it is.
It doesn’t fit. Then again, when did that ever stop a chazzan?
Is this the mekor for sending your mother-in-law to a nursing home?
Thanks to you when my kids are in school, they’ll be told this story as if it were true. All because of some ibberchochom and his audience who didn’t get the joke.
Gaiman wrote The Doctor’s Wife?
Explains a lot.
Delurking just for this. I don’t remember how many I’ve read though.
Army surplus. Pick your favorite army, most of them have issued black boots at some point in recent history.