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Thanks for the link, mod. The more seforim I know of online the easier it is to learn when I’m at a computer.
Jastrow is more complete and has more thorough etymology which helps you understand the language.
I am. I may end up marching twice.
mdd: Who died and made you God?
600kilobear: I’d look, but I don’t use anything from the vaad hakanoim on principle, from shechita to psak I don’t touch it 😉
My car is Shomer Shabbos
Ah, but is the sunroof made out of black velvet?
Brains are for baiting zombies.
Sometimes if the paint was half dry and didn’t really set in you can flick it off with a razor blade (be careful not to cut the fabric). If not nail polish remover will work but too much will destroy the fabric.
Charging the shadchan 50$ is letting them off easy. I’d demand 50% that way I could afford enough beer for the dates.
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
–Mark Twain
observanteen: As cliched as it sounds, I know someone who went OTD whose Rosh Yeshiva described him as “a mind you find once in a generation.” He now works a low end retail job and has no intellectual pursuits in kodesh or chol.
Start with your own. Most people have a few. Just make sure that when you tell them your audience doesn’t know it’s about you.
Mother in Israel: Yup.
popa: Do you have a son in shidduchim?
esther: You don’t want to know. Trust me.
Understand: My guess is if Jewish they will become baalei teshuva, if not they will become geirim, or lehavdil Muslims or a mind control cult. They’ll spend their lives looking for anything that will give them more order.
It all depends on the setting. If her drinking shows she’s irresponsible such as if she’s driving (yes, it is possible) or somewhere where you just don’t do it like any public property, where it’s illegal, that would be an automatic “no.” Otherwise, it’s up to how she drinks (moderately is ok, 3 boiler makers is NOT) and how far she lets herself go (the less the better, obviously).
observanteen: In my experience it is the brightest kids who don’t fit the mold because their minds need to move, which the “system” doesn’t let. The smartest person I know is off the derech for that reason.
Josh: That’s part of the problem. If you switch communities you are off the derech to many people.
Accidentally stepping on a sidewalk chalk drawing is not a show of disdain. I think you should stop beating up on yourself.
It also includes “being recognizable in the way he does business” implying that he does.
Let’s keep this going. It’s an interesting subject since there are so many Hebrew words in English and vice versa.
You didn’t harm her. The practice of writing Haman’s name on our shoes shows our disdain for him and our wish that his name be erased. It’s not a magical charm or anything, so you don’t have to worry about causing her harm. If you’re worried about her feeling bad, I’d tell you not to because I’ve never yet seen a kid who minded what happened to the sidewalk chalk after she went inside.
observanteen: You’re begging the question. If people go off the derech because of bad friends (and plenty do, everyone in our age group knows at least one Hashem Yerachem) what made the first group go off? There’s always more than one cause.
Pardes is a word that came into Hebrew from the greek.
Pac: Given the amount of nonsense and outright evil in our communities today, the FFB have more of a reason to leave. The fact that more don’t is evidence for the true Torah underneath it all.
Pac: He can be better than you or me without being observant.
BSD: That’s because English and Yiddish are both Germanic languages.
oomis: According to my uncle, who’s a drummer and actually taught music at the college level it comes from American Jewish swing and Jazz musicians in the 20’s.
deiyezooger: Because English got it from Arabic which got it from Hebrew. If they allowed outside links I’d link to trees of the Indo-European and Semitic language families.
And God made all those languages derivative? To use a language that is related to Hebrew, ????? ?????
I smell a sock puppet.
Do you really think all languages came from Hebrew? If so, why?
charlie: I know plenty of people who have both, but only one frum family who does.
Popa, you’re probably right. At my age (21) it’s not good to get too upset.
According to the mishna brurah and orech hashulchan you do. Chayei adam doesn’t say.
Popa, that’s not the whole issue. It’s them representing the obligation of a husband to support a moised as more obligatory than his obligation to support his wife.
In theory you can replace your programmable thermostat with the old one every erev shabbos but I doubt it’s worth the hassle.
It’s only chinuch if what they’re teaching is right.
Controversial troll post of the day: Does the lag baomer bonfire come from Beltaine?
You’re right, he wore techeles which is identical to kele ha’ilan which is the dye that was originally used for jeans. (Most now use a synthetic dye.)
J’s witlesses are an offshoot of a millenial cult from about that time though closer to 130. That’s why I mentioned them.
I think OP was asking why people look down on women who cover their hair with something other than a wig.
Don’t try to apply logic to this. Won’t work.
Sometimes it pays to offend people so badly they don’t want to talk to you anymore. Just saying.
mike: If this was a halachic issue, there would be a siman in shulchan aruch with shiurim.
Josh: Didn’t the Kohen Gadol wear Indian linen on yom kippur? Just trying to steer this thread towards something worthwhile.
Therre are so many Israelis in Brooklyn that there is no excuse for not knowing at least *some* Hebrew if you live there.
Zach: If we’re thinking of the same guy, he still does. They’re called Jeh*vah’s witlesses. 😉 I don’t like using the word “eschatology” for these nutjobs because I’ve most often seen it in connection with the nevi’im achronim and the aggada about our Mashiach.
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PS: Mods can I get a subtitle change? I’d like it to read “shelo asani frummak” Thanks.
Cholent guy: You’re welcome. 🙂
ursula: It has nothing to do with racial politics. Simply put, Egypt is a nation state that had plenty to lose after a second ?? ? ???? ??? ?????? (which, while not as open as the first, was still a nes.) The palestinians were not a nation then and didn’t lose a war. Furthermore, they are kept from joining any arab country precisely so that they will see destroying Israel as the solution to all their problems.
Cholent guy: Don’t delude yourself. Hamas’s charter doesn’t say push Israel into the sea. It says “push the JEWS into the sea.”
mischiefmaker: Theyr’e all imitating the lower sort of false prophet from the middle ages, the kind that was more concerned with scansion than accuracy so all their prophecies went something like:
Unto an end the world shall come
in umpty tumpty tumpty one.
(Ten points if anyone can guess which novel I stole that one from.)
Popa: Sadly, some of the psukim around there also apply.
Pac-Man: Exactly. Our morality comes from the Torah, not from your fashion sense. (Especially if you really are a pac-man not Pac-woman.)
I’m going to keep my beard again. I began to miss it the last few months.
yeshivabochur: No, you need miktzas hayom k’kulo just like any last day of aveilus.
and call people who don’t “trashy”, and look down on them- which you do. (And be ???? on baal tosif by pretending it is halacha)
Popa, that is a very important point. By pretending it’s halacha they commit bal tosif. By looking down on people who don’t keep this “halacha” they are m’galeh da’as that this shita supercedes other, real, halachos. That’s what I was talking about when I posted earlier that it’s sometimes a mitzva d’oraisa to wear jeans. The exact lashon can be found in Devarim 7:5.