I did that the second time.

I’ll believe people are serious about bayis shlishi when they start making chaburos for the korban pesach.

Wolf, charliehall, and popa.

OK, it seems that “yagdil torah v’ya’adir” applies to rehashing the starbucks topic as much as anything else. 🙂

I have a new question. I don’t drink Starbucks often because they’re more expensive than the coffee I bring from home or that I can get at a grocery store. So my shayla for R’ Popa is as follows: Is the inyan of ?????? ???? counted as a mitzva where there is a mitzva of hiddur mitzva ad shlish that would obligate me to spend more money to patronize starbucks and make loud brachos where people who don’t would see me?

(For those who have trouble recognizing satire, this is it.)

IIRC the mechaber brings it too.

Does everyone have their Korban Pesach chaburos ready?

Last year we did “why does the haggada go through the story twice?” It was an interesting discussion because it turns out to be a machlokes rav and Shmuel about what the chiyuv of sippur yetzias mitzrayim is, and we discussed which shita each paragraph was there for.

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Hakol TOv: That’s right. I am not mekabel that gedolim, or any Jew for that mattter, said that it is assur to save lives.

Mother in Israel: And anyone who says that those concerns outweigh saving lives is almost exactly the gemara’s definition of a chosid shoteh.

Derech Hamelech: I think I know the sefer you’re talking about; it’s called ???? ???? ???. While I’ve never learned it I’ve picked it up a couple of times. It’s a book on the beauty of beards as the “tzura” of a Jewish face and their importance in kaballa. It’s written by a Lubavitcher chossid and mentions the Tzemach Tzeddek’s shita which seems to me to be a big chiddush. Also, if I’m not mistaken the concept of chutim as conduits for bracha refer to it emanating down from the sfiros but then again I don’t claim to know any kaballa that isn’t in a chumash sefer.

I’m a college computer science student looking to make professional contacts for after I graduate. I’d love to go to the conference but I’d need some kind of school or private sponsorship. How much is the minyan worth to you? 😉

Derech HaMelech: I heard that the beard is associated with the chutim through which bracha come down to a person. I’ve also seen in various places that the Ramchal himself did not have a beard though it isn’t known whether he couldn’t grow one or he deliberately removed it like other Jews in Italy.

Less than once a week.

Women do have a chiyuv to daven but according to many opinions you do not have to follow nusach and according to all opinions you do not have to make the zman.

Rancher: I once saw a very good painting of the kohen gadol walking between the two curtains in Bayis Sheni on Yom Kippur. I can remember how his face looked in the painting and it helps me focus.

deiyezooger: A female has a chiyuv to daven. It is following nussach and zman that she doesn’t have to do.

My rebbi once told me the following about hachanos: they aren’t only for before davening. They’re to help you focus properly and whenever you feel the need to focus, stop gather yourself and continue. Personally I use a picture to focus on in my mind.

popa: you also need to be careful that it isn’t someone who is choosing to wear clothing that will prevent people from classifying him accurately because he’s uncomfortable with the idea.

Wolf: Is there any frame of reference for that pasuk (e.g. when ploni died or was born or something) to place it as being said 120 years before the mabul or does the reasoning work the other way?

mosherose: So you’re saying no one can live past 120 and chazal back that up? Interesting.

Am I the only guy on this thread? I write poetry, some in Hebrew some in E

English but I’m not posting any.

No, I mean exactly what I said. It’s not exactly a complex shaila given that we pasken that hekdesh is chal today and we can’t touch it.

How does talking about meat sandwiches imply chelev is ok?

popa: people talk about meat because they know about meat. Now I ask you, what about kosher food that was bought with kodshei bedek habayis b’zman hazeh?

I just yiddishized my first and middle names.

To clarify, what I said before is assuming your patent has already been granted. When your patent is granted it means that the patent office is suitably convinced that your invention is “unobvious” meets the “prior art” requirements etc. I’m kind of fuzzy on what you have to provide and what they review though.

Probably because nobody here has ever applied for a patent. Just like every other young geek, I have followed patent law debates and various high-profile suits but never applied for one myself, so I only have some vague theoretical knowledge.

The only part I can answer for sure is your question about “unobvious.” There is no standard, but the burden of proof is on the company manufacturing your product to prove that it was obvious. IOW, when you sue them they have to prove that it was obvious to the point that it occured to them on their own without having looked at your designs.

If you have specific questions along the way, I recommend you try onstartups.stackexchange.com. The stackexchange model is great for getting good answers quickly and they have sites for a lot of different topics.

I’m not sure who Rabbi Jablinowitz is, but Rabbi Aviner’s Ateret Yerushalayim is also known (formerly known?) as Ateret Cohanim.

I know a guy who got married at the Botanical Gardens. No “shmorg” and everyone took a bus up to Crown heights for the meal.