Grandmaster: yes, they should. Clothing is a big part of group identification. I don’t like it, but it’s a fact. Even the halacha provides for it with regulations on how big your kipa has to be, etc.

Re the choylem: The Mislol, written by a grandson of the Tosfos Yom Tov. (I confess that it’s the only dikduk sefer that I’ve actually learned through a large section) and a psak from my rebbi who is a baal kria and reads with an Oh cholem, as does his rebbi, Rav Yisroel Belsky.

rescue37: technically, yes. Simchas Torah is also technically the second day of shmini atzeres.

Am I the only one who finds the way this was phrased slightly condescending? I may be overreacting but it seems that the title implies “should the superior ashkenazim condescend to go out with inferior sefardim?”

Chicken tops cubed

1 can stewed tomatoes

Onions

Garlic

3 tablespoons olive oil

green spices to taste

Cover large skillet with olive oil. Put in other ingredients. Simmer till doen. Serve over spaghetti. I haven’t made it in a while so I forgot how long it takes.

People need causes. For some people God and His Torah aren’t enough so they have to find something else. Preferably something that allows them to express their hatred for the Jewish people. Weberman v’siyato found the perfect solution — Tehran.

I would. Do you have someone?

Daas: If they did, that would cause a shortage of sefardi boys. Then since the boys from both groups are marrying ashkenazi girls, who would the sefardi girls marry?

Exercise.

Heptane or hexane? Doesn’t make much of a difference, just a coupla carbons give or take.

You know, that’s a very good question. Why are all the rabbinic seminaries around the world called yeshivas?

I don’t like the music, but no one can deny that it brought a lot of people closer to Judaism, whether “just” lighting a menorah or something more permanent.

Just a halakhic caveat: The original song being parodied is kol isha so men should not go looking for it on youtube unless they use the minority heter for recorded music.

I daven before shkia. It helps that there are two mincha gedola minyanim at my college but at times I have had to stop in the middle of the street and find a wall to face.

One of my rebbeim is a talmid of the Rov of the Aish Kodesh shul in Woodmere.

He became chasidish at YU partially under the influence of one of the Roshei Yeshiva, Rabbi Reichman. I don’t know about the Aish Kodesh Rov, even his name escapes me at the moment.

In my books a vort is only a nice vort if there is a solid idea behind it. Ich bin nisht nispoel fun shalsheedis toyres. 🙂 It was very good.

I guess you could say “I saw online.” It’s about as specific as “shtayt in seforim”

You could also set fire to the hall by leaving some flowers on the chosson/kallah’s table *flat on top of a glass containing a lit candle. Actually happened last night. Thank God the stems were green and the chosson noticed before anything caught.

I didn’t know that about the shoes. Guess I don’t stare.

Nice vort.

Two of my closest friends got married last night (to each other). The shtick was almost entirely private jokes. One thing that the kallahs friends did (which I didn’t see) was to put letters on sticks so that six of them would spell out “??? ??? ” and dance out the words.

Where is local for you?

In BP, shomrei shabbos. Just hang out outside and ask; it’s known as a ride gemach as well as a minyan factory. In flatbush, R’ Landau’s. THere is a sign up sheet in the lobby where people offering rides and people needing rides post their contact info and the date/time they’re going.

…sukka yeshana psula and all pesach cleaning would be done on b’dikas chometz night.

In my house we don’t start until after purim.

Lipa made a pretty good song out of that phenomenon.

Ah freilechen purim.

Part of the reason is that people often mistake the majority in decibels for the majority in numbers. They think that all Breslovers are nanachs. The other part of it is that there was a lot of opposition to Rabbi Nachman’s work due to the content.

I’m a guy who left yeshiva and went to college to become a better yid.

Mod-80: chabad.org has the moznaim translation of the Yad on line. Here is the link to the chapter gavra quoted:

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/968259/jewish/Chapter-3.htm

BTW, while we’re on the issue of kashrus of cheese, some of the more learned members might be able to clear something up. Until relatively recently, all cheese was made with animal based rennet, including kosher cheese. All rishonim and acharonim paskened that rennet was muttar because it was broken down to the point that it was no longer meat and hence not subject to basar b’chalav (I seem to recall seeing this inside in yoreh deah 87 somewhere but I could be wrong). If so, why do kosher cheeses now use only vegetable rennet?

hello and pba: what about if only a carapace (a piece of the fly’s wing) falls in? They are almost transparent. Do we say that theoretically it can be removed? Or do we say that it can’t be seen? Just talking off the top of my head I would say that something that thin would dissolve anyway, but I wouldn’t give the food to somebody based on that svara. What do you think?