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  • in reply to: Tu B'Av – & Dancing #709308
    Josh31
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    “perhaps because the recent fast (in the case of Tu B’Av) ‘

    By the 6th day after the fast, it is not so recent.

    When the temple stood, the 9th of Av was not a fast day.

    There are many sources besides “Tu B’Av” that show that the stringencies of modern day Chassidus were not the norm throughout the vast majority of our history.

    Chassidus is not for everyone, and non-Chassidic paths of keeping Torah and Mitzvos must be available to any child who does not connect to Chassidus.

    in reply to: Fathers and brothers dancing with the Kallah #709242
    Josh31
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    “Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 152-13”

    The Kitzur is known to very stringent in such matters.

    Please bring a more middle of the road source.

    in reply to: Amnesty: Prosecute Bush If He Authorized Waterboarding #713750
    Josh31
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    The Hard Left wants to criminalize defending this country.

    They also treat earning too much money as a crime.

    On the other hand, some mean spirited cities and states try to criminalize the poor with draconian fines.

    in reply to: Dose of reality: Kids kicked out of school #709006
    Josh31
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    The reality is that we the Jewish people were assigned Israel, in the middle of civilization, and not Tibet to develop as a nation.

    Hence, total insularity is not an option.

    in reply to: College #708108
    Josh31
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    Engineering and accounting lead to decent jobs with just a Bachelor’s degree.

    Having a degree in a field with strong demand gives you a lot of leverage when Shabbos / Yom Tov issues come up.

    in reply to: Dose of reality: Kids kicked out of school #709002
    Josh31
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    “you can wipe out a whole class of kids in a short amount of time”

    “I dont have any solution and if you have one please provide it.”

    Based upon this, even the most insulated communities in Yerushalayim and Bnei Brak are lost causes, unless you close them off and make everyone pass thru a metal detector to enter.

    Only solution:

    Set up a frum community at the base of the highest mountains of the world.

    in reply to: How Many Screen Names? #708173
    Josh31
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    I missed several.

    Just look at the “Couples Having Shabbos Guests” thread!!!

    in reply to: Sick and tired of spoiled cholov yisroel milk #708321
    Josh31
    Participant

    “we have both cholov yisroel and cholov stam in my house

    there is no difference in how long they last

    both last for weeks”

    WOW!!! The Lechem HaPanim only had to last 9 days.

    Nissim Geluim

    Only those who Mamash have miracles in their homes get to be moderators.

    in reply to: How Many Screen Names? #708167
    Josh31
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    Moshe Rose, like the original Moshe has 7.

    mw13, helpful, Ben Torah, WellInformedYid, Kasha, Joseph and of course mosherose

    in reply to: Couples Having Shabbos Guests #707993
    Josh31
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    holy brother, this sounds like Moshe Rose.

    in reply to: Dressing More Professionally at work(schools) #708470
    Josh31
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    A few weeks ago we had complaints about hats, now snoods.

    Someone must be heavily invested in the Shaitel business.

    However, if you are married and before a judge as a Tax Certiorari trying to get a property assesed at $300 Million down to $270 Million then nothing less than a $3000 Shaitel will do. Think Sacrilege in a few years IY”H!!!

    in reply to: Over-Educated Girls #712974
    Josh31
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    The essential pre-requisite for any discussion of the ideal of women being at home is a large supply of frum men ready and able to fully support their families from the wedding day on.

    The harsh reality for frum women now is that they must get as strong an education (parnasah related) as possible in order to survive with any dignity.

    in reply to: Dressing More Professionally at work(schools) #708437
    Josh31
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    Based upon what preschool teachers are paid snoods may be all they can afford.

    in reply to: Dose of reality: Kids kicked out of school #708908
    Josh31
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    Sometimes kids get kicked out because they could not keep up with the recent rapid shift to the right and greater insularity.

    in reply to: Malchus Yisro'el #707532
    Josh31
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    We are a nation of shared national experiences starting with the Exodus, not based upon a single prophet or philosopher. I am sure that shortly after the Exodus and the Giving of the Torah someone could have written a brilliant work showing how everything that happened was the work of the “Dark Side”.

    in reply to: Over-Educated Girls #712916
    Josh31
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    You graduate from a good law school $120K in debt and if you are a good student you will be offered jobs that pay $40 per hour that they expect you to work. However, only jobs expecting either 1000 hours or 4000 hours of solid work per year will be offered.

    WELCOME TO THE SWEATSHOP

    in reply to: NY-LA via Coach Bus, only one seat left on each #785740
    Josh31
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    “only one gender per bus”

    We are now up to 6 buses in all.

    At the first rest stop the two MO buses stop and allow families to re-unite before proceeding.

    in reply to: Rav Moshe Feinstein: Prohibition of social dating #705715
    Josh31
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    Why is mosherose considered “Defender of the Faith” when half his posts are against a major Torah encouraged institution called “marriage”.

    Josh31
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    “enough baloney in the original post to keep us all fleishig”

    Who is HaRav HaMachshir on this balony???

    The Republicans also believe in uplifting the poor; but not with draconian taxes that will:

    a) drive hundreds of billions in capital out of the country;

    b) create massive tax avoidance (legal) and evasion (illegal);

    and c) really slow down the economy.

    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705546
    Josh31
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    Still winning the American League Championship with a team with a $54 Million payroll is a much bigger accomplishment than not winning it with a $206 Million payroll!!!

    in reply to: Mi Sheberach for Tzahal #707167
    Josh31
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    “They caused this danger that now requires protection from.”

    I did not know that we had a Navi (prophet) in the CR.

    “When’s the last time we made a mishabeirach for the American army?”

    Our prayer for the welfare of the state does include a prayer for the Armed Forces.

    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705542
    Josh31
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    This just shows how lousy the team they smeared last week was.

    in reply to: leaving shul early? daven earlier! #703706
    Josh31
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    Moshe Rose has to be in this thread…

    in reply to: Your theory what Mosherose true motivation is? #704432
    Josh31
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    Last night was Monday and MR usually posts then. He is posting under another name, perhaps???

    Hopefully he will develop a more positive attitude towards an institution much valued by the Torah – marriage.

    in reply to: New Members? #900639
    Josh31
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    New incarnations of Moshe Rose…

    in reply to: VOTE! who would you like to see a street named after in jerusalem? #703578
    Josh31
    Participant

    Moshe Rose

    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705538
    Josh31
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    I tried editing “I can only try”s posting, but it does not come through.

    On second to last line the “(” needs to be moved to the left of the “:”.

    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705537
    Josh31
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    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705535
    Josh31
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    Thread closed by Moderator Colby Lewis and the rest of the Rangers. 6 to 1

    in reply to: Chicken Soup, Friday Night? #702924
    Josh31
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    20 hours to chicken soup!!!

    Knowing there is chicken soup Friday evening helps energize the last 3 work days of the work week.

    in reply to: Kollel and Shiduchim #702994
    Josh31
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    Fabie’s OP on this thread shows that learning can not be done in a vacuum.

    If your learning is being done when you you have obligations to your wife and / or daughters and / or sons; and by learning you default on these obligations; you have not fulfilled the Mitzvah of learning.

    in reply to: Hasgochos on brocha? #703372
    Josh31
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    I doubt kashrus certifying agencies review the packaging writing and pictures at all. They probably just give permission to use their trademark based upon the food content. This time of the year there are candies with both pictures of goblins and reliable kashrus marks.

    in reply to: What does it take to be a ben torah? #704065
    Josh31
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    The term “Ben Torah” implies such a high level of service to G-d and piety, that it should not be used to praise the living.

    in reply to: Chicken Soup, Friday Night? #702921
    Josh31
    Participant

    44 hours to chicken soup!!!

    in reply to: Chicken Soup, Friday Night? #702904
    Josh31
    Participant

    Less than 3 days to chicken soup!!!

    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705520
    Josh31
    Participant

    Later today (it is already past midnight) the Rangers pitcher who pitches the ninth inning should be granted temporary YWN Moderator status to close this thread!!!

    That is why he is called a CLOSER.

    in reply to: An important lesson from last weeks parsha for married people #702533
    Josh31
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    Near beginning of second chapter of Kidushin: It is prohibited for a man to marry a woman until he sees her, lest he find her unappealing and come to violate VeAhavta L’Raiecha Kamocha.

    in reply to: Approriate Attire For Shul #702389
    Josh31
    Participant

    Minhag HaMakom rules!!!

    But shuls need to accommodate outsiders.

    In New York, that means a good inventory of jackets in all sizes.

    In this Southwestern city there has to be a good selection of Hawaiian shirts.

    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705518
    Josh31
    Participant

    8-0: The Rangers will be closing this thread soon.

    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705516
    Josh31
    Participant

    Wrong, Friday night was a fluke and Saturday was merely the better team winning.

    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822551
    Josh31
    Participant

    “Josh, we want freedom to operate within our religion.”

    What did I write that made you think I was limiting freedoms?

    Only item I wrote about was my fear of animal rights zealots.

    What does marriage have to do with shechita and meat. The only possibility is that the government starts recognizing marriages involving animals. Fortunately that is not on the agenda of either party.

    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822543
    Josh31
    Participant

    “Judaism is sensitive to animal rights too.”

    Do you want the government enforcing animal rights with the same zeal as human rights?

    The Torah standard is not to cause animals unneeded pain, we are allowed to kill them when needed. The term animal welfare is more appropriate.

    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705512
    Josh31
    Participant

    6 of the 7 scheduled World Series games will be during Night Seder!!!

    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822540
    Josh31
    Participant

    “sympathetic to causes like shechita”

    The problems come from those who are too sympathetic to animal rights.

    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822538
    Josh31
    Participant

    Civil Rights Act of 1964 was very much a true bipartisan achievement.

    Both parties have changed drastically in the past 50 years.

    Still in 2010 being a blatant racist of any type will get you kicked out of both parties.

    In 2010 anti Israel and anti Jew sentiment has found a home in the far left.

    in reply to: Republicans Vs. Democrats #822536
    Josh31
    Participant

    “but Leket, Peah, Shich’chah, and Maaser Oni — to remind prospective converts that the world belongs to HaShem, not to us.”

    None of these 4 gifts go through the hands of any bureaucrat.

    It is an interesting question why prospective converts are informed about these Mitzvot when they do not get a portion in the land to farm.

    Perhaps it is to assure them that they will not starve if they convert?

    The “talk” given to would be converts contains warnings of negative consequences, but also also positive consequences.

    This belongs on another thread…

    in reply to: 2010 Yankees Post Season #705510
    Josh31
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    A long post season for the Yankees will cause a lot of Bitul Torah. The Texas Rangers will be shutting down this Bitul Torah quickly.

    in reply to: Why do some wives (newlyweds) act like Mashgichim to their husbands? #701919
    Josh31
    Participant

    For some of the more right wing male posters here I am actually hoping they find real rich Shidduchin with a father in law guaranteeing support for 10 years such that neither the Kollel guy nor his wife need to work. This way each right wing poster can have his full time personal Mashgiach for 10 years!!!

    in reply to: Why do some wives (newlyweds) act like Mashgichim to their husbands? #701917
    Josh31
    Participant

    In some cases I suspect the new wife is holding him to the same standards of Hasmodah (diligence in learning) and zeal in Avodas HaShem that he was “marketed” to have.

    In other cases he is being held to the same standards of perfection that she and her high school classmates were held to.

    in reply to: Staying in Beis Medrash vs. Getting a Degree #699531
    Josh31
    Participant

    “High school graduates are adults.”

    But parents are obligated to guide their children regardless of age.

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