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to popa, women have the same chiyuv as men and crying babies and talking children disturb women as much as men. I get upset when I see young children at women’s laining, the purpose of the second laining is that the children can stay at home presumably with the father and the women can hear the megillah. If fact it is easier if children go to the first laining because there they stop longer for haman and the children have an outlet, by the women’s laining they ususally go past haman with very little fanfare.
I am going to be dan chayav lecaf zechus and say that maybe the name is shared by a family. the name was probably chosen by a bochur but is used by anyone in the family who wants to comment. YWN does not allow multiple user names for the same email address and if the family shares one then they have to share coffee room logons also.
How about a mother for her kohanim sons?
what exactly are you asking?
not necessarily weird because not all cousins know each other well, but not very smart because of inter breeding.
although I agree someone should have stood, personally once the megilla starts i concentrate on every word so i don’t miss, i probably would not have noticed you unless you were standing right on top of me.
I think that the committees need to do a home visit. I think seeing how people live helps to know if a person is telling the truth.
Settlers of Catan also has the vote in our house. deiy.. i think you are talking about mancala. Another great game is Slapegories. It can be played by those of all ages, the bigger the group the better.
google daily deals, there is a site that lists maybe a 100 different sites daily deals I think it has dod in its name. Also amazon and ebay have daily deals.
mods, if you can verify that this is legit, maybe you can post an address and some of us can help.
get the hamodia on monday, it has the gemach listings some of which apply.
I too was a big chassidiste of Rabbi Blumenkrantz, I call many people for shailos including Bais Horaah either of monsey or lakewood who make it easy but lately for questions that require some understanding I have started calling Rabbi Viner from Monsey. Certain things about Rabbi Blumenkrantz that impressed me I feel are present in Rabbi Viner. It is not easy to find someone that you are comfortable calling, Hatzlocha.
it’s a brand new seminary
to all you knockers who are pulling your kids out of bybp, where are you putting them?! It’s hard to get into many of the other schools. Bybp still has 6 classes of approx. 30 kids in a grade with a full preschool feeding into the elementary school ba”h. Bybp is a community school with a mandate to accept all frum girls. Instead of rushing to pull your kids out why don’t you find out how to help. Maybe if parents would work on raising money as opposed to complaining about every penny the school requests things would be different.
to yogibooboo, sometimes kids have to travel on citibuses or trains to get to schools from 6th grade on. i am much more comfortable knowing that my child can reach me or someone else if necessary. When I spoke to the principal of a yeshivish type Flatbush yeshiva he agreed with me that it was okay if the phone had no internet or texting and would remain out of sight during yeshiva hours.
it’s even worse when people double park and you have to go on the hills of snow to pass.
sorry, but a bocher that is learning lishmah would not think himself deserving of overt shows of respect. look at stories of gedolim. When these yeshiva bochrim are at the levels of gedolim then they will deserve the respect you think they are owed now. btw, all people deserve basic respect be it yeshiva bocher or workings stiff.
health, sorry couldn’t find the thread for a few days. the unit is called the specialty unit. it’s privatly own by some frum guys and run by Dr. L. our experience there is over 2 years ago so maybe he has moved on since then. People only find out about this unit by word of mouth when they need it. It is called an LTAC unit. I don’t have enough good words to praise the care there, especially after the horrible experiences we had in 2 major manhattan hospitals.
yes, thank you
health, the specialty unit rents space from kimbal but is not part of kimbal, it has it’s own dr. and nursing staff that answer to Dr. L. I wish I had known it before because before my mother got admitted to the first major NY hospital someone told us a little about Dr. L. and our reaction was the same as yours, how can we possibly go to kimbal. Huge huge huge mistake! people need to research every unit individually!!! One reason we saw so many mistakes is because we had someone from the family sitting with my mother round the clock for many months until it became not doable and we had to hire help for overnight. We got to see what really happens and not what is written in charts or told over later. You truly would not believe what is considered acceptable today. I may come on strong but I and most of my family are literally traumatised by our experiences. all of us fear going to the hospital for any reason!
to new2thescene, I am pretty sure that this change if it happens will be the absolute detriment of Israel. the only change will be to radical muslim extremists. We all need to daven hard!!
health i don’t have time to write the experiences I personally observed and it would take hours to type them! one example, my mother was in a major hospital in nyc, one of the ones being raved about higher up. She was in the respiratory icu which should have nurses who are familiar with vents. The INCOMPETENT nurse accidentaly disconnected oxygen supply from the vent. When I pointed out the loose tube he looked around to see where it could possibly be coming from, he did not know what it was so he said it’s probably nothing. Shock of shocks, my mothers sat rates started dropping, i called the nurse in who could find no problem. They called the respiratory therapist who wanted to know who disconnected the oxygen. btw, the nurse is a regular on that unit, not a covering nurse. this was just one mistake in months of daily mistakes that ended up (al pi derech hateva) killing my mother. My mother ended up in the specialty unit in Kimbal Hospital under Dr. Lebovits, no one should ever need them but that is the most amazing place!!! i wish i could turn back time and have my mother have gone there first!!! I know it is not basherte but I think if she had gone there first she would have come home from the hospital. The medical care and the nursing care cannot be beat. btw, my mother went into the hospital originally for a short procedure and was supposed to go home. She was in the respiratory icu because of major mistakes made in the sicu. the mistakes in the sicu were so glaring but they would not let us speak to the drs and my mother was kept sedated. We were finally able to get another dr to take over the case and as soon as that dr saw what was going on she pulled rank and had my mother transfered to a different icu where the care was much better, but so much damage had already been done!
health, i am holding myself back from posting stories that can make your hair turn grey because i don’t want to seem negative when happiest is asking for positive experiences. to happiest, don’t take one person’s positive experience as a guarantee that you will be happy. In one of the above hospitals we had one amazing experience and one unbelievably terrible experience. Also in one of the above hospitals that someone is raving about i know so many horrible incidents there that people do not believe until it happens to them and it is too late. Every floor and shift in a hospital is different. if you need info find out about that specific unit! I wish I had known that before!!!
so cool that Gitta is a coffee room member!
I am excited about this topic because I have questions. My son is a lefty, We are kohanim. He is not a lefty for everything, he writes with his left hand, but he throws with his right. I think for fine motor skills he uses his left but for gross motor skills he uses his right, he is still pretty little so it hasn’t been an issue about tefillin yet, I’m curious though what the answer will be. Any ideas? btw, i have no issues whatsoever with the fact that he is left handed, I know a number of lefties and they are all super acheivers. My problem is that we are kohanim and being a lefty is considered a mum.(as far as I know)
Daniel, We are also in your shoes. Whatever all these other people say it is incredibly frustrating to be face this situation again and again. I am sure that there are many more people like us out there but i rarely bump into them. To Goq who keeps saying not to look, it is very hard when everying is out in the open. I know people who live on programs and they tell me when they are going on vacations because they need me to do favors for them while they are gone. one such person listed for me her menu of suppers, foods like chicken cutlets and steak are on their normal menu and their family is not small. This person calls herself poor but if you saw her house, two cars and met them in Israel it is hard to think of them as such. Please tell me who really doesn’t have, says the person who works to pay bills and worries all the time about covering expenses.
another issue you are not mentioning is the sense of entitlement that the children inherit. They expect that things will just be handed to them. This is one of my soapboxes. I could go on and on! I need to meet more people like Daniel so I don’t feel like a fool.
is the person who redt the shidduch a yiddish speaker? for people who speak yinlish or english sprinkled with yiddish, yeshivaleit is a way of referring to yeshivish people. if everything else sounds good maybe that’s what the person meant.
get one of the prepaid plans. for $30 you get 1200 minutes and 1200 text and for $40 you get unlimited of both. One very big advantage of this plan is that there are no hidden fees. you pay sales tax which is about 3 or 4 dollars but you don’t have the fees and taxes that add up to about $15 extra.
another answer that is a favorite response of teen agers “Whatever”
I would venture to say that not everyone has the same considerations as to what makes a store praiseworthy. I know there is one store listed here that I absolutely disagree with as I shop there all the time and find it a very unpleasant experience.
Another store that I like is Goldberg’s grocery in Boro Park. one big thing they do that many others do not is hire frum yidden. I like that the money I am spending is going to frum familes as opposed to many other stores where you find one maybe 2 frum people and the rest are non jewish workers who do not speak English.
for some reason we were that infamous forgotten block. When i left to work I couldn’t imagine how the schools were open because my block was so bad (they had plowed once but no blacktop was showing) but them i saw that everywhere else was pretty clear and it was just my block. Tonight they plowed and salted so maybe it will be better tomorrow.
ICOT I believe that fridge is short for refrigerator which is what the item is and not a brand name.
Holymoe you sound as if you are male and you say it was a woman who approached you. Many women who shop look around for the best price, I know it bothers me to buy something in one store and then see it a few minutes later in a different store for significantly less. It also bothers me that there is such a variety of prices for the exact same item being sold in similar locations such as on 13th ave. So this woman wanted to save you from feeling stupid by paying extra when it is easily available at a cheaper price. You may not care but there are many of us who do. you do not say what type of item it is, but sometimes the difference in price is very significant.
English Basics, very pleasant to shop and a good return policy. Schwartz’s shoes, they have decent prices so they have very long lines but they are super patient and give you as much time as you need with no pressure. Very mentchlach.
it seems to me to be a certain politeness, good manners or something like that. Most of us are in a rush and use whatever shortcuts we can, they are more formal and correct.
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if this is true and not a joke why don’t you call it chesed instead of tzedakah and help out as many yidden as you can. If it gives you pleasure to give you’re probably allowed to give as much as you can. There are tens of thousands of families that are not what you would consider tzedakah cases but could use a helping hand. Absorbing some tuitions or helping pay for camp or even just a small gift to spend on themselves because there is never any money left over to buy themselves a gift would give struggling people such an emotional lift! Also I wouldn’t go around advertising such problems, there are many of us who spend big chunks of our waking hours and the hours we should be sleeping worrying how to have enough to cover expenses. We should all be lucky enough to have your problem!
most hat stores have cheaper lines of hats. Yaacov, if you still need help I am willing to pay part of the hat, Mods. please give yaacov my email address if he requests it. thanx
right away. it will make them feel good and you will have someone you don’t have to keep it a secret from. also if you’re wife doesn’t feel so well they will understand and help out.
try the hamodia gemach list on monday’s. there are many organizations that help out in such a matzav.
from what in brooklyn, most girls elementaries are closed, boys in the lower grades have no school and boys in the upper grades have yeshiva, girls high schools are not sure yet, some closed some say call and some are open. I do not know about the boys high schools.
a credit card builds up credit which can help you in the future, It’s difficult to buy a house without a credit history. You can also get very good rewards such as cash that can help you.
I don’t have patience to read all the comments but the fact that the wig on the reciept is for a long sheitel is meaningless, I buy long sheitlach and cut them down into short sheitlach. Also maybe the couple was quiet because they were in an embarrassing situation and they did not want to look worse on tv, maybe they were warned before to be quiet when the judge was speaking. I don’t think anyone would agree to go on tv for a small case like this if they were lying, why take the chance of being caught and having to deal with the embarrassment?
from what I’ve heard, BYBP built a new building because they needed the space. a large chunk of money that they thought was committed did not end up coming through which left them in a huge hole that in this economy they are having a very difficult time trying to climb out of.
like aries, nothing against it but no
sister bear, i am probably much older than you and have learned that sometimes you just have to back off. i used to get over involved in peoples problems and would bend over more than backward to try to help them. sometimes people do not really want to change or do things differently and they just want everyone around them to tell them how bad they have it instead of trying to change things for the better. i’ve learned to try to listen and be available but not to take it so to heart because the only one who can effect change is the one with the problem. sometimes i’ve had to take myself totally out of the picture because i knew nothing would change and i couldn’t take watching it.
there are a bunch of pre paids now that offer exactly that. you can get 1200 minutes a month (not sure about texting) for $30. the best part is that you only pay sales tax and not the bunch of fees that you need to pay with a plan. Hi tech 2000 in bp has such a plan and walmart does too. i’m pretty sure you can get walmart’s online.
i personally cannot stand the taste of wine, i would imagine that if the women had to drink wine they probably drank the minimum shiurim.
flatbush is composed of 4 or 5 neighborhoods, not just midwood.