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If I do know what it is, then what’s the point in wasting ad money?
I was responding to this part of your question.
truthsharer- why does the Coca-Cola company spend so much on advertising? Advertising works. When you’re looking for something, that brand will come to mind.
I say we play foot-the-ball
jewishfeminist02- someone actually explained that one to me once, and now it makes perfect sense. It means you want to eat the cake and still have it after you ate it.
gefen- it’s not could of, it’s could’ve, short for could have.
nfgo3- it’s both:
spelt
verb
a simple past tense and past participle of spell.
spelt
noun
a wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
LanderTalmid- a ger is also considered ben Avraham, even though he obviously isn’t genetically a descendant, but rather spiritually.
How about having the ceremony on a pitched roof with a fiddler balancing on top?
Equality (or claims of such) will trump tradition in their minds.
I’m not sure equality would do it. Maybe pretending it was always tradition would.
gavra- And? Change the law so that mistakes don’t happen. A simple solution would be to require a double ring ceremony.
The traditionalists would never agree to that. They do have issues with following halacha sometimes, but they never want to break tradition .
haifagirl- not really, because there’s no “do this” or “do that” in the real sentence. That’s just the “placemark” for let’s say “go to school” or “go to work.” try it again like that…
gavra- it’s a lot easier to have a halachik marriage by mistake, than it is to have a halachik divorce.
haifagirl- it’s actually proper the way I said it too. This is from a grammar page as a proper sentence. Change “Mike” to “you” and it’s basically what I wrote.
It always annoys me when people say things like “or I’ll do this, or I’ll do that.” I can’t help myself from answering “so you’ll either do this or that.”… It’s a literal translation of “ader des ader yentz”.
ubiquitin- writersoul means that burglars know that they don’t have a gun, clear territory.
Shopping- they decide what they hate more: tea or staying up.
Following Chance’s logic he/she shouldn’t be eating bread either, since obviously Hashem made wheat, not bread. Hashem didn’t build houses either, so maybe we should sleep in the great outdoors. Obviously this is all nuts. Hashem gave us the capability and the right to improve our lives in this world. Chance seems to want to live up to his/her sn, leaving everything to chance. I believe that Hashem wants us to do our hishtadlus to keep the community safe.
oomis- as much as you love your mother, kibud av veeim can still be hard. I keep forgetting not to contradict my mother outright when she accidentally mixes something up. I would never manage without my mother, and I love her very much. Despite that, it can still get hard to remember to speak with the proper respect she deserves.
gavra- It’s true in New York. I remember one year my mother couldn’t get me and my sister a doctors appointment for before school started, and school wouldn’t allow us to start the year without getting vaccinated. My mother sent in a note that she refuses to get us vaccinated just that we shouldn’t have to miss school for the two weeks until our appointment. We were able to attend school for those two weeks just fine.
Do you think Hashem made heter iskah and pruzbel muttar by mistake ch’v? It’s for ordinary loans that the original halachos are for- like if you borrow $100 for a week. Noone does a heter iska for that…
Does this disclaimer have anything to do with the boy on the couch being woken up?
ZachKessin- there’s software that fixes the funniness too…
I once had a really amazing teacher. I had difficulty taking tests that were written in hebrew. I had several teachers that gave me alternate tests, but one in particular was really special. After every test, she would have me call her at home and she would test me orally on the material. A week before our final she had a baby, and still, she insisted I call her after the test. She spent over an hour on the phone with me, asking me questions on the material. This was a week after she had a baby! I don’t think I will ever forget what she did for me. As a teacher of general studies I tried to show my students that I’m not out to get them- I’m out to help them learn as much as possible.
In the winter Olympics of 2010, all three female figure skating representatives from the US were jewish:
Sasha Cohen
Kimmie Meissner
Emily Hughes
I’m not great at spelling, so I hope I spelled their names right.
yekke2- well, what if you say something like “gotta run, my car’s parked by a hydrant”? Everyone breaks some law some time. You might say “I have to be home by 6:00- I have a cleaning woman coming”. They’ll do a check, see they don’t see any legal agency sending someone to your address… Any time they want to arrest anyone they feel like arresting they’ll find something to arrest him for.
the bomb- one of my friends got engaged to a Canadian last night…
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Gratitude is not a silly emotion. If you are ungrateful to this woman who risked so much (BTW she walked with a limp the rest of her life because of the torture she received when they broke her feet).
You very well might find a Rabbi who say you shouldnt be inspired by the woman, but you will also find those who ARE inspired and think we should put “righteous gentiles” (People who risked their lives to save jews during the holocaust) on another level and should honor them., and its more than proper to do so.
While normally I would not say to shop for a psak, I think in THIS case you should shop for a Posek who thinks its proper to honor righteous gentiles.
While I never heard of this halacha, and don’t know to what extent it goes, gratitude and inspiration are two different things. We can and should be VERY grateful for what she did. That doesn’t mean we should be inspired to do the same because she did it.
While I don’t speak French, I think I know enough words that I’d know he was lying if he took things that far…
Still two years of American History and PAD
jewishfeminist02- I am named after someone whose mother wore teffilin and tzitzis, and I’m proud of it. She didn’t wear the teffilin and tzitzis to make a statement- she wore it in the privacy of her own home, and I don’t know if people outside her family knew about it. Women of the Wall is an entirely different animal- they’re wearing the teffilin and tzitzis in order to make a political statement about the religious practices of women. Perhaps it enhances their own spirituality, I’m not one to judge on that. It cannot be purely so though, or else they wouldn’t make sure to have photographers photographing them for publicity.
I don’t think so… regents are always marked at a curve. Look at the scoring booklets on nys regents website.
Nothing to be afraid of… If you don’t like your mark you can usually retake it in August.
On my regent it was religion. You can check by googling nys global history regents and looking through old regents.
R’ Chaim Kanievsky, R’ Yaakov Meir Schechter…
mitzvahgirl613- it’s not that hard of a regent. There’s a trick to getting the multiple choice right, and there are about 17 total possible themes. Just prepare for the most commonly recurring themes and you should be fine.
Actually, it doesn’t say in any reputable source that the lamed vav tzaddikim are hidden. It says that there are 36 tzaddikim in each generation that support the world. People just came to the conclusion that they must be hidden because none of the people they had heard of seemed holy enough to support the world. I can think of at least ten…
WIY- Having been to the country I’d say the cheapest way to do it is to hook up a normal internet connection and share it with someone else with a wireless router/extender/ You split the cost with however many people you share it with.
frumnotyeshivish: Medical need? Really? Tattoos cure cancer, I guess…
Actually, exactly so. Tattoos are used to mark the spot for radiation.
With a name like Feif Un shouldn’t he be ignoring what everyone else says and doing what he wants?
I don’t know how old you are, but when I was younger I enjoyed the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix. They’re clean books.
The shape affects the texture, and how much sauce/ketchup is going to stay on it once you lift it off the plate. Macaroni doesn’t let any cheese on the inside, so you taste the pasta part twice. Texture may not affect flavor, but it does affect perception of flavor.
Maybe one day this house will be bought by a nice Jewish family with little kids and they’ll enjoy the ramp for a baby carriage. Difficult neighbors can really make life tough.
“Now, there are fifty bowls of pareve ichy fake ice cream, and ten bowls of milchig ice cream. What’s the eitzah?”
If it’s ichy it certainly shouldn’t take more than a tiny taste per bowl to set it straight…
I just checked- you can buy this on Amazon. Search for hot water shabbat.
They sell this in the US also- it’s called Perko I think. I’m not sure because we use a good old fashioned cheinik on the blech…
In my camp we wore robes, but changed for the meal. We had one girl that came from Israel, and she came a few days early and went shopping with a girl in the US. Maybe you can find someone to meet up with and shop here. Clothing is probably cheaper here anyhow.
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Why didn’t you offer him to rent a portion of your lawn for x per month? I’d assume he’s disabled if he needs a wheelchair. He might be able to get his insurance to pay for it. It also might be worth a certain amount of money to you to give up a bit of your lawn and have peace with your neighbor.
In my camp most girls wore polo tops every day, and button down occasionally. Bright colors were for swim wear, crocs, or accessories.