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In NYC, the people with the fancy cars take up 2.5 parking spots, and the people with the driveways take up 2 parking spots. One for their driveway and one for their car.
Correction- we have a driveway and only use 1&1/2 parking spots. And that’s because people block half of our driveway and it’s impossible to get into half a driveway so we park a block away.
Yups. As is mentioned in Behind the Attic Wall, almost everyone at one point wonders if their brain views colors the same way as everyone elses does. As far as this point goes, when I’m wearing contacts, everything is a bit smaller so I get to see more. If I wear glasses with a higher prescription everything just looks distorted. If I don’t wear anything at all only things right near me are visible. I think there is a point where the size of everything feels right. To test how big people see stuff, you can just test how large their field of vision is. I think everyone’s with glasses should be about the same.
maybe look into the smaller seminaries. you can still apply to those now.
Vogue- there are plenty of jobs available for computer programmers in the private sector. If you like math and computers maybe you should look into that. Even when you do government work, programming isn’t the kind of thing you would ever have a problem with shmiras shabbos. If you’re good at it, they’ll accommodate any crazy schedule you like.
Well, if you say it by day you can continue counting with a bracha tonight.
The frequency of attacks is greater now. The damage is less, but that’s due to rachmei shamayim, not easier circumstances. The second point is simply incorrect. The chasmonaim still paid taxes to the greeks.
yytz- we were able to do that under the Ottoman empire as well. What day did we celebrate for that then? Or under the British? It was only after the independence that we had to be afraid of terror attacks. Should I celebrate that now we get rocket fire?
We’ve been waiting 2,000 years to see:
1) Hashem recognized as the creator and king of the world
2) The galus to end and all the yidden to be back in Israel
3) The bais hamikdash to be rebuilt
4) Our enemy the yetzer harah to be killed
5) The sanhedrin to be reestablished
6) I can go on but this is taking too long
As far as I can tell none of these have happened yet. I don’t know about you but I’m still waiting. No Yom Haatzmaut for me.
member for four hours, didn’t reply on any threads before creating your own… hmmm…
bp27- It actually used to be that everyone was given both the yiddish name and the hebrew equivalency, e.g. Shoshana Raizel, Tova Gittel, etc. Then the girl was called by the yiddish name only. People naming after their grandparents forgot that they ever had the hebrew name to begin with and named only the yiddish name. You don’t see this trend until about 150/200 years ago that this happened by really frum people. That’s not a very long time.
bp27- I realize now that you weren’t joking. I’m sorry if I offended you.
OneOfMany- I know a Genendy and I think it’s a cute name because she is cute. The same with Shprintzy and Yenty. I do know that most people don’t like these names though.
I bet you don’t know any Ritzpah’s though. How the original Ritzpah survived with such a name I don’t understand… Yeah, I know she was named after the other meaning but even so it’s a strange name.
bp27- totally. I mean, what’s wrong with Yenta, Peshel, Shprintza, Genendel, Genesha… such nice yiddish names.
Michal, Tzila, Ada.
If you want names from tanach that I’ve never heard anyone give: Bilhah, Zilpah, Chuldah, and Ritzpah. The last is only if you want her teased for the rest of her life.
Bat-El, Sapir, Chaviva, Ahuva, Atara… how many choices do you want?
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/how-do-i-lose-the-5-10-pounds-i-gained-over-the-yom-tov-season-quickly Looks like some of them are holding up against the competition…
I wonder if anyone who’s promoting proper nutrition, sleep and exercise ever saw any success through this method. If so, I’d like to have an exact plan to give my relative. I’m sure he’d prefer not taking his medication. Right now if he skips a day the school sends him home for jumping out of his seat in middle of class.
Luna Lovegood, Draco Malfoy, Neville Longbottom, and the Weasly twins are my favorites. They add so much life to the story.
yaakov- I heard men park by sound. They listen for bangs.
sharp- There are other problems as well, which are getting better with therapy. Her parents took her to top psychiatrists. They got the same diagnosis from all three that they took her to, and only then did they put her on meds. Before they put her on medication they didn’t believe in it. Now they recommend it to anyone whos struggling with a kid that has ADHD. It’s still a struggle with the medication, but now the normal her has a chance of winning. By the way, I’m switching between male and female in my posts deliberately because I don’t want to give out any identifying info. I would recommend getting a second opinion before putting a kid on meds, but deciding on your own not to give it? I don’t think that’s very smart.
sharp- do you have any relatives with ADHD? It doesn’t sound like it. You might change your tune if you did. My relative is a monster without medication. Yes, therapy is also helpful, but without the medication there is no therapy. How can you keep him in his seat long enough to have even a five minute therapy session without medication? As I’ve mentioned before, my relative is a health nut. He avoids sugar, eats only whole wheat and goes to sleep early. I never have to ask whether he took his medication or not- you can tell just by looking in his eyes.
DaasYochid- if it’s a math lesson, and she’s in middle of teaching about hyperbolas and says “I really don’t have energy for this now. When you have kids you’ll understand that there are things so much more important than math. I always make sure to spend at least an hour a day just playing with my kids. Remember that when you’re the mother of ten kids- if you have to fold laundry, fold it with your kids. Like that they’ll have time with you.” then yes.
talmud+1
. There are instructions in how to create a golem. These instructions when followed exactly, will not produce a golem. That HAS been documented.
How? They have to be done by a real yorei shamayim or else it won’t work. How can you prove that the person who tried it was a true yorei shamayim?
snore…zzzzzzzz. Oh. I’m at work.
There are exact instructions on how to create a golem… the only problem is that in order to create it you have to be a complete yorei shamayim, and a complete yorei shamayim would never make one.
sw33t- it’s not a problem at all. More than half the teachers in my elementary school were divorcees. They stayed for many years, as they didn’t need the same salary a woman with five children needs. Teaching is not a very well paying job.
Just ordered a wii fit to help… It helped me last year, and I decided I need my own.
zahavasdad- you can’t even debate Rav Kooks view on women?
I see you got my point. I think there should be a curve, and individual cases should be judged based on where they are on the curve as well as other factors.
DaMoshe- most of them it isn’t to get the money from the government, but in order not to be drafted. You can’t sit and do nothing. You can go to army, or learn. Yes there are other ways of serving, but they don’t believe in helping the government, only the people directly, e.g. Yad Sarah, Yad Eliezer…
VM- it’s true that people have varying concentration levels. It’s also true that people develop at different rates. Yet I don’t know anyone who insists that there is no such thing as being developmentally delayed.
When I was twelve I actually didn’t read Pascals wager itself, I just myself figured that if the Torah is indeed true than I’ll get punished for doing aveiros. If it isn’t than I’ve lost nothing much. The potential loss is so much greater than the guaranteed gain that it’s just not worth it. Ask any investor whether they would invest in something where the potential loss is much greater than the potential gain. Only a gambler would do it.
gaw- abiecab joined less than an hour ago. No need to get worked up over anything he says.
zahavasdad- on of my great-grandfathers was from a family of fourteen children. Four survived. In a worse scenario he would have been the only survivor.
gaw- at first. That’s to help you until you do. It worked for me when I was twelve. Then I started listening to shiurim and that led to real emunah. Note I mentioned simpletoremember.com earlier.
My relative walks to and from school, does the Wii fit, sleeps from 10pm to 8am with the help of melatonin, avoids food coloring and other unnatural things like the plague, drinks a coffee in the morning. Sure the exercise helps a bit, but just a bit. The meds help tons. For myself exercise and sleep is enough.
GAW Boruch Hashem in this particular case they ended up working it out and they both look really happy now. You never know what’s really going on, but they seem okay.
One of my relatives for five years was on and off Adderal and other such things. The difference was so radical that now this relative is on Adderal xr all the time. Without the meds it’s like that relative is a monster. With it…
If you continue keeping the Torah and trying to believe in Hashem as hard as you can, eventually you’ll end up believing.
GAW- that’s exactly what I was trying to bring out. The teachers try to convince you of their opinions, but that is not necessarily brainwashing. It’s almost always not brainwashing in high school.
In seminary it’s a different story… you’re in a foreign country without your family and are more vulnerable and the seminaries know that. Also, they need to have their graduates convincing other girls to go in order to make money.
My seminary principal and many teachers tried the first technique of brainwashing, saying when you’ll be teaching and supporting your husband you’ll appreciate this tip giving a random money saving tip in a random lesson.
One of my relatives came home from seminary talking like someone who was brainwashed. None of her opinions were anything like when she left to seminary, and had no arguments to support why this was her new opinion when we spoke to her. She kept these opinions for almost a whole year, by which time she was married and supporting a husband in learning. Then somehow she woke up and became herself again.
DaMoshe- people can’t live on air. The government doesn’t let them work without going to the army. They believe that it is assur to join the army. Therefore they work off the books and learn at nights.
squeak- +1, love it. Were any of them made of chocolate?
My father told me that when I study tanach at night I should make sure not to say more than three words in a row without pausing for a meforash. Reading quietly isn’t a problem at all.
TIDE- did you ever read about Pascal’s wager?
I think that everyone here has a very low threshold for listening to other peoples views. I went to a Bais Yaakov school, and yes teachers would try to convince us to marry learners and support our families through teaching. I’m not convinced. If they would be brainwashing, I would be. They’re merely trying to convince their students of their opinion. Vogue- one thing that’s important to remember is that not all teachers are smart. Only ask questions when the teacher is smart enough to answer. Even when your teacher is smart, make sure you sound curious, not rhetorical or arrogant.
It’s actually what cults do as well. Some people do call Bais Yaakov a cult.
DaasYochid- come on, play along. Let’s pretend he really passed by bribing a DMV official instead of taking the test a fifth time. We all know he’s too embarrassed to admit he failed once and gave up.
Vogue- generally when someone was brainwashed they end up agreeing with the person that brainwashed them. That doesn’t seem to be the case here.