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Thinking clearly
Your not reading clearly
(sorry don’t mean it nasty but too juicy to pass up)
I wrote in my post
“Without shabbos”Shabbos is tricky.
There is a huge discrepancy if you make or buy
Here goes, for home made
Challa, five pound of flour plus ingredients $5
Wine $5
Soda? $5
Loaf gefilta fish $8
Family pack chicken $15 (bigger pack for shabbos includes two pieces for soup )
Soup veggies $3
Home made cake $3-5
Shabbos day
Liver $8
Cold cuts (huge range) prepacked variety $15
Cholent meat $5
Rest of cholent $5
“Shalishudis”
Can Of tuna $2
Eggs $1
Dips $6Total $88
Of course the sky is the limit and beyond
I’m just showing it can be done, and I tried to be generous.
Even in this list there is plenty to cut if one needed to do so and still feed everyone to be full.
I’m using Brooklyn average shopping pricesAvi k
Can you explain to me the issue?
What’s wrong?
Is the school not aware that you can ask someone for “help ”
Do they have safeguards in place or not?
If they want to they could easily have the girls write the essay in the school office during the entrance exam.
Obviously they don’t care.
It’s not even an unfair advantage, because everyone else can do it too. When kids in first or second grade are coming in with typed book reports with professional type covers, do the teachers think they did it themselves???
It’s known and accepted in the school world that an. Assignment given to be done at home has a good chance of being done by a proxy.
So what exactly is the issue, that you need defended??I left out by accident
Three -2 pound loaves of bread (more than enough for a week)
So add another $10 to my list
Making the basic cost $60
Take off a family pack of chicken and you are still at the 150-160$ a week rangeWoah! There haimy
Don’t mix the two
VAad hashmita Is first and foremost, out of Israel at least, a fundraising organization.
Of course they run glitzy ads. That’s unfortunately the only way to get money today. Why is that an issue. They don’t hide that. They trumpet it.
We are trying to raise money please give tons.
How does that compare to this????Let’s talk numbers of possibility
Family of six children
Two Dozen eggs $2
Bottle milk $2.40
Cream cheese $4
Two boxes macaroni (constantly on sale at shop rite) $1.76
Total $10.16 and you’ve fed your family amply. Times five days $50.80 for the week
You can add whatever you want to this basic.
Brick of cheese $14
Bottle ketchup $3
Three orange juice $9
2 Family packs of chicken bottoms $24
Package of hot dogs $10
Fruits and vegetables $50
Total $160.80
Without shabbos.
Why is $150 so hard to be true for a family of four children?I didn’t read all posts but I want to jump in a bit
I believe it’s currently against regulations to purchase more than one seat per person, if not outright illegal
This is due to anti terror stuff. I looked into it when trying to purchase two seats for a heavy traveler and that I. What I was told.
As to spending money to avoid a lav, the chafets Chaim brings that halacha ,though I don’t have the sefer near me now to look up the exact source. He is discussing possible loss of your job due to not speaking L”H and he says it’s not allowed because you must give up all you have, to not be over “just like by every lav where you are required to give up all you own to not be over ”To the fellow who didn’t like the lying “parole ” trick
You seem to have forgotten.
We are all out on parole.
Our souls come down for a limited freedom where our every action is watched and we will have to give an accounting for everything.
Is that not parole???Josef
Why would you need to be Dan likaf zechus those who Daven early?
Are they doing something wrong??To all
It’s a bit ridiculous
Tell someone, have a great day!!
That’s insensitive! Maybe they are about to go for a chemo treatment and you don’t know about it
Wish them nachas from their children? They have one child off the derech, or a child who died, so now you caused them pain.Ask for a favor? They would need to ask their husband or wife who doesn’t like to do it, now you made שלום בית problem
Every action you do can potentially cause someone grief quite easily.
Turns out New Yorkers, who for so long have been on the receiving end of excoriation for ignoring everyone, are actually the most sensitive people around!!!!
Who knew!!Why would you drink scotch anyway
Reminds me of the baalay simcha who mix the ends of all their bottles into the “blue label ” bottle and laugh their way through the night, as one expert after the next pronounces it the greatest scotch around!
Drink bourbon!I’m my community the rule is
All males over 11, black suits, 5 buttons, two pleats in pants, single split in jacket, no hems on pants, no pocket on shirt, monochrome tie, tie shoes only, black of course,black socks, no eyeglasses,
If you have one infraction, you can’t eat any hot meat dish at the shmorg.
Two infractions your banned from the Viennaise table.
Three infractions, no main dish, any more and you get sent home.
It’s difficult being religious, but you gotta follow the minhagumYes
Someone named koresh ?I choose deblasio
sam klein
“Here’s a live parable to bring it live for today’s day. How many texting and driving accidents need to C”V occur to wake us up and put our phones away on the side while we are driving to avoid any more accidents C”V?”
according to you , none
hashem decideds who will live and who will die and we need to stop thinking we have any control(i dont really believe that, ii believe hashem demands we take normal precautions … but youve been on that soap box for quite a while here)
Syag
Don’t know where you are looking
But
Costco used to have an amazing quality shirt for $19
I haven’t looked recently so I don’t know if it’s still available
Charles trywhitt, (though I happen not to like their cut, many people love them, and the quality is very good) constantly runs sales for under 30$ just last week they were on sale for 28 or 29 I don’t remember.
Lands end. Amazing shirts, Often has 50% off sales, comes out to below 30the chafetz chaim in ahavas chesed gives a good guideline
if youd make a financial investment with that given level of risk, you need to accept that level of risk for chesed too
presumably other mitzvos should be the samejust me
remind me where i said thatCT lawyer
Thanks for the effusive verbiage
Not sure what it has to do with anything.
Someone, I don’t remember who, commented that if the homeowner needs to pull out of his driveway to bring a family member to a hospital, those few seconds make a huge difference.
I responded that In the congested area under discussion here (Brooklyn NY) any sane person would call הצלה in such a situation as the trip to the hospital is vastly longer in a private car due to its inability to skirt traffic laws or Push traffic along. Somehow you took this as a personal slight to your honor
And you Responded with this verbiage
(breaks inserted by me for clarity)
You know I livefull time in
small town CT.
We are a town of volunteers. I and my adult children have all been EMT certified and have volunteered in our town’s EMS. The males all belong to the volunteer fire companies. As such our vehicles do have the flashing blue lights and available sirens.
I have made many a hospital run over the years transporting neighbors and family. I would decide whether to call a private service as you suggest, 911 or self transport based on the situation.To which I responded that the op is talking about congested areas and not small town CT…
Now you pop up with more verbiage about lights and tickets and traffic court.
I don’t know where you are headed with all that
But I know this discussion doesn’t concern your Brooklyn residence because those houses of yours are gated. (see above)
So you took umbrage where none was meant and now got upset at me because I called you out on it?
Sorry
I didn’t realize you were so thin skinned.
However again you are totally correct that I should not be hurting people’s feelings ever, certainly not a week to r “h
So I find myself apologising again.Ubiq help me out here
We just went back and forth pretty heavy for over 100 posts without the need to apologize
What am I doing wrong??No
G H
Enlighten me please
How many hours are there in a few min ?ct lawer
“Additionally, in the congested areas we are talking about, any sane person (except Mr health from the cr) would be calling hatzolah, ”
i think that would exclude small tow ct
i hope you read your contracts a bit more carefullyTrach nisht
Do I hold there is no such thing as private property?
No I don’t hold that way.
The gemarah says there are times when you have no right to claim it’s mine get lost.
It’s called כופים אותו על מידת סדום
You don’t like it, take it up with the gemarah
I was clear I don’t think this case is exactly that
But conceptually such an idea is well grounded in Jewish הלכהPeople.
Please!! Read and understand before you commentThe o p
and I made sure to stress this multiple times in my posts was WHERE THE PERSON IS SITTING IN THE CAR!!!!
( AND FROM THE O P, IT’S PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT THE PERSON IS NOT A MENACE)
So half the posts responding have zero to do with either the op or my Response.Borsar
What exactly was wrong with my response
I didn’t say you are a bad person.
I said the attitude (that you expressed openly in public here) stinks.
No it wasn’t mean to be obnoxious or nasty, it was a statement of objective fact.
That being said it seems I must have hurt you so I ask mechilah.
That also being said, turns out you are commenting on a different issue.
One on which I would never say most of what I wrote here.
For a person to leave their car unattended in a random persons driveway, even with a phone number to reach them is a gross breach of derech eretz probably is gezel and I would never condone such an act, let alone comment negatively on others who don’t allow it.
What’s the difference?
Simple. Anyone who lives in Brooklyn has to deal with traffic anyway. You can never know how long it will take to pull out of your driveway when it’s clear.
I live on an avenue
Sometimes I pull right out
Sometimes it can take two to three lights until I can get out.
To make an issue when the guy is there and ready to move is only selfishness
He could have blocked your driveway while on the street would have caused you the same inconvenience .
But your situation (borsar) is totally different. To block someone else’s property and leave, without permission, it better be a real emergencyGoldilocks
(remember the story? Great name you got going there. Little girl sleeping in a strangers bed after eating their food and breaking their furniture commenting on strangers idling in driveways)
No I’m not Out of touch (though I wish I was)
If your comment is true, then it’s not germane to this topic.You know, after I sent that last post, I thought over this issue and I almost cried.
Here we are a week before Rosh haShana, we are all looking for merits to add to our account.
Think about it. A yid walks out of his house to walk to Mariv, and there is someone sitting in his car in this persons driveway.
You now have two choices,
1) please leave my property now.
2) ah! Look at that! I just got an easy mitzvah !
I don’t need my driveway now anyway. And here someone is getting a benefit from it. Another merit to take with me into Rosh hashana!
And.we know hashem counts our good thoughts as actions.
So by even thinking that this is what I would do (obviously if you mean it) you can get who knows what kind of boost going into Rosh hashana
And instead we hear people standing on ceremony. It’s mine! Get off!
What a tremendous loss of opportunity!!!Borsar
Nobody said they are more important than you. Relax. I won’t go so far as to call it מידת סדום because it’s not totally זה לא חסר but your attitude stinks.
גומלי חסדים .ever hear of that phrase?
What do you think it means?
To help someone when it’s is zero effort on your part? Let’s remember, this was a very specific question.
The person is in the car ready to move out on a moments notice.
The only reason I can really think of to not let , is exactly what you wrote.
“it’s mine!!! Get lost ”
That’s a stinking attitude.
So what! So you paid for it.
Who gave you the money to pay for it?
Hkb”h . That’s who gave you the money. You really can’t stand the thought of someone else also using your money, again I am only only talking about where it costs you nothing more than asking him to move.
Something you would have to do if he was on the street blocking your driveway as well.
Relax!!!Mr trackt nor far zeech,
It’s totally unnecessary.
I live in a very congested area of Brooklyn
People block my driveway all the time. I don’t explode on them. I have even told many on them, it’s OK you can stay, when they start to move because they see me getting out of my house.
It won’t kill you to be nice to others when it’s no skin off your back.