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Yaacov, in Europe the Herzog’s ( Kedem ) made dry and semi dry wines so your ancestors probably did drink the same wines. Kosher wine became associated with very sweet in the US. The only local grape they could find was bitter tasting and required lots of sugar to make it drinkable
Orbach and Newman’s mothers weren’t Jewish. Same thing with Harrison Ford and Michael Landon and Michael Douglas
Nisht, it wasn’t a transcript and I really don’t care if you don’t believe it. I’ve had people, who I’ve never given a lift to again, insist that I leave early on Sunday because they had to get back early.
Two years ago someone asked for a lift. I said OK. He then said no music, your wife has to sit in the back for the two hours and don’t expect me to pay towards toll or gas. I then took back my OK
Don’t bother.it can cost over $25k in tuition per year and even if you got into a top tier school there is no guarantee of a job. There are a lot of unemployed law school grads
Just curious. Why is it OK to ridicule these people?
The kosher DD’s don’t sell meat
147,he’s not talking about the Seders. He’s talking about children seeing their fathers getting plastered every shabbos
Hakatan,
1 The new and more viscious Russian pogroms that began in the 1880’s and spurred mass migration had nothing to do with Zionism
2. The widespread death and destruction of Jewish communities of eastern Europe caught between the Russian and German armies in WW1 had nothing to do with Zionism
3. The millions of Jews caught in Communist Russia after the war and were effectively divorced from Yiddishkeit had nothing to do with Zionism.
4. Hitler’s rise to power had nothing to do with Zionism
5. The post war pogroms in Poland are an indication of what Jews would have continued to face, Israel or no Israel.
The point being, Jews have been massacred and shmadded in far greater numbers than caused by Zionism and who is say that it wouldn’t have continued if Zionism didn’t exist? History has shown that Jews would still be dying
Akuperma, where do you get your paranoia pills? They want equality, not to take your place.
When it comes to mainstream yeshivas, my responsibility was first to my children’s yeshiva and now my grandchildren. Before I give to another yeshiva, I want to see audited statements first.
All Jewish music, going back centuries, has been lifted from goyim. Ever wonder why eastern European Jewish music sounds like their polish and Russian counterparts, as do my brother in law’s music ( he’s Iraqi) sounds Arabic and my Bukharin friends music sounds Bukharin.
Strictly speaking, pilot lights on old stoves were always on.Because they were deemed wasteful, they haven’t been made for a long time
Hakatan,
Pleas don’t pick and choose. Because the Gedolim didn’t recognize that the world they knew for centuries, millions were lost to death and shmad.
Through the Crusades, blood libels,and pogroms Jew either rebuilt in place or left. In either case it happened as a kahilla and the cummunity was able to go . In addition, Jews stayed frum becasue the only option was conversion.
With the pogroms of the 1880’s, things changed. Many Gedolim advocated that Jews not leave because the oppresion and poverty made it easier to keep Jews frum. What hat changed was that Jews now had options, either the treife medina or the various secular isms ( socialism, anarchism and yes, zionism ).Despite instructins not to go to the treife medina, Jews began leaving in huge numbers. And, because for the first time they were leaving without Rabbanim and without the kihila, many were lost to assimilation. Had the Gedolim recognized that Jews were going to the US anyway and sent rabbanim to guide them, things might have been diffrent. Had they organized mass immigration under their guidance perhaps the Jews killed in WW!, the Russian civil war, the Holocaust or were shmadded by the Comminists after 1917, might have survived.
The Gedolim were great, but they were also human
I have a more basic question. With all the taxes cigarettes are expensive!! Where do bochurs get the money?
What I find funny is the origin of the minhag of the mothers walking around. It started about 25 years ago. Kallas who had long trains needed someone to carry it so it wouldn’t get entangled. So her mother would carry it. Soon you saw the chasans’ mother walking too. Now you see both mothers walk even when there is no train
Daniel, I’m curious as to your narrow focus. Some suggestions. Visit every Jewish newspaper and demand that they stop accepting ads that entice people to go away for Pesach or buy expensive goods. Insist that wives shave their heads and not buy expensive sheitels. walk into chassidish shuls and lecture people who spent thousands on fur trimmed streimels.demand that tzedakas publish exactly how much of every dollar disappears as administrative costs. Question YWN as to why they advertise 2013 cars
Why do long daveners and late comers daven SE blocking doors and aisles?
Why is it a point of pride to deny yourself something for no reason?
To be consistent, in addition to excluding children of working families, remember to exclude their donations
Why is it shallow to not be attracted to heavy women?
Wk613, BP is nowhere near completely frum.there is a large Chinatown and 13 ave beyond 60 st is mostly not Jewish.
Ask a Rabbi!!!!!
Is the source in Maseches Bubba Maise? If you want to believe in it, that’s your choice. Not every non-halachic statement in the Gemora is correct. Given the knowledge base at that time, it wathe best explanation they could come up with to explain deformed babies. They didn’t take 100 hundred pregnant women and ask them to look at monkeys and then noted the results. They probably observed a mother had a deformed baby and worked bsckwards.
By your reasoning, no married woman able to have children can ever look at an animal since in the first 4 weeks she wouldn’t be aware she was pregnant. In the shetls animals were everywhere. how could a woman avoid seeing them
Superstition, plain and simple
What this thread highlights is the gaiva of Eastern European Jews. They define their food and music as authentic Jewish, when it is only Eastern European. Years ago a friend married an Italian Jew. The first Shabbos his parents (who were Polish ) came for dinner she made a meat lasagne. They claimed it wasn’t Jewish. She replied that in Italy it was a traditional Shabbos meal.
Akuperma , we didn’t invent yiddish. During the middle ages the Polish kings gave refuge to Jews being expelled from the German states. The Jews, reflecting their German background, looked down on anything Slavic and refused to speak Polish. That is why Yiddish is largely based upon medieval German.
What’s the issue? Halacha is not black and white. When asked a shaila, a good posek will tailor their response to the persons hashkafa. The answer, while within halacha may not represent the poseks personal practice.
DNR’s are not murder. When my mother was dying in the hospital, she gad been unconscious for 10 days, her weight had dropped from 110 to 80 pounds and her blood pressure had dropped to 80 over 40. The dr recommended a DNR because , even if he could bring her back from a Code, given her low blood pressure and frailty, he wasn’t sure if she would last 24 hourst. Doing CPR would involve exposing my mothers upper body while the dr pounded her chest. At best, she wouldn’t feel the pain; at worst she would spend her last hours in terrible pain from the broken ribs and embarrassment from a man seeing her undressed.
Pulling the plug is against halacha , a DNR is not, especially when I asked my rov and he agreed after consulting with the dr. My mother coded and passed before I could actually sign the DNR or CPR could be done
The biggest proplem is kids getting drunk when the liquor table is unsupervised.
What if the rabbit is machmir and will only eat hand made shmura?
WTY
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To be mekatzer the world changed a lot since Rav Moshe was niftar and the quality of boys/girls/families have dropped and therefore a lot more research is necessary to make sure you are getting a physically, mentally and spiritually healthy shidduch for your child. “
WTY, I have a question. If you ask a rav if you can take an aspirin on Shabbos, he’ll say no . Why? Because we are afraid the person will grind up the medication. When you reply that times have changed and we take an aspirin from a bottle, the reply will be once a gazeria is established, we do not change.
Under that principle, how can you justify changes to dating ” because times have changed”?
Daas yochid, the source of your observation that most MO don’t want to get married?
Daniela,
No one says that our ancestors had it easy on Pesach. However, that doesn’t mean we should make it hard on ourselves.
Long Island gets its water from aquifers so not an issue
I wasn’t describing my parents marriage. But my parents had friends that stayed together for the kids. A divorce was considered a shanda. It’s not that way now, particularly in the shidduch generation. There are a number of families in my town whose kids were married at 19 divorced by 21. Among the reasons: immaturity, misrepresentation during the shidduch process. Also, girls come back Israel where seminaries fill their heads with idealized ideas of marriage but do not equip them with the knowledge that there will bumps in the road and the tools to enable them to deal with issues without going right to divorce
Ons factor is that in my parents generation, people, particularly women, stayed in terrible, abusive marriages. Today we recognize that it does the kids no good go grow up in thatenvironment
Daniela, your comment “bending halacha to fit modern lifestyles” is what my name is all about. You are confusing halacha with chumra and I object to people bending halacha to fit their chumra lifestyle. Gobrochts is a perfect example. It’s a chumra. Howeve I’ve been accused of kulas shopping because I eat gebrocht .I’ve no objection to chumras unless, like gebrocht, you try to impose it on others as if the chumra was halacha
Part of my wife’s chiloni cousins objections is that Chareidim live at home, are free to come and go .they feel that if learning is the chareidi form of national service, the students should be the living with the same conditions and restrictions as IDF soldiers. The
Actually, it’s more collocated. Hynes has always won election with narrow pluralites,with the margin of victory provided by the solid bloc of Satmar votes. Six months ago there were credible reports that Hynes appeared to have ignored reports of witness intimidation and accepted questionable plea deals to misdemeanors in cases involving Satmar defendants. Along came Weberman and I believe Hynes felt he had to get a conviction to disprove the allegations
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My daughter does medical coding for a hospital. The hours are flexible because they are open 24/7
I guess when it comes to adom l’chavar, people have no problem looking for kulas. Not every disabled person looks it.
In the yeshivas I went to, Rebbes routinely publicly embarrassed beat and bullied kids. In sixth grade , for example., I approached the Rebbe and told him I able daven with full kavanah for half of shachris. Instead of Chizuk , he called me to the front of the class and ridiculed me having kavanah for only half. Did wonders for my davening
Papa, you wouldn’t know who slashed your tires. I’d wait a month, so the two events wouldn’t be linked, and find your car. Be careful with threats
No, I was just inferring that just because wherever he was there was only a few inches didn’t mean there wasn’t a blizzard. I did say the snow got heavier further east. Assumed people know Brooklyn is the western end of Long island
Ferd, read the paper. Some places had over 30 inches. The further east on Long island the more snow. Brooklyn is part of Long island.
Squeak, what you are describing is what people call the declining generations. Until universities were thrown open to Jews in the 19th century, the only path open to our best minds was learning. Think of all the Jewish Nobel prize winners, lawyers, and scientists.250 years ago they all would have become rabbonim. Yeriday hadoros is largely a function of many of our best minds being lost to other endeavours.
It should have said the keurig cups come in different coffee and tea flavors.
The appeal is that you can a cup of fresh brewed coffee without making a whole pot. There is no pot to clean and the neuritis cups come in different parts goofed types and teas
I agree with abcd2. We tend to think of our NY metro experience as the way it’s been since Har Sinai. There have many Jews buried together with Christians in nondenominational cemeteries. All you have to do is look at graves in France of the soldiers who died on D Day and see the Stars of David scattered among the crosses