Veltz Meshugener +100

Believing that there are shortcuts to spirituality or “cleansing” from sins is ludicrous. Read the Rambam Hilchos Teshuvah for how to do that. (Maybe also skip Perek 3 Halacha 7 where he says that what you believe about going to R’ Nachman’s kever is probably grounds for losing one’s portion in Olam Haba.)

WIY +1

Yungerman from Lakewood is 100% correct. Say the levaya had been pushed off until today, would all the yeshivos in Israel have closed yesterday? No. The reason they closed was to attend the levaya. Being that no one in Lakewood (or anywhere out of Israel, for that matter) was physically able to attend the levaya, it would have been pointless for them to close yeshiva on the day of the levaya.

Obviously there will be hespedim in Lakewood after the fact, as there were by R’ Elyashiv.

I was there also. I’m ususally not nispa’el (sorry, no good English equivalent) by huge crowds of Jews, but this time I was.

*cough*

The reason God put us on Earth is to daven by R’ Nachman’s kever in Uman.

Did you hide the body?

Or maybe everybody goes to mixed swimming.

If I could go out on a limb here and assume that you’re from Queens, why don’t you open your window and yell the question?

heretohelp +1000

anybody have any idea what ur supposed to write to my chasson

I don’t think I should be writing anything to your chosson.

For real though – regardless of what you write, he might appreciate it more if you brushed up your spelling and grammar, not to mention structure and punctuation.

Mazel tov!

Energy healer? She heals energy? She heals with energy? She’s a healer who’s energetic?

I’ll stick to Advil.

Which is worse: wearing flips flops with socks, or Haman?

If you want to know just how good Mordechai was at languages, see Tosafos to Bava Kama 82b d”h ???.

People who do that also wear flip-flops with socks.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/why-would-a-girl-even-want-to-learn-talmud/page/3#post-486038

Why do colleges allow smoking?

The Pope wears a really big yarmulka and he’s super frum.

As I heard one great rabbi say, “Oh yeah, make your body nice and attractive … for the worms to eat.” (I toned down his language a bit.)

Sam2: LAB: She was making fun of what you said. I took her post as being entirely tongue-in-cheek.

I’m sorry I missed that. I haven’t seen her say anything tongue-in-cheek this entire thread, so I wasn’t expecting it. My apologies.

jewishfeminist02 – Again, I read her comment as calling me superficial. I give what I get.

baisyakovmaidel: First of all, I apologize for what I said before. I took what you said as a barb, and I replied in kind.

If levaryehboy thinks the gemara is insulting women…

I never said that. I said you might get offended – as Webster defines “2.Be displeasing to: “the smell of smoke offended him”. Certain “touchy” subjects are often not for the squeamish or the faint of heart. Please do not tell me that men and women are equally squeamish.

I also pointed out in the next post that I had said it tongue-in-cheek, so there’s that.

ome things are not that different. In a room full of adolescent boys and girls, the girls are looking at the guys too. Maybe a a little less because they are not as visual, but trust me, they are looking.

Do boys and girls also watch adult content equally? Also, why do boys have mitzvos of shmiras einayim which virtually do not apply to girls?

eclipse – “It’s not very often though.” I gave myself a compliment.

Shema is d’oraysa both in the morning and at night. There are some poskim who hold that without birchos krias shema one did not fulfill his obligation, but there are enough who say otherwise to rely on.

Remember what Chazal said… Echad hamarbeh v’echad hamam’it, ubilvad she’yichaven es libo lashamayim.

From the moment you asked earlier why the boys would look at the girls but the girls wouldn’t look at the boys, I realized that you obviously don’t know the differences between boys and girls, so I realized it was pointless to debate the subject.

You also said you were intelligent. Yeah, no. You took something I said, put your own explanation into it, and then insulted me for saying something which you said.

I suggested (somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as was clear from the context) not to learn certain Masechtos. Learning in-depth about blood stains, the obligations a woman has to her husband, the very graphic descriptions and logical analyses of hara’ah, neshikas ha’ever, shelo k’darkah … (need I say more?) may offend your somewhat feminist, or at least feminine, self.

You somehow decided that I meant that this was the reason Chazal said women shouldn’t learn Gemara, even though I specifically gave completely different explanations previously, and gave no indication whatsoever that this was what I meant.

Also, if you’re frustrated/mad/upset/angry with the Bais Yakov system for teaching you to be Jewish for the “wrong reasons”, look at the Rambam in Hilchos Teshuva 10:5 where you’ll see that they were 100% correct.

Good post. In general, people do not go off because they have Internet; they go off and then they use the Internet.

I remember reading a flyer that said (in the name of some random “gedolim”) that if someone owns a computer, even if it has no Internet access and even if they only use it to type Chiddushei Torah, the Torah they type is not Toras Emes and they get no s’char.

Wondering if the same applies to any sefer typeset and printed in the last seventy or so years.