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RebYidd23, would you say the same if it was the mom home all day with the 2 year old?

Thanks to globalization and technological inventions, such as plastics, today we have access to beautiful inexpensive fake jewelry.

RebYidd23, “one foot out the door” can mean that by living in two places, you may not have full roots or a heart in either, since you technically aren’t committing to one location, one home. It’s possible.

Can you find a place that’s winter-like all year round where you’ll be happy, have room for personal growth, and where you can build a livelihood?

For the record, it was hard for me to live in a place with any winter. Physiologically, I do better in a place that’s more like summer 24/7 365. Maybe I can relate.

There are pros and cons where ever one lives.

May Hashem direct you <3

Seriously though, kitov is so right! ☺

In the US at least, childcare is hugely expensive and makes it difficult for women to go to work. For kollel women, they need to make a salary that not only pays significantly more than the cost of childcare, but enough to support her entire family on top of that.

Other Western countries provide childcare.

In my humble opinion, kitov’s is a very reasonable request. There is a need. There was more communal help back in the day and today some kollel women may have to compete with higher expectations with fewer resources.

Even with childcare it wouldn’t be easy. I think it’s awesome that kitov voiced a need that she sees in her community. Amen.

ChadGadya, thank YOU!!!! ☺☺☺

Such an awesome explanation. Now I get it (yay) and last night I explained it to the two other people so they got it too 😊

Nechomah, thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check out the door Constant Mitzvots on Aish 🙂

He continues to raise a 13 year old non-Jewish child, in his Jewish home, until the non-Jewish kid becomes a legal adult? (Joseph)

Wow!!! Great question. I never thought of that! So does that mean the 13 and ongoing child/person doesn’t have to eat kosher anymore? Does that complicate things at home?

So interesting! Thanks for asking this question.

Brita is a water filter.

I don’t even feel comfortable drinking filtered tap water where I live so I guess I can relate to the fact that even filtered Internet has problems and some people are better off avoiding it altogether.

Thank you

Depends on the pain

-For the chronic pain in my neck, back, and shoulders, I exercise to alleviate it, and hang upside down to release the tension. The pain is a side effect of my medication, but the benefits out weigh the costs here. Thus I learned how to cope, but I have to he diligent with the routine or the pain builds up too much.

-For temporary pain, like a muscle injury or cramps, sometimes I do nothing and sometimes I take ibuprofen.

A man went to the Police Station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before.

“You’ll get your chance in court.” said the Desk Sergeant.

“No, no no!” said the man. “I want to know how he got into the house without waking my wife. I’ve been trying to do that for years!”

Wife: Had your lunch?
Husband: Had your lunch?
Wife: I’m asking you
Husband: I’m asking you
Wife: You copying me?
Husband: You copying me?
Wife: Let’s go shopping
Husband: I had my lunch.

Marriage is full of surprises but it’s mostly just asking each other “do you have to do that right now?”

Another thought about women wearing jewelry, maybe it too signifies her wealth and resources. I once heard a rabbi talk about how giving a wife jewelry is a gift to her — obvious right? Yet the point is that buying a wife something like a new vacuum cleaner or something else practical may benefit others too. Jewelry on the other hand is something that she can appreciate and feel good about. It speaks to her personally.

Both cuff links and watches have a practical use. I would not consider either as jewelry. Though that’s a question for one’s rav.

*****QUESTION: Weren’t cuff links necessary back in the day when clothing was tailor made?

Perhaps now cuff links are considered more of an accessory, but I’ve seen men wearing shirts that require them. So are they really an accessory or in the category of jewelry?

Now commercial buttons are readily available and inexpensive. Yet, not all shirts may come with buttons. In previous generations, cuff links helps secure the shirts to one’s wrists. Without that space, a hand couldn’t fit through, right?

Thank you

I don’t get the programmer joke.

Maybe this goes back to that teaching of how women were created for beauty, and not men?

At least that was what a rav cited in a shiur that I listened to a few weeks ago, where he explained that in shidduchim, a bochur is permitted to request a woman’s photo, but a woman shouldn’t be doing so because men weren’t created for beauty but women were.

Or is this different because men wearing jewelry can also signify social status and resources, like wealth with a gold chain. There are also men who wear Jewish stars on a gold necklace.

Didn’t the Kohanim have elaborately jeweled breastplate?

Did the high priests not wear jewels and precious metals on other parts of their bodies, like arms, wrists, ankles, or necks?

Oops!!! Just caught my typo!! Sorry… correction:

Boy meets girl. He asks to marry her. She says “no.” They live happily ever after.

Boy meets girl. He asks to marry her. She says “yes.” The end.

— Complimentary of a TorahAnytime shiur 🙂