Lightbrite

Thought of that, but my neighbors weren’t home (cars weren’t there).

I thought of texting my one neighbor who knows everyone if she can text the lady downstairs (who is his aunt I think) to text him.

Then honestly I was like, Ugh I don’t even know, and was so exhausted after traveling a long distance to my doctor’s appointment that I just kind of prayed that it would work out (like a please Hashem prayer).

iacisrmma: I took notes on his talk and he said that you can give it to a nonJew that you know personally and discouraged giving it to a stranger.

Maybe I’ll listen to it again to confirm

“I have friends who are makpid on chalav yisroel but their children aren’t. They just give the chalav stam to their children. ” (iacisrmma)

Thanks for sharing 🙂

That’s so interesting. I guess that the children are already out of the house at that point?

Anchovies

Nugo bars

Ps. Goq: Great question! If it’s treif, it’s technically not food in the CR. So maybe we should stick to kosher options, in my humble opinion 🙂 What do you think?

So I just came into this post after a long day and many comments.

The difference comes from what is acknowledging the unspoken here.

I, at 20, was a whole different person. I literally had a best friend who would pull my arm whenever a guy was talking to me. He would ask me questions, and I answered to be nice and thought that anyone who asks me questions really wants to know the answers.

I, by 30, realized that some guys are not straight-forward. Some make excuses to talk to me. Many of these some guys are toxic.

The rest of the guys that I talked to were there for a reason, gave me insight on something with a brief conversation, a crossing of paths. Half of the humans that I talk to happen to be guys.

Thanks to one guy that I talked to one a random day, I now have an awesome friend — his wife! She is helping me grow in Yiddishkeit way beyond anyone else that I’ve known IRL. Sometimes Hashem bestows Hashgacha Pratis in ways that maybe would have not worked over ten years ago.

Ivories

Obvious

He did talk about whether or not you can give it away to another Jew if for you it is not kosher enough.

If you believe it is kosher but you took on the stringency then you can be meikel, but if you believe that it is assur than you cannot give it to another Jew who holds by chalav stam —would that not also apply to giving away MM that you wouldn’t eat?

Also, he said that you cannot give away chalav stam to a nonJewish stranger, but you can give it to a nonJew who it would benefit to give it to, such as a cleaning lady, co-worker, neighbor.

In the case of chalav stam, if one won’t eat it, then he can throw it away and it is not a ____[forgot the term that maybe says not to throw away food?]__. It is permissible in this case.

iacisrmma: Are there other words that ought not be abbreviated?

Do you think that abbreviating someone’s name devalues its meaning?

For example, a Sholom that’s nicknamed Shlomo. Or what’s the name that’s nicknamed Shlomo?

A Racheli that goes by Cheli.

A Moshe that goes by Moishy.

A Menachem that goes by Menchi.

Thank you

big deal: Agreed, with your question

Tznius is also halacha.

Women not wearing men’s clothing and men not wearing women’s clothing is also halacha.

That’s why I am asking. What is the spiritual affect of mixing clothing with items that formerly stood as the pillar of an opposite gender’s closing in an opposite gender’s closet.

Anyway. I understand that it may be a humorous detail, but everything has meaning, doesn’t it?

Thank you… and I appreciate all of your comments.

For the record, lesschumras poster-name is lesschumras, so I can at least expect a little push back on chumra-sounding questions from lesschumras’ character 🙂

Why not use pareve ice cream and make it pareve?

The whole point is to use the melted ice cream. It turns into bread. Sweet bread, presumably.

Lilmod Ulelamaid: Do you not like hamentaschen?

Omgosh Hamentaschen are my FAVORITE!!!

Poppy seed hamentaschen using the recipe from the big purple Spice and Spirit kosher cookbook. Closed, and it’s okay if some peak open.

Hamentaschen are so good. I want them for every holiday.

Hamentaschen instead of sufganiyot.

Hamentaschen instead of chocolate matzah. Maybe matzah hamentaschen. Or potato-based flour hamentaschen.

Hamentashen instead of new fruits, maybe new fruits in the hamentaschen.

Hamentaschen challah.

I am glad hamen lived and died because he brought us hamentaschen.

So so YUMMY!!!

Ditto on the YES that people actually like them.

What else can be a hamentaschen?

It’s okay lesschumras.

Have you ever put together a puzzle? If so, do you start at the edges and then fill in the center pieces?

It sounds like that is what you’re asking me to do here. Think about the big picture, the tenants of Yiddishkeit, and then the inside of the box is not so important.

The thing is that I look at what I see as the end result of taking on those tenants, or the frame of Yiddishkeit, as sometimes suffocating and other times beyond my reality’s practicality. When I go there, I stay stuck.

I learned how to move by working within the center. I am strengthening from the core by choosing details that are right in front of me. Connecting the pieces from here.

For someone who already has all of the other things going on, this may seem frivolous. To me, there is great meaning in these pieces, like dots. Connecting the dots. In time, there will be a picture, even when it looks like just dots from here.

While I can see links, you may be unable to see them without my blueprint.

You can call me naive, or you can call me novel.

Or just call me lightbrite.

Hi LU! Were those posts deleted? I am so confused. I did not even realize that the post that I sent went through. After I sent it, I went back to delete it, hoping that I would make the 30 minute edit cutoff time. But I didn’t see it. However, then you responded to it. I read your post. I wonder if that one was removed too.

While I did not talk to my therapist about this instance, I really want to spend that time and money talking about bigger things in my life. Furthermore, in therapy I have worked on associating certain hurtful behaviors as belonging to the offending party, and not with myself. So I wanted to give that a try in the CR too, and disassociate myself from that party’s drama.

That way, I can walk through spiderwebs without all the clingy residue, in theory, and I am still working on getting the hang of it 🙂

Thank you so much

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Lol I love you guys (No one made fun of me for writing Yiddush. Twice!)

Thank you. That was a super typo, twice-o.