Lightbrite

Also, is there no difference what clothes one washes with what?

Like can a tzitzit be washed with all types of women’s clothing? and how about washing it with little children’s dirty socks?

Or is there a preferable order? To have loads sorted beyond colors and whites may be a lot lot lot more work. Wondering if there is any Torah on the spiritual affect of such things.

Then again, not freaking out on details also has a spiritual affect that may compensate for any perceived gain by abiding by hanger-Torah (if there is such a thing).

If our clothes have special energy, then why don’t our hangers?

A few months ago I gave away my comfy hoodie sweatshirt because it was a man’s sweatshirt. I only wore it at home. I was doing a tznius experiment to see how it feels to only wear women/girl’s clothing.

Today I was putting away laundry and realized that some of my hangers were used for men’s clothing.

Is there a lingering effect?

Iceberg lettuce

Cheesecake

Element

Ethical

Joseph: Not that I agree with any of it. But especially if this conversation is happening and going to happen, then who says it can happen here?

Is he and his family not affected by your words?

Does adding rudeness and potential trauma from frum Jews really speak highly of frum Jewish kiddusha? You are representing religious Jews when you speak.

Why not guard your tongue and not have such a thread start off as such against someone?

B”H

Dear Spider,

Qu’est-ce que c’est?

Maybe it’s like good cop bad cop? Both voices are important and together the message is stronger?

Also for the first person, I am guessing that since the person had more personal knowledge of the situation, it was harder not to come off so strongly against it.

This person also probably saw this happening time and again and may have wanted to make sure that I was not going to be just another person too. Esp since this person had a big role in my awakening.

So yea. Thank you. I am the one who was being harsh here and not being more appreciative.

Thank you

Being a fun is not a qualification for a LOR but it does make coming to shul more enjoyable.

Being open-minded in the sense that I can share about myself and feel accepted is a qualification imho. Open-minded also goes for a Rebbetzin. At least having a flexible mind.

[Fyi this post starts at the end of pg 1]

Cont…

Last night I felt compelled to ask and it was not a regular thing that I do.

I take it that this time was from Hashem and so that is why it was okay. If the situation was different then I could come here and say that a random Jew said or whatever and not believe it.

You are right though that I don’t have proof (and it’s not always safe to talk to strangers, let alone get psak-info from them…) that he was really that Rabbi and that woman may have been playing along the whole time (or maybe did not hear the part where he said that he was a rabbi), but I am going to look at it favorably and am pretty sure that his massive kosher party grocery purchase was for the shul’s Purim party.

I will ask my LOR and get back to you when I do.

Thank you

One last thing… in this Pesach case I am basically going with whatever my LOR will tell me.

Are there more halachic opinions?

WTP: I have talked to strangers in grocery stores before about halacha. Not often. Maybe this was the second time in 4 years.

Another time I asked a frum woman if my sponge had to be kosher. She said no and then connected me with her LOR and soon after I attended a challah bake. Where I live people direct me to the LOR.

This guy from last night told me to go to my local Chabad and he was a rabbi there.

Once he started talking, the lady in my line’s checkout (right in front of me), turned around and spoke in Hebrew, saying “I thought I heard your voice” to the rabbi and then chatted for a few moments before he told me to go to Chabad and they will give me a form to sell my house.

Then he asked me about Purim and told me to come to my LOS to hear the Megillah.

“Did you mention names or were the names of the particular rabbis understood by those hearing your comment?”

The ones who I was less enthusiastic about?

No not at all. I was thinking back about a number of rabbis and not for everything but in some ways.

I said no names. He does not know of the rabbis that I was talking about or what other shuls I could possibly be referring to.

I did not even have one specific one in mind, but more of a general vibe and meant that recently I found a shul that was different for me in a big way (though honestly all the other rabbis were super good to me and went out of their way to do so much and bless me — and of course I still daven for them and their families with gratitude).

The point was that I was super enthusiastic about this shul and was implying that he would have a fun experience if he went there for Purim (he asked me if I knew of any Purim parties, and I said no not really but yes at the shul that I started going to recently).

The last time I talked to him, we spoke about Judaism and it sounded like while he attended his shul sometimes, he was turned off by the classes (told me that specifically that he didn’t go back after one lesson).

So my intention was that he may really enjoy himself at this shul with this rabbi who was/is a lot of fun.