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  • in reply to: Riced Cauliflower (T) #1223011
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    Lol, I wouldn’t like it either

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    I’m sorry CR & Joseph. I was wrong. So far it seems that I opened the account in 2008, so 9 years ago.

    in reply to: Mishloach Manos Contest #1223024
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    Maybe CTLAWYER’s version of “$0.95 – $1.22” is equivalent to our “$6” reality.

    I get how that sounds backwards. But somehow I think it works both ways.

    Edited to be more clear that in his perspective, spending $0.95-$1.22 is in actuality $6 (understandably confusing), because for him $6 feels like $0.95-$1.22 (yea this way sounds better).

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225868
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    I thought of the CR and posters telling me to ask my LOR.

    I assumed that I would just do research and hear what someone else does. Super mazal from Hashem that he was a LOR from my LOS.

    Yea I will find out. The selling the whole house is news to me, but so is a lot of stuff.

    Tbc 🙂

    in reply to: Riced Cauliflower (T) #1223009
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    I have a male relative who is Sephardi and married an Ashkenazi woman.

    They have one olive child and one that is super light.

    So interesting how that happens 🙂

    in reply to: Riced Cauliflower (T) #1223008
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    I’m actually on the darker (more olivey) side but I go to Chabad and I don’t advertise my Sephardiness, unless it’s to point out my kitniyot status.

    My sibling is light skinned and light eyed. Our parents are mixed.

    Okay now you can pick me out from a crowd.

    in reply to: Collecting in Lawrence #1228621
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    Joseph: Or call the real police and then you can use your one phone call to telecollect

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225866
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    I’ll ask LU. Maybe it’s like I am renting the space but nothing belongs to me?

    Will let you know when I find out.

    in reply to: It is the same tune!!! #1225978
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    *Happy Happy Purim MRS PLONY* 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    Mine is an email address from at least 12-13yo. Doesn’t have my name.

    in reply to: Packing Peanuts #1223019
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    Maybe he’s using them to ship something?

    They are very old school.

    Now stuff comes in bubble wrap, puffy air bags, tissue paper, or this cool perforated brown accordion-remeniscent paper —at least that’s what gets regularly shipped to me.

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225864
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    Hashgacha Pratis!!!

    So tonight I went to the grocery store and in the other line I saw what I thought was a LFJ (local frum Jew) buying a lot of Purim party stuff (Kedem grape juices and disposable plates in extra large quantities).

    So I was thinking “Should I ask? Maybe I should ask? Naw I don’t want to bother him. No I should ask. No he is about to leave.”

    Finally —He is paying and I couldn’t take it anymore so I say, “Excuse me, but do people sell their dishes??? [pause then I realize that I should add] for Pesach.”

    <So out of nowhere for all he knew, I got that in retrospect>

    Turns out that he is a LOR and actually one of them from my LOS; I just did not meet him yet.

    Guess what CR:::

    According to my LOR, you sell your ENTIRE house. Yes that’s right. Even after cleaning, the house no longer belongs to you during Pesach. You sell it to a nonJew and then get it back after Pesach.

    That’s because there is still lingering chametz he said (there is no way to get rid of it all, so we sell any traces).

    Yepp yepp —Moral of the story: Doesn’t matter if I don’t have chametz foods and my house is clean, my house (including dishes of course and everything else) must be sold for Pesach.

    He said to just got to my LOS and fill out a form and the rabbi will do it for me.

    Yays 🙂

    in reply to: Riced Cauliflower (T) #1223006
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    If someone thinks that I am Ashkenazi then I can REPRESENT my Sephardic peeps and show the world that it’s okay to be a Sephardi in an Ashkenazi world 🙂

    Okay… that sounded silly.

    Anyway, maybe people will be more open-minded about who is what and that’s all okay and from Hashem… if I was more open with being Sephardi.

    in reply to: Collecting in Lawrence #1228618
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    Look for signs that say “No soliciting” and skip those houses.

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    LU: Your MM is on its way 🙂

    in reply to: Do computer mice like peanut butter? #1224808
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    Hamen is loading up his truck as we speak.

    in reply to: Riced Cauliflower (T) #1223003
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    I thought that it was in the kitniyot kategory (KK not to be confused with the one with an extra letter), like peas and kit kat bars?

    in reply to: Riced Cauliflower (T) #1223001
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    Serious question:

    During Pesach…

    If you’re Ashkenazi, or look Ashkenazi (lighter skin but your father is Sephardic and you’re Sephardic), are you allowed to eat riced cauliflower in public (Jewish public and/or regular mixed public)?

    What if someone thinks chas v’shalom that you’re eating actual rice during Pesach?

    in reply to: Last minute zombie costume #1225893
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    If it’s #foranimaginaryfriend, then it’s better to refer your imaginary friend to Planet Naught Costumes in Lakewood.

    Imaginary friends get a 105% discount on costumes, costume makeup, and zombie butter. Plus a free consultation with ZomBie Spa director Maxwell Kracow.

    in reply to: THE BROKEN TELEPHONE GAME!!! #1228053
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    Pour

    Tea

    Ginger

    Root

    Plant

    Flower

    in reply to: What would you do about a bruised leg? #1222918
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    Yay MRI is good and all is normal!

    Didn’t show a hematoma. Showed some markings of prior injury (from the fall but everything thank G-d is healthy and will heal on its own).

    I don’t have cancer (yay. was scared after Googling possible reasons why my bruise is still bruised looking and sarcoma came up but it’s not the case).

    Thank you!!! Baruch Hashem 🙂 🙂 🙂

    in reply to: Packing Peanuts #1223017
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    So does shipping tape. Or any tape.

    Use it to get any little foam fuzzies off.

    Or roll around on the ground since they put little foam pieces in potting soil to fluffen it up (allow for oxygen) so surely some vacant dirt will appreciate the gift.

    Or just wear the packing peanuts for Purim [<—and say that sentence five times fast].

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225860
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    About garbage disposals: AFAIK in the US, most homes I thought have one, except little cottages and country homes and some studio rentals.

    Now I want to ask more people to see if it’s as really as common as I think it is to have one in the kitchen.

    Geordie613: What?! There is a composting pickup? That is the most amazing thing that I have heard in a long time.

    I feel something. What is it? Like awe, admiration, and slight envy for your system… with a desire to have something like that here too.

    Where does the composting go? Wow. So nice.

    This feeling reminds me of when I learned that in (France right?), university is free and so are babysitters/childcare. A parent can literally have someone come to his/her house to help with washing laundry, and it’s all covered by the govt. health insurance.

    Even when taxes are higher, that is still amazing and very thoughtful and advanced and good overall (imho looking from the USA).

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222988
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    LU: Because I was saying that back in Chazon Ish’s day maybe the circumferences of the matzot were smaller. And/or maybe finding a Shmurah matzah was a greater investment, bigger deal, more prized part of the sedar eating.

    It really isn’t long ago.

    in reply to: Smoking and Gender Equality #1222824
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    I wonder if that works with food.

    If a woman eats vegetables and healthy and yet her husband doesn’t and he somehow lives off of M&M’s, challah, steak, salami, and potato chips (of course defying fairness by not gaining weight), oh and pizza and soda, would he start eating healthier and cut out the junk food if she decided that she from now on was going to eat exactly everything that he wold be eating?

    in reply to: Smoking and Gender Equality #1222823
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    That’s so genius!

    Wow thanks for sharing LU 🙂

    Such a good story and blessed outcome.

    Leila tov ?

    in reply to: Smoking and Gender Equality #1222820
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    LU: I love how you keep us in suspense with your stories, ever waiting for the next one 🙂

    Sleep well

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225853
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    Omgosh Geordie613. Just Googled “garbage disposal england” and it seems like they are not so common in England.

    Under the drain hole in my sink is this vicious bladed creature (appliance/machine) that grinds up food waste before it drains into the pipes.

    So if I have scraps of food from my plates, or pieces of cooked broccoli that would stink up my kitchen trash if I tossed them in the trashcan, all of those bits get shredded up.

    I don’t have to use that strain in my sink to catch the food if I do not want to because I can just turn on my garbage disposal switch and run some water to flush the food waste down the drain.

    I have an InSinkErator

    in reply to: Smoking and Gender Equality #1222818
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    Are bochurim who smoke more open-minded about marrying a girl who smokes?

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225851
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    Thank you LU 🙂

    Public Service Announcement to CR and people:

    Do NOT get rid of dry oats in the garbage disposal!!!

    I did that last year because I had already thrown out my last garbage bag of chametz trash and then realized that I still had some oats. I figured that I can save myself one more garbage bag (though I could have just taped the package up and thrown it in the dumpster as is) and a trip to the dumpster by getting rid of it in the garbage disposal before kashering my sink.

    (Lazy yes I know but I was already worn out from cleaning and making trips)

    Needless to say, last year I got a brand new garbage disposal for Pesach.

    Sounds good but what that really means is that the sink’s drain pipe was clogged, and it was filled with irky still water.

    Then, lucky me, I got to suck up the water with a turkey baster, as I waited another day or so for the plumber to install a new garbage disposal.

    The plumber said that his wife once did the same thing with dry rice.

    which brings us to….

    Public Service Announcement #2:

    Do NOT get rid of dry rice in the garbage disposal. (See the reference about the plumber’s wife)

    Thank you 🙂

    in reply to: Hamantaschen Recipes #1222795
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    No-Bake Peanut Butter & Chocolate Hamentaschen from *Busy in Brooklyn*:

    Peanut Butter Buckeye Hamantaschen

    3/4 cups natural peanut butter*

    1/4 cup butter or margarine (1/2 stick)

    1 tbsp honey

    1 1/4 cups powdered sugar

    1/2 teaspoon vanilla

    1/4 tsp kosher salt

    honey roasted peanuts

    8oz. California Gourmet chocolate chips

    2 tbsp coconut oil

    Method:

    In a large bowl, beat the peanut butter, margarine, honey, vanilla and salt. Add in the powdered sugar and mix until a soft dough forms. If the mixture is too sticky to handle, add a bit more powdered sugar. Roll the dough into balls and form each ball into a triangle. Fill each triangle with honey roasted peanuts.

    Melt the chocolate over a double boiler and stir in the coconut oil. Using a fork, dip the peanut butter triangles into the chocolate so that the edges are covered all around. Shake off excess chocolate and place on parchment paper. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

    *I use peanut butter that is labeled as natural but it still has sugar added.

    YIELD: approximately 20 hamantaschen

    in reply to: What to do when attacked by anti-semite? #1222747
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    From Aish:

    in reply to: What age to start smoking #1222893
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    Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think washing clothes thoroughly in the washing machine can rid them of a smoking smell.

    Does dry cleaning clothes also remove the smoker’s-smell?

    Imho, I think that the smoker’s-smell would be a great deterrent to starting smoking.

    Who wants to stand next to someone who smells like smoke, while he or she is davening?

    The smell may interfere with a fellow Jew’s tefillah.

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222982
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    Two things.

    1. A Shmurah matzah has the circumference as a large pizza, or at least medium. 3/4th is a lot of matzah!

    Was the Chazon Ish eating and referring to today’s size matzah? Maybe back in the day they were smaller?

    2. The afikomen does not have to be hidden? News to me.

    Want to know something that seemed like such a great idea last year and in retrospect maybe was not?

    Last year, my Pesach table at the shul hid the afikomen in someone’s stroller. The husband wife and baby got up to leave early.

    We felt bad that they would miss the afikomen, and wanted to make them happy (so we thought that they would appreciate it, but maybe not).

    Thus, we hid it in the bottom part of the stroller, expecting them to be surprised when they found it once they walked home (guessing that they walked by all appearances and there was an Eruv).

    Was that thoughtful or foolish?


    Thanks 🙂

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225848
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    Never had Marmite:

    AIM: Thank you. Yes for discussion. If something is alarmingly confusing and LOR-worthy, then I take it from there to my LOR (like the question about the bracha and spitting out food).

    Also, when I first started posting, I did not have a LOR.

    Baruch Hashem now I have a LOR (and LORebbetzin for personal questions) so super yay and thankfully I have been getting official psaks in that department.

    … I did not know that some people sell their dishes. Last year I put mine away and used disposables (silverware too).

    Thankfully I don’t have that much food at home and it’s all pretty much whole foods (fruits, veggies, kosher for Pesach fish, eggs) but my biggest chametz love is oats (of which I will happily consume before the Yom Tov). Blah blah blah sorry so boring.


    So does Marmite have gluten?

    in reply to: Fraudulent Mezuzos and Tefillin #1222695
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    Only story that I have was that I received a mezuzah scroll as a gift. It was written in Israel and the gift-giver was very excited.

    I felt bad when I told her that I checked and it was not kosher (letters were touching), so she mailed it back.

    I got a new scroll at my LOS and all was baruch Hashem good from there 🙂

    in reply to: Fraudulent Mezuzos and Tefillin #1222694
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    Syag Lchochma: OMGOSH!!! Wows.

    in reply to: Smoking and Gender Equality #1222813
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    Socially acceptable.

    How do you react when you see a guy in a suit smoking outside his company? Would you still want to do business with him if you found out that he was the CEO?

    Even if he is a dad?

    What about a woman who is smoking in a tznius skirted suit? Would you want to do business with her? What if she was the CEO?

    And if you found out that she was a mother would you feel the same way as a father smoking?

    What if both this father and this mother (both married to separate nonsmokers) don’t smoke indoors and interact with their children for the same number of hours and affection.

    —Does a smoking father not get more social slack than a smoking mother?

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222973
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    Is eating matzah supposed to be satiating in itself?

    Back then maybe matzah was more of a highlight and now even Shmurah matzah is more accessible and affordable.

    From what I have noticed and experienced,today’s matzah eating is part of the sedar but not necessarily the highlighted taste of the Pesach meal.

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222972
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    Has anyone ever found an afikomen years or months later?

    Is there a deadline to find it? If the finding person does not find it within a certain amount of time, must you give a hint or give away its location?

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225834
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    Do you know the answer?

    So I should ask my LOR if I have to buy chametz just so I can sell it?

    Though I should be honest with him and say that owning chametz in itself is very tempting for me even if I know that it isn’t mine and it’s hidden and sealed in a remote remote place.

    …So maybe that is another reason why I need to ask my LOR and not the CR since only my LOR will know those details and pasken appropriately based on the array of factors and take into account where I am now. Which means that if/when I do ask B”H, it is best not to tell you about it.

    Thank you

    in reply to: What age to start smoking #1222885
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    “40-50 days after the “kill date” is the best time to smoke meats.” (A)

    A: What happens during those first 40-50 days before smoking meats?

    Is it cured in salt?

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225831
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    Yes I do… so this is a purely LOR question?

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222969
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    AIM: Thanks for explaining. Didn’t know that it was a joke.

    ZD: questions on eating matzoh in under 3 min or at least under 9…

    Is that during a speed sedar? When they are trying to get to the meal asap?

    Or they are just super hungry?

    Or is it to fulfill the mitzvah quickly (where one is not to delay a mitzvah)?

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222968
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    Oops just saw Avram in MD’S response after sending this.

    I have seen people do what lesschumras said about pushing for food and even complaining about it unfortunately.

    The shul was not Temple Beth Boor but it was very welcoming to everyone and there were several otherwise normal yet ravenous individuals in the group.

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222967
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    “By your definition, a frum slumlord is committing an avaira by putting the lives of his tenants at risk ( bad wiring, no heat hot water etc)” (LC)

    Lesschumras: Isn’t this an aveirah because it puts lives in danger plus it is a chillul Hashem?


    At last night’s Tetzaveh Torah class, my LOR said that Torah speaks very practically on how a Jew must dress and conduct himself because he represents the Jewish people with his dress and behavior.

    One who even walks around with grease on his shirt should die (but not literally be put to death, as far as I understood, but halacha states it like that to send a message). —- (((Maybe this relates to the hot dog eating which can be messy – but maybe not because any grease is understood in context of the contest)))

    in reply to: 7 letter word game (3rd letter) #1228392
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    Messier

    Sugared

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222962
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    What does that mean?

    Well there was an informal competition/contest between him and a few other rabbis and/or congregants to see who could eat the most maror. I don’t know if there was a prize but there was a winner. I don’t remember who won.

    in reply to: What to do when attacked by anti-semite? #1222730
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    Thanks Avram in MD

    The weird thing is that our president can speak so degradingly and gets support for it.

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222960
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    What about a marror eating contest?

    When I was a kid, I saw that at my LOS. It was so fun seeing my LOR being so silly and tearing up (he was always very serious in my eyes).

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