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Thanks but I cannot take any credit. It’s actually thanks to learning from other people and posters-who-are-also-people about circumstances and challenges that come up.

One such challenge is having limitations on which homes one and one’s family will eat at [how do I rephrase this sentence so it doesn’t end in a preposition?]

So come Purim, how is it that people give homebaked treats to a broader scope of people — which may include friends, family, teachers, neighbors, and children who show up at their door with MM too — and those people will all eat these treats?

Maybe there was some unspoken Purim code where all MM baked goods are permissible?

Maybe it’s a majority situation, like finding unlabeled meat in the parking lot of a shopping center where the majority of stores are kosher?

Then… that is assuming that people eat the cookies. So another question is whether this is indeed the case, and people do eat what they receive. Because the MM is meant to be a treat for the person to enjoy, for one thing. Are these MM really being eaten?

Or maybe it’s a social and fun thing and people enjoy seeing them even when they don’t actually eat them and maybe ask for the recipes later?

The other thing is the love that goes into the gift… That’s real.

And as people invest time into finding the perfect recipes, ingredients, and then spend hours pouring their hearts into such delicious treats, hopefully someone else is eating and enjoying them too.

Plus imho I think it would be easier to shrug off a neighbor tossing out a few Kedem tea biscuits in a baggie that you gave them than three of your homemade hamentaschens that your children would eat up in a heartbeat had they been at home.

Anyway thank you 🙂

Mammele and Joseph: I like the boat/ship idea 🙂

Just wondering how that worked in class when people are sailing ships. Maybe in swim class.

But paper gets soggy and plastic is relatively knew.

Maybe they made them with reeds. Then paper ships would have worked.

Now I wonder what came first, Football or Paper Football? I’m guessing the former. I wonder what they call Paper Football in places where Football is Really Soccer?

Anyone in Israel know what they call Paper Football? Like when you make a little triangle puck of paper and flick it across a desk?

ZD: I heard that many people don’t eat at other people’s houses.

Not just rabbis who wouldn’t eat at other people’s homes.

My impression was that some people only eat in a few friends places.

Wow LU!! Yay that was genius and I would have never guessed 🙂

You get a billion ? brownie points for your successful hypothesis 🙂

? = Brownie

What about Cholov Yisroel?

Do you only consume Cholov Yisroel dairy?

What if you do but your friend does not or vice versa?

Are you really not friends?

Really? And you trust all of your friends’ kashrus?

Bluhbluh: Excellent point. We don’t know for sure.

However in this case it’s kind of like Joseph’s following point

In this case, you’re very certain that the person is as Jewish as being Jewish gets and have enough evidence matrilineally to assert such.

You can def say to ask a local LOR to be sure.

Yet do you give this person who is in the dark a heads up about being Jewish?

Maybe then say to ask a LOR.

Or do you do and say nothing?

Lesschumras: Some people take yawning personally.

I am confused honestly.

I guess I have no clue how someone becomes Christian.

Christians don’t believe everyone is Christian. — At least Catholics recognize Jews today as being separate and don’t need to be converted. Baruch Hashem.

Side note: A friend of mine who’s Christian (maybe Protestant Baptist? or just Christian? I know she is not Catholic because she told me that specifically) told me that to be saved someone needs to acknowledge their lord JC, as G-d. She believed that I am missing out on heaven. Though this doesn’t prove anything against the point of people thinking everyone is Christian.

Good work huju! 🙂

Imho… The good thing about the Kiki Rikis when they are snug is that I can wear them under long sleeve tops and dresses with sheer sleeves.

LU: Maybe there are missing details?

She was married to someone who wasn’t Jewish?

Though I heard that it is an obligation to tell someone if she has children and mekarev the family for the sake of the Jewish children (heard in a shiur yesterday).

In the same shiur the rabbi said that in such a case, the father took his sons to shul every week and made sure that they davened.

The father didn’t convert but was extremely involved in making sure his sons had a good chinuch (dunno if they had daughters).

LU: No, well at least not yet 🙂

Rabbis have told me stories about how that’s happened to them. It seems to be a moment of pride.

Maybe those are the success stories and some people they’ve told and it didn’t make such an impact with a happy Jewish ending like the ones that they talk about.

Wondering what happens in real life when a regular person informs them of their Jewishness.

Though technically someone with a Christian father is also Christian. So if the father is Christian and Mother is Jewish, maybe it’s not such a thing to this someone as it would look to someone who is Jewish who only sees this person as then being Jewish (sorry for awkward worded sentence).

Thanks for the explanation yytz 🙂

How do parents yawn at home? Sometimes I yawn and it’s not something that I can suppress, just express in a more covert manner.