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Is your other friend a guy or a girl?
In Hong Kong the Jewish Community Center has a Glatt Kosher restaurant called The Coffee Shop. Chabad of Hong Kong says it’s open for lunch and dinner and has a diverse menu.
Maybe there?
Thinking out loud, maybe call the place directly and make sure that you can leave them there and someone has arranged to pick them up.
Or ask them if they need the books or where to take them.
I personally would not feel comfortable trusting any poster to just take my stuff and respect and love it based on CR alone.
But I don’t know. Maybe this in itself is a shaila to ask your LOR.
I meant Joseph.
Thank you Mod <3
Why did I think Hashemisreading was a man all of this time?
Maybe just like how people thought LU was a man too?
So weird.
golfer, one example was matzah.
Twas very unpleasant and I ate just a little (but enough for the mitzvah) spelt matzah because I was told that it was likely okay and I must do it if I wanted to participate in the mitzvot of Pesach.
I’m really lucky because a rabbi later didn’t force me to eat challah at his Shabbos table and that was super nice.
Yes on speeding ticket unfortunately
No points. Could have gotten a point but I went to court and said why I was speeding (Wanted to break my record for time it took to get to the place that I was going) paid like $200 something (judge told me to make better goals for myself in life).
Happened over a decade ago. Dunno the costs of such a ticket today and it must vary by state.
Can one get kicked out of yeshiva for asking questions?
I thought that the yeshiva encourages questions
Dear Mod-29,
I’m sorry for trying to explain why I understand what you’re saying. The analogy wasn’t even good and it really doesn’t matter if I empathize (I do but you don’t need my validation).
You expressed how the giving of numbers makes the CR unpleasant for you. Thank you for sharing that with me and us.
I just took a shiur in real life on Yisro and we learned about honoring one’s parents. I thought of you.
And I want to honor you as a Mod. One way to do that is to refrain from giving numbers. I will find another way to express myself and pray that it will be sweet and good to you.
Thank you and sending you blessings.
We’re not grading here but we do write for each other.
It’s feedback.
Facebook didn’t start with Likes. It was already in our culture. It’s in our culture. Facebook is a reflection of society. In turn it affects us, so that Liking thing with numbers and points increasing still impacts our reward systems. The association makes sense if one is just exposed to those two things. However, point systems are everywhere.
And we are made of numbers.
Wait that’s not true.
I loved school. Always. Still do.
What no one here has never gotten a +1 Extra credit point or more?
Do they not give out grades in Jewish schools? Seminaries? Yeshivot?
I like it but probably because I played Nintendo growing up.
Thanks Meno, about the ^ Good to know. Easier that way too.
It’s always been encouraging of course.
I am saying that now maybe more trophies are given out after practice.
Before maybe it was usually after a winning game or tournament.
Since…
We don’t do high fives because of tznius reasons, at least IRL.
And encouraging words are culturally based and subjective.
For example, “Go _____!”0 Can sound encouraging or maybe like someone is shouting for the person to go away.
“Yay _______.” May be considered too childlike. Although it is a favorite of mine here (which for some that may further strengthen the first sentence in this example).
…Numbers here is a way to express agreement, encouragement, and support.
Inflation is an problem when the value of the points and/or rewards of receiving points drops accordingly.
The intention is for the points, in my humble opinion, to evoke good feelings, not apathy G-d forbid.
So the question likely asks whether more points, at higher ranges, and greater frequencies decreases the value of an occasional “+1” for a poster.
Is there a way to gauge this? A double-blind study to determine the emotional and psychological effects on the poster when he/she receives points and/or reads that others are awarded points?
Does it hurt the psyche of the one who didn’t receive points? Maybe the person +X on a statement against what another poster said. Did that poster feel threatened or ganged up on?
Do some posters sometimes write profound posts and yet never seem to get points, even during inflation, and as a result they feel left out or less worthy?
Plus there is no standardization of what merits a +1, +100, +1000, +Infinity, etc.
—-Do posters feel that the receiving poster merited the worthy amount?
Was the awarder giving points based on post or maybe happened to be in a good mood or less good mood, or maybe just generally gears towards a certain range or point scale, including just one type.
Toda Rabba Hashemisreading 🙂
*12 is a tiny and up there
Maybe the CR is now a more encouraging place
+Googol
Do humans feel shame when animals become instinct?
People used to hunt dodo birds and I’ve never seen one IRL. They are gone.
We go about life like nothing.
Not realizing that the world was more species diverse at one point.
Our lawns and parks used to be covered in native grasses and trees.
Some places today used to be barren land or swamps.
Will anyone care about tigers enough to mention them more than at a glance? If G-d forbid they become extinct.
There is video footage of the last thylacine.
Who knew about the thylacine before this post?
Do your children know about the thylacine?
And/Or do children you know know about the thylacine?
Maybe they will just stumble upon them one day on Google or in the CR someday when they’re older, like I did.
Did you know that when Moshiach comes it is said that all trees will bear fruits?
Even trees that have no fruits today
They will have fruits that we have yet to know
ZD that’s a good point. Association b/w Shabbos and food one hates could lead to disgust of Shabbos.
I feel that way about being pressured to eat certain foods on certain Yom Tovim. I’ve ended up getting sick after and then felt resentful for just having “a little.” The people telling me to have a little for the mitzvah aren’t in my body and reality and don’t have a right to judge my doctors either.
I know that Hashem makes miracles but He didn’t end up making the food suddenly okay (and even I felt convinced that this time a little won’t hurt because it is a “mitzvah” and Hashem would cure me for this special occasion). After I felt resentful to the host who did not respect my boundaries as well. I didn’t want to go back.
But ultimately I was the one who listened and put the food in my mouth and I had to learn to say No.
Which is still hard at times when everyone is eating and telling you to just try or have a little because it’s chiyuv.
Barley we could eat hot at home on Tu B’Shevat
The First 12 Fruits of the Seder
“1. Wheat is the basis for our sustenance (see Psalms 81:17, 104:15, 147:14), but only after we labor to grow, harvest and prepare it. (Barley, although not included in the order of the meal, is one of the seven fruits for which Israel is praised. Often used for feeding animals. Its designation for the Omer offering inspires our efforts to harness our animalistic tendencies.)” Chabad
2. Olives
3. Dates
4. Grapes
5. Figs
6. Pomegranates
7. Etrogim
8. Apples
9. Walnuts
10. Almonds
11. Carobs
12. Pears
LU. Def don’t think that was the case here. The arrangement was full of bite size foods and precut and/or arranged for snacking.
There was a fruit platter of pre washed grapes. Halved strawberries. I don’t remember what else.
Dried fruits.
Cookies for wheat.
Dried barley as a decoration on the table cloth.
Really beautiful and all ready to eat.
Carobs from what I remember were placed in pieces on the table. I don’t remember if they had whole ones.
Ditto WTP & TM 🙂
Pulling a tooth that is sticking out from the gum isn’t the same as slicing into soft tissue to extract wisdom teeth.
64 seconds 🙂