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I thought LF was a girl
If they are paying her and she’s working as a social worker, she is bound to privacy laws. There may be a conflict of interest here. However you have the right to ask to be referred to another person if you feel uncomfortable.
Yet I agree to give it a try. Just be yourself.
It could also be good that she knows your family and whatever you tell her, for the most part (unless it has to do with harming someone or crimes chas v’shalom), must remain private on her end.
So you’re free to be you and tell her what you’ve confessed to us here.
B’Hatzlacha as well 🙂
But when it comes to our respect to Hashem, isn’t it even more special we’ve been commanded to do. Ideally we should want to honor Hashem and have the service come from the heart.
Is is the same with the rabbi?
RebYidd23 +1
Oops sorry popa_bar_abba, you said motzei Shabbos Pashas Vaera!
Got it 🙂
They do have the smaller “compact” size available and on sale right now.
It’s on their website.
Potential costume contest hits 5777:
Jared and Ivanka
Trump and Melania
Putin and Trump (you pick the girl)
Princess Leah and Darth Vader
The same way you get a burdened camel through the eye of a needle.
This is why people are investing their money to one day live in outer space.
ZD: Really? Wow. I know a Conservative rabbi who told me that her pupil made aliyah and the rabbi is on their list of people to accept. I thought that mean that her pupil was considered Jewish.
Where do I look this stuff up?
LU, every year the news has updates about some cruise ship with a norovirus outbreak. Stories of employees getting it and puking in the sink. Then later they use that sink to prepare food.
Hundreds of people now have it. They are quarantined in their rooms for the entire cruise. Miserable. Later when they get off the ship they have quotes about how they missed the best fun stuff and all they got was a voucher from the cruise ship for another time.
That said… I have a friend who loves cruises. I told her that I’m scared of getting sick (and being helpless and trapped in a tiny room at sea). She said that it’s so much fun and not to think about it.
Lol autocorrect! It undermines after you type. Not lesschrumas fault at all.
Y0U’re We1c0me BB 🙂
So glad that whatever that murder thread is closed. I didn’t open it and please don’t tell me. I get nightmares.
Today Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer’s posted a shiur about converts on Torah Anytime:
“Who is a Real Convert? How Does this Effect us?”
baisyaakovliberal, thank you for sharing ?
Traditionally, someone who wants to convert is pushed away three times. I think by rabbis. But anyway, so I took a shot at being the first poster here.
You don’t need to convince me or prove yourself. You are welcome.
Btw I have heard different explanations for why the potential convert is pushed away three times.
One belief is that if he/she has dormant Jewish soul, then that nudging back awakens it and only a Jewish neshamah would still go through with it in the end.
Is it just me, or does having the embassy in Jerusalem sound extremely inconvenient?
Also, the diplomats working there will have to live in or commute through Jerusalem.
It’s a big trip just for people who need to go to the embassy.
As for political reasons, that’s another story.
2scents: Shhh… you just revealed Israel’s secret screening questions.
Mik5: Very brave of you to share!
Litvos, thank you for the clarification as well. When I reread the thread, I didn’t know what you meant. Then I wondered if. But it could he anything. But what if I said something and it wasn’t helpful etc. And what if someone, years from now, can relate and reads this and etc…
Thus thank you for your words. Much appreciated 🙂
Every blessing to you Litvos 🙂
A lot of that wall is projected to be cutting into American’s private farmlands.
There is a difference between Jews and the refugees because, as one said, at least one terrorist has been found to be hiding amongst the hurt rest.
The Jews in the Holocaust were turned away because of other reasons. Rather than the refugees, I find a stronger similarity between the treatment of Mexicans today compared to Jews in WWII, in the Trump Administration.
If you can, I would do it in writing so it’s recorded.
If possible, email them the night or week before, and/or hand the person a letter that morning to make it clear that you must leave at a certain time.
1. What about a case where someone is crying and out of tissues?
2. Can the person get toilet paper from the restroom and use it to wipe his/her face in the prayer room?
3. What about paper towels?
4. Or is it better to just leave davening early to avoid the mess?
How come no one here invited the Kushners and Trump for Shabbos that weekend?
Did anyone offer them accommodations, including space for the Secret Service?
Next time, Hashem-helping, one can organize a big Shabbos, if need be, that would include everyone and all of the details.
Serious questions because if it’s really an issue that concerns us, then why didn’t we offer our help to fellow Jews?Instead of offering solutions, we’re going back and forth about what happened.
The Kushners may not be the last Jews to publicly be in such a debacle. So let’s plan for next time, if need be, b’esrat Hashem.
Afghanistan isn’t on his list. Neither is Saudi Arabia, as mentioned here. Plus Pakistan. Those are from “news” sites.
Obviously everything is way more complicated than the whole, “We’re not letting terrorists come here. and. This is for our protection” (Summary of Something).
Covert means that we are not privy. Not like transparency with the American people is a good strategy. Surely the POTUS needs to keep some of his agendas behind the scenes. That’s the point.
Maybe he wanted to do more and had barriers. Maybe anything. These are speculations. I don’t know anything except that anything is possible, almost anything B”H.
1. Va’eira was last week. I’m guessing that’s what you meant.
2. Next time tell your kid that if he wants to jump like a frog, while he is at it, he better stick to windows.
3. How would he be drowning Pharoah in a bath at shul? [please don’t say the toilet.]
“This is in relation to my planned conversion to Judaism; what prayers to Hashem and/or deeds do I need to do to help her?” (Litvos)
Litvos: What do you mean that this is in relation to your planned conversion?
Are you converting to Judaism to help your mother? And/or, by converting to Judaism, do you hope that it will improve your mother’s or your financial circumstances?
–Btw, the challah thing is symbolic. One cannot say that your eating them or your mother eating this bread will result in more income. If it was so, then we’d all be eating way more of this challah bread. You know?
At the same time, while we do pray for our material needs, that doesn’t mean that G-d will deliver. Sometimes G-d says, “No.”
Not only that, but there is a concept called, histadlus. It’s the actual effort in changing the situation. Prayer is meant to change us. It’s a humbling experience. You come out of prayer a different person than the one who came into it. However, sometimes prayer alone is not enough to change a situation.
Didn’t read the thread beyond the few previous posts…
As for bedbugs, even clean normal families can find themselves infested with them. It’s harder if the family cannot afford encasing furniture, mattresses, as well as professional heat cleaning and extermination services.
That said, fyi, if G-d forbid anyone needs to get rid of bedbugs in comforters, mattresses, and sheets, you can do so by sealing them up 100% in plastic bags and letting them sit out in the hot sun for a week or two. The heat will kill them.
This is a good low cost method for someone who lives in a hot dry place and has time to spare.
This also works for dust mites.