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  • in reply to: 98 cents! #1207831
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    iacisrmma: The lecturer said specifically the 98th. I don’t want to accuse him of being wrong. So I rather say that maybe I misheard (but I listened and he emphasized the 98 a number of times).

    He said that it’s always the 98th. It falls on a diff day each year but it’s the 98th day. He said the some bad things happened the day before and after. But the 10th of Tevet is the 98th day.

    squeak: Are you saying that it changes when there is an eclipse?

    in reply to: 7 letter word game #1208375
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    Teacher

    Ricksha

    [Welcome LU 🙂 ]

    in reply to: Confusing halacha, minhag, chumra and shtus* #1211065
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    DY: Thank you!

    in reply to: Jury duty #1209214
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    CTLAWYER: Have you ever asked a juror is he/she believes that “the Bible is the literal word of [Hashem]” (The Jury Expert)?

    From *How Attorneys Can Use Religion to be More Effective at Trial*^…

    If the juror answers affirmatively, he will most likely benefit the prosecution and not the defense.” (The Jury Expert^)

    ^The Jury Expert [ISSN: 1943-2208] is a publication of the The American Society of Trial Consultants)

    in reply to: 98 cents! #1207828
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    Except that here, how many people know about the number 98?! I had no clue until today.

    Not only that, but $6.66 is so rare. OTOH a plethora of products, foods, and services end in 98.

    Omgosh!!! Then there are the billions of people… maybe hundreds of thousands of Jews or more born in the 1980s.

    I know a bunch of 1980 Jews(!) Even Jared Kushner was born in 1981.

    Also, does the 98th day affect anyone who isn’t Jewish? Our bad day is another’s good day.

    in reply to: I have suspicions #1207886
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    Unless your Shabbos naps are so powerful that your CR dreams manifest in the real world

    in reply to: Confusing halacha, minhag, chumra and shtus* #1211060
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    LU +1 and +1 [in case I forgot to Plus-One you earlier] 🙂

    in reply to: Confusing halacha, minhag, chumra and shtus* #1211057
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    What does ones mean in this sense? I think LU stated that it means coercion. How so?

    DY: Do you mean that she had to light an extra because she was coerced into “forgetting”?

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    ***Side note: Before today, did anyone notice that Neville ChaimBerlin’s subtitle says Blocked?

    NB posted on pg 1 of this thread.

    in reply to: What's the parsha after shidduchim? #1207814
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    I wasn’t saying that their marriages were anything less than good.

    They were being modest in their words while saying a lot.

    RT could have meant that the next parsha comes after death because from marriage onward, the couple is one.

    Why would their wives kill them if they spoke the truth? What is the truth? I don’t know. That’s why I asked. Since they weren’t specific, I made up a reason why.

    Maybe their wives wouldn’t want them sharing all the mushy details of their marriage and saying what comes next because it’s not tznius. Or anything.

    in reply to: Confusing halacha, minhag, chumra and shtus* #1211047
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    DY: What if she dreamt that she was lighting?

    in reply to: I have suspicions #1207884
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    Well that solves the mystery Sherlock.

    in reply to: Kosher Cruise #1220128
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    Sewage in our waters is very real.

    Also is a great way to get MRSA.

    And salmonella in our food supplies.

    Tell fishermen to stop complaining and sell those invisible fish already.

    in reply to: The Upsherin – What are the Origins? #1207972
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    The banjo on his knee

    in reply to: 7 letter word game #1208372
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    I said nisayon. It counts in the CR 🙂

    It’s only one word. You were right.

    Just in case the post isn’t posted until later, and more than one poster go for the same word, it helps to put it in context by doing the previous word before your own.

    Rapster

    Restful

    in reply to: Shadchanim charges #1208024
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    takahmamash +36

    in reply to: Confusing halacha, minhag, chumra and shtus* #1211042
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    I wasn’t offended.

    I can see how LU would think that. I don’t know if “I” count because one can argue that I’m still acquiring a steady practice. Still, I’ve forgotten while literally making it a point to remember.

    One example was that I was indoors all day long with the shutters closed. I didn’t realize that I missed candle lighting time. I didn’t even realize that it was getting dark outside. Then it hit me. Just a few hours earlier I was all about lighting. I was also tired and out of whack time-wise.

    Another situation was where I forgot to buy candles. I was out of everything. So I didn’t light.

    in reply to: Being makpid on looks #1210141
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    The wife that is pretty to her husband may not necessarily be a standard beauty on the magazine covers.

    However, the husband sees her beautiful neshamah, which colors his perception of his wife. Thus, to him, she is beautiful.

    Hopefully to Hashem we are also beautiful, for Hashem sees our souls and the good in us. According to Torah, the Jewish people are like Hashem’s wife.

    A wife also needs to be attracted to her husband, see his good, and the beauty of his neshamah. He also may not be attractive by modern or most people’s standards, but to her his is handsome.

    Furthermore, a husband is not meant to look at other women after he wants his date to be his kallah, and ishto. Then she is the most beautiful for there is no other woman in his world, b’esrat Hashem.

    in reply to: Kosher Cruise #1220126
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    It looks like fun.

    Side note::: A while ago a random person told me that she doesn’t ever want to travel to Europe because planes use so much fuel. She said that she felt bad that American soldiers are fighting on foreign land, and dying on foreign land, just for us to have fuel. Driving a car was enough for her.

    By deciding not to travel on planes, especially internationally, she said that she was doing her part in helping the soldiers come home.

    Um…. yea. For some reason I don’t think it really works that way.

    When it comes to businesses, I think that the demands that you make in purchasing their products or services makes a bigger difference than opting out.

    Or if you do opt out, putting your money elsewhere may give the companies a clue on how to better tailor their supply to your demands.

    in reply to: Kosher Cruise #1220125
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    There is also a Cruise Ship Report Card found at the FOE (Friends of the Earth) website so that anyone taking a cruise for Hashem purposes can do the histadlus to take the cruise ship that does the least harm to the environment.

    Other websites may have more information on how the cruise ship workers are treated and compensated.

    in reply to: Kosher Cruise #1220124
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    It’s our responsibility to also be mindful and conscientious about protecting the environment as best we can in this world.

    “The environmental issues with cruise ships are

    Carbon emissions

    Diesel particles

    Waste and rubbish

    Damage to reefs and ecosystems

    “In addition to airborne pollution cruise ships also produce a great deal of waste and rubbish.

    It is estimated that every passenger produces 3.5 kilograms of rubbish daily as opposed to 0.8 kilograms generated by people on shore.

    A typical cruise ship with 3000 passengers will also generate 30,000 gallons of human waste and 255,000 gallons of grey water a day.

    In addition there can be 15 gallons of toxic waste and 37,000 gallons of oily bilge water produced every day.

    Although cruise ships are required to have onboard waste treatment systems, they can lawfully release black water anywhere beyond three miles from the shore (except in certain areas of Alaska).

    Grey water (from washing up, laundry etc) can be discharged into the sea almost anywhere. Ships also produce vast amounts of ballast water containing diseases, pathogens and invasive species which is often discharged into fragile ecosystems.

    Cruise ships are also accused of damaging reefs. According to Ocean Planet, there are 109 countries with coral reefs, in 90 of which coral reefs have been damaged by anchors and sewage.” (Tourism Concern)

    in reply to: Is there a benefit to remaining single ? #1209873
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    About the positive: I think LU was saying that it is nice that you are acknowledging the positive qualities in being single right now.

    Based on my reading, LU was not advocating for being voluntarily and complacently single or staying single forever without working on yourself and finding your partner.

    One benefit for someone who has remained single until his/her 50’s is that this person will hopefully appreciate his/her spouse much much more when they’re married, as well as be ever grateful for Ha Kodesh Baruch Hu.

    in reply to: What's the parsha after shidduchim? #1207812
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    Yes. I get it. At least I think…

    DY and reuventree555 must be married because they not only could not hold back from answering, but when they did, they used humor so their wives wouldn’t kill them for telling me the truth.

    (?)

    Thanks!

    in reply to: Mah Jongg #1207865
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    I know grushim!!! People still talk about stuff that’s not worth much being worth grushim.

    I remember when they got rid of the smallest agarot.

    ***Wasn’t there also a time in the US when they wanted to do away with pennies?

    Once time I brought Israeli coins with me back to the US. The next time I was in Israel, I couldn’t even use it anymore. Now I leave Israeli money in Israel.

    in reply to: Dating Other Posters #1207805
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    Health: You could be a hipster and hasid!

    in reply to: Mnemonic device to remember Joseph, Jacob, and Isaac #1207712
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    WTP: My mom used to sing that!

    Awww just brought back sweet memories! !! 🙂

    Thank you thank you

    in reply to: Jury duty #1209198
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    About the baker’s dozen jury. I was picturing a fill-in juror in case another didn’t work out.

    However that might put the other jurors at risk of injury if someone wanted to take another juror out. Maybe also it would be an issue if that juror didn’t have anyone to talk to about the case.

    Either way I don’t think it would change the halachic nature of the question of being able to serve.

    in reply to: Mnemonic device to remember Joseph, Jacob, and Isaac #1207710
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    WTP thank you for correcting me here!

    That makes me happy because I Googled this earlier to get it right and felt bad for Benjamin, not being a patriarch.

    See.. I added another Y. Okay so it’s AYY. Avraham. Yitzhak. And Yaakov.

    Oh and hello no wonder there are four matriarchs because Yaakov married two.

    Thank you this is helping me organize it.

    in reply to: Jury duty #1209196
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    CTLAWYER: How do judges not automatically favor someone with their same last name?

    Maybe not everyone gets all excited when someone else shares a last name. Some last names are also more common than others.

    Maybe that’s why I am not a judge; I would want to favor anyone with the same last name as mine. Even if this person was guilty, maybe I would tell the prison officials to offer the person an extra sandwich or something for Shabbos.

    in reply to: Dating Other Posters #1207803
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    How do you feel about braiding your hair?

    in reply to: Is Dating Tznius? #1212134
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    *don

    in reply to: Confusing halacha, minhag, chumra and shtus* #1211028
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    Thank you. Okay that makes sense. It’s different after you have a routine of doing it consistently.

    Is that also why it’s important to go slow?

    Because if I do everything for a few months, then drop 3/4th of the stuff after burning out, it has greater negative consequences than if I did less than 1/4th of those mitzvot incrementally and then consistently? —Or maybe that’s one theory or angle and maybe it’s not black and white and always forward in regards to growing forward and upward.

    in reply to: Favorites lines from Shmuel Kunda Z"L tapes #1210984
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    Please pay my post no mind.

    In 2016, I became the unofficial Year-Poster for revived older threads.

    I did the same to that 7-letter word game thread that I wanted revived. Even if I didn’t revive other older threads, you may see that I added a post about its year of origin.

    Recently, this position came about thanks to iacisrmma. Iacisrmma told us how to pronounce iacisrmma’s username. In return, I promised to acknowledge the dated thread.

    Dating revived threads has been an exciting journey thus far.

    If you want to join in on this archeological discovery, please feel free to date any threads that you revive.

    Surely iacisrmma and more posters will appreciate it 🙂

    Thanks for flying El Al

    in reply to: This generation vs. former generations #1208221
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    But then there is the teaching that all the souls need to be born before Moshiach comes.

    In that case, even if our generation deserves it, Moshiach won’t come until it’s time and all the souls have already been born.

    Though LU, this doesn’t contradict what you said because we could indeed merit the Moshiach’s arrival even if he isn’t here yet.

    in reply to: Jury duty #1209195
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    Why isn’t the jury a baker’s dozen?

    in reply to: Jury duty #1209194
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    Maybe the room is bugged with cameras and the lawyers have earpieces that project the judge’s objections in their heads?

    in reply to: 7 letter word game #1208369
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    Necktie

    Elegant

    in reply to: What's the parsha after shidduchim? #1207810
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    Thanks DY +1 & Thanks RT555 +1

    Explanations would be appreciated 🙂

    in reply to: Kosher Cruise #1220120
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    Question question question… Even if the boat was 100% kosher. So kosher that only righteous frum men went on the cruise, worked on the cruise, and prayed on the cruise and it was a temporary kollel that filled in when a real-land kollel flooded.

    After the real-land kollel was restored and the righteous frum men were permitted to return to their kollel, a few men wanted to daven an extra day or two at sea.

    Shabbos, their families, and any other normal responsibilities would not be affected by their extra time on the cruise ship.

    ***The issue is that when this ship is at sea, it discharges all their waste into the ocean without restrictions. It’s far enough away from land to disregard any legislative concern for the environment, and so it does.

    Is it permissible for the talmudim to be on board on such a vessel without the need and for only amusement or the joy of learning in a new setting, when it comes at the expense of such needless pollution?

    in reply to: Rabbi bites the laffa #1207732
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    No hint at all. That was the most Jewish time reference that I could think of that was vague or would not be taken personally.

    There is nothing devious about thinner matzahs.

    ***When did we start eating matzot on Pesach in the first place?


    Here is another example that is more specific (and also not meant to say anything about matzot or people; rather it speaks to the way we gauge time):

    The Baal Shem Tov of blessed memory passed away in 1760. Generally speaking, we attribute the start of Chassidus with him.

    A number of frum Jews today consider Chassidus to be new.

    Chassidus is older than thinner matzot.

    That’s it. [Really all happy peaceful loving example.] Thank you.

    in reply to: What's the parsha after shidduchim? #1207807
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    *they’re

    in reply to: Is Dating Tznius? #1212133
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    “Those frumies who pressure people into quickie marriages should be put into chairim (excommunicated)” (kitov)

    kitov: It’s not just certain individuals. It’s cultural pressure. It’s societal pressure to get married or else you cannot participate in x, y, z, aleph, and so on.

    Unless unmarried men in his community also wear tallis gadols, a man needs to otherwise be married to done one in shul.

    Not being married is a very obvious thing for Jewish men and women who want to be a part of a community. Being married opens one up to social and economical benefits.

    The people doing the pushing are just a reflection of the greater pressure to be coupled up and have this Jewish life of family and children to get to the next level.

    At least that’s how I see it.

    in reply to: Favorites lines from Shmuel Kunda Z"L tapes #1210982
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    4yo thread

    in reply to: Rabbi bites the laffa #1207730
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    iacisrmma: I’m not talking about the Haskalah. I’m talking about the historical time.

    In my view, middle ages, okay. Fine, if you’re referring to a traditional which started circa 1300, then to me that’s established.

    On the other hand, to refer to something that began in the 1800’s, which is around the same time as the Haskalah, then to me that’s relatively new.

    In the same way that our women will likely survive childbirth today is relatively new.

    In the same way that getting antibiotics from doctors today is relatively new.

    In the same way that relying on electric lighting in our homes is relatively new.

    ALL NEW [to me]


    My calculation of “new” is in historical reference from what I consider “old.”

    in reply to: Kosher Cruise #1220118
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    lesschumras: Thanks for the info! 🙂

    in reply to: 7 letter word game #1208367
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    6yo Thread

    ______________________

    Erosion…

    Nisayon

    in reply to: Mnemonic device to remember Joseph, Jacob, and Isaac #1207708
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    Joseph: Last but not least.

    Hashem created the plants and animals first in order to prepare the space for man to enter. Afterward, before Shabbos, he created man.

    Now you can say that Abraham and Yaakov are very different than plants and animals. True. Maybe being Yosef is symbolic of the additional spiritual elements embodied and passed on to the generations.

    in reply to: Being a good shadchan #1207877
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    Thanks WTP for the inspiration that a regular non-professional suggestion has value and your view on setting up an anonymous person online without knowing anything really about him (sounds like the voice of reason, thank you!).

    Much appreciated 🙂

    in reply to: Mnemonic device to remember Joseph, Jacob, and Isaac #1207707
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    I think it’s easier in Hebrew, or at least with Hebrew first.

    Abraham and Sarah

    Sarah laughed inside —> Yitzchak, yitzchak

    Yitzchak [and Rivka (because Jacob married Rachel which is easy to remember because he also married Leah first)]

    Yaakov and Rachel have Yosef —> yosef who added to their lives, esp for Rachel after a period of infertility

    …It’s also nice to think that the last patriarch added to our lives as well

    in reply to: Q-tips #1207849
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    WTP: Omgosh we use the same trash bags!

    Costco is so from Hashem ?

    in reply to: Q-tips #1207848
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    For not noticing:

    You could have just grown up in the US during the first years of being exposed to trash cans and garbage bags.

    You had no reason to expect something different of the Israeli bags, especially after so much time and experience using them a certain way. Plus no one else seemed to have a double-sided bag.

    For thinking Meno was serious:

    Maybe you’re open to new things and considering out of the box or bag ideas.

    Imho it sounded like a cool invention.

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