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A Jew watching the dairy process ensures that things happen according to halacha.

If G-d forbid anything was about to occur that would compromise the dairy product, the Jew would prevent it from occuring.

The milk is certified kosher.

……

So then does it not matter if another Jew is there in the court when a Jew is on trial because…. [fill in the blank reason]

Maybe because it’s a secular court in the first place?

So why participate in a treif environment if the results are going to be treif regardless?

Dunno… trying to understand it.

Thank you 🙂

Thanks LU!

Yesterday I told someone online who I don’t know anything about except his marriage status, child status, location status, and age that if I meet someone who is on his religious level with a similar age and location I will try to connect them.

Then I thought about it and realized that I know nothing of this person.

Am I really doing Hashem’s Will or am I trying to make matches because it seems like a cool and great thing to do?

Would I really be helping people find their besherts or am I just playing with fire sending people out on a whim?

I think that there is a wiser way to do this. At least, I think I could use some help and acknowledge that I am clueless here. Plus I may not be the best judge of character and what works overall.

Reminds me of why rabbonim advise against eating certain vegetables (like you mentioned the other day). The vegetable isn’t bad.

Eating the vegetable isn’t so much of an issue. The issue is that the vegetable is often infested with insects.

The average person cannot reasonably remove all those insects. Sometimes these vegetables are so infested that even an expert cannot remove them all. There are just as many insects than vegetable that the entire vegetable’s edibility is compromised.

It’s not even worth trying since there are more insects than vegetable.

I guess it’s a good thing that doctors emphasize preventing damage here.

Meno I believe you about the garbage bags. I took a few with me to pack my suitcase and still have some good ones. However, I’m into them because of their colors and translucency.

How is it that you can open a trash bag at either end?

Sounds like a plastic tunnel where the food would fall out the other end?

WTP +1

LU +1

Thank you. I see now. It’s so interesting that it’s better to have nonJews come to a decision. Granted not every Jew is culturally competent in halacha.

Still if some Jews hold that we need someone Jewish to watch over the dairy process just to have milk, then why not have someone Jewish around in the jury.

Then again, maybe it’s not good for the neshamah and someone who isn’t Jewish would be able to provide a more objective and moral outcome (halachically and secularly) for all parties.

Neville ChaimBerlin: Is there a maximum quantity limit for candles in cases of missing candle lighting?

The annual number of candles for baal teshuvahs could be in the thousands.

1800’s is still the Haskalah’s dawning.

Isn’t that relatively new compared to how many centuries of making thicker matzot?

Yes. And now I feel very foolish.

Joseph +1

Still… is it okay for me to introduce people who I barely know?

I’m guessing that at least one of said individuals trusts me, and may be more trusting of the other person if he or she is met through me.

Or, maybe I begin with a disclaimer.

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PLEASE NOTE:

Based on your preferences, location, and hashkafah, I decided to give you the contact information of _____So and So___. If anything unpleasant shall occur, chas v’shalom, I absolve myself from responsibility.

You are responsible for investigating the other party, which may include asking personal questions and checking references. Please do your diligence in determining your future spouse. All I know is what this person told me, of which I passed on to you. And I don’t even know if any of this is 100% true. Thus, please assess the person, and have close advisory counsel throughout the process.

B’Hatzlacha!!!

Your shadchanit in the making,

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ezapie, you mean you’re not 35?

You don’t look a day older than 19.

However, since you have such a respectable equation in your subtitle, I figured you were more mature in age.

I guess I’m wrong.

I wonder if the kosher cruise would also be a way of organizing the Jewish men to daven in a minyan while on vacation?

If these same people would otherwise go on a non-kosher cruise or vacation, the men may miss out on at least davening in a minyan.

Found this from the Lakewood Scoop:

*Traveling to a Place without a Minyan*

“In the summer months many people wish to plan vacations in remote locations which have no minyan, and the question arises if doing so is permitted. Davening with a minyan is an obligation, and not just a nice thing to do.[21]

By not davening with a minyan one misses out on answering amen, kaddish, and risks his tefilla not being heard by Hashem.[22]

Many poskim say one who is going to a remote location just for enjoyment may not go to a place that does not have a minyan. However, one may go to such a place for reasons of health, parnasa or for a mitzvah.[23]

One should not rely on this heter without consulting his Rav.” (Lakewood Scoop)

Thanks ~ Agreed 🙂

Randomex: Here are possible theories…

1) Memorizing the first 1,825 digits in pi

2) Performing 1,825 mitzvot of a specific type, such as mitzvot pertaining to loving one’s fellow as oneself, or being really considerate in window cleaning

3) Observing 1,825 Shabbots (includes all in ezapie’s lifetime)

4) Spending $1,825 on donating $1 to 1,825 charities

5) Allowing 1,825 cars to drive first when both ezapie and the other driver arrived at their Stop Signs at the mutually-perceived same time

Thanks for the feedback.

Leaving it up to Hashem with blessings for the best.

The musicians, rabbis, cantors, and mashgichim are all there for business.

Eeeks!!! I just Googled it and Jewish grandmothers got raided by the police for playing. But they didn’t get arrested. It wasn’t a crime to play for anything under $10 in this case.

There’s a number of theories as to how it became popular with Jewish women

Joseph: Are you saying that instead of taking a rodef to court someone should kill the rodef?

But for criminal or domestic cases we are allowed to take a Jewish rodef to court.

Sorry this sounds like I am prejudice and labeling frum Jews who are very makpid on their chumrot as being “rigid.”

The feedback that he’s heard has been that he’s rigid. It’s more than the details here though. At the same time, the rigidity is what it looks like when he’s more frum than his peers.

If he was in an environment that was as committed as he was to Yiddishkeit, he would likely feel like he belongs and may need to step up his life. At least that’s how it seems. Instead of having conversations on what he needs to relax on, maybe he can spend his time growing in Torah and attaining higher levels.

Thanks LU for your advice and perspective 🙂

Actually I understand about the internet and tv. Personally I don’t want a tv in my house. It’s not something that I want to nor b’esrat Hashem will compromise on for marriage. I want to be with someone who is on the same page here.

As for internet, being against it isn’t rigid. I offered another perspective, since maybe the internet would be used as a tool to help her work or get information when she’s raising their children, with G-d’s help. Yet, if that’s not okay with him, then I get that too.

I agree about the part where he is not meeting the right girls. I think a change of crowd and maybe location may make him feel normal and feel like he can grow in the direction that his community is leaning.

LU: One thing I love about not shaking hands is when someone else is like “Omgosh me too!”

Background: Honestly I know that this is for religious purposes, shomer negiah. Still, the stuff that I’ve read about it is so true. In other words, having someone else touch me does affect me personally.

It’s kind of ridiculous that a stranger can literally go up to you and demand that you touch him or her. Then from that point on, not touching this person is socially understandable.

Yet when I had no clue who this person was, I am obligated to put the hand and digits that I use for such personal matters (feeding myself, writing notes, showing my dog affection, taking contacts out of my eyes, driving my car, putting on my shoes, and I need not go on) into this person’s hand and grasp?

Obviously even when I know the person, that doesn’t mean that I owe this person touch.

I do want my touch to be special and reserved.

Sometimes I just say that I don’t want to touch someone else. It affects my energy and it’s a boundary issue.

Sometimes someone will agree and say that he, and mostly she, also doesn’t like doing it. And yes sometimes shaking someone’s hand feels like someone just vacuumed my emotional reserves.

Am I the only one here? Any guys feel this way about shaking hands?

Nonkosher fruit platter: (n) Referring to fruit topped with sauces made from nonkosher animals, topped with shavings of dairy chocolates.

Just kidding. I mean this…

Nonkosher fruit platter: (n)

Refers to a platter of pre-cut and/or washed fruit, including diced pineapple, sliced kiwi, halved strawberries, whole blueberries, sliced melons, and papaya smiles.

The fruit is typically arranged on a silver plate in a colorwheel of delight.

The fruit platter does not come with a hescher. Since the fruit was cut and prepared in a presumably nonkosher kitchen, using treifed-out knives, and presented on a treifed-out platter (with or without doilies), this fruit is off limits for Yidden.

Sincerely,

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