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JM613: Why are the eggs wet? Do you wash them off yourself?

I have the “OU Manual for Checking Fruits and Vegetables,” 3rd Ed.

The OU mentions using a vegetable wash, and when a vegetable wash is unavailable, unscented liquid detergent will do (OU).

Back in the day, I watched the most interesting video of a rabbi washing lettuce. It reminded me of that old laundry detergent ad where there is a guy stirring a dirty shirt in a glass bowl.

Anyway, the rabbi in this video used dish soap. He said that the soap makes the leaves slippery so the sticky pads on the bug’s hands come off. My dish soap is kosher.

Recently a friend told me that salt has the same effect. And so I saw online.

Warning: Do not read this manual over Shabbat. I did that. I figured that finally I had time to really invest myself in learning how to inspect produce just right.

Food. Even non-vegetables and non-fruit. Just kept reminding me of those pictures in the back of the book.

It’s like viewing the Most Wanted List.

YY +1

And LU +1 thank you.

Surely the rebbetzin was right according to her understanding and even with the vow. It would still be cool and amazing to see if there are some communities who light more than two and that is right with them. Though maybe knowing that some people say it’s okay halachically doesn’t mean that I can and should light more. Maybe my tikkun is to scale back on the fire and be content with more modest and balanced light.

The tznius of candle lighting 🙂

Am I confusing bracha, tefilla, and bakasha?

Bracha is a blessing

Tefilla is a prayer

Bakasha is a request

This is confusing. I’ve gotten a bracha from a rabbi.

1) Isn’t that technically a bakasha?

2) When I prayed at the Kotel on my own, was that Tefilla?

A) Own words

B) Reading from the Kotel’s Personal Prayer book, sponsored and provided by the Western Wall Foundation

3) And when I asked for Hashem to bless people, was I giving/asking Hashem for brachot for them OR was I asking for bakashot? Or both?

4) When we pray from a Siddur, that is also Tefilla isn’t it?

5) Is this correct?::: We say a bracha after eating AND we use the same word, “bracha,” to describe the oral words given on our behalf by another?

6) When we ask for a Refuah for someone in Shul during davening (Tefilla in Yiddish right?), such as *Name ben Ima* is that a bracha or tefilla or something else?

Thank you so much for clarity ?

LU: Oops sorry again I def need to be more mindful of the context of my diction.

Bracha is a blessing.

How I said it, it sounded like I was saying extra Shabbos Candle Lighting Brachot for other people. Saying Hashem’s name in vain.

That is not what I meant. I meant that I dedicated each extra candle for someone and added a personal prayer/blessing for this someone.

This was all under the blanket Shabbat Candle Lighting bracha that I said once after lighting all the candles (maybe like ten or more tea lights at one point) and waving my hands three times.

Sometimes this “someone” was one person. Other times it was more than one person per candle, like a family (parents + their children).

Yes I meant clean. Sorry for the misuse of the word kasher.

Some people clean lettuce by soaking it first in dish soap. Others use salt.

Generally I soak my veggies or fruits in dish soap and peroxide (once in a whIle I will use vinegar instead of peroxide).

Yesterday I tried salt for the first time (after and before rounds of soap and peroxide).

Wondering if anyone had experimented with both and cares to compare and contrast.

Sounds like both are effective methods of cleaning produce for kashrut

Thanks for the correction

Any other examples or questions about halacha/chumra/minhag/shtus welcome 🙂

I used to light many tea lights and say brachot for family members. It felt good to find a way to connect to family that was so physically far away.

When I told a kiruv Rebbetzin about it, I don’t know, I was just telling her a bit about myself. I didn’t expect such a response. It was a vehement statement that I was not supposed to light more than two (It was okay for me to light two as a single woman).

Honestly, her reaction frightened me. Like I got scared straight in my enjoyment of lighting. It felt like I was being forced to go stale. But that was during my first round of being a BT. I took everything I learned so seriously, too seriously (because it was a lot of pressure to be perfect).

In Israel I realized that I’m ready to feel good about my practice. Maybe the rules about lighting have room for me to light with love, to the fullest.

Three things:

1) Thanks Mods for not kicking me out and being patient when I was asking about sharing my email (SooOOooo smart of you to avoid those risks!)

“2 – Personal email addresses or websites will not be published. Posts that ask others to meet them at “Plonis” will not be approved. Should a blogger continuously try to pry personal information from others, he/she will be booted from YWN

One user name per person. Period! If there is a need to drop an existing user name and adopt a new user name (e.g. personal information has been compromised), let us know so that we do not unitentionally “out” you.” (MODS)

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/rules-of-the-ywn-coffee-room-please-read

2) Yay for Mod’s 2 on Personal info!

What a relief! I seriously felt guilty about not bringing Old Bay.

Last night I even had a dream that I walked by a giant container of Old Bay in a store (think Costco mayonnaise on steroids) and didn’t buy it. Gueasing it was so big because it bottled up other recent guilts.

3) Thank you Israel I ? You!!!

OddAnon +18

I’ve purchased pizza socks on eBay!