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Thanks for your wisdom 🙂

1. “The fact that our kesher with Hashem is important does not mean that halacha is not important and should not be used as an excuse to criticize people who feel that their Avodas Hashem involves being makpid in halacha (and maybe even engaging in chumras on occasion). “

lilmod ulelamaid: Yea those rabbis helped me shift my focus towards Hashem, which was a refreshing approach.

2. “I know that you don’t do that, but there are those that do. “

lilmod ulelamaid: I know 🙁 But the weird thing is that why is it okay for kiruv professionals to criticize people who aren’t observing Torah? I know that the whole Torah is Truth thing means that a Jew who isn’t observing Torah is not living properly. Yet it’s kind of judgey imho.

Are they talking about cassette tapes? Video tapes? Like VHS?

I’ve had rabbis tell me that people focus too much on religion and not enough on Hashem.

If you want to get close to Hashem, then it’s through Torah. However, to just follow the rules without Hashem is taking Hashem out of Judaism [and G-d forbid removing Hashem from Torah-observance].

People focused on being religious can end up spending too much time trying to out-chumra eachother and the whole kavannah and ohr of Torah is lost.

Some sales start before Thanksgiving. Some stores are open on Thanksgiving and/or start Black Friday on Thursday. Walmart is notorious for being open 24/7 all week long, including Thanksgiving.

Guessing you never had vanilla with tortilla chips, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, and ground flaxseeds

Turkeys. Pumpkin pies. Potatoes and sweet potatoes/yams. Cranberries. Wine. Etc.

Some people celebrate and others don’t. I don’t know how many frum people don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. Based on my Facebook feed and insider knowledge I know of at least four families who are enjoying the holiday.

School and work is usually off on Thursday and Friday. Some leave early on Wednesday.

A lot of people travel to spend the holiday with family. It’s not like in Israel where someone just drives from Haifa to Tel Aviv. Many people have to fly across the coast or country just to reunite with family (which brings in other stressors). Overall though it’s a nice opportunity to gather with mishpacha 🙂

lilmod ulelamaid: Thanks that explains why not only is it sold to someone who isn’t Jewish, but it’s either out of the house or stored away in some garage in black trash bags.

I didn’t realize it was a sight-related thing.

Interesting mamash

Thursday is Thanksgiving. Today and tomorrow is when half the people are aggressively grocery shopping. Others are traveling.

I love this thread. It’s amazing to look into the past. Five years ago I had no clue that I would be reading this. Five years ago I had no clue about the CR.

Costco is a secular holy site

Wait what? We cannot even see chometz on Pesach?

What about at the grocery store?

Seeing someone eating a sandwich when you’re walking by an outdoor cafe?

What if you’re a food photographer and the $25k Gluten Fest gig you booked falls on Pesach this year?

“Not always! Your posts are always opposite from mine!”

Health, lucky you!!!

It’s Opposite Day 😉

YW Moderator-29: Thanks for your response. Okay so I don’t get it, but it’s okay to just wonder too. Sorry for making it awkward.

lilmod ulelamaid: Thank you! Baruch Hashem may it always be a safe and happy place to acknowledge our mistakes and learn and practice better communication 🙂

YW Moderator-29: Also maybe I am not thinking of the red flags because I’m really only looking at the pictures online, which show a happy child on a leash. I am not seeing the real-life scenarios where parents typically use these harnesses. ???

Tangent: I wonder if I am too open-minded about this harness thing because I have a dog who wears a harness. It’s totally different than a child, who will someday become a regular adult human.

Do children who wear harnesses outside have an easier time keeping their seatbelts on inside the car?

YW Moderator-29: “If someone uses a leash/harness to safely give a child space, that is very different from using a leash/harness in place of teaching a child safety, boundaries or to follow directions. Or in place of them learning it. It becomes a problem when it is arbitrarily used just because it’s easier.”

Okay so is this the red flag? Where it may indicate a “parent problem” (takahmamash)?

Ooops I thought you said “Name That Spoon!” 😉

If we use vegetable oil to fuel our cars, does it need a hescher?

What if we sometimes dip our celery sticks in the car’s oil tank, does it need a hescher then?

So interesting! I just picture half the people living in NY and then some in Israel. Then what, today someone said that he/she lives in London. That was news to me.

“There is one poster who said that she thinks she knows who I am, and that I don’t know her but I know her friends. It’s funny because when I was at a certain friend for Shabbos recently, she started telling me about one of her cousins and in a lot of ways she sounded like this poster. There were a few things that I didn’t think fit, but it’s not impossible that it’s her.”

So this had to have been in Israel then? It’s like you get to be undercover.

You have a good memory. I think when I first started posting you referred to me as a guy. I was super flattered because I interpreted it as that my words meant something. Or at least someone heard my voice.

Then I outed myself as a woman, which was nice because that’s when I started feeling more comfortable being myself. Speaking from my heart. And head.

I don’t know even know how I ended up here. I was reading posts for a while and then one day I just jumped into the water.

For some reason when I click on your name, it goes to an error page. So I cannot even see how long you’ve been here for, or your location, etc. It works when I click on other names though. Maybe you’re in an alternative dimension.

Maybe davka it works for frum couples who have more children to look after at one time than the average secular couple?

Ohhhh!!! Because it’s not sweet you mean. And on Rosh Hashanah we’re supposed to abstain from bitter sour foods.

Now I get it.

Thanks Mammele for the clue

Only if it was processed (filtered and everything), so I doubt it.

In contemporary times, processed honey lasts as long as we can measure it lasting. It would be smart if everyone put “3,600 gallons of processed honey in glass jars” on their baby registries.

That way there will always be some to pass on to the next generation and so forth.

When I was a kid my parents took me to the circus. That was when I had my first circus peanut (an orange marshmallowy candy).

After my first bite, I realized that I had tasted the most delicious thing ever. By the second or third one I was disgusted. I had never tasted something so repulsive.

I think taste buds lose sensitivity after consuming the same thing. That’s why people drink wine when eating steak. It cleanses their palate so each next piece tastes like their first. At least that’s what I learned in a shiur.

That’s what I learned in that shiur about wine!!! Yay lilmod ulemaid!!! Thank you thank you thank you I forgot what that shiur taught but now it’s coming back. Or was that the shiur about soulmates? Dunno. But the point was that if we don’t know how to apply and use a proper bottle, or expensive bottle of wine, then we miss out on the reason it was created. Like if we live life without Torah.

Boro Park is under a sack of potatos. Because Channukah is right around the corner.

kapusta: Yay yays 🙂

lilmod ulelamaid: Thus far for all that I know you guys could be a fig newton of my imagination… Though it sounds super cool to know a CR-er IRL. B”H someday.

Do you know anyone?