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  • in reply to: Doing Teshuva for someone else #1192072
    Joseph
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    There’s a whole religion on that.

    in reply to: Shalom Aleichem! #1099449
    Joseph
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    Ladies – When on the street or when inside and you meet a neighbor or colleague or relative or acquaintance or friend or ask a random person for information, do you initialize the conversation by greeting her with “Shalom Aleichem” (while shaking her hand) and/or respond “Aleichem Shalom” to another woman who greets you?

    in reply to: costco #1099444
    Joseph
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    It’s often cheaper to clip coupons and buy locally during sales.

    in reply to: costco #1099440
    Joseph
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    each card has a picture of the costco member on it.

    If you enroll online or request a replacement card by phone or web, the card has no picture.

    (A technical correction.)

    in reply to: costco #1099438
    Joseph
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    Check out Jet.com

    in reply to: Tackling Laundry #1099427
    Joseph
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    Goq, you mean the same hour each day, don’t you.

    in reply to: Welcome packages for simcha guests #1099188
    Joseph
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    I already include cash in their package. (See above.)

    in reply to: Should I run from this guy??? #1100032
    Joseph
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    First you’ll need to tell us all of your dark secrets, so we can know if the two of you are two peas in a pod made just for each other.

    in reply to: Welcome packages for simcha guests #1099183
    Joseph
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    Cash. (For unanticipated expenses.)

    in reply to: How much do you spend per person for shabbos food for 3 meals? #1099507
    Joseph
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    As well as how many people you’re feeding, as the more you’re feeding the lower it costs per person.

    in reply to: Welcome packages for simcha guests #1099181
    Joseph
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    American power adapter.

    in reply to: How much do you spend per person for shabbos food for 3 meals? #1099506
    Joseph
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    For this exercise to be useful, you’ll also need to specify if you purchase ready made or make your own meals.

    in reply to: Whole Life Insurance #1099134
    Joseph
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    Insurance companies have better access to investments than you do.

    That’s to their benefit, not yours. Their markup and fees makes it less beneficial to consumers than the financial products you can get on the open market.

    in reply to: Inviting non-frum family to drive over on shabbos and yontif #1099153
    Joseph
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    Sam – read the psakim inside directly. You’re wrong. And don’t try to fardrey the obvious bottom line psak by those poskim. They are only mattir if the guest accepts the sleepover (or walking) invitation. If he will drive/train, they rule prohibited. Your offering him accommodations where he doesn’t accept is insufficient.

    newbee – 100% assur l’chol hadeios.

    in reply to: Whole Life Insurance #1099131
    Joseph
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    I would suggest Annual Renewable Term (ART) rather than a 30 year fixed term. If a 22 year old gets a 30 year term what will he do when he’s 52 and still needs term insurance? Renew at, possibly, astronomical unaffordable rates due to his then age and health? ART, on the other hand, can be renewed annually till age 90 or 100 in most State (70 in New York). And you are advised what the rate will be for each future year before you purchase the policy. (The rate specified does not change regardless of future health so long as the premiums are paid each year.)

    in reply to: Inviting non-frum family to drive over on shabbos and yontif #1099144
    Joseph
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    There are all sorts of minority opinions one can find but what I mentioned is the normative common sense psak by the majority of chareidi poskim.

    in reply to: Inviting non-frum family to drive over on shabbos and yontif #1099142
    Joseph
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    mik, areivim kol zeh l’zeh. We are each responsible for the next Jew. We can’t overlook if they will c’v be mechallel Shabbos/YT. And, lifnei iver, we certainly cannot enable or facilitate them doing so by asking them to come somewhere that they will be mechallel to achieve.

    in reply to: Inviting non-frum family to drive over on shabbos and yontif #1099140
    Joseph
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    Don’t invite if they might drive. Certainly if they will certainly drive on Shabbos/YT.

    in reply to: Whole Life Insurance #1099129
    Joseph
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    S&P 500 index fund.

    in reply to: Whole Life Insurance #1099125
    Joseph
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    If you have the discipline, buy term and invest the difference.

    in reply to: Professionally addressing Invitation Envelopes #1099073
    Joseph
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    sdd: No.

    in reply to: Seuda at a Bris #1125748
    Joseph
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    Ephraim, I don’t think meat breakfasts are common in non-Jewish America.

    in reply to: Professionally addressing Invitation Envelopes #1099068
    Joseph
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    Why are you always so negative, apushatayid?

    in reply to: Professionally addressing Invitation Envelopes #1099066
    Joseph
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    I would be more impressed with handwritten than printed.

    in reply to: ELUL and fear #1105905
    Joseph
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    Shopping613: Are you a Yirei Hashem and a Yirei Shamayim?

    in reply to: Iran Agreement Will Go Into Effect #1098721
    Joseph
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    interjection: So, IOW, what you’d have preferred is that the U.S. had attacked Iran (instead of the agreement) so that Israel shouldn’t have to attack Iran.

    Israel wouldn’t have had to attack Iran if no agreement was signed?

    And explain to me how Iran was less likely to get the bomb had the status quo remained, and no agreement signed, and Iran continued to build whatever uranium and nuclear facilities they were already engaged in without any inspections than with the new agreement that everyone agrees puts the brakes on Iran for 10 or 15 years? (The opponents claim is that after those years Iran is free.)

    North Korea has been sanctioned to death by both the U.S. and the U.N., and their people are literally starving (they need international food charity just to have basic rice not to starve) and yet they built their first bomb in the late 1990s and have continued building additional bombs till this day.

    in reply to: Iran Agreement Will Go Into Effect #1098719
    Joseph
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    The question is whether it is more likely that Iran will destroy Israel under this agreement than if no agreement was reached and the status quo had remained.

    in reply to: Iran Agreement Will Go Into Effect #1098717
    Joseph
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    there won’t be a choice anymore other than to rely on an open miracle.

    Israel might not survive, unless there is a miracle?

    in reply to: Iran Agreement Will Go Into Effect #1098713
    Joseph
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    I said in the OP, no wishful thinking.

    in reply to: ELUL and fear #1105896
    Joseph
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    Through the course of Jewish history, Jews have approached the ???? ?????? (translation, anyone?) with awe and fear of heaven and how they shall be judged.

    It has been far from uncommon to hear people crying during davening.

    in reply to: Obtaining S'micha in Israel as Ba'al Teshuvah #1099108
    Joseph
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    How do you keep kosher living in Aruba?

    in reply to: Iran Agreement Will Go Into Effect #1098707
    Joseph
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    DaMoshe: Historically it is virtually unprecedented for a future President to renege on an agreement previously signed by the United States. So it is highly unlikely to occur despite any political rhetoric made by the royal opposition even if they are to regain power.

    But even independent of all that, right now the US is involved in almost no business Iran does due to US sanctions against Iran. Once sanctions are lifted, presumably America will be involved in some transactions with Iran but most of the new business with Iran will be with Europe not the US.

    And Europe will not reimpose sanctions simply because a future President reneges on a signed international agreement. Europe was shlepped kicking and screaming to get them to enact even the current sanctions. They’ve been angling to get out of sanctioning Iran even before the agreement. Now that there’s an agreement, if the US suddenly changes its mind Europe will not simply bend over and agree to reimpose it simply because a new President wants to undo what the previous Administration signed on behalf of the United States.

    in reply to: Iran Agreement Will Go Into Effect #1098704
    Joseph
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    DaMoshe: It would be unrealistic, even if legal under domestic law, for a future President to back out because doing so would be a violation of the agreement the U.S. signed. And, practically, if a future President did back out, it would be like trying to put toothpaste back into the container. It wouldn’t achieve anything useful with the rest of the world already conducting commerce with Iran.

    in reply to: Drones and Shabbos #1098561
    Joseph
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    If you live in New York or any large city, there is very little likelihood you aren’t being videotaped when walking in the street any day of the week.

    in reply to: How to figure out the better rabbonim #1098449
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    IS: Haven’t you noticed that the leading members of the modern and daati rabbinical class have adopted the frock and hat?

    in reply to: Laundry detergent needs a hechsher? Why? #1098723
    Joseph
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    In case swallowed.

    in reply to: Mathematical Challenges #1098406
    Joseph
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    sorry, my head does not process in english.

    We’ll consider an answer if it has an explanation in Yiddish or Hebrew as well. 😉

    in reply to: if i say shabbos you say… #1099117
    Joseph
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    Heaven on earth.

    in reply to: Mathematical Challenges #1098404
    Joseph
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    Any answer needs an explanation.

    in reply to: Mathematical Challenges #1098402
    Joseph
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    2. Correct!

    3. That’s not the answer to the question.

    4. Correct!

    Multiply by the power (in this case 8 x -2 = -16).

    Is anyone going to try to answer #1?

    in reply to: samsung vs iphone #1098423
    Joseph
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    Whichever can have a better filter.

    Joseph
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    Stam, what on earth are you talking about? That has nothing to do with my point. Nothing. All I said is that you and the other anti vaxxers effectively admitted that you want almost everyone else to vaccinate, so that you guys could avoid vaccinating. See above.

    Joseph
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    stam a deya,

    So what it all boils down to is that the anti-vaxxers admit that they do want universal immunizations to continue. Even you admit you won’t call for an end to universal immunizations because it will bring back diseases that have killed many many millions of people, and was stopped by vaccinations.

    That much is obvious.

    What the anti-vaxxers want is that almost everyone else should get vaccinated, so that they are protected from these killer diseases, but that they shouldn’t get vaccinated.

    Joseph
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    On the one end there is a possibility of all the diseases to come back

    This would be diseases like smallpox, polio, whooping cough, tuberculosis, measles, etc., that used to kill millions, that universal vaccinations have saved millions and millions of lives.

    You agree about that, correct?

    but on the other hand your are opening them up to a host of other diseases.

    Do the vaccinations kill millions? If not, isn’t it better to save millions of lives with universal vaccinations than to save much less lives without universal vaccinations?

    in reply to: Letter from Rabbonim that Schools Must Accept Non-Vaccinated Children #1099314
    Joseph
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    stam a deya,

    It’s unclear from your responses. Please briefly explain why you think that, maybe, perhaps, it is better to recommend that healthy children get vaccinated. You said you were unsure. So you were debating in your mind which is better –

    1. Recommend all healthy children in the world to get vaccinated

    or

    2. Recommend all healthy children in the world not to get vaccinated

    Obviously you see valid points to both sides, but you cannot decide which side is stronger.

    Just to make it simple, please explain to us what points came to your mind that it would not be a good idea to tell all the hundreds of millions of healthy children in the world to not vaccinate and rather what points came to your mind in favor of recommending that the hundreds of millions of healthy children in the world should vaccinate.

    in reply to: Dowries in Shidduchim #1098565
    Joseph
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    in reply to: Letter from Rabbonim that Schools Must Accept Non-Vaccinated Children #1099310
    Joseph
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    stam a deya,

    I asked:

    Do you believe that it would be best if everyone in society stopped vaccinating healthy children? Why?

    You responded:

    [The] question is very penetrating and I cannot honestly answer.

    Why can you not honestly answer, stam a daya? Based on your arguments, isn’t it very obvious to you that it should be recommended that all healthy children in the world should not be vaccinated?

    Why is this not obvious – and why do you say you cannot answer?

    Joseph
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    Does anyone advocate that all healthy children in society not be vaccinated for any (or most) current vaccinations?

    in reply to: Mochel Loch… time to forgive and be forgiven! #1184932
    Joseph
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    Zats mir mochel, teiere chaveirim.

    Joseph
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    Question for those against vaccinating their children:

    Do you believe that it would be best if everyone in society stopped vaccinating healthy children? Why?

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