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There’s a whole religion on that.
JosephParticipantLadies – 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?
JosephParticipantIt’s often cheaper to clip coupons and buy locally during sales.
JosephParticipanteach 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.)
JosephParticipantCheck out Jet.com
JosephParticipantGoq, you mean the same hour each day, don’t you.
JosephParticipantI already include cash in their package. (See above.)
JosephParticipantFirst 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.
JosephParticipantCash. (For unanticipated expenses.)
September 6, 2015 8:28 pm at 8:28 pm in reply to: How much do you spend per person for shabbos food for 3 meals? #1099507JosephParticipantAs well as how many people you’re feeding, as the more you’re feeding the lower it costs per person.
JosephParticipantAmerican power adapter.
September 6, 2015 8:13 pm at 8:13 pm in reply to: How much do you spend per person for shabbos food for 3 meals? #1099506JosephParticipantFor this exercise to be useful, you’ll also need to specify if you purchase ready made or make your own meals.
JosephParticipantInsurance 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.
September 6, 2015 7:02 pm at 7:02 pm in reply to: Inviting non-frum family to drive over on shabbos and yontif #1099153JosephParticipantSam – 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.
JosephParticipantI 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.)
September 6, 2015 5:08 pm at 5:08 pm in reply to: Inviting non-frum family to drive over on shabbos and yontif #1099144JosephParticipantThere 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.
September 6, 2015 4:52 pm at 4:52 pm in reply to: Inviting non-frum family to drive over on shabbos and yontif #1099142JosephParticipantmik, 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.
September 6, 2015 4:03 pm at 4:03 pm in reply to: Inviting non-frum family to drive over on shabbos and yontif #1099140JosephParticipantDon’t invite if they might drive. Certainly if they will certainly drive on Shabbos/YT.
JosephParticipantS&P 500 index fund.
JosephParticipantIf you have the discipline, buy term and invest the difference.
September 4, 2015 10:41 pm at 10:41 pm in reply to: Professionally addressing Invitation Envelopes #1099073JosephParticipantsdd: No.
JosephParticipantEphraim, I don’t think meat breakfasts are common in non-Jewish America.
September 4, 2015 5:53 pm at 5:53 pm in reply to: Professionally addressing Invitation Envelopes #1099068JosephParticipantWhy are you always so negative, apushatayid?
September 4, 2015 5:07 pm at 5:07 pm in reply to: Professionally addressing Invitation Envelopes #1099066JosephParticipantI would be more impressed with handwritten than printed.
JosephParticipantShopping613: Are you a Yirei Hashem and a Yirei Shamayim?
JosephParticipantinterjection: 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.
JosephParticipantThe 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.
JosephParticipantthere won’t be a choice anymore other than to rely on an open miracle.
Israel might not survive, unless there is a miracle?
JosephParticipantI said in the OP, no wishful thinking.
JosephParticipantThrough 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.
September 3, 2015 3:28 am at 3:28 am in reply to: Obtaining S'micha in Israel as Ba'al Teshuvah #1099108JosephParticipantHow do you keep kosher living in Aruba?
JosephParticipantDaMoshe: 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.
JosephParticipantDaMoshe: 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.
JosephParticipantIf 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.
JosephParticipantIS: Haven’t you noticed that the leading members of the modern and daati rabbinical class have adopted the frock and hat?
September 1, 2015 12:18 pm at 12:18 pm in reply to: Laundry detergent needs a hechsher? Why? #1098723JosephParticipantIn case swallowed.
JosephParticipantsorry, my head does not process in english.
We’ll consider an answer if it has an explanation in Yiddish or Hebrew as well. 😉
JosephParticipantHeaven on earth.
JosephParticipantAny answer needs an explanation.
JosephParticipant2. 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?
JosephParticipantWhichever can have a better filter.
August 31, 2015 2:36 am at 2:36 am in reply to: Letter from Rabbonim that Schools Must Accept Non-Vaccinated Children #1099329JosephParticipantStam, 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.
August 31, 2015 1:59 am at 1:59 am in reply to: Letter from Rabbonim that Schools Must Accept Non-Vaccinated Children #1099323JosephParticipantstam 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.
August 31, 2015 1:08 am at 1:08 am in reply to: Letter from Rabbonim that Schools Must Accept Non-Vaccinated Children #1099319JosephParticipantOn 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?
August 30, 2015 11:51 pm at 11:51 pm in reply to: Letter from Rabbonim that Schools Must Accept Non-Vaccinated Children #1099314JosephParticipantstam 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.
JosephParticipant<bump>
August 30, 2015 11:11 pm at 11:11 pm in reply to: Letter from Rabbonim that Schools Must Accept Non-Vaccinated Children #1099310JosephParticipantstam 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?
August 30, 2015 7:13 pm at 7:13 pm in reply to: Letter from Rabbonim that Schools Must Accept Non-Vaccinated Children #1099290JosephParticipantDoes anyone advocate that all healthy children in society not be vaccinated for any (or most) current vaccinations?
August 30, 2015 5:48 pm at 5:48 pm in reply to: Mochel Loch… time to forgive and be forgiven! #1184932JosephParticipantZats mir mochel, teiere chaveirim.
August 30, 2015 4:20 pm at 4:20 pm in reply to: Letter from Rabbonim that Schools Must Accept Non-Vaccinated Children #1099286JosephParticipantQuestion 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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