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There was a guy who sat behind me in yeshiva years ago who said I davened too loudly. I guess I must have quieted down, because nobody has complained since.
Why not close this thread now, since we’ve made the obligatory topic change to something more controversial?
oh, and even if you’re working in secular place: i know of someone who worked in a completely secular hospital in a totally secular city, but during pesach the guards would ask everyone as they would enter if they have chametz in their bags.
I worked in a place in Kfar Saba where the admin assistant went through the kitchen before Pesach, cleaned everything, kashered the oven, put the toasters away, etc., then covered the counters and table. Afterwards, she put up signs about not bringing in any outside food over Pesach, and sent out emails saying the same thing. This was in a place where there were only two outwardly dati people, although many were “traditional” sfardim.
Maybe I’ve been lucky, but I’ve worked (and live) in some great places where people are generally tolerant of those who are not like them between the dati’im and those who are secular.
Are there signs that it’s a private lot, and not to park there?
Wearing a necktie or shoes is also not halacha.
That’s entirely true. One can wear sandals and skip the tie.
R-B, if it’s not halacha, then why wear a hat on a date?
Why does he need to wear a hat on a date? Is this halacha?
Im just curious how did you emotionaly handle giving up certain things like saying goodbye to your family and yes i will say this but luxery items as well?
Saying goodbye to family and close friends was the hardest thing about leaving. At that point, I had only seen my father cry twice (when his mother died, and his sister several year later). My in-laws came in for our last few days as well. As hard as it was, we knew that we were doing the right thing. It was hard for all our parents as well, as we have their only grandchildren.
Everything else was easier. We weren’t living with tons of luxuries, so it wasn’t so hard. We sold the house and van and that was that.
Yes when ppl move to Israel they give up certain things that in America are must haves
Most of those things you are talking about are not “must haves” here. We even manage without a car. (Our kids are older, they can take buses or tremp.) It’s a simpler life, which I am grateful for. I live in a pretty quiet neighborhood, the shule has shiurim and minyanim all the time. Some of the streets are closed on Shabbat and chagim. There is compromise on certain things with the secular folks that shows respect between them and the dati’im. I paid far, far less to have my kids in high school here than I did in America. B”H, we are managing.
I understand that we (my wife and I) will always be “greeners,” but my kids are well integrated and are at least half Israeli now.
do people realy suffer finacialy even with 2 incomes like in America?
Lil B, what do you mean by “suffer?”
It is the latest krumkeit and is totally wrong. Women and girls belong at home dealing with house things – the meal, kids etc.
I wish when people write these things they would add in my opinion, since there is no halacha backing this up.
That being said, my youngest daughter stayed up either last year or the year before, and told me at lunch the next day that she had stayed up and had the best learning she ever had. That’s fine by me.
Put it in shaimot in shule. I would donate it to the shule itself, but they have more than they need as well.
We stopped taking benchers home unless they are unusual in some respect. Mrs. Mamashtakah says for every bencher I bring home now, I have to get rid of one. We have two drawers full, and there’s no room for new ones!
I’m here. Almost 4 years.
Beer is meant to be consumed from a bottle or chilled beer mug.
The Arabs won’t be offering you citizenship. Abu Mazen has said many times, publicly, that a Palestinian state will be Jew-free.
I know several geirim; all have maintained ties with their “pre-conversion” families.
We had one with peanut butter either last year or the year before. It was fantastic!
Davening a mostly Shabbat P’sukei D’zimra, Hallel with a bracha, some extra learning. Unfortunately, it’s not a legal holiday, so I don’t have off work. I say every year that I’ll take the day off next year, just to spend the day in Yerushalayim. I was there last Shabbat, so that’s some consolation for not being there today.
Fully accredited by whom or what?
You didn’t look very hard for your original thread:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/milchigs-andor-fleishings-on-shavous
I’m not chassidish. I’ve been to a couple of chassunahs here over the years. As far as I know, this is how everyone does it here.
Which I find a bit sad – I truly looked forward to walking my daughters to their chupah when the time comes.
My wife wore a black burqua instead of a wedding gown. Of course, if didn’t matter anyway, because she was up in the ezrat nashim/balcony. I said “??? ?? ?????? ??” with a megaphone.
Back in the mid-70s I went to a non-musical HS play at a BY. I was invited because I was a friend of one of the girls in the play. There were plenty of other males in the audience – fathers, brothers, etc.
No, the BY was not in New York.
I’m not sure which is funnier – that I went to a BY play, or that I had a friend who was a girl that went to BY.
Nothing. I’m already here.
Milchigs at night, because who feels like eating meat when the chag starts so late?
Milchigs during the day, because who feels like sleeping until noon and then eating a heavy meal?
(Besides, if one can have ice cream or cheesecake for dessert, why eat meat?)
And that’s it – one day, as it was meant to be.
My blood pressure? Reading some of the comments in the CR.
Back in the old days you never had men going to womens graduations.
Really? You’re old enough to know this? Please enlighten all of us and tell us where you picked up this particular pearl of wisdom. Let us know which schools and which years.
There are 22,867 soldiers who lost their lives defending the state of Israel and 2,443 civilians who were murdered in terrorist attacks. HY”D
Today all is takes is $1500 for an plane ticket and you are there in 12 hours
When we made aliyah I told my kids that they would be able to do things here that their friends in America could only dream about. I said, “If your friends want to come, they have to make plans ahead of time, and spend mucho money, and spend hours traveling to the airport, waiting at the airport, then on the plane. If you want to go to Yerushalayim, you hop on a bus for 15 shekels, and 1 hour later, you’re there. Always be grateful for that.”
I’m wearing blue and white.
I’m saying Hallel tomorrow with a bracha.
I’m saying the additions to Ma’ariv tonight that were sanctioned by the chief Rabbinate for Yom Ha’atzmaut.
We have food prepared for a major BBQ tomorrow. One of my daughters is making blue and white cupcakes even as I type this.
(Of course, I live in an area where everyone does this, not just me.)
Just make sure to pay full tuition for all the kinderlach first.
Why not ask a Rav? You’ll get a clear answer without shtusim, and you’ll have a reliable answer.
I was at work, having an email argument with a friend about the efficacy of internet petitions. Then the friend emailed me saying something about the WTC being hit by a plane. I tried to get to MSNBC.com and couldn’t (the site was overloaded), so I knew something was really happening. I walked to the center of our building, where there was a TV hanging from the ceiling with CNN going 24 hours a day. There were already about 100 people standing there; I got there just in time to see the second plane hit. Our building and all buildings on the campus were evacuated a few hours later, as it was the headquarters of a major government agency.
Why don’t you call or email the OU and get an informed answer, rather than relying on halachic guidance from people you don’t know?
I Agree with you till this point …. A SHUL IS MEANT TO DAVEN IN yes and people that come to shul and mumble to themselves the davening! that’s not the proper way of tefillah. PSDZ till shema and tefillah is supposed to be BEKOL ROM. If it bothers you that means you are not davening. Se haist nisht gedavent
Jewish Source, can you please tell me where it says this? What is the actual inside source?
The Shomron.
Moshe received the Torah on Har Sinai.
There, I did it in one.
I used to do all-nighters at work, back when I was young, single, and had the energy. I usually worked from 4 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m., five days a week, and from about 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. I was hourly, and cleared much more than my boss, who was salaried. I was working for a food wholesaler, and we were moving from an old computer system to a new one. There were occasions when we stayed all night; I’d go home for an hour or two around 5 p.m., and return with clean clothes and food for the next day.
Mischiefmaker, are you also asking a Rav, or are you relying on the opinions of anonymous posters who may or may not know what they are talking about?
People can’t manage without pizza for 9 days? How often do you eat that stuff?
In Baltimore City they show movies in the jury rooms.
You want to help? Make aliyah. Help make E”Y a frum place.
Until now I thought it was only guys so who cares (they dont help either way)
As a person of the male gender, I resent that. I clean the oven, broiler, refrigerator, and (in the old days) the second refrigerator. I also do all the garbage shlepping.
I know plenty of guys who help with the Pesach cleaning. Why wouldn’t they help?
Why is the tsunami footage included? What does it have to do with the rest of the video?
I, for one, think that anything that advocates breaking the law of the land, whether it’s “halachically permissible” or not, should be taken down and/or blocked.
don’t use kedushas sheviis for havdala – you are supposed to overflow it – how can you be sure you won’t waste any.
We use it because that’s what was on sale, so that’s what we have in the house.
I don’t care. Something can be illegal, and yet be the right thing to do. We follow the halacha everywhere, anytime, no matter what.
Good – so after these kids are arrested and convicted, they can request glatt kosher food while they sit in prison.
Grandmaster, what do you do if the wine is kedushat shevi’it?
My father is Dad, my shver (to me) is Pop.
My kids call me Abba, although in attempts at humor they will sometimes call me Poppa or Tatty.