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hud sorry I didnt mean to insult you, believe me I love united states as much as you do, l lived there half of my life and all my kids went to yeshivas there and actually I miss it. But what I was saying is this, Here in Mexico there is a very big community of ashkenaz speaking irreligous jews that love Yidish and really do not love mitzvot and when you live in Brooklyn you cannot imagine that in other places people could speak a perfect Yidish and not be frum. Thats what I was trying to say. And by the way is ladino holy? My parents spoke arabic , Is arabic holy? And since I am sephardic many years ago people used to question , How come you are jewish and you do not speak Yidish?

Well in Mexico it has been the law for a while that a nun cannot go into the street with a nun garment. You do not see too many nuns walking around their garment in the street, sometimes they do , but definitly is against the law. And this could work both ways in a way because Mexico is against religion in general that we have freedom to be jews. All public schools are not allow to teach any Sreligion. and well being a catholic country, who knows what is in their minds. So frum jews coming out on shabbos with their tallis over their heads is not a good idea.

Imagine, imagine the whole world kosher, just keep imagining because I dont think is going to happen, but of course it should be better.

Well like always people in the United States think that you are in the center of the world but sorry to dissapoint you, you are not in the center of the world, and there are a lot of jews all over that is why is called diaspora. Well when the jews immigrated to the united States it was a country with a lot of public schools ,so believe it or not you were the lucky ones, because when jews from europe came to other contries there were not as many public schools as in the States so they brought with them the great Yiddish School with them, and brought a lot of apicurosut from Europe, so in the United States if somebody wanted to have their children in private school the only private schools they found were yeshivas but in places like in Mexico where we have a Tarbut and Yiddish movement that they brought with them from Europe did nothing but made the people that were frum less frum. So if you really think Yiddish has saved the jews, sorry to dissapoint you it has hurt people and a lot of people, here people speak better Yiddish than any rosh yeshiva, you could come here for classes and you wont be dissapointed but if you want to learn a little torah you are not going to find any in those schools. So open your eyes, do not fool yourselves it is beautiful to speak the languague of our ancestors but it is more beautiful to keep their mitzvot.

What happened to freedom of speach?

mazal77 we are all learning a lot from this thread BH it was posted, so now when we shop we should be more concious of how to honor , spend and be happy with every thing we have. thank you.

Yes a person could what they please, no question about it, we were just discusting if it is right, we have a saying “If it fits you wear it” and I mean about the critizicim. and this goes to all the people that got insulted because we just said it is not correct to make label wearing the abodazara of this generation, I am not exempt, but sometimes it fits sometimes it doesnt . Why an a person realize they are wrong and try to defend themselves by putting people down, of course derech erets is very important and a person should learn how to act between human beings and stop being arrogant like I said before we are nothing but dust.

GOOD IDEA!! and tzeniut too.

The funny thing a wealthy person never sees himself as wealthy because no matter how much he has he always feels a lack. I know people who bought Couch pocketbooks and feel they are cheap because they are not Louis Vitton ones.

Just-a-guy, I approve with you.

she means people enjoy baking, people enjoy showing off. What’s the difference?lol

I know a lot of people that were mugged and robbed in Brooklyn at gun point for their rings just outside their homes, who are you kidding me. It is dangerous to be austentatious all over the world. I used to work in a jewelery store in Manhattan and we had a robbery there, and plenty of people came trying to sell stolen items, and my neighbors houses in brooklyn were ramsacked. Don’t fool yourself. There is danger all over the world not only latin america.

labels has become the way of life these days, what watch, what brand name of shoes, what fancy purse, labels, labels, labels, people pay a lot of money for labels. But to label somebody because of his ways is just plain Loshon Horah

Well I have been reading your comments, and I think well I am not a Rav but I think that tzenius depends a lot were a person lives and the costums of that comunity. If in a certain community the women have to have their heads double covered and somebody doesnt abide by it. Then that woman is not keeping the laws of tzenius right. If a woman has to have a thick stockings in her community and she doesnt , I think she is not keeping the laws of tzenius right. Of course there are certain basis that a frum woman has to keep. We all agree to that. But it all dependes in her community.

good evening, good day, good night, good morning, wherever you are.

It is very important to judge people favorably but until when there is a line of being a fool and judging people properly

I guess there are customs that came up with time, but truthly I still do not understand why to make women dancing a custom.

where I live I wish there where more kosher restaurants,

lol

yes I am reffering to the book “Allepp City of Scholars” check it out.

I think if the rabbis allow a person to use regular hair wether is yours or not there must be a point, and besides who are we to argue with the authorities.

No my aunt said it was their hair but you should ask your Rabbi. In the allepian book it just says people wore wigs from braided hair.

wow, I always thoughta that wearing stockings was really a minhag since they say we have to cover our legs under the knee, well I guess we dont know everything, but about covering the hair I went to see my old aunt many years ago, she was born in allepo syria and I asked her what did people do there and she told me that women used to let their hair grow and when they got married they cut their hair and maid braid wigs, I always used to tell everybody the story and people used to look at me skeptical then few weeks ago I was reading the book of the allepian jews, and it is exactly how she told me. So syrian women are allowed to wear wigs not like Rabbi Ovadia Yosef that says hair wigs are not good for sephardim maybe sephardim from other countries like Irak. And by the way of course ther is a concept of tznius no question about it. The concept goes in every aspect of our lives like dressing and behaving and being modest with everything, and not being a show off with cars, homes, jewelery or bragging about our successes in life.

me as a tutor when I was teaching a young bachur english private classes, he was sixteen years old, one time I came into the class and I saw he was text messaging with a girl, he made me promise not to tell his mother, so Inever told his family, but it was with a regular phone not a blackberry in his house.?

thanks

mybat if a person has a blackberry for work and then learns half a day. If that person is seriously in learning would not be text messaging during his learning time and would put it away and not use it during that time.