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I did not realize those machines cost like $450. I was curious as they seems useful. To find reviews, try Amazon.
I have been using the Yadaim mixers for years. That reminds me… Shabbat is coming up.
“at simchas and shabbos and times that i need to be besimcha. “
What do you mean by “times that i need to be besimcha”?
How often is that? It sounds to me that could be an excuse for grabbing a few drinks at any old time. Besides, why does it take 2-4 drinks (which is legally drunk) to get that “simcha”?
All alcoholics have excuses. They all say that they need that drink.
I’m glad you are asking now before it gets too late.
Go for treatment now.
cherrybim,
In your list of what not to do to avoid gebrokts you forgot the most common one:
DON’T EAT MAZTA
The Shulchan Aruch paskins that saliva causes leavening. So when you eat matza you are making gebrokts in your mouth.
Ask a Rav.
I think that going either strict or lenient must be approached with caution.
I cut my own – been doing it for years.
It took several times before I got it right.
About an inch on top, about 1/2 on sides and edge with 1/4.
It helped me when I have cut other people’s hair.
I got a better understanding of what I do to myself.
For the back of me neck, I wrap a belt to create a line to “shave” under. That’s easier than using mirrors.
Add gluten. You can get gluten in many supermarkets. I use Bob’s Red Mill brand, which comes in a small clear bag. Cost a few dollars.
Here is what I do, and I get good rising:
Warm the water until it feels warm on the wrist. It’s like testing a baby’s bottle, but a little warmer. If it hurts your wrist, add cold water. Add a teaspoon of sugar for every cup of white flour that you use, 4 to 5 teaspoons for every cup of whole wheat. Mix sugar in water. I put mine in a cup and prepare the flour and salt in a bowl or pot.
Use about a teaspoon of yeast for every 4 cups of flour. Mix the yeast into the sugar water and let stand for 15-30 minutes. It should foam on top.
The flour: Use bread flour, which has extra gluten, or use regular flour and add a teaspoon or two of gluten (see above). One teaspoon of salt for every 3 to 4 cups of flour. Maybe a little oil. Basically, I make a water challah.
Add yeast-water to flour mixture and add water as needed. If too gooey, add flour. I think I use one cup of water for 3 cups of flour.
Let rise for 2 hours or so, punch down, and shape. Turn on the oven for two minutes, so that it’ll be warm. Make sure oven is off and only lukewarm. I like to egg wash the challahs at this point because painting the egg on after they rose can partially deflate them.
Put challah in lukewarm oven and let rise for about 30 minutes. It they rose well, take out, turn on oven, and put back inside when full temp is reached for baking. If they need some more rising, give them a little more time, say 15 minutes. Alternatively, you can let them rise at room temp for 1.5 – 2 hours.
Don’t let to over-rise. They will get too big for themselves and collapse.
In one of Rabbi Yaakov Hillel’s online lectures (I thing on learntorah.com) he said that a good way to test mekubalim is when they come to your city, ask them to give a shiur in whatever Gemara the locals are learning. Quite a few will back off. As Ruth Alfasi said above, a real mekubal needs a Torah foundation.
Speaking of Rabbi Yaakov Hillel and the Steipler (mentioned above). Rabbi Hillel said that the Steipler was a Tsaddiq Nistar. Whatever you know about him is just 1% of who he truly was.
Baloochi,
As an Irish Jew, do you buy your whiskey on sale?
My impression is that the Gemara is not simply talking about moving. It is talking about Teshuva. Change from bad places to good places that bring merit.
Goq said:
“It’s wrong, they give you shampoo for you to use at the hotel it is not a parting gift, neither are towels, robes, toilet paper or light fixtures. “
IMHO, the little shampoo bottles and bars of soap are garbage to the hotel once opened or even get wet (wrapper ruined). They are not going to give the next guest a used bottle of shampoo or used soap, or just if the wrapper looks messed up. IMHO, those things, once used, may be taken home. The same applies to other non-reusable items.
Everything else is completely off limits.
It seems to me that every culture must have it’s dumb person jokes.
I agree with Goq. I think it’s best that we not be offensive to anyone.
“Just have her in mind three times a day, when davening vlamalshinim. “
Does she qualify as a Malshin? Does saying L”H make one a Malshin or does it need to be said to someone like a corrupt gov’t official who will do something bad?
I’d rather pray for her return. See Brachot 10a, where Bruriah told her husband to pray for the return, and not the demise, of wayward Jews. His prayers worked.
“yiddish is better to learn in. I speak english yiddish and ivrit. You cannot come close in terms of clarity when saying a vort in english or ivrit.”
Toi,
My point about French was that for learning you like Yiddish the best, but that’s your preference based on your experience. If you want to talk about Rishonim and Aharonim, then you have to look at what they spoke. If they are your bellwether, then consider them as they were, not as you would like them to be. How do you know that Rashi would understand Yiddish? At that point in history, Yiddish was different, and clearly Rashi did not consider it lingua franca.
“Reb Yoilish cried during the Six-Day War.”
Why?
“ivrit is the only one of the three that the rishonim and achronim couldnt possibly have spoken”
How about French? We clearly know that Rashi taught (and still teaches) in French.
“Btw Ahmadunejad never said he hates jews his rants have only been about zionists….”
A-jad never said that outright, but his proxy and employee, Nasralla – the head of Hizbolla has said he wants to kill all Jews. Furthermore, being anti-Israel is the easiest way to mask antisemitism.
“the biggest jewish community in arab lands today is in IRAN”
Iran is NOT Arab. Different language. Difference culture. Different religion. Persians and Arabs take offense to you mixing them.
Besides which, if you are talking about Moslem countries, there is about an equally large population of Jews in Turkey, about 25,000.
“Thanks to israel which got them kicked out of all others..”
Stupid people think that Arab/Moslem antisemitism started with the Medina. They ignore the centuries of persecution and killings. You have let the Arabs tell you history when they are told encouraged to lie (Islam tells them to).
Stupid people (NK) also beleive the Persians target every other Jew but them. NK is just a tool for the antisemites. If there was no utility for them, A-jad would line them up at the nearest wall.
BTW, do you think that the Persians will develop nukes that can distinguish Zionist from not? Or are they trying to nuke all of Israel?
“Rav Shach told American educators to have the yeshivos teach in Yiddish, not English. “
Is this published anywhere?
I think that this discussion is going nowhere.
MODS…UM…?
I prefer that Hashem makes them implode (or explode) on Purim. Hashem Yilahem Lachem v’Atah Taharishun
When I remodeled my house the contractor did the floors with Swedish finish. I am somewhat satisfied.
Go for poly. I wish I had.
“English is not a Jewish language. Yeshivish and haymish are not Jewish languages; they are euphemisms for bad English or tzibruchene Aynglish. “
German was not a Jewish language either, but somehow it became Yiddish (pun intended). People added some Hebrew, and after a while it became a Jewish language. At the same rate, give Yeshivish a couple hundred years and it will become the new Yiddish language.
“The question, in my opinion, will be if that scalding is long enough to make it Mezonos even if it is baked after. “
The Kaf HaChaim’s rule (which I beleive is on the Sh”A 168) is that the Bracha goes after the main way it’s cooked/baked. He says that bagels and pretzels are parboiled in order to make a particular outside crust, but the main way they are “cooked” is through baking. OTOH, if something is mainly boiled and then baked to change the outside a little, then that is Mezonot.
I have to admit that today we should look into how they are made. For example, many bagels today are not even boiled; they are steamed to get the crust. And I assume that soft pretzels are mainly baked because they have the form of bread inside them, besides being baked before serving.
You have to change your attitude. Calling yourself chocolateluver is not a good approach. It seems you focus on food. Try to focus on something else.
I think that there are two competing principles in this case: 1) What is the make-up of the item 2) How is it used.
1) The dough used for a soft hot pretzel is usually a bread dough. Furthermore, being soft, it has the texture and taste as bread.
OTOH
2) People generally do not consider a soft pretzel as a food that one makes a meal with (kovai’a seudah)
I cannot pasken for you, but I follow what I saw in the Kaf HaChaim, where he says that the bracha for a pretzel (and bagel – and he spells them in Hebrew) is Hamotsi.
“Those names are 1000% Jewish now.”
At first they were not, and some how they became used be Jews. There must have been a turning point with those names. So too, there can be a turning point with English names.
If you’d like to invite her, she has an email published on her web site.
“Most OTD who make a big deal out of it are baalei gayva vetayva “
Is it just me, but in the more recent pictures, like in the blue party dress, she looks like she got heavier. I think that is why she looks bad in it. Revealing clothes don’t look so good on out-of-shape people.
I get the feeling that as time goes on, she might get a number of socially transmitted diseases, if she hasn’t already.
yoyo,
I agree marriage is about trust, commitment, love, etc (all that stuff in the Ketubah). That’s is what I see as the “positive”. That’s the glue that keeps couples together. OTOH, there is stuff that un-glues, like all the stress, most notably raising children (which includes the parnassah needed).
Speaking of commitment, raising children, IMHO, takes more commitment and sacrifice than marriage. Marriage is (or should be) a two-way street, whereas with children, you give and give. Often without a thank you, and sometimes you get hostility for all your good efforts.
I found that she said this in an interview a little while ago:
Because I read books in English I knew I was a bad girl. In a black-and-white world you can either be bad or good. A Jew or not a Jew. There is no in-between. Maybe I didn’t wear red nail polish like a shiksa gentile, but I was peeking into an evil world, living vicariously in it through fictional characters. Break a rule and you’re automatically on God’s blacklist. My grandfather used to say English was an impure language and to employ it in any way would mean employing Satan himself as commander of my heart. There was no doubt that my heart was already thoroughly blackened by the time I was 10 years old.
It seems that she felt from early on she felt that she was not good. If she thought that she was going to gehinom, she might as well enjoy it.
I think I have a better understanding of what she wrote as I read the prologue and first chapter of her book last night (available online).
The author claims that she was raised by her grandparents because her father was mentally incompetent and her mother walked out. She claims that her mother walked out because of the condescension and rigidness of her father’s Satmar family. She (the author) seems to not fit in, not to her family, nor to her community. She grew up feeling very little love, and she paints the Satmar community as people that like to “improve” others by meanly chastising them. The person who really ran her family was her aunt, who she really paints as self-righteous, controlling, and mean spirited.
Her story shows a lot of dysfunction in her family. It seems that the only person that showed her any love was her Bubby. She says that Bubby was OK with her reading secular books, but her Zaidy would have been really upset.
She has an independent, free-spirited personality (according to the psych eval she was forced to take) and that facilitated a rejection of a rule based lifestyle.
yoyo said:
“mdg first of all im not the one! second i beleive ur wrong abt marriage…”
I realize that there are many opinions. I gave mine.
We can agree to disagree and still be agreeable.
yoyo,
How’s this for a trial run at marriage. Try taking care of a baby for a day – feeding, changing, putting to bed, etc. Have the mother not too far away if something unusual comes up.
Marriage and family life is about helping/caring for others.
My opinion is that in marriage a couple must have common values and goals. You need to be clear on your values and what you want out of life. Then you can find someone to complement and/or supplement you.
People who get married before 20 have average marriage of 52 years, with the median being 58.
People who get married between 20 and 25 have average marriage of 55 years, with the median being 53.
First of all, they are pretty close.
Second of all, if you go by the average, then getting married 20-25 wins.
But that whole stat is not applicable today. That stat has to be dealing with people that are at least 70, usually well past that. When they got married divorce was not the staggering percent that it is today.
Also, “figuratively bowing down to the egel hazahav of Zionism” counts as Avodah Zarah? That assertion is laughable.
You can look at any thing that any group holds strong to and call that an A”Z.
“For all you misnagdim out there ; WATCH OUT YOU DON”T KNOW WHO”S TOES YOU ARE STEPPING ON!”
Why are you yelling? Who stepped on who’s toes?
“Adoneinu Moreinu V’Rabbeinu “
Please be careful when using this title in shul, especially in tefillah. Calling someone Adone while standing in front of Hashem can be called Moredah B’malchut. See Birkai Yosef in Hilchot Kibud Av (i think).
Yes, you have the right to be disturbed. Unfortunately, smokers don’t realize how disgusting their habit is to the rest of us. They don’t realize how badly they stink.
4)(hard)Which people in tanach were a nazir(besides shimshon)?
Avshalom, that’s how he got caught, when his long nazarite hair got tangled in a tree.
“and even in the winter time for some reason he doesn’t do less than 80.”
What’s that based on? Is it al pi din for Shabbat or is it for Tesefet Shabbat?
ARFWS,
Did your husband’s Rav help? You made it sound like speaking with him would be effective?
“I’ve been to R’ Ovadia’s shul, who paskens like rabbenu tam, and he himself makes the havdala after 60 minutes “
Rav Ovadia holds 72 minutes b’shaot z’maniot, which can vary depending on the time of year and latitude. So according to him 60 minutes could have been 72.
frumnotyeshivish said:
“As far as smoking indoors next to adults, if the area is not designated as a smoking area, it is obnoxious to smoke w/o asking if it’s ok. “
Yes, many of of find many smokers to be obnoxious. Quite often they don’t understand that they are causing others pain and/or discomfort. Even smokers that smoke outside often don’t realize that by smoking by the door, they stink up the doorway as the rest of us pass through. The smoke often comes inside. And when the smoker comes inside, they stink – their hair stinks, their clothes stink, and their breath stinks.
Shticky Guy said:
“??? ??? ???? ??? needs to be said ??? ???? acc to some ???????, but not a regular ??? which should be said quieter than the ???? itself. “
I beleive that the commentaries there (Shabbat 119b) explain ??? ???? as being with all your Kavanah, not really your voice.
whataguy,
You are an addict in denial. Like a typical addict, you seem to say you can’t help it, you blame others, and that you need something to help you relax. In your case it’s tobacco, in others it’s something else. In any case, it’s just rationalization. If people really need an outlet, let them try exercise or playing music or another creative hobby.
The passuk ‘?????? ???) ???? ????? ?) does not apply to someone who knows what he is doing is wrong. That person is not a Peti.
I want to die in sleep like grandpa.
And not like his screaming passengers.
Aries,
You should know that most of us really appreciate your posts. Please don’t be upset if someone is in a bad mood that day or misunderstands you.
As you may know, in the world of marketing, if a business satisfies a customer, that customer will be likely to tell one or two friends. But if the customer is annoyed, then s/he is likely to rant to 9 friends. Moral of the story is that people openly kvetch a lot more and thank a lot less than they should. Most of us included.
So let me say again (here and as in other threads) that you are one of my favorite people here and I really appreciate your incite and concern. I wish I could match you. Until then I will try my best to learn from you.
skiaddict said:
“But today i was thinking that i disagreed with something a rov said but i told myself i betta just accept because he is way above me and knows betta. “
The next time you should respectfully ask. If you are wrong you will learn a little more as you hear an explanation. If you are right, then you can bring someone to the truth. Do not assume infallibility.
Besides which, a Rav learns more when he is questioned as he has to think clearly about what he is saying.
I think that the answer is Hakarat Hatov to Bat Paroh.
Another way of saying what DY said is it there is a Havara Petucha before a BeGeD KeFeT, then the BeGeD KeFeT has no dagesh.
What is an Havar Petucha? It is when the last syllable ends with a vowel sound. At the end of a word this is usually with the letters of Yud Alef Heh and Vav, which are called together Yaihu.
If there is a cantillation that is a stop (like etnachta, revii, zakaif katone, pashta, etc) on the word that ends with Havara Petucha, then that cantillation stops the effect of the Havara Petucha. For example, Eleh Tolados Noach, not Eleh Solados Noach.
Also a Mapik Heh is considered a consonant.
Health said: “Ain Sofek Yotzay Meday Vaday! “
Most people are happier than you, at least they seem to be. Even here in the CR, where the anonymous can freely express their feelings, we see that most (almost all) of us have a better attitude than you.
Besides which, although I don’t know that much, I don’t think that the principle of “Ain Sofek Yotzay Meday Vaday” applies to attitudes/hashkafa.