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Kapusta: What’s the big deal? Behab is coming!!
2Scents: I warned you that it wasn’t very exciting!
Let me add one further disclaimer: I wouldn’t know Gefen if I fell over her in the street. But her husband is an old friend.
About an hour ago the phone rang, and caller ID said Gefen’s family name, asking if we’re attending a certain community function. My response was, “Well is this YC or GG?” (I hope I’m not giving too much away, but Gefen has already acknowledged her connection to those 2 screen names.)
See I told you it wasn’t that exciting!
Not nearly as exciting as it sounds.
Why don’t you ask the caller my response?
I agree with R’ Itche on Zar and bigdei chol, but not on Piggul. Sitting is not on that list.
I would say that comparing Rav Ovadia to R’ Akiva is silliness. We don’t compare ourselves to previous generations at all. We know that we don’t rate. “Im harishonim kemalachim etc”
So as far as comparing levels, one would rate people by their very own standards. I hope that even if we are unable to determine ourselves who is the greatest among the great ones, we should at least be able to tell who is great. To borrow an expression, who would at least be in the team photo.
Once you determine that, observe them and see who defers to whom. Because even if we can’t tell at our low level who is greatest, those who are in that sphere might have a better idea. So to follow through on your analogy of the sephardic gedolim, do you ever see someone like Rav Ovoadia consulting Rabbi Shlomo Amar? Not very often. But the reverse is a regular occurrence. The sephardic leaders are always consulting with Rav Ovadia.
Likewise, we may not be able to tell among the local rabbis who’s the heaviest hitter. But watch them. You’ll see they recognize among themselves who is on a higher madreiga. and who they consult with, when something need to be brought to a higher authority.
Lo almon Yisroel. Hashem guarantees us that he will put in the hearts of the people the wisdom to at least choose who their leaders should be. Can anyone of us know for sure? Maybe not. But HKBH loves his children, and he will guide them in a general way to find the right leaders.
My boich tells me that the East River crossings are likely less than 2000 amos. They are made for walking (at least the W-brg bridge and Bkln bridge are) and in the 20s-50s, people regularly walked between Williamsburg and the East Side.
The Verazzano Bridge is far longer than 2000 amos and was made primarily for vehicular traffic-not walkers. There may be more of a problem there.
(I know the shiur for burganys would be 70.7 amos, but that is chutz la’ir. When you’re in the city limits, we are not machmir on gaps that small.)
Yitayna: I don’t know if you were responding to me, but I was very much responding to what you said that it is not applicable nowadays.
“Which is absolutely inapplicable to our time, when our leaders do not have that power.”
The issue is not psak halacha. It is listening to the gedolim asher yihye bayamim hahem.
Laamod leshares ksiv.
Uvasa el hakohein, v’el hashofet asher yihye bayamim hahem. Can someone go to a shofet that is not b’yamav? Ela lelamed sheYiftach b’doro k’Shmuel b’doro.
Sakva d’shata rigla.
In defense of Charlie: Someone who has already commented on this thread once challenged me to identify who she was. In a matter of 10 minutes I had her pegged, with enough scary detail that would spook you. And that was only from info culled from her comments in the coffeeroom. I posted my process on her, (you lived here before, now you live there, you have so may kids, genders and ages, you come from here, your husband is from there, you had this illness last year, etc) and thankfully, the mod did not let it through.
I have already given away so much about myself on other threads, that anyone who cares (I’m sure there aren’t too many that do) can identify me in a couple of minutes. But I’m a big boy, and I can handle any heat generated back to me from anything I’ve ever said here.
But for the teenage crowd, gumball and others, they don’t really understand the big bad world out there, and what people with not-so-kosher motives can do with personal info. I would agree with CB et al that shtika adif.
Check out the parperaos section in the back of Birkas Peretz, the Steipler’s sefer on Chumash. Pages and pages of unbelievably fascinating gematrios, connecting Rashi’s pshat to the possuk itself.
Second of six. The wife is 4th of 10.
Hilchasa yesuvei yasvinan, bruchi lo mevarchinan.
Cant’s say 100% sure, but my impression is that Montreal should actually be much higher on that list. Probably right after LA. The rest is probably pretty accurate.
Daas Torah and the concept of listening to Gedolim does not mean that gedolim are infallible. It only means that even in the unlikely event that they are wrong, (After all, they are human with flesh and blood judgment, and bechira as well) we should listen anyway.
Even if they say on yemin shehu smol.
In a current life, I met Popa at a Starbucks. And no, I will give away nothing. He will stay as anonymous as he wishes, at least as far as I am concerned.
A gutten moed Popa!!
I HATE eating! I have a nutritious breakfast. Then comes lunch. maybe a mid-afternoon snack. Then the wife makes a great supper. Then perhaps a bit of nosh late evening. Then I get up in the morning, and I have to do it ALL AGAIN!
Unbelievable!!
There are those who think that in recent years the Evangelical branch of the notzri’s religion are more friendly to the Israeli Jews and the muslims. They therefore forget that for nearly 2000 years, they were responsible for more sinas yisroel and Jewish blood than the muslim could ever dream of. English Government has always been bound up with the church (different tekufos different branches of the church). Throughout the middle ages, governments strongly aligned with the catholic church (the others as well, but to a lesser degree) were rodef the Jews regularly. European Jews lived in constant fear of banishment from wherever they lived. Part of the yissurim of golus.
Sorry. I guess I misinterpreted something on a different (IMHO) thread. I just went back and looked, and I see that I was wrong. Please ignore the last.
OMG! If AH’s DH is going for a month, there will be no one left to keep GB’s overwhelming exuberance in check!
Popa: Your comment reminds me of the fellow who tells his insufferable know it all friend, “Between you and me, we know everything in the world that there is to know. You know everything, except that you a snobby stuck up jerk. And I know that!”
kochi v’otzem yadi is an azhara to trust in Hashem, not to demand a handout!!
What one must know is “Ki Hu Hanosein lecha koach laasos chayil”, and not “Ki Hu Hanosein lecha koach lakachas min ha’osim chayil”
PBA: There’s one more that you forgot. Our dear Dr. Hall. Unless you think that he fits into your third group.
The Repubs need to put up a quality individual; someone with no skeletons in his closet. Because you know that an Obama scandal get put in the public media for a half day, and a republican scandal gets beaten to death daily. There has to be nearly nothing on such a person. He also has to be really naturally likable. That way, maybe some of you fence sitters will see through the media painting of the GOP winner as some sort of ogre. Also the ideological purists on the right (TEA party types, including thye one and only Rush) have to not let the perfect become the enemy of the good and decent.
The repubs in general beat him comfortably now. But once it is pinned down to a specific induhvidual, each one has his own private mum that makes it more difficult to compete.
A single candidate that can overcome all that doesn’t really exist in the group of people out there today. The closest one, IMHO, would be Mike Huckabee, who regretably did not get in.
So yes, I think there is a chance that Obama can lose, but we should not be overconfident. There are hoards of people out there who are unemployed, but love Obama, because he gives them unemployment benefits, rather than getting his regulatory bodies out of the way, and allowing those same people to get a productive job.
Policy wise: Gingrich is tops. However, the morality issues that he has in his past are HUGE. He really can’t win in the family values friendly republican party without them appearing to be massively hypocritical.
What ya Teina:famous medrash. However remember that works for amei ha’aretz and tinokos.
Sakanas eiver is considered sakana, and muttar to be mechalel Shabbos. Generally it is not permitted to set your own kids up to assist in m’leches Shabbos. A parent is metzuve on the shevisa of his kids.
I’m sure Popa is wondering how they can count non-Jews for a minyan!
The title of this thread is a kinui for the name of the founder of the Western world’s largest religion. Perhaps it can be changed! V’shem elohim acherim lo sazkiru, lo yishama al picha!
sure, but I can’t think of any that isn’t a kinui for shem Hashem or yushka. Gosh, Golly, Heavens; even’t popa’s Blazes is probably Heck. Gumball: what do you want to rename it?
Did you see all those piyutim in the Machzor? That’s Mass text!
To Onegoal, Yummy and Gefen: I am in Chicago now. Consider yourselves notified!?
I betcha Charlie Hall doesn’t think he has any Joseph in him!
Shkoyach! Amen!
Oh, sorry, I just said that! If I’m Popa, that is. Or am I really me?
I think, therefore I don’t know who I am!!
Ok, Popa, you asked for it. (I first have to admit still Midwesterner’s wife, who is 2 lazy to make my own account but don’t want Midwesterner to be blamed for my shtuyos)
Onomatopoeias don’t always make sense.
Do frogs really ‘croak’,
do roosters really scream ‘cockadoodle doo’
and when was the last time your house or certainly not your cell phone said ‘ring’? (With today’s tunes, there would be no global ring tone to describe them.)
Did you ever actually hear thunder say ‘crash’?
And does rain really sound like ‘drip, drop’?
So you’d have to rewrite all the children’s books as well!
And as I type I don’t hear ‘clicking’ of the keyboard either.
So there 🙂
This is Midwesterner’s wife:
So glad all’s well that ends well.
I have some serious questions:
1. What indeed is the sound of the shofar?
2. What was the point of the question to begin with?
3. How did it ever end up on a chase of Popa?
Btw, please don’t waste any more time answering it. They are somewhat rhetorical.
A gut yahr to everyone (whether they are in Chicago, Boston, or wherever!)
Now that he is safely on the road again, I can say to the previous posters that questioned the truth of the entire story, that Popa WAS indeed in Chicago, and we did end up meeting. Fine and interesting gentleman he is. We have shared email addresses, and I was actually able to make a connection for him!
Wolf: Very cute! As long as you enuncuiate clearly, and don’t miss any serious Trop, You’re OK!
So which one are you?
So, PBA, will I see you at 6:30 AM Selichos in Telshe?
The calendar was estanblished by Hillel Sheini, great grandson of Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi. He was therefore younger than Rav.
Learning bechavrusa and posting on the CR at the same time? What talent!
Reminds me of this thread from last week. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/davening-while-running-through-the-streets
Very strong language. “I hate ????? ????! It is the worst!” How about, “What a disappointment! No super short parsha this year!”
Nitzavim must always be the Shabbos before Rosh Hashana. If Rosh Hashana will start on Monday or Tuesday, then there will be a Shabbos between Yom Kippur and sukkos. That will be Parshas Haazinu, Vayelech will be Shabbos Shuva, and Nitzavim all alone. If Rosh Hashana starts on Thursday or Shabbos, there will not be a Shabbos between YK and Sukkos. That leaves HAazinu on Shabbos Shuva, and Vayelech to join up with Nitzavim. This is totally independant of any other cheshbonos that cause any other parshiyos to join together or to remain separate.
The ultimate simcha on this world will be the coming of Moshiach and the geula asida. The navi says the closest mashal to that in our daily existence is the simchas chosson vekalla, and thefore associated them on the aforementioned pesukim. We therefore sing that this simcha, as great as it is, will in then grow and lead us to the ultimate simcha of the geula, which is analogous to the chosson vekalla.
Is not the final bracha of the sheva brachos saying exactly that? May the One who created all the joy in the world, sason vesimcha chosson vekalla, etc, may He meheira allow that yishama b’arei yehuda Kol Sason v’KOl Simcha KOl Choson v’Kol kalla, and whatever the fifth KOl is as well. (The lashon of the bracha deviated from the lashon of the pasuk there. That’s an entire shmooz by itself.)
Hmmm! Appreciate getting noticed! But the Kollel is a bit of a walk for me, so I don’t go there often on Shabbos. Even though my 9-5 employer is the primary sponsor there.
Hope you enjoyed your stay in town! Where you gonna be for selichos?
Just so you should know, Popa, Sem20 is a guy.
I was actually tempted to stop by, but I figured people don’t stay in Starbucks very long. Thought it would be a fool’s errand.
Say hello to my wife. She’s teaching at JDBY, right across the street! Maybe she’ll offer you some cupcakes for Shabbos!
This is Midwesterner’s wife:
How about Popa, Gefen and sem20 (and some others) all have a coffee reunion at Shallots?
Anyway, too busy with meetings to have fun going out.
Does anyone out there have a life beyond the coffee room? Some of us actually work for a living 🙂 (Oops, actually sem20 worked quite hard last night. Yasher koach on your hard work!)
Popa: I will do the same. That will then be the secret code how we identify each other!!