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  • in reply to: Pruzbul Time #2128399
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    UJM:

    1. According to most rishonim, shmitta is meshamet chovos at the end of the year. There are minority opinions that hold the beginning of the year.
    2. Financially no. However, as a chizuk for the Takana, some encourage anyway.
    3. Needs to be retained until RH. After, if you think that your collection will end up in Bais din and the other party will taana that shmitta was meshamet, you’ll need to prove that it was done.
    4. Yes.
    5. Yes.
    6. Yes.
    7. No.

    in reply to: YWNCR Live Debate #2102392
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    How is that different from what happens here all the time anyway?

    in reply to: ⚔A Call To Arms⚔ #2095318
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    The Schumer tape’s being ignored by all the left wing media as well as the justice department is one of the biggest proofs the to right wing’s philosophy that the entire system is stacked against us. How saying that it is two years old is some kind of defense absolutely boggles the mind.

    in reply to: Yerushalmi #2091244
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    ujm: I’m partial to potato.

    in reply to: Every rebbe, every gabbai – get a pistol #2091243
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    Moishe Kapoieh is talking like someone else with the same initials. Every Jew a .22. A policy that has been discouraged strongly by virtually every Gadol in its time.

    in reply to: TWO NAMES #2091242
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    Two names has been around a very long time, at least since the Tanaim. Think Abba Shaul among others.

    in reply to: WHY DO LITVOCKS ALWAYS SAY TACHNUN?? #2090414
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    Assuming Lowertuition meant Pinchos Breuer,

    in reply to: CAN WE TAKE A TIME MACHINE TO THE PAST OR FUTURE? #2089871
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    Shnooky Shapiro met George Washington

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089044
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    Once again demonstrating that some people have no clue what goes on in a real Bais Medrash.

    in reply to: The zionist plan to get rid of the charedim #2085696
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    If the tickets were sold out in an hour, that means there weren’t enough tickets made available.

    If a half million people go every year without difficulty, and one year there was a stampede and a horrible tragedy, the answer should not be eliminate 90% of the traffic. The answer should be more efficiency, and if that requires some reduction in capacity, so be it. But 90% reduction? To me that means 400,000 or more aren’t getting an opportunity. Anyone who thinks participating online is participating, has no clue what this is all about.

    in reply to: Shidduchem vs real estate #2085615
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    Gemara in Sota says that the same kind of Bas Kol that says Bas Ploni l’ploni, also says Bayis Ploni l’ploni and Sadeh PLoni l’ploni.

    To respond to UJM, shidduchim resumes are not really resumes. They are more like contact/reference lists. it is a wonderful convenience that saves a lot of time. If calling it a resume bothers you, then by all means change the name.

    in reply to: Court packing #2082805
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    Let them do it legislatively. That’s the way the system was designed. And if they reach too far, they will stand to pay on election day.

    in reply to: Missing a parsha #2072205
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    First of all, the parsha you’ll miss is Acharei Mos, not Bechukosai. Also, if you’re back in Israel for the Shabbos after, there will be loads of places that will lain Acharei Mos and Kedoshim together, for anyone who was in Chu”l, including all the yeshiva bachurim that will arrive that week.

    in reply to: Why Does YWN Ignore GOP Antisemites #2065612
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    MTG is the most marginalized member of Congress. Paul Gosar is nobody. No reason to condemn and thereby give publicity to the ones who are being ignored anyway. AOC and the squad are front and center in the Democratic Party.

    in reply to: If you are Jewish and Pro Ukraine #2063743
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    UB: That is what is being suggested. But even more than that. It includes supporting the nation that gave us Lenin, Stalin, the Iron Curtain, was meshamed doros of Jews. And before that, the czars and the Cantonist program.

    in reply to: Remember why Trump was impeached the first time? #2063372
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    He didn’t say “Fire the guy who is investigating my son.” He said “Fire the guy” who is investigating my son.
    Eats, shoots, and leaves.

    in reply to: Remember why Trump was impeached the first time? #2063241
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    Charlie: Do you remember the famous recording of Biden bragging (while he was VP) that he threatened the leadership of Ukraine to withhold all aid unless they fired the AG (or whatever the Ukrainian equivalent is) that was investigating Hunter?

    in reply to: Melaleuca #2061521
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    Today is the yahrtzeit of R Eli Teitelbaum z”l. One of the last things he did was write a letter to the editor of Yated that was published after he was nifter (might have been printed before, but by the time the paper was out he had passed away already. In that letter he warned very strongly about staying away for Multi Level Marketing schemes like this one. Don’t remember if he mentioned this company or any other one specifically, but sometimes it may be true that chacham adif minavi.

    in reply to: Is Israel heading to the 7 day workweek? #2061437
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    Duvidf: Have you been following the news lately? How else would you describe Avigdor Lieberman and Yair Lapid (and all the people that voted for their parties), who are two of the most powerful politicians on the Israeli scene today?

    in reply to: Warning: Do not lift the Chasan on the Table #2060619
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    AAQ: Actually if you check out the sugya, the payis for ketores that was instituted because of the incident on the ramp was not established until it happened a second time.

    in reply to: Is whoopie Goldberg Jewish? #2057085
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    Her real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson. GIYF.

    in reply to: Free Covid tests now available #2052543
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    I got a confirmation as well

    in reply to: Rapid testing for flight to Israel #2050975
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    They do not require a Frum doctor. But good luck trying to get any other kind to open up on Motzoei Shabbos.

    in reply to: Kids Used As Mules, Pidyon Shevuyim #2032700
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    Why the snide comments about having to give YOUR tzedaka money for Leukemia treatments and chasuna money? Or anything else for that matter?

    in reply to: When the Coffee Room Started, George W. Bush was President #2032667
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    I was in the coffee room. My profile says I joined here in December 2006, almost 15 years ago!

    in reply to: “Harry” #2026769
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    I would say it’s the opposite of a Teena Bagel. The Teena Bagel is one who has all the externalities of Chassidus but none of the pnimiyus. A Harry means someone lacking in the chitzoniyus.

    in reply to: Fake Reviews #2021894
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    Midvar sheker tirchak, never tell a lie
    Hashem knows just what happened there’s no reason to deny
    Honesty is emes, make sure all your words are true
    So Totty, Mommy, and Hashem will be so proud of you.

    in reply to: Shooting with a DSLR #2019777
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    This would be a great chance for Wolf to make a re-entry

    in reply to: Rabbi Moshe Tendler AH #2013368
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    I don’t remember clearly. Was it Michlalah?

    in reply to: Rabbi Moshe Tendler AH #2013249
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    Agree with Syag, DY, etc. One little interesting caveat, FWIW. I’ve been saying a daily daf yomi shiur for a while. During the early months of Corona, I said the shiur from home on Zoom and/or conference call. My post seminary daughter (since married, BH) would listen in many evenings, albeit without following along inside. When topics in Shabbos an Eiruvin would come up around the Shabbos table, she would say, I remember when you spoke about that in your shiur!! If her husband’s family found out, I wonder what they’d think about that!!!

    in reply to: YWN COFFEE ROOM AGES #2013006
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    Tokens for the bridges? Do you remember the books with coupons that you had to hold out the book and the attendant would tear out the page?

    in reply to: Arrogance and Hyoocrisy on the left #2002870
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    Cuomo was forced out for one reason. He had accumulated so much garbage that it didn’t all fit under the rug anymore. It wasn’t the nursing homes or his morality or lack thereof. It wasn’t his political stance on anything. It was just costing too much political capital to cover for him, so he was hung out to dry.

    in reply to: Is the frum “business/economic model” sustainable? #2001015
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    Rambam HIlchos Ishus 15, 19. Ohavah K’gufo umechabdah yoser migufo

    in reply to: Jewish Music Quiz #1999345
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    So it was 2 live recordings, but no studio albums? thank you for the correction!

    in reply to: Jewish Music Quiz #1996386
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    IIRC, MBD sang Sameach Tesamach from R B Chait at a HASC concert (I think HASC 3) and recorded it on an album later.

    in reply to: Jewish Music Quiz #1996270
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    VAhaviosim may not have been composed by Yerachmiel. But wasn’t that album mostly his? (A little bit of Harvey Erlich and Heshy Nussbaum too.)

    Perhaps TEACH me how to sing was not included because falsettos (kop shtimmer) don’t count.

    in reply to: Jewish Music Quiz #1996011
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    Baal Habooze: Can you explain why Benny Friedman is related to Avraham Fried but not the Marcus brothers? And interesting to note that you left Mendy and Yisroel Werdyger out of MBD’s family. Chazan Ari Klein too for that matter.

    in reply to: Jewish Music Quiz #1995960
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    #2 has countless answers. Aside from those already mentioned, how about V’chol Hachaim. Adir hu, but maybe that’s not slow enough. V’zocher, if you count the opening as a part of the song. Same on V’eineinu Sirena. The old Mimkomcha from Haneshama Lach record. Mikdash Melech. Melech Rachaman. and the list goes on and on.

    in reply to: Pushback on Ben and Jerrys #1995043
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    Something wrong with Mehadrin?

    in reply to: Lakewood asifa #1990732
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    Was it an asifa, or a marketing event? (with what I hear was a disappointing turnout.)

    in reply to: Top Five Yeshivas #1985720
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    AAQ: It actually is a machlokes in Brachos 27-28. R”G vs. the system installed that day.

    in reply to: 40th Siyum Harambam This Sunday!!! #1984163
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    MACHA’AH!!!!!
    Rav Moshe Feinstein zt’l NEVER EVER referred to the Lubavitcher Rebbe as the Nasi Hador. Those words aren’t even in the lexicon of bnai Torah anywhere outside of Chabad.

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    My kids like to say:
    “Early to rise and early to bed
    might make you healthy, but socially dead!”

    in reply to: ECAP #1978174
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    Is the atmosphere anti Torah? I’d doubt it. Does everyone behave perfectly? Maybe yes, maybe no.
    I don’t know what goes on there. But I know a number of people who go. They are largely ehrliche yidden, who live Torah based, albeit Baalebatishe lifestyles. And those people provide quite a fair percentage of support of Torah in this country.

    in reply to: Favorite Dips #1977693
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    Al ta’am vare’ach, ein lehitvake’ach!

    in reply to: Democrats: The Party Against Israel #1976594
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    I guess it really was checkmate!!

    in reply to: Democrats: The Party Against Israel #1976073
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    House Dems Reject Measure To Boost Israeli Security Aid
    House Democrats on Thursday voted against a measure to provide Israel with emergency funding for its Iron Dome missile defense system, which destroys terrorist rockets before they land, saving scores of lives as Israel continues to fight against Palestinian terror groups.

    In a vote of 218-209, Democrats rejected a security funding amendment offered by Rep. Tony Gonzales (R., Texas). The measure would have paved the way for Israel to receive a tranche of emergency dollars specifically for missile defense, which has proven critical as Iranian-backed terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad target Israeli citizens.

    The Democrat-controlled House’s rejection of the security amendment came just days after a Republican bid to sanction Hamas was shut down. On Tuesday, Democrats rejected a bid by House Republicans to hold a vote on Hamas sanctions legislation that would have cut off the group’s funding sources.

    Check mate.

    in reply to: Israel – acting rashly? #1973447
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    “To clarify, I wrote this before the rockets started coming over from Gaza.”

    Liar. Posts are time stamped.

    in reply to: Why do yeshivos give off or end early on Lag Baomer #1969417
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    Lag Baomer is NOT a yom tov. Is there any issur melacha? One who equates Lag Baomer with Chol Hamoed is probably being Mevaze es hamoados. We learned about that recently in the daf.

    in reply to: LONGEST THREAD EVER!! #1969023
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    Vaeschanan

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