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I trust Syag’s sense of knowing who and what to give to. It is in her genes.
Anyone heard of the story from the Chofetz Chaim about a stamp? He had written a letter to mail. Then he found someone going directly to the destination and sent it by hand. He then tore up a stamp, saying that because he found an alternative, that shouldn’t deprive the government of the money they’re entitled to. Question would be the exact cheshbon and is that because of postal monopolies. Also is that halacha l’maaseh, or just a chumra/tzidkus/lifnim mishuras hadin hanhaga that the Chofetz Chaim did himself.
Not sure. But he is quite possibly a kofer. One of the yesodos of emuna is the belief in the coming of Moshiach, including the lashon of Achakeh lo bechol yom. If he says this coming Monday is the last chance this year, he is violating the precept. The rest of the screed is pretty much unintelligible. If someone says he’s got sources all over the Torah and doesn’t tell you anything, he really has nothing.
I looked on Amazon, and its very pretty on the outside. But you know you can’t judge a book by its cover!
In this crazy time we live in, missing the aufruf is a halbeh tzorah. Sometimes sisters of the kallah can’t come because of Israeli travel restrictions!
All we really ask of Hashem is that everyone should be well and be able to participate as much as they desire!!Paraphrasing OP: I’m going away and I need the hechsher hock. Please don’t turn this into hechsher hock.
Did you ever listen to him explain the development of the term Feminazi? Who it is referring to and what it means?
Zell Miller
I remember back in 7th grade. It was one of those days. The class was very farshluffen, no one was really into what was going on. Finally the rebbi says, “Is it Thursday today?” We responded why do you ask? He said “Because we say in Thursday’s shir shel yom ‘Sfas lo yadati eshma,’ and all I seem to be hearing from anybody today is lo yadati!!”
And 40 years before that they said it was Germany
Methinks that Charlie just showed his true colors. Not one person on this thread mentioned Trump. The only thanks mentioned top to bottom were addressed to Hashem. And he says thank the companies.
See famous story with Alexander Mokdon I believe quoted in the Kuzari. The primary difference being that story had the machlokes lead to the children’s shidduch, and this one the children’s shidduch led to the machlokes!
I don’t know about you all. But I’m from the Midwest. What’s a charcuterie board?
Syag: Not sure that the Coffeeroom is representative of the Yeshiva World anymore. Anyone with any connection to the Yeshiva World IRL, knows that Trump enjoys 80-90% support. (Leaving yesterday’s activities out of the equation) Mostly not because we love the way he behaves, (we don’t, and I never did) but because we like his policies. However in here, it seems like 75% anti-Trump. With a nastiness that didn’t start with yesterday’s riots. In spite of all of my friends here, (old and new alike, wink wink) I’m considering walking away for a while until all the Trump hysteria wears off.
George W Bush 200 in 8 years
George HW Bush 75 in 4 years
Ronald Reagan 406 in 8 years
Jimmy Carter 566 in 4 yearsBill Clinton 456 pardons, commutations and clemencies in 8 years
Barak Obama 1715 in 8 years
Donald Trump 92 in 4 years
GIYFOr perhaps as the midnight ballots were brought in they were entirely blank except for the top of the ticket. Those trying to perpetrate fraud had only one real goal.
R Yitzchok Sorotzkin is in Aninus for his brother R Eli Meir Sorotzkin
And for those who say character above all, what about the democratic president 22 years ago who actually did violate #3?
Amalek was a grandson of Eisav, who also descended from Shem. According to those traditions that Hitler was Amalek, would you say that one who fought against Hitler in WWII was an anti-Semite?
I saw a post with one paragraph, two sentences. Sentence #1 was about cigarettes at simchas. Sentence #2 was about denying those people tuition benefits.
I am not pro-smoking at all. Chas Veshalom. It’s a horrible habit that disgusts me. Another horrible habit that disgusts me even more though, is people that try to manage the lives of others. Having sat on tuition committees at more than one local school for at least two decades (retired after my last child graduated HS, BH!!!!) most of my struggles have been with those of my colleagues (thankfully not many of them out here) that want to create full budgets for peoples entire lives before granting minimal hanachos.You would deny tuition discounts to someone who spends 10.00 to celebrate a simcha? Rachmana Litzlan from those who want to so micromanage the affairs of others.
Rav Chaim Dov Keller who was nifter today, is the father of Rav Shmuel Yeshaya Keller. Rav SYK is a talmid of Gramad, and is also a son in law of Rav Arye Leib Lopian of Gateshead.
Syag; Not 100% sure what came first; the chicken or the egg, Whether full tuition was set high because of the need to give scholarships, or in response to budget shortfalls due to scholarships. Either way, that is definitely the situation now. Take the school budget, subtract JUF and government subsidies, and divide the remainder by the student body, and you’ll get a number less than full tuition.
There are many other moving parts in those formulas; fundraising and the like. So it’s not quite so simple. But the higher number is set to get the board a little head start in fundraising. And many of those people on the boards who are setting those fees are taxing themselves so to speak as they are largely the full payers. (Not me, but they have to have some of our types on the boards as well to justify across the spectrum representation.) But they know the responsibility, and they largely step up to the plate to take responsibility.Syag: Having sat on the boards and tuition committees of more than one local institution, I can assure you that Interjection’s first paragraph is right 100% on target.
Now the second paragraph, well I know Interjection personally, and we have debated this issue in the past, sometimes vigorously.
A fair chunk of it is about money. When people figured out the Dems could be guilted into giving them money to assuage their conscience, they went all in. The welfare state.
Hooray for Syag!!!
Any rebbi worth having does not let go until there is someone to take over. (And many of the rabbiem will not let go even then.) I know personally of rabbeim in yeshivos in America that have kept up with the bochurim scheduled to leave, and with those who’ve already left, were in Israel for a year or two and were just home for Pesach and couldn’t return. Sure, there are challenges. But our rabbeim and roshei yeshiva are not achzarim who kiss their talmidim good bye and then wash their hands of them.
And since the case will never be heard in enough time to get the camps open, he in effect ruled that there will not be camps in NY.
I live out in the Midwest, and when I saw the topic, and thought about the current date in the end of June, I completely agree with TFG, that was my original thought.
You know what Pony, that’s a great idea!! In the last 9 weeks, I don’t know if anyone has spoken to a medial professional!! Maybe we should do that now!! I hereby appoint you the shliach of the tzibbur to care of that glaring omission!!
Inflated prices is a natural market force which helps ensure that goods get distributed fairly. If masks would be available at 80 cents apiece to the general public, the first few customers would buy them by the hundreds and thousands, and supply would disappear. Keeping prices higher helps prevent individual hoarding by making it cost prohibitive, thereby leading to wider distribution. It also encourages manufacturers and distributors to be more motivated to take extra risks in bringing more to the market as the payoff makes it more worthwhile. Economics 101; supply and demand.
There are 3-4 opinions quoted in MB. See OC 135:2 in Rama, and the various people below.
One is that you have to do them all. Another is that you don’t go back more than the begining of the current Chumash, which would mean back to Vayikra, because you only do multiple parshiyos if you can overlap the gap with a single aliya, and you can’t have a single aliya cross over between Pikudei and Vayikra. And one opinion is to only make up one week, like tefilas tashlumin for Shmoneh Esreh, that you can only make up the last one. That shitah has two variations, either to do just plain one extra week. The other version is to do no more than 2 parshiyios on one Shabbos no matter what. That means if either the week you resume, or the week you are trying to make up has 2 scheduled parshiyios, there would not be any makeup, because that would require 3. At this time that would mean that if we’re back in business by Shmini, so we’d do Tzav and Shmini. But if it takes longer, three of the following four weeks are double parshiyos, so there would be no makeup at all. Unless it drags out all the way until Naso, then you could do BAmidbar and NAso. By that time we’ll be off from Israel beacuse the second day of Shavuos, they’ll be laining NAso in Israel, which we won’t get to until the following week. Oy it’s complicated. I’ve seen that Rabbi Heinemann has been machria to do them all whenever we get back to normal.Syag: I think this thread is worthy of Shehechiyanu ! GH is actually telling people to listen to R Chaim Kanievsky and the other gedolim!!
My uncle was at the doctor last week to get a shot. He told him to come back this week for a another shot. He told me he’s the only person in Klal Yisroel who is legally allowed to get Chazaras Hashots!!!
Last Wednesday, 29 Adar, was the yahrtzeit of my father, Since none of us are going to shul, we all (sons, grandsons, and a couple of great grandsons) split up the entire Seder Moed Mishnayos to be learned all on the day of the yahrtzeit. Then at the end of the day we had a Zoom conference with my mother, who lives alone, and a whole bunch of descendants, at which we made a siyum. No Kaddish, as we were all in different locations, The siyum brought nachas to my father’s neshama, and the Zoom conference, with 31 active screens, brought loads of nachas to my mother, may she continue to be well.
Learn Mishnayos, give nachas to an almanah. That’s the way to go.
Dr. Hall: Impressive accomplishment! May you be zoche to complete all Yerushalmi!!!
IN a Vinkele was originally on Dveykus II, Mid 1970s
A Little Bird is calling has other versions that go back at least to the 1960s.
Bilvavi was composed by R SHmuel Brazil shlita. Also goes back to early 1970s.Same tune as V’hu Keili that was released on a different Boruch Levine album.
you need a minyan for brachos and kallah blo bracha . . . .
Remember when R Chaim Kanievsky said that if you have another mitzvah on the same day as elections, like a bris, you should vote first? That’s because Tadir v’she’eino tadir, tadir kodem!!
So when’s the next election?
See posuk in Chumash, V’rapo yerapeh. See drasha in Chazal, Mikan shenitna reshus l’rofeh lerapos.
While I am 100% on Syag’s side on the Anti Vaxx debate, those last two comments (Abba_S and Syag’s response) demonstrate the futility of most of these discussions. Two people with opposite views see the exact same incident, and draw conclusions of simanim from Shomayim that are diametrically opposed to each other, each supporting his or her own preconceived notion on the topic at hand.
No one is changing anyone’s mind in these debates, no matter how wonderful the “new” proofs seem to be to each of us, on either side.
There are basically 4 main places that do Takana weddings. IN order you can loosely say Ateres Chana at Bais Faiga, Ateres Reva at Toras Aharon, Fountain Ballroom at Lakewood Cheder, and Neemas Hachaim at Bais Tova. Their Takana packages range from about 12K to about 16K, give or take. Going from one to the next adds about 1200.
LOT: My comment about shidduchim and geography was directed at GH.
“Are you suggesting that a young man/woman living in the Baltimore area should focus on shiduchin in Lakewood so as to reduce the costs for renting a simcha hall? Otherwise, If the choson/kalah are both from Maryland/DC area, why would they go to Lakewood for the wedding?”
I’ve heard those rumors about the upcharge for OOT. But my experience has been (3 weddings in the past 4 years, one in Fountain and two in Ateres Reva) that is just talk. No one asked where I live until after we discussed cost, settled on a number, and then they asked where to send paperwork.
People should look for shidduchim based on compatibility, hashkafah, and a whole bunch of other things based on the person. Not based on geography. Don’t make or break a shidduch for a lifetime based on factors related to the one night event, i.e. the wedding.
GH: Have you been watching at all lately? People from everywhere make weddings in Lakewood because they are significantly cheaper, and simpler. One check covers almost everything. Wedding hall, caterer, photography, video, music, and flowers. Not because of where they live. I have married off 5 daughters, BH ka”h. Only my first was in the OOT community in which I live. One that was made with another OOT mechuten was in Yerushalayim. The other 3 were in Lakewood. Two of the mechutanim came from Brooklyn, and the other from Canada. You don’t have to be from Lakewood to make a wedding in Lakewood.Baltimoreans get very annoyed when they have to travel almost three hours each way for a wedding. It’s a big strain. When my son married a Baltimore girl, her father is a man of some prominence in town there. He felt an achrayus to make it locally, even though he would have saved significant money doing it in Lakewood. His kehillah thanked him for that consideration.
If you have to be a member of a specific shul, that is not very inclusive.
The Chicago Chesed Fund has a network of Shadchanim that deal in Chicago and all across the country. Why don’t you google SimchaLink and send a message to them? They will forward your request to their dozen or so people, many of whom would be happy to work with you.
(Full disclosure: One of those shadchanim is my wife)Not all of Rav Yaakov’s sons spelled their last name in English the same way. Rav Shmuel spells it Kamenetsky. His brother, Rav Binyomin zt’l, father of R Mordechai, spelled it Kamenetzky. R Mordechai’s son Shmuel writes for the Yated. Notice the spelling of the last name and you can possibly get a hint to who it is. I’m not sure what TFG wants someone who writes his real name to do if he happens to share the name with someone else. I don’t find it misleading at all to write ones own name.