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I believe one can be nisgalgel a maximum of three times.

Because Hashem wished to create beings as like Himself as possible. And just as it is impossible to give anything to Hashem, He created humans to strive to be givers and not takers. Thus, nahama dich’sufah, the bread of embarrassment. We cannot easily accept something for nothing.

I’d like to know about food distributions in Rockland County.

Welcome back! I promise that here you will not be judged. There are too many of us who have wavered from time to time to judge anyone else. What can we do to help you in your situation? If you need something, please tell us. If you live anywhere I can reach I will be glad to help you, bring you something. I would invite you to my house but with the Coronavirus going on I don’t know what to do. But if that’s what you need, I will ask my wife.

Okay, not in the Serengeti, but in Borough Park, late Thursday night; someone is coming home from mishmar, and he turns a corner and walks right into a trap — five scary looking individuals armed with knives. He’s feeling pretty vulnerable right then.
But he whips out his bag of favorite hamentashen — raspberry filled, of course — and shares it with the scary-looking gentlemen, and everyone parts friends.

This is new? In Monroe almost everyone drives like an entitled lord in a hurry. I hate driving in Monroe. And in Monsey every goyisher car service drives like they’re on a Sunday drive, slow as molasses, without blinking before turns.

Two things guarantee happiness: gratitude and חסד. Be grateful to Hakodos Boruch Hu, and do חסד to other people. Both will fill you with happiness, I promise you.

First he blocked me as I was trying to walk on the sidewalk. Then I turned around and saw how he was parked. His car blocked three parking spots.

A roundabout is a traffic circle.

I was once blocked on the sidewalk by someone who managed to take up all three spaces. I couldn’t understand him until I saw that he had parked crossways and blocked three parking spaces on a busy erev Pesach. My mind was boggled and I am still taken aback.

Someone, almost forty years ago, told me there is a gemara that says that a man married a woman tzadekes, and she turned him into a tzaddik. Some time later he lost his wife and remarried, and married a rashanta, who turned him evil.

But I have never seen it inside, and I don’t know where this alleged gemara is.

Anil: When I was single, I used to resent the women who opined that a man should wait until he’s, say, 24, before getting married. I was suffering as a single. Furthermore, Chazal say “ben sheminag esray lichupah.” Are we going to push up the year for a bar mitzvah too, because “today’s boys are less mature?”

The Sefer Chassidim siman resh vav (206) says that if a man is misnave about Moshiach, you know with certainty that he was fooling around with the Shem Hamiforash or other forbidden things , and bothrring either molochim or shaidim, and they got angry at him for it and so they told him this nonsense in order to embarrass him and those who believe in him.
Look it up yourself.

It’s more complicated than that. My sister is Satmar, and lives in Williamsburg. She has a Satmar neighbor who told my brother-in-law that the only reason he makes a Sukkah is because of his wife. He, personally, eats at MacDonalds from time to time.

Sadly, there are many frum-looking people who are not really frum at all. Who can say how many frum people there are when we don’t always know the truth?

How do I turn off notifications to my email?

There is also a Kabbalistic reason for calling it Sholosh Seudos. Friday night the Yidden are in a state of kabbalah — accepting the kedushah from Shabbos. It is for that reason we say “Viyanuchu bah” — loshon nikaivah, during Friday night maariv, because loshon nikaivah is used in Kabbalah to indicate reception.

Shabbos by day we are in bichinas mashpiah — the state of influencing, that is, we bring kedushah into the world. This is why we say during davening by day on Shabbos, “Viyanuchu bo” — loshon zachor, because loshon zachor is used in Kabbalah to indicate giving, emitting.

During the time of “Sholoh Shudos” (Sholosh Seudos), we are in a third state: that of both receiving and giving at the same time. Therefore we say “Viyanuchu bom,” loshon rabim during minchah on Shabbos.

Therefore, “Sholo Shudos” is a time where all three seudos Shabbos come together and act as one, which is why we call it Sholosh Seudos” instead of Seudat Shlishis.

Yussel, what you’re saying is ridiculous. In every generation the Yidden have looked to their leaders, the gedolai hador, the poskim. The Rambam lists the gedolai hador from Moshe Rabbainu until iirc Rav Ashi.

Well, in my family the girls also asked the Mah Nishtana.

Hmm, what kind of cheese?

I googled “tzion menachem” and turned up nothing bad about the man. Where do I find this “bad information” people say about him?