Unregistered? what does that mean?

“i do a million things that are assur”

moish, I did’t know that there were a million things that are assur. 🙂

But seriously, you need to stop being so hard on yourself. You obviously believe in Hashem, as shown on the zoo/evolution thread, and here you’ve shown a strong sense of right and wrong. I think that most people here would call you a good guy. So you should probaly just focus on wha tyou’re doing right, not what you’re doing wrong.

moish, guilt is a start. If you really feel guilty about what you’re doing, eventually you’ll stop doing it. And changing your thinking is also important. As The Shmuz’s slogan goes, “Because how you think, becomes how you feel, becomes who you are. Forever.” (or something like that)

anyone have anymore stories/divrei torah on being happy with what you have? come on it’s only monda we can’t be out of stuff already!

moish01, while there may be frum people that are “creeps”, that doesn’t mean we all are. That’s like saying that since some people who don’t do mitzvos hate their parents, all of them do. You can be frum and still be a fine and decent person. And if you say yeah, there are some who are both but most are one or the other, you have to realize that for some reason, the more extreme a faction of judaism is, the more vocal it tends to be. In other words, just because 50% of people here in the CR hold one thing doesn’t mean that 50% of all jews think the same thing. The numbers could be closer to ten percent, or closer to ninety. Also, count the how many CR members there are, then count how many you consider “creeps”. I think (hope?) that you’ll realize that most of are, more or less, decent people.

qwertyuiop:

Try writing about how Israel gave up Gaza, which was then used to launch rockets at towns in Israel for years. That should add a couple of minutes to the beginning.

no problem

or maybe he didn’t have time to prepare a hot drink

The most important part of being happy with what you have is recognizing that Hashem has decided that you should have exactly what you have now. Anything more or anything less would not only not be good for you, it would be bad for you. Hashem has given you everything you need in this world, monetarily, mentally, etc.

teen, simply think once a day “Everything I have is a gift from Hashem”. A good time to think this would be by “posaech es yadecha u’masbea lichul chai rutzoin” in Ashrei.

flatbush27, which pasuk says one can’t look at those things or talk in chat rooms?

And even if those things are issurai diuyraysu (I simply don’t know), even someone who does C”V do those things probably does them a lot less often then someone who smokes. And smoking is chemically addictive, so once you start its incredibly hard to stop.

notpashut,

i know, just proving the point even more.

lesschumras, just a limud zichus – it’s very possible that these people do not realize there is someone davening SE behind them. It’s happened to me more than once.

notpashut, there is one other time that the phrase “one’s sin is “too great to bear”” is mentioned: when Cayen killed Havel, he asked Hashem “is my sin too great to bear?” And, as you said, the SHULCHAN ARUCH says about one who talks during chazaras hashatz his sin is too great to bear. (not to say that at other points in davening it’s OK)

azi: mod-99 may not be the “the arbitrator of what is “anti-torah””, but he is one of the deciders of what can be posted on http://www.theyeshivaworld.com, a private website. If he, or any of the other mods, decide that they do not want to post your comment for any reason, then that is their choice.

And azi, I have seen Joseph post on the many torah threads in the CR many times, but I have never seen a dvar torah from you. So I’d say that your nasty little comment of “your modus operandi is to bother and distrurb the people who take part in this forum. I rarely ever see you providing anything positive or constructive to a conversation.” would seem to apply more to you than Joseph.

Back to the original topic, every cigarette smoked is an issur diuyraysu. Period. Almost nothing on the internet is truly an issur diuyraysu. Of course parents must use filters (yes, plural – filters can be broken all too easily) and close supervision, but the internet can, through some work, be kashured; cigarettes can’t be.

Although i don’t have any stories to share, I don’t need any stories. Just look around you at this incredible world that Hashem created. The more you look at it, the more incredible it seems.

Hey, building on this week’s middah of not wasting time, how about we make the next middah of the week using every opportunity to do a mizvah? Examples that spring to mind: give everyone you see a smile/compliment, listen to a shiur or read a sefer for 5 minutes, etc.

hey mods, can you please make this thread sticky?

shkoyach: you can start with simply taking 15 minutes that you usually waste and making a seder then. It doesn’t have to be anything lumdish, there’s plenty of light and interesting english seferim out there!

“Yes, but most presidents don’t appoint political opponents to their cabinets, especially to prominent/ powerful positions like Sec of State. Generally speaking, the vice-president is not a politically powerful position, though it can be a springboard for a future presidential run. In recent years, a presidential candidate’s selection of a running mate has become opportunity to broaden one’s demographic/ political appeal (see John McCain & Sarah Palin). Thus choosing one’s former political rival as a running mate is a practical move that can help a candidate achieve a win that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible. There is no similar political advantage to appointing a competitor to a Cabinet position.”

anon, cabinet positions can (and are) often used as bargaining chips in behind the scenes political deals. Clinton was damaging Obama’s chances of becoming president, and she would never quit just to help him out.

qaws and qwertyuiop: Heller and Mogen Av are both owned by the same people, and are combining. I’m not sure which name they’ll use, but I think the MA staff will run the junior division and the Heller staff the senior.

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“I thought this only applied if there was nothing in between the two of you (like a chair or something)?”

Yes, yhe issur of walking in front of a person davening SE is only when there’s nothing in between you, and a table acts as a mechitza in this regard.

notpashut, chuck: All zalmy said is that there are many different sheytos on many things, and zeh vizeh divrai elokim chaim. If you want to exept chumros for yourself, good for you, but shoving your chumros down someone else’s throat is a shaylah of bal tishaktzu. Blasting someone for encouraging us to show some respect for those that aren’t our exact copies, on a topic started with a plea to show respect to your fellow jew, is slightly disturbing.

That said, zalmy: I believe you may have crossed a line when you complained about “the deterioration in middos among the yeshiva community, especially with regard to other yiddin”. Saying something negative about a group of people is like saying lashon hara on each one individually.

Curious, you could just start a new topic under the heading “Who wants life?”. And BYM, the more the better!

I’d suggest changing to Morzilla Firefox, the fastest and safest web browser, which can be downloaded for free.

curious, you could just give us a summary in your own words.