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I find akuperma’s posts in the news section to laden with factual mistakes and failures to distinguish his opinions from his facts.
“Allah” is the Arabic word for God, and Arabic is the language of many important Jewish commentators, not the least of whom is the Rambam. Kaddish is “praise of Allah”. Arabic was also the language of the Jewish population of Eretz Yisrael in the 51st to 56th centuries. “Allah” is not a “Muslim” word, as Muslims speak many languages (including Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, the gazillion languages of Indonesia, and, c”v, English, French and German).
Neturei Karta is meshugenah, but their praise of Allah is merely a use of one of the many languages spoken by Jews, and praise of Allah is a mitzvah.
Are Litvaks the guys in BP wearing hoodies?
As presented by the OP, this question is purely a question for a tailor, not question of halacha.
Are any of the respondents tailors?
So, fuzzman, is you is, or is you ain’t, recommending Peninem?
And thanks for reinforcing my observation than many posters are a bit sloppy in their postings. But anyone interested in your opinion would prefer more clarity.
Some posters have referred to “goyishe sports”. Can anyone name any “yiddishe sports”?
To ovadiayosefrocks (5th posting): I apologize for messing up your thread, and I regret that I can offer no help on the seminary about which you enquired. Your “style” of English prompted my curiosity, and I now realize that I should propose a separate thread about the quality of written English among YWN Coffee Room posters and commenters.
To YW Mod-42: In answer to your question: on broken or icy sidewalks.
To ovadiayosefrocks (4th posting): My sincere apologies.
But seriously, why are some posters so sloppy about spelling. And in responding to my comment about your misspellings, why did you not punctuate your comments properly?
Simple math: Prunes, prunes, and prunes.
Complicated math: 5 prunes for each piece of machine-made matzoh. 7 prunes for each piece of shmura matzoh. All recommendations are subject to adjustment based on your personal clinical experience.
All the rest is commentary.
Does anyone know the difference between (i) a fine wrist watch and (ii) the position of a rebbe? I have no issue with passing on a watch by inheritance, but the responsibility for the education and spiritual well-being of the Jewish people seems like something that should be selected by means other than accidents of birth.
To the initial poster, “ovadiayosefrocks”: Are you ready for a seminary if you don’t know how to spell it? Give some thought to a remedial high school close to home.
Roger.
To the original poster, Health: I will happily and enthusiastically pull the lever for the reelection of President Obama (or check the box, or scan the scanner, or begin the biguine, or whatever we do in New York these days to vote), for a number or reasons, including my expectation that his foreign and related policies will be best for the State of Israel and the Jewish people. But for now, let me respond to your comments.
1. Mr. Obama is the president of the US, not France. Toulousse is in France, Florida is in the US. You could look it up. So even if President Obama said nothing about the assassination of 3 Jews in France, his focus on a killing in Florida is reasonable and appropriate. And I believe that Mr. Obama did make some reasonable and appropriate comments about the killings in France, but that is neither here nor there.
2. Mr. Obama did not jump to any conclusions. He called for a continuing investigation. He noted – in a locution which I personally abhor – that the deceased child is African-American. I don’t like the locution, but I see nothing harmful in noting the victim’s race. The locution he used personalized the comments in a touching way, but there is nothing inappropriate about that.
3. Your legal analysis of the currently unknown facts about the confrontation is just plain wrong. If Mr. Zimmerman was unlawfully following young Mr. Martin, and Mr. Martin “stood his ground” with his fists, Mr. Zimmerman had no right to defend himself, with a gun or otherwise, as Mr. Zimmerman was apparently – to you – engaging in conduct that could reasonably be expected to provoke ground-standing by Mr. Martin. A 911 operator specifically told Mr. Zimmerman to back off – police were dispatched to check out what the armed, goyishe shomrim has complained about – no need to do anything further if the cops are on their way.
4. You wrote, in part: “What I feel happened after the pushing [by the gunman, Zimmerman] was the kid [young Mr. Martin] got very angry and violently attacked the accused.” If your feeling is correct, then you fail to see the applicability of the Florida “stand you ground” law to Mr. Martin – he has a right to attack someone who was pushing him. The gunman at that point, having provoked Mr. Martin, was not rightfully standing his ground, he was losing a fight, from which he had to retreat. Your interpretation of the “stand your ground” law is preposterous. It surely is not intended to authorize a citizen to provoke someone into a fight and then “stand his ground” with a lethal weapon. That would be an insult to the Florida legislature … I hope. The “stand your ground” law applies equally to a colored kid in a hoody carrying a bag of skittles as it does to anybody else, even an armed and dangerous shomrim.
This is a cute trick for elementary algebra students. If any bochur graduates high school without knowing the answer, there is something seriously wrong with his chinuch.
I thought that one’s bashert was determined by Hashem. If so, why would He want anyone to get a nose job to enable her bashert to find her. Wouldn’t He take care of that when He picked the container for the soul?
“The Wizard of Oz” is a very popular movie among the toeva folks. I do not know whether that makes it assur, but it is a curiosity that deserves attention.
I would rather be MO than CURLEY or LARRY.
The questions presented by the opening post are:
“[1] Does anyone know what these chumros are, and how they apply or [2] anything else that would be useful to know?”
I read the first 18 responses to the opening post, and only one of the Gerrer chumros were alleged, i.e., wife must walk behind husband in public. There were lots of opinions about the chumros – principally that they are weird – but no descriptions of more than a single chumro. And most of the responses bordered on loshon hora, and sometimes from the wrong side of the border.
I believe that the Lubabitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Sshneerson, advised Jews to treat their birthdays as their own personal Rosh Hashanahs.
more_2 writes: “Has anyone ever had an emergency while davening shemonei esray??? I bet no one ever has!”
My sister had an epileptic seizure during Yiskor on Yom Kippur. But it was a reform “synagogue,” so maybe you don’t count that.
To Sam 2: When did a hotel sign or clerk ever tell you to walk out with the little bottles of shampoo?
FYI, if you have opened the bottle, used some of the shampoo in the hotel, and re-closed the partially empty bottle, the hotel will disgard it rather than leave it for its next guest. Stealing garbage is not stealing. You could look it up.
When a bachur fixes the sink, he should wear jeans.
To AinOhdMilvado: (i) Thanks for the great laugh from a greater comedian, and (ii) how does a frum boy like you learn about George Carlin? I am pretty sure he is not on YWN.
Sushe: You sound like an accident looking for a victim. I hope never to arrive at an intersection at the same time as you.
WARNING: Do not try to relieve a sore throat by wrapping your tefillin around your neck.
To kingdavid:
1. Did you (i) pull this list out of your head, in alphabetical order, or (ii) find this list in a specific source? And if (ii) is the case, why would you not identify it so that the rest of us could benefit from it?
2. You forgot the Satmar. I suggest you stay out of Williamsburgh and Kiryas Joel.
Parshaman: You did not identify the book you saw, but there was a theory about “facilitated communication” for autistic children advanced by a professor at Syracuse University that was unequivocally debunked at least 15 years ago by a Harvard University professor. To make a long story extemely short, the debunker proved that the “communications” from the autistic children were in fact coming only from the facilitators and had nothing to do with the autistic children or what they were thinking.
The debunking was a sad ending to a situation which supporters of the autistic children so much wanted to work. Part of what the debunker established was that the facilitators wanted so much to help the autistic children that they unconsiously faked the positive results. In some ways, the whole story demonstrates how intense belief and good faith can distort our perceptions of reality.
What about punctuation?
If it’s cholov Yisroel, how can it be Greek?
To aimhabonim: Maybe BTGuy’s real name is Leo Gorcey.
Chuck Norris walks into a bar wearing a black Borsolino fedora, and a parrot is standing on the hat. The bartender looks up and says, “Where did you get that?” and the parrot says, “He got it on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, all the men’s stores in that neighborhood have them.”
Any physisican (i.e., a medical doctor who is not a surgeon) will tell you that “minor surgery” is surgery on someone else. Most surgeons will tell you the same thing.
Hermione (first poster): Forget about pajamas and ask you teacher to explain the difference between “aloud” and “allowed.” The former is how I laughed when I read the word in your post.
McCartney’s first wife was also Jewish, which makes his children Jewish, which, perhaps, explains why his daughter Stella is in the garment business 🙂
If he’s perfect, he won’t be interested, because you cannot spell nephew.
I thought davening requires concentration. If you are just mumbling words you learned as a child and have known all your life, and do not think deeply about the meaning of the words, you are not fulfilling the mitzvah to daven.
Hagaon Daz.
Let’s all remember: It is possible to be right and stupid.
You bought a house and have enough left for a tip? Mazel tov.
To Sacrilege: the “tip” to the title closer – always paid in cash – is not disclosed in or figured into any of the closing cost estimates. It is a sleazy practice that the legal profession and title insurance industry have maintained for at least half a century.
The only people I know who have offered tips to their lawyers were well-meaning but very dishonest people.
Adorable: do you really believe that goyim do not eat meat, chicken, cheese, milk? Where, exactly, did you get that idea?
And since you brought it up: fat people are unhealthy.
The second post on this thread got it exactly right: if you want the right answer, ask a rav. If want to be a yenta, you came to the right place.
For lunch or dinner (milchik), go to Basil, on Kingston Ave., one block north of Eastern Parkway. Eastern Parkway itself is a remarkable site, designed by the same guy who did Central Park. And Basil is a block from Lubavitch world headquarters.
To aries2756: My choice of the word “modify” was, regrettably, misleading. You are entitled to your opinion and not obliged to modify it, no matter how wise I think I am. I disagree with the portions that I proposed to “modify,” and agree with the balance of your opinion.