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that’s just it. it is not up for debate.
just because you want to debate it.
call the OK if you think the sign may be a fraud.
play dough is basically flour water lots of salt and some color.
you can easily find a recipe to make your own.
it has so much salt as to make it unpleasant but not completely inedible. sell it with your other chometz.
shticky guy:
How has it been changed into something else? I have always heard that play dough is to be considered chometz and needs to be sold or disposed of.
to cherrybim.
dun l’cuf zchus is not the issue here.
OP asked a question about what he should do. that is a practical question not what he should think.
To middlepath
you may be right.
With what has been going on here (in cr) lately,
after today I plan to severely limit what when and how much I post.
and how much I lurk.
This has become an unpleasant place.
“Nobody worships the cross”
how do you define worship? they don’t think of the cross itself as a deity, but as representing that deity. perhaps the word worship is not the right one. it is at least tachshite avoda zara or avak avodah zarah or whatever. how many crosses to you display in your home?
to MiddlePath.
hard to believe that a family that has a minyan in their house
would want a picture with a cross as you describe.
also hard to believe that they could have missed it. they live with it.
so I don’t know why you are so sure.
Because sometimes the less said the better.
do you mean a real unambiguous cross, or a fleur de lis (spelling),
or other emblem.
because if it is a real plain cross, why are you so sure they aren’t aware of it?
stampede
“she can probably be Mekadesh”
I am sure you meant Makdish
to cheftze
yes there are chilukim between father’s powers and husband’s.
no a fathers power to nulify does not continue past certain age
yes this is halacha bizman hazeh
no, CR isn’t the right place to use in place of lor or seforim.
yes I have been unspecific. on purpose.
a football is not a ball. (at least in the states).
flourescent lightbulbs are not bulbs.
orange tea is not orange.
oh and white rhinoceroses are not white.
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What other anomalies have you noticed?
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a black mamba is not black.
a blue moon is not blue.
a white sale is not white. (it used to be).
is a purple heart purple?
not full, close to full.
black box, is often used to mean a process or rule in which something goes in and something else pops out. we may or may not know why or how, we may not even be interested in why or how, and it may be impossible to determine why or how.
doesn’t quite fit the case of airplane black boxes, but I suspect that some derivative of this idea is where the term comes from.
On reflection
I regret having joined this thread and wish I could delete my posts.
they put me in apparent false position on several things and I don’t think I could clarify my way out of them.
to clarify what I wrote about hydrogenated oils.
first of all, I realize that the distinction I tried to draw is a bit fuzzy. but it seems that hydrogenation is not like cooking but really converts the oil chemically to something very different, thought the difference was not at first apparant.
but no, I dont want to tell you if you should eat margarine or not. I dont even mind so much that the sell plain margerine for you to eat, though I hope you wont.
but I dont want them used as an ingredient, just as I dont want iron filings to be used as an ingredient.
I do think we need an FDA though we can argue about what the limits of their power should be.
There is a lot of value judgment here rather than provable points so I will leave this off here.
as to whether we should tax food additives, I vote absolutely not.
I dont think I have more to say in this thread
mlms are not all of a kind. some only steal work. others entice hopefuls to purchase product that they often get stuck with.
either way though, they are dishonest.
I agree with poppa. those who are successful and make money,
are only successful because of all the work put in by those who are not.
I am mostly against the government trying to control how much salt I eat or how much or what kind of fat.
Same attitude about sugar.
but I would put hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated fats in a different category. The difference is not that these horrible things are more horrible than some others. It is that these are not really foods and it is fraudulent to claim they are.
the public mostly does not understand the distinction and some get riled up at the attempts to control it.
Can you remember all the hype about how good margerine made from corn oil is for you? The mistake, perhaps originally made honestly was that the margerine was the same as the oil. We now know better.
to writersoul
I am not sure what you are trying say by the word totally, and I am not sure if only that word or the entire post was in response to me.
you missed my attempt at sarcasm. my comment was directed at coffee_addict
NOTE: spray foam (Great Stuff) does not by itself keep out mice.
they can and will gnaw right through it.
“they are berries”
there are many preparations made from the berries.
I think that is what the question referred to.
“its not a scam”
what’s not a scam? claims of quick painless weight loss by taking acai are a scam.
“Anything is unhealthy when taken in excess”
even coffee?!
I think the freezer was instituted because the yeshiva felt that many students were just using BMG as a base for shiduch hunting,
without being really interested in the yeshiva itself.
while that still happened and happens, the freezer lessens that somewhat.
Just my guess.
to btguy
you were indeed fighting, your post was not a reasoned argument, just an attack. I certainly do expect people to disagree with my opinionsNas I acknowledged that coffee_addict did so. no problem.
The fact that you then say that I don’t, means once again, you took what you wanted and ignored the rest.
I do write tersely, (at least at the start) which when looked at later seems harsher than intended.
but you don’t seem to even comprehend what I was saying.
that would be fine too, if you didn’t then find far-fetched interpretations of my words.
I cannot even defend myself against your attack, since I can’t make any logical sense out of it.
I will give this a rest for a while.
to btguy
are we fighting? again? I don’t know what about.
The Chassidishe Gatesheader found my posts clear enough to agree with them, while coffee_addict is LOL and called my idea strange as opposed to the one that started this thread. they thought my writing coherent enough to agree or disagree.
I am totally baffled by your post. Since I don’t want to be always fighting with you or anyone else (who knows? we may even know each other), I am going to take a hiatus on posting.
How about decaffeinated coffee?
do you add hot dehydrated water?
veritas means TRUTH
to coffee_addict:
in defense of OP i don’t think he was advising what people should do, only how to take advantage of what some will do.
wow!
There are several matchmakers out there for this purpose.
I used to belong to one of them.
I will try to find a contact and post it tomorrow, if someone doesn’t beat me to it.
Please post something about yourself ( just enough so we will know what you need , not personal details ).
to brech.
everyone is always judged for every little or big aveira or mitzvah they did. That is true in this world as well.
midas harachammim does not change that.
did you think rachammim means, you just get away with some bad stuff? nope!.
I think tkkun chatzos has become less common because we do not go to sleep early evening any longer.
because words and talk are very powerful things which have very powerful effects.
be careful what you say or write and try to consider the consequences.
perhaps the only effect of this one is that lurkers, who may think that the writers represent Orthodox Jewish thought, will conclude that Jewish ideas and philosophy are ridiculous. that is bad enough.
to btguy.
I am not suggesting anything myself.
I think one should not make wild assertions without anything to back it up and then further ask others to do the same.
such a discussion is silly.
done.
you included the answer in your question.
once again I would say this is too complex a topic to be more than glossed over here.
but here a few comments.
1) even midas harachamim has rules and dinim. It is not random or by whim.
2) midas harachamim refers to during meah v’esrim. L’achar,
there are also some special allowances, but I don’t know if they come under the heading of midas harachamim.
3) midas harachamim is aroused by t’filos, chesed and so on.
even here, there are rules and dimim.
4) In general His judgements are beyond our understanding.
we can never know the whole story that lead to a schar or onesh and we cannot know the full value of either.
to OP
what do you know about the concept of gilgul that make you think so?
I hope lurkers realize that this is not a serious practical question, but is simply reductio ad absurdum.
at least I hope that’s what it is!
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you are not allowed to injure yourself with a good reason.
ask a rav what a good reason is
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I meant to write,” without a good reason”.
but you knew that.
a few comments on previous posts
nobody mentioned that rav sheshes was a direct decendant of HAMAN
A child of an amaleki and a bas yisrael would be a yisroel. end of that discussion.
you are not allowed to injure yourself with a good reason.
ask a rav what a good reason is. this has little to do with suicide or murder.
an amaleki has no more right to kill himself thatn anyone else.
the issur of ‘lo tirtsach’ includes killing oneself. it is not a separate issur.
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It seems that there is a disagreement among poskim – with Chasidish poskim ruling mezonos on many food items Litvish poskim rule hamotzi.
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chasidish-litvish, is that where the split is?
in this case my understanding was otherwise.
to Avram in MD
I didn’t mean that having a convention was merely a convenience, but that the particular conventions chosen were for convenience.
with a different set of rules, you would need far more symbols and annoying and confusing parentheses when writting formulas or equations.
these rules are convention, not a natural fact of numbers or arithmetic, as you yourself mention.
weeeeel, it depends.
if it is for a moment I might do it.
if it looks like it will be longer, that’s different.
to avram in MD
you seem to be arguing with me, but there is not much difference in what you said and what I said.
to btguy.
Hi
by now others have posted explanations.
14 using algebraic rules for order of operations. but those are a convention for convenience.
performin in sequence, without knowing or caring about those rules,
the answer is 0.
it is not a fabrication that rav moshe was mattir smoking but can be found in igros. I am not at home and can’t look up.
based on what he wrote then, It seems to me that his heter would no longer apply.
but that is my conjecture. I have wondered if he later wrote or said otherwise, or if someone else wrote that his heter would not longer apply.
to derech:
src?
fedup up posted from drivers manual and it doesnt say that.
speaking of being fedup, I am very, with those who make a u-turn regardless of how many people they inconvenience or endanger.
they think it their right, like making a left turn. not so.