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I never really read the Last Battle properly – will have to look
Why don’t you go and ask CS Lewis yourself? Like I said, it may have a lot of parallels but only he knows if it was intended.
Compare to Philip Pullman. Now that was definitely intended.
I’m sure Rav Falk gives plenty of sources in Oz V’hodor Levusha on this topic. And whilst I’m not sure I would agree with everything he says, covering the form of the legs from the knees up is absolutely non-negotiable. And that means with a skirt.
Having a baby is not as easy as just saying that. There are already many people who already have a baby literally every year, and some people who have to work very hard to have a child. Making a blanket statement that we should have more children is very naive – this is not something under our control!
I feel like my spleen is getting old. Any chance of replacing it?
Cake analogy is clever.
The universe is just one big cream cake.
Yum.
Bleak House definitely! Dickens is very underrated. I think people get put off by the length of his novels. Out of the ones I’ve read, BH is my favourite.
Rebyidd, not trying to argue here but only CS Lewis knows what his intentions were when writing Narnia. People can look into a book and read what they want into it, and since I don’t think Narnia is obliquely Christian-themed I wouldn’t be worried about my kids learning kefira from them. I certainly didn’t.
Rebyidd – the themes in the Narnia books are quite subtle if you’re not looking for them or willing to ignore them. Perhaps CS Lewis did mean for Aslan to be a certain someone – or perhaps he was just writing a character that seems to have been ‘adopted’ by those who are eager to correlate the two. I don’t think it’s kefira to read them. To me it’s just a good fantasy story. The thing about literature is you can put a spin on just about any book if you really look hard enough.
Deep fried mars bars. Why take chocolate, coat it in batter and then fry it? That’s just a heart attack on a stick.
All finished. We actually had only a few guests this week, but a neighbour’s cholent burnt so they all came round and polished the whole thing off.
Whack yourself really hard. Does it hurt? There’s your answer.
I really hope you’re not being serious
It’s in style, apparently
I’m not all there either…
I am most definitely not here.
You don’t. Everyone has their own version of ‘heimish’. For some people it’s an excuse to infringe on other people’s privacy by saying “but it’s heimish”
The Asterix books come up with some pretty funny names for Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and Gauls (ancient French people). Check them out sometime.
A couple of weeks ago one of the magazines had all the staff write in their cholent tips, and EVERY SINGLE ONE of them put ketchup in the cholent.
Why. WHY??
Not to brag, but I make an awesome cholent and there is no ketchup in it! Gasp! You didn’t think that was possible, did you?
(Just ask the yeshiva bochurim who eat by me every single shabbos and still want to pick up the leftovers afterwards. If there is any.)
Singles should definitely NOT adopt. It may be hard not to have kids just because they are not married yet but it is a very bad idea.
I saw this thread and was going to say 42, but someone beat me to it.
The problem with babies is that the older they are, the harder it is to train them to self-soothe. It will take work, but it’s worth it. First night, put her to bed and soothe her (you know what she likes) with calm music, a crib mobile, back/stomach rub or gentle stroking. After a few minutes, when she is calm, leave the room. She may be a little unsettled, and if this is the case you should go back in every ten or fifteen minutes and repeat until she is sleeping. The next night, cut back the number of times you go in the room, and the night after that, cut back again. Eventually (it could take up to two weeks at that age) she will learn to put herself to sleep. I did this when my oldest was three months and it took a few days (she was NOT easy to sleep train).
Good luck!
Absolutely not! In case you didn’t realise from old posts of mine, I live in Gateshead, and my sister in law also does.
If you’ve ever been to Italy, the real Italian pizza is the best. Other than that, my sister in law’s is amazing.
I think the girls bury their head in the siddur cause they think it helps them concentrate, but when it comes to rosh hashana, how do they know shemona esrei of yamim noraim by heart?!
I also once saw a girl completely bent over at the waist for vidui…
It’s meaningful and there’s always something to daven for. I once went through the entire sefer in one night for a specific reason, and the feeling I had when I finished was indescribable.
Well they preach tolerance and acceptance of all people. And yet they then show a remarkable intolerance of people with religious and moral values.
The first guy I went out with finished the shidduch after 6 meetings, and it was hard since I had allowed myself to get emotionally involved (and someone at work got engaged the same week and all she could talk about was her chosson this and her vort that). It can be hard when the other person says no to you, on the other hand, I learned to keep my emotions in check the next time, and concentrate on does the person really have the qualities I’m looking for in a husband. So when my second shidduch ended I wasn’t that bothered. And the third guy became my husband.
Check out other threads – rebyidd does seem to be female, for those who are surprised
not. a. sheep
So if you don’t know the movie, how did you know it was a movie quote that you had to remove it, yet you didn’t realise that the others were also quotes from the same movie? Just trying to get my head round this one.
I know this thread was a year ago, but the actual definition of brainwashing is removing a person’s ability to think for themselves and they instead begin to think as they have been taught, without any intelligent thought processes behind it. Brainwashing tends to involve a lot of parroting, and the brainwashed person will simply repeat themselves (sometimes word for word) without actually being capable of explaining what they are parroting.
Missionaries are a good example – they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and just keep at the same nonsense they have been taught.
I personally have not experienced any brainwashing in chinuch – yes, there are ideas that have widespread influence, but on the whole, girls who go through the BY system can think intelligently for themselves (most of them, anyway).
I can stand on my hands. It just requires some bending over 😛
How many pickles can you eat whilst saying the Hippocratic Oath backwards?
It’s pretty clear to anyone who knows the movie that this particular thread was started with that intention, and some of the other comments on there were also direct quotes. So why allow such a thread in the first place?
And I tried posting a very innocent comment on ‘the cold never bothered me anyway’ and it was blocked. Twice. All I did was quote a line, pretty much what everyone else on the thread was doing. And when I asked why my posts weren’t allowed, that post was also not allowed!
We have been trying to keep the movie/secular book comments to a minimum. I know this is benign (to many) but then where do you start drawing lines? Unfortunately it has been very difficult.
How would you see the Loch Ness Monster coming out the ocean? Loch Ness is a lake near Inverness in Scotland. So there’s no way it could travel to open ocean.
I used to be a yekke (3/4 yekke anyway) until I got married (My mother is yekke and my father’s mother is a yekke, although his father came from Poland, however he lost a lot of his minhagim after the war). My husband is regular litvish but his mother was sefardi from India. So we have some interesting food being cooked in my house now. My father davens in an Adass Yeshurun, my brothers are both married to girls from strong yekke families.
Just as an aside; when I went to Switzerland and they announced the landing time, the pilot said “we will be landing in approximately 5 to 8 minutes’ time”. Very specific for an approximate time.
I enjoy reading poetry
I find it relaxing
But sometimes reading verses
Can be very taxing.
There are some people out there
Who think that they can write
As long it is rhyming
The poem is alright.
But poems need a rhythm
The couplets need to flow
The lines should be the same length
Something real poets know.
So have a read through my verse
Count each line’s syllables
And then you’ll get my meaning
And write verse that’s billable.
For those who really will try and count, let me save you the bother: I wrote this in an ABCB format, which means that the second and last line of each verse rhymes. Lines A and C contain 7 syllables each, and the rhyming lines 6. Example:
I en-joy rea-ding poe-try (7)
I find it re-lax-ing (6) etc
Aside from how you dress, which is very important, it’s a lot to do with how you act. Think about girls who laugh or talk very loud when meeting their friends in public places and make people look around at them (you know the types I mean, just the way they act attracts attention. A girl should not behave in a rowdy or undignified manner, especially in public; if you remember that you have your dignity and behaving in a refined and demure manner will help you keep it.
Cause I’m not like sheep who just follow each other blindly. I like to use my own mind to come to decisions, and know why I am doing what I am doing.
It’s for Eliyahi Hanavi. There is a fifth expression of freedom to go with it but I can’t remember what it is. But the kos shel Eliyahu is officially the fifth cup
IM, there is a fifth cup of wine as well….
If this Crimean war starts heading east it will turn into a third world war – Once it is not longer just Russia and Ukraine, but China could get involved, not to mention the rest of Eastern Europe. And there is no guarantee that nukes won’t be used, even though people know their devastating effects now.
The best is a quiet moment with no one else around. Some girls can get embarrassed if they are proposed to in public, and especially if the boy gets all hid friends involved. The best was my sister, who loves puzzles. My brother in law ordered a puzzle for her which said “will you marry me?” when she put it together. We joked at the sheva brachos that it took her a week to answer yes cause she could’t find the last piece…
You can tell a guy called Ronny:
Ronny, gelled phones are mine
How do you like that one?
There is a trick to it, and the person reading the megilla can take in extra breath without stopping completely by doing a little trill every couple of ‘v’ess’ – when you do a trill as opposed to keeping the same note you actually breathe in a little at the same time.
Having said that, it only just about keeps you going until ‘aseres’.
Sometimes they are just trying to do a job, but most of the time they will tell you outrageous lies to try and sell to you. My father once had an Indian telemarketer who introduced himself as ‘Alan Smith’. Yeah right.
Women are smarter cause we make the men think that they are in charge when really we are. That takes skill
No you won’t. Women are not inferior and the Torah does not state that we are either. We are, however, very different from men, which is fine.
Your crane, ice reel and the fuse
I love my bar