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Oy, I just re-read my post (written at well…very late for me having not slept much over Shabbos… and saw all the typos). Gevalt!!!!

What typos?

I agree, and therefore re-wrote most of these tales when telling my grandchildren these fairytales. In it, Goldilocks apologizes to the Three Bears for entering their home without permission and using their things, they invite her to join them for dinner, because it is a mitzvah to invite guests, and she apologizes to her mommy for leaving the house without her knowledge.

Little Red Riding Hood gets a similar treatment, only she is bringing a Shabbos treat to her Bubby, and he learns the meaning of sharing and apologizes for trying to trick her and for hiding her Bubby in the closet. Of course, she invites him to join them for an Oneg Shabbos party.

The three little pigs end up telling the wolf that if he was so hungry, all he had to do was ask nicely, and they invite him to share a meal also. (See my recurring theme of hachnossas orchim?) My very wise little granddaughter told me today, “But Bubby, how could the three pigs do hachnossas orchim? They aren’t even KOSHER!

I never call Cinderella’s stepmother her wicked stepmother, either. I just call her the Bossy Lady and her two daughters.

For anyone who might think this is dumbing down the stories, or whatever, there is enough ugliness in the world. I prefer to tell tales that have a good point to them.

Apropos of Rockabye Baby, many years ago I posted my own original alternate ending to the song (and my granddaughter will insist that my version is THE version). “When the bough breaks, the cradle won’t fall, ki Hashem Elokeinu, shomeir al ha-kol.”

Men are often singularly LACKING in binah, yesaira or otherwise. 🙂

Yeah, they’re called baked KNISHES.

Not everyone has a dog, and a dog cannot tella 10 year old the right thing to do in an emergency. Suppose there is a carbon monoxide buildup, the CM detectors are not working and the dog AND the boy are overcome, ebcause they were both sleeping. Clearly the mom is up, she went out to walk. A kid of age 10 should not be left alone unless he is awake and aware, IMO. And then, only if he is a responsible kid. And DEFINITELY not when there are younger children home also.

It could have been even longer had Rosh Chodesh come out on Shabbos, no?

The onions do a couple of things. First, the flavor cannot be compared with plain non-onion latkes. Second, the onions help keep the grated/pureed potatoes from turning brown or gray. Also, keeping the peeled potatoes in cold water prior to processing, helps to keep them white,as well.

I use my processor and pulse a very large onion together with a lot of potatoes (maybe 8-10 large ones. I make it almost pureed, but with a little coarse potato, not totally smooth. I add a few eggs also, and kosher salt and pepper to taste. I avoid flour and matzah meal, because we have a gluten-free member of the family, but if I feel the mixture is too watery, I add in potato starch a little at a time, to get the right consistency. Then I fry the latkes in very hot canola oil on one side until the edges begin to brown, flip over and fry the other side until deep golden brown. Then let them drain on paper toweling in a flat pan, and either serve immediately or keep warm in a low-heated oven.

One person’s weird, is another person’s eccentric, interesting,and intriguing. Some of us LIKE weird. (I don’t think you are, at all).

I am usually a pretty good judge of character and thankfully was wrong only once of which I know.

The words ????? ???? are going back on ??????? ????. According to your interpretation, it should have said something like ??????? ???? ????? ????? ????.”

Only if one applies the idea of the vov in v’hidliku to be like the vov in V’Dibarta (bam), where the word dibarta is past tense, but the vov turns it into future tense (and you will say). I did NOT say that is my interpretation. My point was primarily about the fact that the word cannot be v’HADliku, which is a command tense of the verb (and would make no contextual sense), as opposed to being past tense v’HIDliku (and they lit). Whether you believe the menorah burned for 8 days or not, it was a miracle of epic proportions.

(Me)The biggest miracle was the national one, where an army the size of a peanut, defeated an army the size of an elephant.”

(LAB)Sorry, but what in the world gives you a right to say which miracle was bigger? The Gemara doesn’t even mention the miracle of the war when it asks the famous “Maiy Chanukah”.

So do you not think that the fact that we mention the national neis every time we say Shemonah Esrai and bensch during Chanukah, that this does not indicate its extreme importance? Perhaps I misspoke, but I feel that the neis of “giborim b’yad chalashim, rabim b’yad m’atim, etc” seems to be VERY strongly recognized, certainly enough for this to be part of our Chanukah davening. The neis of the oil is not even mentioned once in that part of the tefila. There is only a mention that they cleaned up the Beis Hamikdash, made it tahor and lit candles, and were koveya 8 days of Chanukah to be m’hallel Hashem. Nothing about oil burning for 8 days, So maybe there is room for both schools of thought.

What Jew in their right mind would buy a menorah they cud only use once??”

What do you mean????? It’ll be good again in 78,000 years.

How come we all called it Thanksgivukah and not Chanksgiving? Just a thought…

Of course, people who call them “sufganiyois” are also morons, since there is no such word.”

What would be the Yiddish word for jelly donuts? Latkes in Hebrew ar levivot, but we call them latkes. Is there a Yiddish equivalent for the donuts?

My understanding was that the menorah DID stay lit for 8 days, long enough for the HAshmonaim to acquire olives, get back, and press them for pure olive oil. The process took slightly over a week to accomplish, and the menorah never went out during that time.

And if we wonder why it is considered an 8 day and not 7 day miracle (After all, there WAS enough oil to burn for the first day), the miracle was that in the midst of that Churban and tumah, that ANY pure untouched oil was found at all!

Yes I did. I’ve always wanted to say no to drugs. Even while I was still alive I wanted to but never got a chance”

Trolling, trolling, trolling in CR.

I am LOVING that someone started a thread with my name in it

and in a complimentary way!

We are not particularly heavy milchig eaters in my house. I make a delicious corn kugel typically pareve, but it can be made milchig by using milk or half and half, or even cream (just needs one cup of any of that). Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then mix together 2 cans of creamed corn, 1 cup of milk (I typically use Rich’s Pareve Creamer), 1 stick of butter, melted, 1/2 cup sugar (this is clearly NOT for the diet-conscious), add in 1 cup of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, about 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of salt, a good shake of black pepper(I guess between 1/8 – 1/4 teaspoon),and 4 eggs, added in one at a time. This can all be done by hand. Now you will have a nice custardy batter. Pour it into a 9×13 lasagna type pan that has been liberally sprayed with Pam or Baker’s Joy (mix of oil and flour). Top the batter with two stacks of Hits type crackers (salted or unsalted is fine) coarsely crushed and mixed with one more stick of melted butter (Paula Deen would LOVE me for this!). Then, sprinkle evenly over the batter and bake for about an hour or until the top is a deep golden brown and the edges are coming away from the sides of the pan and/or the custard is firm to the touch. Check it after 45 minutes. To crush the crackers I put them in a very large ziplock bag and just use a can to roll over the crackers. Then I pour the melted butter (I always use margarine, because I keep it pareve)directly into the bag to mix it and sprinkle it from the bag. This keeps my hands nice and clean.

This recipe is my own creation, having made several types of corn kugels and not liked them. My sister gave me the original idea, but we made it TOTALL from scratch, even to making our own creamed corn. Too much of a potchke to do that, and a real time-waster, when the can of creamed corn is perfect for the recipe. My sister’s son actually told her he preferred MINE to hers, thus getting disinherited by her and back in my will :p

It happens to be delicious and mixes up very quickly. The house smells SO good when it’s baking. For the health-conscious who do not even like to use margarine over butter, I have made this with canola oil equivalent to just very slightly less than the two sticks of melted butter/margarine in the recipe, and though it comes out ok, I personally prefer the melted fat to the oil. The consistency is better. I never tried Rice Dream, almond milk, or other brands of Soy milk, so if anyone tries it, please let me know if it works in this recipe.

A freilichen, Lichtigen,Chanukah to all of us.

Everyone have a freilichen and lichtigen Chanukah

Surnames names are a thing of relatively recent history, only in the last several hundred years. For thousands of years prior, people only had ONE name, and that was the one by which they were known. Unless someone is a rov or king or something else of any import, I certainly see no reason not to call a co-worker by his or her first name, if they are agreeable to that. I personally prefer to be called by my given name by people who know me very well.

It’s called that because they are so smart they make everyone else look stupid.”

Well, THAT ain’t so smart!!!!

There is a HUGE difference between self-confidence and arrogance. Most people can tell the difference, I think.

And while one can have a house without a woman – he most likely won’t have a home.

SIDI – great mussar shmooze.

I’m really sorry if it sounds like I’m giving you mussar because I don’t mean it to come off as that but also as a girl you should seriously think of how these lyrics treat women. As a girl, in rap you are treated as nothing better than a filthy animal whose soul purpose is to debase yourself for someone’s physical pleasure and to get called horrible names in the process. Music, whether Jewish or not, touches a very deep spiritual place in us and affects our attitude.”

VERY well-expressed, Assurnet.This is my main criticism of this type of “music,” also. And the last sentence should be re-read.

And hope you continue to enjoy a wonderful marriage for many years to come. “

Amein and thank you very much for that wonderful bracha!

Rebyidd23, there is NOTHING amusing about what this person has done to my reputation and me and the expressions she hs used in describing my family and me. “Chazzers who spit in the face of chessed” is one of the nicer expressions. Most people know she is profoundly emotionally ill, R”L, but many do NOT and are giving her encouragement, and she has posted all over Facebook.

I didn’t know at first, because I rarely go to Facebook, but some of my friends saw her posts and ranting and raving. I largely ignored it – and then she went and messaged my SON with the worst possible kind of hateful rambling. If you think one should try to be amused, think of how even one person believing such tripe could potentially impact on your children’s shidduchim, if you are in that parsha.

Oomis asks whether people who listen to rap are not part of frum society because frum society rejects rap music. “

I appreciate your intention, but I NEVER specified rap music (I personally happen to dislike hearing it, because it annoys me and is often degrading to women). In fact, I singled out CLASSICAL music (i.e., Mozart, Beethoven, etc), as being something that some segments of frum Jews reject because it is secular music (which they rejct across the board), yet many frum people enjoy. IMO, there is no moral equivalence between listening to beautiful secular music and speaking loshon hara. I want to make that very clear. The Torah flat-out assers L”H. I never heard a p’sak of issur on hearing “The Moonlight Sonata.”

I also have a little issue with your statement about a BT not marrying an FFB because that person and the family will not be likely to understand the need for the OP to listen to rap music. I am an FFB and married a BT. And while he didn’t ever listen to rap music, there were other things in his life that some people would find hard to deal with (such as having several close family members who married non-Jews, unfortunately). Neither my parents nor I ever thought less of HIM for continuing to have a relationship with those close family members. You cannot know how FFBs OR their families will react in a given situation. I would hope they would want to be mechazeik and mekareiv the BT who enters their chevra. No one can speak for every FFB. We come in all sizes, shapes, and hashkafos.

Otherwise, I agree with much of the rest of the things you posted, TrueBT.