oomis

For some, it makes less of a chatzitzah and they feel more tzniusdig. For others, it makes their wigs fit better.

It was not well done.

What’s the difference? A Yid was his by a car. Daven for him. He should have refuah shelaima b’korov, b’soch sh’or cholei Yisroel.

No. Respectful disagreement, yes, harrassment, absolutely not.

Oy, poor kid. Refuah shelaima to her.

Gesundheit is fine to say after someone sneezes. Everyone knows that word.

Shidduchim or Shidduch Parsha – dating for purposes of marriage.

Anyone who does not LIKE his/her partner before they get married, is taking a REALLY big chance, IMO.

I was thinking of A bi Gezunt, and that’s always what I thought it meant (so it should be, you’re healthy). I am happy to have the more correct translation. As to why i would answer if I don’t speak Yiddish, well I don’t speak French, either, but I still know what some expressions mean.

Nope.

You can go back earlier than Yaakov. In Chayei Sarah, Yitzchok saw Rivkah and it sais “he loved her.”

True, but actually the Torah teaches us a very different and more important lesson about marriage from Yitzchak and Rivkah. The Torah states that he loved her, AFTER he had married her and brought her to his mother’s tent (Breishis Perek 24 Posuk 67). The specificity of his loving her AFTER it says he took her as his wife, which is the reverse order that most of us thing of in getting married (“first comes love, then comes marriage…”) has most meforshim stating that this is to show that the love is most important when it FOLLOWS the marriage and is developed and nurtured for a lifetime commitment.

The appeal is that you can a cup of fresh brewed coffee without making a whole pot. There is no pot to clean and the neuritis cups come in different parts goofed types and teas “

You can do the same thing with a CHEAP one cup Melitta filter. A mere fraction of the cost, and just as fresh. You pour boiling water through the filter directly into your coffee mug. It is the same principle as the Keurig, uses no electricity or energy other than heating the water (and we keep water in a pump pot heated all the time so technically, yeah, I do use electricity, but we need the hot water for other reasons unrelated to the coffee). A keurig is very expensive, and except for the specialty coffee, is basically the same as any other coffee maker. So buy the K cups and pour your water through them into a Melitta, if you MUST have Mountain watever coffee.

I tried to post a response for this, and I wonder what about my post was worthy of mod-rejection. I specified a halacha relating to women, and thought it might apply to keilim as well. Mods, please clarify what I should have said differently.

It is not to be compared, and false, so we deleted it.

oomis: So then if your son has friends from yeshiva for shabbos, will you not give them a little cup of kiddush wine?”

My son and all his friends are well over the age of consent for alcohol. That said, when they were much younger, we generally only served wine on Pesach at the Sedarim (and therefore not shayach to this discussion), and grape juice on Shabbos. I never put bottles of alcohol on our table when the kids were under age. Nonetheless, had I done so and had they drunk some kiddush wine (under extremely careful supervision, and no more than to be yotzai), it would have been under the purview of religious observance.

She showed contempt of Court. She paid the price. Let it be a lesson to all our youth who see this video that has gone viral. It’s time for them to learn a little self-control, and mouth control, as well as derech eretz for authority. From start to finish this girl had something worse than Chutzpah. She treated her extremely serious legal situation as a complete joke. Well, who is laughing now?

Dinah d’malchuisah dinah. In the state of NY it is assur to serve alcohol to a minor. Kiddush is an exception and it is a small amount, plus no one is driving after making kiddush. Purim has become an excuse for kids to get smashed and wasted, some disgustingly so, and it has caused many an emergency, not to mention horrific Chillulei Hashem. That is NOT what our Gedolim had in mind.

Just ignore. It’s less antagonistic than unfriending.

1) Sort of like ItcheSrulik said, it’s very likely that he was just pandering to the cultural biases of his time to make his works popular without having a confirmed belief in them. Which brings us to:”

He had no need to write anything at ALL about Jews. His plays were already successful. I guess we could debate this ad nauseum.

Some people feel Marlowe WAS Shakespeare. Their styles were similar. Personally, I love S’s works. The stories have withstood the test of time and have often been updated to make modern movies and shows out of their plots. “West Side Story” was a retelling of “Romeo and Juliet.”

I don’t think it will make much difference in the sense of Jews keeping Shabbos who would otherwise go out for a fun day at the beach or movies on Shabbos, but it would certainly be refreshing for those Shomrei Shabbos who could use that day free to do errands, have fun with the kids, etc.

Health, you are right. I think I didn’t express myself correctly. I meant to say that single people typically have a slightly more straightforward path to being set up. There are not typically the types of issues that divorced or widowed men and women have to ADD to the mix of what already has its own challenges in terms of finding appropriate matches.

Godiva makes a chocolate liqueur that is pareve. it’s delish also.

oomis: Online smicha currently costs $ 4,920. If some rich kid gets smicha from here who has plenty of money and free time, spends 20 years as a lawyer and doesn’t learn a day after that: your father should be mekaved him while he addresses your father who learns Torah all day as Mr. so and so?”

FTR, my dad (who was niftar 19 years ago, and I only WISH some rich kid or ANY kid could see him today to get a Sholom Aleichem, if not kovod, from him) had the title Dr. in his health-related profession, and Chazzan too. He wore many hats, but Rabbi was not one of them.

Be that as that may, if online smicha were considered legitimate smicha, then I would have no problem addressing the individual who received it, as Rabbi. I cannot imagine however, that Smicha can be conferred by another Rov, without actually doing the action of “smicha” on the talmid. So it would tend to make me think that unlike an on-line reputable college degree (where the student actually has to do and submit the work) it is not quite the same getting “smicha by internet.”

I understand the point you are making,and btw, there is such a thing as smicha for teaching, but not paskening shailos, and it is also a kovod to the mechaneich b’Torah, to be called Rav or rebbie even without smicha. My sons had rebbeim who for certain did not have smicha, but were called Rav so and so, and their learning reflected their worthiness of the title.

Chafetzchaim, I am in accord with DaMoshe.

My father O”H was a great Talmid Chochum who did not have smicha. He was every bit as learned as any Rov I have ever met, but he never went for smicha and would not have called himself Rabbi, though unquestionably he would have passed any bechina given to him. His learning WAS strictly l’Shma, and he had an eidetic memory, so whatever he learned was committed to his memory immediately. He was known for his shiurim and lectures that were typically spontaneous in nature, without notes, and he could quote seforim by heart. He SHOULD have been called rabbi, but preferred not to receive that title.

So I repeat, someone who has honestly earned that title (I love the word honorific), deserves to be called by it, if he so chooses, just as a non-practicing doctor, retired govt’ official (i.e. Mayor Koch O”H),or retired military man is still called by their title. It makes no difference if he has a shteller or teaches in Yeshivah. He still has the degree. Now, OTOH, I kind of believe that a wife of a rabbi should be referred to as the rebbetzin, if in fact her husband is a practicing rabbi in a shul. I am sure there are those who will disagree with that, but it’s a semantic issue, I guess.

Exactly the same, through meeting them. Whether through friends, family, neighbors, lectures, trips, groups, there is a similar process to the first time around. The difference is that there may be “baggage” involved (like a messy divorce, or not being over the loss of a spouse), and these factors do come into play.

Do NOT say the “P” word (not even if that word is Purim). I could use an extra month this year. Not fair. Where is that Adar Sheni when we need it? And I am one of the few women who looks forward to Pesach because she thinks Pesach is the greatest yom tov since sliced br.. er… matzah.

I feel that Hurricane Sandy threw us all for a loop, and I don’t feel ready to face the Purim-Pesach season yet. But Hashem didn’t ask me my opinion, so I guess it’s time to start getting ready. Now.

Perfect opportunity to teach a child acceptable ways to show frustration and anger.