Pashuteh Yid

Please understand that putting tubes in the ear means you are puncturing the eardrum. You must check up on the risk that the drum may not heal properly, or may have scarring. This can affect hearing later in life.

It must be counterbalanced with the probability that the drum will be ruptured anyway due to the force of the fluid from the middle ear on the inside of the drum, or with the possibility that the infection can spread to other structures. It is not a simple decision. Please get 2nd and 3rd opinions from expert MD’s.

ShlomoZalman, in the above movie, they have a lot of footage of his playing, and also an interview of him now, which he rarely does.

You can see that aside from his overpowering speed, he had such control of the ball, and kept it wrapped in his hands for an extra few milliseconds or so to be able to guide it exactly where he wanted it.

He would whiff greats like Mickey Mantle effortlessly. He had a problem which he tried to work on that his pitches would be obvious to the hitters based on his windup. Another great hitter of the time said, we always knew what he was about to throw, but we still couldn’t hit it.

However, I was reading some info on him, and in the beginning of his career, he had such problems with control that he was about to give up baseball after a year or two in the majors, he got so frustrated. He decided to give it one more chance, and worked very hard on getting into the best shape he could, and practicing his throwing, and it paid off. It is a shame that he threw out his arm at an early age and was left with arthritis that ended his career.

Gbale, which kabbala sefarim are you reading?

Somehow, I was not active or on-line during that time frame, but I will take your word for it.

Kinor and Navel are musical instruments and higayon means thoughts.

But here is a tough one:

Vhaofanim vchayos hakodesh braash gadol misnasim l’umas serafim, lumasam meshabchim v’omrim. This is the high point of birchos kriyas shema.

There is a great movie out now called Jews and Baseball. Well worth seeing. Haven’t been to a movie theater since I was a child, but made an exception for this.

I thought they don’t allow multiple screen names.

It uses the word toevah about non-kosher food, as well.

It is somewhat ludicrous for somebody without the nisayon who gets no schar for it to focus his energies criticizing people who do have the nisayon. What a waste of energy. When I get upstairs, they will not give me one iota of schar for this mitzva since I was fortunate not to have any tayva for it. I can’t put myself in the shoes of somebody who does. Halevai I should focus my energies in controlling myself regarding things I do have a tayva for.

As far as Reb Moshe’s tshuva, it is very shver, since it seems to contradict the metzius. Reb Moshe claims that gays are regular people who adopted this tayva because it is extreme, and the only pleasure is that since it is wrong, it is exciting. But clearly the metzius is that gays have no tayva for women, and only a tayva for men. They didn’t decide to develop this tayva for the sake of doing extreme aveiros. They were simply born with it in place of the normal tayva for the opposite gender.

As far as the military goes, I have some questions whether it is wise to take gays in, since it makes their straight bunkmates uncomfortable. Just like the military would not advocate men and women sharing barracks, there may be an issue here as well. It may also be a battle-readiness issue, if there is improper behavior taking place when the soldiers are supposed to be getting a good night’s rest. But these are practical issues, not religious ones.

The song is funny. The gemara says in Taanis that Eliyahu Hanavi pointed out two people who were bnei olam haba. An Amora asked them what do you people do? They said we are comedians, and we cheer up depressed people. So bringing simcha into the world is a very high madreiga.

There is nothing wrong with the song.

I am a poet and I didn’t know it.

Isn’t it a gemara Asur l’odom sheyikadesh isha ad sheyirena? There is no crime in wanting to be attracted to a potential wife. It is not shallow. It is a metzius. Of course the midos and personality must be there, but if one is totally turned off by the looks, then it is rare that one will go ahead and marry the person.

Most men are attracted to about 90% of women in their age bracket, or we would not have so many halachos like yichud, etc. He just wants to verify that he finds her pleasant.

Msseeker, as we all know, the mother kept running to Hadassah (not the other way around) telling them her child wouldn’t gain weight. Of course, Hadassah gave her the benefit of the doubt, and began looking for an organic cause. By definition, that involves medical tests. They did not begin any treatments or chemo, contrary to the sheker you write, just tests. They also inserted a feeding tube to help the child eat.

When complaints from other patients and suspicions from nurses started coming in, they put in a camera and caught her starving the child. At that point they removed her from the scene, and the child began to thrive. After a week or so, he was sent to an uncle and is fine.

As far as why they put her in jail at first. That is standard. If one commits murder, or attempted murder as the case was here, first an arrest is made, and only later do the courts and appropriate authorities make the determination as to what sentence she will get, or if she needs confinement in an institution. They do not assume at the outset that a perpetrator is mentally ill. They merely take steps to lock up the person until it can be determined that it is safe to release them on bail until trial. This is the same as the system in the USA or any free country, I believe. This woman could be a dangerous murderer, until determined otherwise. If she were black, you would have no kashyas.

Do doctors ever make mistakes. Of course. It can happen anywhere. But there is no evidence here that that was the case. It is obvious that anti-zionism is your negia here, as you freely bring up all kinds of irrelevant historical controversies in the course of your writing, making it clear what your goal is.

If, as you say, the child was always fine, and the Mengele doctors caused his condition, kindly explain why the mother had a healthy boy admitted to the hospital in the first place, (and she did this repeatedly). I assume Mengele didn’t kidnap the child and forcibly take him to the hospital. Don’t you see that the chronological sequence is completely out of order according to your version of the story. Any rational person can see this.

And if the child did have some serious condition that was misdiagnosed and mistreated by the hospital, how did sending him to the uncle cure him? How many serious illnesses do you know of where the cure is to send the patient to an uncle and no medicines or treatments are necessary? In addition, the mother insisted surgery be performed on a different child against the advice of doctors, who felt it was unecessary (she claimed he had symptoms of appendicitis, I believe).

Come on now, you know this was all a big bluff, but if one can “get” the Zionists with it, why not go ahead?

Meanwhile, everybody knows Hadassa has a sterling reputation for excellence, and even the head of the Eida Chareidi at the time that all this was going on, went there himself for a procedure. They treat all types, secular, Chareidi and Arab with warmth and expertise.

Obvious, as Myfriend is saying, IDK stands for Into De Kitchen.

This reminds me of a certain car model a number of years back which had the horn on the turn signal. You pressed the stick in to blow the horn.

One furious man wrote into a car magazine, PUT THE HORN BACK WHERE G-d INTENDED IT TO BE.

My second car is a Rolls Royce.

I believe my wife went to the manager, but I am not sure.

The Torah Umada approach has produced gedolim. Examples include Rav Soloveitchik, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Willig, Rav Shechter, and Rav YY Weinberg, etc.

A further point in the analysis is that in the Torah-only approach, if one doesn’t become a big Rosh Yeshiva, he is in danger of not being able to suppport his family, and causing them untold suffering and shalom bayis issues. While this is difficult to have to point out, as it is such a sensitive and painful issue, but in all honesty, from which camp do the many meshulachim come from?

We had a much worse experience at Best Buy. My wife bought an item for my son that I did not approve. He had already opened it. When the box was opened, the serial number tore. They would not take it back THE SAME DAY EVEN WITH THE RECEIPT, as they said they need an intact serial number. Never in my life did I ever hear of such a thing.

My wife had paid by check. She tried to just drop the item at their store, and cancel the check. They then placed her on some national check registry which makes her check invalid at other stores, as well. We still get calls asking for the money we “owe”.

FrumLadyGit, I am reminded of the gemara where the daughter of one of the tannaim (Rabban Gamliel?) asked for a bracha. He told her, may the word woe always be upon your lips. She started crying. He told her, in a happy house, the wife is always saying, woe, my child just bumped himself; woe, my meal must come out of the oven or it will burn; woe, I must get the house ready for my husband, etc.

You are very lucky that everything you do is lshem shamayim. There are unfortunately some houses where they have been involved in scandals or embarrassing things. That is a true tragedy. In your case, you are so lucky that everything is bkovod and you bring nachas to the klal and to your family. I am sure you will find a way to ease some of the work, but be thankful for what you have.

Just curious about the pasuk which says Lavan sent Rivkah along with her meinekes (nursemaid) to Yitzchok. Did that mean Rivkah was nursing when she was 3? Or does it mean this nursemaid was for Rivkah’s own future children?

If the former, would a nursing child be alone by a well taking care of sheep?