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The fact that you want to take out the liquid with the fly in order that the removal should not constute borer does not make the spoon be’kli because borer relates to your personal needs not to your halachical act.
This is no good, you will now be able to hear lashon hara.
Torah is not a legal system, it is a thought system. So sevara which aligns with the Torah is Torah.
Mr Obama
The purpose if Linkedin is to be able to grow your career by increasing your network of professional contacts, not to network with people that you know.
He seems to be more to the left.
A rav vos mihr ken em shicken ah text is kein rav nit.
Skipping is good excercise.
The ends re-classify the means.
We used to sing it on Simchas Torah.
Lo tov he’yos ha’adam le’vado, because it’s not good,but it’s not bad.
Will it be good?
Why not AVR?
They threw in the ashes of a black cat son of a black cat because they used up all the tincture of iodine.
The IBM numbering system was used for tattooing prisoners in Auschwitz, presumably this does not stop you using a PC.
I only drink beer for havdalah in the 9 days.
Yes
David Zaritzky, Beyond the Sun
Le’olam yidbak adam be’tovim (or somethink like that in yesh nochalin) because the reason Moshe’s great-grandson was a priest to avodah zarah is because he married Yisro’s daughter.
A beis yaakov girl has the din of a bas talmid chacham with regards to hashkafah but not yichus.
I always thought Egged bus-drivers get the best mansions in olam habah because they get everyone in the bus to say viduy and shema.
When Iran gets the A-bomb, the probability that they will use it against UAE is about 90 times greater than the probability that they will use it against Israel.
There is a discussion on Din Online about using a Wifi network you find unsecured. One question is invasion of privacy the other question is you are using the person’s ISP’s bandwidth without paying.
The holocaust is not an exception in halacha, people who went through the holocaust may be on a higher madregah but they still have the same halachos as everyone else.
The first thing people sacrifice when they come late to shul is the korbanos.
Research your parents’ families, find out what made them the great people that they became. See how you can apply this in your life.
Approaching Hashem is done differently for different people. Some people go in a straight line towards Hashem, other people are like an asteroid that orbits to the cold outer spheres of the solar system and then comes back towards the sun.
No years of your life are ever wasted because the second part of the orbit (coming closer to Hashem in your own way) had to be preceeded by the first part if the elliptical orbit.
We need an app that sets your phone to vibrate in shul.
If you pirate a CD that you wouldn’t have bought anyway, is that ok?
The amount of ruchniyos in coffee is directly proportional to how geshmack it is.
My mother used to eat pigeons (seriously), she says the bones are very small so you have to be careful.
People don’t learn mussar anymore, they think this is only for if you want to be a tzaddik. This would be better than having one day off for fasting. They have too many agendas of their own to be their best them.
There was someone in the gemara who gave himself arba misos beis din and the tanna he had been arguing with said that he beat him to gan eden.
Are Jews a race? There are probably not too many blood ties between yekkes and Taimanim.
why are you insulting the frum olam – who says the issue has anything to do with hypocrisy???
– you mentioned that your lechatchilah for your son was that he should be a rebbe – is he intellectually inclined? statistically many kids at risk are not intellectually inclined and therefore not cut out for the very intellectually driven jewish frum school curriculum. this does not mean that there is anything wrong with the kids, it just means as our local headmaster says – schools are not designed for kids. especially if you would have liked him to be a rebbe which means he is the top learner then this is pressure to be intellectual
– have you asked your parents for advice?
there seem to be two versions of lebedik yankel, one which is a sort of chasunah song and the other which is a rip off of lebedik yankel by the mussar movement and includes words such as – what makes yankel happy iz lernen mussar ohn a moss.
do you know the words for either?
there is a recording of the ordinary lebedik yankel available on the florida atlanta university jewish music archive
is that curiosity transmitting from mars?
you’d better be careful if it’s like shlomo’s throne as you could end up with a broken leg from the lion if you don’t get on the right way
reb boruch ber only served as a rov for a very short time, most of the time he was a rosh yeshiva. once when he was a rov a housewife walked in with a kashrus shaalah on a chicken and showed him the pupik, reb boruch ber said – this is the helike pupik which the gemara talks about! so maybe you could be the helike pupik
Is your neighbour frum?
I think they already did
it translates to – the Americans should go, we don’t need them
the chofetz chaim said that the reason America has never had a war on its mainland is bizechus there has never been official anti-semitism in America
very zees
I think in one of the cases the gemara says that one of the kohanim gedolim spoke to someone who was a zav / zavah on yom kippur and became tamei so his brother had to be meshamesh on the same yom kippur.
yisrefu divrei torah ve’al yimasru le’isha!
sometimes the way to enjoy davening is to do the opposite – which is just to think of nothing and let the words say themselves
that’s a fakehrte shaalah
in the first gulf war half the american bochuim in the mir went back to the u.s., rb wolbe z”l gave a schmooze as follows – they say the americans are going back to america – tor sie gehen, mir dahrf sie nicht hoben. he pointed out that the jews in israel were miraculously saved from the holocaust (if you look at the history of the war and how the german attack was repulsed very close to Israel).
Wow, so many quotes