thank you, 45

🙂

Sometimes things need to be taken away from us for us to truly enjoy it.

There was a text going around a few years ago:

Q:What do Bein Hazmanim and Tisha Be’av have in common?

A: You wear crocks, You don’t learn a word, and You put Tefillin on in the noon

I would like join in the SUC Membership

But the question is, presuming Noach’s Teiva landed somewhere in the Asian continent after the flood. How did the buffalo cross the Atlantic, or the kangaroo cross the Indian ocean?

shmuelgold-

a) Jewishfeminist’s husband is wont to chime in occasionally

b) I think those questions posted are very relevant, even in your particular answer.

Is it a particularly difficult Mesechta, or is it an interesting one that you are Chazering. What setting is it in. How often. All these identifying questions are very apropos in true advice on the matter.

Prior to the verdict, Al and Jesse called for piece.

curiosity, I just know that animosity of your fellow prayer-mate is not conducive to prayer. But I guess you were just calling it a ‘disease’ to bring out a point.

Why is there such a thing as chassan shas and not chassan Tur or Shulchan Aruch, or chumash, etc..?

1) I don’t see anything inherently wrong with pacing during davening- it is usually done in shteibel-type places. Also, to Daven Shmonah Esrei in a place where people could walk right through is not Lechatchillah.

2) I don’t know who people follow nowadays, but the Mishna Berura says that you’re supposed to Daven especially aloud. (except for the Shmonah Esrei, which just you are supposed to hear)

Try to find a Shul that is more grounded, like with pews- you may find yourself more concentration there.

3) Also, let us not forget that we daven most of Tefilla in the plural, so your Tefilos are more accepted that way, together.

Cellphones are a completely seperate story.

This thread breaks my heart. ^ all of it.

Voted ^ up there in

craziest posts ever.

The lyrics are from Medrish Rabba.

wriresoul, I think Gefen was refering to Will there be Wi-fi?

WolfishMusings-

From whence do you know this? The Rambam makes the point that nothing will change except for our subjugation by the nations. Presumably that means that there will continue to be rich and poor amongst us.

You’re wrong in this respect; the Rambam says both (very last piece in Yad)

The first Beis Hamikdash was built by Shlomo Hamelech (King Soloman), the wisest of men. Meaning, his intellect far surpassed the inventions of the industrial revolution, the cyber revolution, and whatever revolutions contemporary scientist can only speculate of.

Possibly, the Beit Hamikdash was replete with inventions beyond our times.

It is interesting to note the famous Ben Yehoyada in Gittin, that Shlomo Hamelech used to speed down the streets of Yerushalayim in a coal-powered car, and everyone suspected he was being carried by Sheidim.

The Midrash and Meforshim say that at the foot of King Shlomo’s thrown, there was a golden lion that would spring to life to guard the thrown from anyone other than Shlomo trying to ascend, and that birds would carry a Sefer Torah to him.

Perhaps the power of Kedusha will circumvent the need for electric in the Beis Hamikdosh.

Although, the pulley and irrigation systems in the Beis Hamikdash were not nearly as sophisticated as modern-day technology.

There are some that speculate that it is man’s purpose to live in harmony with nature, and avoid any technology that interferes with the cycle of nature- (an idea defied in today’s sedentary world).

Perhaps this ides is supported by the Jewish custom not to burry in a casket, but rather upon the earth, to encourage decomposition and land enrichment. The drainage through irrigation under the Beis Hamikdash, as well, works in harmony with this biological cycle.

As far as the manual, relatively unsophisticated, pulley-system, there were clear and open miracles that took place in the Beis Hamikdash on a daily basis. So there was definitely an intended extent of miracles and automatically-run things, and the beginning of requisite human effort in the Beis Hamikdosh.

-I am curious to hear the views of Sam2, rebdoniel, and WIY on this.

Shopping, writersoul- you guys should hook up somehow.

That he wrote his whole will to Tzedaka.

That he gives everyone a lot of Mitzvos.

That he uses a protractor when he puts on Tefillin

That he learns Torah very loud in middle of the night.

That he smiles at Galachim.

That he licks his lips before kissing the Sefer Torah

That he doesn’t shower in the three weeks.

That he pours the Havdalla wine over his head and into his pockets.

That he wears two ties to Shabbos Mincha

That he says Asher Yatzar every couple of minutes

That he tastes all the food Lekavod Erev Shabbos

That he eats Milchigs on July 4

That he doesn’t tie his shoes on Shabbos

That he wears smaller suspenders on Yom Kippur

That he swears in Yiddish

I like this ^ thread, shopping. Great Jewish takeoff idea!

Rav Aurbach z”l (Iforgot his first name, but he was a famouse posek in Yerushalayim,) was once on a bus in Israel, and an immodestly-dressed women sat next to him.

So, not to cause a chillul hashem or embarras her, he stayed on the bus, got out by the next stop and boarded another bus.