popa_bar_abba

Plural form used when subject is of indeterminate gender. This is called the “epicene they”.

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What’s going to happen?

Well, health insurance will be more expensive, so we will have less money to pay tuition. Since we have less money to pay, tuition will go up, and will be too much for ever increasing numbers in our community.

Most Americans will have a harder time getting a doctor when they need it. However, the yidden will be ok on that score, since ???? ???? ??? ???.

Nu, nu. G-d decides how much money we’ll have. Apparently He doesn’t want us to have much. Let’s all go back to kollel. (No, really. The amount of money you need to earn to break even once you’re off tuition scholarships for kollel guys and govt programs, pretty much assures that for most people it will never be worth it to leave.)

Nothing wrong with drinking occasionally as long as you control yourself and dont get wasted

Sure. And nothing wrong with smoking as long as you don’t light the ends of the cigarettes on fire.

Reb Chaim Schmuelevitz had a non-rejection policy in the Mir based on that which is why it grew to what it is

And with the reputation it has…A yeshiva with no admissions standards that has the full range of students from serious talmidei chachomim to sitting in dira’s all day watching movies.

I guess Yitzvhak and Rivka were tainted because of Esav

I guess Rivka agreed with you, seeing as she wasn’t worried about Yishmael.

Although, as you point out, they did have a son Esav….

How old? How drunk?

I am not aware of any yeshiva where the guys GET DRUNK on friday night. I am also not aware of any yeshiva where the guys don’t DRINK on friday nights.

You refuse to judge Levi Aron until you reach his place?

No, I’ll make an exception for him. I judge him to be insane, and he should be locked in an insane asylum for the rest of his life.

Happy now?

I think most people don’t judge much based on this. But they probably should.

Kids go off the derech because their parents are messed up. And it stands to reason that the siblings will have suffered from it either. Not very fair, but such is life.

No biggie. Just get married, wife’ll do it.

My brother does this and it always irked me. Since he knows my screen name…why don’t you enlighten us as to why you do it??

Because my arms are too muscular to close them.

and my computer history tells me no one has ever gone to forbidden websites

oomis: I’m sorry to tell you this, but that is not a good proof. It is very easy to browse without leaving a history, as well as to delete specific things from the history.

Who cares? You can always get divorced.

Look, people who get married and divorced with a few kids at least jave a normal life. They have kids, they have grandkids,they can wear a talis, they are normal. They tried.

1. No, she doesn’t know better. You took her somewhere, and you were eating, so she ate.

2. Don’t you know better than to take her somewhere where there is kosher and non-kosher food? You should only go there if they will be serving only kosher food.

Itche: Thank you. However, I don’t think I agree with you either. I do think that it is lechatchila for someone who wants to, to learn their whole life.

I think this is a sickness in our world. People think that any occupation besides Torah is meaningless. This simply is not true, and is not the Torah’s hashkafa.

This sort of thinking is a large part of the reason why people who should not be learning do not go out and work; they have been taught that it is worthless.

In fact, not only is it wrong, and harmful to people who end up not learning, but it is even harmful for the people who remain learning. A person should be learning because it is more valuable than all the other things he could be doing. Instead, he ends up learning because everything else is worthless. Well, it doesn’t say very much about the Torah if it is only better than worthless pursuits. It is just better than worthless.

To address the question: There is value to all sorts of jobs. ?? ????? ????, ???? ????.

I don’t work just to make money; I work because it is fulfilling to be involved in productive activity. And my field is not some touchy feely field. And on days when I’m tired in the morning, I quote chazal, ????? ????? ?????? ?? ??????.

Of course I agree there are benefits. And there is always a balance of the benefits versus the dangers. That is why we use telephones even though we sometimes talk loshon hara on them, and the chofetz chaim didn’t say not to.

It is you who are insisting that there is only black and white, by insisting that we should either always say that any benefit outweighs danger, or that any danger outweighs any benefit.

If you think the benefits of internet outweigh the dangers–good for you! Use it in good health. But why must you mock people who think otherwise, especially seeing as we are talkimg about gedolim?

(And as far as your thinking the smut problem is exagerated, I’d like yo know what information you are relying on. My friends don’t usually tell me if it is a problem for them, but they often do tell the rav–which is how the rabbonim know.)

The parents should themselves eat healthier and exercise more. But, only the wife is allowed to tell the husband this and not vice versa.

Interjection:

I’m glad you are working on yourself. Most men I know are also working on themselves, so it should be a good shidduch.

Aside: Off the cuff, I’m not sure the goal should be to not care what other people think at all. G-d made us care, because it is something we can use to further our avodas Hashem; and like everything else, can also be used for the opposite. That is how I understand it.

Popa, how often do you beat your kids?

Just once. I’m good at it.

I see. So when men want something which G-d made important to them, that is self centeredness. But when women want something which G-d made important to them, that is self-esteem. Nice.

(Also, they are both self esteem and are both self centeredness, but that is not relevant anyway, so I’m not going there.)

So, if I insist on only marrying a girl whose father will buy me a corvette, that is self esteem. But if I insist on only marrying a girl who will cook for shabbos, that is self centeredness.

And despite the fact that you refuse to fight fair, and instead just make claims that I “can’t understand”, I am not responding in kind. But I am going to continually point that out, until you stop.