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IDK where you plan on doing this

In the dorm.

use a deep metal bucket.

I was actually planning to use an old broken charcoal BBQ that I found in my backyard from a previous tenant. I already did the same thing for my new grates when I moved. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/i-moved

I hope UPS is not going to be jerks, and will deliver it even though I am not home. I should have ordered the charcoal from amazon also. Lemme see if they sell.

edit: I checked; the cheapest bag of charcoal sold by amazon was like 21 buck. I think I’ll just go to Canadian Tire.

In Chassidic circles there’s no shidduch crisis, boys are married off at age 18/19, they don’t go on prolonged dates, they trust their parents, and the system works.

I don’t think your utopian view is precisely accurate.

Oomis:

That is not the crisis. The crisis is having more girls than boys for whatever reason it happened.

Also the only evidence that your solution would change anything actually shows a negative effect, since the communities with more socialization actually have many more older singles, as DY pointed out.

Now, you say that perhaps it would be different if we would socialize but still keep our other haskafos. Perhaps, perhaps not.

So, since there is no problem to solve, and the solution is pretty ungrounded, I think I’ll do things the way I always did.

zahavasdad:

I have no idea what you are talking about. The rabbanut’s job is to paken halacha. When they make a decision about standards, it is not “personal standards,” it is the halacha they are paskening.

Now, I happen to agree with you that the rabbanut should have less official authority. For example, I think the army’s rabbinate should be completely disbanded after their recent politicism of halacha.

But what on earth is your complaint against them. The OU also makes standards, and says that anything which doesn’t meet their standards is not allowed in their certified establishments. And the OU’s standards are not universal- as yitayningwut can tell you. But they need to choose a standard, and they do.

in the ENGLISH, It clearly says its NOT KOSHER, NOT its not to MY STANDARDS

Of course. It is a machlokes in din, and if they pasken it is assur, then they are paskening it is not kosher. If it was a chumrah only, then it would be strange for them to call it non-kosher.

The rabbanut is not the first people to disagree with the heter for cholov stam. Your real issue is that they have an official function- so we agree.

NY boys have been trained to think they are a commodity therefore they hold themselves on a higher madreiga and do not have to put themselves out. They have been taught that they should not travel oot to date but those girls who wish to date them should do the traveling. They will however consider a girl from OOT, like LA for instance, if she is very wealthy.

I’ll replace that will “all boys,” since almost all the yeshivos that guys date from are in the northeast.

Additionally,

boys have been trained to think they are a commodity

Trained? They are a commodity. Who are you fooling- you need them more than they need you.

My 5 year old saw someone he likes smoking and told him “I’m sure you dont know that smoking is dangerous but my zaidy had to have an operation because he smoked”.

My friend’s 5 year old saw someone he likes who was overweight. He said “I’m sure you don’t know that being overweight is dangerous, but my zeidy had to have a quadruple bypass surgery because he ate too much.

If you are referring to girls who are currently living in NY but grew up out of town, it is because they are rednecks.

So what is the problem? Let them marry their siblings.

2. The firm Hirsch, Oelbaum, Bram, Hanover, & Lisker has been retained to provide audit and prepare year end statements. This will ensure proper security of all the Shadchan Project monies. Their reports will be of public record and will be made available upon request.

That’s nice. I was never concerned about the bookkeeping. I was concerned about the money.

Is the money in escrow? Who is the escrow agent?

Look, there is a machlokes about relying on govt standards to avoid the issur of cholov yisroel. I happen to rely on poskim who are mattir it, as do you. But I can certainly understand those who don’t permit it.

Every hashgacha needs to determine whether they are relying on it. In a country like Israel which has a centralized state religion, and official religious officials, they will naturally have to choose some standard.

I don’t see how you can complain that they didn’t choose your standard. I do see how you can complain about having an official religion.

For the old-timers (and newish-timers) here, a CR trivia thread would be fun.

Trivia threads are no fun, because people just make stuff up.

Itche: That is part of the question. That CRC article I linked holds it is only bliyus.

Nu? Nobody has anything to say about my cast iron pan?

Someone showed me an article by the CRC which said it needs hagalla, and you don’t need to wash it down before you do so.

A certain rav I asked, said it was a sfeik sfeika, and therefore I should do hagalla. He didn’t tell me what the second safeik is, nor why hagalla was necessary.

I still think it is easier to just do libun than to hock with hagalla.

Except that if I do libun, I will need to reseason it, while if I do hagalla, the seasoning will probably survive. The CRC did pasken that the issur is bliyus, and not mamashus- but should it feel weird that hagalla will make it muttar while I can clearly see that the oil is still present? So what if it feels weird, if that is the halacha- then that is the halacha.

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I want to buy a cast iron pan, but they come “pre-seasoned” with oil. (They coat the pan with ostensibly soybean oil, and bake it).

So, even according to Rabbi Abadi, there could potentially be a problem, since there is no eidus that they are using vegetable oil, and there is no industry standard to use only vegetable oil, and it is not a food item so it is not subject to FDA regulation. (I can’t imagine he’d rely on tort liability for false or misleading advertising.)

So, my idea is to put it inside a pile of charcoal, and light the pile, and let it burn down. Seems to me like that would be libun gamur.

I heard all the girls there are fat. Can anyone confirm this? How fat are we talking?