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  • in reply to: Starbucks! #967112
    popa_bar_abba
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    good.jew:

    My minhag regarding drinks on pesach is not a ruling, it is just my minhag.

    in reply to: Starbucks! #967110
    popa_bar_abba
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    chayav: Read the article, they say that you can. (not the meat sandwiches.)

    in reply to: Motzai Pesach: Buying the First Pie of Pizza #942294
    popa_bar_abba
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    I just did a google search.

    I only found one on sale. It was Benny’s in queens on union tpke. they were auctioning it for charity.

    It had one day left and was still pretty low. Like 28 bucks total.

    in reply to: Starbucks! #967108
    popa_bar_abba
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    I am still drinking brew coffee.

    I am still drinking espresso.

    I have to think about if I want to drink latte’s.

    I am not buying meat sandwiches.

    in reply to: What are the halachic ramifications #862132
    popa_bar_abba
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    There are no ramifications. Nothing.

    The mother should seek professional help.

    in reply to: My Deal With Hashem #1193756
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    Eclipse:

    I don’t think that is the halacha. You only need to clean chametz which you might end up eating on pesach.

    So you don’t even have to clean out the cracks in the couch.

    in reply to: My Deal With Hashem #1193753
    popa_bar_abba
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    I don’t understand the deal.

    You are not responsible for chametz you don’t find anyway.

    in reply to: CASH #758735
    popa_bar_abba
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    Extortion.

    in reply to: ???? ???? ???? Extreme Chumros #760512
    popa_bar_abba
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    as defined by NYS law

    Why should my family and community minhagim change because of NYS law?

    in reply to: ???? ???? ???? Extreme Chumros #760503
    popa_bar_abba
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    I have a minhag to not drink anything less alcoholic than wine.

    This is to make sure we don’t accidentally drink beer.

    in reply to: How To Print Labels from Microsoft Excel? #757364
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    I just want to know how to do it with email. I suppose when I really want to find out, I’ll google “how to set up outlook”

    in reply to: How To Print Labels from Microsoft Excel? #757362
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    It is really intuitive.

    I did it for the first time with no instruction, and it was easy.

    If you need directions, I would google: “how to do a mailmerge”

    in reply to: what would you give up? #758519
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    Sac and popa: are you gonna take your own advice or blame your parents for all the guests you know are going to be there?

    I don’t say on this site whether I am married or not, but in this position, I would probably blame the spouse.

    in reply to: what would you give up? #758517
    popa_bar_abba
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    Everything but the spouse.

    in reply to: Words Your Family Made Up #882943
    popa_bar_abba
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    Hmmm. Who in the CR is a challee-pulkee that Eclipse thought we might use it on them?

    in reply to: Highway Driving Age #757334
    popa_bar_abba
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    I drive highways all the tiem and think i do a pretty good job at it! Maybe that is why ppl tell me that I drive like a guy!

    It is.

    I don’t know why some women get defensive when people say they are bad drivers.

    I am bad at lots of things, and some of them are because I am a guy.

    I am terrible at all sports.

    I cannot match my clothes even if they are all black or white.

    I don’t know how to use computers.

    So most women are bad drivers. So what? Where is the big insult here?

    in reply to: Eruv in Brooklyn #761649
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    I assume the kashrus agencies look into the acceptability of the shochtim. I don’t pretend to know all the details that go into this.

    Generally, there is a ???? ????? that we all have. We can probably rely on chazaka that they don’t use it.

    Besides, the shochtim don’t usually live in Brooklyn. They live in places like Iowa.

    in reply to: Highway Driving Age #757332
    popa_bar_abba
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    Boys- 16

    Girls- 35

    in reply to: Eruv in Brooklyn #761644
    popa_bar_abba
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    And will you drink wine that eruv carriers m’chalalei shabbos touch, and will you eat from their shchita or their cholent, can they lead the davening for you, and will you learn Torah from them or will you throw their s’farim into the trash?

    I don’t know the halachos for all of those.

    Seems like shechita is a problem. YD 2:5

    in reply to: Eruv in Brooklyn #761641
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    No. You can’t eat it even if you do hold of the eruv.

    I would say it has the din of meizid.

    in reply to: Clarity? #761938
    popa_bar_abba
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    zeeskite: No offense taken.

    TBT: Thanks!

    in reply to: Clarity? #761936
    popa_bar_abba
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    Anyone here within PBA’s ‘blazing’ shooting range?

    You’ll never know.

    in reply to: Extension filing info for procrastinators #757365
    popa_bar_abba
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    Hmmm. This is really fascinating.

    Do you think you could post a link to CCH?

    in reply to: Concerned about Arabs in my facebook group #756807
    popa_bar_abba
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    You might consider making it that you need to be approved to join. Then you can just generally approve any ones that sound normal, and ask about the others.

    in reply to: How long before Y"T does your house become Pesachdik? #1009505
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    We turned over 3 weeks ago. We’ve been eating only baked potatoes since then. I can’t wait for that matzo and marror.

    in reply to: HELP! Kosher Ice Cream date #757287
    popa_bar_abba
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    Sweet choice

    in reply to: Lashon Hara vs. the Big Three #756723
    popa_bar_abba
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    Could you translate chee chee?

    I don’t know. Google Translate translated it as “chee chee”.

    in reply to: Sitting in Starbucks right now. #756674
    popa_bar_abba
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    The one in Manhattan. You know, near the stand that sells hallal food and rice.

    in reply to: Do you charge friends? #828347
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    Yontel

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    good.jew formal extension request in writing that is notarized, ????????

    You a CPA got this info from where?

    Here is the link for the Federal form

    http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4868.pdf

    Here is the link for FAQ for NYS http://tax.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/539 I think they no longer allow

    paper applications.

    I am not a a CPA, ENROLLED AGENT or self-accredited tax preparer

    just some one a little self sufficient.

    wellmeaning busybody

    Who doesn’t like a Yenta?

    good.jew

    Maybe I too sound like a tax professional because I know my way around IRS & NYSTAX sites?

    40 years ago I and 10 other barely literate ??????? ????????? used CCH on a daily basis. So what!!!

    how do you reconcile PBA’s citation with the two Gov links I

    gave. Intelliconnect knows the law better than the IRS & NYS Dept of Taxation & Finance. Could be but it is they who run the show.

    Why are you posting under 2 usernames?

    in reply to: Lashon Hara vs. the Big Three #756718
    popa_bar_abba
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    I translated all your hebrew into english. Because you said we should translate all of ours.

    in reply to: Do you charge friends? #828341
    popa_bar_abba
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    My link was to CCH (now called intelliconnect) which is the resource used by all tax professionals to research laws, regulations, and cases.

    Google is not always up to date. Congress changes these statutes about as often as you change your socks.

    in reply to: Do you charge friends? #828339
    popa_bar_abba
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    “Application shall be in writing, and shall be notarized by a notary at law.”

    http://intelliconnect.cch.com/scion/secure/index.jsp#page%5B7%5D

    in reply to: Clarity? #761921
    popa_bar_abba
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    <rant> What the blazes is clarity?

    Do you mean clarity regarding how you feel about a specific question?

    Why don’t you just daven for that?

    Do you mean you want to have nevuah and know what will happen if you make specific choices? That will not happen, even if you daven.

    </rant>

    in reply to: Lashon Hara vs. the Big Three #756715
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    If Bad Speech is equal to the sins of idolatry, prohibited relationships, and murder, is it possible to do repentance for it? For any of them? How do we know if we’ve done enough repentance? Do we get a less severe type of cutting off of the soul if we do repentance or is it even possible to escape cutting off of the soul by doing repentance? (sic) chee chee

    in reply to: ?? ?????? ???? ???? #1103076
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    ???? ?? ???? ?? ?????

    in reply to: El Al Flying on Shabbos #756434
    popa_bar_abba
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    Some people think you are allowed to fly on shabbos just because it is on a jewish airline.

    You are not allowed to fly on shabbos. You just can’t.

    If it takes off before and lands after, then maybe you could. I wonder. I assume it would need to be piloted by a goy, or on autopilot.

    popa_bar_abba
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    i have no proof that there is not a lion waiting just outdoor my house in the morning. but a reasonable person conducts her life by what is reasonable.

    ??? ??????

    Check out my yiddish!

    popa_bar_abba
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    Popa, are you saying matter could be a supreme being?

    I guess once we decide there is a supreme being, we will probably want to think about what form it might have. That sort of philosophy is way beyond me. There probably are rishonim who go down that road until concluding that it must have no form.

    in reply to: Boro Park Eruv #761149
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    popa_bar_abba,

    You keep saying cute/annoying things without any real attempt to bring proofs to your side. Sounds like you just want to be right but don’t want to bother with the actual argument.

    Precisely. I do not think I am remotely qualified to decide this issue, or contribute meaningfully to whatever is the machlokes between Rav Moshe and the matirim.

    I therefore follow Rav Moshe, since he was far greater, and his psak has been accepted by the vast majority of rabbonim, poskim, and roshei yeshiva.

    The fact that many of them are also unfamiliar with the issue only bolsters my argument, since it shows that my approach (of just following the greater posek who has been accepted) is correct.

    I wanted to sit and learn the halachos of eruv inside but the Rav informed me that no matter what we come out with he will still not allow me to carry.

    I wanted to learn how to make a submarine, but my wife told me that no matter what I make, she will not let me use it.

    in reply to: To all those who have small children #757398
    popa_bar_abba
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    Make it interesting.

    popa_bar_abba
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    thanks 80. that made me smile.

    popa_bar_abba
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    There was no “jump” in logic.

    I posited that if there is something which existed without creation, we might be able to use logic to figure out what it was.

    It makes no sense for matter to exist without creation.

    It does make sense for a supreme being to exist without creation.

    We might debate what makes sense and what doesn’t, but ultimately, I think everyone has to agree that it makes no sense for matter to exist without creation. So the question is what we could conceive might exist without creation.

    popa_bar_abba
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    “You expect me to believe that G-d created matter because otherwise where would matter come from. But if you can believe that G-d always was, is and always will be, why can’t I assume the same for matter?”

    I have been asked that question.

    The proof is that since there must ultimately be something which was not created, it must be that that something is a supreme being. Since only a supreme being could exist having never been created.

    Is she really comfortable thinking that matter had no creator?

    I think that is rather compelling.

    in reply to: Do you charge friends? #828333
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    Good.jew:

    Do you put them on extension, or do you tell them to do it? Because I don’t know how to do an extension.

    in reply to: To all those who have small children #757390
    popa_bar_abba
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    Punish them if they fall asleep.

    Don’t let them have dessert for the whole yontiff.

    in reply to: Boro Park Eruv #761140
    popa_bar_abba
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    No. Why not try to seek real answers and not just shoot from the hip.

    I see. So we go around until we think we find an answer that we personally agree with. What a wonderful religion you believe in.

    in reply to: Clarity? #761912
    popa_bar_abba
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    I want to shoot everyone who uses the word “clarity”. It annoys the blazes out of me.

    in reply to: The new Korban Pesach thread #756100
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    Do we know which breed of sheep is the ??? of the torah?

    There are many breeds of sheep, and they are very different. Like the Dall Sheep in Alaska which runs wild and is hunted.

    in reply to: Broken English #756402
    popa_bar_abba
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    Yes.

    Yes. As long as you are mimicking the mistakes they make.

    in reply to: The new Korban Pesach thread #756098
    popa_bar_abba
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    Hey, one minute, popa, we are talking Halacha!

    I considered that.

    My answer is that this whole issue is not actually relevant, since the law is clear and the whole debate here is academic.

    I’m not sure this is a good distinction.

    DY will need to decide.

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