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  • in reply to: Kapparos #1101121
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    When I was in yeshiva, there as an altah bochur who every year by kapparos would write a check for $2000 or $3000 dollars, and he would take the check and do kapparos with it.

    And then, he would take the check, and rip it into shreds, and say it was his kapparah.

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101104
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    I personally have seen chickens packed into crates like sardines with no access to water and no food.

    And I personally have seen same chickens, packed into same crates, with no access to food or water, being fed.

    Nor do I have reason to think these crates are sized any differently than the crates ordinarily used to transport chickens. I doubt they make different kaparos sized chicken transport crates.

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101101
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    Popa, there is nothing anti-Torah about protesting the terrible conditions the chickens are kept in.

    Matan, nobody is protesting that. Read their signs–they’re protesting that we’re shechting them at all.

    Which is outrageous, considering that they may as well protest outside every store and restaurant that sells meat. So really what they are protesting is religion.

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101086
    popa_bar_abba
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    If you must insist on doing Kapporat with a Chicken do it on a chicken farm and not on the street of 13th Ave in BP. The farm knows the proper way to store the chickens before and after the Kapporat and proper ways of sanitation.

    How you store them after? They’re dead. You chuck em in a bin.

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101085
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    I used to just use money, but I’ve become makpid to do chickens if I can, since it’s a kiddush Hashem to combat the anti-Torah liberals.

    Funny story–went with expecting wife one year. Asked for 1 rooster for me, and both a rooster and a hen for her. Chassidish kid manning the station was all confused–why does she need two? Older chassidish dude told the kid don’t worry about it, just give them the chickens.

    in reply to: Different havaras #1100615
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    Oy, rachmana litzlan from your deah.

    in reply to: ??? ??? ??? #1100183
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    in reply to: Defining “The Shidduch Crisis” #1153146
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    I don’t understand people like you who feel the need to categorize everything. If there is a shidduch crisis, does it really matter if it is precisely one of your 18 different conceptualizations?

    It’s a crisis! A spittoon will do!

    in reply to: The Deeper Meaning of Hafrashas Challa #1115941
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    how do you know so much stuff?

    in reply to: Seuda at a Bris #1125778
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    Syog, peope servebcold cuts on Shabbos summer lunches if they don’t want to keep the oven on if its a very hot day

    If they’re tzedukim.

    in reply to: Whole Life Insurance #1099132
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    Insurance companies have better access to investments than you do.

    in reply to: Professionally addressing Invitation Envelopes #1099076
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    I am old fashioned and believe social invitations should be hand addressed, not printed on a computer label.

    On handmade paper, no doubt.

    in reply to: Seuda at a Bris #1125761
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    And now Sam eats bacon.

    in reply to: Seuda at a Bris #1125756
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    Dunkin Donuts, Dennys etc have menus with clear meat options readily availble online. I watch coworkers getting breakfats daily and they do in fact have fleihing breakfast routinely.

    Why are you so familiar with the menu at Denny’s?

    Why are you stalking your coworkers while they eat breakfast? I haven’t the faintest idea what my coworkers eat for breakfast.

    in reply to: Seuda at a Bris #1125752
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    Unclear how everyone in the CR is an expert on what non-Jews eat for breakfast.

    in reply to: Seuda at a Bris #1125746
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    When I made a bris, I wanted cold cuts and my wife wanted salmon.

    I told her I would give in, and then I just told the caterer to serve salmon to the women and cold cuts to the men.

    I hope she’s not reading this thread.

    in reply to: Asking to taste the girl's cooking before agreeing to a shidduch #1098217
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    My wife made me cookies while we were dating. That’s how I knew she could cook. I made her pizza.

    in reply to: How do you pay for your child's wedding? #1099528
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    When each kid was borne, we put 5,000 pounds in an investment account, and then don’t let them get married until it equals 20,000.

    in reply to: So today, I was Popa #1141827
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    I have not had it. Perhaps on Friday before Rosh Hashana.

    in reply to: So today, I was Popa #1141825
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    The square pizza place is no longer.

    in reply to: Dating #1097845
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    true story…..i have a friend learning in bmg he is 23 and went out with a girl 9 times. after the ninth date he texted his mother that the date went well but he still cant get used to her looks..about 2 minutes later he got a reply from the girl,”well thats hurtful and you dont have to marry me” he realized his huge botch that he sent it to the wrong person!!!!!!!yikes…does anyone have stories about themselves like this that would like to share

    Yah, he probably did it on purpose to break up.

    in reply to: Dating #1097840
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    Yes, and I’m glad you mentioned the white shirt, because that is the most important part.

    I once knew a guy like you are describing, but he wore a blueish tinged shirt–not really blue, but not quite white either. Obviously it would be inappropriate for a bas melech to marry him. And in fact, it proved out, because the girl he ended up marrying now wears tichels outside the house.

    in reply to: For the Chinuch Roundtable #1110914
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    Why is your baby given the opportunity to choose between jewel and flame?

    Questions like that are why your kids aren’t even going to have a chance at being moshe rabeinu.

    in reply to: Shidduchim – overweight is the new poverty #1097341
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    It isn’t true. A poor person can always become rich, but can an overweight person become not?

    in reply to: Company called Six Figure Mentors #1095981
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    All pyramid schemes are scams

    FTFY

    in reply to: Company called Six Figure Mentors #1095974
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    Sounds like a scam.

    And I’m betting this post is meant as an advertisement.

    Go away, scammer.

    in reply to: Let's agree on something. #1095706
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    You’re all dolty twits.

    I’ll agree to that.

    in reply to: Frum Jews who Litter #1095815
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    You’re all dolts. People are also part of nature.

    When a beaver eats a cherry and moves the pit somewhere, is that part of nature?

    When a human drills for oil and turns it into plastic on the other side of the world and then fills it with transmission fluid in a third part of the world and then chucks it on the side of the road, that is also part of nature.

    Even my calling you all dolts is part of nature. A particularly fine part.

    in reply to: Frum Jews who Litter #1095806
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    Garbage comes from nature, and is returned to nature, and is part of nature.

    in reply to: Shmuly Yanklowitz, Novominsker and OO theology #1095282
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    If this restaurant is having money coerced out of them by a bad organization, all the more reason to shop there.

    lav davka.

    If the chovevei mafia is going to use this restaurant as an example when “marketing” to the next place, you’re just helping the reshaim.

    The whole idea is literally laughable. If they actually want to give money to restaurant workers–let them just give money to those workers! If customers want to give money to restaurant workers when they dine there–give money to those workers!

    Liberals excel at taking money from other people for their causes, but proof is in the pudding that they never open their own wallet.

    If you’re dining at a restaurant and think you’d rather pay 10 dollars more for your meal and have the kitchen staff paid more, just hand the maitre d’ a 10 (together with a tip for her) and ask her to give it to the kitchen staff.

    in reply to: Whose parking spot is it? #1094882
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    I had a friend in yeshiva who drove a tow truck. Ever see a tow truck being towed? No. He used to park wherever he wanted.

    in reply to: Whose parking spot is it? #1094883
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    I had a friend in yeshiva who drove a tow truck. Ever see a tow truck being towed? No. He used to park wherever he wanted.

    in reply to: Funny Shidduch Stories #1227608
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    (Heard and verified from the son of the protagonist)

    I was the girl in that story. We actually didn’t end up talking at all. He tried to, but I gave him the death glare each time he so much as stopped humming and tapping.

    Not that I wouldn’t talk to a boy in that situation. Just that he was short.

    in reply to: HEY! Looking for a Seminary Packing List? #1094798
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    Can’t believe I didn’t comment on this.

    in reply to: first date #1094981
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    When I was in yeshiva, there was an alteh bochur who got very nervous on dates.

    So what we did for him, is we would script his entire date for him. It took a lot of research into the girls he was dating, so like if we’d have him ask where she went to seminary, we had to have the right follow up questions for him (e.g. where’d you to to seminary? Bnos Sarah. Oh, that’s the closest one to the dining room, right? No. Oops, must have read that on YWN. You read YWN? No, my friend does and tells me what it says. Whose your friend? PBA. Phew! At least I know I’m not dating him. Of course you’re not dating him, you’re fat (PBA-we had to know if she was fat). Slap.).

    Over time, we got better at predicting what girls answer to questions, so we had much less of those awkward moments where she’d go off-script and then he’d have to just stay on script and the conversation sounded all weird.

    I’d be happy to write a script for you, if you’d like.

    in reply to: Is the Outrage Over The Killing of Cecil the Lion Justified? #1154174
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    Meanwhile, the same people crying over this animal, insist that any woman should be allowed to kill her baby. And sell its organs and limbs.

    It doesn’t take a supreme court decision to show that the values of the nations, and in particular the left wing, are the polar opposite of true values.

    in reply to: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem #1094755
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    I’m part of the solute.

    in reply to: Is the Outrage Over The Killing of Cecil the Lion Justified? #1154165
    popa_bar_abba
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    Did he know it was Cecil?

    in reply to: Contact Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen #1093888
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    I actually emailed it. You wouldn’t believe which CR poster is actually lawrence keleman!

    in reply to: Contact Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen #1093882
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    in reply to: Paying to hear a shiur #1093460
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    Its ok for seminaries bec they aren’t teaching torah.

    in reply to: In honor of Tisha B'av. What you respect about… #1165194
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    Bump

    in reply to: Shidduchimmmm helppppp #1093069
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    Why are you referring to people who are learning as “better.”

    Better how?

    Don’t you want what is better for you? Do you think you are bad for wanting a certain type of husband? You shouldn’t feel that way–if you do, you should go to therapy to get that narishkeitin out of your head.

    in reply to: Shidduchimmmm helppppp #1093060
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    Start smoking. They’ll get the hint.

    in reply to: shidduchim: what's all this about middos? #1093700
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    Wisey,

    I don’t think “half a brain” wisdom is what we should be using as a guide.

    I concur that people with half a brain would agree with you.

    in reply to: being fleishig during the nine days? #1092584
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    Then you owe me an apology for being machshil me to insult you for the wrong thing.

    Ok, I’m sorry, you happy?

    And in the spirit of beis hillel and beis shammai, if you come to my house for a bbq, I’ll tell you which things were cooked in totally dirty pots.

    in reply to: being fleishig during the nine days? #1092579
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    DY: I wasn’t saying you could do it during the 9 days. I was just saying it doesn’t make you fleishig.

    in reply to: being fleishig during the nine days? #1092576
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    And popa’s the biggest, because he neglected to point out that the Shach says it’s okay if it wasn’t washed thoroughly, mashma that if it wasn’t washed at all, it’s a problem.

    I disagree. I did in fact look it up before I posted to get the citation, and noticed that, and thought of that diyuk, but do not think it is correct. I think the shach is just talking about a normal case where this would happen, since people don’t usually cook in filthy pots.

    Haga atzmecha–do you think the shach would bury that halacha in a diyuk like that? If he wanted to distinguish, he would say that.

    in reply to: And I'm The One Disrespecting The Davening???!! #1092640
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    Big deal. I know this dude who talks right through the whole krias hatorah. The entire time! He never shuts up except between aliyos–that’s right, he only shuts up between aliyos.

    What a rasha he must be.

    in reply to: Dear Popa Bar Abby (Advice Column) #1092087
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    AlterB,

    You should drive down to that friend’s house! Stay for shabbos! Bring a bottle of bourbon! Stay for pizza! And give a piece of your mind!

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