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The death tax for people who die in 2011 is:
0% for any gifts under $13,000. (26k for couples)
If the total of all gifts over 13k in 2011 is more than $5 million, then the estate must pay 35% on all gifts which are over 13k.
In 2013, the threshold will go down to 1 million, and the rate will go up to 50%.
In 2010, there was no death tax.
Kid:
At what point is it acceptable for a man and woman to have an honest and open relationship?
Is it ok after they have a child? After the child’s bar mitzva?
Divorced guy:
What does that mean to follow “your family’s chinuch”?
To be fair, I tipped my hand in the inheritance thread, but I knew you wouldn’t read any thread unrelated to shidduchim.
You ask some sfardi guy with a pom-pom hat. If you give him enough money, he will tell you to come back.
I used to run several times a week. I have only run about 3 times since august, and am still the same weight.
I won’t tell anyone either.
That’s ok. I made up the statistic from onlysimchas.
And look at what I posted on “shadchanim”.
I was going to post a link to something else to make it look more real.
It was pretty good, no? I made it up right here.
Here is Popa’s lifestyle. It is not a diet, it is what I do.
Breakfast- 250 calories worth of whole wheat bread. Best is Franczoz Jerusalem whole wheat. 4 slices.
Lunch- green salad with fat free dressing.
Snacks- Fruit.
Dinner- Whatever I want.
Evening- Beer, scotch, or rum.
I lost about 45 pounds and have maintained that for a few years now.
In North America frum community there are aprox: 2,000 shidduchim made each year.
Onlysimchas has 14,584 engagements in the US and Canada during 2010. I don’t know where you get your numbers from.
There was a gentlemen in England in 1866 who left his entire estate to the lawyers. He figured they would get it anyway, and wanted to save his kids the hassle.
The will has still not been settled, and there are currently over 8000 parties to the litigation.
I know. I was lying.
Popa, I picture you as a very obese man and I don’t know why
I’m guessing it has to do with BK 10b.
Popa is 6’3″, 180 pounds of muscle, perfect nordic looks, a beard and peyos to his knees, with all the right clothes, and a perpetual frown which his friends know is really a smile.
I want a story of a “doomed date” which results in a marriage, and then a horrible relationship and divorce and custody battle and no get, and machlokes in a community.
In other words, I am not impressed until I see the end of the story. Which will not happen in this world.
I think most of the posts on this thread are completely misunderstanding eating disorders.
Eating disorders are an attempt to take control of one’s life, and are usually exercised by people who feel very not in control. They often manifest with accompanying mental illnesses such as depression, Obsessive Compulsive disorder, or others.
They are not caused by having too little food around, or not enough parental guidance on what to eat.
They are probably caused by a history of far too much parental “guidance” (read: criticism) of eating choices.
Health: we are not disagreeing, I didn’t mean to equate the two psychologically or physiologically.
Health:
I don’t understand. Your quote says that overeating is a mental disorder which affects 2-5% of the population. What are you arguing about?
Welcome back methinks. I missed you.
Nobody has to do anything.
Why do I have to call 911 if I see someone having a heart attack?
If your answer for dating someone so much younger is something you hesitate to post
I’m sorry, that makes no sense.
Some times the answer will be that she seems like a good person to date.
Some times the answer will be that she is attractive.
What are you envisioning?
many girls, aged 25-28, whom I know personally, who go to Singles events, DETEST it when divorced guys in the 36-40…
Just what is odd about a 36 year old man dating a 28 year old girl?
HSS:
No, that is not accurate at all. Since only half the children of a 1 carrier marriage will be carriers, we will at most ever end up with half of us being carriers- which would work fine.
However, since less than half of us are carriers now, there is no reason why the carrier group will grow.
(Imagine a group of ten people whose descendants will intra-marry. Two are currently carriers. Each marriage will have 4 children.
The second generation is twenty people, of whom 8 are from a 1 carrier marriage. Of those 8, 4 are carriers.
The third generation is 40 people, of whom 16 are from a one carrier marriage. Of those 16, 8 are carriers.
So you see, the ratio remains the same.)
Better to lose a quarter in a liquor store, than to lose a quarter of your store of liquor.
Also overeating is an eating disorder which is often picked up in seminary.
You go Sac!
I think it is ok to get inspiration from seeing things like this.
But, be careful you aren’t just getting guilt and masking it as inspiration.
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– – – – – – – – – – – -[carB] <–Cutoff
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I fixed it.
I would just explain that shaking hands when meeting has been a social convention for thousands of years in civilized society.
To be honest, I have never met anyone who wasn’t familiar with it.
Someone told me,”My friend married so-and-so,BUT SHE COULD HAVE DONE MUCH BETTER.”
I also know of a case like that. A very nice normal girl married a guy who was physically and emotionally abusive. Then, when she finally left, he made up stories and hired lawyers and took the kids and sent them to military boarding schools.
She could have done much better.
Is that what you mean?
Hmmm. Half plus 7.
74 year old man can date 44 year old woman.
14 year old boy can date 14 year old girl.
8 year old boy can date 11 year old girl.
Instead of saying, I was just joking, say, I was just lying.
I do say that.
Just try to understand. If EVERY man (from 3 yo till 120) will sit and learn all day, what from money will come to buy a pair of pants to go to school?
I think G-d has enough money in his bank account to work it out.
And do you know that the reason stam keilim are eino ben yomo, is because it is a sfek sfeika. Safek it was used ben yomo, and safek it is pogem b’ein.
(How does that work with basar b’chalav? Which basar is pogem chalav? Does every basar dish have a chalav that would be pogem it? I don’t think we will count the other ingredients in the chalav according to the shach and taz by the boris.)
I picked up some guy on the road from Snowbird and took him to Salt Lake City. I figured a guy with a snowboard couldn’t be too bad.
Turned out he worked for the mountain and offered me half price tickets.
I just picked up some drifter from a truck stop in Alabama. Turns out he’s an ax murde-
Shadchan: How was the date?
Me: Half of it was good.
Shadchan: Which half?
Me: My half.
Or maybe;
Shadchan: How was the date?
Me: A quarter of it was good.
Shadchan: Which quarter?
Me: My quarter.
Which version is funnier?
Also, what does the second version mean to you?
itchesrulik:
The gemara says to use branches, tosfos offers two possibilities of how that is done.
because of the pressure this puts on girls in our society, to always look like models, dressed to kill, say they want only learning boys
So it is the boy’s fault that the girls are pressured to only want learning boys. I see.
I am not very impressed with the amount of negativity towards men being displayed here.
I realize that fate has put you in a disadvantage in the shidduch world, but you have allowed your emotions to completely devour your rational thought.
Actually, I read an article by Nosson Slifkin about it.
His position is that:
A. Elephants cannot jump.
B. Tosfos had never seen an elephant and had only seen pictures, which usually depicted elephants with bent knees like any other animal which indicates they can jump.
C. It is not a problem to say tosfos was mistaken since the tosfos serves a purpose in any event by telling us that you can do hagbaha by making the animal jump.
I am skeptical of his arguments. Tosfos was only willing to say that you can do hagbaha by making it jump since the gemara said you could use “pili” to acquire an elephant.
It therefore comes out that the halacha should really be that you cannot use jumping.
It seems to me that if tosfos was wrong, the halacha is also wrong.
I have no idea what the answer is.
I like it because it keeps the parking spots moving, so that people can’t leave unused cars on the street.
Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump
Tosfos says they can. That is how you might make a kinyan hagbaha on an elephant. You hold food above its head and make it jump.
80:
That is because it wasn’t a competition until now.
I have never heard of such a thing. Believe me, your friends know your defects.
You don’t, or you wouldn’t debate its importance. Also, you don’t because you are a woman, and women will never get it. Ever.
It is totally normal. Most yeshiva guys get it done in yeshiva for a few bucks. We usually get haircuts from guys in yeshiva also.
If you had said pedicure, I would be surprised.
Me too. We’re on the same page.
I think it is something important, as I’ve argued in other threads. I am aware women don’t exactly “get it”, but men don’t “get” much of what women need either.
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