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It was on WIKIleaks
I disagree.
Why should I sacrifice my life and love to replace some people the nazis killed?
Besides, how does my marrying a non jew make my children any less mine?
I think if we understand these people a little better, we will be closer to a solution.
I just found out! The seminaries ask for a photo with the application also.
I bet they only want attractive students so they will get a reputation that their students get married easily.
All I know, is that every Rosh yeshiva I have ever had was a staunch conservative,and on top of current events.
I know of one Rebbi in all the Yeshivos I have been in (5), who had any liberal tendencies, and he was way right of most democrats.
So, we can safely assume that there is a strong correlation.
2 years is not very long term. How about 20?
Look, if you are eating less calories, good. If not, you can’t lose weight.
maybe I’ll post here. I’ll think about it.
I just want to congratulate Popa, on not posting anything ever on the “What I learned from my troubled teen” thread, despite typing posts several times.
Fine! I’ll identify myself.
I am Judge Millian.
Yes. All Macallan is sherry cask.
I personally drank Macallan 25 in the home of a chashuv rov who is a big player in kashrus, and said he had discussed it with Rabbis D and R Fienstien who permitted it.
People who insist on saying words to make others uncomfortable. s*x
People who get annoyed by others singing off tune.
Lets see.
If you are supposed to and don’t: there are other methods which most (frum)experts and rabbonim think are more effective.
If you are not supposed to and you do:
You are transgressing a lav.
And are nikra rasha.
And likely causing irreparable damage emotionally and to his ruchniyos.
So, maybe just play the odds.
pumper:
Sorry, SBD is a fad. Find me someone who is on it long term and is happy.
And besides, it only works if you end up eating less calories. That is certain. Cut out half the normal foods, and you’re bound to eat less calories.
Aries: How can it only work to a degree? What happens to those people when they eat less calories? Do they starve to death while still fat?
People who drive slow in the left lane.
People who drive slow in the right lane.
People who get annoyed when I’m driving slow.
The reason women can’t lose weight is because they are looking for trick, like the south beach diet.
There are no tricks. None. You lose weight by consuming less calories than you burn. That is it.
If your diet does that, you will lose weight. If it does not, you won’t.
When you go off the diet, you obviously gain back all the weight. You need to make lifestyle changes that result in permanently taking in only the amount you burn.
This is my 4th attempt to post on this thread.
Any time you do something which affects someone else, you need to ask two questions:
1. Is this a effective method to accomplish my goal?
2. Is this a justifiable method of accomplishing my goal?
So, you see, much depends on what the goal is.
If the goal is to help the kid himself, the second question may be satisfied, but I personally don’t think the first is.
If the goal is to help other kids, the second question is not satisfied, since one is not allowed to hurt one person to help another.
If the goal is anything else, the second question is clearly not satisfied.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
He is a nutrition professor at kansas state. He did not make it up.
There was a professor who recently went on the twinkie diet, to prove that the only thing that counts is calorie intake. He ate 1800 calories daily of mostly junk food.
He lost 27 lbs. in ten weeks.
His LDL (bad cholesterol)went down 20%
His HDL (good cholesterol) went up 20%
His triglyceride level went down 39%
Google “twinkie diet”
I posted a link earlier, but it was taken down.
Sac: As opposed to still married?
It is much worse for a parent to hit.
Parents are supposed to love their children unconditionally, so it is so much more hurtful when they sacrifice their child’s well being for some quiet on the telephone, or to not have a messy living room, or whatever is more important than the child.
Who said more concerned with externals.
I think we are also concerned with externals.
I don’t know what it is.
Is it worse to ask for a photo or for dress size, height, and weight?
(No point, just Popa.)
BP:
Depends what you mean by earned it.
If you mean in a values sense, that they have done things which morally justify the demands, I don’t see why you think lawyers have done that more than learners.
If you mean in an economic sense, that the market will award the value to them, yeshiva guys have quite the leg up over lawyers.
I would so rather be carried by six than judged by twelve.
Ideal scenario:
Boy: What should we do?
Girl: I brought pizza (pulls out box from purse), let’s go to a lounge and eat it.
Come on. If everyone agreed with you, what fun would that be? Then you would need to try to trick them into thinking you don’t agree. Or convince them to disagree.
Right. I don’t know. You tell me what the mekor that she has to wear anything is.
It is hard to imagine it is a lifnei iver issue, since if so, there is much more of an issue with an attractive girl who is dressed properly, than a “less attractive” woman who is dressed in short sleeves.
In any event, holding posters of graphic pictures could only be lifnei iver, which is why I assume it it unrelated to this discussion.
Parents are dying to have grandchildren named after them. How could you deprive them.
Of course she is allowed to wear a shirt with a graphic picture on it. As much as she can hold up posters with graphic pictures.
Having clean windows is almost as stupid as having folded clothes.
Women: Think utility. The utility of clothes is to wear them, that is not enhanced by their being folded. The utility of cabinets is to hold your dishes. They hold disorganized dishes just as well as organized.
SJS:
The posters on this thread do not represent anyone. The only people who have a problem with sheitels are the sfardim, and some chassidim. And maybe some litvishe chareidim in Israel.
Everyone in Lakewood wears sheitels.
I want an ice cream cake.
Weight is always within one’s control.
Just eat less calories than you burn.
Metabolism just means how much you usually burn. If you are burning less, you need less.
As for your Phd friend, that is precisely the point. While I don’t doubt that there are people who can achieve greatness in both, would you really counsel a young medical student that it will not hurt his studies to be in law school (or yeshiva) half a day?
Lets talk about something else.
Would any of you vote for Palin in the primary? I wouldn’t.
I don’t understand. You only want us to say maalos, not chesronos, and then you intend to make a decision based on that? Don’t you care about the chesronos?
What do you think is motivating you to want to ban sheitels?
If you put an egg in your cholent, and you find a chicken in the egg, your whole cholent will be treif unless you have 60 times its amount, which is unlikely.
But wolf is our friend.
“If you don’t think a penny is worthy of being picked up, you are not worth a penny”
That is a terrible thing to say. I am not worth a penny? I wouldn’t even say that about someone who says that!
Weight gain is NOT a bad middah. As long as you are still below a size 4.
Someone who deliberately is mispronouncing a cholum as a choylum should be complaining about someone else’s pronunciations.
popa: The OP has Gedolim (i.e, Satmar Rebbe, Chacham Ovadia Yosef, et al) to rely on to make his statement.
Depends what his statement is.
If the statement is that some gedolim have said not to wear them, then yes.
If the statement is that it is more tzanua not to wear them, then yes.
If the statement is that it is not proper to wear them, then no. Most of our gedolim have permitted them. (That is litvaks)
yechezkel:
You are a perfect example of the people I am talking about.
Why don’t you go to a medical school and tell them they could really learn the same amount of medicine even if they go to law school at the same time. I am sure you will be able to dig up a few people who did negotiate that successfully.
To be quite frank: If your argument has merit, you don’t need to trick people into it.
There is a spirit of the law. It does not say 6 inch red shoes are not okay anywhere, and I applaud you for not wearing them.
Ok, you are correct, there are certain modes of dressing I would criticize even if they are not against the letter of the law. I would even fault someone for not having the sensitivity.
I suppose what irks me here, is that there is nothing inherently untzanua about wearing a sheitel. Chazal say that hair of a married woman is ervah, she is not showing her hair. Now, I don’t see any extreme insensitivity to tznius involved in wearing a sheitel, so I don’t think it is right to criticize people who do it.
Also, the OP seemed to be basing him?her?self on the assumption that chazal would have banned it, or even more absurdly, on the fact that chazal did not expressly permit it (since they did not exist in current format). It is almost as if the OP is trying to read an actual issur into chazal which does not exist.
Lets instead bicker about if it is havuvos or havuvoys.
My theories are more reliable than tested and proven ones.
You do realize how absurd that sentence is, don’t you?
Every “proof” eventually leads back to theory anyway, since you need to use theory to say that all the factors were accounted for, and all the variables adjusted. So, if I can skip the pointless exercise and just use theory, it is even better.
No, you are incorrect.
We have a torah, and we follow it. We had chazal, and we follow them.
You say no rabbi has found these sheitels ok. That is not the issue. The issue is whether anybody has found them assur. Chazal did not see fit to make sheitels assur, and we do not need to add to their issurim.
If you feel more tzanua with a hat, by all means. But if you declare what we do assur based on your feelings, you are very wrong.