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okay, so who’s going to give popa a reality check???
You don’t mean to say you’ve solved my dilemma? Surely not in 10 minutes. Go over the calculations again.
As long as we’re on this, it should also be noted that there will be no 10 Teves in 2011.
Nor a February 29.
I think heimish stores should carry suits which drop 4 inches from the shoulder to the waist, since that is what most of us are. In regular stores, the choice is only portly- 2 inch drop, regular- 6 inch drop, or athletic- 8 inch drop.
Frankly, I am very concerned with the benches being able to hold me. It would make a most interesting case of who would need to pay for the bench if several of us were sitting on it and I sat on them and it broke.
I do sympathize with the frustration of losing weight only to have to relose it again after a pregnancy. Yet, the bottom line is that if one eats less calories than one burns, they will lose weight.
(Kind of like donuts, if you make more donuts than you eat, you will have more left to eat. Of course, if you eat them, you will no longer have made more. This is known in formal logic as “Popa’s dilemma”, and is considered to be less solvable than Fermat’s last theorem.)
and maybe I’m right?
Our calender is not so much a calender, as a set of rules which determine every year whether it should be a leap year and whether cheshvan and kislev should be 29 or 30 days.
There is no rule that asara bteves cannot be on friday, and none of the other rules affect it either.
Yom kippur cannot be on friday because we don’t want two days in a row of absolutely no melacha, hence we say that rosh hashana cannot fall on Wednesday. The other fast days also cannot fall on friday, because the other rules make it impossible.
Asara bteves on friday happens fairly often. Much more often than Birchas hachama.
I am being unfair. But, not so unfair. Every guy in yeshiva I know who has tried to lose weight has successfully done so. At some point, (often before starting to date) they simply make up their mind and do it.
So while it is not as easy as my post made it sound, I really don’t have a whole lot of pity.
Many women are self conscious about their weight and I think they would find shopping in the fat store degrading.
Obviously not so self conscious or they would lose weight. (I lost 25% of my weight and kept it off. All it takes is a bit of will power.)
Only thing I know how to cook is books.
moshe:
Your posts are usually better than that. Usually, you have a chazal whose strict reading favors you. Judaism doesn’t recognize such a “contract” to support in learning for 5 years, as binding on the wife. And your comparison to wanting another husband is not accurate, since the issue there is not the agreement, but the issur.
Also, if you look on the Starbucks thread, you’ll see I invoked you and found a perfect place for one of your signature comments.
Market forces dictate that if there was such a need, it would have already been filled.
Now, people do sometimes think of a new idea, and we find that the need existed all along, but I imagine that this has already been tried, and if it was successful, it would have already been emulated to the degree of removing any substantial imbalance between the demand and the supply.
But, if you’re thinking of opening such a store, I say go for it. But please install benches which can hold at least 5 people plus me sitting on them.
I know many people whose parents spoke baby talk to them, and now they are adults and still talk baby talk.
No, wait, I don’t know any people like that. So what is the harm exactly?
Every time I see this thread I get hungry for turkey. I saw a recipe for BBQing a whole turkey.
frum lady:
I understood your point precisely, and that is what I am criticizing. You have no basis beyond speculation for your “issur”, and based on your speculation, you accuse huge numbers of fine Jews of eating treif and justifying it because they simply “want it”.
As far as your cut up fruit, you do need to ask. It is not very simple that you cannot. I am working with the assumption that the knife was cleaned before being used for fruit, in which case the worst you would need is to wash the fruit (or depending on the fruit, perhaps cut off a klipa). If we then use the rule of “stam keilim einum bnei yoman”, we can say that you don’t even need to wash them.
As regards “my reasoning”, I have reasoned nothing except that one should not rely on boich svaros to malign other Jews.
You think so? I assume they check this site.
frumlady:
Why would you say that? Has any Rov told you it is assur? This entire thread is just a bunch of boich svaros; why are you accusing people of eating treif based on that?
But assuming he is Ashkenazic and gave his wife a standard Ashkenazic Orthodox ketubah, he has a halachic obligation to support her, even if he has to quit yeshiva.
Unless he just tells her to work. Tzeiy maasei yadecha l’mzonosecha.
If one puts cold milk into a steel pitcher which was washed in a dishwasher with treifus, one is allowed to drink the milk since the milk is not stored in the container for 24 hours. Also, there was probably soap in the dishwasher. (We seem to rely on soap, despite that the shach and taz don’t like this heter.)
Now, since the trays were rinsed, and there is no reason to think they are ever used for hot food, then even if the above was not true, the milk in the pitchers would still be muttar.
I’m insuring a Honda Civic. Only liability. (And obviously not in Brooklyn)
Popa pays 149 per 6 months.
I like turkey. (That’s the only part of this discussion I’m interested in.)
I think the position of Court Assistant is probably pretty safe from corruption.
Haifa: I don’t think we’re are communicating. I thought this thread was about whether there are ways to make a wedding of the usual minimum standard, in Chicago, for the price of a cheap williamsburg hall.
I think you are discussing what the minimum standard of weddings should be, and perhaps whether people should care what the minimum standard is.
WIY: I don’t know how to search the coffeeroom.
Try googling “disposable wedding cameras” and see what turns up.
I have done more effective research. I have gone to several dozen American weddings over the past several years. Including at least 5 in Chicago.
I like Dovv.
Don’t give seforim. I got piles of seforim, but even the ones which we learn in yeshiva, were outdated and worthless (Meaning, old print).
Give money. Or booze.
Hi everyone.
Is this just a big speculation of maris ayin? Do you really think it depends on the definition of a “restaurant”?
RSRH:
I have not studied Islam. I don’t know the five pillars of Islam, and I don’t know the significance of the Kabbaa.
Nonetheless, I do know what the Moslems are doing, because I do study the world. It is clear that Jihad is the driving force in Islam today, and that the majority of Moslems support it. It is clear that martyrdom is seen as the ultimate sacrifice to Allah in this Jihad.
So, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. I don’t care if the Moslems have Islam wrong. I have nothing against Islam, only against Moslems; is that better?
This halacha is not so pashut. See YD 83:10, taz 83:14, shach 83:30,31.
It seems that if it would be chewed up by the sardine, then you could eat the krill, or shrimp, or whatever.
It’s not that uncommon.
You would be more convincing if your screen name was something else. Like, oh, I don’t know, chicagogirl?
You sound as if you are tipping because it is “required”, “expected”, or “part of the salary”.
Do you give your kids presents because they expect it?
Why don’t you give the Rebbi something because you appreciate him and recognize that he is being under-compensated for what he does? Doesn’t your son’s Rebbi deserve something in appreciation?
I don’t want to ditch the labels. If there are only torah jews and not torah jews, I am afraid many people will group me with the not torah jews.
I don’t think it makes sense to group people into only two groups.
Now, if someone were to argue that we should stop grouping people at all, I would be more amenable to that idea.
But still, grouping helps us understand people and refer to them easily. I know what to expect from someone who is yeshivish, or MO. I know who to set up with my niece, and how to refer to her in a way that people will understand better than no label at all.
Well Charlie, to discredit it totally, why don’t you post the full list of Moslem recipients.
I don’t have the right maare mekomos, but maybe Mosherose can tell us that it is assur to sit in the Cafe’s of goyim.
Ok. The only ones I saw were the sefer hachinuch and the aruch hashulchan.
I do not understand the aruch hashulchan, I looked up the pasuk he is referring to in shmuel, but I don’t have a mikraos gedolos on nach. He seems to be saying something along the lines of that we only receive from Hashem in proportion to how we enable him to give us, almost as if Hashem only had what we “gave” him by doing mitzvos.
The sefer hachinuch, after a lengthy disclaimer that he does not understand these issues, seems to be saying that we are saying that Hashem is the most “Baruch”, that he has all the blessings. Then, since he has all the blessings, we can ask him to give us some them.
This explanation is pretty much in line with the one you are espousing, and it even reads perfectly into the language.
Thanks!
These are all good options, but I really did mean “Popa” and “not Popa”.
Now, potbelly and Popa do have a certain relationship, but this Popa no longer has a potbelly.
Poppa bar: I wouldn’t term it “loony Ashkenazim”. Differential between alef and ayin are referenced in S.A.
The Shulachan aruch was written by Rabbi Yosef Caro, who was a sfardi.
Any Ashkenazi who says uses temani pronunciation is indeed loony.
Backinaction:
Did you make up the song like the title of the thread says,or was it someone else?
I am a Rabbi. Yoreh Yadin.
I need to think about it.
Still, even the way the Temanim and loony ashkenazim pronounce ayin, how does it make a difference if the patach is after or with the sound?
Do you say “ahh” and then make nasal noise?
No, he was impersonating a different moderator. 80 would have posted the video.
never mind, shamua ben zakur
And besides, what word ends with an ayin with a patach beneath it?
I am actually impressed that nobody yelled at me that it is sherry cask, which it is. I suppose anyone who knows scotch also knows that sherry cask is totally fine.
(Citation: I spoke to a Rov who asked R’ Dovid and R’ Reuven, after which we drank McCallans in this Rov’s house.)
No, the bracha hamotzi makes sense. It is a praise for Hashem who produces bread from the earth, in the form of grain.
Besides, I have probably eaten bread off the ground in my day.
It applies to the letters ayin, ches, & hay b’sof hamila,
with a patach.
The way I pronounce ayin, I don’t see how it will make a difference.
On the topic of gifts, if anyone ever gives me a silver esrog box, I will sell it on the family heirloom thread for scrap silver.
Why would I want another valuable thing which I have to carry around and keep track of. It’s like those idiots who wear valuable stones and metals on their finger or ears. Nobody in yeshiva is stupid enough to do that.
Rivka does not appear in davening ever.
Ok, but if we’ve branched into laining mistakes;
By the yud gimmel midos, the pause goes after vayikara b’shem, before “Hashem”. The meaning is that Moshe called out with the name, saying “Hashem!”
But my favorite is in Lamenatzeach. For probably 15 years, I was saying “bshem hashem elokeinu nigdol”. The word is “nidgol” which means to wave banners.
A partridge in a pear tree.
Two turdledoves.
Three french hens.
Four Colly birds.
Five golden rings.
Six geese a-laying.
Seven swans a-swimming.
Eight maids a-milking.
(We are not noheg to give the ladies dancing, lords a-leaping, pipers piping, or drummers drumming. Obviously, the ladies dancing is not tznius anyway.)