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As long as he’s not making obvious specification as to whom he’s talking about, he’s not ridiculing anyone.
Really? How do you figure?
Anything I don’t do is odd.
It would be interesting.
Yeah. You might want to find out if you can get some heter to wear pants. I don’t know of one, but who knows.
* Just using “he/him” for convenience’s sake. The same applies to teenage girls.
Good. Because if you wrote, him/her, I would say that if you don’t even know if your kid is a him or her, I am not surprised that you have parenting issues.
Yes. Thank you for finding that.
I’m still not 100% satisfied. Doesn’t it bother you that chazal would choose such an odd way for us to express ourselves?
I am flying later in the morning. I hope you are through security by the time I get there.
Wolf:
Why is it more important to train your kids to say thank you, than to train them to do chessed without expecting a thank you, by example?
If you get upset often, you should pick one person and throw all your upsetness at them. This way you insulate all your other relationships.
It is useful to pick someone who will always be around, like your wife or one of your kids.
I want to register a protest to the posters who are clearly reading the mishpacha before shabbos. I think that is almost chillul shabbos. (If there are any parts you think are assur to read on shabbos, I would say you should read them on motzaei shabbos, or if you are a man, on friday afternoon after plag.)
What are we talking about here? The people collecting from Israel so their kid can have surgery for $100k? You want they should sell their leichter and collect 99.5k? Who says they didn’t?
The shleppers in front of the bakery on 13th Ave.?
What is the stereotypical person who is collecting tzedaka and should sell his silver and you think he didn’t.
What are you trying to say, that there are people in yeshiva who are imperfect, and some who even don’t belong there. Is that something you just figured out? Mazel tov.
I wonder why you think it is appropriate to make fun of them like this. Is that how you deal with all issues, by making fun of them? Why don’t you write a song mocking people who have emotional issues? Or maybe a song mocking people who are OTD.
I know; a song about divorcees. After all, in most divorces, you could probably identify at least a few things each person did wrong, or bad choices made.
Notice how the villain in your song only comes ten minutes late to seder. He pretends to understand his chavrusa, which means he cares to be thought of as understanding, yet despite sitting with the chavrusa all morning, he does not understand. You have only mockery.
For you, I have only pity.
I like this. Chessed and Hakaras hatov are two separate obligations on different people.
If I do a chessed for you, and then am upset at you for not being makir tov; who’s the bigger jerk? I think I would be.
I’m in with SJS and aries.
Coca Cola is actually formulated differently in different countries. The Mexican variety is supposedly much sweeter.
tanta bubby:
Who says you can’t be moser your kids nefesh also for learning?
Compare to the amora who told his wife, “there are vegetables in the swamps” (ika koormi b’agma), and went to learn.
Hey! Don’t tell everyone who I am! Mods are supposed to keep our privacy!
I’m CT. It’s nice, but there is nowhere to look anything up.
CT? (Don’t tell me to google it, I did.)
No, I meant Popa and Not Popa.
Baruch does not mean blessing, it means blessed. bracha means blessing.
400
WIY:
When you say all neighborhoods, you mean also Flatbush and the rest of Brooklyn. It does not go on in Queens, and certainly not out of town.
One that he wants to go to.
I only ascribe to two labels:
P-
NP-
Anyone figure them out?
By putting all other gevura into Hashem’s domain, you are saying it fits into the literal meaning of ata gibor. If you are correct, then it is not a good example.
“You are the source of blessing”, does not even vaguely fit into the literal meaning of “baruch ata”.
syag lchochma shetika
Incorrect. artchill was suggesting a materially different type of wedding than the OP was looking for, disguised as a response to the question. If you read midwesterner’s post, you will see that there is no other option that one can point to with the glee of “yagata matzasa”.
“Ata gibor” means you are a gibor. While Hashem may be the source of gevura, that is not what we are praising him for. The evidence is from the examples we give: rofeh cholim, matir assurim… We don’t say ata gibor, and then speak about Napoleon and ascribe it to Hashem- that, while true, is not the point of that praise.
I would be equally uncomfortable if we someone told me that when we say Hashem is rachum, we mean the source of all rachamim. Does ata gibor mean the source of all gevura?
I suppose what I am trying to say, is that I don’t see how people are more satisfied with this answer. I think the answer is more difficult than the question.
I drive a ’98 Honda civic. A Dodge would have been cheaper, but would not have been running anymore in 2009 when I bought it.
I wear the mid level Borsalino from Bencraft. I bought one in 2003, which people still ask if it is new. I bought another in 2004 which I stained, so I now bought another a few months ago. I expect it to last very long.
Buy one; it’s worth the price.
I once met the CEO of GM, I said, “You are a car”.
I have trouble with this. I don’t have any issue with rishonim adding additional meaning to the tefillos, but I have a hard time with the idea that they do not also mean the basic meaning of the words.
I don’t think chazal were trying to trick us when they coined the wording,and I don’t think they were short on wording options. So unless you find an old siddur which begins, “Mikor kol habracha…”, I will be disturbed by the idea that it only means, “you are the source…”.
Count very slowly to ten. Between each number, drink a shot of scotch. Fine single malt, preferably Balvenie Doublewood.
Repeat.
Yes, the basic theory of this tax is that since most Americans don’t drink sugar drinks, and even think it is a bad habit, the majority will not be bothered by the tax.
This is similar to the outrageous cigarette taxes.
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
If you need cough drops, you should buy the generic Halls. The actual Halls brand doesn’t have a hechsher, but the generic ones, CVS etc., have an OU-D. (I imagine it’s equipment, but don’t rely on me for that.)
You should get these because they have the most menthol of any cough drops, and that is what makes your throat feel better.
Hmmm. I wonder how this minhag was never mentioned in the mishna or the gemara?
I see. You’re suggesting that someone could get married without making a normal wedding. By normal I mean, 400 guests, nice catering, a hall, and live music.
Why did you hide your suggestion behind your “yagata matzah” drivel, instead of suggesting it outright?
If your ideas have merit, you shouldn’t be embarrassed to state them.
aren’t there shuls that have a large hall?
Are you asking or telling.
what did pple do 10 yrs. ago?
I don’t know when the Concord opened. Before it opened, people either paid through the roof or made it in NY.
Mod 80: There are other hotels where one can make a wedding, however, the only cheap option is the concord.
Artchill’s condescending comment was a little over the top, if it was serious.
artchill: Do you know Chicago? It is the little city near lake michigan. There aren’t other halls.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? (I sometimes do that on the Seminary threads, so I can commiserate.)
You’re talking about the Concord. It is closed for renovations?
I have always admired Chicago and its people for having an affordable hall which beats all the cheap NY halls hands down for being nice.
They even have a special rate for mechanchim, and if a mechanech does the wedding on sunday, the owner and his family and friends all come and work the wedding themselves.
minyan: I think he was responding to the idea that a ben nidda is supposed to be brazen. He was saying that the BTs he knows are not brazen, hence, there is reason to suppose that they are not a ben nidda.
I suppose the mother could have not been a nidda if she had gone swimming in the ocean. chatzizta b’miut is only drabanan, and we only require kavana lechatchila.
mike: the girls are from flatbush, they don’t want to come to lakewood.
Sacrilege: You will notice I put up numbers for queens (chofetz chaim) as well.
My point is that the price of the drinks is negligible to the price of the date. The overhead costs are the main costs. However, you should also note that two drinks in a hotel lobby are usually about $15 after tax and tip.
I see. The fact is that most guys from lakewood rent a car for dates. It is much cheaper and easier than taking a bus and then using taxis.
The fact is also that most girls expect to be taken to the city.
I am not causing my own anxiety, this whole discussion is irrelevant to me.
Why don’t you tell us how much you think a date from lakewood to flatbush costs; from queens to flatbush; and from queens to Northern NJ.
Hiding behind a laugh makes someone a fool. Be careful it’s not you.
I’m very sorry you think it is funny.
cshapiro: Which part of my post did you not understand?
Mike:
Are you kidding?
What does it cost to rent a car, drive from lakewood to flatbush, then to manhattan, and buy drinks in a hotel lobby? At least $120.
Let’s say from queens, and no rental; still 40 for gas and lobby drinks.
How about lost productivity. How much is a day’s seder worth? How much is night seder worth? I have paid huge amounts of money to be on time for a zman in my day.
Dating is expensive. If the shadchanim and girls don’t understand that, they should find out.
I don’t know why people think going on a date “just to see” is a good option. I think it is a rotten option.
Besides for the expense and time and emotion spent on the date, often, you have better options of who to date. Or you expect better options to arise imminently.
Well, yeshivish is a modern movement, and it has been getting more extreme (used in a non-derogatory way) as time passes.
Therefore, modern yeshivish would differentiate from older yeshivish, in being more yeshivish. I would say modern yeshivish is the most right wing parts of lakewood.
Well, many people marry someone thinking they have good middos, who turn out to not have them. How are you to know?
(I am not suggesting this is a reason not to marry a BT, I was merely explaining the notion to princess.)
My friends and I accidentally parked on somebody’s “airstrip” in the middle of Alaska, 250 miles from the nearest town. The guy said if we do it again, he’ll cut a trench around the car.
I have never heard of a statute of limitations in halacha, and even in secular law, I have never heard it applied to the time after the indictment before trial or punishment.