popa_bar_abba

Mod 80: I didn’t mean to suggest one can exercise and then eat whatever he wants. I was demonstrating that eating unhealthily on an irregular basis is not particularly harmful. For example, eating a whole box of cookies while mommy is on the phone with a potential employer.

I can’t believe I posted on the potching thread.

seminary, where we were told that lots of singles are still waiting around through their own fault, they say no to a boy for invalid reasons

That is quite horrifying. How is anybody supposed to date if they think every decision is either totally good or bad?

The better view is that there are many people one can marry and it will work reasonably well, if you try to make it work. So if you say no to someone, there will be another. If you marry someone who you are pretty happy with, it will work even if there is a “better” one out there.

And none of the men would even say “Good Shabbos” to her.

I would never say “good shabbos” to a woman in shul whom I didn’t know on a personal level, although I often will when passing in the street.

This is not odd. I say hello to everyone I pass on the street, while I only greet people I know when in the supermarket.

I suppose if I knew a woman was expecting to be greeted I might throw her a “good shabbos”.

I think that if your wife was insulted, it is because she does not have an understanding of the societal norms in yeshivish shuls. Even if you disagree with the practices of society, you must realize that you cannot be insulted when people act based on them. (unless they are insulting in their nature; for example a black person in the Jim Crow South.)

Well, I read recently that July 4, 1776 was shiva asar b’tamuz

Yoga is not tznius.

(Because it’s something I’m unfamiliar with.)

I have a rant about kiddush Hashem.

Kiddush Hashem is when it is evident that following the Torah makes you act in a good way. This brings kavod to Hashem who gave us the Torah.

Often, Rebbeim and teachers of younger students will tell them before going on a trip that they should behave so as to make a kiddush Hashem.

This is absurd. If you act properly in order to make a kiddush Hashem, you are basically saying that it is not following the Torah which makes you act that way. Rather it is your desire to trick people into thinking the Torah is good which causes you to act that way.

Tell the kids they should behave because it is the right thing to do. That will be a kiddush Hashem.

lets all make new accounts and pretend to be 600 kilo bear.

Personally, I think he lost weight and is now 300 kilo bear.

Popa does not think anyone should lose weight. ( except girls in shidduchim)

popa bar abba was the funniest character in the gemara I could think of at the time.

If I was picking now, I’d be Chanan bisha. He once slapped someone and was told by beis din to pay half of a certain coin. He pulled out a whole coin and asked his victim for change. The victim didn’t have the change, so Chanan bisha hit him again and gave him the whole thing.

I don’t have a gemara in front of me to cite the page.

This reminded me of a rant I recently began proclaiming. I’ll put it in a new thread. You’ll like it.

Also, it’s good to be shushed once in a while. It reminds you how hard it is to be criticized, and helps me remember not to criticize people.

Beis Medrash Govoah. I think it’s in New Jersey somewhere.

No.

(Especially if it is a Beshow.)

I don’t know.

I am splitting hairs because people on this forum are inventing new issurim. Read the whole thread please.

so right:

still irrelevant. We are discussing whether there is a separate issur of mixed swimming in addition to the issur of seeing women undressed.

yosr:

By discussing zionism with him, you seem to agree that if zionism and the creation and maintenance of the state is wrong, then the NK are correct.

Even if the state is wrong, there is no excuse for the practices of the NK.

This thread is halachic speculation at its worst.

We have one person inventing that swimming together is “lo sikrivu”. Then someone else is making up parameters for this “issur” (comparing it to the dinim of sleeping in same bed). Then we have someone claiming it is kalus rosh.

This is absurd. Lo sikrivu is only what Chazal say is lo sikrivu.

Even if it were to be lo sikrivu, there is no reason to assume it would have the same parameters as sleeping in the same bed. Touching a woman is also lo sikrivu, yet a father is allowed to touch his daughter over their entire lives.

The only issur in this thread is baal tosif.

My post was clearly not advocating spousal abuse. There was nothing wrong with it. It was in much better taste than most of the posters on this thread. Read it again.

would one of the people claiming a separate issur of “mixed swimming” please post a source.

A girls camp?

Everything girls do is assur.

source: YWN Coffee room

My rav was matir me to shave for early dates during sefira and the three weeks. I’m not posting his name.

The point is though, why are you sitting and bickering on this thread? If you want to know if poskim are matir, call a few. Most of the American poskim speak English and should be able to communicate with you (if you speak English).

While you’re on the phone with them, ask them if girls are allowed to congregate in the street, why beer doesn’t need a hechsher, if you should get lap-band surgery, what bracha to make on pizza, if fish are muttar, if the internet is muttar, and for a good question to post on my yoreh deah choshen mishpat thread.

I must have misread the emphasis. sorry

“and whoever permitted shaving?”

Why must you accuse people of shaving with no heter?