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I’ve heard plenty of terrible dating stories from your day also.
What do you tell the high school kids who are prank calling pretending to be asking shidduch questions?
apy, how about people who give false identities. “Hello, this is Chani Goldstein from Flatbush. Can I ask you a few questions about yankeleh?”
Incidentally, my friend remembers when he was in a dirah in Eretz Yisroel, and a shidduch call came in to Reuven, asking about Shimon. Shimon was present and in the middle of a cigarette when Reuven motioned to him that he was just asked if he smokes. Shimon immediately put out his cigarette, and Reuven promptly answered, “He used to smoke, but he quit”.
Yes, but you should include the end of the story when you tell that. Shimon, ( who is my brother), has never smoked a cigarette since then in the past 8 years even though he never even dated that girl.
Don’t turn off your celllphone ringer like an ignoramous. True art is a part of this world and incorporates its elements and builds upon them, which includes all normal noise.
My latest theory is that Rav chaim is opening a new dating yeshiva only for dating bochurim, and they will also teach the rebbetzin a”h’s challa recipe
Right. They wanted to be in mishpacha magazine (and the yated) so that shadchanim and girls would know. I assume.
DY: Presumably all of them would have previously disallowed bochurim in their yeshivos from dating, since their yeshivos are for younger bochurim.
The better answer is that the purpose of this ad was not to change the rule–that they could do by kloping on the bima. The purpose was for outsiders to know that bochurim in those yeshivos are open season.
However, it is all dumb. Because those yeshivos generally don’t have bochurim in their 4th year.
No, the bottom says:
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and is signed by Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Rav Shteinman, Rav Malkiel, Rav Matisyahu, and Rav Shlomo Miller.
They don’t all even have yeshivos. They are saying that they join in giving the brachos mentioned above.
I don’t think you are reading that correctly. I read that the top names are the ones announcing their new rule, while the bottom names are joining only the brachos.
Reuven was sitting shiva for his father.
Guy comes in, and says, your great-aunt adopted a stray cat.
Reuven never knew.
Aha! You were that guy? He gave me HUGE shadchanus.
20 gooses, and unlimited couch to crash on while ski bumming in Alaska.
Divorce is just a chemical imbalance.
Lol that was me. I always give out his number when people ask. Did you try calling? I wouldn’t…
I would never call someone anonymously to ask shidduch questions.
I’d just lie about who I was tee hee hee.
Tee hee hee.
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Still tee hee heeing.
Right. But what makes a werewolf a magical creature? The fact that you’ve never heard of it? You’ve only never heard of it because they keep it secret. But if they didn’t, you’d have heard of it and wouldn’t consider it anymore magical than the ebola virus.
Seminary is not important, as long as you’re a size 0 and very rich.
They wouldn’t panic if they had always known about werewolves. The same way they don’t panic about real wolves (which also attack people sometimes).
And it shouldn’t be governed by the International Statute of Secrecy since that is only about magic.
Yes, but what makes a creature magical?
Humans can be magical, if they are able to do magic. Creatures don’t do magic though–they each just have their own idiosyncrasies. Cows are also weird–they have 4 stomachs. Venus fly traps are a plant that eats bugs. Bats have sonar. Mosquitoes eat blood. Dogs can smell something huge distances away.
I think we can define magic as something that breaks the rules of physics and the world in a way that doesn’t simply redefine physics. Meaning, gravity doesn’t break the rule of physics requiring items not in motion to stay not in motion unless acted on by a force–it redefines by adding another rule that gravity is a force.
Bats don’t break the rules–they add a rule that some creatures can have sonar. Transfiguration breaks the rules of science. Werewolves are simply a new communicable disease.
Why would the ministry care if muggles knew there were werewolves? Why is it different from muggles knowing about ebola?
Can you imagine what would happen if a muggle got bitten? Not only did they not believe in the supernatural before, they now transform every month into a monster and have no idea how to control it. It’s in the ministry’s best interests to keep muggle werewolves under control and away from normal muggles.
That’s a bit circular though. See, if the ministry didn’t do that, then werewolves would not be considered supernatural at all–no more than trees growing are supernatural.
I’m not quite satisfied with JKR’s read on that. I don’t see any reason why the ministry would care about muggle werewolves. There of plenty of other dangerous muggle things the ministry doesn’t care about. And if muggles are werewolves, then there is nothing specially magical about it.
What happens when a muggle is bitten by a werewolf?
Do they become a werewolf? Why have I never heard of one? So do they not become one? Is it worse if you are a wizard than a muggle?
I’m not touching this thread with a 10 foot pole. Go ask your therapist
Mods: can we make this thread title the title of PAA’s thread about confounding things
According to some shittos
Ein Mashgichin BePopa.
Took me years, but I finally convinced the hanhala of that in yeshiva.
Don’t argue with Sam. Shehalacha kemoso b’chol makom
Was it a purple lukshen kugel eater by any chance?
Squeak, let’s analyze.
1) Extra boys born – unreasonable to assume enough to counterbalance.
2) extra boys dying – all the more reason to put more boys in the parsha.
3) extra boys going otd – ditto
4) extra girls becoming frum – ditto
5) extra girls buying into the torah only philosophy – ditto (for Torah only boys)
6) chassidishe girls crossing over – ditto
7) boys who are not torah only material being overlooked – ditto (for Torah only boys)
8) etc. The list doesn’t end there – can’t answer.
I think 1 is reasonable enough that you should at least be curious where it gets you, even if you think it is unlikely it gets you all the way. Especially if you believe in shidduch crisis because you believe in age gap.
As to many of the others, I don’t agree that we should solve the “not enough bnei torah” crisis by imposing costs on other parts of society. Suppose there are currently equal numbers of frum boys and girls, but 30% of the girls want bnei torah and only 20% of the boys are bnei torah. If you bring in the boys younger but don’t change the number of girls, you will be creating a shidduch crisis for non-bnei torah boys. Who says it is right to do that?
Also, while I concur that changing age gap can increase the number of boys even if the age gap is not the actual cause (suppose the extra boys born makes up for age gap, but more boys are not learners), I think it does make a difference in terms of the moral imperative on the boys to start dating younger even to their own detriment. If they are causing the problem, I could see more of a obligation on their part to solve it. If the problem is caused by too many girls having unrealistic expectations of what the learning lifestyle is, I have a very hard time accepting that the boys should give up years of their learning and possible sholom bayis to solve that crisis. How about abolish seminaries and solve that one.
I don’t know that we clearly have either age gap or pop growth. We probably do, but I don’t know.
And I certainly don’t know that its enough to counter the extra boys born, if indeed there are.
I can think of a reason not to close the age gap. There are more single boys than girls.
You think there aren’t, but that is an illusion caused by the system where boys say yes first. It looks as if boys have “lists” to choose from when in reality most of the girls on the list are terrible matches and would say no anyway.
How about at least a study on that?
I realized I’d just shot bin laden even though we were supposed to take him alive!
It was like 4 years before I could admit it publicly that it was me…
Also, enough with the mizbeach’s and my tears. You should avoid divorce for your own tears and your own kids tears and the spouse whom you once loved’s tears.
This is a very sad thread. I can understand why the mizbeach cries.
As if posting how a proper study is done is more beneficial than communicating that directly to the very people who claim to be in this business (which I have done).
Post the text of your email into this thread. And change the title to J’accuse!
Oh, that one? Yes, we still have it but it’s my son’s car now.
2 door yellow with a spoiler and twin unmuffled exhaust pipes.
I won’t discuss the requirements for a real study here either because I don’t know them.
I don’t know how to describe a real porsche either, but I know my civic isn’t one.
Additionally, instead of doing that whole mishegas with slicing and tying the brisket, just use a whole brisket with the huge layer of fat between and don’t trim the outside fat neither.
On the BBQ, best advice is the Wandering Q (formerly known as Hakadosh BBQ), which does pop ups at street fairs.
Howwever, I think they may be done for the season. Check their facebook page.
Alternatively, since you’re such an expert and probably do it yourself at home, wait until you get home?
And popa, who says there’s a crisis for the MO? Any hard data?
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Now whose asking for hard data.
New question:
According to this study, the population of MO is shrinking. Yet, I have heard that there is an MO shidduch crisis as well! How can that be?
Perhaps whatever is happening to them is also happening to us?
DY my point is that without knowing the actual distribution, your pop growth numbers are just a guess. You can’t theorize any of the premises either.
I am saying that you can’t use just Yeshiva World numbers to show pop growth in Yeshiva World because there are also people entering and exiting that community.
Popa, I assume there there is a typical pattern of distribution – my guess, a little heavier on the younger side. Kol zeh hichnasti when I said “typical”.
Certainly. But what is that typical distribution?
PBA: can you please take a step back and explain why we need to extrapolate the population growth data from birth rates etc. rather than use school enrollment data which is available and more accurate at this time?
Mamalleh, can you please take a step back and allow me to finish this point with DY before addressing every other question?
We cannot use school enrollment data because it ignores that people move between communities, as well as do schools.