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  • in reply to: Children on leashes #1195867
    popa_bar_abba
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    The question is: “what is considered appropriate and necessary hishtadlus in this case, and to what extent will it inhibit the child’s natural sense of freedom to keep him on a leash?

    That’s not the only question. It is one of several relevant questions.

    Other questions include:

    How will use of a harness or non-use affect how frequently I let the kid walk versus stick in stroller or not take outside at all?

    How will use of a harness or non-use affect my stress levels? How will my stress levels affect my kid’s stress levels?

    in reply to: Children on leashes #1195865
    popa_bar_abba
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    You forgot the third type: those who let them run around but watch and follow them closely

    They are a small minority.

    in reply to: Children on leashes #1195863
    popa_bar_abba
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    I believe in doing this. I didn’t believe in it until I had a toddler.

    There’s two types of people in this world. People who stick their toddler in a stroller and don’t let them run around outside, and people who use the harness. And people who don’t know how to count.

    in reply to: Chief Anti-Semite of the US #1194715
    popa_bar_abba
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    Breitbart is Jewish, and the purpose of starting the website was to report fairly about Israel. I’ve heard there are so many frum people working there that they have a mincha minyan.

    Now that Trump is president, we don’t have to care anymore about the baseless racism claims that the media makes against anyone they don’t like. Viva le revolucion!

    in reply to: How to unwind after a long day? #1198571
    popa_bar_abba
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    what’s wrong with learning torah?

    in reply to: Marrying someone in recovery #1194550
    popa_bar_abba
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    I doubt she meant chocolate.

    Yes, but maybe she meant heroin.

    in reply to: Marrying someone in recovery #1194548
    popa_bar_abba
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    Depends what they were addicted to.

    in reply to: The Major Zman Announcement #1191389
    popa_bar_abba
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    Semester?

    in reply to: Would you date someone on anxiety meds? #1193298
    popa_bar_abba
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    Wouldn’t widespread refusal to date otherwise healthy individuals on meds encourage such individual to drop their medication before starting shidduchim so that they needn’t disclose that they’re on meds?

    As opposed to disclosing that they’re depressed or anxious? And that they’d be taking meds except that they don’t want to disclose it?

    Sounds like a way better discussion

    in reply to: Obamacare today in the jewish world #1191793
    popa_bar_abba
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    Lost in all the discussion of Obamacare has been the mitzvah that we must be sure that all people have health care. Barack Hussein Obama tried (with a reasonable level of success) to fulfill this mitzvah, and he ought to get some credit for it from the frum among us.

    Yup, mitzva number 614!

    in reply to: Obamacare today in the jewish world #1191789
    popa_bar_abba
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    My premiums have gone up but not at a pace that seems outrageous. The increase in deductibles, co-pays and co-insurance, however, have been terrible. I am now paying over 1,700 a month (employer pays the rest) for incomplete coverage and what amounts to a high-deductible plan (compared to my deductibles of 4 years ago.

    Sorry, 1700 a month is 20k a year. That seems outrageous. How much were you paying before?

    Also, you should really switch employers. I’m sure you can get the traditional low deductible plan at many comparable employers for 11k

    in reply to: Justice Antonin Scalia #1191123
    popa_bar_abba
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    Also, assuming the Trump will nominate originalists is tenuous.

    he could always imitate the left and nominate ideologues. Gets to a similar place.

    in reply to: Obamacare today in the jewish world #1191761
    popa_bar_abba
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    Think about jwhat you’re paying now versus 8 years ago.

    in reply to: Obamacare today in the jewish world #1191762
    popa_bar_abba
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    Think about jwhat you’re paying now versus 8 years ago.

    And how much higher your deductible is

    in reply to: Obamacare today in the jewish world #1191760
    popa_bar_abba
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    17 percent increase year over year, assuming constant rate of grow th means it doubles every 5 years, so in 15 years it will be 8 times as much.

    Nice

    in reply to: Are you going to watch the eclipse? #1189749
    popa_bar_abba
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    I plan to be in a remote jungle in south America, about to be cannibalized. Then, I’ll make the sun go dark, and they’ll make me their chief.

    in reply to: Halacha on warranty #1188743
    popa_bar_abba
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    I’d email them saying that their website just says there is a warranty, and doesn’t have anything to indicate it only covers poles, and if they’d like, you’d be happy to discuss by a bais din.

    in reply to: Small Claims Beis Din #1194692
    popa_bar_abba
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    Small Claims Beis Din

    Just was wondering this, and googled, and found this. There really should be.

    Anyone wanna open one with me?

    in reply to: Halacha on warranty #1188742
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Looks like their website was hacked

    in reply to: Halacha on warranty #1188740
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Presumably somewhere the warranty carves out consequential damages, or limits the recovery to the cost of the covered item

    in reply to: Halacha on warranty #1188737
    popa_bar_abba
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    But the one I found said it’s the only Sukkah with a 10 year warranty.

    Right. bec mine only covers the poles for 10 years.

    in reply to: Halacha on warranty #1188735
    popa_bar_abba
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    The terms seem pretty basic, but it doesn’t say anything about only covering poles or any other portion of the Sukkah

    i also googled, and found one that has 3 years on fabric and 10 years on poles.

    in reply to: Halacha on warranty #1188732
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    what kind of sukkah. we’ll read

    in reply to: Starbucks kosher? #1188790
    popa_bar_abba
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    Apparently a non-kosher certified Dunkin Donuts is thus better from a kashrus perspective, since they don’t prepare meat, than a Starbucks.

    You don’t know anything. Dunkin donuts prepares meat.

    in reply to: Starbucks kosher? #1188788
    popa_bar_abba
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    The maskama is that now virtually all Starbucks locations are treif even for plain coffee since they virtually all now prepare treif meat on location?

    The maskana is that you are a liar and misrepresent the Torah. See above.

    Some people steal torah scrolls. You steal torah.

    in reply to: I don't want a hole in my head #1187968
    popa_bar_abba
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    You must have a very soft head.

    in reply to: Chofetz Chaim boys #1187694
    popa_bar_abba
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    are you willing to live in a place you have never heard of before while doing the shlichus of avrohom avinu? that is the question you need to ask yourself.

    More accurately, ask the person you’re dating.

    in reply to: How can a woman get schar for learning Torah? #1196067
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    How can choshuv people get the schar kulam from doing gelilah?

    in reply to: Chofetz Chaim boys #1187682
    popa_bar_abba
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    Can anyone here explain the differences between Chofetz Chaim boys and Brisker boys?

    What are brisker boys? Do you mean boys who learn in paterson or fallsburg for 3 years, then in brisk (freqeuntly without ever getting into shiur) for a year and a half, and then BMG?

    in reply to: How can a woman get schar for learning Torah? #1196065
    popa_bar_abba
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    How can a yisroel get schar for doing the avodah? By bringing his grandchildren who are kohanim to do the avodah?

    in reply to: Chofetz Chaim boys #1187678
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    The way you are describing them seems accurate. Some “wear blue shirts, some guys do college, and a lot of guys want to go into chinuch. I also hear that all the boys from there are very mentshlich… Additionally, I see boys from that yeshiva in my community and they all seem very nice and ben torah-dik.”

    Why not just go out with the guy, and see if it fits.

    in reply to: WiFi in the succah #1189241
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Use a wifi card.

    in reply to: Romance – a gentile attitude #1187799
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Ask Joseph. Hes the one who does it and says it was rabbi miller’s idea

    in reply to: Romance – a gentile attitude #1187797
    popa_bar_abba
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    Lilmod,

    That’s a very good point. And I’m glad you’re able to say it without being scared for your family. Is a good thing I’m not Joseph

    in reply to: Romance – a gentile attitude #1187790
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    No one in either thread ever suggested or asserted that withholding a divorce just out of spite is ever acceptable.

    That’s ok, you don’t need to, when you can just threaten their family–Rabbi Miller.

    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186803
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Why did you switch shuls?

    Look, peanuts

    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186801
    popa_bar_abba
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    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186800
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    So, I wasn’t responding to you. I just quoted you because it was interesting.

    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186798
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Maybe they already gave him hagbah on Rosh Hashanah.

    I didn’t daven in the same shul on rosh hashana.

    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186795
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    I got ????? yesterday. I decided it was yom kippur so I shouldn’t make a big stink.

    in reply to: Piyut of Vechol Maaminim #1186814
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    We say most of the piyutim like that. Like ata hu elokeinu bashamayim uvaaretz, and like l’kel orech din.

    in reply to: Romance – a gentile attitude #1187778
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    kapusta, how do you judge who is a godol in the first place?

    You start by disqualifying anyone who advocates threatening people’s children because they disagree about something stupid.

    in reply to: Romance – a gentile attitude #1187760
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Ask Joseph if you don’t believe me.

    Also, to mention rabbi miller in same sentence as Reb moshe Feinstein is laughable. Ha ha ha

    in reply to: Romance – a gentile attitude #1187754
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Wolf, Joseph says it in his name. Its hard to believe rabbi miller actually said it, but Joseph says so

    in reply to: Romance – a gentile attitude #1187745
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    If you trust joseph, Rabbi miller also apparently said you should threaten people’s family if they don’t have the right hashkafos.

    So, why would anyone care what he said?

    in reply to: The shofar in the shul goes too too too #1185716
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    The donkey in the shul goes hee hee haw

    in reply to: Finding Massage from a Male Masseuse #1185690
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Yes, a psychotherapist.

    in reply to: Finding Massage from a Male Masseuse #1185691
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Yes, a psychotherapist.

    in reply to: Anual kapporos argument #1185711
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    The liberals should just pretend that the chickens are African Americans being murdered in drug related and other crimes, and then they won’t have to care anymore. It seems.

    in reply to: Romance – a gentile attitude #1187717
    popa_bar_abba
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    If Joseph is representative of rabbi miller’s teachings , then I don’t really care what he said

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