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The Torah tells us in Parshas Netzavim, “Hanistaros L’ASHEM ELOKEINU”. There is no such thing as certainty in this world. Werner Heisenberg agrees.
Lots of folks seem to have taynes on Kupat Ha’ir. I wonder if their revenues are falling. If so, just redoubling their effort doing the things that tick people off in the first place is self defeating. Maybe thay should consider changing their marketing strategy.
The problem isn’t the age, it’s the training. I don’t know if driver’s ed or private driving schools give instruction and practice in highway driving. Personally, I started driving legally at age 14.
Dear Flowers,
The pizza man’s actions indicated that he was interested in you. I’m sure that nothing you said or did gave any indication that you were interested in him (unless, of course you were secretly attracted to him). As another has posted, all you had to do was say, “no, thanks” and tell him how many slices you wanted.
I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone is recommending not to be polite and professional. giving the “cold shoulder” to others who are just being polite in a professional setting is a recipe for unemployment. Take a look at gemorah Succah daf 42b for an amazing example (amazing to Abaye, at least)of friendly yet chaste interaction between a man and a woman.
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That may just be a clever khap but consider this: Bill Gates is one of the five richest men in the world. Who in the world is poor because Bill Gates is rich? Every dollar of his wealth and the wealth of the hundreds of thousands of other people in that industry was created yesh m’ayin. It did not exist before he and a handfull of other, now wealthy, men created an entire industry. The total amount of wealth in the universe may very well be infinite or, if not infinite, it is a Very Large Number (Charlie, I’m sure you know what I mean by a Very Large Number).
My main complaint about the concepts of progressive taxes and redistribution of wealth is that they are based on the demonstratably false premise that the amount of wealth is limited and therefore, if some have less wealth it is because others have more. The fact is that wealth is increasing because people can create wealth. Per Adam Smith, in any mutually agreable exchange, total wealth increases, as follows: Reuven buys a car from Shimon for $3000. Total wealth is increased because both transactors have more wealth than they started out with, Reuven has a car that he wanted more than he wanted the $3000 and Shimon has the $3000 that he wanted more than he wanted the car.
Ignorance of the law might not be a defense but it might be a mitigating factor.
If you think the recent spate of airplane structural problems is scary, google “Aloha Airlines flight 243”. And remember, the plane landed safely.
SMS007, There are plenty of oxygen masks to go around. Remember to put the baby’s on first befor you put yours on.
“…i heard that a beard is supposed to protect people i think-(according to kabbalah)”
What from, frostbite?
My Zeide A’H used to say,”Az men vilt a brocha, bett a brocha fun a orehman.”
I completely associate myself with Zach’s comment. If you’re not willing to sign your name to what you say, maybe you shouldn’t be saying it.
The common expression is, I don’t care if it’s a boy or a girl as long as it’s healthy.” Not to long ago an aquaintance of mine was in the waiting room while his wife was giving birth. When the doctor entered the room, my friend asked excitedly, “is it a boy of a girl?” The doctor replied, “we don’t know, but it’s healthy.”
In this neck of the woods, every day is April Fool’s Day.
Popa is correct. It seems to me that from a halachic standpoint it is more problematic for a married woman to be alone with a man in a car than for an unmarried woman. If, and it’s a big if, yichud applies the absolute worst thing that could happen to an unmarried woman is that there might be a saffek qidushin requiring a get. A married woman might actually asser herself to her husband.
That said, there are also real considerations of safety. Just because someone is wearing the levush doesn’t mean he’s OK. Bottom line, don’t pick up hitch hikers unless you know them personally and, even then, execise care.
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Your job is to raise your kids and you have no basis to assume that yours are any safer than hers. A parent does the best they can and davens a lot. B’H, all of mine reached adulthood without any major alarms, just the usual scrapes and bruises and a couple of stitches. You can’t wrap ’em in bubblewrap and keep them in the house.
It’s is not your fault. If someone wants someone else not to divulge a confidence, they need to tell the confidant so.
P.S. While we are on the subject of things I don’t recall, I also don’t recall any kid ever going into vapor lock from eating a PBJ.
You might very well be crazy but that has no bearing on the matter. You felt it was your duty to inform the other mother about conditions you felt were unsafe. It was the other mother’s perogative to either thank you or ignore you. You have no further duty, nor do you have any basis to assume that your are a “better mother” that she. Frankly, when I was a kid no one ever thought to wear a helmet while bike riding and I don’t recall any issue of common head trauma.
To all: I strongly recommend reading “Free Range Kids” by Lenore Skenazy
The origin of refering to political/religious positions as “left” or “right” comes from the French Parliament where the radicals sat to the left of the dais and the conservative representatives sat to the right. The avodah in the Beis Hamqidash has nothing to do with it.
For all of you guys who don’t eat gebrochts, please note that gebrochts are not chametz. You can happily eat in some ones house who does eat gebrochts from their pots and keilim. Just ask for soup without kneidlach and don’t eat the jelly roll. Yes you can make delicious cakes and stuff non-gebrochts but I, myself, am a militant gebrochts eater as a matter of halachic principle.
P.S. The same priciple applies to kitnios. If you are invited to a Sephardic home for Shabbos Chol Hamoed, you can eat the chulent, just scrape off the beans.
I think Woody Allen’s ma’amar is worth quoting:
“I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be around when it happens.”
A “demensionless” space cannot exist. A space could concievably have infinite demensions but a space with zero dimensions isn’t a space. It is a point.
To mischiefmaker: Um, we do actually own the world and when you get to be our age, you will too. There is a well known saying to the effect that when one was a teen, he thought his parents and elders weren’t very smart but he was amazed that the older he got, the smarter they became. That comment is well known and somewhat trite because it’s mostly true. No matter how “bright” a teen may be, he or she simply does not have the life experience to form the greatly enhanced neural connections of the adult brain. Of course, adults can be stupid and teens can be wise beyond their years, but that’s not the way to bet.
To mytake: Children do usually “catch up” with their parent’s age but it is not a happy occasion when they do.
My Rosh HaYeshiva said that all nigunim are kosher except those associated with non-Jewish religious practice I.E. don’t use the melody from “Silent Night” for L’Cha Dodi. The fact is that most if not all Jewish music, with the exception of the shirei haleviim and, possibly, chazonus, is derivative of the contemporaneous popular music and folk tunes. There is often a problem, however, when the melody of a nigun is immediatly recognizable as a currently popular secular song. Not be cause of an intrinsic issur but because of possibly concentrating on the secular song instead of the new religious message.
Just a couple of points:
1. While a fedora style hat was a common part of male dress up to about the 1960s, it wan’t necessarily black. There are many photos from those days of yeshiva men in the U.S. and Europe wearing light grey hats or no hats at all. The black fedora is a modern (post 1970) innovation.
2. Payos (side locks) were not a solely Jewish siman. Over the years they have gone into and out of fashion it the world at large. For instance, in Napoleonic France, sidelocks (braided) were popular among military officers and men. I don’t know if they were in style in Egypt 3300 years ago but if they were, Moshe Rabeinu could have had payos and still looked like an Egyptian.
My mother, AH, was niftar 3 days before my scheduled chasuna. The mesader kiddushin paskened that the wedding could be held after sheloshim and that it was permissable to have a band.