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I think the expression was פולניה as in פה לן קה

From the comments above, it appears that the violence and looting have not affected the Jewish community. All the comments are opinions from the outside looking in. Is my impression correct?

Dear 147
I live in Israel, where the second day of Sivan is simply יום המיוחס , the second day of Sivan. I didn’t know that HKBH rules the world according to the national holidays of the United States of America.

My son was in America for a while, and a prominent Rav asked him when Tu B’shvat comes out this year. My son answered “on Tu B’shvat, what do you mean?” How sad that Jews in America have become more Jewish Americans than Jews in America.

Jews from all over the world have the opportunity to visit, study and even live in the Land that God watches over and has given to the Jewish people as a Morashah. To see and walk on the same roads as Avraham Avinu. To see the lands that Yehoshua conquered, that the shvatim shared, the land of Gidon, Shmuel, Dvora. The land that we are all about and that is the single major topic in all Kitvei Hakodesh.

How sad that one reads here that it is a trivial and unnecessary parcel of land. No need to visit, no need to have it as part of our lives. We’ve done without it for so long, who needs it now. Afra L’pumayih.

Dear huju,

I applaud your efforts. It’s unfortunate that you cannot read an Israeli menu or understand the labels. Perhaps there should be more information or comments on the correct use of Hebrew. I am fluent in English and modern Israeli Hebrew and will be happy to assist.

I respectfully disagree with ubiquitin. Poor use of any language fails to accurately convey the message. Due to the online nature of the Coffee Room, the written word is all we have. We lack intonation, body language, sound-based emphasis and all the other cues that help us understand each other. Often I read a post and have no idea what the writer means. Furthermore, mistakes such as here-hear, their-they’re and others force cause English speakers to pause and spend time “figuring it out”.

On a Torah level, the ability to write clearly and concisely often separates the scholars whose (not who’s) written works are studied from those whose works are ignored. Without names, compare some Teshuvos of certain Acharonim with the clarity of someone like the Noda B’yehudah. One reads a Noda B’yehudah and knows what he wants to say. That cannot be said of all.

My family in Lakewood says there is no need for updates from the goyishe press or radio, let alone the treife internet. Whatever we need to know, HKBH will make sure we find out.

Unfortunately, the teacher knows little about Vishnitz, otherwise, she would not have asked you to write who the current Rebbe is.
Chassiduyot have two manners of continuing their dynasty. One is that there is always only one Rebbe, and that position is passed from father to son or closest relative. This is typical of Belz, Lubavitch, Gur (Ger), and others.
The second is for every son to take on the name of a town (not always the town they live in, and not always a European town) and start their own Rebbeship. This system is typical of Vishnitz, Nadvorna, and many others, especially the tree of the Rachmastrivka and Rozhin dynasties.

There are now two primary Vishnitz Rebbes in Israel, both in Bnei Brak, brothers Yisrael, and Mendel. The Vishnitz Rebbe in Monsey pased away a year or two ago, and he had seven or so sons, each of whom is now a Vishnitz Rebbe (Monsey, Yerushalayim, Boro Park, Bet Shemesh, Kiamesha Lake and a few others).

There is also a branch called Seret Visnitz, a branch called Shotz-Vishnitz, and others

I suggest opening up Wikipedia in Hebrew and writing in ויז’ניץ, that will give you all the information you are looking for, including philosophy, tefillot, learning, history, etc….
Hatzlachah.

If it interests you, the Vishnitzer Rebbe of Bet Shemesh was hospitalized yesterday with Coronavirus.

As some have hinted here, life insurance is not a new invention, and should be a no-brainer for any family.
On the other side, torah migna u’matzla, and one need only study Torah, and not waste time over trivialities like working, education, or life insurance. Besides, HKBH decides everything, and all income has already been determined on Rosh Hashanah, so what we do on earth has no influence on what already has been decided.

Some people are adept at playing each side, all depending on who the adversary is. The excuses to explain both sides simultaneously are all quite creative, but are nonsense.

“we’ve been told that there will be a return of the 10 makos before moshiach comes,

Where and when were we told that?”

I second the query. I suspect that the answer will be “an adam chashuv”
No rest for the weary of these nonsensical predictions. When they don’t pan out, no one is home to take the heat.

“Not only that, it may not even be a Yiddishe minhag”

Ouch. Shaking hands is quite Jewish and is as old as the earliest Rishonim and possibly the Gemara. See the Rosh’s quotation of Rabeinu Hananel on BM 74a. We mention it in hatarat nedarim. It is a symbol of agreement and often has far-reaching contractual obligations associated with it. As a Jewish social gesture, it affirms religious solidarity. It would be quite unfortunate if it becomes extinct.

וגם הנעשה בתקיעת כף

CD, it was illuminating to see how so much gibberish can be written by one person.

Your angst and paranoia were enough not to read what I wrote. I did not write “the poor lady”. But I guess that people who think mishegassen see what they want to see and actually believe it. Next time read, think, and then write, in that order.

To Accuracy and Honesty
The facts speak for themselves. You and your (educated? internet exposed?) friends have been compliant. Most others have not. Denial doesn’t change the facts. You know very well what the Gedolim said to do and what they said did not need to be done. You have internet. Read the statistics, read where people are sick and where they are not, read who died and who did not. Read who is sick and still at home infecting their households and who is not. Stop playing the persecuted. It doesn’t fly anymore. A serious cheshbon nefesh is in order, and you should be the one calling for it.

I respectfully disagree. While roasting on a rotisserie, the meat is roasted by the fire itself, hence the term tzli. When covered in an oven, it is not baked (cooked) by the fire, but by the boiling heat of the juices of the meat itself. These hot juices are considered liquid. In the rotisserie, the fat and juices drip out, unlike the oven where the liquid juices are maintained inside.

I cannot see any problem of mar’is ayin if something is in an oven. Furthermore, since there are different minhagim , and some allow for baking meat, or even using a rotisserie, there can be no issue of mar’is ayin.

It is minhag, not halachah. The issur (Ashkenazic, sefradim permit) is roasting lamb on a rotisserie. Roasting in an oven is not roasting, but baking. Again, those who do not roast (bake) meat or chicken do so on the basis of minhag.

Rabeinu Bachye

DC, leave the lady alone. There’s enough nonsense out there these days.

“All I’m saying is that I believe that the garlic helped me and it may help others who are having symptoms of the coronavirus, or any virus or disease for that matter.”

Edited  You are suggesting that other people try your remedies without an ounce of rational or scientific basis, let alone proof. You tried it and liked it? Good for you. Don’t suggest it to others, you are in over your head.

Place of birth is not the same as origin. Most Jews in the U.S. are of European origin, most Sephardic Jews are of North African origin. Of course, Syrian Jews would be of Middle Eastern origin.

This question occasionally carries importance. There are genetic diseases, syndromes, predispositions to certain diseases and other health-related tendencies that are associated with certain geographical origins. For instance, the Tay-Sachs gene defect is associated with eastern European origins, particularly the Northern Poland-Lithuanian area.

This information can be used to form public health policy, location of screenings, availability of certain special medical equipment or specialties, etc…

A hypothetical example: Suppose a certain origin predisposes to the eye disease called glaucoma, a silent disease. Suppose a certain neighborhood has a large number of people of this origin. It would be a good idea to conduct a glaucoma screening in this neighborhood as a means to identify possible people with this disease.

Activity for the kids, young and old: Teach them some basic biology, physiology, and epidemiology so that they won’t be ignorant anymore. That way they are more likely to behave carefully next time there is an epidemic or pandemic and won’t be misled by ignoramuses.
They will also be able to understand the difference between winter flu (influenza virus) and more serious (Corona) viruses. Maybe they will also understand a bit about why after some viral infections the body attains a certain degree of immunity from infection of the same virus.

Don’t worry. It was a poorly thought-out idea and it isn’t going to happen. Your arguments are good ones, and the Israeli Supreme Court used those same arguments to torpedo the idea.

I sincerely hope Akuperma is right, but every single epidemiologist strongly disagrees. I refer everyone to a long and serious article written by Tomas Pueyo, you can google it.

“We have true Gedoilin that Paskened that the Age-Gap is the problem.”

A psak. Well, that was a good laugh. Thanks.

הרבי מברסלב: מצוה גדולה להיות בשמחה תמיד

Again

I have a chicken, it is my chicken
You have a chicken, it is your chicken
We have a chicken, it is our chicken

I am a chicken, I’m a chicken
You are a chicken, you’re a chicken
We are chickens, we’re chickens

As you can see, your and you’re have different meanings. When they are used incorrectly, it is confusing for the reader.

My suggestion:
Tell him you will order the standard invitations, but the “savings” will be donated to a tzedakah of the boy’s choice.
Win in chinuch, win in mitzvos. Same price.