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Scranton has a frum community, and I wouldn’t think there is much need to venture beyond those daled amos on a typical shabbos.
By Middle America, I thought you were referring to places that may not have many Jews. I was there for medical reasons.
I find it hard to see Shabbos as a day of physical rest, but it is a day of spiritual rest and fulfillment, as I typically deliver a shiur, daven for the amud, lein, do bikur cholim, walk a lot, etc.
I would not wear a kippa in Middle America. I once spent a shabbos in Bend, Oregon, and wore a baseball hat, tucked in tzizit, etc. I did wear the motel room keys on a bendel, but nobody noticed that.
Kol ha adam. Everyone from the roshei yeshiva, to the garbage men and janitors.
How can someone not like Meal Mart kishka?
1) Ahavat yisrael and ahavat kol habriyot/kol yoshvei tevel
2) The need to constantly be honest and to always make a kiddush hashem, knowing that the goyim are always watching, and most importantly, HaShem is always watching.
3) Ivdu HaShem be simcha.
You can go different things.
Marinara sauce (What Italians call gravy) is basic. You can do either meat with this (as I discussed above) with a parve cheese, or you can do pasta with dairy.
Other ideas: Broccoli rabe, garlic, EVOO, red pepper flakes (can add Jack’s Italian sausage for meat, or Pecorino Romano for dairy)
Pasta fazool (either sauce and Cannelini beans, or cannelini beans cooked with garlic, EVOO, parsley, red pepper flakes and vegetable broth with Pecorino)
The list goes on and on.
I enjoy pasta so much that for Pesach, I’ll do zucchini ribbons as pasta, spaghetti squash, and I’ll even make my own pasta and ravioli from a mixture of cake meal, matza meal, eggs, and EVOO.
A rabbi once told me that my having Italian geneaology shows in my culinary tastes and abilities.
The Perek Shira basically lists the different ways in which animal species praise and serve HaShem, so that would seem to indicate that animal species have unique dispositions.
Many graduates of black-hat yeshivos are sadly unprepared for college study.
While it takes linguistic and logical skill to decipher Gemara, the skills needed to properly analyze and contextualize texts, formulate a thesis and write a quality paper, etc. are missing in the yeshivos, and students, therefore, cannot properly function in the collegiate setting.
What genre are you interested in?
Experience and observation lead one to inductively conclude I am correct. “Ahavas yisroel” does not preclude pointing out the shortcomings, errors, and failures of acheinu bnei yisrael.
My favorite pasta preparation is a rich, Italian meat ragout sugo sauce, done with meat (Italian veal sausage, braciole, meatballs, ribs), and served with parve Parmesan cheese and a parve garlic bread.
You and I obviously come from 2 different hashqafot/schools of thought. I know I am not wrong. I appreciate your cordiality and mentschlikeit, Sam.
I urge everybody to read an article published in Dinei Israel by Hakham Yosef Faur, on the Legal Methodology of Tosafot.
The idea that changing circumstances can override Talmudic gezerot is Conservative Judaism. And yet, Tosafot engage in this on many matters, including clapping on Shabbos, mayim acharonim, cheese (Rabbeinu Tam permits the eating of cheese that is vegetarian and not made by Jews, on the grounds that the Talmudic gezera applies because of concerns over basar v’ chalav and treifot), and even wine (Haym Soloveitchik’s voluminous research on the wine trade documents this, and Rema’s teshuva giving a limud zechut to Moravian Jews to drink gentile wine) and the status of Christianity reflect an approach that is not what Hazal or the Rambam certainly stood for.
Mayim acharonim is a definite chiyuv, as attested to by Hazal themselves in Hullin 105.
From a male perspective:
There is no such thing as a purely platonic friendship. There always is sexual tension, because that is how men are made.
If you’re not talking to a guy within the context of vetting him as a possible shidduch, then you have no business talking to a guy.
Farming your kids out to high school girls isn’t a permanent solution.
I’d suggest a therapist to help sort out these issues.
If you are a single mother, may you find the right man, your bashert, who will love you and your kids, bimheira be yameniu.
Most YOF kids come from marginally observant, SY-type homes where mom and their sisters dress like sharmuta, they play hockey on Shabbos, and where they don’t wear kippot outside of school or shul.
I am not particularly upset by this, since I know that these kids are from the lowest common denominator of the community.
Any person who is mentally ill and/or under the care of a psychiatrist or therapist needs to be open and honest about their illness from day 1. To do less is deceptive and cruel.
Ketchup on pasta is a sacrilege.
Too many frum Jews commit culinary sacrilege, like ketchup on pasta, or mayonnaise on deli.
Different Pastas go with different sauces.
Watch an Italian cooking show or read Lidia Bastianich’s cookbook for more information on how to eat pasta properly.
When the time comes (please, HaShem, may it be soon), I’d want something like a gift certificate for Smokey Joe’s, or for Sur la Table.
Give him a gentlemanly present, as suggested above. I think a wristwatch with a meaningful, personal, loving engraving on the back would be a great idea.
My point wasn’t that that you marry in the hopes somebody changes; my point was that you can’t always be sure the person you marry in the year 2013 will be the same person 5, 10, 15 years down the road. People change over time, and not always for the better.
People also change over time. There is often no way to predict such changes. The soul and mind and heart often expand and venture out in unexpected ways.
Touro is an Osteopathic school.
I’m consisdering going to medical school, as well.
Even if you finish residency at 40, it’s worth it. 25-30 years is a great career.
My favorite places to eat:
Hess- one of a kind Swiss/Yekke meat restaurant. Try the gruenkern, the deli meats and wide array of wursts; they even have AYCE sausages on Thirsday nights. Mehadrin.
Little Italy- 38 Rechov Keren haYesod. Italian fleishig. The veal-stuffed rice balls, Ossobuco, and artichoke ravioli are to die for.
Papagaio- Kosher churrascaria (AYCE Brazilian grilled meats). 3 Rechov Yad Harutzim. OU Mehadrin.
Vaqueiro- Argentian AYCE churrascaria. Slightly better than Papagaio, IMHO. 54 Rechov HaNeviim. AYCE meats and salads for NIS 149 makes it a good option for a satisfying dining experience.
Darna- Real Moroccan food. The harira, pastilla fassia, mrouzia, and tagines are all among the best things I’ve ever eaten. 3 Rechov Horkanos. Mehadrin.
O’Connell- A kosher Irish pub! I love their sliders, fish and chips (considered by many the best in Yerushalayim), and their Irish stew. 3 Shimon ben Shetach
McDonald’s- I loved the novelty when I ate at the one in the Central bus station, which is the only kosher one in Jerusalem, IIRC.
Pizza Hut in the Malcha Mall has the same novelty value for me, as well, just like the Elite/Badatz Cheetos and Doritos (do they still make them?)
make sure to check hechshairim before you eat in any restaurant as not everyone trusts every hechsher.
Kosher DD in NY makes veggie sausage sandwiches, veggie bacon, etc.
Son of Man,
What gives you the divine intuition to know such things?
It’s ironic that with a screename like that, you’re channeling the Divine intuition. Another Jewish heretic from Nazareth who also called himself the Son of Man did the same as you 2000 years ago.
Kosher DD stores use Morningstar Farms items, which are OK-D, for fake meats.
When learning machshava, it’s necessary to understand the context and influences on them.
For example: Soren Kierkegaard and Rudolf Otto have influenced Ish haHalakha.
Aristotle influences Rambam.
Plotinus and the Neoplatonists influences Kabbalah (such as Yitzhak Sagi Nahor and others).
This hardly makes someone an apikores.
It’s a parade for all supporters of Israel, including the evangelical Christians, who are the only non-Jewish supporters we have.
I’ve read John Hagee’s books. I understand their mentality and motivations. Allow those in the Jewish non-profit world to handle relations with Christians and don’t worry about it.
It was the best parade yet! I am pleased that year after year, there are more and more Jewish students marching.
Are you disputing that the Ibn Ezra was a great rishon? He definitely was one of our greatest thinkers, and his greatness is evident in his voluminous writings. I think many people I disagree with are great. R’ Yoel Teitlebaum, zt”l, had many views I don’t agree with, but I’d still say he was one of the great posqim and Jewish leaders of the 20th century. Likewise, the Yam Shel Shlomo was one of our great minds, even though I reject much of his approach.
Many WOW members are from the Modern Orthodox community, and my understanding is that they see themselves as part of the “Women Prayer Group” circuit. If they’re not given this attention, and are allowed to do as they wish at the Kotel, I don’t see how that will affect any of us.
As far as the organization goes, once they stop taking funds from the New Israel Fund and start fighting for the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, I’ll have a less bitter view.
Ibn Ezra said a lot of things that the typical, yeshivish guy would find objectionable. Aside from his belief in Post-Mosaic authorship of the last 8 verses in Devarim (R’ Yehuda ben Ilai was also of this view; see Bava Basra 15a and Menachos 30a), he was also opposed to piyutim and yotzerot (as am I, and many Sephardim). The kabbalistic Yam Shel Shlomo, who was opposed to codification and concrete reality, condemns Ibn Ezra in his haqdama to Bava Kamma, as did R’ Ezra of Gerona. Ibn Ezra was a rational, logical tour de force, and I consider him one of our greatest minds, along with Rambam, Rasag, and others of like mind.
You should get some vocational training, whether as a Nurse’s Assistant, or Home Health Aide, or just something where the employment is steady. Use your earnings from that to get working on a degree.
Which tzedakos give the chesed vouchers? I am in need.
I am curious, because I know a lot of the YCT musmachim.
How does one go about getting chesed dollars?
R’ Bleich’s article sheds light into those who hold that the child of a Jewish mother could require conversion. As late as the 1970s, a Dayan Shlomo Yaluz in Haifa even suggested this.
Where are you located? Sounds like Overland Park, but there could be another shul like that in the Midwest.
You need a Bachelors degree. As an alternative, while going for your degree, maybe get a CNA, or a Pharmacy Technician credential to make a few dollars and put yourself through school.
Seton Hall. Their program leads to an LPC/LMHC credential.
Don’t know if they’ll take someone who actually didn’t get a degree the real way.
If you look up the documentary Hasidim: A Life Apart, they show the wedding of the late Bobover Rebbe’s great-granddaughter, and they used a lovely tune for Ma Bon Siach.
WIY,
An appreciation for the finer things in life is hardly trashy. Going to a chasuna with rabbanim and a band playing ghetto music (albeit with Hebrew and Yiddish words) is trashy.
I am a baal tefillah, and I find my avodah to be far more uplifting and reflective of good musicianship than what I observe when I am away in other shuls. The cantorate is dead due to the yeshivos, Carlebach, and Debbie Friedman, unfortunately.
A Hugo novel is irrelevant to this discussion. Les Miserables discusses social ills, including prostitution; le havdil, the Torah talks about seduction, rape, adultery, and captive women.
Psychiatry is a shady profession built on a series of theoretical assumptions that cannot be empirically vetted or validated. You cannot give someone a valid test to look into their subconscious. R’ Miller, ZT”L,was very shrewd about a lot of things, this being one of them.
Pop tunes do not constitute a proper innovation in Nusach haTefillah. You’re a YU guy, Sam2, no? Go speak to Cantor Beer or Cantor Goffin about this problem.
Nobody can say that a CD you buy from Eichler’s can offer the same connection to the Sublime as Lewandowski’s Kedusha.
Much of what we call “Orthodox” is, in fact, a reaction against Reform. Halakha is not Orthodox, and Orthodoxy is not always Orthodox.
R’ Dr. Daniel Sperber once said in a shiur that the problem is that legitimate innovation within halakha is often shunned because there is a paranoia about appearing like the Masortim, and I tend to agree with him.
Instead of being fixated on senseless ideological issues, such as attacking women who don the tallit, or attacking those who hold that gelatin is a davar hadash, or who use a shorter birkat hamazon, be glad that there are people trying their best to follow halakha, and encourage the non-observant to explore Jewish texts, prayer, and keeping kosher and shabbos.