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We just clean the sink, use a sink liner and a rack, and use 2 pesahdik basins for washing dishes.

I’ve heard even of people using their bathtubs for washing out pots and pans on Pesah (granted, they don’t wash anything chometzdik there).

I wish I had a family business to go into.

I’d suggest working with your father and using that money to attend a CUNY school. As far as learning, you do that yomam v’ leila by joining a regular shiur, listening to shiurim, maintaining a chavrusa, and developing a plan for bekius/covering ground.

I think Israel should explore the loyalty oath.

Those that don’t pledge loyalty to the medina and to Tzahal and go live in places they’d find more heimishe, like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Park Heights Avenue, Route 59, etc.

Melamed LeHoil paskens that draft-dodging constitutes hillul hashem (OC 42-43).

Rav Hirsch (Horeb, section 609), and the Dor Revii, in Tel Talpiot #104 also look favorably on Jewish service in the army.

R’ Schachter’s colleague at the OU, R’ Belsky, IIRC,holds that you don’t need a filter.

I feel that these middot tovot come naturally to a person, that they’re somehow either innate or learned behaviors, from parents, rebbeim, anybody that has exerted a good hashpa’ah.

Godiva.

There is a brand of parve, CRC, vegan chocolate called “Enjoy Life” that is really nice.

I also recall a parve, OU brand of Mexican chocolate. I saw it in Benz’s in Crown Heights. If anyone knows of the brand, please let me know 🙂

The DSM is decided upon my consensus vote of APA members.

A social science is totally subjective. Sociology (influenced heavily by Marx and Weber) is a social science, just like anthropology is a social science.

Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Aaron Beck, Carl Skinner, etc. were mere theoreticians. And many of their ideas have been used to repress and violate populations of people.

Psychiatry has an ugly history, in many aspects.

Psychometrics are flawed in many ways, unlike blood tests. Psychometrics ask questions informed by and shaped by ideology.

It is agreed upon that psychology is rooted in philosophy and physiology. Philosophy is simply not a science. It is no different than religion, for which there is no objective way to prove veracity. Likewise, psychology and its theories are something that people either accept or they don’t, resulting in Freudian cult followings, etc.

When neuroimaging advances to the point where we can make more concrete diagnoses, I’ll be more likely to entertain ideas that as of now, are simply untenable.

And social work is a profession that is thoroughly leftist/socialist. Social work is a completely useless profession, advancing the welfare state, Marxist, feminist, and racialist ideas.

I have similar problems.

I need to cut back on my eating and also try to walk more (I walk less in the winter than I do in the summer).

I would imagine it being very hard in Israel to find properly-fitting clothes for bigger guys, since Israelis tend not to be overweight.

I save vegetable peels and scraps, freeze them, and use for making vegetable broth.

A Shabbos meal when times are tough is chicken wings- we use the wings for soup, serve the soup with potatoes, carrots, kneidlech, mandlen, and lokshen, and then we have the wings with bbq and hot sauce.

When times are tough, we also serve parve cholent for shabbos, but I put in a little liquid smoke to give it a nice ta’am, and also some dried mushrooms to add a meaty feel.

Wearing socks with holes in them until they wear out completely.

Extreme Couponing

Smaller meals

Walking as much as possible- I only use transportation when I am going a distance, or when I need to be somewhere on time. When going in Boro Park, Bensonhurst, Flatbush, Sheepshead Bay, Dyker, Bay Ridge, I walk, if possible.

Buying produce from the large fruit markets and buying kosher groceries on sale at chain stores.

Limiting sweets to shabbos and yontiff

Buying for Pesah ahead of time and doing as much as you can yourself (eg/ stick to fruits and vegetables, and minimize expensive and subpar Pesah processed foods. If you have a cuisinart, make your own matzah meal. And baking using a combo of Matzah Meal, Potato Starch, and Cake Meal is usually best).

Don’t buy bottled water. Use the tap.

Invest in a SodaStream to make your own seltzer

Learn to do your own repairs and tailoring.

Try not to eat in restaurants. If you can turn your oven to 500 degrees, you can even make your own pizza at home. L’havdil, kosher corned beef is $5.99 a pound. To buy it prepared, you’re paying as much as $25 a pound, when all they’re doing is boiling it in a pot with some pickling spices, water, onion, celery, carrot, and mustard seed.

You can’t make sushi on Pesah because there is no Kosher l’Pesah nori or Mirin.

Chicken salad is always a good idea. Mayonnaise, celery, salt, pepper, maybe craisins and fresh tarragon. A little Dijon would be nice, too.

It all depends on how you view the rennet.

In a case of research, there may very well be more grounds to hold that the rennet is a davar hadash, and therefore, like gelatin.

Yes, same as gelatin.

And since this is for research purposes, there would be more grounds to be matir.

Rennet can be seen as a davar hadash, according to many opinions.

I saw that as of last year, Brooklyn Brine Company was “working” on getting hashgacha.

If they were smart, they’d just get the OU or OK or Kof K to supervise them. That way, they’d be able to sell all over the world in every kosher market and they’d have a nice, lucrative operation.

Batampte. They’re lower in price than any other brand and you can buy them in any store.