RichardM

I think we were much happier when the pace of life was slower and we all rode around on a horse & cart.
So I say: ban motor vehicles entirely. Who needs cars, planes, rockets to the moon? They just lead to misery.

When I was a kid (my parents were away) I made Havdolah on whisky and, obviously, dipped the candle afterwards … I nearly set the house on fire! Never again!
I’m told that my grandparents (who I never knew) had a shtarke minhag to light their first post-Shabbos cigarette from the Havdolah candle.

If it means you can get to just one more Kiddush given by a guy you passed once in the corridor of your yeshiva but who would, nevertheless, be delighted to see you, then, yes, for sure; and it’s a mitzvah afilu.

This is so simple it isn’t true.
Do what your father did. If you suspect your father didn’t have a clue then ask your Rav.
Whatever you do, don’t listen to the batlonim who contribute to blogs like this.

An Introduction to Jewish Civil Law by Arnold Cohen (Feldheim)

Delicious works for me too but I once heard that kreplach enables cheaper cuts and mince to be served in a bekovede way which was necessary in der alter heim when poverty-stricken Yidden wanted to serve meat on semi-Yomtovim like erev Yom Kippur, Hoshanah Rabbah and Purim.