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the plumber – you are being very deceptive, maybe even outright lying. if the mods let this go, here is a link to the crc starbucks file http://www.crcweb.org/Starbucks%20cRc%20Full%20Article%20April%202011.pdf
They have clear charts with check marks and x’s for what’s recommended and not recommended, and they have separate columns for in-store and kiosks. So please stop with the deceit.
the plumber – i know exactly what they meant. They have 3 levels. Not recommended – i.e. not kosher. Recommended, but relying on certain leniencies, i.e. kosher m’ikur hadin. Regular coffee falls into this one if I recall correctly. And recommended l’chumra. Espresso falls into this one, and if I recall, the reason is because the espresso machine is not washed with other keilim. So a plain espresso poses no problem for anybody. Unless you put in milk, then it’s just not cholov yisrael.
So, with no stretch of the imagination, you can be dan l’kaf zechus that people are either getting regular coffee or espresso.
Either you didn’t check with the CRC or StarK, or you have poor reading comprehension. They both have comprehensive lists of what they say is okay to get, okay but not recommended, and what not to get at Starbucks.
So why not be dan l’kaf zechus that they bought something that is kosher, and I’ll be dan l’kaf zechus that you weren’t aware of the CRC and StarK comprehensive lists.
Am I missing something here? What’s wrong with going to Israel for Chanuka? I took on an extra summer job to pay for a trip to Israel the Succos before I got married, because I knew that it would be the last time I can fly to Israel on such a cheap flight (via Moscow), and the last time I could save myself from paying for a hotel or apartment (I slept in a friend’s dira). Now that I am married with a child (B”H) I know that it will probably a while before I can afford to visit Israel again.
B”H I grabbed the opportunity to spend one last Succos around the corner from the Mirrer Yeshiva.
Did my wife miss the red lights about all of my personality disorders? Or maybe she was willing to settle with a husband whose idea of an ideal vacation includes going back to Yeshiva for a week.
Maybe not a great invention, but a fantastic innovation. What you can basically do yourself, they put together into a marketable product.
tefilas ha’shla is actually not written by the shla himself. it was written by r’ shabsi sofer, and is known as tefilas ha’shla, because the shla endorsed the tefila and called r’ shabsi sofer “echad mehamidakd’kim”.
@rebyidd23 toiveling something doesn’t make it kosher. you toivel your keilim because you bought it from a non-jew, but if your keilim weren’t kosher without a hechsher tevila wouldn’t help you
@mutche Do your pots and pans have a hechsher? Does your cutlery have a hechsher? Do your plates and bowls and cups have hechsherim? Does your tablecloth have a hechsher? Does your stove have a hechsher? And your oven? Your kettle? What about the shopping bags that you use to carry your food home?
why don’t you major in mathematics. that way you can study the beauty of math, and it can help you find a job in many fields. (you can combine it with a finance minor, take the SOA exams etc. or you can combine it with pre-med courses. it will make you stand out among the thousands of bio majors if you apply to medical school with a math degree)
akuperma: thanks, for an american they could probably get them but i don’t think i qualify. either way though, i didn’t want to go back to my home country for college because there is no yeshiva/college program that offers a bais medrash anywhere near as serious as the ones in america. but for me the cost doesn’t matter, not because i’m filthy rich, but because i did qualify for substantial academic scholarships.
You don’t have to be filthy rich to not qualify for financial aid. If you’re not from New York State then you don’t qualify for any aid from NY, and if you’re not from the US, then you don’t qualify for any federal aid.
yekke 2: true, but if it’s a kum v’aseh, then you can only do it before pesach, and if it’s a passive aseh, then i find it hard to believe there is an idea of hiddur on a passive mitzvah. if you can find me a precedent that’s fine. But otherwise, I would classify gebrokts as a chumra, not a hiddur.
akuperma: The positive command of of “tashbisu” does not apply ON pesach. The deadline is erev pesach. Therefore, gebrokts cannot be a hidur of tashbisu. Gebrokts is a chumra on the negative command not to eat chametz on Pesach. This chumra was not accepted for the last day of Pesach, even though kitniyos was. Perhaps kitniyos is a more serious worry than gebrokts, and that is why we refrain from kitniyos even on the last day.
Akuperma: not to disagree with you, but you’re mixing up terms. gebrokts does not fall under the category of hiddur mitzva. Hiddur mitzva applies to ????? ???, such as buying a nice tallis or lulav and esrog… Gebrokts falls under the category of chumra.
Your connection with your rebbeim only lasts 4 years? That doesn’t sound so good.