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Riddle A is 30…. cuz basically he is going a foot a day

I dunno… jf02… ppl complain abt everything they can find to complain abt true or untrue!! I have had very good walmart experiences… My family is major walmart fans and we have NEVER had a prob…. the only prob I ever had from them was dealing with upset managers and employees after jewish campers ransacked the store but otherwise they are very helpful, have exchanged things without reciepts and are very convenient.

Give honor where honor is due. I have a lot of Hakaras Hatov for their good service

But Pashuteh YId… you can make that statement with all of tznius…. not just shaitels… its not always so clear cut… some things just give an air of not being tznius even when all is covered…. its sensitivity. and so to by shaitels… in one place it may be fine in another not.

I dunno… is a girl not tznius if she doesnt “wear seams” while walking in a chassidish neighborhood?

feivel… 1. are you referring to a shvus d’shvus??? stumped me on the others… gotta think abt it for a bit

I think the humor is getting dry… somebody please…. come up with a good one.. we could all use a hearty laugh!

1) Hakadosh Baruch Hu misaveh Tefillasan shel Tzaddikim – Hashem desires the Tefilos of Tzadiikim… a prayer from the depths of a tzaddik can be mechaper not only for himself but for all others suffering! The power is beyond comprehension.

2) I am sure you heard of the maisah (it happened in many versions all with the same point) Reuven had a regular life with hardships and happiness. When his Neshama went up to meet it’s creator, he sat humiliated as his life passed before him as he was judged. He had Chata’im galore and his mitzvos were only minimal and not close to enough to weigh down the scale in his favor. Suddenly Malachim appeared carrying heavy burdens and loading them onto the “mitzvah” or Zakai side of the scale. he realized these burdens were the yissurim he went through in life. slowly slowly his scale was evening out for the good and he realized he might just not have to be considered a “rasha” and go to gehenom (whatever that means)suddenly the malachim had no more burdens to carry. Reuven looked at the scale and cried out so loud…. “Hashem couldn’t You have given me more tzaros!?!? more yisurim?!?!?” He watched in horror as the scale was just tipped a drop to low to the guilty side and just a few more yisurim would have samed him and made him zakai!!! But it was TOO LATE!

We don’t understand it here (beleive me… I grumble every time I have my share) but it’s a chesed that Hashem sends yisurim because when we dont do a proper teshuva the yisurim aquit us and are mechaper for all of our crimeful aveiros! I baruch Hashem grew up in a home with a motto of “zil zein a kapara” not always is it natural to say when you are the one suffering but its important to bury it in your heart and mind. and NEVER judge someone else who is going through things. as I am typing this my music is playing on my computer and I just chopped that the song its playing is “al tisyaesh- do not give up hope! afilu cherev chada munachas al tzavaro shel adam… even if a sword is on your throat don’t give up….” We never know when Hashem may have rachamim and we have to daven from our yesurim and thank Hashem for the kapara…

Sarah, i wrote you a nice apology post but it disappeared.

The answer to your question… food for thought… thanks I will try to keep it to myself next time.

We all have areas to work on… thanks for pointing it out 😉

I hope e/o is all happy now. shalom al yisrael venoimar amein! 🙂

Mechila Sarah and GMAB?

The point of davening is to get closer to Hashem and make a bond with Him. you actually get schar for asking. yes even if you dont get what you want the fact that you turn to Hashem and ask for things makes it show that you realize THE ONE AND ONLY source for everything is Hakadosh Baruch Hu.

By you turning to Him and showing that you rely on Him it make s that conncection and brings you closer to Him. When you bring yourself closer to him it opens the wellsprings of bracha to come flow onto you and makes you recieve.

There are many reasons why we might not get what we ask for. Sometimes Hashem says, Sheifala, you don’t realize it but in the long run that may not be the best for you. Other times Hashem wants you to get even greater than you are asking for and the more you have to ask and the longer and harder it is the greater your tefilos will be and the result in the end may be greater than you ever would have imagined.

I suggest starting a very simple short learning session on davening. “Praying with fire” I found to be amazing, as it is a short lesson a day and has tremendously improved my davening although I have a massively far way to still go. But my davening is not the same.

ALSO…

I recently experienced a situation where I cried my heart out for Hashem to just answer my tefilla. I couldn’t understand why Hashem wasn’t answering me with the kavana I had thrown into those tefilos… believe me, I never thought it was possible to daven like that till I did it! And yet I felt unanswered and ignored. Soon after I realized that I was being answered and I had let it slip right under my nose. i can’t go into more details but MAN, WAS I ANSWERED!!

I daily struggle with different things, petty, and life size, and day in day out I daven hard and sometimes it feels like… Hashem where are you this time?????

BUT I KNOW HE IS THERE AND LISTENING!!! I picture a string attaching me at my heart to the Kisai Hakavod and I just think, ok, at least I am getting a direct kesher with the highest protexia. Thats the main thing anyhow. And Hashem answers, just in different ways and different times and different expressions than we may have pictured.

Hatzlacha…. May Hashem answer all your tefilos L’toivah!

I always daven for the matzav of klal Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael. Since this election my tefillos have sincerely added the matziv of yidden here and in all countries. As each day to the election grows closer… I feel we need as many zechuyos as possible…

WAKE UP!!!!

And dont do it too late!!! All you liberals that think that Obama is the man and that we’re all spewing racism and parroting our parents rabbeim etc with no knowledge… The facts are there. This man is a danger to Klal Yisrael whether you open your eyes and ears to see it or close them like a child who says that nobody is there in front of him because his eyes are shut tight.

How many ppl were warned by the holocaust that it was coming and fought and closed their eyes and ears.

One of the G’dolim that had warned of the holocaust had said that Klal Yisrael have a cylce in history (I think it was R’ Meir Simcha) that they start in a low of TOrah and build up and up and up until a generation that becomes tremendous in Torah and then the kids of these ppl feel they cant live up to their fathers so they instead go and copy the lowest of the low of the Goyim and then Hashem brings warnings of Teshuva and then there is destruction and then the cycle starts over again. He warned and his words were not heeded. I remember learning this and realizing a few years ago how klal yisrael has settled and the Teshuva movement has moved Torah learning and Yiddeshkeit so high up and then seeing so many kids going off from the greatest families even and I remember sitting there and trembling thinking that if thats the case then we better shape up fast cuz the next step of the cycle is nearing!

We can’t chose if Ob is prez or not… only Hashem can. But we can do our best to vote for what is best for us and daven and make Hashem want to bring us back L’tzion B’RACHAMIM… ever thought of what you say right before Modim?? recently I have been having lots of kavana in that word rachamim!!!

I was recently reading the book the movement by Ruth Pearlman… and I couldn’t help but flashback to obama as my heart thumped and nerves jumped when in this childish novel i had flash’s of what it could be like with him in power I had nightmares that night… you bet I did. not a good book to read at a time like this when we jump at every slight move that could connect this dude in a suit runnig for prez of the big country!

Teshuva tefila utzdaka…. it aint elul anymore but let’s pray that G-d’s as close as He was in elul of now of all times. A gutten choidesh. May it be a choidesh that brings us all besurois toivos.

We are in galus. Yes, JoJo, we have been blessed Baruch Hsahem for many years with Menuchas Hanefesh somewhat in America and beyond. True America is a medina shel chesed but Hakadosh Baruch Hu runs this world and it is He who sent us into galus. We must not forget this and this may be the final reminder to do Teshuva. Only time will tell. But your friend is smart for getting passports as long as he doesn’t forget to daven and have bitachon also.

My father used to get all my siblings passports when we were born because he said you NEVER know when the goyim may turn on you. Halacha shtait that Eisav Soineh Yaakov!

I thought that he was just reacting as the child of a holocaust survivor. But at times I did wonder about it. Since this election I have really been thinking how wise my father’s words and actions are that we always need to be prepared to move in galus.

I think that each and every Yid has an achrayis to go and get a passport now while we are in such times. Hope and Pray that all our worries are for naught, but as my father says, Pray for the best but Prepare for the worst!

May the best man for Klal Yisrael win!!!!

you know these days, I don’t know how much looking into siblings really helps. So many chashuv families have a kid or 2 that went off. when you have a family with 12 kids…. um which kids do you look at cuz they are all bound to be some what different. yes there is some clues about the person by looking at their family but dont ever jump to conclusions by one sibling that went off. that sibling could have had some matzav that they had difficulty with that had no shaiches whatsoever to the potential candidate!

Havesomeseichel- although I dont totally agree with torahis1, I must say I really don’t think that the complaints of weight in shidduchim are referring to the 6-8-10 which many times are even skinny or not obese girls. The shidduch and weight complaint is really one that heavy girls face, such as girls more than a 10/12 as you say. Though what they do not realize is that while their size is what makes it their stigma, another girls family sitch makes it her stigma, and a girl from out in yehupitz has that in the way, and a girl with a big nose and acne might have that holding things up! ‘Kitzur… its a problem in shidduchim not just the weight.

as for torahis1,— man your brain is twisted! how can an intelligent psn compare someone who hitched himself on puffing to someone who has a slow metabolism?!? Not every fat girl is a chazur! I know you were trying to be corny but all those dudes who smoke, first of all don’t have shiddduchim half as bad as even skinny girls! all they have to do is claim they’ll stop or not even cuz the girls are so desperate they’ll give in if it means they’ll be able to be married!

These days guys know how bad a puff is and they are just idiots trying to be cool and get hooked. If (and that is even if) they have to pay a price in shidduchim, nobody has to feel bad for them before they feel bad for all the girls out there with their pekelach that they did NOT usually chose to have with them

Zimby- Shkoyach for that shidduch joke!! It gave me a ral big laugh!!!