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January 7, 2013 1:58 am at 1:58 am in reply to: Do Goyim Have A Shidduch Crisis Due To An "Age Gap"? #918196shmoelMember
OOM, DHM: I understand they do not necessarily consider marriage important and do not marry proportionally as much. Nevertheless, if as many female goyim want to get married as male goyim want to get married (and the general idea in society is that females actually want to get married more than males do), the age gap should have made there be less male gentiles available, eligible and willing to get married than female gentiles available and willing.
Yet I hear no thought in any secular literature bemoaning that the age gap is causing there to be less willing males available than spouse-seeking females.
shmoelMemberMatan1:
Really? Don’t be so sure of that. Check out YU’s university funded EAGLBT toeiva club, directly recognized on the YU website:
http://www.einstein.yu.edu/education/md-program/einstein-umbrella.aspx
shmoelMemberReminder that tonights nittel (eve of Jan. 7.)
Starting in 2101 it will be a day later, on the eve of Jan. 8. It will move an additional one day later every 100 years, except every 400th year.
shmoelMemberHow are you sure? You are not sure; you merely are projecting your biases.
shmoelMemberThis type of tzedaka takes precedence over a shul repair or kiruv outreach.
shmoelMemberCancel her credit card. Tell her what her monthly discretionary spending is. Cash only. And you only give her that much as an allowance.
shmoelMemberI highly doubt that a donor is covering the $1 Million potential payout.
shmoelMemberuneeq:
Is the Halacha that a community must pay a man’s mortgage or rent (regardless how high it is) with Tzedaka funds or is the Halacha that a community must give Tzedaka to pay the basic necessities (food, etc.) to a man with a home, without asking him to sell his home (or rent less expensive elsewhere) to raise funds himself for his basic necessities? (IOW, is the Tzedaka being given to pay for him to keep his home or to pay for his food.)
December 30, 2012 3:56 pm at 3:56 pm in reply to: Validity of Vilna Gaon's Cherem Against Chassidim #915971shmoelMembermdd: The Chasidishe Seforim say no such thing.
December 30, 2012 1:09 pm at 1:09 pm in reply to: Picking Up A Neighbor's Phone Calls on a Scanner #917128shmoelMemberWhat frequencies do cordless phones operate on?
December 30, 2012 1:54 am at 1:54 am in reply to: Validity of Vilna Gaon's Cherem Against Chassidim #915952shmoelMemberDerech HaMelech: The idea that the Besht was focusing on the am haratzim is an untruth that has been propogated by the maskilim.
shmoelMemberWhat can we learn when we put our Gemoras down on nittel nacht?
shmoelMemberDaasYochid: Are you kidding? Finding a working boy in the Chareidi world is a “needle in a haystack”?! Not by a longshot.
shmoelMemberThat isn’t a “need”.
shmoelMemberCan Tzvi name his son Hirsch? Aryeh name his son Leib? Tzipora name her daughter Faiga?
shmoelMemberAny other names that are shared by boys and girls?
shmoelMemberjust me: If you do a good deed then you are absolved from all your bad deeds. Gotcha.
shmoelMembermomX4: If your husband wants you to dress like that only at home in private, then he is correct and you should. If he wants you to dress like that publicly, then you are correct and you shouldn’t.
shmoelMemberIs Simcha both a boys and a girls name?
shmoelMemberWhat message are you getting from the one that isn’t working telling you that you cannot access?
shmoelMemberWolf: So you concede mdd’s point.
shmoelMembermdd: +1,000,000.
Excellently stated.
shmoelMemberToday we mourn and remember America’s heroes.
May G-d bless America.
shmoelMemberDid he even have offspring after the mabul? He was quite old during the mabel.
Besides, his children — if their were any — would have married Noach’s offsprint, thus all would be Bnei Noach.
December 6, 2012 12:57 am at 12:57 am in reply to: Why do Litvish and Modern men always have their top shirt button open? #911144shmoelMembershmendrik: The real masmidim leave their top two buttons opened, doubling their time savings to learn more and avoid bitul Torah.
shmoelMemberIt is a statistical reality that post-divorce people tend to be financially less secure than they were pre-divorce.
shmoelMemberDelta allows a minyan shachris in the kitchen area on the international flight.
December 5, 2012 9:24 pm at 9:24 pm in reply to: Poorer People Bigger Tzadikm; Richer People Not Such Tzadikim #910847shmoelMemberIf.
December 5, 2012 9:19 pm at 9:19 pm in reply to: Poorer People Bigger Tzadikm; Richer People Not Such Tzadikim #910845shmoelMemberTorah was much stronger in Lita, where the yidden were overall poor, than in Germany and Hungary, where the yidden were overall more wealthy.
shmoelMemberAnecdotally I’ve noticed that children of divorced parents are far more likely to get divorced themselves than children of a non-broken home. (Perhaps because divorce may have lost some of the stigma to them and they may see it as no big deal.)
shmoelMemberJMH: Except what ZeesKite said is a matter of fact; just like eating treif.
No difference between ZK’s so-called Scotsman and mine.
December 5, 2012 9:01 pm at 9:01 pm in reply to: Why do Chassidish men and boys always have their top shirt button closed? #911289shmoelMemberLike akuperma said. Chasidim are Jewry’s Marine Corps.
shmoelMemberThe children will be with both spouses regardless whether they are divorced or married. In fact, the other spouse may even gain primary custody. But either way he or she will have significant time with the children.
The children are never divorced from either parent.
December 5, 2012 8:41 pm at 8:41 pm in reply to: Why do Litvish and Modern men always have their top shirt button open? #911139shmoelMemberfrummy: a) businessmen wear ties all day with no need to open the button b) yeshivish guys usually don’t wear ties.
shmoelMemberThose rare times are few and far in between. Yes, they exists. But the vast majority of divorces were avoidable, unnecesary and very damaging to both spouses and, especially, the kids.
shmoelMemberHe is a chola. You wouldn’t blame someone suffering from hallucinations for doing the crazy things they do.
Same idea here.
shmoelMemberakuperma: Medical science has shown placebos are often medically effective. If so, why should it be considered any differen than non-placebo medication?
shmoelMemberPopa makes a great point. You have no way of knowing that your next marriage — should you even be lucky enough to be able to find someone — will be any better than this one. You will almost surely marry someone else who was previously married and had their own issues.
It may even be worse.
December 5, 2012 8:10 pm at 8:10 pm in reply to: Why do Litvish and Modern men always have their top shirt button open? #911134shmoelMemberBecause they are often blue collar workers and shvitz under the hard labor.
shmoelMemberNo true godol allows pork at Chanukah parties.
Woops… Can’t make the above statement. “No true Scotsman.”
shmoelMemberIs this the generic name for Motrin?
December 5, 2012 7:49 pm at 7:49 pm in reply to: Why do Chassidish men and boys always have their top shirt button closed? #911285shmoelMemberIt looks more regal. (I don’t do it. Perhaps I should.)
shmoelMemberDivorce should be avoided at almost ALL costs. It should be a last last resort. The word should not even be mentioned in ones home.
December 5, 2012 6:18 pm at 6:18 pm in reply to: Northfield Bank stock offering- what are your thoughts? #910835shmoelMemberIndependence went from a community trust to public company. Is this the same?
shmoelMemberKibud Av V’Eim. Ask your parents every day what you can do to help them. Call them. Do the same for your grandparents.
There’s no comparable mitzvah to the chesed of kibud av v’eim.
December 4, 2012 12:57 pm at 12:57 pm in reply to: Yasher Koach to Rabbi Horowitz of Project Yes, for protecting and not punishing #912451shmoelMemberThe victim in this case is the falsely accused.
shmoelMemberRav Avi Weiss is also matir many things no one else is and too writes a “response” to his detractors.
shmoelMemberPasul.
December 3, 2012 12:00 am at 12:00 am in reply to: Selling a Sefer to a Non-Orthodox "Synagogue" #910359shmoelMemberThe Rema in Orach Chaim clearly says a nidds shouldn’t touch a Sefer Torah. (Also brought in Piskei Teshuvos.) The Shulchan Aruch / Mishna Brura says a nidda shouldn’t even look at a Sefer Torah when it is opened and raised for hagba.
shmoelMemberIt should be work brim down, hat down over forehead.
Brim up and/or leaning towads the back of the head is a cool stud style not a Ben Torah style.
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