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I don’t know why they would but they do, so who cares? 🙂
I also heard that daddy long legs eat mosquitoes, so if you want those around your sukkah. 🙂 even when we found one in our sukkah it didn’t help lol mosquitoes were biting!
Imanonov – those are all hysterical!!! I’m ROTFL!!!
smartcookie – lol in most houses that happens right after Pesach 😉
We just learned this year that if you put dryer sheets around the perimeter of the sukkah on the floor, the bugs will disappear from the sukkah. We tried it and it worked, just do it next year before you get bitten like crazy from the mosquitoes.
I don’t have an English name and my name has the “cha” sound in it and yeah some people can’t pronounce it and it takes until they say my last name when I turn around because they come up with weird sounds instead of it. Overall though, a lot of people nowadays can say “cha”, you’d be surprised.
Another option is to give them a middle name that’s easy to pronounce. Then the kid can just be call me (fill in the blank) instead, it’s easier.
Wow! First of all this thread is about Shidduchim for kids of BT’s not marrying BT’s themselves.
Second of all if you don’t want to marry a BT, fine don’t but BT’s are not 2nd rate citizens.
3rd of all if you anyways are talking about all the hardships that marrying a BT involves, why don’t you actually ask someone who is married to one and is involved themselves. And if you don’t want to live that kind of life, then don’t, no one is forcing you.
4th – for those who said BT kids go off more than FFB kids. I would think that is not true. Of all the kids I know that are OTD, they come from FFB homes and I don’t know one kid from a BT who is off. If a kid has a question about Torah and G-d and anything, the BT asked it and knows the answers so can give them to their kids. Whereas in a FFB home the parents for the most part probably don’t know the answers and yell at the kid for asking.
And I agree with emoticon613 – some of those comments that people made are hurtful. Their is no point in saying them.
My friend just told me about the spray (they sell it in Sephora) that keeps your make-up on. Does it really work? Can you re-apply it after the 20 hrs. and it’ll still work? Are you able to put it on, on Shabbos or Yom Tov.
But yeah, by the third day, most people don’t look their best in terms on make-up and hair.
I just want to say that just because something is called one thing, that doesn’t mean it is. Just because a school is called a Bais Yaakov, and I’m not even talking about the girls, but it doesn’t mean that they run the school like a Bais Yaakov.
Don’t believe everything the administration says, they want you to go to their school and can be two faced liars. Talk to girls but don’t ask them in general how the school is, ask them if they would switch out, about a regular school day, how they like the principal.
Be very careful!!!!!
If you sleep staring up at the ceiling it stays on for longer. I don’t know if for the whole 3 days. I know people who did it till the second day but I didn’t see them on the 3rd day so I don’t know if it still worked.
Have a good Yom Tov and good luck!
everyone is always on their blackberrys 24/6, its a good thing shabbos exists.
Sadly to say a lot of people are so addicted to texting that they will text their friends on Shabbos. 🙁
better off…. communacation has become alot easier and more efficient and you talk to more people than you would if you didnt!
Yeah that’s true but on the flip side most people don’t have real relationships and don’t communicate because it’s so much easier to text someone than to talk to them…then you don’t have any awkward pauses in your conversations.
Yes it also strengthens relationships, but that’s only if you use it properly.
Last year Psicha Neila went for $3,200 but this year for less than $800.
In my shul they auction off all the aliyos on Yom Tov but I just heard that except for Psicha Neila, most people buy aliyos for someone else.
Oh thanks, sounds interesting. Yeah the farm is upstate but it’s a private farm and they just put gravel their so they can drive to a barn.
It was taken at a friends farm that we went to. Please excuse my ignorance but I’m not sure what a rails-to-trails path is.
If its going to cause discomfort or its not safe than you don’t have to. Also, since you are supposed to live in your sukkah but a woman has no obligation to, and normally in a home the husband sleeps in the same room as his wife then he doesn’t have to sleep in the sukkah.
In general worse off. Nobody has time for anyone anymore and a lot of kids didn’t do such great things with cell phones.
It’s a great thing if people wouldn’t have abused it.
If you have a chance, could you check these out and let me know what you think of them.
Thanks.
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My mother bought big foam balls and small flowers and covered the balls in flowers, then took a ribbon and hung it up from the ‘ceiling’. They look very nice.
We also cover the bottom half of the walls with fabric and then drape some more from beam to beam which looks really nice too.
I tried this by Rosh Hashana and it really worked- after each seuda i took a walk around the block, as it gave a chance for the food to digest before i went to sleep. I felt lighter the whole Yom Tov, not that nauseas and heavy feeling i had s/t had.
For some odd reason, every Shabbos and Yom Tov I have to walk. I go crazy sitting inside all day, and this never happens during the week. I guess that’s why I never feel nauseas or overstuffed on Yom Tov. 🙂
Try making more poultry for main dishes instead or roast and meat. It’s lighter for sure but I don’t know if healthy.
Portion control always helps. 🙂
I was walking home with a friend on Motzai Yom Kippur and we heard a group of Hispanic boys/men coming up towards us. We quickly crossed the street, but were still nervous. What comforted us was the fact that two Jewish men were standing outside talking.
My sister was walking home from a friend’s house and it was dark outside. She was being bothered by a group of non-Jewish teenagers. But when she told us the story she said she saw a Jewish boy walking and felt safer.
That I think is how to help everyone get along. Instead of judging them because they are different from you think that if you were scared/nervous in a not such great place and you saw them would you feel comforted that they would help you.
And visa versa, if you saw this Jew in need of help (and I’m not talking financial or whatever. You are just walking by and see a problem) would you go help? Would it matter if he was wearing a streimal, black hat or baseball cap? I don’t think so.
And remember, Hitler yimach Sh’mo, didn’t care if you were Chasidish, Litvish, MO… and neither do any non-Jew, they just see us as Jews with no labels. We should also see everyone as Jews.
I think girls dress nice to be noticed by other women and then they’ll add a few touch ups for the men.
When they buy something new it’s like I have to show (insert girls name) she’ll be sooooo jealous!!! or something to that affect. When they buy it, for the most part, they first think what will other girls think of me and then will men be attracted. But I don’t think men are the first thing on their mind while they dress or when they buy something.
Be realistic. If someone is 200 lbs overweight don’t expect that Barbie look alikes will want to go out with you.
Be true to yourself. Think you want to marry this type of girl. Would that type of girl want to marry me? If the answer is no then what do you have to do to change yourself so you can make the answer yes.
Don’t focus on superficial stuff. It could change any day. Focus on middos and personality.
myfriend – tznius should not be a litmus test for if the girl is a good girl or not. I know plenty of really great girls but tznius is their nisayon. You can’t judge a girl based on her mode of dress.
I agree with minyan gal. When I try something on in the store, I don’t think what will others say. I buy it if I like it and I think for myself if I look good in it.
If people are dressing for what other people think, maybe their should be mass self-confidence boosts. Nothing to do with tznius just self confidence and once someone feels good about themselves they wont have to wear non-tznius clothing.
These are all very good ideas for the most part but I think people should clarify what is halacha and what is extra. All you have to do is cover A, B, C, and D and all the rest is chumros.
If instead of someone coming over to you and embarrassing you in public for wearing a short skirt or whatever, focus on the positive on what the girl is wearing and don’t mention the negative. Like, where do you find such tasteful clothing that is tsnius too?… If you build her up a little, she will want to live up to that standard.
If there were some tznius women who were with it and stylish so you had someone to look up to. So that it isn’t that being tznius is equated with frumpy.
As for the question as to why BY graduates and students don’t dress tzniusly, there could be a million different reasons. A few I could think of off bat is:
A) the BY just teaches stuff as rules, do this and do that and none of the beauty, so why should I?
B) A teacher or someone gives a speech that you’re gonna burn anyway and you aren’t frum if you are lenient in something. So their attitude is why do I have to do all this, I’m already gonna burn. (this does happen btw)
C) There are so many other areas that I have to work on, tznius I’ll do last.
What inspires me and makes the biggest impression on me is when people tell me what the outside world thinks of you when they see you dressed tzniusly. How special they think you are…
I didn’t read any of the other ideas but A) maybe fine yourself or have someone close to you fine you. Every time you bite your nails you have to pay yourself/them a big amount (not like a quarter cuz that wont help but like $10.00.) You might think twice about biting after that.
B)Cut your nails often so there is nothing to bite.
Good Luck!!!
cherrybim – You do that and let me tell you, you will have a lot of girls going OTD. I know, I for one would go OTD in the tznius sense in a minute if some random people think they can tell me what to wear.
Speeches for the most part don’t work because:
a)they speak way to much about it so no one listens after a while.
b)people feels like oh that’s just a chumrah and I hold differently.
c)everyone makes sensitivities assur. Be clear when its Halacha and when its not. A red shirt can be permissible on one person, and be totally tznuisdik.
It’s also hard to find skirts long enough. Many frum stores do NOT sell tznius clothing but since it’s from (insert Jewish store) it’s ok.
There’s a problem out there, but I don’t think pressuring people is the answer or speeches either.
A relative of mine got cancer a few years ago and was given a 4% chance to live. They weren’t even sure if they were going to do chemo since they didn’t want him to die painfully. But never give up hope. He is Baruch Hashem still alive today and has gone into remission a few times already.
May this year be a year of good health to everyone!
Here’s a riddle: Who is the most mentioned woman in Navi? (Think outside the box)
As my friend texted me, may all your brochos this year be like text messages: free, unlimited, arriving at all ours of the day and night, and fwded to all your friends!!!!
Kesiva V’Chasima Tova to all!!!!!!!!
ilyae1301 – thank you so much for posting this. It’s really inspiring and just what we need. I hope you don’t mind that I took the liberty to copy it and email it to my family and friends, who really enjoyed it (especially the non-frum ones)
Thank you!!! May you have a ????? ?????? ????!!!
chacha is this thing you could text any questions to. Their number is 242 242 (cha cha). They also have a bunch of other features.
I just texted them How can one sign up to be a cha cha guide?
here’s their answer:
Go to the website and take a look around first of all. Second, please take some time to fill out the registration forms, watch some videos about guiding and take a test, and you too can be a ChaCha Guide!!!
Happy Belated Birthday!!! I remember seeing a birthday thread but I’m not sure.
This isn’t on par with the other mazal tovs but my mother got her visa and finally came home after being away for more than a month!!!!!!
Don’t necessarily take them as fact but take precautions. You know like when someone tells you that someone else is going to harm you, you can’t believe them but you should be careful.
so u never listen to their warning and when they say there will be a 3 foot snow storm, dont believe them
My take on this is if they say there will be one during school don’t believe but if its coming over the weekend or when there is no school, it’s true. 🙂
I don’t think it’s necessary, per se. But that being said, if you are able to take it, why not? If you have to pay extra for them I could see why not but if you don’t, then the class is geared towards the AP test and if you don’t pass, at least you don’t have to take a final for that class for your report card 😉
Good luck with whatever you decide to do!
I’ve got to change my favorite to Ben and Jerry’s Cookies n Cream!!!11 It is by far the best ice cream (and therapy) someone could ask for!!!!
Imanonov – hey a smart blond for once lol (even if it wasn’t intended that way :)) Good one!!!
Do they have to be men??
1. Meydad Tasah
2. Ohad!
3. Michoel Pruzansky
I think it’s the “asking price” but I’m not that sure.
Yeah, its a Bais Yaakov High School. I don’t know about the elementary school or the boys school.
It’s the price per child and I have a couple of siblings there.
I switched out of that school and my new school has a higher tuition but thats the only thing my parents have to pay. They are even giving my my Seforim!!
Mexico had a really bad earthquake and 2 million Mexicans died. Many countries sent over support. France sent over people to help rebuild the cities. Spain sent over doctors to attend to the wounded. All different countries were sending help.
Not to be outdone, America sent over 2 million Mexicans to replace the dead ones.
missme – of course someone should only exercise at home or in a womens only gym!! I’m sorry I didn’t understand you.
But what about walking outside, like walking for exercise? Is that okay too?
Most people are forgetting that these prices are JUST tution costs. In my siblings school tution is around $4000 a kid, plus building fees and book fees (which the books are 20 years old) and the dinner, and you have to get X amount of people to buy raffle tickets and you have to spend at least $1000 on school cash, plus all the trips and activities and school shabbatons which are mandatory and at least $100 a kid…
Everything adds up!!!
miss me – so are you saying not to do exercise???
chosson – what is better? Wearing a long skirt that rides up/down so your entire leg is exposed. You are going to see the split in between your legs anyway. Or wearing pants, where your legs are covered even though the split between your legs is going to be seen.
I love Vehi Sheamdah by Shwekey!!!
Ooooopppppps I forgot to add 1 cup of oatmeal to my recipe.
Sorry.
Ahhhh we had to read “A Separate Peace” in school and I hated it. Compared to the other books it was not the worst.
Hearts of Gold is was a good book. They have a second one too. The plots not that obvious.
Deep Blue was okay and with a twist in the plot, kind of.
lol baron fritz I like that one. See it shows, women are more resourceful than men 😉
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever (at least in my personal opinion 🙂 and they’re (semi) healthy too.
1 cup oil
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 – 1 cup chocolate chips.
Mix everything together in a bowl. Make little cookies on a cookie sheet. Bake between 8 – 10 minutes at 350.
I always use lol just so the other person knows I’m kidding. It’s kinda like a half smile. Cuz when you are texting you don’t know the emotion the other person is writing it with, so if you write lol they know don’t take my too seriously, I’m not upset…
I just want to say thanks again Wolf for starting this thread (and everyone else for their pictures, which are ALL breathtaking!!!!) because I’m now looking at the world around me very differently, and I’m noticing things I don’t think I would’ve seen before.
Also, Helpful, you wrote All of these sunset, nature, etc. photos, can be downloaded as stock photos. What is the benefit of taking them yourself?
I was thinking about it and it’s the natural tendency of people that when they see something gorgeous (or hear something good) to want to share it with others. So when you see a stunning sunset, you automatically want to capture it and show it to others, or even to just look at later.
Of course it’s not ideal but I heard that it’s okay to if you need to or want to for whatever reason.