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I don’t think anyone has to (nor should they) do an analysis of the viability of a frum institution/community/common practice. There are always other factors involved on the macro level that we cannot possibly assess, i.e. zechusim.
I’ve heard people saying XYZ cannot last – and they’ve been saying it for over 40 years – but it is still around.
If you want to decide on a micro level (e.g. I cannot stay in kollel anymore or I can only give this amount of money right now), that is something everyone should think about for themselves. But to evaluate the institution of widespread kollel learning as a whole? Don’t bother.
Or, in lieu of Joseph’s suggestion, I would benefit from a Reply button embedded in a post tag that would copy over the content of the post in blockquote code. I like quoting the person I am replying to. I don’t know if this is available with this forum structure, but asking for it should be OK (even if the ans is no).
I think it means when someone says “Oh, you do that – you’re too frum for me”. That is not meant as a compliment, but it should be taken as one.
I think explaining your expertise is not arrogance. Rather, it helps laymen understand the value of your expertise. Imagine if you ask the plumber working on your pipes “How do you do that so well” and he says “It’s really easy, anyone could do it” because he doesn’t want to brag about all the training and experience he has under his belt.
Comes time to pay the bill, you’ll be wondering why he gets $1200 for something so easy.
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If you consider it a necessity to look nice, than according to oomis, some people NEED make up (which I agree with). If looking nice is just nice and not a necessety then you would probably WANT to wear makeup to fulfill that desire.
I think people with natural color, even if they are not so beautiful, makeup doesn’t make a difference on them. But people who have white skin must wear foundation to look decent and they can look BEAUTIFUL with makeup but really not good without.
Normally my posts on CR are very light hearted, but this type of post actually makes me pretty upset. It’s this kind of BASELESS DISPARAGING GENERALITIES that give so many fine, attractive young women a negative self image and struggles with their self-esteem. No matter how intelligent you are, not you or ANYONE else can say what someone MUST do to look good.
I know a number of girls who really think that they are ugly for no reason other than that is the message her “friends” pass on to her subliminaly. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Please try to train yourself to understand your own limitations. You DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO EVALUATE THE WORLD’S PERCEPTION OF BEAUTY. If you think that you are attractive, great. If you think someone else is too, great. But don’t define what someone HAS TO BE in order to be attractive. Keep stupid comments like that to yourself, or better yet – STOP THINKING LIKE THAT.
Sho’en.
And with that insightful comment, we welcome “the chavrusahs” aboard.
ICOT – none taken. You can’t flaunt your age and then be offended by jokes about it.
And the answer is: Both, C.E. and Hebrew Calendar.
asdfghjkl: If you really want to get the jealousy going, you could tell everyone about the consulting offer I had from a firm in Zimbabwe recently. They offered me in the high 6 figures PER HOUR!
If I understand your reference, Dr P, you are telling me that you copy and pasted the solution from elsewhere, right? 😉
The clam stuff was a joke since Motts is owned by your company and was making problems for the kosher consuming community with its clam derivitive product.
BTW, I was also born after 1850.
Thank you, PY. Now if only others could follow your lead, there’d be half as many posts for the Moderators to sort through.
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<closes mouth>
Dr. P, please tell me that you’ve already seen this problem. I guess that would make you an old timer like me (with quite a memory), but that’s better than believing that you came up with that in 1.5 hours (and that’s if I assume you were working on it the whole time).
Now that we’ve been introduced, I’d like to ask a favor. Can you stop using the clam stuff please?
<Yawn> Pashute, you can save yourself the trouble of reposting by just referring to my comments. Sheesh.
SJS, please keep that quote about tuition to yourself. Such a disgusting line should only come out of a disgusting mouth (though I know people like to say it anyway because they find it humorous – no excuse).
But I agree with you that that attitude is part of what is wrong with America today. The other part is lawyers, but I won’t get into that.
Brooklyn: I would never try to take credit for that (nor could I possibly). I just assumed that everyone would realize that I was quoting MMM. (Well, I guess not everyone could have, but enough ppl).
Your ears are not trained to pick up an accent identical to your own, that is all.
Are you saying that it is a riddle because a couple of people got the wrong answer? Can’t argue with logic like that….
Re: Times changing regarding dogs. This is actually a truth, though I don’t know enough to say what the situation was with dogs in general in the times of the gemoro. Has anyone ever heard of a woman miscarrying from seeing a dog these days? Things have probably changed somewhat.
Dogs are related to wolves. They are not naturally tame animals. They were very useful because of their ferociousness (that’s what a watchdog is) and because they had the capacity for loyalty to their owners. You would not generally want to be near a dog any more than you would a wolf.
However, in the present day, dogs are domesticated animals and have been already for generations. We train our dogs to be friendly, not ferocious. That is why most watchdogs nowadays are useless – if you throw them a treat they will roll over and lick your hand.
Clearly, dogs are not what they used to be (though they are still at root potentially dangerous animals and we hear stories from time to time). Whether that means that the halacha regarding owning them is different now I certainly cannot say. However, what I have seen only speaks about a “bad dog”. I have never seen a halacha that says one cannot have ANY dog. If the metzius today is that most dogs are not wild then that means the halacha only applies to a minority of dogs.
‘cuz I’m not greasy!!! Isn’t that brilliant?
I hadn’t posted in here until now because I didn’t know why I chose my name. I just made that up now. (Actually, I do know why I chose it originally but it’s not a reason I’m going to publicize).
Wow, I’m on a ROLL today!
I meant shtark
Me too, especially from a brooklyn mouth – gaaaawjzis.
pps – JAPP and her sharkbochur brothers can refer to my above comment for further insight.
Yeah, well, location differences can be prohibitive to even the “simplest” of things. It’s virtual or nothing from me, sorry.
Maybe someone else can volunteer to get your coffee while they’re waiting for you to post comments. Then they could miss when the comments go up and defeat the purpose of volunteering <tee hee>.
Apparently, you do things that you don’t like though.
Frum Drudge report?
What would that make it, The Fudge report?
Joseph – then it’s not a riddle – it’s just a math problem (9th grade, I would say)
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On a serious note, a woman whose husband offered her a get for not wearing makeup (or for burning the cholent, etc) and she accepted it rather than putting on makeup for him, DEFINITELY is not being divorced for the makeup issue.
Whoops, my mistake. I just realized that I also have another flavor, though I don’t like it as much. Java applet.
You need a secretary. Unless, if you are willing to accept virtual coffee, I will be glad to send it to you. Though right now I only have one flavor – Cyber Blend.
Here’s a tough one from a magazine back in the ’50’s. If anyone here can solve it without using brute force I will be very, very impressed. I might even bestow upon you all of my designations:
5 men are shipwrecked on a desert island. On the first day, they begin collecting food. The only food source on the island is coconut. The men spend the whole day collecting coconuts and at the end of the day have quite a nice pile. Exhausted, they all lie down to sleep.
After the others have fallen asleep, one man realizes that any of the others could steal from his “share” while the group is sleeping. So he gets up and divides the coconuts into 5 even piles. But there is one extra coconut – so he gives it to a monkey who is jumping around in the nearby tree. The man takes his pile and hides it, moves the other 4 piles back together to hide what he did, and then goes to sleep.
A short while later, one of the other men wakes up, and reasons the same as the first man, that he had better take his share now so that he does not get cheated. He divides the big pile into 5 even ones, but there is one left over. He gives it to the aforementioned monkey. He then takes his pile, pushes the other 4 piles back into 1, hides his and goes back to sleep.
A short while later, another man wakes up and does the same as the man before him. Again there is an extra coconut when he divides by 5, which he gives to the monkey. This process continues until every man has done the same deed. That said, each man now has a hidden pile of coconuts, there is a diminished pile left for the community, and the monkey has 5 coconuts.
In the morning, they all wake up and divide the pile into 5. This time, it divides evenly and the monkey walks away dejected. Each man must have noticed that the pile was much smaller than last night, but his guilt prevented him from bringing up the subject.
How many coconuts were there originally, and how many were there when it was finally divided?
There are of course mulitple solutions to this (I found over 100), but they are all multiples of the minimum solution. So there is really only one solution of importance – the minimum. Using brute force requires plenty of skill in this problem so it is legitimate to answer it that way, but an elegant solution would be amazing!
Joseph:
Assuming she only gets money by allowance, how much money does she earn every month?
I disagree and say you are all wrong, including Joseph. The correct solution to this riddle is $0. It doesn’t say stipend.
In Bava Kamma, the gemoro says things about the owner of a “kelev ra”. It doesn’t say anything about other types of dogs.
I think we’re seeing a whole new side to Joseph based on the comments of this day and the last. Is it possible that his screen name has been usurped by an imposter?
GivPerf – Right. The answer to the second one is the same (though the reasoning involves knowledge of physics). The answer “red” was given in my last discussion too. Insightful, but misses the point.
Joseph, have you never been to Yukon? Your statement is far from being correct. And I might add that the temperature at the South Pole can go South of -100 degrees.
so joey, is comparing sandals to miniskirts common sense or “extreme”? You relate to G-d on your own level, eh?
our laws come before their laws
A Yugo, OBM (the company, not the car). Once I pulled into a gas station and asked the attendant if I could get a new set of wiper blades for my Yugo. He nodded and said, “Sounds like a fair trade”.
I am really outside to this discussion, but I have a question that I think everyone who has something to say about this knows the answer to. I have no hidden agenda behind this question:
Why does a teenager need portable voice calling? Obviously if one does need it one should have a cell phone, but who does? Is it just the need to have gadgetry or is there actually some reason why a teenager has to be available to callers every second of every day?
(I am quite a bit older than the people we are discussing and I have a cell phone, but rarely use it. I spend most of my day in arm’s reach of a landline and I am not important enough that anyone will miss not being able to reach me during my 20 minutes at Mincha or the like.)
ujm – the source is generally thought to be due to the need for hot food on Shabbos while not being able to maintain a cooking fire in the home easily. People would put their pots in the baker’s oven (which always stayed lit) and then go pick it up during the Seudah (this obviously did not happen in Brooklyn or Manhattan, though it could have happened in Queens). Since it was one pot per family, everything got stewed together. Presto – cholent was geborren.
yeshivishHak – What you say is not always true. I know of someone who turned down a $50K entry level job (which to my thinking, is quite decent, especially for an unskilled Kollel man) because he would lose out on all the “benefits” of being low income (not trying to bring THAT discussion back to life) which he chesbonned as being roughly equal to that in take-home. And here I quote, “Plus, I would have to WORK to get the money!”.
please joseph – I am not so talented as to make up a poem for sarcasm
perhaps I should have added TM at the end of the line.
I posted the same riddle as above to a different audience a few years ago. It met with much lively discussion:
A bear drops into a hole in the ground from v=0 meters per second at time t = 0. Two seconds later it landed on the bottom. If the hole is 20 meters deep and we assume no air resistance, what color was the bear?
You are in a house with an all-southern view. Suddenly, a bear walks by. What color was the bear?
Oh, I get it, it makes alot of sense!
To be rich this is what you have to do:
Just be happy with the share Hashem has giiiiven you
And you’ll never be jealous ‘cuz you will know
Aizehu ashir hasomeach bechelko
Anyone who is asking this question needs to learn what an RSS feed is. Ask your school age child – whoops, I mean find a goyishe neighbor’s child to ask.
GAW – many people are in the B”M between sedorim every day.
As to SJS’s idea, I cry “Ponzi, Ponzi”
Hmmm. Interesting analysis. Maybe it’s because of all the time you spend running alone with your own thoughts. Leads to some independent thinking. Maybe you should run with your Daas Torah instead.