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Trudat, Joseph. But I think you missed the point by comparing open toed sandals to the items on your list. Bare feet is shyach to be mutar, the rest of your list is not.
brooklyn: It is indeed a real quote that I have heard applied to many different things. It certainly applies to the coming of moshiach.
Treat this thread as you would treat a thread where the posters opine on piskei halacha.
But I guess it is in a way putting down the Coffee Room…..
ROB is of course correct that no leader is infallible. There is even a korban – the Par He’elem Davar, that is brought when people transgress the Torah based on a mistaken ruling by Beis Din. But that means that the people followed Beis Din!!!
mamashtakeh did a nice analysis. The only thing that I think is missing from it is the first thing that comes out of earnings – Ma’aser gelt.
If you separate Ma’aser and give some of it to Yeshivos, you ARE supporting Torah. Sorry if anyone thinks that the average Yankel has to take on the oil parnossa of an entire Kollel family – that is just not possible. Maybe if the average kollel family wanted to take room and board with an average working family something could be worked out – but to pay for 2 sets of houses, cars, tuitions, utilities, clothings, etc? Forget it. Anyone who even suggests it had better get their prescription checked for hallucinogens.
She protesteth too much.
Wow. That posted fast.
Anyway, I’ll assume you were being inquisitive rather than argumentative. You are incorrect. If you do a bit of research you will see why. However, if YW allows me to post this link, you can piggyback off this source:
http://www.britishpotatoes.co.uk/history-of-potatoes/
Or, you can read Wikipedia (and check sources!!! so that you don’t end up like some people here who think that cancer can be cured with Tincturn).
Did you say 1845?
Jfem – Turkey was a “new invention” to the Pilgrims, as were about 90% of the vegetables that we eat today. Turkey, pumpkins, potatoes, maize, etc did not exist in Europe – just like horses did not exist in America until the Spanish brought them over. I would guess that this is why we make a big deal over those foods on Thanksgiving – and since most people would serve meat for their main dish (most ppl are not vegitarians), and turkey is the only meat on that list, the main course at a Thanksgiving dinner is turkey.
loshon harah?
YAY YW Mod!!!!
You see, it’s worth having your head spin for a while – now you’re in the game!
V’lo oid, elah..
A family photo contained:
one grandfather, one grandmother,
two fathers, two mothers,
six children, four grandchildren,
two brothers, two sisters,
three sons, three daughters,
one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, one daughter-in-law
How many people are in the photo (lowest number wins)?
I admit it. And I wouldn’t have answered it, precisely for that reason, except that I was already answering the other one, anyway.
Since I took away a puzzle, here’s one to compensate:
Imagine that you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
Wait – I just realized that man is also born with 10 FINGERS! So if you type with all your fingers then you can “say” 5 times as much as you see.
Now THAT reinforces my opinion of the posters here….
SJSinNYC
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Does this apply to tsnius, as well?
That dramatically changes my opinion of Joseph and others……
jphone – that idea will happen in Adar Shlishi
Feel free to update your profiles with any personal information you want to share
Wolf, I share the same birthday as you, though mine is April 31st.
Joseph – thanks anyway, but we’d never find anything to talk about.
1) ‘Their’ instead of ‘There’
2) ‘Errers’ should be ‘Errors’
3) ‘Three’ should be ‘Two’
The baby is a little bigger.
I take back what I said. Apparently, zman biur is not until the beginning of Shevat, which means there is still time.
This is from Degel Yerushalayim.
Why? Do you also have a shmitta esrog that you held on to?
Chacham2 – it depends what you are looking for re “violent tendency”. While you may argue that statistically violent crime rates are not affected, kids definitely do have a tendency to “act out” what they see. This may not bother you, just as it doesn’t both TV watchers that their kids walk into school and behave like characters in South Park. But my kid who does not watch that show does not act that way, and does not yell “You killed – ” or “Yeah, he’s dead” when another kid falls down.
If you’ve played violent video games your sensitivities to it are nil (I’m talking directly to you and your expressed opinion, not just generally).
Re seeing bigger font: Try zooming in on the screen. I don’t know if it works with YW but it works with many other sites.
A shortcut for this is to hold down CTRL while scrolling the mouse wheel.
dacht zich mir az der zman biur shoen over. peiros sheviis achar zman biur mai…..
Yes, we know there is life outside of NY, but since space travel is not yet widely available we have never seen such a person.
….. when you find yourself schlepping all the way to Kew Gardens just so you can see if anyone there will identify Josephf for you.
Easy as pi.
smartcookie
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SQUEAK: Are you Mekayim Vhegisa Bo Yomom Vloloh?????? Do you learn day and night?
Yes. See Menochos 95b
That’s OK, WH. I don’t need to only be with carbon copies of myself.
This is all very enlightening.
An additional point to make is the quality of the cholov yisroel milk that you get from the store. Generally, anything you don’t use the first day the bottle is opened becomes sour. Sometimes, the milk is sour even before you open it. So to me that sounds like the situation where cholov yisroel milk is not available still prevails today. (Unless you want to buy a new bottle every day)
Not that this means one should be maikil, just disagreeing with your assertion that cholov yisroel milk is as available as non cholov yisroel milk – even in the Holy “in town” mekoimos.
shtark bochur
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NO OFFENSE FEMINIST, BUT you can really improve your chances of speaking lh if you dont reply to every crazy topic
But when YOU reply to every topic, that doessn’t hurt your chances, or you just don’t care?
So what did I say that got my post censored? Was it the part about how the current president should be blamed for the current problems or was it the part about how you should expect to get what you elect?
Some people keep half their brains tied behind their back, just to keep things fair to their coworkers. It is that atrophied half of the brain that is used to peruse YW CR.
jfem, he just said that to get your ire up. And you took the bait.
smartcookie
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SQUEAK- Are you supporting a family?
By my calculations, at least a dozen….
A favorite of mine, since I know the type of personality:
Sol, a meticulous German Jew, needs to go visit Japan on business. So he calls up the travel agent and has him book a round trip ticket for him. But Sol warns the agent, “Make sure that you get me a window seat. I must sit by the window.” The agent tells him no problem, he will take care of it.
The day before the flight, Sol calls the agent to confirm. The agent confirms. Sol asks him if he is sure that he got a window seat on the flight. The agent confirms this too.
When he gets to the airport, he goes to the check-in counter, checks in and then asks the ticket agent, “I want to make sure that my seat is by the window. I have to sit in the window seat.” The agent checks and confirms that a window seat is reserved for him.
At the gate, he presents his boarding pass and asks the attendant to check the pass and make sure he has a window seat. She assures him that he will have the window seat.
So Sol makes his way to his seat, and whaddaya know, it is NOT a window seat. It’s the middle seat NEXT TO the window seat. The entire flight, Sol is fuming. So the second he gets off the flight, he goes straight to the telephone and calls up the travel agent. He yells into the phone, “HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? I made sure to request a window seat, I confirmed it half a dozen times, and when I got on the flight I saw that you had NOT gotten me the seat you promised! I get very claustrophobic when I’m on a plane unless I’m right by the window.”
So the agent asks him, “I’m sorry for the mistake, but if it meant so much to you to have a window seat, why didn’t you just ask the person sitting next to you to please switch? I’m sure with your condition they would have agreed?”
Sol replies, “Of course, I would have asked. But there was no one sitting in the window seat!”
V’higeasah bo yomom vo’layla v’yimooch mi’bnei odom. Happy, pappy?
Now that you have different Rabbis, do you believe that there is no conspiracy? Then you can stop trying to learn it all on your own.
There is no such thing as “more assur” and “less assur”. And certainly you can’t validate something that is worng based on something else which is wrong.
So, if you see the problem with both, then BOTH are inappropriate. Since both are inappropriate, which one is less than the other is irrelevant.
If you are asking the question, then at the very least you recognize that these are gray areas. If that is the case then why you are asking others to opine on which comes closer to crossing the line? You want to live in gray areas? Then draw your own lines. I can’t think of a situation where the question is relevant.
21978 * 4 = 87912
Joseph, while I truly enjoy the banter, I don’t remember how we got to the level of personal attacks. Are you trying to make fun of my age or the age of my joke?
smartcookie – where do you come in?
ICOT – as I pointed out, it is counterintuitive to most people. That’s why I suggested thinking about the problem with 100 curtains (or doors), instead of 3.
You pick one. Chances are it’s not the right one.
They show 98 empty ones out of the remaining 99.
Isn’t it obvious that your best bet is to guess that the prize is behind the 99th? After all, they didn’t open 98 randomly. 99% chance that they opened all of the empty ones and left the one with the prize closed.
Same with 3.
If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
This one I heard from a nice old man about 15-20 years ago.
What is the word for “elevator” in Hebrew?
Ya’aleh V’yovoh
Of course you do, Joseph. What do you think, no one here has ever seen a Ch”Ch guy before?
As for the light bulb one, turn on a switch, wait a minute, turn it off and turn on another one. Then open the door. One bulb will be hot, that is the one that was on then off. The one that is on is the second switch. For the other 2, you have a 50/50 chance at guessing. Or you could try the on/off trick twice – one bulb will be very hot, the next a little bit warm, a third on and a fourth off.
For the monty hall problem, I find that people don’t believe the solution very quickly. If you expand the odds by changing the problem to 100 curtains, choose 1 and then 98 are opened, I think everyone quickly sees that odds are better if you switch to the last one.