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You shouldn’t be greeting the other person at all unless he is a very close friend or an immediate relative. Anyone else, you are just supposed to stare them up and down as you go past, which is the same for shabbos and motsoai shabbos. If the other person greets you first, you just act puzzled and say, “ich kenst dir fun vainekkin?” Again, no difference whether its shabbos or not.
If it happens to be a close relative or friend, you can call his house later and explain what happened.
Who cares that fiveish saves? Let me know when he starts bringing chanuka presents down the chimney and I’ll be interested.
Touche!
And bravo.
Au contraire, popa, his first sentence ruins the response. How can you, of all people, give credit to someone who refrains from comment simply because he hasn’t seen the article?
Ezzzzzaklee
Der Aibishter zol uphittin
It’s at times like these that I thoroughly miss MosheRose.
The guy has been doing brissim for how long, and he can’t even remember to bring a sandwich bag with him? Improvising is for when caught unawares.
Haha, I just can’t see midwesterner on a board. That’s why he didn’t ask.
soliek… who really cares about Shakepeare other than academics? Where does he have influence? Most people will be able to quote a few famous phrases to prove that they are literate and that’s about all. Elitist snobs will go to Shakespeare productions to impress themselves on how cultured they are, but don’t exactly develop their world view through going. Other than that… no one cares at all.
I know that you are in school now, so you must be seeing a higher representation of literature than is true generally.
I’d be more interested to hear what you think of what I said about how vampire lore is steeped in anti-semitism.
Feif, you are trolling again. Your entire point is that some chassidish people only marry to have kids, so beshow makes sense for those few? OK, similarly some of your cultured people only marry to gain a trophy and show their worth. So for those too, a beshow is suitable. No,even a beshow is too much, they should just need a picture and a few numbers.
So lets start a thread abput this, and word the OP carefully so that most people will think you are implying something about the entire MO community and then watch you folks get all defensive.
Oh please. If you’re part of the crowd that believes that, nothing is healthy except long grain rice and mineral water. Enjoy your healthy diet.
If you discuss Shakespeare, you are at worst debating academic anti-semitism. Considering the lack of context in his works, as well as the limited popularity his works enjoy today, I would think it is a topic best ignored. If you want to focus on blatant rabid anti-semitism found in literature that is pop culture of the day, the vampire legends were and are far more damaging.
Hang in there, pops, we’ll find you a real oinesh.
“The world revolves around the sun dude”
Shaychus?
So popa doesn’t know that he posted here, but he does interpret the title for us? Mima nafshach, if its so easy to read, who needs his help. If only the writer can decipher it, then how does he know what it says?
Don’t tell us he can read drunk but no one else can. Must be, popa is drunk again and now can read drunk again.
Just as frum society believes that there is something wrong with a man who is “not cut out for learning”, it believes there is something wrong with a woman who is. There are no exceptions in the b’riah.
Friends don’t let friends drunk post.
Not for nothing are they called “donor-cycles”. Maybe we can revive the organ donor thread. Is the no organ donation shittah more against bikes than the maybe crowd?
Your opinions on the appropriateness of the inclusion or exclusion of certain benefits through health insurance is a separate discussion. The issue at hand is a public figure who verbally attacked a young woman personally.
Most people condemn it, some people are taking it a step further and calling for a boycott to punish the offender. I believe that those people have an axe to grind here and would not go so far based on this incident alone, but Rush certainly has to own his mistake.
Does anyone disagree and think that what Rush did was OK?
Rush is always crass (and that is being generous).
The issue here is that he worded his comment as a personal attack on the woman’s character. He could have made his point instead by speaking in generic terms (applied to no one in particular) and been no worse than usual.
In response to your complaint, what is wrong with the call to boycott? It is an extremely democratic response to something you don’t like. I might even say it is epitomic of democracy, because you are inviting every individual to vote on the boycott with their money.
yvw.
BTW, most financial advice needs to be personalized, i.e. the more personal details you can share the more suitable the advice. What may be wasteful in some circumstances is not wasteful in others. As a result, this is not the best place to get personal advice…
I think the source of the segulah is a CR thread from a year or two ago. But I could be wrong, it has already happened once before.
Awesome, as in you are afraid of her? Let us help you.
Too bad. You could have requested R’ Elyashiv and then given R’ Elyashiv’s name.
How about everyone just pretend there is an ignore button and continue the discussion. Honestly, I don’t understand why people give so much importance to such a bigoted response.
Perhaps someone can give advice to more on how to start a separate thread.
We already had an anger management thread here a while back. You should search for it, because I can’t imagine anything more helpful than a CR thread.
You can tell everything by observing a kiddush.
The people scarfing down herring and kichel are chassidish
The people with a cup of vodka in each hand are Lubavitch
The litvak is the one with cholent and kugel on his plate, but waiting for it to turn stone cold
The ungarish oiberlanders are the ones who have their kugel on fancy plates.
The unterlanders are licking the crumbs from the kichel off the table
If there are any sephardim, which would be unusual, they are the ones being served by their wives and/or children
The yekkes are the ones who are sitting at the table with one cookie
If I missed any groups that you need help identifying, just let me know. (I purposely left out one group because they are likely to start a flame war denouncing all rw jewry if I include them. They are very sensitive)
Chanan Bisha?
Happy birthday, morah.
Imo does not mean load, it means ‘his mother’. So I don’t think that applies here (unless chubby’s mother is carrying him).
There are lots of reasons why a dough won’t rise properly:
Not enough rise time
Not enough gluten – especially a problem if you use whole wheat flour
Not enough sugar – sugar and yeast react together
Not enough salt – salt is needed to limit yeast effectiveness, use too little and it will over-rise
Too much salt – overusing salt will neutralize the yeast
If the bread is flat, I’m guessing that it’s not because you are using too little salt. Try experimenting with the other possibilities, i.e. try adding extra sugar or cutting back on salt. Have patience and you’ll get it right.
I always thought of Bigson and Seresh as George and Lenny.
lol popa, quality response!
Itche- if its sulfites then the OP will have problems with grape juice too.
I see a lesson to be learned and that is to make your cd as unTorahdig as possible so that its not muttar to steal it. Niiiiice.
Loyal Joe, why stop at hurting their shidduch chances? You can take it a step further and say that the girls who are at the same Shabbos table as boys should be assur to marry kohanim.
Loyal Joe, you are blowing it out of proportion. Arayos is one thing, talking nicely to a wife is something else entirely. Is there a problem also when a rebbi speaks of his ‘dear talmidim’?
tomim, I can’t really offer much in the way of finding where you could make cuts. But I can weigh in on the pay down loan vs. build up emergency cash question.
Assuming complete absence of anyone who can bail you out in emergency, I believe that you should have money saved for rainy days. Hopefully you will never need to use it. But if you ever did, it would mean things are already less than ideal, so why would you want to start taking out loans at that point? Gemachim, HELOCs, cash advances, can be pretty quick ways to rise cash in an emergency but might also not be available when you need them. So that’s two reasons not to think of borrowing as your emergency fund.
As far as the fact that interest earned on the savings is less than what you would have saved on loan interest, I think you should just accept that as a capital cost. But by all means, pay down your debt as soon as you are able (possibly excluding mortgage), but after you have a cash fund.
And again, I would caution you to not rely on Areivim instead of buying your own life insurance. Areivim could go up in smoke at any time, and the most important thing in choosing an insurer is that they will be there forever. Insurance companies are unlikely to vanish or go bankrupt, and even if they do the state has a guarantee fund. Areivim offers no guarantees.
I will have time later to give a more detailed response if you want to hear it, but I had to comment quickly on two things:
Yes, it makes sense to save even though you have debt. The reason is because paid off debt is not a liquid asset, but a savings account is. If you need cash one day, you cna’t waive your lower loan statement at the checkout line, but you can use money from a savings account.
Areivim as life insurance at best goes under the category of insurance that “you have, but you one day won’t”, as your teacher put it.
Popa, I heard that this is reliable info. The upper deck is separate but visible, so some people would not be satisfied.
The high cost is because the stadium will not allow a flimsy partition to be used out of safety concerns. Therefore a structurally sound barrier is needed, and removal after the siyyum. This would cost money anywhere, but did I mention that the work has to be done by NJ union workers?
I missed the last one, but I clearly remember the two siyyumin before that, in MSG. The women were in the top box and could barely be seen. That is not comparable to the open air football stadium it is held in this time. So I can easily see why certain groups might avoid the event without a mechitza.
Who should decide if it makes good business sense? The group organizing the event. If they don’t think that they can fill the seats (100,000 this time – more than triple the capacity of MSG) without those groups, then it is prudent to make a mechitza to accommodate their patronage. If they do think they can sell out without them, but still decide that they prefer to have these groups attend over others who might not want a mechitza, then it is their choice. True, it may not be the best decision in profitability, but it is still a business decision just making handicapped seating available at sold out theatre shows.
In other words, mind your own business.
Popa, I am not knowledgable in hilchos eiruvin, but I assume that your room is a different reshus from the rest of the hotel and you would need an eiruv. I know that when frum groups go to hotels the organizer makes sure there is one person who takes care of the eiruv, but I thought the OP might be going alone. It is easy to make an eiruv chatzeiros but you have to know that you need one.
Are you talking about the waste of money spent on leasing the stadium, or just on the mechitza? I’ll tell you what is unnecesary, and that is spending millions on a one night get together. Does that bother you too? Maybe everyone should give the money they would spend on tickets to tzeddaka instead.
If you are going to have the siyyum in the stadium, then putting up the mechitza is a wise business move on the part of Agudah, because it broadens the specrum of ticket buyers. Without a mechitza, many RW communities would not participate and you would have empty seats.
Feif, I won’t call you a troll, but since you obviously xould have thought this out for yourself I will say you are looking to make trouble.
How do you carry your key to the front desk? Did you make an eiruv chatzerois? Did you find out if any other jews are in the hotel, and did you lease the public space from the hotel owner? I don’t see how a key is better.
How do you carry your key to the front desk? Did you make an eiruv chatzerois? Did you find out if any other jews are in the hotel, and did you lease the public space from the hotel owner? I don’t see how a key is better.
“I have not added in any clothing, gas, car insurance, or life expenses that come up, not to mention heat, electric, yom tov, let alone light bulbs, exterminator, plumber…(forget vacation or eating out – not happening)and for women who work more than part time and need child care?”
So how do you manage to pay for all the ‘not included’ items that you listed? Yor answer will probably help explain your questions about ‘everyone else with the Odessey’.
Awwww. I’ve survived. Are you consoling me or patronizing me?
Well I guess it wasn’t funny then. Maybe no one is in the mood for parodying tuition solutions.
I don’t know if I would call it miraculous, but no doubt some people would. Many civilizations have, had, or proposed a week of more or less than 7 days. Examples that come to mind are Stalin’s Russia (both 5 and 6 day weeks), and the Tang dynasty (10 day week). This would make life exceedingly complicated for Shabbos observers, so it is wonderful that this is not an issue.