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My name is Shira and I am not musical, or good with literature. Did my mother make a mistake?

According to R’ Chaim Kanievsky, yes.

Is this about hexane? If not, this is really a question for you to ask your doctor/pediatrician.

I don’t think you were adequately informed. While some are touting soy as a “killer”, I think they are a little out of control. I tend to side with the moderates, who say that soy may not be the miracle food it was once thought to be, but there is probably nothing wrong with consuming a moderate amount on a daily basis. Just don’t overdose on the stuff.

Definitely ask your doctor.

blinky- I hate made up stories like that one.

This story first reached the snopes.com inbox in June 2006. While it would be somewhat heartening to believe one of those otherwise fated to die on September 11 escaped being murdered by the terrorists who used commercial aircraft as weapons through his stubborn refusal to compromise his piety by leaving his tefillin behind, this tale does not seem to pass scrutiny.

At 8:14 a.m. on 11 September 2001, United Airlines Flight 175 left Boston’s Logan Airport for Los Angeles with 65 people aboard. Terrorists who were on that flight hijacked the plane and crashed it into the south tower of World Trade Center at 9:06 a.m.,18 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 (with 92 people aboard) was flown into the north tower of World Trade Center at 8:48 a.m.

None of the news accounts or official investigations we’ve examined of the events of that day mention anyone’s insisting to be let off Flight 175 at the last moment (to retrieve religious items or for any other purpose) or suddenly exiting the plane after the doors had been closed. Also, accommodating a passenger who had changed his mind about flying would not merely have been a matter of letting that person off the plane even before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, an exiting passenger’s checked luggage would have had to have been retrieved from the airplane’s cargo hold.

Moreover, even if a passenger on that plane had created a last-minute fuss, such an event doesn’t appear to be connectible to the flight’s delay in taking off. While Flight 175 was 16 minutes late getting airborne, finally taking off at 8:14 AM, it did push back from Gate 19 at Logan within a minute of its regularly scheduled departure time and therefore did not spend that 16-minute interval sitting at the gate. The intervening period before the plane’s eventual take-off was expended on the tarmac, presumably a result of routine tie-up in morning taxiing times. Once the flight had pushed back from the gate and entered traffic on the runways at Logan, it could not have disgorged a passenger, no matter how insistent he might have been, without returning to the gate. And United Flight 175 did not return to the gate it took to the air just as American Flight 11 was being hijacked.

The account of a pious Jew who disembarked from Flight 175 because he would not be parted from his sacred objects and by so doing delayed the second plane’s hitting the World Trade Center for 18 minutes, thereby giving countless others a chance to flee the south tower, is found in Even in the Darkest Moments, a 2002 collection of September 11 stories compiled by Zeev Breier. It appears in that anthology as “Beloved Mitzvah” by Rabbi Israel Feinhandler, a writer of many instructional books on marriage and child rearing who is described by The Weekly Parsha as a “Rabbi of a community in the Romema section of Jerusalem, a renowned posek, and a lecturer in various yeshivos and kollelim in Jerusalem.”

While the story appears to be more fable than truth, it perhaps more fairly should be regarded as an object lesson on the importance of maintaining one’s religious convictions even when it would be far more convenient to set them aside.

Barbara “soul survivor” Mikkelson

If this bickering doesn’t stop soon, I’m gonna come and whup y’all upside the head with my Ferragamo cane 🙂

What about L-ah? I think that’s pronounced “Lehdashah”

Well thanks for ruining a good joke, BPT 😉

Inviting coworkers to an upsherin is something I find a bit odd- do you also invite your coworkers to your son’s 4th birthday party? Or to your 10 year old son’s haircut? Should I have invited my associates to my last haircut (what little I have left)? Hey, Rob, Dave, and Jim- let’s go to the barber shop for my haircut, then we’ll go to the Rabbi’s house for some honey covered books. Or is it only if I get a haircut on my birthday?

An upsherin is very different from a bris, bar mitzvah, or wedding. And in my experience, inviting your close coworkers or business associates to a bris, bar mitzvah, or wedding that you are making is almost expected (from their point of view- so darchei shalom), and is always an opportunity to make a kiddush hashem. You don’t have to, but I think it’s pretty understandable why people who do invite coworkers are doing so.

Yoda say, when a good quote you do hear, question its veracity you do not.

Homeowner, from your post it seems that you are claiming to be a Rav. A piece of friendly advice to you, don’t claim to be something you are not. You could get into trouble for it. Are you really a homeowner? I sure hope so….

PBA- I was kidding with myfriend Helpful about mesirah. I had no idea that the tow truck company has nothing to do with the city. Obviously, if it is not the government then “moiser” doesn’t apply in that sense.

You could learn some things from dolphins….

Wow, Feif- talk about misunderstanding.

I wasn’t saying that the difference between those who learn Daf Yomi and those who learn in Yeshiva is aptitude. Not at all.

I was saying that the difference between one who learns Daf Yomi and remembers nothing vs your uncle (and those like him) who develop tremendous bekiyyus in Shas is aptitude. Similarly, the difference between yeshiva boys who spend months on a single amud gemara and remember nothing vs those who become bekiyyim in a sugya is also aptitude.

IOW, the difference in knowledge after time has elapsed is in who has done the learning, not how quickly the pages turned.

He’s already told us once that he won’t explain his name.

Besides, this is more fun.

Yes, I agree. His post makes no sense.

Helpful,

Forgive me. I thought the question you posed was whether tow truck companies will do this at the homeowner’s request. If you meant to ask whether or not the homeowner is halachically permitted to avail himself of the tow truck service, then I misunderstood and I apologize.

Feif-

The difference is likely aptitude, and not method of study. Aptitude is a bad word these days, especially when it comes to academic pursuits, but I bet your uncle would remember whatever he learned b’iyyun as well as whatever he learned b’bekiyyus, while the folks Real Brisker mentions wouldn’t remember what Abbayye said to Rava 2 minutes by the time they started looking at the Maharsha.

Well thanks for ruining a good joke, BPT 😉

whats MOQ stand for?

It’s short for Moq Del Tnoc.

” WHICH REBBE? “

I saw this one coming, Shimmel, so I thought about an answer that would satisfy all.. the Rebbe we all follow, the Rebbe of klal yisroel: (scroll down for answer)

Moshe

(what… you think the title Rabenu is just for tax purposes?)

This answer satisfies all? Suddenly we all have to follow this Sefardic leader, Moshe Rabbeinu? I’m not a Sefardi.

WIY- I said nothing of ascetism. But friendships should not be based on money. Only on whether or not your friend helps you reduce your taxes 😉

I’m just going by what I see. A “Chochom”, who may be mattir nedarim as a party of 1, is defined as someone well versed in the halachos and prattim of nedarim. I haven’t seen anyone here lay claim to that.

Nyet.

WIY- Truly, I’m amazed at how this makes a difference – friendship is supposed to be altruistic.

At least Sacrilege can offer to help me with my tax assessment. What do you bring to the table?

Cigarettes: Impossible to know, since we have no way to predict how many more butts he will find in the day (he doesn’t have any leftovers from the previous day because he smokes everything right away).

WIY- Sac is correct. A father can be maifir his daughter’s nedarim only when she is a na’arah. Older than that, she needs a “beis din” or a chocham like anyone else.

Fair enough. But if I’m wrong, then myfriend is the first female CR member to ask me to lunch (good thing I said no, then) 🙂