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WELCOME YW-MODERATOR 77!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes, but you will seriously deplete your oxygen supply quickly causing you to hyperventilate slightly. You will also create great stress on your eyes leading to headaches and fatigue. Is that a good diet strategy?
Getting settled? Why – is there a problem with the Natuzzi?
Please check your top drawer for the box of Cubans I left for you.
Bach, dude. The youth minyan is for anyone under 80.
coke: check it out on google
moish – no shot? I guess I’ll have two tonight, to make up for your underage limitations.
Welcome, and thumbs up for the cool, original screen names!
moish, the singles functions? Or the spaghetti and meatballs?
SJS, reform sounds like a good idea. Which means it will never happen. G’luck!
ames, the weight is probably coming off because of the eye stress from staring at a computer screen for extended hours. Your eyes take a lot of energy to run!
kiruvwife, I too, think that the Japanese guy got off easy.
azi the better question is how much does it cost YOU to avoid learning and correcting your errors, simply to satisfy your preconceived notions and agendas?
Joseph, I am far from comfortable blurbing the words of Harav Chaim Volozhin. Especially in this Shaar. He uses some very powerful words, and I could never repeat them for common distribution (I’m sure you will understand exactly what I mean).
I started a thread with the same idea a week or so ago. Namely, I started to notice a number of frum family men who lost their job and others who were in danger of it. I am hoping that if anyone has a random lead for a breadwinner job they can post what they know and maybe some good will come of it.
Itzik, it is my guess that you never tasted coffee. Drinking instant does not count. See the other coffee thread (which is titled for some reason “How much time do you spend on YWN).
Joseph, first of all, thanks for handling the case so well. Is it FULL amnesty? i.e., can I come back from Syria now? I miss the chilly weather.
Second, the drop in income is not a problem because here I can hire household help for less than $1 per person per day. So I’m actually living like a millionaire.
Third, my cover may or may not have been thin, but I guarantee you that no one else will find it out (though SJS would have known who I am if I had been right about her).
Signed,
squeak mit a “Y” (I just love this edit button)
SJS, there is NOTHING wrong with getting paid in cash. Not in my opinion, and not in the opinion of the IRS. There are circumstances that require it. Not reporting those cash payments, however, is illegal. Of course no frum person should be doing anything illegal. So taking cash “under the table” to maintain welfare status is crooked and is NOT condoned.
Not trying to get a job, is a valid and legitimate response to incentives. I have no problem with that. Make it sweet enough and I won’t work a day in my life. In the UK, they actually have such a system, where one can volunteer to NOT join the workforce in exchange for payments.
The number of games that people do is enormous. Some are completely legitimate, some are pretty shady. But I will only condemn the ones that are illegal (though I would never want anyone I know to do anything shady either).
ames, that’s because guys don’t go on the site
Itzik, for your situation I would recommend using duct tape to hold your eyelids open. Coffee is for enjoyment.
Joseph, are you trying to tell me that you don’t own a nefesh hachayim? You can always obtain the electronic version online.
SJS, is it immoral to follow incentives and disincentives? Is that not human nature?
areivim, sorry, I meant afternoon. You were clear, it’s just this brain that gets a little cloudy sometimes, especially when it’s so hot and humid.
…and if you’re comparing to Bush’s performance, C- is a pretty familiar GPA.
As I said before, it is not a widespread minhag but it is a real one. And it sounds silly when you young ‘uns announce that it was started 15 to 20 years ago. Were any of you around back then to know?
charlie: areivim is strictly a night poster, Joseph is working 50+ hour weeks in this season, and squeak has gone into hiding since Joseph busted his cover.
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Since when does Lubavitch follow German customs? I’m sure that my knowledge of German customs (even if it was 100% accurate) shouldn’t be used to determine Lubavitch customs.
Darwin, you asked us to suggest places you would enjoy? I can think of many. All of them are under bridges. Because that is where you will find…
Trolls.
ames, does your husband know about this?
I believe German custom is to tovel keilim that are made out of plastic. But I think that only applies to hard plastic, since it is given to becoming a permanent keili, and not soft plastic which is flimsy and disposable.
In general, one does not need to tovel a disposable item. Even if one reuses the item, if it is intended to be disposable (and the person will eventually dispose of it) it does not require tevila. Hence, a soda can, or a snapple bottle may be refilled with water without tevilla, because they are disposable.
It follows that if one would decide to keep an item for permanent use (say a soft drink that comes in a nice glass container, such as I’ve seen POM tea come in), it would be proper to tovel it before reusing.
As with any such issue, the best thing is to find out what you can and then ask the Rov whose psak you follow.
Well, I guess there was no prize after all….
Joseph, did I say that? Some you remember, some you forget, eh?
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Joseph, I’m referring to Shaar Daled of Nefesh Hachayim.
Liar!
SJS, have no doubt that you are right. You can daven to/thank Hashem every second of your life, for anything you want. That shows a tremendous devaikus (purposely spelled it differently, so no wise guy makes a crack about Abie Rottenberg here). But you should also keep the prayers instituted by the Anshei Kenesses Hagedolah.
moish, when you have time do look up the term that I used. I believe if you read about it you will find interesting things about yourself.
believe it Joseph. Or look it up and you will see it! (Seeing is not believing)
SJS, a good deal depends on how often you follow the Rov’s advice. If you decide pretty much everything on your own, but go to the Rov once or twice a year, I have no doubt that you will not see much seyata d’shmya from it. It’s the people who rely on their Rov for everything that find out how valuable daas torah is.
Everyone can make mistakes, even Moshe Rabbeinu did. But how many people make as few as he did? The point is that if you think that your mistakes are on the same level as the ones a Rov makes, well, you’re making another mistake 🙂
As for your comment about Chassidus, I see that you have no idea what Chassidus was like originally, or what the Rabbonim had against it. I never met a Chassid who rolls in the snow, or refuses to learn anything but Mussar all day. Chassidus evolved, and with that evolution it gained acceptance. Lihavdil, do you realize that modern day capitalism is not pure capitalism, as Karl Marx made some very good points in his manifesto. Capitalists decided to adopt some of his ideas in order to keep the workers from throwing off their chains. Aren’t you glad that you don’t have to work 14 hours per day and live in a hovel?
Joseph, it was one of the first things I heard on the boat over, not counting the sounds of tefillin going overboard.
SJS, do you subscribe the belief that God is a “clockmaker”, who “wound up” the world and then went away? This is now the second time that you have indicated that you do. That belief is kefirah. Read the first Ani Ma’amin to learn why.
Please tell me that I misunderstood.
yup. that’s a dead giveaway, isn’t it
And after a week we give up and move on to a different one?
No moish, most people don’t look at “guys like you” as wimps. That’s because most of us struggle with the same feelings that you have. Some of us more than others. Some of us constantly. And the only reason why we’re still “frummies” is because we hash it out, whether it be with people or on our own (obviously with people is better).
Now if you told me that you didn’t believe in God, then I’d call you a wimp. That’s a cop-out to deal with cognitive dissonance. But if you know what’s right and acknowledge it, that takes guts, especially when you have no interest in doing what that admission means you have to do. We all do wrong things. It’s just a question of minimizing it.