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“4-8 inches”
Don’t believe everything you read – betcha a buck we don’t get 2 inches!
BH-Depends who you are. I work with a couple autistic kids who find this topic facinating. Dont knock it.
Zahavasdad-sure, the book, but why the publishing house? I think your opinion on a book is one thing. People here make comments, and discussions about there being no good authors or novels. That, to me is more problematic halachically, but also unfair as not everyone agrees.
I’m surprised there is filtering of the negative opinions because I always cringed at the negative comments about Jewish novels and sometimes, named authors. I don’t agree with the opinions and worried about the issurim involved in those posts.
I still can’t figure it out. And I watched my son do it. I need to find someone under 10 who can explain it to me.
testing, testing 🙁 didn’t work
kapusta – Thanks so much! Compliments are worth millions. And I think I have a double points coupon here somewhere . . .
Yehuda Tzvi – You are depressed at how your life looks – compared to what you thought it should look like. You still don’t know what future Hashem has in store and just because things look so awful now, does not mean things wont be better. Hashem may want you to say, “Okay, my plans aint happening. Let me see what You have in store for me” and then a Yeshua can be standing there waiting. I cannot tell you how many times things like that have happened to me. I have had close minded, ego centric people walk up to me after years of abuse and display a total miraculous turn around! NOTHING is out of Hashems reach. I can’t promise you health, but I promise you that Hashem wants you to depend on Him and trust Him. Now you are dependent. Tell him you are working on trust and want His help with it. You can do it, we will stay here to cheer you on!
Excuse me Goq – The Chassidishe Gatesheader is not available to take your welcome right now, would you like to be transferred to his voicemail?
Gee Zeeskite, thanks so much for your kind words.
“when I leave and come to NY- no snow”
when are you moving to chicago? please?
There are chewable prenatals, my midwife told me about them years ago. The were not sold everywhere but were order-able. Ask your ob if they know of them.
they are flavors of jelly bellys! Bleh!
usually they wait til I am last but I have been here less often
usually they wait til I am last but I have been here less often
midwesterner – He didn’t bring his helmet so I hope he stays away.
musser zogger – I’m hoping he’ll learn enough to answer his little sisters Shabbos bonus questions!! We all know who the REAL tanach trivia maven is, don’t we?
My (male) friends insisted that if you ate less than 6 dunkin donuts in a sitting it wasn’t a k’zayis.
come on Goq – give us the first 8 numbers
BTguy – Thanks for your post, I feel so much better!! I am not chaplaintzvi, nor do i think a person has to be someone in order to respond. And no, I dont hold all posters by the same standards. I WISH for the same standards, but I don’t expect them. I am a huge advocate of ‘al pi darcho’ and I strongly believe you have proven yourself to be better, so I have come to expect better.
I think (by way of explanation, not to perpetuate this) that he said “talk about weird” cuz you said everyone knows they are weird. The ignorant sounded to me not to be name calling but rather to address your sweeping negative comments about the south (which I have to say blew me away before I even read your other stuff).
So, as I see from your response, you may not have realized that your first post sounded insulting and didn’t understand why his response was so defensive.
But really, I am just glad its over and I am returning you to that great pedestal that holds those posters who try to watch their words and their tone and who try to disagree with civility.
Friends?
chassidish – I feel the same way you do but if what you said was even mildly true there would be nobody smoking!
BTguy – what’s up? It is soo NOT like you to be so rude! What gives? Is the smile supposed to mean it was okay to be so hurtful? Did someone sign in under your screenname, perhaps? DY – any idea if this is a forgery????????
Yes, Goq. I did.
I’m actually trying to find a place that will deliver him a birthday cake to the dorm
B”H he sounds SOOOO awesome. He is learning well, happy to be there and feeling great. Truly a bracha.
or more normal people wearing colored ties
haLeivi – I appreciate your post. I wouldn’t have put those pieces together and it is a great point, or two. I can’t speak for the OP or subsequent posts but my impression is that it isn’t the annoying posts or the differing opinions that are being addressed here in this thread. I think it is the personal attacks. You can insult my opinion vehemently and still be kind. Like in the thread about the hechshers. But when people are mean to people and mock them, regardless of their viewpont, it is not about comfort level or understanding that there are people behind the names. In these cases I think it is about insecurity and inability to understand how your thoughts are being heard.
why would people from Scranton get insulted when nothing you have said sounds relevant to them in any way?
I’m not sure asking mods to keep insults and attacks to a minimum qualifies as sinas chinam
My son handed me a ‘card’ that said, “tacy fr chryneng my kukutel” and asked me if I could read it. I had heard him sounding it out so I said, “sure, it says Thank You For Training My Cockatiel” He answered, “Oh good, I spelled it right”
from the start. but petrified to join in. ata meivin?
(A little too much poetic license on the syllabic accents)
I tried to think up a good limerick,
I worked so hard it almost made me sick,
So I started to think,
How else can I reach Blink?
Then I figured the schmooze would get him real quick.
Shticky – Considering all the research I have done, I’d say it’s a health issue.
Forget the hardship of that money, I have no intention of supporting my kids for five years after the wedding either. The financial hardship only begins there.
I should probably switch screen names instead posting several times in a row but . . .
This idea of asking for what is good for us vs. Hashem saying no reminds me of conversations with my sister (and kids). My sister describes her young childhood home very differently than I do. I feel we had everything and got whatever my parents could afford to give us (even tho the couldn’t afford much). My sister remembers that (as a little kid)nobody cared about what she wanted and she could never get her way. But I remember that she wanted a horse, a monkey, a swimming pool (our house was the size of a garage), Pesach in Florida etc. Even when she was old enough to know that those requests were unreasonable, she still carried the feeling that her childhood requests were disregarded. When I daven for things I sometimes ask myself, “Am I asking for a horse?”
Heres my miracle – tho it may seem petty to you I almost cried from Joy! Every morning I have to wake up my boys who don’t really like school and aren’t easy to awaken. I also HATE waking people (never woke my babies when they were sleeping). I have been so stressed about how hard it is to get them up, and how my attitude about sending them to school where they aren’t happy affects my ability to wake them. This morning I called their names and they woke up! It usually takes me lifting them into sitting positions and then making sure they don’t lay back down. I was so grateful for the break He gave me.
Sam2 – You must be a relative of mine! I thought my family had a monopoly on that outlook! Even though I would try to help change your outlook (not impose, change), I want you to know I totally get what you are saying.
Goq – Those pens are so cool. I used to have a picture frame that floated like that.
Hi Kapusta! Long time no read. I keep thinking I can stop signing in, since I come here to procrastinate sometimes, but other times I can’t talk myself out of it. And now to find such a distinguished crowd all in one room, I couldn’t resist.
HI!!! What a nice break/surprise. Did you bring pictures of the kids?
We blocked his screen name. They won’t let him land at Ohare anymore.
CM – you may want to try re-reading that post
DY – don’t take it personally that I didn’t sign. I enjoy your posts and appreciate your mentchlichkiet. I just decided to no longer take part in any I-don’t-know-the-whole-story-but-I’ll-complain-anyway campaigns. (r-b: you know a lot more than I do about this stuff so I am not saying it as a reflection on you, just on what my part would have been had I joined) WB! And thanks r-b for being a shomer and defender.
So were you blocked or are you someone else? And which one of you have we been talking to all these months?
I’m petrified that this rationalizing you are doing will prevent you from leaving.
The answer is NO! we dont slam our childrens heads into the wall, no matter how angry we get. And I used to get pretty angry. Please don’t dance yourself out of this and PLEASE dont let your rav convince you that your husband plans on trying harder. Its all part of the game.
soliek – I have always felt that way about those words. I know it will take a while to change me, so I ask Hashem to speak for me while I am still learning what to say.
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One particularly bad, hard year I was asked to run a new camp program. I decided I couldn’t handle it. I told the person standing next to me that I dread making this call to the director. I called the director and said “no” but the word “Yes” came out. I KNOW my lips formed “NO”. Either way, there is where I met my husband (after 6 years of looking) Hashem does good ventriloquism when we need it/let Him.
i think its kind of funny that you asked and funnier that they answered. even when they act on my request/emails they never answer.
not wrong thread, it was one of my many things to say.
ca- how can you help someone else get unblocked?
The advice to leave said to take her kids with her.
rb – if you knew what you’d know why