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  • in reply to: people going places sick #1183945
    takahmamash
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    What’s just as bad is when someone who’s hacking and wheezing with a cold comes into shule and sits next to me. If you’re sick (yes, even with “just a cold”), stay home. Don’t sit next to me. I don’t need your illness. Daven without a minyan for a day or two.

    in reply to: Why Rabbaonim in Israel and America SILENT when Frum Soldiers Screamed At #1184287
    takahmamash
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    The super frum neighborhoods of Yerushalayim have a history of hating on the army.

    Anyone behaving in this manner is not so frum.

    in reply to: Tell us about your first date with your spouse #1183888
    takahmamash
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    for me i would go bowling on my first date so no one sees me out on a date.

    Huh? Frum people don’t go bowling? The bowling alleys are quite full of frum people.

    in reply to: Zionists, Chareidim, and Handouts #1181093
    takahmamash
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    Obeying the da’as Torah of the Gedolei Torah of the past generations and the present is our guarantee.

    Daas Torah is not infallible.

    in reply to: Life insurance #1179796
    takahmamash
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    MA: It is the norm to have life insurance.

    in reply to: ateres miriam #1178340
    takahmamash
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    Meno: actually, apushatayid got it right – Sparkly was asking “about a seminary that you [she] know nothing about including the country it is located.” I think I posted enough information for her to find out the rest of what she needs on her own.

    in reply to: ateres miriam #1178337
    takahmamash
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    Sorry, it’s Heysen Road, I misspelled it. If you enter the correct address into Google, click Maps, then you’ll get a very nice picture of the front of the building.

    in reply to: ateres miriam #1178335
    takahmamash
    Participant

    Google is your friend.

    Just by googling “Ateres Miriam” I found many entries, including the full name (Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam), the address (1214 Heyson Road, Far Rockaway, NY 11691), and a phone number (718-868-3232).

    C’mon, nobody would think to do this?

    in reply to: Davening times #1178259
    takahmamash
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    (Btw, the time I gave is for Brooklyn because apparently that’s the center of the universe. It would vary for other places in the universe)

    Joke or not, HKB”H cries at something like this.

    in reply to: Public survey about davening #1178002
    takahmamash
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    MA, I actually find davening from the siddur is better for me than davening with my eyes closed. In fact, over the last several years, I’ve pushed myself to daven from a siddur all the time, even for stuff I know my heart (Shema, Ashrei, Aleinu, Birchat Hamazon, Amidah, etc., even Kedusha.) My pronunciation is much less mumbled when I use a siddur.

    in reply to: Advice on moving to the U.S #1177774
    takahmamash
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    If you’re already going to uproot yourself and your family, why not head east and make aliyah? There’s a mitzvah to live in E”Y, and there’s certainly no mitzvah to live in Canada or the U.S. (That includes Monsey, Boro Park, Lakewood, and the list goes on and on . . .)

    in reply to: Kumzitz on the Hudson – 2016 – Kosher or Disgusting? #1177192
    takahmamash
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    Lipas music is pure goyish music with the words changed over to jewish & is ruining the ruchnius in klal yisroel & their children.

    So is the internet, but I notice you’re here anyway.

    in reply to: Tell us about your first date with your spouse #1183863
    takahmamash
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    Wow you spent 3 months on dating her before proposing and becoming engaged? That’s pretty long

    Keep in mind that we started dating at the end of August, so there was a month of chagim thrown in there as well. (Although we did see each other, and she made her first official visit to where I lived for the first days of Sukkot).

    Also, she had met my parents, but I had not yet met hers. We had to make arrangements to fly from NY to her home city so I could meet them. We got engaged less than a week after that trip. Three months in our circles is not a long time to date.

    in reply to: Flowers in Shidduchs #1171074
    takahmamash
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    My wife and I began dating in August, 1989. After 4 or 5 weeks, it was Rosh Hashana time, so I had flowers sent to her home. (She lived with 3 other girls in Flatbush at the time.) She was very appreciative, and called me right after R”H ended to thank me.

    We got engaged on Thanksgiving of that year, so I arranged to have flowers delivered to her on the following Monday at her office. She was quite surprised and excited, and she had to tell everyone why I had sent them.

    Of course, we were not yeshivish then (nor are we now), so the rules may be different. Are the rules really that rigid about something as simple as flowers?

    in reply to: Inviting other young couples over for a seuda #1170779
    takahmamash
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    Charlie equalized the guest wife helping in the kitchen with the guest “husbands” helping in the kitchen. His intention was egalitarianism (as he makes clear in his voluminous posting history). That is anathema to Jewish values.

    It’s not an anathema. It’s proper derech eretz. Maybe it’s written in your ketuba that the kitchen is your wife’s quarters and job, but it’s not written in our ketuba . . . and I doube it’s written in anyone elses, either.

    in reply to: how to become more religious? #1173998
    takahmamash
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    For a lady… hmm, long skirt to the ground will cause the malachim to “smooth your path.”

    You are aware, I’m sure, that there are communities where women specifically do not wear skirts to the ground, because they attract attention.

    Sparkly, treat all of what you read here with a grain of salt. Better to speak to a Rav or Rebbetzin who knows you and can guide you, rather than to take advice from anonymous internet denizens who may or may not know what they’re talking about.

    in reply to: Survey – for men only #1170856
    takahmamash
    Participant

    It wasn’t important at the time.

    At the time we were dating, I was able to taste Shabbat food that she had made, so I knew before we were married that there were no problems in the cooking/baking department.

    in reply to: Mekomos Hakedoshim – In Chutz La'aretz?? #1170061
    takahmamash
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    A Beis Medrash (even in Chutz L’Aretz) is a Makom Kadosh.

    True. However, once it’s torn down and the space becomes an apartment building or a parking lot, there is no more kedusha. In E”Y, places retain kedusha forever. The tiniest fingernail of dirt from the sketchiest neighborhood in Tel Aviv has more kedusha than all of your “mekomas Torah” combined.

    in reply to: Hagbah (and Gelilla) #1170670
    takahmamash
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    What is a “Torauh?” Did you mean “Torah?”

    And really, “Xahaun?” Are you transliterating Chinese?

    in reply to: Dip your fries in barbecue sauce! #1168945
    takahmamash
    Participant

    There’s a great fisn-n-chips place in Machane Yehuda, and I dip my fish and chips both in BBQ sauce.

    in reply to: Ubiquitin and Health are still at it! #1179423
    takahmamash
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    I’m not voting at all. Each time I think they’ve both hit rock bottom, one of them goes and lowers the bar even further.

    in reply to: I am very upset at the mods #1166723
    takahmamash
    Participant

    MA said:

    it [Facebook] has caused thousands if not millions of divorces & intermarriages.

    Please prove this by citing any reliable journal or research article. Otherwise, stop making up things to promote your worldview.

    in reply to: Who actually likes grape flavor? #1165420
    takahmamash
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    You’re kidding, right?

    When I was a camp counselor, the kids used to fight over the grape flavored popsicles.

    I love grape flavor.

    in reply to: smoking on Tisha Ba'v #1165448
    takahmamash
    Participant

    Asur 24/7.

    Next question.

    in reply to: letting your child get his/her liscence #1164975
    takahmamash
    Participant

    People:

    It’s spelled license.

    in reply to: Should a frum girl be in Los Vegas by Herself? #1188197
    takahmamash
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    Your brothers family is probably insulted. They feel you were meddling in something that was none of your business.

    The brother’s family is correct – it is none of VM’s business.

    in reply to: anyone know of a not pricy shadchan #1166161
    takahmamash
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    I’m interested – how much does the average shadchan charge if one of his/her couples gets married? What’s the going rate?

    in reply to: Where you going on vacation?? #1164618
    takahmamash
    Participant

    Dead Sea or Eilat, haven’t decided yet. Either way we wait until September; that way all the kids are (or should be) back in school, so there’s less tumult in the hotel.

    in reply to: Pidyon Haben? #1163901
    takahmamash
    Participant

    I once went to a pidyon haben for an adult male – he made it for himself. He became dati as an adult, and found out he required a pidyon haben but had never had one. I will always remember this one!

    in reply to: "frum" boys who smoke #1178979
    takahmamash
    Participant

    just because someone smokes doesnt mean they are otd!!!!!!!!!

    Not OTD, but definitely stupid.

    in reply to: Finnish Jewry #1161527
    takahmamash
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    <blockuote>I heard that there is a large charedi community in Turku, but I would need to live in Helsinki, the capital</blockuote>

    No, you need to live in E”Y, because there’s a mitzvat asay to do so. You would choose to ignore that and live in Helsinki, or Turku, or wherever else.

    in reply to: Dress Shirts #1160621
    takahmamash
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    I have a few I never took out of the package. What neck/arm length are you?

    in reply to: Terror in the West Bank #1160572
    takahmamash
    Participant

    Not Emanuel.

    in reply to: Car dealership #1160524
    takahmamash
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    takah: And if you knew in advance you could get equal service and price between a frum dealer and a non-frum/non-Jew, who were of equal convenience to you and equal in whatever other respects important, would you give the frum guy preference?

    Yes, I would.

    in reply to: Car dealership #1160519
    takahmamash
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    I don’t know, because whenever I bought a car, I bought it new, from a dealership. I didn’t look to see who the owner was. Frum or non-frum, I’m going to go where I get the best service, period.

    in reply to: Car dealership #1160517
    takahmamash
    Participant

    He correctly wants to support a frum person.

    I used to think that was important, until I got better service at a business establishment owned and operated by non-Jews. (My case was about a dry cleaner, but the point remains the same.)

    in reply to: Shacharis questions #1160417
    takahmamash
    Participant

    If one comes late to shachris, the first thing that is sacrificed, is Korbanos.

    Attempted humor: 6/10

    One should not be coming late to shacharit, or any minyan, on a regular basis.

    in reply to: Terror in the West Bank #1160539
    takahmamash
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    I guess I should have mentioned that the settlements are not only less safe than Tel Aviv and Ramapo, but also more dangerous than Kiryas Yoel.

    I’ve lived in the Shomron for 1 week shy of 9 years. You are wrong.

    in reply to: Shacharis questions #1160415
    takahmamash
    Participant

    Someone long ago in the CR quoted a Rav who said, “The karbanot are not in the siddur because of a printing error.” I wish I knew who said that, because it’s so true.

    in reply to: Terror in the West Bank #1160531
    takahmamash
    Participant

    kj, I believe it was one of the Rebbes of Satmar who said something similar after the bodies of the 3 k’doshim were found 2 years ago. He blamed the tragedy on their parents because they made the decision to live in Yehuda/the Shomron.

    He wasn’t right then, and you’re not right now. I guess that puts you in good company.

    in reply to: Gashmiyus at Kiddush – Official Thread #1159986
    takahmamash
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    2 and a half hours of unwavering devotion to HaKodosh Boruch Hoo on a Shabbos Morning

    90 minutes, but who’s counting?

    in reply to: I don’t like vanilla ice cream. #1159631
    takahmamash
    Participant

    The other day I was in the Aroma where my daughter works, and ordered an iced caffee. Her co-worker, knowing that my daughter took my order at the register, added some soft-serve vanilla ice cream to the top of the iced caffee, and mmmmmmmmm, it was so good . . .

    in reply to: KIPPOT SERUGOT #1159255
    takahmamash
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    I only wear my white kippah on Shabbat or chagim. They get dirty too quickly otherwise.

    in reply to: Hebrew Publishing Company #1158517
    takahmamash
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    And don’t forget the ubiquitous blue Birnbaum siddurim. I still have a copy that my dad z”l wore out from years of use. In fact, I found an old one in shule here that someone had left. I have pleasant memories of learning to daven for the amud from those siddurim.

    in reply to: May one use an escalator on shabbos? #1159099
    takahmamash
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    An escalator ins on a continuous cycle and there is absolutely no “melocho” in sight. I don’t see why it can be ossur.

    There are types of escalators that run very slowly until someone steps on, then the escalator gets up to normal speed until it’s empty again. BG airport has these, and I’ve seen them elsewhere as well.

    in reply to: Type of Tefilin you wear #1161410
    takahmamash
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    There are several people in the various minyanim I attend who wear Rashi and R”T tfillin. I know of one person who wears them both at the same time.

    in reply to: When do Yeshivas Start next year? #1161443
    takahmamash
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    In a true makom Torah the zman never ends.

    takahmamash
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    Troll

    in reply to: Are the Agudah and Rabbinical Council of America Connected? #1157883
    takahmamash
    Participant

    ROC:

    1. You don’t need to type in all upper-case letters; we can read your title just as well if you typed it normally. Typing in all upper-case is considered as if you’re shouting.

    2. The first word should be “are,” not “is.”

    in reply to: I'm going to Ma'ariv now #1193098
    takahmamash
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    Actually, weekday Arvit stays the same here until the second full week in July.

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