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BarryLS1:
I also know two Chareidi families that are virtually identical Hashgofos wise, yet each won’t eat certain Hashgochos the other uses.
I agree with what you wrote, and I also know two Chareidi families that do the same thing.
Dear wanderingchana:
Thank you so much for your thoughts as well. I appreciate them.
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Dear Little Froggie:
Thank you for your thank you card. I greatly appreciated it. May we both merit the zchut to celebrate many smachot with klal Yisrael in the future.
Takahmamash
P.S. Please excuse me for posting your thank you here, but I do not have an address to send a real card.
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After my bar mitzvah, my mom z”l made me write 10 thank you cards a night until I finished.
After I got married, my wife and I wrote 5 thank you cards each, 6 nights a week, until we finished.
After my dad z”l died, my sister and I wrote thank you notes for those that sent meals, made donations, etc. The same after my mom died.
Writing a thank you is simply common courtesy, and unfortunately, it’s dying out. Moreover, it’s also an acknowledgement of a gift that might have been shipped and not given in person. If I arrange to send a gift, how will I know it got to the correct destination? How will I know it was appreciated?
I haven’t gotten a thank you card for any wedding gift we’ve given in years.
Are you not proud of the uniform of a ben Torah?
Perhaps you meant to say “one possible uniform of a ben Torah.” I know many bnai Torah who do not wear hats.
Who came up with the idea of single couples going to a hotel lobby. To the rest of the world it looks incredibly improper.
I have news for you – the rest of the world cares not a whit about single Jews on dates in hotel lobbies.
I finished a bottle of 15 year old Glenfiddich today when I made kiddish. I made kiddish, drank, ate, and noticed there was only a little bit left . . . so I drank it.
I get hot, I put on a pair of shorts. I’ll change back to long pants before I go to shule to daven. That’s just the way it is.
and wait a half hour for a burger?!
I’ve never waited 30 minutes, and even if I did, it’s worth it. If you don’t want to wait, find a Burgers Bar in a non-touristy area.
Brooklyn, shmooklyn. Hop a plane to Israel and go to Burgers Bar!
Where the Jewish community is in Baltimore is safe to live in.
Some parts yes, some parts not so safe. The closer to you get to Northern Parkway, the sketchier the neighborhoods get. I wouldn’t live anywhere between Reisterstown Road and Park Heights Avenue either, not with that zoo that masquerades as a high school.
newbee:
One thing I will never forget from my first year in college (in all honesty one of the few things I remember), in a seemingly innocent psych course- one young man came in the beginning wearing a keepa, at the end of the course he stopped wearing it.
I’m curious – did you speak to the young man and ask him why he stopped wearing it, or are you assuming that it was because of the course?
Any Jew who hasn’t already evacuated Baltimore is being Mevatel a Mitzvah Asseh de’Oraisso of “veNishmartem Me’od leNafshosechem” each & every second that s/he is remaining in Baltimore.
I dare you to name one Rav from Baltimore who would agree with this shtuss.
Last I heard, not shaving is a minhag and not halacha.
So is not eating kitniyot, and you know how people here feel about
that !
Damage from the riot was minimal and limited to the central business district.
You wrote this too early. From what I’ve read the rioting has spread within a mile or so from some of the frum areas.
147, how can you say “rotten Baltimore?” The residents thereof refer to it as “Baltimore Ir Hakodesh,” R”L.
This entire thread makes me feel incredibly sad.
We said Hallel today for the first time since Rosh Chodesh. It was very inspiring.
Better you should NOT inform people about the speed trap; let the fools that insist on speeding get caught. Maybe they’ll learn not to speed.
The Wolf:
And that was the dilemma I was faced with on Shabbos. I don’t have a mesorah to say Yizkor during the first year and I don’t have a mesorah not to.
In the end, I said Yizkor.
The first time yizkor came up during my first year in aveilut, I asked our Rav. He said the general minhag in E”Y is not to say it the first year, so I didn’t.
I, too, am sorry for your loss.
What’s the logic that the same matzah that is hamotzi on Pesach becomes mezonos when it isn’t Pesach?
The same logic that’s used to make peanuts and peanut oil kitniyot, even though they were fine in the 1960s and 70s. It’s not logic, it’s magic.
Some Ashkenazi in Israel will use Sfardi soft matzoh on Shabbos.
Sfardi matzah was declared minhag hamakom on our yishuv some time ago, so we used it throughout Pesach.
Move them to Jordan and be done with it.
Minimize and/or eliminate contact towards what end?
You can read all you want about chess on Wikipedia.
We shall be eating matzah and lots of kitniyot.
From the Star-K website:
ERUY ROSCHIM
Sinks are generally made from either stainless steel, granite composite, china, porcelain enamel, steel, or Corian.
Stainless steel sinks can be kashered using the following method: Clean the sink thoroughly. Hot water should not be used or poured in the sink for 24 hours prior to kashering. It is recommended that the hot shut-off valve under the sink be turned off 24 hours before kashering. Dry the sink before kashering. Kashering is accomplished by pouring boiling hot water from a Pesach kettle/pot over every part of the stainless steel sink. Tip: If a roasting pan is filled and heated, the pouring surface is much wider than a kettle spout. It is not sufficient to pour water on one spot and let it run down the sink. The poured water must touch every part of the sink, including the drain and the spout of the water faucet. It is likely that the kashering kettle will need to be refilled a few times before kashering can be completed. After kashering, the sink should be rinsed with cold water. If hot water was used in the sink accidentally during the 24 hour dormant period, and there is not enough time before Pesach to leave the sink dormant for an additional 24 hours, a shaila should be asked.
China sinks cannot be kashered at all. These sinks should be cleaned, not used for 24 hours, and completely lined with contact paper or foil. The dishes that are to be washed should not be placed directly into the sink. They must be washed in a Pesach dish pan which sits on a Pesach rack. It is necessary to have separate dish pans and racks for milchig and fleishig dishes.
Porcelain, Corian or Granite composite sinks should also be considered similar to a china sink, since there is a controversy as to whether these materials can be kashered. Granite composite is a material fashioned from granite and plastic. Most sinks that look like granite are actually granite composite.
Am I allowed to buy chometz to feed the animals?
Only if you dip the chometz twice before using it.
I have a friend here who told me his family’s seder started half an hour late because one of the tables collapsed. He said bottles of wine broke and one seder plate went flying.
We eat hot dogs dipped in ketchup for karpas. I’ve never seen this anywhere else.
It’s not a choice, it’s a mitzvah. If you’re makpid on chumrot in other parts of your life, there’s no reason not to be makpid on the mitzva of yishuv ha’aretz.
I install new toilets every year right before Pesach. I won’t eat in someone’s house unless I know the toilets have been changed.
LWers are often against minhagim that were established due to factors that are (at least in their opinion) no longer relevant today.
That’s the point – that those factors are no longer relevant today. I grew up eating peanuts on Pesach, and I clearly remember my Mom z”l using peanut oil. You cannot convince me that some time between the late 60s/early 70s until today that peanuts magically became kitniyot.
In my dream shule . . .
* everyone is in the shule for shacharit at least 5 minutes early.
* when it’s cold, the heat goes on. When it’s hot, the A/C goes on, especially when it’s humid. None of this “just open the windows.”
* nobody decides to make change from the pushke in the middle of davening. The pushke is not a bank.
* people who finish their Amidah stand in place; no wandering around, no seeking another person to shmooze with.
* the ba’al koreh is always properly prepared.
* chairs get pushed back under the tables after davening, and sforim are returned to the shelves. The dream shule does not employee a maid.
* newcomers and visitors should not automatically expect a table seat.
* the gabbi ensures that anyone who comes looking for tzedaka waits until davening is finished before giving a pitch and wandering through.
yekke2, thanks for the memories. I used to love listening to that song!
They’re a waste of money with no basis in halacha.
This is a trick question – everyone knows the father can’t have a job, or else he won’t find shidduchim for his kids.
On a more serious note, my kids are older (as in moved out of the house), so I basically concentrate on a few things that I prepare ahead of time.
Assuming the shaliach tzibur is saying kaddish, everyone should go at his speed. That’s what we do in our shule. (When I was saying kaddish and doing the bulk of the weekday davening, I slowed my kaddish speed for another avel who was unable to say it more quickly.)
He needs to go live with Carter so Carter can teach him how to become a doddering old fool.
I wonder how many families that pay to go away are paying full tuition at their kids’ schools?
If Rav Shmuel was your posek, would you go against his Psak and vaccinate?
I’d find another Posek.
I was very impressed with Reb Shmuel’s comments that he had the courage to take on the arrogant doctors . . .
Being a Talmud Chacham does not necessarily give one the ability to make sensible comments about matters of science.
Monitor
If you buy NON IRON – its less work for your wife or you save by not sending the shirts to the cleaners !
Why less work for his wife? He can’t iron them himself?
To The Goq:
The OP stated:
Unfortunately due to my wife’s condition we had to move close to where she is being treated (about 60 miles from Baltimore) and there is no frum community here.
He doesn’t say if they’re living 60 miles from Baltimore or she’s being treated 60 miles from Baltimore, but either way, it doesn’t sound like Hopkins, which is in east Baltimore. If she’s being treated at Hopkins, they could easily live in Park Heights or Greenspring and commute.
If you go to Baltimore, you need to see Rabbi Heinemann or one of his assistants at the Agudah to get a teuda. It’s a formal, laminated document that’s good for a specific amount of time. You won’t get much around the city if you don’t get one of these. Also be prepared to get tzedaka scrip, which you turn in at the Aguda to get actual money. When you get scrip, I think 10% goes to local schools.
B’hatzlacha!
I don’t understand. In another thread you said you want to go to Lakewood. In this thread, you say you want to go to Baltimore. Are you planning on driving back and forth? It’s not like they’re around the corner from each other!
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