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We’ve not had sirens where we live, but two of my kids heard sirens at work a few nights ago. Since then, business has slacked off for them at night; one of them came home early last night because the Aroma where she works had no customers.

A friend of mine in Tel Aviv has posted several videos and pictures of people heading for shelters, taking cover beside bust stops, etc.

Will Israel retake Gaza? Doubtful. That would mean a protracted ground war and many casualties.

I had an American History teacher in my BY school that had us sing the national anthem and pledge allegiance every day before class. And America the Beautiful too; “Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain…”

My 6th grade (public school) teacher made us memorize two verses of the National Anthem, as well as all the verses of “My Country Tis of Thee” and three verses of “America the Beautiful.” We also had to memorize “The American’s Creed” and the Preamble to the Constitution.

Each morning we said the Pledge of Allegiance, the American’s Creed, and sang one of the songs. Can you imagine that happening in a public school today? The teacher would probably be fired for not being multicultural enough.

Why wear a tie at all? Save your tie money and buy seforim instead, or buy your wife a dress. Moshe Rabbeinu didn’t wear a tie, you know.

If we’re the ones doing the inviting, I’ll call the other husband on Thursday night or Friday afternoon, and I’ll tell him where I’m davening, what time I expect to be home, and what time I’d like to start the meal. That way everybody’s on the same page, and we have minimal delays.

My wife knows I like to get started as soon as everyone’s home, so we try to minimize the conversation until after we make homotzee.

If we’re the ones going out, I try to find out where the other person’s davening, and we try to time our arrival so they have a minimal delay.

I don’t think this is the biggest chesed, but it’s on my mind now since it happened yesterday.

I was wandering through Kiryat Moshe looking for an early minyan with no success. I stopped someone and asked if he knew of an early minyan in the neighborhood; he said yes and walked me the three or so blocks to get there. We got to the shule, and he said “Shabbat Shalom” and walked away. I thought it was so nice that he walked 3 blocks out of his way to get me to a shule that he wasn’t davening at.

Of course, I could also say that the biggest chesed was my wife arranging for us to be in Yerushalayim for Shabbat to begin with. So nice, so relaxing, so quiet . . . and no kids!

Jean Valjean was arrested for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving child . . . and look what happened to him.

This topic has already been covered several times.

Pick something new to talk about.

Wishing you much hatzlacha in your move and an easy klita. May more be zoche to follow you.

FriendInFlatbush, succah on Shmini Atzeres is halachah.

Maybe in chu”l, certainly not in E”Y. In E”Y nobody eats in their sukka on Sh”A.

Wow. Had a bad day, did you? I hope you feel better now that it’s morning.

No, actually my day has gone quite well, B”H.

And wouldn’t you think we would celebrate our freedom and initiation as Bnei Yisroel by learning instead of chewing Matza, Maror, and cups of wine? And Purim? Oy. Why don’t we just learn through the day? Why do we even have a Shabbos Seuda when could have had a ‘meaningful fast’ instead while learning profound thoughts and insights?

I guess you don’t realize that your examples are actual mitzvot, you know, things we are commanded to do. There is no mitzva in dancing around a fire; if there is, tell me the bracha that’s said.

That is also why an avel does not eat with a group of three or more.

There are certainly many who would disagree with that statement.

B’sha’ah tovah! Don’t forget to get the alarm clock so that he doesn’t oversleep.

When our oldest was a newborn, my wife would set her alarm to go off every three hours, so she could nurse the baby. She got so tired that by the second week, she would routinely sleep through the alarm. That’s how she learned to let a sleeping baby sleep; the baby will let you know when s/he’s hungry.

Eretz Yisrael is our homeland, and is a mitzvat asei to live there (which seems to be ignored by many).

Switch to nusach Sfard and say “morid hatal” instead. Or, make aliyah – I think everyone in E”Y says “morid hatal,” regardless of what nusach they daven.

I don’t think any insurance covers glasses. The insurance we had pre-aliyah covered eye exams, but not glasses. We paid for glasses out of our pre-tax flexible spending account.

We finished at about 1. We had only one seder, you know, the way Hashem intended.

this English teshuvot phenomenon is an aish zarah from the open orthodoxy/conservative/idf crowd.

As far as I know, the IDF works in Hebrew, except for a few very specific offices and commands. If you’re going to slur the IDF, at least use a truthful slur.

Akuperma, where do you make up your facts from?

Its the old style “oogat matza” that largely died out since they tend to go hametzdik (that’s probably where the minhag of gebrokts came from)

I know many Sfardim who keep these all Pesach long, and they don’t “go chametzdik.”

though some Sefardi communities keep them, and every year some people try to revive the custom among Ashkenazim (usually as the “koolah” of the year)

They are quite plentiful in E”Y. They guy where we bought our Ashkenazi matza has the soft ones for NIS 70/kilo. It’s certainly not a kula to use them; after all, if we go by minhag avoteinu, all matzot back then were soft. Do you think Hillel made a sandwich with cracker matzah?

Rav Schachter says they’re fine to use for Ashkenazim and Sfardim.

I’m curious – do people in E”Y who don’t eat gebrokts also eat it on the last (7th) day, or is this only in chu”l where there’s an 8th day?

besalel, how would your maggid shiur know what the Shulchan Aruch would or wouldn’t do? It sounds to me like he’s still feeling the effects of his Purim wine.

Aren’t you supposed to remove your retainer before you eat?

It’s not 1 a.m., it’s 8:46 a.m. Get out of bed and get yourself moving!

Bottom line, we do what we have to do for Pesach. But no one should be critical of someone else who DOES eat gebrochts. We should be delighted that so many Jews the world over OBSERVE Pesach. Even Jews who are frei, have Seder dinners, and though not the ideal, it still shows the pintele Yid in all of us.

As usual, oomis hits the nail on the head. I wish I could express myself in my writing as well as she does.

My mom used to make fantastic farfel, I could eat bowl after bowl of it.

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