takahmamash

By far the majority are ehrilch yungerlite sitting and learning shark.

I’ve heard of “crying wolf.” I’ve heard of “skinning the cat.” I’ve never heard of “learning shark,” unless one is going into the fish business.

Challot are done every other Tuesday (and frozen), and the rest is done Thursday night or Friday. (Each daughter is responsible for making 1 or 2 things, so the cooking depends on their work/school schedules.) My wife usually cooks on Fridays.

Table is set Friday afternoon.

I hear Israel is a pure rip off . . .

What kind of lashon hara/narishkeit is this?

If you spend all your time shopping in Yerushalayim amongst the tourists, then yes, you will find the more expensive prices. Real Israelis do not buy their household items in the same places most tourists and Anglo yeshiva bochrim/sem girls do their shopping.

When you make aliyah you will learn this.

If you live in Alaska, the most pressing issue you would have to deal with, is whether to take a day off from laying Tefillin on Friday? or on Saturday?

Why? Alaska is not on the other side of the date line – it’s the same day as the rest of the United States. It shares a time zone with Hawaii, UTC – 9 hours.

I usually just perform “Jabberwocky.”

takah, are you holding on to that in case you need an escape hatch?

No, I am holding it because I have an elderly mother in America with health issues, and if I need to go, I won’t have time to make an appointment with the American embassy and wait to get a visa on my Israeli passport.

My late father was ill, and I ended up going back and forth 3 times while he was ill and once for the levaya. I was quite thankful that I had my U.S. passport so I didn’t have to deal with visas, and (of course) I was able to go through the faster citizen’s line at the airport in Newark.

Wasn’t that talking fish from a few years ago also in Monsey? Perhaps the spirit in the fish made it’s way out, split, and became bearded midgets?

It’s unfortunate that chareidim or sikrikim or whoever it is thinks they own these places. What’s next? Are they going to try to ban iPhones from the kotel as well? How about ma’arat hamachpela? I thought that these were the types of people who spent all their time learning; if they’re learning, how do they have time to worry about other people’s phones?

Also, Umami (not Yumami) has a nicer atmosphere, better menu, really good cocktails, and all around better food than David Chu’s (not David Schu’s). I like David Chu’s, too, but Umami is definitely superior and well worth the higher prices.

Debatable, and I disagree. Umami is better on a few things, but overall, David Chu’s is the better choice, IMHO.

I will change it to “saying good shabbos leads to flirting.”

Perhaps when one is young and not fully mature. I don’t know anyone my age that would say that saying Shabbat Shalom to a member of the opposite sex would lead to flirting.

Syag Lchochma – thank you, I appreciate it.

Oh Schreck! I read this story as well, but the chayalim were at the Kotel minutes after it was captured in the Six Day War. I think it’s in one of “The Maggid Says” series.

. . . you shouldn’t abandon the place you are used davening in because one guy is being annoying.

Curiosity, I think you misunderstood me. I meant that the pacing guy would get the message and/or maybe start davening somewhere else, not you.

Will there be Wi-fi?

Charlie: you are actually advocating that people who oppose the Israeli government should make aliah?

Of course you should make aliyah, that is, if your concerned about fulfilling as many mitzvot as is possible to do nowadays.

Remember: living in E”Y is a mitzva d’orayta. Wearing a hat is only a chumra. Don’t mix the two up.

I will ask my wife for her recipe; she and one daughter are vegan, so our challah has no eggs.

oh and also ties dont need to be so expensive and can be bought at target or h and m mens section or other cheaper places. you need eight ties to start and only one new tie a season after that and if you dont wear ties every day only start with five or six. estimated savings $200 a year or more.

Why not skip the ties completely? There is no halachic reason to wear a tie; in fact, you could say it’s chukat hagoyim.

takahmamash – they’re going to be here for 1 month. I don’t think she’s planning no working on the books.

I hate to be pessimistic, but if she’s only here for a month and not working legally, what kind of job does she think she’ll get? Babysitting, cleaning, that sort of thing.

Make aliyah, so the only 3 day chag you’ll have to worry about is Rosh Hashana. Problem solved.

and do you know what you miss by living in the sticks? being ten minutes from the kosel

There is no chiyuv to be at the kotel every day. It’s only an hour or so from where I live, so I’ll stay here – where there are no traffic jams and no parking hassles. B”H, I don’t need to take an 11 hour flight and pay $1200 just to get to the kotel (or anywhere else in Israel, for that matter).

we all know that bagels here arent as good

There’s actually a artisan bakery on our yishuv, with a real brick oven, the whole deal. He makes all kinds of breads, and his bagels are really good – as good as anything I’ve had in the states. People swear by his bialys as well, but I’ve never had them. See what you miss by not living out in the sticks?

Shabbat Shalom

She, as a true Bas Yisroel felt and acted upon an inner calling to be more Tznuah.

So, if she didn’t have an inner calling to be more tznuah, would that make her a false Bas Yisrael?

Is there such a thing as a schvimkleid for men?

Akuperma:

takahmamash: Except that in Israel the government wants to take yeshiva students (and girls, if you see the fine print) and put them into a military that sees one of its goals as being the secularizion of all Israels so there will be uniform culture (meaning that if you are conservadox or a left-wing religious zionist Israel is perfect, but not if you are frum).

Wow, thanks so much – I guess I’m not frum! That makes me feel so much better; I may as well break out the bacon, cheeseburgers, and lobster.

BTW, Akuperma, whoever you are – I have a daughter in the IDF along one of the northern borders, although she is not in combat. Her frumkeit is surviving just fine, and if anything, she’s managed to have at least some religious influence on some of the girls around her. I guess it doesn’t matter, though, because I guess in your eyes she isn’t frum either.

I’m gone. I’ve had enough of the sanctimonious tone in the CR that so many of you believe if you don’t have a black hat or a sheitle, you can’t be frum. Adios. I’ll be here when Moshiach comes, watching you all fight for airline flights.