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I was considering moving to Israel, but couldn’t because of working on Sunday!
That’s your reason for not making aliyah?? Because you “can’t” work on Sunday?
Confucious:
Why did mamashtakah become takahmamash?
Because Mamashtakah had a problem with the password, and despite repeated entreaties to the mods, there was no response to fix the problem. Therefore, I switched to Takahmamash.
“Two great tastes that taste great together!”
Naaah, the people who observe all the mitzvos move to E”Y.
nfgo3:
To mamashtakah: I find your post hard to believe. Please name the rebbetzin and the name and town or neighborhood of her shul, or withdraw your questionable prank.
You’re going to argue with something that was posted two years ago?
What if he does name the rebbetzin? What would it accomplish? Would you go and take away her “teudat rebbetzin?” Would you tattle to her husband? Guess what – her husband, the shule rabbi, was there, and he saw her!
I dressed as Miss Clavelle one year, and my 2nd grader dressed as Madeline (from the Madeline book series). We were quite the hit, as I recall.
I say what I mean and I mean what I say.
There’s no mitzva to drink at night.
It doesn’t matter what year it is or how Purim falls out – I spend my night helping my ezer k’neddo to get the mishloach manot together, and deciding what the delivery schedule is for the next day.
takah: How do you have more kavana in the 30 minute shachris minyan you attend, that you’ve boasted of, than on a 2 hour bus minyan?
I don’t believe I was boasting at the time; I think I was just stating a fact, that our minyan is 30 minutes.
How do we have more kavana? Let me count the ways:
1. Our minyan faces one way the entire time; we’re not subject to the twists and turns of the road.
2. We do not have to balance and/or sway because the floor is moving.
3. We do not have to raise our voices to be heard above a bus engine or outside noise.
4. We do not have to ask people to move around and change seats.
5. There is more inherent kedusha in a shule, which is a mikdash me’at, than in a bus, which has zero kedusha.
I don’t think I need to go on; I’ve made my point.
I know his family (although I have not met him personally) and I know his family is very ????. His father is a Rav and Rosh Yeshiva and a very big ????? ???.
Having a family that’s chashuv or a father who’s a talmud chacham doesn’t mean anything if the son doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Buses are not made for davening; shules are. Maybe the men need to be a bit less lazy and get into shule to daven. I can’t imagine how anyone has kavana on a crowded bus.
Yitz:
The OP wrote I was wondering what everyone’s thoughts are on how Hashem may feel about having ‘bridesmaids’ at one’s wedding.
I merely stated the obvious point. The one mistake I made was not capitalizing the H in “He.”
Why don’t you ask Hashem how he feels?
My children and wife have witnessed me (at various times) putting the cereal box and the phone book in the fridge.
If you’re looking for pure forgetfulness, I once pulled up to Toys-R-Us, dropped off my wife, parked the car, and went in. My wife looked at me and asked, “Where’s the baby?” I had completely forgotten that we had an infant in the car. Luckily, she was only in the car by herself for two minutes or so.
Akuperma –
Note the recent incident where some frum Dati Leumi officer candidates were disqualified from becoming officers because they refuse to listen to women singing (i.e. refuse to be present with naked women).
Where does naked women figure into this? What the heck are you talking about?
One of my girls (in first grade at the time) won a raffle at the motzei Shabbat learning at her school. It was a two volume set, called “The Illustrated Mishnayoth Shabbath – Mishnayos Shabbos with The Commentary of R’ Ovadia M’Bartinura.”
A few weeks later as we’re eating on a Friday night, she brings the first volume over to me, saying, “Abba, read this to me, I won it, please read it to me.”
So, I opened it to the first mishna. As you probably know, it has to do with two men, one inside a house and the other outside, and they’re extending their hands into and out of the house, handing each other something on Shabbat. I’m trying to explain everything to this poor six year old kid, who is just looking at me. Finally she asks, “Abba, are you making this up?”
BTW, the definition of arriving in time to Shacharis is being at least 5 minutes early, so that I am clad in Tallis & Tefillin before the Cantor commences services.
Our davening starts with “Rabi Yishmoel omer,” so arriving on time means getting there 17 minutes early so I can put on my tallit and tefillin, and I can say brachot and most of karbanot. As someone in the CR once said, “Having the karbanot in the siddur is not a printing error.”
As we sit here, that Cantonist organization is preparing to chap 3000 Jewish boys and some of us think it’s OK to wear its sweatshirt.
Imagine, if 3 thousand boys went in, perhaps 3 thousand girls would not have to go in.
If you all think the U.S. justice system is so stacked against frum Jews, then don’t do anything that brings you into the system. In fact, if you really think it’s so terrible, move out of the U.S. to someplace you think is better.
I recently sat shiva, and “Hamakom” was fine. I appreciated that people who didn’t know my Dad, or didn’t know him well, asked me to tell them about him. I found that tremendously comforting, because it allowed me to tell them the great things about him.
I’ll also say that I received a great deal of calls from friends in E”Y (I sat shiva in America); that was also very comforting.
I voted for Bayit HaYehudi. I’m not chareidi, so voting for Gimmel was never in my worldview. After checking the website that lists the number of votes by city/yishuv, I see there are no votes for Gimmel from the entire yishuv.
. . . and is a royal pain in the neck to take care of.
I have 2 upper teenagers and one 20 year old, and I find that our dog listens (and obeys) much better than the kids.
Having children come home for Shabbat.
ItcheSrulik:
I currently live in Gush Etzion and not all of the buses are bullet proof.
Really? I live in the Shomron, and all buses here are armored, I believe by law.
147, I hate to say this, but it’s a risk crossing the street, too. Do you let your son do that?
Many private cars in the Shomron and Yehuda have had projectile resistant glass installed. It’s very common.
My parents took several cruises on the QE2. There was a kosher kitchen, a shule, and minyanim.
If a Yeshivish person would go into an Amish area and hang with the Amish, Other than the Musctache it might be hard to tell the 2 apart.
Nah, the Amish could never get their kids into a real yeshivish place, they only wear straw hats!
panni55:
I am trying to be vegan but it is very hard to prepare food for shabbos without eggs. I am certainly not loony. I don’t try to convert people to veganism.
It’s too bad you can’t contact me off list; my wife and 1 daughter are vegan, and they have no problems coming up with vegan Shabbat food. Have you read or bought any vegan cookbooks? There are tons of vegan recipes online.
Does anyone ever think how sad HKB”H must feel when he sees that people are basing “yeshivish” on the number of a haircut?
You’ve managed without Schmulke Bernstein and Moshe Peking for all this time, and they had better food. I predict NY will survive this as well.
Sherut Leumi is national service. It is most often performed by young ladies after they graduate high school, in lieu of going into the army. I think the girls can be a “bat sherut” up to three years; my middle daughter is in her second year.
The jobs can be almost anything – working in hospitals or old age homes, in schools, working with special needs kids, working in service organizations, working in museums and historic sites, etc.
While working the girls are given a place to live (usually an apartment with other girls) and a small salary.
Keep in mind that once a girl gets her exemption from the army, she does not have to do sherut leumi. It’s entirely voluntary.
I have to go back to E”Y next week. Let the snow stay somewhere out of the NY area. I want to go home!
And drink plenty of quinine (tonic) water.
Why wear a tie at all? I’ve not worn one in well over 5 years.
Did you bother reading the assignment? You can’t handle your own homework?
I haven’t had time to read the entire thread, but I must say I’m impressed that there are so many replies about the Beis Yosef’s kasha. I mean, did he prepare it differently than we do? Was his kasha in a different kind of box? And finally, what hechsher was the Beis Yoasf’s kasha under? Would we eat of his kasha today, or are we more machmir than his generation?
Our dog always comes in when we light the Chanukia, but maybe that’s because we’re in the kitchen and she thinks there’s food involved.
Seriously though, our dog starts barking on Friday night when I come home from shule and start singing. When we announce “Kiddish,” she really goes nuts because she knows that challah comes next, and she’ll get a slice. (Plus, she’ll get humus, some soup in her bowl, and maybe some veggies like broccoli or green beans, which she loves.)
Many people, especially those working for the U.S. government, have a limit on how much leave time they can carry over to the next year. Many of these people take off significant time during December because they will lose the leave. (It’s called use or lose.) That’s why so many government agencies are dead much of December, especially at the end of the month. My father, before he retired, used to do this as well.
Why wear a suit at all?
Try Holy Land Cakes. You can Google them under that name to get the link.
It truly is none of your business.
You do know that if you Google “Robert Moses” you will get ~1,100,000 hits in .34 seconds, right?
Apple sauce or sour cream Or even better, a little of both.
Not as holy as any place in Tel Aviv, or any place in E”Y for that matter.
I never heard of milchigs on Thursday nights. Back in the states my standing Thursday night dinner was always a deli sandwich and a knish – preferably kasha.
But the concept is certainly halachicly applicable.
Fine – go tell all the kollel wives they’re only allowed outside a couple times a month. How long until the entire system collapses because women can’t support their learning husbands?