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  • in reply to: Women Driving #1161877
    takahmamash
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    Loyal Jew:

    takah, I base it on the first rule of tznius: don’t show yourself off in public.

    When you can quote a real source, not something you made up, then we’ll talk.

    Driving is hardly “showing yourself off in public.” Do you hold that women should never leave the home? Should they never go to shule? How should a woman work to support her husband in kollel if she can’t drive – should her husband miss learning time so he can drive her around? Should she waste tuition money on taxis?

    in reply to: Women Driving #1161870
    takahmamash
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    Iced, both things, non-males driving and sitting in the front, are pirtzos of tznius whether your Chassidishe or not.

    It’s not tznua for a woman to sit in the front ever? Even if her husband is driving? Based on what? Where did you come up with this?

    in reply to: Shame on Israel for bowing to pressure #908610
    takahmamash
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    maybe Hamas will be crubed- for now, and that might be a victory. so, patience is a virtue we should all exercise.

    Hamas is not crushed. I believe it took only 6 minutes or so after the “cease fire” took effect for the sirens to sound and rockets to fall in Israel.

    Cease fire = Israel ceases while Hamas fires

    in reply to: Pillar Of Defense #907961
    takahmamash
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    [off topic]

    welldressed007

    The word Hashem does not need to be abbreviated.

    Thanks, have a great day.

    in reply to: Please tell me if this is a crazy svara (Re: fighting in Israel) #906989
    takahmamash
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    Yes, it is a crazy svara.

    in reply to: WAR! Operation Cloud Pillar #908262
    takahmamash
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    Baruch Hashem there isn’t much “huddling in bunkers.”

    Don’t know where you got your information, but yes, there are thousands of people huddling in bunkers. Schools within 40 km of the Gaza border are closed. People with shelters or reinforced rooms have been told to sleep in them.

    God willing, it won’t be over soon – it will be over when the IDF finishes the job.

    in reply to: What does your Havdalah "kit" look like? #1017159
    takahmamash
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    A silver becher (a wedding present) on a ceramic plate. The candle is held over a napkin. There’s a wooden bsamim holder. The candle is put out in the grape juice left over on the plate.

    in reply to: Two Things to Remember Before You Order Your Palestinian Passport #906793
    takahmamash
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    Sure it makes a difference. The “Palestinian leadership” has already stated that Jews will not be allowed to live in Palestine.

    in reply to: class action lawsuit against lipa (electric) #902579
    takahmamash
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    Yeah, well, good luck with that.

    [insert eye rolling smiley here]

    in reply to: Living in Israel – where would you live? #1038329
    takahmamash
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    In your dreams, goldersgreener.

    in reply to: Living in Israel – where would you live? #1038319
    takahmamash
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    The Shomron, of course. (Especially since I’m already here!)

    And no, goldersgreener, 90% of American olim do not live in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Where did you come up with that? Not even 90% of frum American olim live in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Hard to believe, but not everyone opts for the large English speaking communities when they make aliyah.

    in reply to: Dr. Phil, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, mom from LKWD #901126
    takahmamash
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    Mods: this entire thread is pretty much nothing except hurtful and hateful. Perhaps it’s time to close it down once and for all?

    in reply to: Double Parking #901144
    takahmamash
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    Which is worse – the shidduch crisis or the parking crisis?

    in reply to: Double Parking #901131
    takahmamash
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    It’s unfair to dozens of people!

    Not only unfair, but it’s illegal and a chillul Hashem.

    in reply to: Ball tshuva girl who's father is not jewish #900601
    takahmamash
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    oomis1105, do you disagree with Rav Elyashiv in his Ha’aros on 75b tells us that Rashi and Tosfos do, in fact, hold that the child would be a non-Jew (that the child follows the father’s status)? Rashi and Tosfos (according to Rav Elyashav) are serious opinions on such serious issues! This goes to the very heart of Jewish identity, not merely a chumra or relying on a kulah.

    Shmendrick:

    1. Can you prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that Rav Elyashav actually paskened that a child follows the father’s status? Did he hold this is halacha l’maisah?

    2. Can you tell us even one reputable Rav who holds this way today?

    If both answers are no, as I strongly suspect, then stop beating a dead horse. It’s a non-issue.

    in reply to: Post to Post�NOT #1047306
    takahmamash
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    When I was in the hospital they had the machine that goes “ping.”

    in reply to: sem sem sem!! #910570
    takahmamash
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    its so disturbing that everyone HAS TO go to E”Y

    What’s really disturbing is that everyone isn’t living in E”Y already.

    in reply to: Imagine a World Without Coffee! #1220557
    takahmamash
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    Actually, I don’t like coffee and I don’t drink coffee. I survive quite well, B”H. (For the record, I don’t drink hot tea either.)

    in reply to: How should one protest against shmoozers during davening? #901828
    takahmamash
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    The one time I said something to someone about it, I immediately regretted it. As a result, I don’t protest anymore… I just sit and simmer.

    Back in my brash teenage days, I actually went over to an older gentleman in shule who sat in the midst of a talking group. I asked him, respectfully, if he could stop talking. He then gave the whole shtick, saying I was being chutzpadik, yada yada yada. Then he asked me why I singled him out from the group, and I said, “You have smicha, you know better.”

    At mincha that afternoon he came over to me and apologized, telling me I was right, and that he would work on not talking during davening.

    in reply to: Rabbi Gellermans Yeshiva-Lakewood #1143462
    takahmamash
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    I feel bad for you! I wouldn’t want my kids in such a jail type setting!

    And I wouldn’t want my kids hitching rides, at least not in the States.

    in reply to: How should one protest against shmoozers during davening? #901813
    takahmamash
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    In one shule were I regularly davened, the talking around me was terrible. I asked the Rav if I should try to shush the talkers, and he told me it was better to move my seat “since the talkers won’t pay attention to you anyway.”

    in reply to: Difficult questions about grandparents #899656
    takahmamash
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    I don’t know what religious or irreligious/frei means. (In fact, those terms have no meaning, are irrelevant and should not be utilized.) What I know is that all sources say that the Torah requires a married woman to cover her hair in public. And anyone who didn’t, whether decades ago or today, is most certainly in violation of the Torah.

    This kind of answer is exactly why the OP should go and ask his Rav, and not depend on anonymous internet posters who see the world only as black and white without any gray. While you may know halacha, you obviously don’t know how to apply it in real world situations.

    in reply to: Ner Yisrael #899612
    takahmamash
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    t is loshon hara to say that a yeshiva has secular studies. By saying a yeshiva has secular studies you are saying that they waste many hours.

    Are you living in some type of alternate universe? Is there a problem that perhaps the yeshiva wants their talmidim to be responsible adults who can actually support their families, not living off the shver, the shvigger, WIC, and welfare?

    in reply to: Share your experience with Rebitzin Kaneivsky!! #899256
    takahmamash
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    Another book?

    in reply to: rav elya svei and rav shmuel berenbaum #902395
    takahmamash
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    I’m wrighting a book about them.

    I sincerely hope you use a spell checker.

    in reply to: So What? #898934
    takahmamash
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    HEy:) Have you heard of the organization TWIST?

    troll

    in reply to: Succah on Shmini Atzeres #898891
    takahmamash
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    Haifagirl +1

    in reply to: Poll: Tefillin on Chol Hamo'ed #899072
    takahmamash
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    No. I used to, but not anymore.

    in reply to: Storing (wholewheat) challah for freshness #898128
    takahmamash
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    TCG has it exactly right – we put it in a plastic bag and close it. (Although, truth be told, my wife’s got them perfectly sized so that we finish about 1 challah per meal, so there are rarely any left overs.)

    in reply to: shaving during Chol Hamoed #898814
    takahmamash
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    bubka:

    Real men have beards. Shaving any time of the year is slobby. Refraining from shaving — any time of the year — is acting like a real mentch.

    So, right after Yom Kippur, you just denigrated a large percentage of frum men who DO shave. Are you really that eager to ask mechila?

    in reply to: shabbos clothes + crocs #898453
    takahmamash
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    Does’nt wearing crocs on the high holy day defeat the purpose of shirking personal mundane pleasure and comfort????

    So does davening in an air conditioned shule and sitting on a padded chair. Yet, people do it. The halacha is not to wear leather shoes, not to mortify oneself.

    (I personally don’t wear crocs, because I find them terribly hot and uncomfortable.)

    in reply to: What's the going rate for a lulav and esrog in NY? #897910
    takahmamash
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    Like I said in the OP, I’m just curious. Here on our yishuv sets go for between NIS 60-90.

    in reply to: Why do we beat hoshanos on Hoshanah Rabbah? #899094
    takahmamash
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    The better question is why do we throw the aravot on top of the aron kodesh when we finish beating them.

    in reply to: Which American community it right for us? #897645
    takahmamash
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    Haifagirl is correct. The Shchina is weeping.

    in reply to: Uncle Moishy Stole the Quote?! #897428
    takahmamash
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    We were singing this in NCSY long before anyone ever heard of Uncle Moishy.

    in reply to: know any frum vegetarians or vegans? #918571
    takahmamash
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    iced:

    Being a vegetarian entails being a baal aveira.

    In your own not very humble, and admittedly wrong opinion. The two rabbeim my wife and daughter spoke to about this didn’t seem to have the same opinion as you; in fact, they both paskened that they are fine with being vegans.

    We all know where that leads.

    Mixed dancing?

    in reply to: NYC Board of Health Votes to Regulate Bris Milah #1096207
    takahmamash
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    This gezeira is a Shaas Shmad and we must be willing and ready to fight it with our lives or anything else, if necessary.

    You are wrong – it is not.

    You do know that if you dislike the way of life there, it is certainly possible to move somewhere else – right?

    in reply to: no simchas today??? #896597
    takahmamash
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    A friend’s daughter got engaged in Baltimore.

    I have two kiddishes (kiddushim?) on Shabbat, and a sheva brachot. Is that a good answer?

    in reply to: Rosh Hashana gift #896603
    takahmamash
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    Mazal tov!

    in reply to: A Halachic problem you likely never thought of #913843
    takahmamash
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    Tatte, what’s a cassette? What’s a phonograph record?

    in reply to: Where were YOU on 9/11 2001 ? #1010030
    takahmamash
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    In light of the fact that even the WTC imploding, the air cleared up in about 20 minutes, therefore they should have 1 day clear out Lower Manhattan, and simply blown up the Deutsche Bank Building, and this entire saga would have been over in a matter of minutes, instead of having endured for years & 2 dead firemen.

    147, can you please explain what this paragraph means?

    in reply to: Where were YOU on 9/11 2001 ? #1010007
    takahmamash
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    I was at work at SSA headquarters, having an email discussion with a friend about the efficacy of online petitions. All of a sudden he sent me an email that said “terror attack on the World Trade Center.” I tried to get on msnbc.com but couldn’t, so I knew something big was going on. I walked over to the center of the floor, where there was a TV set to CNN hanging from the ceiling. I got there just in time to see the second plane hit. (SSA headquarters was later closed for the day over the fear that a plane may be aimed there as well).

    in reply to: Eid passuled because of Iphone #895194
    takahmamash
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    If he did real teshuva – kabalah al he’asud – he would no longer have the iphone.

    Owning an Iphone is not an avayra.

    in reply to: Budget for Newlyweds #898754
    takahmamash
    Participant

    Lacking life insurance shows a lack of common sense.

    in reply to: music recommendations for Elul and the High Holidays #893562
    takahmamash
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    You may also want to look for recordings from some of the chazzanim from long ago, especially Yossele Rosenblatt.

    in reply to: Suggestions to Improve YWN #1225476
    takahmamash
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    The plural for “Shabbos” is “Shabosim” or “Shabosos” – I’m not sure if one is more correct than the other.

    The correct plural is Shabbosos or Shabbatot. The word Shabbas/Shabbat itself is feminine.

    in reply to: Siddurim – why are they printed like this? #893158
    takahmamash
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    I believe the change in font size is supposed to relieve eye strain.

    I don’t know about you, but I get much less eye strain when I use a siddur where all the letters are the same size. Besides, if that were the case, wouldn’t English books be published in the same way?

    in reply to: Chasuna Pictures Messed Up #892668
    takahmamash
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    Something happened to our photographer – I’m still not sure what – so he sent someone else. The “someone else” made a mess of the photos, and we were very disappointed. Luckily, our friends took amazing pictures, so we have tons and tons of them.

    in reply to: Are you a Zionist? #893268
    takahmamash
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    The Satmar Rebbe zt’l held it’s better to live in other lands than under Zionist rule -and he wasn’t talking about when it was dangerous.

    I guess it’s good I’m not Satmar. There are obviously poskim who hold otherwise.

    in reply to: Are you a Zionist? #893262
    takahmamash
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    Not in our day and age. The Zionists have cause such hatred to Jews that a Jew is not required to live there because it’s a Mokom Sakana!

    Cite?

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