takahmamash

Since, B”H, I’ve only had one cavity in the past 30+ years, I doubt my dentist “uses abrasives and chemicals n my healthy teeth.” And I highly doubt we use the same dentist. In fact, since it’s been 30+ years, there are two dentists involved in my oral care.

Why do you write troll posts like this?

When we lived in Baltimore and I was a watch commander with the NWCP, the officer riding with us would ticket every car parked that was blocking a driveway during evening minyan hours. What a chillul Hashem these drivers caused because they had to run to catch a minyan. If you’re that late, catch a different minyan!

“In Eretz Yisroel the guy and gal meet at a mutually agreed location whereas in America they follow the practice adopted from the goyim of the guy coming to pickup the girl.”

Yet another reason to live in E”Y instead of shmutz la’aretz.

goldersgreener, can you please explain what you wrote? You were sent home without shoes? For what reason? And what is a “Shabbos hose?”

HaRav HaGaon Pinchas Scheinberg זצ”ל
HaRav HaGaon Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman זצ”ל
HaRav HaGaon Moshe Heineman שליט”א

slominer: Just a haircut, which is very reasonable. That’s why I tip the guy, I don’t think he charges enough.

Can we not make it 5th grade? That wasn’t such a good year for me; the teacher was great, but I had a bout of laziness that didn’t serve me well. How about 4th grade? That was a really great year. 3rd grade was fantastic; our teacher was Mrs. Wildstein, and she read to us every day from one of Roald Dahl’s books. She turned me into a lifelong reader, for which I am forever grateful.

Definition of poll for English Language Learners. : an activity in which several or many people are asked a question or a series of questions in order to get information about what most people think about something (Mirriam-Webster)
If you’re taking a poll, you need to ask a question (or questions).
A statement is not a poll.

Joseph: “Takah: What’s your obsession with Zionism?”

There’s a mitzvat aseh to live in E”Y. There is no mitzvah to live in Lakewood.

If jew boy2 has nothing to add to this, why would you bump a 2-year-old thread?

There were once five shules in the Randallstown area. They are all gone now; either they’ve moved or merged with other shules within the eruv. The community there waited too long to put up an eruv; by the time they did so, most of the people in my generation had already moved within the Park Heights eruv. It was a shame. I have many very fond memories of growing up there and of the shules in the area.

I was born in Baltimore. I grew up there, and lived most of my life there. Back in the 70s and 80s there was an active, large MO community there. There were shules outside the Park Heights/Greenspring areas, most notably in Randallstown. There were more community and shule Rabbis that saw beyond the chareidi worldview.
The frum community in Baltimore has become much more closed. There are less than a handful of shules that still retain any sort of MO mindset.

DovidBT, you have no idea how the aliyah process works, do you? One doesn’t just show up from America and walk up to Misrad Hapnim and say, “Here I am!”

There’s nobody in the Eidah that’s as big a gadol as Rav Ovadia zt”l.

frumnotyeshivish:

It is unhealthy, but does not reach a likelihood of life-threatening harm to the individual smoker.

Really? In which universe does smoking not create life threatening harm to the smoker? Certainly not the universe we live in. Are you a shill for the tobacco companies, or is this just some general trolling? Show me any doctor or study that says smoking “does not reach a likelihood of life-threatening harm to the individual smoker.”

My favorite siddur, alas, has not be printed in many years. It was called Minchas Yerushalayim – a small but thick siddur of about 1500 pages. It had EVERYTHING in there that would be related to davening. I wore out 4 of them. It’s my understanding that the family that holds the publishing rights no longer permits printing, and that’s a pity.

From what I’ve heard, these Gedolim have said the internet is assur, yet I see you all still hanging around in the CR. I can’t imagine that any of the Gedolim you quote and allegedly follow would sanction you being on this website, especially in the CR.

Just do a Google search on Magen Avrohom. It’s the first listing.

Joe, I do not seek nor do I need your forgiveness.

You have no idea why we eat kitniyot, nor is it any of your business. I’m not in the habit of explaining myself to anonymous people on the internet. Just rest assured that we did not take this step by ourselves; I asked a shyla to our Rav, who asked his Rav, who asked his Rosh Yeshiva. The process itself took over a year before we received an answer.

Our family eats gebroks.

Our family eats kitniyot.

We “mish” on Pesach.

Now I know why Joseph considers me “liberal.”

“takahmamash: Is everything about money? What about good-tasting homemade food??”

Joseph, there are only two of us home full time now. The homemade hummus doesn’t last as long, because it doesn’t have the preservatives that the commercial stuff has. I love hummus, I love my wife’s hummus, but I can’t eat all the hummus before it would begin to turn bad.

When we first made aliyah, we had 3 kids living at home full time; we’d finish a 1 kg container of hummus about every 10 days. We don’t even buy that size container anymore, because there’s no one home to eat it.

Bingo.

This is done by people who nebech have nothing substantial in their lives.

So is making ignorant comments on the internet.

Is wearing a hat really not halacha?

Covering one’s head is halacha. Wearing a kipa and a hat is not.
Think about it – there are thousands and thousands of dati Jews who daven every day, wit only a kipa on their heads.

There are no Chareidim in the IDF. Only former Chareidim gone bad.

There are no chareidim on the internet. Only former chareidim gone bad.