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Please daven for a 6 month old baby who has been in the Hospital since he was born and has had numerous operstions mainly on his heart. He is having major surgery today and the results will not be known for 6 months I’YH. His name is YECHEZKEL EMANUEL ASHER BEN MICHAL BRACHA. May he have a complete and speedy refuah shelama besoch kol cholei Yisrael and may the surgery be successful. Omein Kein Yehe Razon!

May everyone’s tefillos be answered le tovah!

On Erev Shabbos Parshas Tezaveh, and Parshas Zochor, I went with a dear friend to the Shotzer Rebbe Z’TL kever (in London) and lit candles and also took something on and beseeched the Ribbono Shel Olam on behalf of Refoel Yoel Ozer ben Chaya Malka for a very speedy refuah shelamah. Also davened at other Zaddikim’s kevarim. I also said the whole sefer Tehillim after chazot laila on the night of Purim in his zechut I’YH.

May H’KBH give his dear family much koach and gevura to deal with this and may we hear besurot tovot very soon.

It is a segula that one should say the whole say sefer of Tehillim AFTER Chatzot, on the night of Purim, with one bakasha. May H’KBH answer all our tefillot le tova immediately and affirmatively!!

Purim Sameach to all!

Try having hypnotherapy by a qualified person who is registered. It does help. You will probably need a couple of sessions.

There was a boy in my classs that had a terrible habit of biting his nails/skin all the time. I asked him to sit on his hands, and he completely stopped biting his nails. His parents were very aware of what was happening. (His father was the headteacher in the school!) He stopped completely within a few weeks. His mom sent me in a very nice Thank You present for all the effort!

B’Hatzlacha!

DaMoshe: How very true is your sound advice to help others. DBM may not have actual funds, but, sometimes “donating time” is just as big and important Mitzvah. You can’t buy time, nor replace it, if it is gone or lost. Time is sometimes worth more than money.

May we all have besuros tovos soon with much siyata dishmaya! Omein!

Popa_bar_abba: That is extremely cheap, so be a good person and tell us where you bought it so that others can have the bit of mazel to get cheaper meat!

Thank you.

Mazel Tov on your dear daughter’s forthcoming Bat Mitzvah! May you be zocher for many more simachot with simcha in good health,and may you have much Yiddishe nachat from all your family!

Your daughter can have her friends and close family and make a beautiful d’var Torah and include some of the women in Tenach, and how they have influenced her life. You can also have the Challah Maven (She has a clip on You Tube), come and show all the girls’ how to bake challot, which is one of the most beautiful mitzvot to do. They can all bake challah as well, to take home. You can also give out little Tehillim, hafrashat Challah bracha, or Perek Shira, or the Todah Le Ha-Shem pamphlet (which can be found for free in many shops, including Jerusalem 2 pizza on B’way in Manhattan, in hebrew, english, french and spanish) for each one.

There are numerous ways that you can make your daughter’s Bat Mitzvah meaningful and to remember for the rest of her life. Much Hatzlacha Rabbah in all that you do with an abundance of HAGEFEN!

David Bar-Magen: Shavua Tov Mevurach, and a gut, gezunt, gebenched Tamid! I have not been on the computer until now (way after Shabbos in London), I will immediately pass on your name and Doniel Gavriel ben Sarah’s name to the right channels to be davened for everyday. May you both be blessed with much menuchat hanefesh ve guf and an abundance of HAGEFEN, and much siyata dishmaya to accept your tests with AHAVA, much LOVE. H’KBH gives each person tests that only what they can cope with.

Life is not a bed of roses for anyone, at any given time. You must strengthen your bitachon and emuna with tefilla. Try to say Parshat HAMAN each day with increased kavana. Try to find a second evening job or a Sunday job to try to bring more in. Nothing should be below your dignity. And, finally when one does give you zedaka, even if it is one penny, smile and say a beautiful THANK YOU! You don’t know what THEY are going through.

I always collect for hachnasat kallot to help them get together a simple trousseau and a simple simchat nissuin wedding. Once, I went out collecting in absolute freezing, icy weather with all my small children in tow. I went from door to door, and I knocked on one door and a man answered and I asked politely with a smile for a donation. He said, “ABSOLUTELY NOT!” I said, “Thank you and G-D bless you!” One of my children, who was 4 at the time said, ” Mommy, but the man never gave you anything, why did you say, Thank you and G-D bless you?” I answered sweetly, “Tatalah, because the man did not give me anything this time, does not mean I have to be rude to him and make a Chilul Ha-Shem, maybe next time he will give something!”

My son never forgot this incident. Many years later when he was in Yeshiva in Monsey, he related this story to the Rosh Yeshiva Shlita. When I came to visit the Yeshiva, the Rosh Yeshiva said to me, “it is a absolute honor to meet you finally! Your son related to us the zedaka story and he said what an impression you made on him that he related the story verbatim many years’ later!”

You are the owner of your words and actions until they are directed at the person it is spoken to, then that person is the owner. Every curse is collected by a malach and chas ve shalom can be redirected to you.

One suggestion, go to see Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis at her Hineni

headquarters. Talk to her, or her children and they may be able to help you in finding a better paid job. She has done it for others she might be able to help. Much Hatzlacha in all that you do.

Smile, be happy with the forthcoming birth I’YH of another child which will bring a bracha for you and your wife, with much parnasa, light and laughter.

Gut Voch!

The metal plate you are describing is a weight plate for the menorah. It helps the menorah to be balanced as it is probably a light weight menorah, and chas ve shalom the oil cups should not topple over, and cause an accident.

Some lachters also have the weight plate on the bottom.

Have a Gut Shabbos and a lichtig, wonderful Chanukah with many nissim and an abundance of HAGEFEN for all klal Yisrael!!!

BaalHaBooze: You can not take the heat of Petach Tikva, Tel Aviv or Bnei Brak, BUT, you can take the heat of Beit Shemesh! Beit Shemesh is EXACTLY what it says, “The House of the Sun”! It is boiling hot there day and night 24/7.

I would prefer to live in Yerushalayim and Tzefat is also beautiful.

I have just came upon this topic and I wish OOMIS 1105 a very Happy Birthday ad meah ve esrim shana with all her beloved family, and abundance of HAGEFEN = Hatzlacha rabbah bechol maasei yedaychem, Gut, Gezunt, Gebenched langer yahren ad yemos Hamashiach b’karov, gut Parnasa b’shefa, Yiddishe nachat from all your children and grandchildren kein yirbu, a double portion of yirat shamaim ve chet, menuchat hanefesh ve guf, osher with aleph, osher with ayin, refuot, yeshuot, nechamot, zivvugim hagunim, zerah shel akaiimah for all who need it, ahavat chinum, and to have much koach and gevurah to do many mitzvot b’sever panim yafot, many simachot with simcha this year and always, and may H’KBH grant you kol mishalot lebaych le tova! Omein Kein Yehe Razon!!!!!

Toi: Both these “jokes” are disgusting and you are a very sad person. You need help. I agree with all the above comments.

Gut Moed and G’mar Tov!

I bake with six braids each and every week, except when it is Chodesh Tishrei then, I make round ones. It is very easy to make 6 braids, and you get the hang of it. It becomes second nature.

I make the small rolls with 3 braids and then bend the ends down, so that it looks like a flower.

When I bake a very large simcha challah, I make 6 braids and then with half of the weight of the original 6 braided one, I make 3 braids on top. It looks beautiful.

Grew up in the Bronx, and studied at Bais Yaakov Bais Miriam which was under Rav Yeruchem Gorelik Z’TL, and the Hebrew Menahel was Rabbi Shimshon Brodsky Z’TL. We said each day, “I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag”, and sang, “The Star Spangled Banner”. We sang Hatikvah at the graduations, but, changed the word CHOFSHI to AM TORAH.

In England, at heimishe weddings there is no mention of the Queen and the National Anthem is not sung. It is only sung at Modern Orthodox weddings. The tefillah for all the Royal Family is said in our heimishe shul by the Rav Shilita, but, not each person individually mentioned, and also one for all the chayalim to return safely.

Good to see Charlie Hall back.

Have a gut, gezunt, gebenched Chodesh Elul and a gut Shabbos!

1st timer: Take Cod Liver Oil Capsules 1500mg once in the morning, and also Glucosamine Sulphate at least 1200mg in the morning, you can also add Choditon (some are mixed with the Glucosamine Sulphate, but then the amount of mg is lowered in GS).

If the pain is decreased and it is helping you, then you can decrease the mg to 1000 mg per medicine.

This has to be taken every single day and it certainly does help. I have been taking it for many years, and it certainly helps. Also you can drink 1 Tablespoon of cider vinegar mixed in a cup of water. This is a natural anti inflamatory.

Refuah shelamah b’karov!

In England, the newer washing machine have models that are made to take up to 7 kilo, front loading. My machine takes in the hot water directly and yes it has 2 hoses. But, there are extra wash cycles. And, yes, there are some machines made in England, but most parts, even on the English made machines, come from GERMANY (Imach Shemum Ve Zichrum!). English machines can wash up to and including 90C, which is extremely hot.

We were in Israel recently and washed our clothes in a machine in the apt we were in and the clothes did not come out as clean as at home. I rewashed them at home, everything came out when sprayed with St. Moritz Well Done. Phenominal stuff! And yes, Chochandpatience, one should not use it on wool things either. Thanks for pointing it out!

BPT: I bought a few boxes in Pathmark and /or Shoprite supermarket of PURE VIA, which is pure stevia with an OU hechsher. There are 40 sachets in a box. It is ditributed by Whole Earth Sweetner Co. LLC, Chicago, IL 60602 Tel: 1 800 824 2334 Hope this helps.

Stevia is much more healthier than Splenda/Equal. There are no side effects, and stevia is sweeter than Splenda /Equal / Xylitol.

The cakes baked with Xylitol, are not the same as baked with stevia. The cakes/cookies come out much nicer with stevia than with Xylitol.

I was suffering with terrible pain/aches in my hips/bones with splenda/equal but not with stevia.

Behatlacha!

Will daven for you both I’YH and also your friend (whose name you gave us a while ago)for a complete refuah shelamh b’karov nd for an abundance of HAGEFEN. May the Dr’s whom you and your Mom are dealing with should be the right sheluchim directly from H’KBH. May you both be pain free and back on your feet, doing what you need to do immediately I’YH! Omen!

I personally know of a chassidishe couple who were married for over 13 years, and the husband went to Meron and donated chai rottel. He made a neder that if a male child was born, he would bring him back to Meron for the upsherin with chai rottel. That year they moved to NY (on the advice and bracha from their Rebbe), and a year or so later, they were blessed to have a child B’H. They kept their promise and brought the child to Meron for his upsherin.

MosheKon613: Please contact me by fax with your fax # so that I may give you details personally for your sister and her husband. My fax is +44 208 808 9789. Besuros tovos b’karov Amen Kein Yehe Razon!

I wish you Yehudah Tzvi ben Elisheva a very speedy refuah shelama, besoch kol cholei yisrael. Omen! I also daven every day for your friend, Dovid Yaakov ben Marilyn Marsha for a refuah shelama b’karov. Omen!

I davened for you and your friend, at the Shotzer Rebbe Z’TL kever and other Zaddikim kevarim on Shushan Purim. I also went specifically to daven at the Kever of the Rosh Yeshiva of Manchester, Rav Yehudah Zeev Segel Z’TL, for everyone.

May the zaddikim Z’TL intercede on your behalf before H’KBH that you should have an abundance of HAGEFEN always, with a double portion of siyata dishmaya, emunah and bitachon and menuchas hanefesh ve guf, and may you be zocher to take your children and grandchildren I’YH to their chuppa to bnei Torah. Omen Kein Yehe Razon!

Hang in there, we are all davening for you!

You better start rolling up your own 2 sleeves and get some work done! Over a year ago you were desperate to get married, with all the glory thast it entails (read through the posts here, especially our good, and wise friend BPT!).

Get up an hour earlier and do your own toile/bathroom, after all, it is your own dirt and your beloved husband’s! This is your first Pesach, do it with ahava, a sense of duty. How will you cope when I’YH you have children to look after, and STILL GO TO WORK, and cook, bake?!, laundry, ironing, do school rotas, school meetings, PTA, have some sort of hachnasat orchim, and be a good, warm concerned wife, phenominal mother, good daughter and exceptional daughter in law?

We raised a large family B’H bli ayin harah, kein yirbu, all having long hours of kevius of learning and chesed,(hatzolah), shul commitments, school commitments, and all our children, WORK full time – oh my gasp! yes work!, and they have beutiful, yiddishe families bli ayin harah, kein yirbu, that have the shechina reigning in their homes, always happy and jolly, all the wives work full time and bake their own challot, cook from scratch, not buying from take aways, and help the children with the homework and rotas to and from school etc. and chesed reigns in their homes big time.

When my husband read your posting he literally laughed and said B’H I have the wife that I have for the last 37 years bli ayin harah ad meah ve esrim shana with an abundance of HAGEFEN!

Instead of posting on internet websites, CR or otherwise, watching tv in Lakewood, keep your home clean and tidy all the time, not just for Pesach. Take multiple vitamins/minerals with iron and take time released B vitamins once a day and you will have koach to do all that you need to do and more, with sever panim yafot. And, remember, that when you go to your dear parents’ and your dear inlaws’ ad meah ve esrim shana, for any Yom Tov, particularly Pesach, and any Shabbos, it is your duty and kibbud av ve em to get up to help all the time, with a smile. Don’t expect older people or other siblings to do it. Set the table, help to serve, clear up after yourselves and others, wash the dishes, take out the garbage/rubbish, help to heat up the cooked foods, and help to peel vegetables, make salads, cook, and help to look after the nieces and nephews, play with them and take them out for walks and activities, all with a big SMILE and have HAKAROS HATOV!!

Don’t kvetch and put on a long face! Your parents’ and inlaws’ are not your maid! They don’t have to be your korpon Pesach! Time is so short and be grateful that you have them ad meah ve esrim shana!!! Amen!

Blinky and oomis1105: We all need to practice more ahavas yisrael so that we can have the final Geulah ve Yeshuah. Thank you for all your brachos, may they be mekayam always for all!!! I had such a good feeling when I finished davening at all the kevarim. If every single person in the world, would do their hishtadlus to do more ahavas yisrael and chessed without any personal or monetary gain, we would all be better off.

May we all meet at simachos with much simcha b’karov in good health! Amen!

To All the Posters Who Sent The Best Bubby Faxes With Names To Daven For At The Shotzer Rebbe Z’TL Kever:

I have just returned from davening at the Shotzer Rebbe Z’TL Kever, The two Sons of the Shotzer Rebbe Z’TL, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lebowitz Z’TL(The Holisher Rebbe), Reb Yudel Horowitz Z’TL(only spoke what was absolutely necessary and davened all his life at netz), and Rabbi Ashkenaszy Z’TL(The Stanislaver Rebbe of London). I have lit many, many candles at every kever and was mispallel for all the names sent, and more. I had left home at 7:10 a.m. and returned home 11:30 a.m. I was davening for over 3 hours. May every Tefilla be heard by H’KBH and answered sweetly and affirmatively immediately.

May all the Rebbeim Z’TL be meilizim yesharim for all klall yisrael for refuos, yeshuos, nechamos, zivuggim hagunim, zerah shel kaaimah, and parnasa tova and for all that is needed by each and every individual Amen Kein Yehe Razon!

May we all be zocher for besuros tovos be karov!

Have a warm, and wonderful Gut Shabbos!