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Definitely the amount of water. Your recipe is ok but for one point. Gefilta fish just isn’t the same without real fish cooking in the same pot.

The only product I won’t buy is Bayer aspirin, Bayer made the gas. At this point I see no reason not to buy German products. It’s been OK to take German reparations money all these past 50 years, in the untold billions? The Germans can never ever make any type of atonement for the terrible horrors inflicted on our nation. No amount of reparations can pay us for what they did. But if we can take their money, we can buy their products. Do you buy Swiss watches? The Swiss are much more anti-semitic than Germans. The Swiss were smart enough to stay out of it.

Yes we are certainly allowed to have sholom with neighbors and we should have hakoras hatov to our medina shel chesed.

Moq its not a problem at all. You are pre-paying for your meals. Its really as if you bought your food on Friday and eat at home except you’re not eating at home, you’re eating in the restaurant. Im not addressing anything done in the restaurant on shabbos. There should be a mashgiach. But again, they can do anything you would do at home, if you hired help for shabbos. Or if you were making shabbos sheva brochos in a hall with a caterer and waiters.

Look in the Jewish Press. They have all the listings. I’ve gone many times to the restaurant in the days Inn on collins and 40th St. Very good.

My daughters daven shachris, mincha, and maariv. Not kidding. BP guy there’s something wrong with that?

How come nobody mentioned Shicawgoh?

A23, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 152-13. A father is allowed to dance with his daughter, brothers are not allowed to dance with their sister. Even so the dancing should not be in a mixed atmosphere. The mitzva tantz is made with women at one side and men at the other. The brothers, uncles et al, dance with the kallah with a gartel, never hand in hand. The yshivish weddings generally have the kallah coming into the men’s section and sitting next to the choson and the men and boys dancing in front.

Le’maaseh the south african is the best sounding. But its the British accent that impresses people. The Brits are cultured, just like yogurt.

So nobody even mentions sitting in? I have 5 married children who sat in. That means the dining room or kitchen of the girl’s house. And my 6th, a girl, thinks that going out on a date is disgusting. So did we do a good job brainwashing them? You betcha. I’m proud of my nice chasidishe children.

Torah Times magazine has a very good list of shiurim in every neighborhood.

Try matjas from Deli Plus on 18th ave and 57th st. He was the original matjas seller. Best shtiglitz is Schwartz. Of course you can try to make it yourself. Buy whole matjas filets. Lay them straight in a glass long bowl, sprinkle pepper and cover with sliced onions and olive oil. Wait 2 days. Cut up and eat with sliced eggs and tomatoes on crackers. Wash mouth with listerine and hands with deodorant soap.

Another. Buy a schmaltz herring filet (not the same as matjas, beware). Also a little pepper and onions and olive oil. Wait 2 days. Take the filet and cut into tiny pieces. Chop a tomato, onion, add herring pieces, add olive oil. Eat with fresh pumpernickle bread and butter. Wash mouth with listerine and hands with deodorant soap. But stay out of the world anyway.

Best single malt scotch after herring, any herring, is a good smoky one like Laphroaig or Lagavulin. Then eat chulent kishka kugel with smoked deli meats. Drink a good beer like Guinness stout or Zywiec porter or Doppel Spaten Optimator. Go to sleep for 2 hours. Wake up and be a maamin in Hashem and tchiyas hameisim. Never tell a goy to do this. You’ll kill the poor guy.

Accounting is a great profession for a Jewish woman because there are often many per diem jobs around and that’s good if you only want to work 2-3 days a week. Special education is also a very good and rewarding career, helping young children grow. Architect is also a great position and career with per diem work available.

This issue is quite rampant in all circles, yeshivish, chasidish, modern ortho. Really good kids who somehow hang around with not so good kids are quite bad influences. I have been approached for a shidduch for my daughter by several people, same boy. Good boy, I know him since he was born. Learns nicely. But after learning he hangs around with boys who are so far from learning and yiddishkeit. And it’s hurting his shidduch chances. I’m not the only one saying no. Everybody who hears his name says no. And everybody says, yes he learns well, yes he’s in yeshiva all day. But….

You mean people actually go to a wedding at Marina Del Ray for something other than the food? I understand Viznitz, nobody goes there for the food. Nots ure why anybody goes there at all. I guess maybe to meet friends. Oh, choson kallah and families? Yeah I guess so, that too.

I would like to give everyone a very meaningful concept. Well known is the story about R’ Akiva and his wife. R’ Akiva came back after 12 years learning and heard her say, I’d gladly allow him to learn another 12 years. So he turned around and went back without saying hello thank you. The question of course is, why didn’t he say thank you. Rav Chaim Smulevitz ztzl answers simply. Because one single instance of 24 years solid learning isn’t the same as two times 12 years learning. Rav Dovid Olewski Shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of the Brooklyn Gerrer Yeshiva said at an Agudah conference, we can take a daily mussar haskel from this vort. Stop in the middle of the day and learn something for a few minutes. Because two times 4 hours with a learning break isn’t the same as one long stretch of 8 hours without learning. I told this to someone once. He told me a few months later that he retold it to his brother, a salesman. His brother told him lately that he decided to do that. Each day, no matter where he was on the road, he would stop his car and learn a mishne. And he said that over the few months his sales literally doubled.

LOl you’re right about beer mayim sodas. Some caterers have been given “permission” to supply Coke in bottles or at least Coke from a machine, if requested.

What’s wrong with soup? Agreed that sometimes the soup isn’t good but most people do want soup at night.

To me a wedding meal is really just my supper so of course the main deal is the entree main dish. If it tastes good who cares what it is. My fave is a good duck. 2nd would be good steak but that’s rare (pun intended). Most places have good chicken. Most of the time the side dishes are terrible, even in the good caterers places. No idea why. Best smorg, Marina Del Ray. Dessert tables depends on what you order. Anybody can order good desserts, no caterer actually makes them.

Lately my wife buys the gefilta fish rolls from Freunds Fish, their “simcha” rolls. But making gefilta fish from scratch is somewhat of a patchke but I can’t imagine it not being good, unless the maker chaets on ingredients or is just a plain lousy cook altogether. Truth is that there are many commercial frozen logs that are really good. Just try them until you find one you like. Also when the frozen logs are cooked, they taste best if cooked with whole white fish too. And they should only be cooked the same way. If you just take the frozen log and cook it in water, it’ll taste lousy whatever. Like I said, ya gotta know how to cook.

oh my too many restaurants but ok. shnitzi – italian, carlos and gabby – texas burger, venezia – mozzarrella basket, subsational – bbq steak with honey bbq, unflower – triple cheese baguette with guacamole, cafe k – fettuccini with seafood and tomato sauce, prime grill – park ave steak, abigaels – argentina angus beef steak, glat ala carte – chicken marsala, mendelsohns – pasta with eggplant, ok nuff said

Guys you can all argue about satmar all day. fact is that malchus yisroel was not only sanctioned by Hashem but told Yerovom specifically by a navi that he would be the new king. why don’t you all just open a tanach. In Malochim Alef perek yud alef posuk yud Hashem tells Shlomo that he’s tearing away malchus yisroel from him and leaving only 1 shevet, yehuda. And in posuk lamed alef the novi achya tears yerovoms cloak into 12 pieces and gives him 10 pieces and says,Hashem Elokiei Yisroel is tearing the kingdom from shlomo and giving it to you. I think that the tanach is quite clear about this and that’s exactly what i said. Malchus Bais Yisroel was made by Hashem. Yerovom corrupted it after that.

To those who argue that the satmar rebbe was holy. he was a lot holier than all of you think he was. he was a malach hashem mamish. but still he wasn’t any holier than doeg ho’adomi who was av beis din of sanhedrin for Shaul Ha melech and yet cursed Dovid and Dovid said on him in tehilim b’dor acher yimach shemom. When he put his nose into politics and called it religion it wasn’t good. The Satmar Rebbe ztzl had an issue with medinas yisroel and being brilliant was able to write very well about it. The gedolim who didn’t agree with him didn’t refute it because they weren’t interested in an argument.

Malchus Yisroel actually was divinely given to Yerovom. Hashem came to him and told him that Hashem would split the nation in 2 with Malchus Bais Dovid keeping Yehuda and Binyomin and Yerovom receiving the other 10. Yerovom at that point was a tzadik. In fact there’s a medrash that says that Hashem said to Yerovom, let’s go for a walk, you, me and ben yishai, meaning Dovid. Yerovom asked who’s walking up front and Hashem answered, Dovid and Yerovom said no I am not interested. He felt greater than Dovid which wasn’t true and led to his downfall. When Yerovom was successfull in becoming the new king of Malchus Yisroel, he realized that all of his kingdom would be going to the Bais Hamikdosh which was in Yehuda-Binyomin. And since the halocho is that ein yeshiva babayis chutz mi’malchei yehuda, that the kings of yehuda could sit but that he couldn’t sit, he was afraid that his people would return to Malchus Bais Dovid. So he then made his own religion, obviously against Hashem and thus became a rosho.

Popa did you even read my post? I don’t think so. For one thing thank you for citing halochos that agree with what I said. Pizza is not pashtida at all, nothing even close. Your 2nd paragraph is an exact definition of pizza, thank you so much. You should also really read what you write after you write it. You do a nice job of contradiction. Pashtida that the mechber talks about is analagous to what we call Chicago pizza, that is its covered top and bottom. Since the main idea of this dish is to become full, it has meat or fish or cheese which also fill, automatically it isn’t a snack but rather kevuas seudah. Whereas 1 slice of plain pizza is quite often eaten as a snack and is therefore mezonos.

My posts weren’t halocho? Oh my, and here i thought i was throwing out all my accumulated great talmudic and halachic knowlefge. Oh well, such is life. Yitay, start with not just an open end but specific halachos or drashos and we can take it from there.

Lomed I have no idea where you’re getting your ideas. Your logic also makes no sense. Says who is right saying that you can’t bring proof from the Torah either way. As he asks, how many names did Yisro have, and the Torah mentions them. According to the Medrash, Moshe too had several names. 2 names are 2 names unless as I said earlier they are actually connected as one.

Sac, there are several Yiddish names that actually have different meaning when spelled with a heh or an alef at the end. The name Faige or Faiga is spelled with a heh or alef or ayin at the end. When spelled with an alef or ayin the name Faige means Fig. When spelled with a heh at the end it means Bird. The name Faigl can mean either.