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What does the oilem taynah about oven chulent. Is it a matzav?
Fairy tales were meant to be scary. Hansel and Gretel was meant to teach kids not to go candy hunting in the forest. Little red riding hood was don’t daydream and wander off the path etc…
Minhagim go by the husband. I’m not sure that everything in your list is a “minhag”.
The answer is you have to ask some one normal.
Now let us define normal = Like me 🙂
popa if you are creative enough to come into the coffee room and pretend to be a woman complaining of her husbands veibeshe toirah you certainly have much hope. Also I think it’s really cool that you don’t beat your wife even though she complains 🙂
Our society is def very Greek as Shindy pointed out our value system is Greek.
Sammyjoe: Though your question of would you be ready to give up your life for the sake of Judaism is quite thought provoking it isn’t the “nisoyon of Yavan”. The question isn’t are you willing to die to be a Jew it’s are you willing to LIVE to be a better Jew. This is truly the challenge of the times we live in. When I was a kid (many moons ago) it was very black and white (not just the TV’s) You knew what a Jew was supposed to do and what a Jew (ie. do you own a TV) wasn’t supposed to do. Today with technology everyone has the entire outside world one click away (I watch “clips” on you tube but not TV shows) The battlefield is in ones self and as Rabbi Akiva Tatz once said “We use Greek tools (because we are products of western society) to help us decide our “Jewish” values. That time in our history was the first time that Jews wanted to be like the Goyim (Mityavnim). When the battle is in ourselves it’s much harder to fight it’s always easier when we see clearly who the enemy is…
I like my subtitle so thanks to whomever has endowed me
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Yes I was! I can’t share what on this forum. In any case it wasn’t something in my power to change, but as I grew older I also grew thicker skin and learned a valuable lesson that there are many jerks in this world but there are also many many nice people. When I grew older I would sometimes say to a person who was making fun of me “You do realize how obnoxious it is to say that” and often other people who would be in the room would agree and say yeah that was really not nice but I had to get comfortable enough in my own skin to be able to deal with it…
The Greeks worship the body. We as Jews do not. Soooo we eat as many oily and fatty foods so that by the end of Chanukah we should look somewhat like a doughnut and it should be really clear where we stand as far as our relationship to the Greek within us.
The issue isn’t really a question of modesty. It’s more of an issue of “??? ???????? ??????” There should be a barrier that discourages co workers of the opposite sex from being to comfortable with each other. Not calling members of the opposite gender by their first name MIGHT help in this matter. The real “solution” is for the females (to whom this is important to) to realize that men who are spending much more quality time with them than with their spouses are careful in how they interact with their male counterparts. It could be very professional with first names being used (as some people pointed out it might be weird in some environments to not use the first name) On the other side of the coin it could be too comfortable even not using first names if office conversation and interaction leaves the realm of professional and polite communication… So in conclusion this like all things in life needs a certain amount of common sense as opposed to hard and fast “rules”
Well said WIY. I once heard that Chanukah is all in the letters “??”
Check it out:
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notice all these words have a “??” root. This represents spirituality which is why in hebrew your name which is your spiritual essence is a “??”. So come along these people who are the embodiment of pure spirituality the “????????” they say we want to raise ourselves above the earth and reach for the “????” and live to elevate our “?????” says Hashem: I like that I will make you a miracle in the “???” (floats above water) and it will be for “?????” days (Eight also represents spiritual as there seven days in the week, seven colors in the spectrum,seven musical notes)so go and spin your dreidal and remember “?? ???? ??? ??” the miracle was there in the “??”
Important to note in this discussion is that the question is whether Cannabis should be legal not whether it’s good for you. There are many things that are bad for you that are legal. Sometimes when something is legal it actually makes it less desirable as our sages of blessed memory said in Sanhedrin at the end of Perek Ben Sorer Umorer “Stolen waters are sweeter”. It could be legalizing cannabis would take away a lot of the allure stemming from the current pot smoking culture and kids would realize it’s just an overrated plant and move on to better things in life.
HaLeiVi: Only if it’s for a purpose. I would recommend studying the Halachos before doing that especially on Yom Kippur…
Shopping:
Here are the Hebrew words and their translations…
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