Gadolhadorah- You’re not supposed to understand chumash at your age the way you understood it at three. A primitive understanding of the avos should not serve as your yardstick for life.

I think there are two factors to consider here. The chovos halevavos writes that there is no such thing as a rishus- everything is either a mitzvah or aveirah, depending on intent and whether it’s the yetzer harah trying to pull down the long road to actually doing overt issurim. That said, everyone’s personal avodah depends on their level of bechira and their madreiga in closeness to Hashem. If R’ Chaim Kanievsky started experimenting with briskets, we’d all understand he had gone senile. Where he’s holding, being a foodie cannot be considered erlich. It suggests and indulgence of the senses, purely for pleasure, unbecoming of the Gadol Hador. For someone who regularly engages in issurim chamurim, diverting their taivos to food could be considered a mitzvah, taming more serious activities and perhaps weaning off them. At their level, being a foodie could be wonderful.

Most of us are somewhere in the middle. (Wolf will undoubtedly chime in here that farbeit for him to be anywhere else than the bottom of the barrel, if I haven’t forgotten the CR entirely). Being in the middle means each of us needs to assess, honestly, whether we’re indulging purely for the sake of pleasure, or actually trying to appreciate Hashem’s creations. I personally have a very difficult time believing that a man who does things for the sake of Heaven would be caught dead ‘horeving’ over a slab of meat; maybe by a woman it’s different. If someone is genuinely trying to get closer to Hashem, being a foodie (focusing a great deal of energy and time on preparing and eating the most delicious food you can find) doesn not seem like a productive lifestyle, from a spiritual perspective, and probably can’t be considered erlich.

Why not?

More money is always the answer. Dish out more. Alternatively, knock your eidim silly with a rolling pin- it’ll put him in his place.

Obama

This happened to have caught my eye. I stopped posting but feel compelled to add my two cents. I read a large portion of the book, and feel the base message is misleading and silly. He basically argues that the label we use as chareidi is a misnomer (could be), and that we’re all chareidi (could be). Who cares? What the larger frum world means when they say chareidi is religious zealots from MS who throw things at cops and yell nazis. The literal translation of the word is irrelevant. Call them what you like, it doesn’t change the greater public’s distaste for those people.

Ha! I just saw my own posts above and busted a gut laughing. Don’t remember being so funny.

For really funny-named foods, you gotta come to Israel- seriously. Shugi pitzee anyone?

buy a blacker hat. duh.

If i remember correctly its a machlokes lihalachah the rosh and another rishon if you have to listen to your neder.

check out the maharal on the sugyos in pesachim in perek mi shehaya. he is very sharf when dicussing ‘those’ (meaning us) who think chazal were cavemen. he explains the whole gemara of the size of the world kidarko, whats davka and whats not.

“2. What about the damage to their ruchniyot by not serving.”

honestly, i dont post much anymore, but that statement is utterly ridiculous.

mimah nifshach- either it should be emeenah and bituchin or emunah and bitachon

its a machlokes rishonim as to whether al hakos is dioraysah or not.

I didnt. i just broke my no posting shitta for bein hazmanim.

I think the chazon ish has a teshuva about what to do in space. i think twelve hours exactly always.

check out the maharil diskin on bereishis. rashi three times comments on the words in the passuk- nefesh chaya- and he learns that the egg came first.

ive had 8 cts for 4 years, most of them look like they just came out of the box. the 2 pfs i had both ripped at the cuff. ct’s customer service is great, pf’s acted snidely from the time i asked for shipping to lakewood.

ha i crack myself up.

watch out for the pincers. blasted things.

any real ben torah can tell an off brand a mile away.

why doesnt someone take him out of the stupid pit?