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BPT- I like the D’var Torah at the end. Shkoyach!
As for the rest of the post, give Sac some credit! You should know her better than that by now- she don’t need that shpiel!
Squeak, Mod 5, and Popa (in descending age order)
I dreamt I was at work.
I’m not yelling!
I don’t know what schools you people go to…
Of course, there are some teachers who will answer your questions with, “A yid is not allowed to speak that way,” or “C”V to even think like that,” but there are others who will direct you to appropriate sources for answers.
My kids go to more Yeshivish schools than the one I attended, but their schools pour on the warmth and love of Yidden and Yiddishkeit, something my school had not done.
One middle-aged couple always brings wine, rugelach, and toys for the kids. The first time they came, the husband explained that the toys are meant to keep the kids busy so that the adults could talk.
One guy who usually comes for one seuda each week doesn’t bring anything for Shabbos, but for Yom Tov he brings an expensive bottle of vodka and a cake.
When girls come, they usually offer to prepare a dish.
I don’t like when a guest brings flowers on his way to shul, sometimes after I bentched licht. I’d rather he didn’t bring anything.
The nicest gifts we have received from guests were the book, “The 39 Avoth Melocha of Shabbos” by Rabbi Boruch Chait, and a Brochos Lotto game for the kids.
holy brother:
If you would know whom you addressed, you’d retract that last comment b’zrizus.
Knew you would- it was custom made for you!
BP Totty’s advice, NJOP, works beautifully. I heartily recommend their “Reishis Bina- The Hebrew Reading Crash Course.” It teaches reading and some vocabulary.
Thank you, Mod 80; I hadn’t heard that.
yankdownunder:
Squeak, aka Dr. Chepper, referred to your grammar- “more healthful” instead of “healthier”.
About ten years ago, Dr. Shanik (Lakewood) told me that warm-mist humidifiers are breeding places for bacteria; he recommends cool-mist.
SZ: Cheerful spirit, not foolish spirit (like mine, right now).
Sacrilege: English? A busha to your sem:)
mdd: Real life can be pretty frustrating when we try to fight it, no?
AishesChayil:
Personal experience with accepting reality has taught me that it’s the best way to go. At eighteen, I imagined the type of husband I wanted and realized that his Mommy would have a list of 50, and chances of my being at the top were probably slimmer than me (and I wasn’t fat), so I searched for this same top bochur, but with a (moral) BT background. I certainly did not feel that I was “settling”; after all, if his parents were frum, would I have made it to the top of their list?
What a loss of all these years it might have been had I chosen to fight the system and only now, years later, “settled” for a BT.
sms: Financial aid, student loans, there are ways if you want to do it. I finished my B.S. and did my M.S. after I began my motherhood career. It was actually fun (hate that word)!
AishesChayil, comfort zone plays a huge role in dating, as it does in all aspects of life.
But there are those who don’t find the BT aspect to be outside of their comfort zone.
Jobs are a Coke? No, d a, jobs are a shpritz. Big shpritz.
sms: Have you checked out college options? Getting that piece of paper may be good hishtadlus toward higher pay.
Moq:
Thank you! I couldn’t figure out how to clearly get that message across; I knew I’d be misunderstood if I tried.
Like your style.
prof- even vodka?
No need for a commotion. I’m rewinding the “governmental involvement” casette on my tape recorder.
My five-year old: “Mommy, my love-ment for you is as big as this whole house!”
blueberry- chocolate milk
aries-
In answer to your question, no, I do not take my children to malls, nor do I shop there myself. I try not to frequent pharmacies that sell inappropriate magazines but rather the smaller ones that do not.
I fully concur that educating children and keeping communication open is important. My children know that our goal is to keep our neshamos pure; hence our avoidance of places which may sidetrack us and are not necessitated by our daily activities.
We try to avoid setting ourselves up for potential failure, and we try hard to make it easier for ourselves and our children to live spiritually successful lives.
Bombmaniac, kudos and brochos
That reminds me:
When my oldest was about 4, she used to label people as vanilla, strawberry, or chocolate. (There were 2 chocolate categories: milchig and pareve.)
I’ve been spending too much time in CR.
Says Rav Shimon Schwab, ztz”l:
“There is a clear understanding that even to function merely as a ‘baal habayis,’ it does not suffice today to become only a yodea sefer. Profound lamdanus is required to maintain the Torah-true integrity of those forced to earn a living in a non-Torah environment” (Selected Essays, p.124).
Some BPLs have dvd and magazine racks whose contents were described by Rav S. Schwab, ztz”l, as “sensual poison”.
At my local branch, those racks are at the entrance.
“Children, enter with your heads turned to the right.”
We hired a BY teenager to babysit one evening. She asked me if she could use the computer to type some schoolwork. Since we don’t have internet (I’m on YeshivaNet), I agreed.
Next morning, my oldest daughter told me that Sitter had been watching a dvd that she had borrowed from local BPL, and described the parts she had seen until Sitter had noticed her presence and prudently closed the screen.
It was a dvd not certifiable as kosher by lenient standards.
Pointing to her foot, my two-year old told me she got a boo-boo.
I asked, “On your foot?”
“No, on my sock.”
aries-
“in tact.”
Love the pun!
You stealed my turn! I’m not playing anymore!
Just remember, no outings til tuition’s paid in full 🙁
We named him Chaim Peter.
Am I the only one who got a kick out of Popa’s post? I thought I’m usually in good company.
“Communication” means “accusations” in one particular language.
(oh, I get it now)
Squeak, thank you for the
Ciligroup update now I
am running to buy
Squeak, thank you for the
Referral to Citigroup
He’s here plunging now
Jay-
“and the posters here who seem to think that when every average yid finds a parking spot that it is Hashgochoh Pratis?
Again, it is fine to rely on the Kabbalists, but know that you are doing so, and know that this type of outlook is not an ikar.”
How then do you explain “u’manhig l’chol ha’beruim”?
Sacrilege- I based my premise on your other posts, not this one:)
Honestly, I had all the aspirations that you listed, except that Hashem (bless Him!) vetoed the “every ten months” and it’s more like every two years, my husband vetoed the foster home part (bless him, too!), and in his mind, the “a” in LA shouldn’t be capitalized… and judging from the looks of this family court, I’d better go fetch my gavel now…
Someone had told my husband that looking for a shidduch is like looking for a chavrusa, just with more chumros.
Cantoresq-
You echo the sentiments of Chazal, that clearing doubts brings relief/joy. I don’t think they specified that relief depends on the outcome of the resolution, only that the doubts are resolved.
The extent of the resolution of doubts probably determines the extent of the relief.
After this ex-rabbi pledged his allegiance to G-d for so many years, I am skeptical that “Shema Yisroel” won’t resurface to threaten his psychological liberation.
WIY-
You may want to start a Hingarishe recipes thread so your wife will be ok despite her probable lack of formal training:)
I’ll strengthen the good
Kirvas Elokim Li Tov
I want it better
Haiku can express
Your thoughts or propaganda
In just three short lines
“V’ameich kulam tzadikim!”
Sacrilege-
Please bottle, jar, can, and preserve in any other way as much sanity as possible right now. You’ll be needing it, should all your dreams come true.
And they should.
These we shall submit
To a grateful MTA
“Poetry in Motion”
My five-year old heard my newborn making some strange sounds and chuckled, saying “His battery died.”