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first of all, I would not patronize that county in the present state of affairs, cheap or not,. I did fly once from EY to NY with them by way of Istanbul. The first leg from TA to Istanbul was on a ‘flying bus” with sardine can conditions. The cross atlantic craft was normal, but looked old and worn. The personnel in Istanbul were also not too friendly, helpful, or particularly skilled in languages. Sort of like out of a grade be horror movie.

lefi aniyyas daati, first of all 1/4 sugar to two cups flour might be sweet enough to be pas haba bekisnin even w/o the flour issue. Second even if you were to be kovea seuda, would you have kzais/pras? Unlikely with all the other chazerai in it.

Summers vacationing out of the city. I was brought up this way, in fact it was the only quality times of my childhood. I am wired to love the trees, the mountain thunder, the lake the fishing, it was my “clinging to the tumah’. BH, I was a baal koreh, and the mentions of “eretz zavat chalav u’dvash” got to me, some things in the tochecha scared me, and I had incredible feelings of guilt and failing when benching bircas hamozone. I declung. So now I am the Chulnik, the amerikanisher charedi light, the meshugener american. Go figure. DYH, I wish you the same restless spirit, and the means to act on it.

I have made these delightful pretzels, (no subtitle pun intended) and the prep is same as bread, the mix, rise, and handling of the dough is the same for bread, and the baking is the same. The hot lye (proffesional) or baking soda bath is merely to give it a hard skin, and lye actually imparts a flavor, but this is really no different that the many bakers tricks that are used for crust and appearance in other forms of bread that are all clearly just called bread. So mitzad atzmo, it is a hamotzi.

From another angle, these were commonly sold in kiosks to be eaten on the go, which would give it a “snack profile”. This ignores however, the age-old Jewish abhorrence for public, casual or mindless eating. A person sensitive to the etiquette of chazal, would be kovea seuda, and relish the 6 brochos that come with krich rifta.

147: What you see is the reason the republic and western society in general is doomed. The beancounter sp. demographgus state that below 2.1 children per union, in competitive environments with immigration, the native culture will just disappear and the decline is irreversible. One of my many motivations for decamping to EY was the plain sight of barbarian types outbreeding the literati.

“The pain of embarrassment is the only anguish that has no lasting side effects”

Embarrassment can be a trigger of teshuva, or a detructive weapon, a communicable disease, it can be a makas challal, and it can kill.

I find it impossible to fall asleep with socks on. Must be something else that disorders my treasure chest.

A great window into the past is Shu”t. Reading between the lines one can draw a mental picture of what must have been. For some, such as the shailos and tshuvos that arose in the ghettos and the camps, you don’t need the “in between the lines”.

I once called a din toran in lovely Brooklyn. They wanted $150 for the hazmana, and 250 for the appointment. They were shamelessly to’im bidvar mishna, and it cost me about a year or two of ahavas yisroel. In Jerusalem, I tried to start a mekach to’us case with a “name brand” beis din, they contacted my baal din, the gabbai got back to me and said “try to work it out outside”. My impression, among other negative feelings, is that they did not want to deal with “small potatoes”.

I knew an old polisher Yid, who was orphaned young. He said he survived by begging for scraps of bread, and at 10 he was chapped by the the Russians, who made him a tailor for the Red Army. That remained his parnossa, and in the US, he became a wealthy by tailor’s standards.

The Rambam says that the Moshiach will arise from the society in EY, so the current yishuv may or may not be the setting, or you can speculate, if kibbutz galuyot precedes, the geula, is this the kibbutz galuyot? Would it be if rov yidden were here (comming soon) I heard quoted that Rav Kaduri ztzl “met the Moshiach” meaning that he is here, but in hiding. How could we hold that against him?

we should all be wary of commercial foods. For baking starches,beyond rice, there is sorghum, teff, millet, tapioca, quinoa, and buckwheat.

The Jewnion is at war on many fronts, wtih Esav, Amelek, with Yismael in ascendancy, with assimilation, with zeidim, and malshinim, with ruach hatuma, and with the yetzer public and private.

And for those of you out there with hypertension, try celery, rosemary, and without using toothpaste, beets. The trick with beets, is that the juice acts with bacteria resident at the back of the tongue, and toothpaste and other behaviors damage the bacteria colony. Borscht, the super food!

The best solution? Scoop up these menacing loiterers and send them to re-education camp, with a strong emphasis on midos, and eradicating the us/them thought pathways.

No, silence is not good, but as soon as people acknowledge that teenagers and spouses are not under robotic control as in Horses Mouth’s perfect world, the input we do have will be more effective.

I have very little problems with snow at present, but while in NY, I found a type of steel cable that laid zig-zag over the tire, and they had steel cleats crimped on here and there. They were a much smoother and quieter ride than chains. I used them only. twice, once, a trip to JFK and back in 8 inches with no probs on my not so agile Ford E350 with 75R16s. They would probably not lasted as long as chain, but why make it a habit to drive in heavy snow?

Assara zhuvim is the halachic recompense, and bet din and melech have other means at their disposal for controlling sociopaths. If this was not protested by the PTB, and the “few bad apples” are not “taken out of circulation” it puts the lie to the claims that this is not the normal pr stance of this community.

Not to shter the kashrus of turkey, but “the most delicious bird created by Hashem” is a little off. The modern bird has been selectively bred for large white meat production. The toms are so clumsy that they cannot breed naturally, and all production is had by artificial insemination (which is how most things, including chicken and beef, are done because of the efficiency and scale). If you want the bird that the acharonim struggled with, there are hobbyists and farms that grow “heritage turkeys” but they don’t come frozen and wrapped.

violin ( in deep remission) alto sax (behind closed doors) tenor and alto recorder, and I have my eyes out for a quality wood, or nickel ocarina. Of course, all in moderation. My RY once said that for most, mastery of an instrument or music is a lifetime of bittul torah.

Always: From Shir Hashirim, a perfected individual, in literal meaning, he is all pleasantries.

Or, DovidM, they looked different because that was the commonly available selection of clothing at the specific local. Untill the advent of the modern sewing machine, ( and this did not penetrate the backwaters) a set of clothing was not a pashut thing, and perhaps you took what you could find. This is also why Rashi, describing the top structure of the trachea ( a pink, pentagonal thing) says “it looks like a hat” (just don’t tell Borsalino)

Arwsf: If it is in fact the woods, teach the five year old some life skills, such as how to tend to his/her needs in such a situation, with no running water and no specific use pottery. And be careful not to telegraph negativity about nature. You should be zoche to raise exceptional individuals.

must the challah baker be a womnan?