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I wore crocks (knock offs) all day today, as every day, and being on sick leave, walked several kilometer all around town, and I have bruised metatarsals, so though I wasn’t paying attention, my feet felt the ground.
A place where anyone regards a mitzvah as a slight is a spiritual sewer. In most shuls, the glila is given to a child to include him in the joy of participation in the mitzvah of the tzibbur. I have seen forward (rearward?) thinking places where a literate child is given Maftir. You should pick up and daven elswhere Pop, this attitude is a blight on the whole enterprise.
according to the chatter on the web, you can, if you are somewhat tech-abled, to buy the photovoltaic cells in bulk very cheap, and cobble together what would be a 10-20k panel for about $200. The other of the big threesome expenses is batteries, and the inverter. The weakest link is probably the batteries. For the really adventurous, there is/ was a large market for 12 or 24 volt appliances and lighting, for the RV and marine crowd. Some dual wiring would be needed, and you could do without the inverter. Other solar options are water heating and its variants. In the US, it is easier to get the cutting edge evacuated tube collectors, than it is in sunny EY. These are way more efficient that the flat black panels, and in the northern climes, that efficiency may just what makes it work, and variable angle mounts for winter and summer would be icing on the cake. Note that you must run the numbers on any system to rate its payout, liftime against cost/saving.
Rebbi: some herbs and seeds work for some people. garlic, celery, ezov ( the israili zaater, sometimes marketed as “turkish oregano”, rosemary. Some people can benefit from raw chochalte or just the roasted seed, and the big new now is beets. The bacteria at the back of the tongue convert the beet juice to something that drops the pressure in an hour or two, just that alcohol( and mouthwash) temporarily wipe out the bacteria colony. Hawthorne berries open up the coronary arteries, and thus increase volume and drop pressure. This has been used for heart disease for a real long time. The trouble is the experimentation and you must be careful. I did hawthorne while I was taking regular med( a beta blocker) and at one time got tingling in the extremities, likely from a hypo incident.
lone wolf, or coyote if Wolf gets teritorial.
again the canard that the US is the be all and end all patron of the Medina. HOW DO YOU KNOW? Are you privy to the heshbonos of Hashem? Causality is a complicated topic, on which the haughty and the ignorant stumble together.
oomis! what a memory shock. I was one of the weekend people that made the schlep to Parksville every weekend for the redsidential folks. Also three decades+. Will be married for 31 years and I remember stopping the three year relationship because the management did not take a shine to my new, very quiet wife. I can attest that it left a great imprint on my outlook and character. And in the ensuing 31 years, wife has learned to make some noise.
They go the the coffee room shel ma’alah.
Brooklyn Yenta, you nailed it. No makeup and uniforms (and uniwigs). Tough row to hoe, but it would solve lots of problems, and there would be no more tznius threads.
It isn’t always by choice
–former Hatzolah grunt.
Dor dor v’dorshav. We must accept the gzar din that these Gedolim were gifts for the doros that they influenced. Now we must seek and raise contemporary gadlus. That there are not similarly bright stars on the horizon is cause for introspection. There is also the nechomo of “ki lo sishocach mpi zar’oh”.
Even whole wheat is generally not left whole. In most or all commerical flour, the germ must be removed because it spoils quickly unless roasted, vaccum packed and refrigerated. It is worth the effort to mill your own, because the taste and richness of fresh ground whole is incomparable. (and in matza, actually delicious) If you have a Kitchen Aid, there is a mill attachment but i dont know how it is rated. Some of the Magic Mills are serious enough for most.
There were many mornings I missed due to digestive mishaps where i recovered by mincha time, and my last and only encounter with the flue was 9 days in winter 95 in which to me, there was no night or day, I barely kept myself hydrated, and was basically as onus as i”ve ever been bar anesthesia.
oomis, you get a credit, and a demerit. Bava Metzia 61b: It was taught in the house (bais medrash) or Rabbi Yishmael; Said the Holy One Blessed be He, were it only for this, that they do not defile themselves with insects, it would have merited the Redemtion from Egypt, it would be enough. They replied to him: the merit is greater than tzitit, and honest weights and (desisting from) usury? He replied to them: even thought the merit is not as great, they regard them (forbidden inscects etc.) with utter revulsion.
And, Sifra Kedoshim: One should not say, I don’t want the pigs flesh, rather he should say I want it, but my Father in heaven has forbidden it.
So you should really want that cockroach, but restrain yourself.
Switched ground is very very bad, dangerous, and beyond irresponsible. Never trust wire color. Always verify. Some memorable shocks of mine: Moving the bx line of a pump away from a wet hazard. The jacket cut into the hot and I convulsed and locked on. Lucky me, I was standing on a steep incline, and was able to fall away. This altered my heart rhythm. After some months of following a different heartbeat, I was working on something that had the tell tale switched ground. Not paying enough attention, I backhanded it, and my went flying in the opposite direction. That set my heart straight again, but with some shoulder pain, and we never did find the screws that had been in that hand. The absolute worst, was getting the pulsed 10,000 volts intended for an oil burner ignition. On that occasion I quickly took my pulse to verify that I was still alive, because standing up was just not convincing enough.
Switched ground is very very bad, dangerous, and beyond irresponsible. Never trust wire color. Always verify. Some memorable shocks of mine: Moving the bx line of a pump away from a wet hazard. The jacket cut into the hot and I convulsed and locked on. Lucky me, I was standing on a steep incline, and was able to fall away. This altered my heart rhythm. After some months of following a different heartbeat, I was working on something that had the tell tale switched ground. Not paying enough attention, I backhanded it, and my went flying in the opposite direction. That set my heart straight again, but with some shoulder pain, and we never did find the screws that had been in that hand. The absolute worst, was getting the pulsed 10,000 volts intended for an oil burner ignition. On that occasion I quickly took my pulse to verify that I was still alive, because standing up was just not convincing enough.
A relative of mine a”h had unusual gifts of perception, I remember having had, as a sickly child, an out of body experience, and I have had some “be careful what you wish for” moments. Note that the Kohen Gadol would daven for Hashem’s inattention to the tefilas yachid of travelers.
Yes, you take down your mezuzot, and bring them to a sofer. He unrolls the tightly wound poor quality klaf and lo and behold, there are cracks in the letters. VERTICAL CRACKS, in every one. Planned obsolecence. Honesty would be making claf for mezzusot soft and pliable and treated to stay that way.
“mimimun halachic size” If you are aware of the halcoha, and its shiurim, please post the mareh mokom.. Till then, I must assume that yarmulka is a minhag, and there are no shiurim or sub halochos to a minhag.
SMS007 Tell your husband that a helmet is only needed when ones head is propelled into a solid object at roughly the traveling speed (or greater depending on gravitational vector), and when the head is heading into that say, fencepost, or car door, it is too late. Supermanism should fade out around 25-30. Good luck.
The Radziner has the siyata that the cuttlefish is actually blue (when it feels like it) and it also undulates with the water, so it is domeh layam in two respects that the murex cant, though they are both mollusks, the cuttle fish is also, more “like a fish” than the snail.
On the down side, the blood or body fluid of the chilazon is supposded to be black,( or what the Rambam means by “shachor”) which neither the octopus or the snail present.
There are also some indications that both camps have the color wrong. If kale ilan is a reasonable look alike, than techeles should be the color of, pardon the expression, brand new, unwashed blue jeans.
For talis shekula techeles, you can’t make the strings black, because THEY WOULD LOOK LIKE TECHELES. (hilchos tzizis bet/chet)
The bottom line, is that while it is hard to figure what the Rambam means with the firmament reference, the plain havana is that the color is really dark blue, diluted from a black/blue fish juice, and the processing is only to make it color fast. A really dark purple might also fit, but not the milky bladder juice of the snail nor the sepia brown of the cuttlefish whose must color change in essence,through elaborate chemical processes.
In Medrash Tanchuma on Shlach, the techles is called ganuz. Not lost, but hidden, taken away for time unspecified. As we will not find the aron, the ketores, the other kelim, we will not find the blue juiced blue fish untill it is revealed in its right time, and we are restored to our destiny.
opening poster, if you are ashenazi, try this trick. Daven with sfardim where the shatz doesn’t stop chattering. Learn to concentrate in that environment, and then go back to your regular minyan. Or, when you get to a specific part of the tefilah that pulls your emotion, close your eyes and say it with a silent mental scream. When you master this, apply that closeness to other parts of the tefilah one by one. Warning: you may end up with the same “problem” as sb2.
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Must be a rare alignment of the stars when I agree with PacMan. A place where you are ‘bosh mile’echol bo” is not kovea for ma’asser. Public eating ( in what parameters i don’t know) is also, for the guys, a pusul edus. We are for the most, desensitized and out of touch with the culture of chazal, but it is clear that they held public eating as very “un-classy”.
why would you seek to see your shaila pulished davka, even if you see it as to’eles lerabim, could be the posek doesn’t. I am, so far as I know, the result of an unpublished Igra. A second party asked Rav Moshe ztk’l on my behalf, and relayed the life altering answer. This was thirty seven years ago, and I don’t remember the turnaround time, it the issue was urgent. I am sort of comforted that my case is not out there in ‘bright lights”.
Regarding the opening post, if a shidduch tanks due to shallow and subjecive lashon hora, was it or wasn’t it to be a bahshert??
Like Yehuda and Tamar (also not exactly the BY paradigm ) it was orchestrated from above to prepare the ancestry of Mashiach. It is not about tznius (mixed messages from Tamar) or about shiduchim, (rather short duration (one pirush in Yehudah/Tamar)), it is about the importance and nature of the Mashiach.
A small extension to the post of ilovetheholyland: The higher level of ruchniyus, and the histapkus is fairly engrained in the religious communities. There is however a majority of the population that is on a gashmius track, wanting to be like the Americans, or the Western Europe type of culture. If one is fortunate to have some contact with this population, it is of great kiruv value for them to see some of the finer midos of the American mindset. One can sense that even in the limited kibbutz galuyos that we all have what to learn from one another.
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A extra wide brim hat, with the brim turned down. Navigate by the sidewalk directly in front of you. ?Caveat: This is not advisable for crossing streets. The longer you stay in the B M , the less challenges will cross your path. Hatslocho.
Why is it fair? Because it is the holy minhag going back to Lavan the idolater uncle of ours, and everybody knows, you dare not ster the holy minhagim!
Pacman, your rather nasty and largely inaccurate comment is rather inappropriate erev the yom tov which at least once was typified by kish echad b’lev echad.
No, Sender Av, ashkenazi New Yawker transplanted to Jerusalem. I did first encounter okra in the genteel South though. I don’t like it for itself, but it’s mucous like innards are great for sauce base, or just to lubricate a dish. The little cartwheels from slicing are also nice eye-catchers in medleys like salads or rice mixes
and remember chevre, this is the night of kafa aleihem har k’gigis, a time to be eyes wide open and sharp.
Yes, unlike Moshe Rabenu alav hashalom, I came to eat the fruits. I recall there was once a Ramateshkolian here.
It wont be easy to find, but there are gray hats. And for yechidei segula, there are Western fedoras that come in just about every color. A quality westeren is certainly a hiddur in malbush shabbos and tefillah. Dont know how it would work with tefillin though.
Night: The standard whole grain challah with tehina and chumus
Baked ziti spiffed up to be ole al shulchan melachim (tomato
sauce, sheredded cheese veggie gems (stir fried florets of
cauliflower, bits of red bell pepper, okra added for slime.
Low fat cheese cake in whole wheat and cormeal crust.
Guaranteed to leave nobody hungry.
Day: Plum/rosmary noodle kugle with sourcream replacing half the
egg content. (variation strawberry and mint)
Pumpkin or sweet potato pie, sweetened with date honey and
filled with pistachios. (variation shredded pineapple and
rolled oats.)
Schav with sour cream, chopped leek,cucumber and boiled
potato. Ice cream. Same guarantee as the night.
Sac: Beet soup can be switched for the green borcsht, schav, which is best done milchig.
getsl1, your quote sounds eerily like the es is shver tzu zein a Yid, which Reb Moshe zkl railed against. On Rosh Hashana, try davening with a netz minyan, or a minyan that is makpid not to eat before shofar, and also makpid that people should do kiddush bmakom seudah before chatzos. On Pesach, there is plenty to eat if you look a bit beyond meat and potatoes. Two parts whimsy and one part skill, and you can cook up a Pesach storm with plain foods plainly prepared.
This is basically an unanswerable question. In the nature/nurture divide, nature seems fixed, but really isnn’t, and nurture is full of variables. We say in the morning brachot, ” Hamechin mitzadei gaver”. Human bechira, ( the third variable) needs input, and thus our paths are cluttered with variable circumstance. When one perceives the cascade of chess moves in which his choices led him toward goodness or success, it is a opportunity to add an extra dollop of kavana and shevach to that bracha.
unacceptable customer service. A shop with an office and multiple service units has no excuse not to pick up and schedule on the first three rings, and to update you or reschedule if there is a delay. A lone wolf operater (like me) lives or doesn’t by his cellphone, and also should not be difficult to reach, nor derelict in communication if late. Maybe the old gentlmen and the young ones with a solid business sense are dying out in your area.
chalav Akum is milk produced by an idolater(‘s amimal) and presumed to be adulterated with non kosher ingredients. This is not a common case /in certain places and times/ and so where there is not such a phenom, the milk in the general market is called chalav stam, meaning “plain milk” with no Jewish owner/supervision. With that supervision, it is chalav yisrael.
yesalkena litzdain does not mean to turn sideways. It means you the guy should track sideways and seek to pull ahead. ( the diagonal that some insist is assur.) About buses, in the holy city, forget about it. The famous Israel concept of a “line” is in full force, as if it were India where you would have to hang on the exterior. Women of all ages with just squeeze into any gaps left in the triangular line, and there is no helping being “caboosed”, unless you are an aggressive unripened -in -mussar type.
or, to be dan lekaf zchus, or to be makir tov, how many mitvos of talmud Torah were aided or enabled by his dictionary?
Mr.& Mrs. Twisted, with a DSL voip link in Ramot if you are close.
It is noted many times in the biographies of The Chazon Ish z’kl, that while in Europe, he wore the garments of a common laborer.
Just a little factoid to digest…
To BestBubby: in EY the slightest sniff of American gashmiyus, real, or imagined can get a child booted out of certain schools.
Rav Ovadya’s oft stated opinion (mentioned in Yalkut, YO, and YD) that “shomer nafsho yerachek misham” and it is better to go on another day. Not that I would do that either. The whole minhag, and the industry that grew around it strikes me as ‘not well founded’, and in some instances mindlessly destructive.
If you are at work, and the demands of the job are such that you can just gaze at the boats, then perhaps you could be learning during the gaze-break, and the boat is indeed your soton.
Rabbosai, there is a lesson in Medrash Rabba (early in sedra shmos) about legacy in ruchnyus. It says, if a person is moser nefesh for a mitzva, that mitzva will never be absent inn his progeny. The medrash gives an amazing example: Yisro, and Yael eshes chever Hakeini. So the guarantee does not mean that extraordinary middos/accomplishments occur in every generation, and in the case given, perhaps not even a blood relative. So yichus is nice, because it is a chain in which every so often, a link shines brilliantly. It also indicates that is also nice to start a new chain.
To certain extremes. I dont like crowds, parties, or kiddushes, and only really open up with knowns, and boards like this. Anonymity is both a comfort and a discomfort.
Sichu b’chol nifl’osav: I was flat on my back today, marveling how a minor imabalance in pressure in a sinus incapacitates a 190 lb muscle and bones energizer- bunny kind of guy. Above, a black jumper spider workied its way across the cieling. From the floor, it appeared star shaped. Each joint of those eight legs is precisely muscled and enervated, and the adhesion of the end of the legs, or their grasp in the gaps of the painted surface is just enough to keep spider’s mass stuck to the cieling against gravity, but not so much that those tiny muscles cant pick up and place down in rapid succession.
Tikkun Hatzot: What changed perhaps was the entry or re-entry of the bicycle to the standard transportation mix. As it became more popular, and more street intensive, it became more accident prone for both the commuters, and for the kids. I also was a bicycle junkie as kid, and never had, and never saw a critical accident, it was davka when I was 40 when an attempt to avoid an irresponsible motorist went wrong, an I was pitched headfirst into a fence post. BH for the helmet, the helmet laws, the helmet culture and styrofoam.
M In Israel: Before Gush Katif was Yamit, and before Yamit was Yerushalim old city. It has come to light that the reinforcents to the fighters of the Rova did not arrive, because Ben Gurion and his cabal did not want to keep the old city and it’s “problems”.
To give Rav Kook’s shita a plug, he defined the Medina as a Keli, which could be filled with either tumah or tahara. From his writings and his works, you know he was not content to leave it in the hands of the seculars. He wrote that love of the land without love of Torah would ultimately turn to hatted for the land and its lovers. Hacham adif minavi, and it is incumbent on us to try to fill the keli with the right stuff.