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forgetting to take the BP med…

The great missed point is that we are a bereft generation, particularly in the US, and no posek of today is going to undo the prescription of the post war Gedolim. Of course, we may say chacham adif minavi, and that there is no need to adapt to the current circumstance, but this is not borne out by the ‘suffering schver’ phenomenon. Without serious positive hachgocho, this is definitely not sustainable, and simple arithmetic is not on our side. For gloomy outlooks, using past historical templates, the US and its economy will crash hard, and Torah will be sustained by the few and the best, who will live on “some” potatoes, as was the case in Europe before the last churban.

I will do a veggie bbq (unless the kids bring the dead protein) as a hakaras hatov, that I am able to live here, that life here is not as hard or sad as it was 50, 70, 100, 0r 150 years ago.

in a rant two months back, Well meaning Busybody called me a Posek, among other titles. Does that mean I am recognized? If so, well, I still have no comment on this thread.

chocolate.

Hello again hello99 and Itche. Way much earlier. The bread of korban todah, and the miluim, included “rekikei matzos, along with the chalos matzos!

Let me stipulate that even after pesach, this is a machlokes leshem shamayim, and let me also declare my biases as a home (hand matza) baker.

For the far greater part of those 3500 years, matzo baking was done by the individual household, or later in communal groups and communal ovens. Read the halacha in depth and read between the lines. You will get a sense of the great tragedy of commercialization of matzo baking. There is a comment of (not sure) maybe the Sochochover gaon, on the advent of the matzo machine. He said (requote from foggy memory) that he never saw the machine, but that who would dare contest the gedolim of the previous dor (50 years) who thundered about this. He then writes a pithy poignant lament about ” those who now buy matzos from others that baked them, and to shun this practice and bake individually was to “grab a mitzvah from the shuk”

Leaves. Yehezkel 47;12 ve’alehu lisrufa. (future)

Yogiboo, I am in EY, and I make a little more than just enough for the seder, the rest of the week is machine shmura. I do share my set up with yechidim, and I am happy to mentor anyone, just someone in the kitchen has to have a deep grasp of the halacha. Maybe I can tempt you- fresh ground(+24) whole grain is really yummy, nutty and sweet.

GAW, are you from the few that do?

As a lefty, I learned very young that often one must accomodate to a right handed world. My first challenge was scissors, and then one piece chair/desks. In my work, I found that there were hammer blows that would work only one way, and once having to hand cut thirty pipes, I learned to saw with the right hand. Of my children, four out of six are left handed, one was ambi as a first grader, my oldest began to put tefillin on both ways, and the youngest was undecided until a therapist made her a righty, but she remains very right brained and artistic. We theorize that my FIL’s family who were all lost in the shoah, must have had a strong left gene pool.

DM: not that Brisk, and I am in Ramot. And not nerves of steel, more like flying high on a hechsher mitzva, and some holy sweat. I always did after the zman with an alternate fire going, and any sfekos and all the trash went into the fire. My matzos get made one at a time, with a 4-7 miniute turnaround time, up to eleven if short handed or slow. This year I am trying out an electric oven ( double saluf pan 2000 watts) so I will skip the erev pesasch run. The right way to start is with a halacha chabura starting around chanukah, or earlier for newbies.

Derech Hamelech, where is “here” ? If you are a neighbor, come to my baking. I am not machshiv erev pesachdik matzos, due to a brisker education, but it is just a special time to do it, and I often do. Fresh is best. The keilim is not that big a deal, I started in chul with a good basement and a decent backyard, with lots of trial and error, a succession of mills and ovens. Now I manage in my 90 meter apt+ chatzer. It is 20 years now, and I have become the big moomche, and a farbrente chassid for home baking, contact me, I would be thrilled to get you started.

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SjS; a sock knock off-er: Beet Lemon and Ginger “marmalade”

2T honey

1 lb cooked beets

1/2 t salt

5T fresh lemon juice

2-3 T chopped lemon zest

1/3 cup crystallized ginger ( for pesach you might need to do your own)

Coarsly dice the beets , add salt, lemon juice honey, zest, and ginger. Mix well with spoon. Serve chilled. Keeps refrigerated 3 weeks.

Hudi: I don’t remember, but it was accident prone ( like me) and that blue eyed+left is at elevated risk for stroke lo alenu. Could be that the creativity that we are famous for leads to experimentation or disregard for rules that can lead to some oops moments.

The last time this came up, I posted several health risks lefties are prone to. It was moderated away, so I feel so much more secure now.

Rashi’s Hat: In Chullin 18b, 19a the gemara discusses the limiting parameters of where the two simanim are to be cut. On the trachea, the upper limit is the shipui kova, the taper point of the structure that sits atop the trachea. Rashi z’l says there that there is a structure atop the the trachea like a hat on a head. So if the shipui kova looks like a hat, then a hat should also look like a shipui kova- sort of a elongated pentagon with the top point lopped of ( in cross section) Of course the analogy does not refer to color, but if it did, the hat would not be black.

An instructive case: I am a tradesman in Yerushalayim, I dress in fairly shmattish clothes, and wear my tzizis in so they don’t get exposed to heavy dirt. I also generally wear a wide brim cloth hat to keep the sun off me. When I work in Hareidi housing projects, the children take me to be an Arab, they whisper and point, and steer clear of me. My long whitening beard is no match for their conception that nobody chareidi (or even Jewish) works, and in their short experience and limited exposure, you can’t really fault them for that line of reasoning.

above ten tefachim in the reshus harabbim

There are schools for clowning, and schools for medical clowning. Medical clowns is big business, big mitzvah, and medically signifigant.

I read balayla hahu with a slow jazz trill in A flat.And other stuff that pleases the crowd to no end.

Way inaccurate method, Zeese. There are women that have taken on being done with shabbos preps early, a bunch of us in EY whose prolific posting time is our Motzai shabbos, (mods nightmare) posters that might get confused between multiple personae and some, who by circumstance is the baalhabos in the apron on Fridays.

On the maamar chazal, not on the poster; Warning–long

A friend sent me a beautiful piece on purim kattan bshem rav Shor, besham Chidushei HaRim. In the time of the Besht, there was a terrible gezera against the community, and they fasted, and davened, engaged in Mizvos with fervor, but the decree remained. The Besht then sent a messenger to fetch a certain drunkard from afar, with instructions that he should not drink on the way to the Besht. When the drunkard was brought before him sober, the Besht asked him for a bracha to abolish the gezera. The drunkard gave the bracha, and the gezera was lifted. When the Besht’s disciples asked what was the segula of the drunkard, the Besht told the following. The man had performed the great mitzvah of Pidyon shvuyim, at great cost and danger to save a certain girl. His reward from shamayim was the power to bless at random, and his blessings would bear fruit, but in the heavenly court it was argued that such a simple person could use this power for the wrong reasons. It was therefor decreed that he would have this power, but would live as a drunkard not knowing night from day, and so the gift would not be abused.

On Purim, there is the halacha, kol haposhet yad, nosnim lo, and this is true in tefilla as well, the tefilos of Purim have awesome powers, and can be uses for the wrong thing, so therefor, we are commanded to be drunk, and so not to abuse the tefilah. Now there is also statement that there is no difference between Purim and Purim katan but Megilah, matanos and seudah, meaning the power of tefilah is the same, without the handicap of chayiv ish levesumei.

I was disappointed to get this message after purim katan, but I took comfort in the knowledge that chayav ish, is not davka all day long. One generally davens Purim morning with a clear head, and perhaps davens mincha before the seudah, and personally I try to be not so incapacitated as to be patur from ma’ariv. Shavua tov, and a safe happy run up to Purim!

SP, also if you need real long to heat the boiler, the heating element is bad (overcooked and cased in avnit) A new goof himum in a 150 tank should heat it in half an hour. With some sun input, it is even faster, but the life of an element is about three years.

A bigger kasha is where did the white dress come from?