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Haleivi and bzbody: from ancient times? Maybe, maybe not, but not likely into modern times. My zaide was a wandering litvak, and he, like the bnai binyamin, did not have a shin in his speech. I have met not a few sfardi that dont distinguish between shin smoli or yemani. The Radak on the shiboles/siboles passage writes: “… because they would mispronounce ( megamgemim) the letter shim, perhaps the air of their land caused them this, such as the people of France who don’t understand to pronounce a “sin” and read it like a tav rafeh”. Now we can unscientifically speculate, based on the end of Hoshea, that the residents of Jerusalem were gole to espania, and a large number of others, mostly not from Yehuda was the nucleus of galus Ashekenaz. A tangential support, is the greater distribution of Kohanim in the benei Mizrach. If the galus Ashkenaz, followed the Roman conqeust, that would put the orignal golim in Gaul, Rhine, and in the the British Islands, ( Bag-pipes are mentioned in Mishne Kelim) it is a slim possiblity that unique dialects of the outer settlements of bayis sheni persisted in the early wandering, and filtered through the “local influences” of later wanderings.( as in not having the authentic tav dagush either)

Derech Hamelech; the mareh mokom is in Divrei Hayamim 1:20, the progeny from Kalev to Bezalel. Rashi comments (based on know values from elsewhere) ” go and calculate that they all were less than 8 at becoming parents.”

quite amazing how they communicated in “English?”

“Rivka doesn’t appear in davening ever”

Rivka appears in the misheberach for women, in the bracha for children, and in crossword style in the second column third letter place in the yomin noraim arrangement of ‘bfi yeshorim, in bold type in the older mahzorim.

You can often see severely organized people fall into the following trap: Open talis bag, remove talis, remove tefillin, once everything out out (arranged of course) on the table, they take the talis to put it on. This violates ain maavirim al hamitzvos. The same applies where the person honored with pesicha lifts one sefer and then is directed to take a different sefer. There are also grammar/nikud/punctuation peculiarities in Nusach Ashkenaz on which I can’t comment as a chashud bedavar. My mesorah is to correct them.

weighing in from the guys who cook tread. My sourdough is far far removed from the puffy, white, oil, egg, and sugar heavy creations, but a few of my “enhancements” go well in any bread.

a) best for white breads where it not only tastes but shows, rehydrated short snips of roesmary a tablespoon to 5lb batch.

b)best for ww or other heavy dark bread, onion poppy. Cut onions into uniform small bits, dicing stam give too much large chunks. Set on a slanted cutting board and salt with about a teaspoon of coarse salt, slant board and let it sweat and drain overnight. You should leave the approximate amount of salt used out of the main recipe. Before use, sprinkle some sugar to give it some gooeyness, add poppy until it mixes between grey and black. Flatten out a portion of dough, spread a spoon or two onto it and roll up. Cross roll it once of twice and form into a loaf. The last move puts a strip of filling into each slice.

Onion board. Roll dough into 3/4 to 1″ logs. Lay out with curls and wiggles on a greased cookie sheet, spooning the onion mix onto and inbetween logs. Done right, there generally will be no leftovers. Bteiavon.

And the inability to accept Tochacho. Nekudah.

There was an article in a known Mag that featured (favorably) a woman in EY that chases away ayin hara by pouring molten lead from container to container over the persons head. I wrote in that aside from the karov la’avoda zara aspect, she was endangering peoples lives, given the toxicity of lead, lead fumes, and the danger of a spill accident. It was not publish, she had the hascoma of some local Rabbanim. Stick to the daled amos of halacha folks. Please.

deiyezzoger: in the Life Experience Dept: Birth 1.5 day prior to RH, and one 2days prior to YK. Both times they kept her. Where there are no women…cook, and try to fill those small shoes.

seaweed, rose hips, tree bark, raw schav( sourgrass) alpine strawberry (the best) acorn patty, (not recommended) dandelion leaves, dandelion root, home pickled herring. I am not the furthest you can go off the beaten track. I have an acquaintance whot forages for edible weeds.

Lomed: you are becoming a laughingstock with your broad brushed calumny about the spiritual health of others. And your comments of “part of Himself and connecting to God Himself are approaching MINUS if not already there, despite the Zohar and kaveyochols. Fundamentalism can lead you in funny directions.

Nobody wants my recipe?

Shlomo Zalman! not exactly poison. This is the western throw away society mindset. As posted elsewhere, spoiled milk is just milk on its way to the next step. When unmanaged, is smells and tastes bad and might have some nasty bacteria in it. In poorer society, they just add something to add a better flavor, and then cook it to kill the unfriendly bacteria. The protein changes some, but it is too precious to toss in some places and times. Think spicy curd kugel.What do you think Little Miss Muffet was eating?

Far more worrisome and likely more often it is not a case of drugs, porn, talking/hanging our with boy/girl. Consider the following scenario, names and places deleted to protect the victim and the abuser. Say there is a 16yo girl, doing something ok in all innocence but it appears to the not fully informed yenta that chaos and mayhem are afoot. The false report gets to the Menaheles’s ears,the student is called to the kangaroo interrogation and sent home. The Menaheles has listened to lashon hara, and acted to the child’s detriment and endangermment. The 16yo knows this, because that this is an elementary lesson in lhr that was taught to her well over the years. This telegraphs a message to the child that only the strongest will not succumb to. Does this happen. You bet.

Case two: Parents of perfectly comported young lady happen to live in a large spiffy house above the Jerusalem average standard, and horror of horrors, the own a car, and are anglophones to boot. Poppa teaches in a yeshiva and mother works. The young lady is one day summarily kicked out. Poppa calls in but is stonewalled. After a week of banging on doors, he is admitted to a meeting where the headmistress pantomimes indicating her solid information that they own a TV (they don’t), and she doesn’t budge. Miffed, Poppa starts pulling strings, and thankfully he has connection to some muscular Rabbanim that force the headmistress to back down. 16yo readmitted armed with the realization that THE BIG REBBITZEN acts on innuendo. Weeks later, the 16yo’s 3rd grade sister ( same institution)) is summarily kicked out. Again, outside forces must be brought to bear on the school. 16 year old learns and indelible lesson that her superiors engage in lashon hara and have a flair for nekama. 3rd grader gets an early lesson in tzaddik ve’rah lo. There are of course two sides to every story, but clearly, there are people is positions of authority that can be hazardous to our childrens neshomos.

A maybe different answer: Tehillim has its own music. You may have seen a Tehillim with taamim, the cantillation notes These are the Taamei Emet (unique to Iyov Mishle and Tehillin. They are not so easy to learn once your are familiar with standard taamim, and Ashkenazim don’t have a mesorah for how they sound, but among the Sfardim, there is an almost alive, not quite lost mesorah of the sound. I have heard from a Chacham Gadol, that the commas and phrasing of some editions is in conflict with that decreed by the taamim.

oilom k’mihogo noheig. Ah the memories. I worked a lifetime ago as a teen as the shclepper in a Chassidic grocery in the Catskills. Skin and bones as I was, I hauled 40 cases a day of milk (yes that brand) from the sidewalk to the walk in refrige, and then out to the customers. It was trucked from Mountaindale (far away) and left on the sidewalk at some time before I got there at 7:00, and the only place in the store not 90 degrees was the walk in. The distributor guaranteed the milk, but he wanted the spoiled stuff back. So people brought back marginally spoiled milk, and we stored it OUTSIDE THE COOLER for the return trip to the distributer. I could have had a masters in cheesemaking had I been paying closer attention, but I was working too hard, including defending my self esteem. I was called Yankel by the boss though I had a real name, and when his daughter at the register had to address me, it was “you”. Language and cultural barriers of great height. Seriously, milk at 60F begins to degrade, and the damage is cumulative (mitztaref) So if it sits a bit on the way into the truck, and them some on the way out, and then some on the was to the cold case, its freshness time is shortened. And you need 90f to make cheese.

So Hello, how many colossals go in to the average or large egg or achilas pras. The theory postulated was very un niskatnu hashiurim. Next time you have pizza, try squashing it into a ml gradated measure. I will do the same, and we can compare slice statistics.

jakyweb: not to be relied on always, but a good rule of thumb in a civil debate is to watch closely when the ad hominum attacks and uncivil comments begin and from what direction. What you are fighting is the disease of creeping isms defended by insecure and frightened people. Note that as yet you did not receive an apology fron the “ben torah” nor was “helpful” very polite. The discourse will not always be rational and you will see the circling of the wagons. Part of the fear of old pictures is that it doesn’t exactly confirm the positions of todays chumradom . A corollary discussion ( old thread maybe) of mixed seating at functions (other than smachot) follows the same pattern. Gedolim of yesteryear saw the segregation train comming, and they voiced discomfort with it. Good luck with your daughters and granddaughters education. May they turn out to be Nshei Chayil.

Minyan Gal: Also possibly causal is the Zionist Entity ( may it prosper and be well)took it mistakenly as a secular militaristic holiday, and imagined themselves to be the new Maccabees. The old Macabees might have voiced some protest about that.

Now tachlis: If you don’t mind decorating your sukkah with tinsel, flashing colored lights and glass balls, the stuff marketed to the hoi poloi is really dirt cheap. You just have to buy it the year before. Same with Halloween if you like orange/black/ purple themes.

PIY: If you had aspaklaria hameira, you would be awesome. As is, your pretty sharp and on target.

I would wager that the more attentive among us can figure this out from context, especially the goose end of the goose/gender divide with the BY sense.

Also rabosai, consider this gem: In a compendium on chagim, I found a quoted maamar of the Chazon Ish regardng kezais. He says that Hakodosh Baruch Hu knew we would be subject to exiles and wanderings, thus in his mercy, he gave us natural signs for the shiurim. Hence a kzayis is the size of an olive in every time and every place relative to that place. The responses to this fell into two basic groups: Group A) that not what he said, thats not what he meant, he said it but not lhoros, he didnt mean it that way. he meant it but didn’t say it …..

Group b) took it and reasoned that the largest possible olive in our times is the the shiur (California Colossal?) and so a Kzayis is about 20 ml or the (outside)volume of two soda bottle caps, or a small size match box, and this is the shiur for all mitzvos and bracha aharona.

Now if we go with group B, one slice of pizza is clearly more than two or three kzaisim, and for the deah that says that kvias seudah is based on quantity, One slice shouold be hamotzi and benching.

Just some validation of what was said above. How I wish this could be anonymous, maybe mods, can you arrange that? In a different life I taught LD highschool. It was a job I fell into accidentally, I wasn’t trained specifically for teaching at all, but I put all my heart and all my creativity into them, unaware, and young and stupidly so, that the principal was molesting them. It was a spectacle to see parents of the molested begging for the school not to shut down over this, but thankfully for all involved, it closed.The roveah ran away to EY, and hung up a shingle in counseling. How clever. In the ensuing years I got an education, being a small cog in Jewish health care, I saw and heard a lot of sad stuff, and so I eventually developed the zero tolerance attitude. I feel nausia when I hear a certain person’s music in shul, and I avoid Shabbos Mevorchim kabbalas shabbos. After some years in EY, I came across the roveah’s name on a mailbox. It really shook me. BH, I beleive they gave him back to the Americans, for though I would not pursue him, had I crossed his path in a quiet place, I wouldnt think twice. Thank for letting me spill some pain, edit as you must.

arc, she wrote hypoventillate, as in holding your breath till out of range of the mazik polluter.

The issue of size is determined by a heat loss calculation. It is basically a measurement of all your heat loss surfaces ( walls ceilings windows doors) mutltiplied by known values for material/insulative value. At the end you get a BTU load for a typical maximum heat diff between outside and what you want inside. If a contractor does’nt do the arithmetic, ask him to, and if he does’nt know what you are talking about and rule of thumbs the job, fine a brainier operator.

Changing from steam to water is more efficient because of the efficiency losses of phase change and higher temps of steam. There are also more critical error that can be made unless you have a quality moomche.

The very best system if you can find someone to do it right is continuous circ. In this system, the pump always runs, the radiator temps are kept from tepid to warm, never hot. This makes the radiant effect of the radiator much higher, (comfort) doesnt stir up dust, reduces burn risk, and actually is most efficient except for the electrical load of the pump. The pump also lasts longer running at lower temp and continuously rather than start/stop, and the run of the boiler is controlled primarily by the thermostat, which is the most accurate part of the system. This is great for very large houses with high volume systems.

Squeak: there were several ways to do steam, some two pipe, and the science of how these work is a nearly lost art. Big, old, large pipe systems that worked by gravity only: hot water rises, cold water falls, all in big pipe with asbestos insulation. They worked without pumps, and some gas systems worked on milivolt contol that the pilot generated itself. In steam, this could be a electric less system. There were coal feeders that worked on thermal expasion/ contration of a bimetal sensor, and chains that also worked “by themselves” The laws of physics is a beautiful thing.

In a steam to water convert, some old radiators on steam don’t have the requisite tappings.

Lastly, good double pane windows, attic and walls insulated to the max, (and a tyvek house wrap if you are residing) are one time expenses that forever reduce your energy needs and have no moving parts (except windows)

As you might sense, this was my bread and butter before I moved to Jerusalem, where I can have tomatoes on the vine in January, but almost no heating business. L’toeles harabim, you can reach me for advice if the Mod lets.