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takamamash, the processed fake meat is likely from tofu
tofu is from soy
rov soy, thanks to Dows and Monsantos of the world, is gmo.
And Friday night, is when the spices and additives (really important in veggie chulent) are at their peak flavor.
+1 Nechoma. It is important that the approach to a Yom Tov be infused with positive anticipation and joy. If that takes starting in January, it is worthwhile. Just one variation Nechoma, when you bake matzos at home, the dust CAN be chometz.
a)grappa, distilled from large amounts of wine that went bad. It has a smokey chocolate character at 80 proof.
b) things you can make with pure alcohol. In EY, you can get stuff like Everclear, but distilled from grapes and kosher le pesach. With this I have made myrtle berry, by soaking the berries and then cutting by 50%, limoncello, a decoction of lemon zest and sugar syrup. You can also make chocolate liquor fairly easily, but it takes three months. Etrog would be nice, but it is nearly impossible to get organic fruit. The ordinary specimen is laced with pesticides.
I bake weekly, generally less than shiur challa, but if you need me just post, and I can increase it. ( a guy, woman stand in)
Like cane fruits (the banned raspberry) it is not eitzo kayam mishana leshana, and consequently Hoadoma. The confusion arises from the corm which protrudes above the ground, but it is still just a root.
And yet, looking forward, Rav Kook said that all the rules and chumros based on doubts about girsa, dwindling of ability due to long golus, or “we are not baki in this bdika” (how many times in
Rama) are not destined to become permanent parts of Torah, and the function of the future Sanhedrin will be to mevarer safekos.
sometime it wors out well, as in Boaz and Rus.
Yichis, but there are sources that seem to admit partial determinism. The bracha Hameichin Mitzzadei Gover is based on Mishlei 20;24 and the pasuk is more blunt than the bracha. One idea is that we are led to believe and we do believe that we are free agents, but we are in fact just plain agents.
How to keep a chup with straight hair? Black hat wb you must so young that you need an explanation of what “butch wax” is/was.
Because it is a business, and its all about the bottom line.
How many of us and how hard do we have to metaphorize the passage of Krias Shma which promises the happiness of pasture for your animal?
2 scnts, a dog sniffing is not aggression, its the dog’s way of getting to know you, and where you’ve been. Their sight is not too keen, but the nose is something like three thousand times more sensitive that ours and the ears are also much sharper. My dogs in chul, mutts, just happened not to like black people maybe just their mannerisms, and they would set up a racket when the folks were a block away.
If you peel off the sauce and cheese from one slice and scrunch up the crust, you wont have a k’betzho or more? How about if you hold a kzayis is the size of a medium big olive? (See Chazon Ish igros kuf tzadi ches.
shmendrick, that was a decidedly unhalachic response to the astute and well reasoned post of Oomis. Also, please do not paint us all (we Torah yidden) as blindered and color blind. Some of us see halacha in vivid colors, and yes grey is one of them. Herd mentality is not the best way of seeking truth.
In the picture on the main site, there were maybe 7 protesters shown. On the other side of the balance, most job op venues for hareidim are well attended. Any one with eyes in the head can see that the great welfare/chaluka that supports large swaths of hareididom is not sustainable bederech hateva.
You mean like the meat has to be chalak, and no fish with milk, and chumros on bishul akum?
melachim bet chet. Yhoram ben Yehoshafat, married to the daughter/grandaughter of Achav.
so with the german tune uninversally spread among ashkenazim, are we all descendant/ branched from the Yekkes?
It is a problem that the industry, and some of the big players have grown to unmanageable proportions. Add to that the global nature of the business, and the subcontracting of manpower in remote locations. While you might trust the OU, you might not want to rely on some of the subcontractors if you, for instance, don’t regard the followers/worshipers of a dead Messiah as reliable Jews. I only heard of this phenom from a me’siach l’fi tumo.
are you a brewer Popa? the main starch to sugar event is in the malting, the steep just frees the sugars into solution. I have malted wheat to give some “candy” simple sugars to my sourdough critters. I have been having great trouble (in EY) finding barley alive enough to malt.
YehudaYona, that would violate the psak of Tosafot that the three meals must relate to the three zmanei tefilah, of course in such wobegone places, there is no “capital” for such niceties.
bring back the Bowler (derby) to be yoytze up, down, and no ohel issue.
Shmol, I am sorry you felt the need to denigrate a major league chochom and his talmidim. I posted for those who enjoy sheilos and tshuvos, the great halachic arguments of the 19th century, and plain, lively halachic discussions. If that is not you, I apologize.
Some years ago there was a storm when Rav Abadi was matir a silkscreened sefer torah, and pioneered the prodution of exquisite quality, inexpensive S. T. His talmidim wrote a response to his detractors. If you can find it, it is a great read.
What did the blond silk ear say to the stalk? Multiple choice:
stop stalking me
thanks for bringing me up
go GMO yourself
is there a kernel of truth to that scarey harvester story?
Vegeliver: I used the standard greenbeans/onion/eggs/walnuts recipe which included frying the beans with the onions. It tasted too close to egg salad. Roasting the walnuts, and charring some of the beans gave it the rich smokey taste similar to liver. (what i remember of liver)
Health, there is a reason Chazal called them the ten batlonim, ie, they were mevatel from their ordinary livelyhoods and were supported by the community to level what they were mevatel. Yours truly, a Zvulun struggling not to be an am ho’oretz.
Trees have been found to be able to communicate with other trees, by releasing scents and chemicals to signal stress, insect danger and other ‘tree’ concerns. There are studies (including my own) that plants respond to the spoken word positively and negatively. I see no reason a tree should be less sensitive than a bean sprout.
Oi vey iz mir! That one has to ask about a bagel in NYC? One can legitimately ask, where in EY can you get a genuine bagel, and the answer to that is Eretz Yisrael niknes be’yesurin. High gluten flour here is like contraband.
I am long past the parsha Health, I was just offering some sage contrariness. The second date would of course depend on the response of the other, to, humor aside, respond to the challenge and judge by pnimiyus, and not focus on the externals however contrived they may or may not be. As the thread has take a turn to the serious, consider this: as Interjection says, (tip of iceberg) there is no hashkofo in the modern curriculum, only rules. The rules have been distilled down to two: not tzamud, and not attention grabbing. So the gorilla suit excels in one and fails the other.
And there is also the spectacular contortion of Ashkenaz mesorah that allows one to eat such a bird.
There is a book ‘Taamei Hamikra put out by Eshkol that has the visuals and the hierarchy, to figure how phraseology should work ( and to correct the texts that leave out trop but insert errant commas) but as to the sounds, I have yet to find a specimen. the best bet is to find an old sfardi singing tehillim, and to ask him if he know what he is doing.
Farkert, Health, she should go for the gorilla suit. It makes a statement, is definitely style, and think how easy the conversation will flow. Some of you folks just can’t think out of the box.
In Israel, the best bang for the shekel is Tefillin BetEL, an operation big enough to have shipping. They do use heavy presses and other machinery, and there are competitors that stress hand work, you can’t match the quality and it supports a large community of sofrim.
Mrs Katz: There was a recent article featuring the RAF bombing of a refugee ship near Turkey in the closing weeks of the war. There were two survivors to tell the tale as the Brits sealed the records for 100 years.
At 800 meters above sea level, and in EY, the only effect on me is sadness, and deep concern for my former community.
There are valid sources for “Jewcentricity”, iow, that all world events are tied to us, or to get our attention. Like tzora’as that starts distant and then strikes closer and closer until the spiritual malady is corrected. So there was the Asian Tsunami, Africa’s torment, the crisis in Japan, Katrina, Irene, and now Sandy. One need not be a kofer, ba’al gaava, or plain idiot to recognize that there are severe spiritual maladies among us, and among our neighbors. The Talmud has the concept of androlumusia, and other equal op disasters for specific shortcomings.
Opening poster: Why would you think you are not on the level? There are all manner of people here, including me, and every spark of added kedusha helps. And I, for other reasons, want to get out to the ultra burbs, so when you are ready, come and take my place.
Here is a parev lemon curd. here in EY, we live with a lemon tree outside the front door, so I am always on the prowl for lemon recipes.
1/2 cup lemon juice
3 egg yolks
1/4 cup honey
mix together with a hand wisk, and warm in a double boiler 10 to 15 minutes, stir frequently, when it thickly coats spoon, cool and serve.
you can add lemon zest in stings for a more interesting texture.
oomis, that was gloria in 86. It was a friday with succot on sunday night. We were in the beach area of Far Rock, and we the new car and new kids to higher ground on LI. The storms eye passed through LI, and there were some very tired tropical birds falling out of the sky. We headed home for shabbos, threading our way through a maze of downed maple trees in the Five towns. Many succot were trashed, including some of the big shul succot that were reduced to splinters. Back in my tv watching days, there was Camille. In New Orleans they were holding hurricane parties on the bay, and in the aftermath, they had to pick 200 or so bodies out of the trees that still stood. I was up in the Catskills at the time, and there was sideways sheets of rain like I never saw, and ancient huge pine trees bending like silly putty (remember silly putty?)
we are, as set out in the Rambam’s intro to the Yad, creatures of the Bavli. And we are the creation of the Anshei Knessses Hagedola who designed us as a nation going into an unknown limbo of landless and powerless golus, for a long haul. We were culturally distinct from our predecessors one we passed through Bavel, and we changed again in the Persian galus, and again in the present galus. in which Ramban likens us to the living dead. We can get a small sense of what we were from the Yerushalmi, but still, we must stick to the Rambam’s recipe. The trouble begins, when we are halfway restored to our birthright, then how should we be?
The Sforno has an interesting pshat on chet kaf bet, that the post flood world is now set in an unnatural order from the changing of the earths axis and orbit, that the original setup had no seasonality (perpetual spring) and that is the cause of optimal growth of plants, animals, and people.( the long lives). And that this will eventally return, base on Yeshayohu, and Tehilim. This closely matches the sudden change to meat eating, and the cosmology/causality discussion on Brochos nun tes bais. (ceidit to Daf Yomi)
The was also a quote of the Mahatz Chajes somewere that allowed dinosaurs and other curiosities because the time frame of creation might have been reckoned otherwise than our concept of days.
And, the Torah lists “the taninim gedolim” as created between the fish, birds, and terrestrial creatures. That some meforshim take them to be the livyoson does not lead to an easier understanding.
I would suspect that this is from the unfortunate pekel of European ideas that remain in our society. I suffered this treatment as a first grader 48 years ago, when the concept of teaching credentials was still in its formative stage. The limudei kodesh teachers were of European and European/Israeli background. I have no way of knowing if this scarred me forever, but for sure it is in the mix, and as my name says, I am not the most normal guy on the block, though I function well, I have a strong dislike/ disregard for authority.
Or, take the jump back, and instead of the modern substitution of burning with the chametz, BAKE matzos with them, yes folks, at home. It takes some learning and some equipping but it is worth the effort. I was yotze this minhag of “recycling a mitzva with another mitzva” until I nebech switched to electric baking.
and lets not forget the ‘dancing in the vineyards” method, that was so successful that Tu b’Av and Yom Kippur were noted for the joy of multiple matches.
Not in chul, as the yeshiva minhag was to put on b’tzina, and with no bracha, and I had some chasidish blood and leanings, and in EY, the vast majority don’t, and that constitutes minhag hamakom.
A metaphor: This year I had very little time, and found no hatzlacha in finding a mehudar esrog, so I bought a “sealed box” and relied on the the yerei shamayim employed by the badatz that the esrog is what it is labeled as. When I opened it up, it was not exactly a love affair, but we stayed together over succos, and functioned well.
Now if we could develop a sensitive, vetted, no opening, no refund, “sealed box” system for shiduchim ?
Got news for you. “The Chareidim” is not a monolithic group, and bigger yet news, “daas torah” likewise has great variety.
Rebbetzin G, true, but there is the construct “ben-chayil”
I, less than a garlic peel, and am ho’oretz that I am, make a bracha every morning “baruch hamaychin mitzadei gaver. The secular knowledge I have, the places and things I have experienced all enhance and aid my learning. It just happened to come from a secular education (and a secular L.I. upbringing, but it is a base load of yedios regardless. As I got mostly D,s in college maths, I am still fearful to start a serious try at hilchos kiddush hachodesh. Somewhere in my not quite ordered library is a statement of Rav Kook ztkl” that in essence says: one who lacks one measure of science, will be lacking 10 measures of Torah.