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i love coffee: It is not only done by the Persians but by the Sephardim in general.

Most sephardim do not do this. While I have seen persians and some morrocans doing this, I would definitely NOT say that this is the general custom of Sephardim.

Sorry for staying on topic, but there’s a choshuv Sefardi rov that won’t let anyone kiss his hand. My friends have quoted him saying that the reason one kisses a tzaddiks hand is because of the kedusha in them from writing seforim. This particular rov never wrote a sefer, hence he never lets anyone kiss his hand.

moishy: Don’t worry too much. I doubt you would have to work hard to be the most intoxicated, od’d, snorting, harry-yeshivisher. In fact I’m not sure there are any of those harry-yeshivishers out there.

I usually like the outside stuff the most. Spent an hour at night on the beach with a guitar, walking through parks, boardwalks. Coney Island is fun, my favorite is Deno’s Wonder Wheel, although the park and boardwalk are a bit scary these days.

Also, you can always check Mikomos for some great spots in practically any city.

UNLUCKY!

longarekel: 7)it is not necessary mai’ikar hadin to wear a yarmulka.

S”A is pretty much mashma the same

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It’s mashma that only walking bekoma zekufa is ossur however, the next halacha is advice. I saw in halacha berura in the back that discusses it at length, and concludes that it’s only middat chassidut to wear a yarmulka.

147: Recitation of Tachnun on Yom ha’Atzmaut, and Yom Yerusholayim; Tachnun has no place in the liturgy of these 2 important holidays.

Prove to me that nowadays we can be metaken our own holidays. And I’m not talking about herzl, begin and other reshoim that have no say or place in true Torah Judiasm, but even the Gedolim nowadays don’t have that power.

I have a hard time understanding certain aspects the issur of Ein Mevatlin by Bosser BeCholov. In a case where the meat wasn’t cooked yet with the milk, there is no issur that was created yet that has to be mevutal. So I wonder how in this case, where there is no intention to pour the milk on the meat, why would stirring it to save it from creating issur, cause an issue of ein mevatlin? Certainly I would argue that this is not a case of lekatchila being mevatel.

Yitay: Thanks. Correct me if I’m wrong, but there is no machlokeis between them, rather the S”A left it out in 104:3 and only brought it down in the B”Y beshem HaRashba, however the S”A will agree that chala and shichra are more stringent. I only saw the Kaf Hachayim because thats all I have available, and it seems that he doesn’t differentiate for Sfardim.

yitay: The Rema says that with beer and vinegar one should be machmir and assume bugs and the like are nosen ta’am lishvach.

Thanks. What siman is this in? I would like to know what the S”A holds, being that I am sefardic.

There’s a bunch of parks you can walk around like the one on deal road. You can go to asbury park which is about 2 minutes away from deal. I recently added a bunch of things to do on mikomos in asbury park, like the boardwalk, cycling, pinball museum, glass making, and mini-golf. There’s also a boardwalk by pier village which is pretty nice.

Of course, you also have the beach, in the daytime I would go to hathaway ave as its most likely to be empty, Darlington ave or long branch at night.

Restaurants I like in deal, Down to Earth in allenhurst (healthy dairy), Ike’s Meathouse has the best deli style food around and they give really full sandwiches, 656 is a fancy restaurant but not really so worth it, stingers is the kosher bar attached to 656, or the J-Cafe in the JCC on Grant ave.

There is also Monmouth mall not so far away or you can go to Jersey Premium outlets about 10 minutes away.

Common hotels are the Ocean Place, and the Sheraton in eatontown.

If you need any other advice, ask away.

Health: If it’s a case of Tzorech Godol -it pushes off the Shvus!

Actually, it’s a shvus letzorech gadol, which everyone assurs besides for possibly the debrencer rov (however you spell it) who supposedly matirs. Shvus d’shvus letzorech gadol that pretty much everyone I saw said is muttar.

I heard a tip to keep the conversation moving.

Talk about the JIFS.

Job: What jobs you have had, will have, want to have etc.

Israel: Experiences, politics, terrorists and yeshiva/seminary

Family: Family members, weddings, etc.

Summer: Experiences, what you have done/will do etc.

It worked for me!

MDG: Rav Ovadia holds 72 minutes b’shaot z’maniot, which can vary depending on the time of year and latitude. So according to him 60 minutes could have been 72.

I personally know from a family member of his that he holds sha’ot zmaniot, but only lechumra. In the summer time he usually keeps 85-90 minutes and even in the winter time for some reason he doesn’t do less than 80. I was gonna write this before, but I felt no need.

You sound like you want and need a “Rebbe”, and it sounds like and he’s a maggid shiur, not a rebbe. A rebbe is a person that you have a kesher with, a person that you can talk with about gemora or about your life, even during his unpaid hours. Someone that you still talk to after leaving yeshiva.

However it’s more understood that you won’t have a kesher with a maggid shiur (in most scenarios). Most big yeshivas, the bochrim pack into a room to hear a shiur from the rov and thats it. Even if he would want to give you more time, he most probably wouldn’t be able to, even if he was the nicest person in the world.

This is probably the deciding factor between choosing a big yeshiva to a smaller one. A smaller yeshiva usually has a lower level of learning, but the cheshek is easier to attain, because there’s a connection with the rebbeim. While in a large yeshiva, the learning is most likely on a higher level, there’s a much greater need to be independent.

I would suggest either malcha mall, go to a restaurant (I can give you suggestions), a hotel lounge, & bowling or go karting in talpiyot.

ICOT-That vote was taken by a few hundred voters out of the million plus contributors to the site. Several voters disagreed quite strongly.

First of all it was 1,800 voters, more than the few hundred that you mention. Second, anybody who really cared about it could have joined in the vote. The overwhelming majority were either supporting or strongly supporting the vote. I’m sure that many people saw the vast amount of supporters and got too lazy (try scrolling down the page) to support something so obviously (in their mind) right. So what if a couple of people disagree. That’s what discussions are about. And as wikipedia notes, it had by far the largest participation of a community discussion ever. And about the money that people donate-they donate it so that wikipedia can democratically run itself as it has since the beginning. If they wanted to complain, they could have done so easily enough.

But that knowledge has to be published somewhere for anyone to find and use it. Where it can be censored without due process, it hurts the speaker, the public, and Wikimedia. Where you can only speak if you have sufficient resources to fight legal challenges, or, if your views are pre-approved by someone who does, the same narrow set of ideas already popular will continue to be all anyone has meaningful access to.”

Therefore, I think that if someone is legislatively trying to get rid of half the attractions AND double your expenses of maintaing the playground, I feel you would be making a big mistake for not trying to get as much exposure as possible of the negativity of the legislation.

All in all, I respect your second post. Thanks.

Soliek: now ordinarily i wouldnt nitpick as much, but i know that you got those sentences from wikipedia where the grammar is explained in great detail and you therefore should have known better.

I did know better. I was going for shock value, so naturally I didn’t put in the punctuation.

Health-how come Hello99 & DY are speaking to the issue and not you? Since you ran out what to answer you resort to rank outs.

I responded to you no less than 3 times. If you count the responses of the others, you have been responded and answered correctly more than 10 times. I am surprised that they haven’t run out of patience yet. It’s about time that you wake up. Others have complained about you in other places about this same exact issue. (see latest post in kanoyim campain by BTguy)

Parts of 3 different posts-

1) There are at least a couple issues at hand-

1) issur bishul of the heating elements

2) issur bishul of the cholent

You may argue that the heating elements don’t reach the deoraysa -glowing red hot- level, although according to the famous chazon ish, “chatzi shiur m’doraysa” and therefore even if it will never glow its still an Issur deoraysa. etc…

2) The problem of amira leakum is simpler. You cannot tell a goy to do a melacha for you on shabbos.

So as long as it’s not fully cooked, or it’s cold, it would be a definite Issur. etc…

3) Health- I mentioned what you said over here already (see right below). Although as DY points out, there is still an Issur of bishul. I pointed that out too. Only if it’s fully cooked AND still not-cold/hot will it be muttar to tell a goy. etc…

Almost as mature as any member of the Sikrikim whom you said that you hope they all are jailed.

Nice misquote of what I said. All I mentioned there is that its good that one of the bullys is off the local streets. I never said that I was happy that he’s in jail. And I never said all the sikrikim should be thrown in jail, even though that might bring the geula faster than I can pack my luggages.

Health-A Crock Pot does neither; so it’s only Bishul or Aish D’rabbonon.

Since this is the case -Ameira L’acum is Mutter L’tzorech Godol.

hello99, DY: It’s clear from here (and other places) that Health has not the slightest clue about hilchos bishul. I’m not even sure how to respond to the unyielding “amaratzus”, without giving a 10 hour introduction course to Hilchos Shabbos.

A Poisek isn’t s/o who always finds an Issur. A Poisek is s/o who finds an Ousgehaltene Kula.

Apparently, anybody who has learnt more than Health, is suddenly surging with religious-zealot-hormones and has to blindly assur things. If only he knew…

Health-There also isn’t a problem of Ameiras L’acum because Cholent is the main course. So to have a Cholent on Shabbos in a crock pot (where cooking is only M’drabbonon because of electricity) would be a Tzorech Godol -where Ameira L’acum is Mutter by an Issur D’rabbonon.

I mentioned what you said over here already (see right below). Although as DY points out, there is still an Issur of bishul. I pointed that out too. Only if it’s fully cooked AND still not-cold/hot will it be muttar to tell a goy.

So as long as it’s not fully cooked, or it’s cold, it would be a definite Issur. I’m assuming that you can get around the amira leakum problem, though. If the chulent is fully cooked and gets turned off in middle of shabbos, if it’s still piping hot, or according to ashkenazim, not cold yet, a goy would probably be able to put turn it back on (trei derabanan letzorach mitzva).