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1) Create Kedusha for Yom Ha’Atzmaut

2) Create Kedusha for Yom Yerushalayim

3) Enhance Ahavat Yisrael limitlessly

There seems to be two possible issues that posters are suggesting:

A) Frum businesses shouldn’t be advertising things that don’t fit so well with Jewish values.

B) That people shouldn’t be buying wildly expensive things even if they have the money for it, and even if they give a lot of tzedaka

To which I answer-

A) A big reason for advertising, especially in jewelry and fashion, is to create an “image” of a brand or company, and not necessarily to sell the pictured item. Showing images of high priced items gives the consumer the idea that the store is high class, which leads regular consumers into their store when looking for a nice watch of any price.

B) There’s no issur of buying expensive watches, clothing, etc. Additionally, expensive watches have an extremely high resell value (unlike the Ferrari’s that posters keep mentioning), and can also be bought for investment too. I know one person who had $1.5 million worth of watches, each one 30-40k and up, most of which were not even worn.

C) Mind your own business.

The mashigiach can walk in on Shabbos too. And a non-Jewish owner can operate on shabbos last time I checked.

Kashrus agencies do the same all the time when certifying factories that run 24/7. Once in a while, the mashgiach stays at a hotel that is within walking distance to the factory and makes a surprise visit on shabbos.

AYC: I don’t know if you’re referring specifically to your posts as not prying. Though there are definitely posters such as Joseph and one of his alter egos that repeatedly attempted and succeeded in prying personal information from brooklyn19 and her cousin moish.

Syag: I don’t know what you saw in my posts- that I think anything is funny about the stalking story.

Regarding your post in the other (closed) thread, again I do not understand what you take offense of. I am not provoking any machloikes in the slightest way. There is not one person that is defending ZK, including I. Do you really consider revealing a creepy stalkers public history as “stirring controversy”?

The CR mods still have some things to answer, for example, if they knew about ZK stalking for over a year already, why haven’t they blocked him out back then? Were they expecting ZK to only stalk aries and other posters that aren’t clueless?

The mods have decided to leave us in the dark (as per a mod admitting that they only let out 1% of the story) about ZK and Joseph to the point that everything around us has blurred, and any poster can be seen as Joseph.

Maybe the CR should just be renamed the Joseph Room, because that’s what every other thread over turns into a discussion about.

BUMP!

Quail, if that’s not what Toi meant.

Quahog

Quince

Queso

Quisp Cereal

Quaaludes

Quark

Quinnat Salmon

Quenelle

Queensland nut

Queenfish

Quavers

Quaking pudding

Quamash

Quark cheese

Quarter Pounder

Single Daled.

DY: I don’t have knowledge in regards to everyone having a zivug, though there’s a small but interesting piece in the Chasam Sofer O”C 54 where he mentions that someone can lose their zivug.

A massive tragedy.

But what bothers me is: why do they let Obama repeatedly shed crocodile tears on TV?

IIRC, a teacher of mine was a part time Mashgiach for OU. He mentioned that they have the ability to recall a product whenever they need to. I also remember him saying that OU takes a collateral to guarantee that if a company starts pulling funny business, OU has the ability to properly advertise the loss of Kashrut. The company he was talking about had a $70,000 collateral.

Also, I agree with Popa in regards to getting misled by the labeling. Nowadays, almost all flavors are fake that nothing is surprising anymore. We have sour cream flavored chips in Israel which are quite good that are pareve. If the ingredients said anything different I wouldn’t have noticed.

I guess what some posters are tayning is that OU doesn’t have so much ne’emonus in the first place; so it’s really Popa’s fault for not doing some lab research before eating.

Kkls: Joseph is known as the g-d of (unsuccessful) trolling. Anytime someone attempts and fails to troll the CR, they get crowned with the honorary title “The Spirit of Joseph McTrollster”, which has been shortened to, Joseph.

Being awarded the Joseph title has its perks too. Every year there is an additional ceremony which awards “Joseph of the Year” to Josephs greatest imitators.

Anyways, keep up the great work, like your amazingly bad Instagram troll, and we’ll have you nominated for that coveted Joseph of the year award in no time.

“Alternatively, you might want to check out this weeks hamodia and yated there is a two page spread dealing with this issue.”

Where we can hear the same exact nonsense that you are spreading here. Great.

Derech: I’ll agree to disagree. Our conscience isn’t a good enough barometer though when it comes to keeping the mitzvos. Or else certain mitzvos such as shiluach hakan wouldn’t exist.

Mod 007.

Cool name, bro.

I think you would fit fine in Rain Tree. But don’t take my word for it, check it out well before you make any decisions.

Is there anyone from that neighborhood in this forum?

Derech: The issue is that our conscience tells us that things are wrong even when things aren’t wrong.It is very logical to try to find some clear-cut reason why something is wrong as to not have to deal with an eternal internal battle. I have personally always found it easier to break a certain action of mine, if I was convinced of its wrongness in black and white fashion.

I was in Rain Tree for a shabbos a while back and really enjoyed it. It was chilled out and relaxing. I stayed at friend that loves it there and isn’t yeshivish at all and is even leaning modern.

I have another friend that lives there that isn’t yeshivish that likes it there. My totally unyeshivish brother would live there if his wife would let.

The question remains, what are you looking for?

Yichusdik: What statement of mine are you responding to? Do you mention me, because I’m not on the offense against the perp? I am actually leaning to him being guilty, but since there is so many different versions of what is ACTUALLY going on in the case, I will leave the judging to the judge and jury, and the articles to the NY Post.o

If anyone could find me a professionally written article that explains the entire story and court case, and not just some one sided blogger ranting against orthodox jews, I will be very thankful.

Dear Popa Bar Abby,

I’m a big fan! What I’d like to know is the following:

Do you really have a room full of trolls coming out with new CR posts? I know that the advice column is written strictly by you, but rumor has it that PBA is a conglomerate mix of some the greatest troll minds of our times. What do you have to say about those rumors?

Sincerely,

Trollfan 2012 (because there won’t be a 2013)

OOM: I think you exaggerate the method of selection that WIY uses. He doesn’t sound like he dates the one supermodel out of a 1000 girls. There are certain girls a person wouldn’t wanna date on first looks, and that may be figured out many times from a picture. He may even whittle down half his list like that.

At the end of the day, he has a big enough of selection that he can rely on G-d that there will be at least one girl with the right personality and Hashkafos out of the remaining girls.

Check out Rain Tree. It’s in Lakewood but without the quirks.