ooking for the zivug that is best for your child, irrespective of whether the age-difference is 6 months or 20-40 years.

That adds a whole new dimension to grandparents suggesting shidduchim! I can hear the calls coming in now, “So, Dovid’l, as soon as your Roizy gets back from the seminary plane I vant her to come right down to Boca and meet my neighbor Alter Chaim who nebach just lost his vife a few years ago. She vould be poyfect for him!”

I saw no difference

klach aitzel moireh

@Wolf- point taken. Yet you cannot deny that it was a very Wolfish response on my part. The fact that you chose to overlook the opportunity to misunderstand OfCourse’s question is worth a thought.

Pardon me. What I meant was that the chiddush is because you might think he is aino btoras. As you said, Wolf and gavra answered it clearly.

Real men don’t have moods.

WolfishMusings

The Wolf

Wolf, have u been drinking today?

Absolutely not. I don’t drink.

So how do you stay hydrated? Intravenously?

Why do you think they even got a ticket? When police are summoned to get involved in a “disturbance of the peace” such as loud music or crowds gathering on local streets they generally do not give tickets. If someone resists it can lead to arrest, but I’ve never heard of giving tickets to solve the problem. So you didn’t cause him a financial loss and you are not a moiser.

The DNC, without a doubt

Get an IronKey and store your password manager on it. Wherever you go you will have all your passwords in your pocket. If you ever lose it, the drive will self-destruct.

minyan gal- I agree with you that taxing the winnings seems unjust. The tickets are purchased with after tax dollars and a portion of the ticket price is taken by taxing authorities (supposedly to fund education, but that’s probably as true as saying FICA funds social security) so that only about half is factored into the jackpot calculation. I think it is an inconsistency in the tax code to also tax the winnings.

I guess that there is no demand for “fair play” since it is considered gambling winnings. Why should we be fair to degenerates?

Esteemed Mod-

Is in not likely that in Riddle World there are some narrators who always lie?

Even if we assume the narrator is completely objective and truthful, what evidence do we have against the maid? I would argue that her lie points to the state of her mind affected by the tragic news and not to habitual lying. I would guess that upon investigation her true alibi will be discovered. On the other hand, the butler and the cook displayed shocking coolness under the circumstances. The callousness could indicate premeditation or the fact that they are habitual liars.

Everyone knows that the butler always did it, so it makes sense that he would be unaffected by the murder- much like a homicide detective is completely desensitized. Thus, the cook is the most likely culprit.

“Hello elicpa,

Are you new here? (relation to the famed eclipse?) “

Haha- I also made the mistake of reading his name as eclipse. I am slightly dyslexic. The name is (I believe) Eli CPA, which has nothing to do with an eclipse.

Are you also dyslexic? It would be good to get diagnosed now, so that if you have problems reading in 2nd grade you will be able to deal with them.

The Grand Canyon? I always wanted to see it! I didn’t know that they have it in Israel now, I’m much happier going to see it there than in Mormon country.

“The effort to crack Enigma had two prongs – the Bletchley Park computers were working to decrypt it, and others were trying to capture a machine intact. Both groups succeeded. Polish codebreakers actually get the credit for first cracking Enigma.”

The Polish codebreaking is an interesting story, and I believe (IMHO) it is also the origin of the term of “doing something the Polish way”.

Poland was anticipating an invasion by the Nazis and was therefore extremely motivated to crack their coded messages (more so than England and other countries who were also working on it at the time but were not in imminent danger of invasion yet). They set up teams to crack the Enigma code, and succeeded initially. The irony is that the supervisor of the code breaking team had a copy of the book containing the daily “keys” but did not let anyone know. He felt that if he let it be known that he had the code book the code breakers would not learn how to crack the code and he needed them to learn those skills just in case his spy stopped providing the keys.

Sure enough, the source dried up and breaking the Enigma code was only possible through the brute force method. Unfortunately, this happened at the same time that the Germans increased the difficulty of the Enigma encryption (out of paranoia) and the code breakers were unsuccessful from that point on.

(As told by Simon Singh)

1. Availability of inappropriate materials, e.g. an unfiltered internet connection as well as certain books, magazines, and newspapers.

2. Loitering in a public space that is often used (especially by younger boys and girls) as a meeting place or hang-out. Your presence may make you seem approachable.

…or anyone who has access to Google. I realize that somewhat limits things, but not as much as you may think.

Proof positive- a principal would spell it correctly.

gaw- there are size exemptions to the EEOC laws. Small offices may be allowed to do this legally. Larger offices and businesses would be breaking the law unless there is a business reason to do so (e.g. your business provides surrogate mothers- men need not apply for that position).

shlishi-

An example of maaras eyin is serving a parve cheeseburger in your home, without placing proof of its parve status on the table. Walking into a treife roadside store is not, since it is well known that there are acceptable reasons to do so (e.g. use the restrooms, purchase a fountain soda/coffee perhaps). Note that I mention roadside as a way of avoiding the issue of a formal restaurant that probably would not allow such use of its premises.

I am aware of a gemara that puts Levi at age 13 at the time of the maaseh Shechem, but I would ask you to cite a source that puts Dinah at age 3. If you will recall, at the time of the incident where Yaacov met Eisav, his youngest son (Yosef) was 6-7 years old (we know this because Binyomin was in utero). Dinah was older than Yosef [as we know from Chumash, where Leah prayed for her 7th pregnancy not to result in a son since that would shame her sister Rachel]. Hence, according to any opinion, Dinah would have to have been a minimum of 8 at the time.

In any case, combining the two opinions would present a serious difficulty. If you will take the opinion that she was 3 (pending citation of a valid source for that) you will not be able to claim that Osnas was born of that union. Correct me if I am wrong.

As far as Tzipporah, I have no proof one way or another. But the account given lends itself to the assumption that she was not as old as Moshe (nearly 80). Aside from the way we are told about them as “daughters” indicating their youth, the fact no meforshim remark on her bearing children as miraculous indicates that it was ordinary (i.e. not an 80 year old woman). Beyond that, I will hark to Wolf who believes the burden of proof rests on you.

Just out of curiosity, what gave you the idea to randomly choose these two marriages as close in age? You don’t seem to have any proof, and there is also no obvious reason to think it was so. If you were looking for examples (other than the one I presented jokingly) you could have gone with the meforshim who say the shevotim married their own twins.

Wolf, no need to wait. As you state, if hair is present a simple exam proves it.

DY- Saairos. Thus, at least 13 years of age and possibly more.

@gregaaron

+1 exhibits = good for business

Different versions of Excel create charts differently, but I can give you a general idea of how to do it.

1) Build a table. If you want to graph something by days and hours, then your table should be rows of days and columns of hours. Insert your data points in the table accordingly.

2) In the toolbar, select “Insert -> Chart”. If you are in 2007 or 2010 there are menu buttons for different types of charts in the toolbar. Either way, this will bring you to a wizard. For data source, select the entire table you created in step 1. This will create the graph/chart

3) Select an empty point inside the graph and right-click. This will bring up an editing menu for the graph, where you can set things such as axis labels, increments, titles, etc.

Click around a bit until you find exactly what you need or use Excel help (F1). If you ask for help here you need to get much more specific.