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yossi z.

Please tell me you are joking. “After confirming I was jewish I was then personally accused of having chopped leibby up.” Someone actually accused you for being Jewish as being a child killer?!

oomis1105

“I show my great love for Hashem by having brought my five children to Shul and teaching them the proper way to behave when they are there. As Hashem is “Ein Lo d’mus haguf v’Eino guf,” if I am moved to kiss my children or grandchildren while in Shul, I feel comfortable that I am not showing less love for Hashem by kissing the children in whose creation He partnered with my husband and me. If anything, it would seem to show hakoras hatov that I appreciate having them.”

Among the many halachic regulations concerning one’s conduct in the synagogue sanctuary is the prohibition against kissing another person. This is especially true regarding one’s children. The ban on kissing one’s children in the synagogue was instituted in order to remind ourselves that the love we must feel for God should exceed even that which we feel towards our children.[1] It is argued that if one was permitted to freely kiss one’s children in the synagogue, it would blur the role of the synagogue as a place where one is to focus exclusively on God.[2] It does not matter whether one’s children are young or if they are adults.[3]

You can read the whole thing at Hirurim blog.

bpt

Leet (or “1337”), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet. It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. For example, leet spellings of the word leet include 1337 and l33t; eleet may be spelled 31337 or 3l33t.

The term leet is derived from the word elite. The leet alphabet is a specialized form of symbolic writing. Leet may also be considered a substitution cipher, although many dialects or linguistic varieties exist in different online communities. The term leet is also used as an adjective to describe formidable prowess or accomplishment, especially in the fields of online gaming and in its original usage, computer hacking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Have fun lol!

am yisrael chai

I know Nachman Kletzky personally, he is a Tzaddik of a person. Do you really think he would say something negative even if he didn’t hold of this song? How do you think Lipa would feel if the father of Leiby told him he was upset about the song? We wont know what the father really thinks because he wouldnt say but we have our own seichel.

Popa

Luck is a non Jewish concept. I will wish you Hatzlacha I hope that what you do this week brings Hashem Nachas.

What are YOU doing?

haifagirl

Why do you bother trying to correct everyone’s spelling and grammar?

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MiddlePath

Perfectly clean?! I know some of these songs from my old days. They may be cleaner than todays pop music but they aren’t clean unless you have low standards of clean. Anyone can google the lyrics to these songs and see for themselves!

Mods is this what we do here? We promote non Jewish music?

Wolf

One is not supposed to Daven for certain things. For example I asked a few different Rabbanim and saw in sefarim that regarding shidduchim one shouldn’t Daven that the girl I am going out with or being set up with should be the one. Rather Daven that the date should be a good date…

We don’t know what is good for us, so sometimes we can Daven for something that is bad for us and Hashem will answer our Tefillah because we wanted it so badly.

Give me a break II

Be careful what you Daven for because you just might get it. You have no idea if this guy will truly be a good president just like nobody new in advance how Obama would turn out.

Gefen

Unless this cousin is Israeli she wont be able to read the hebrew and reading just the English is less powerful and less meaningful.

I have a different suggestion. There is a concept in Chassidus called Hisbodedus (or Hitbodedut depending on how you pronounce words). What it basically means is going somewhere private. Go to a room someplace where there wont be any disturbances (and don’t bring a phone or turn it off) and just talk to Hashem. Pour your heart out and tell Him everything. Tell Him how you feel. Tell Him that You need His help. Tell Him that you know that you are helpless without Him and that only He can help you get through any problem. Ask Him, beg Him for mercy. Cry to Him and beseech Him to release you from your problems. At the same time, accept upon yourself to come closer to Hashem. To be better, to try harder. In the case of your cousin I would say she should be mekabel (Bli Neder explain what that means to her) to do a certain mitzvah like give X amount to a Tzedaka or to Light Shabbos candles or whatever…you can help her with that. Just don’t pick anything too difficult, but still pick something she will see meaning in.

I wish you and her much Hatzlacha and may she see the light of Hashem and be zoche to be a chozeres biteshuvah.

This whole concept of singers making a song for every tragedy is way out of hand and as 80 says it is shameful and upsetting. It comes off as fake and reeks of arrogance and self promotion.

There’s a reason why many Rabbonim are getting fed up with the music industry. All the fame gets to these guys heads. They are “superstars” and are self absorbed and busy with their image. It used to be Jewish singers now whenever a concert it advertised its “singing superstar” ploni…

I respect Holocaust survivors who remained frum and maintained Emunah after everything they went through, without them most of us wouldnt be here!

Adorable

“dont worry hes been cheating her for a while and she cheats him too…”

1. You are playing around with the issur of aishes ish. One is supposed to allow themselves to be killed rather than committing adultery.

2. What goes around comes around. If you do this sin, you will be ruining your life and you will probably have a hard time finding anyone to marry and if you do get married I can almost guarantee you that you will not have Shalom Bayis and your husband will probably break your heart and cheat on you.

Run away from such sins. Stay far far away from opposite gender friendships. It ALWAYS ends badly.

Stamper

I would sincerely hope not as the implications of that are frightening.

Observanteen

I have actually read and heard that doing this i.e. writing letters to express your feelings is very helpful as a method to deal with overwhelming feelings of anger hatred or hurt and similar emotions.

Sender

I haven’t read it but I own and have read parts of

Gateway to Judaism: The What, How, and Why of Jewish Life by Rabbi Mordechai Lecher and its a true masterpiece that covers everything as well as Halachos pertaining to the many subjects he discusses.

It has 13-5 star reviews on Amazon and nothing lower. I would highly recommend it.

Seahorse

Wait, you mean you first realized after getting engaged that he doesn’t Daven learn or have shmiras eynayim? (For the record shmiras eynayim on the streets are extremely difficult and some guys have a harder time than others, so as a wife you will have to understand that and realize its a constant battle one which you will never comprehend and its not your job to mind his eyes, unless you mean willfully looking at pritzus like looking at magazines, movies…)