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BPT

Mercedez just looks so….Nazi, theres just something about the styling and detailing that I feel under the skin and it disturbs me.

BPT

Im proud of you, way to go. The Emes is, if one is determined enough, he can go Heter shopping and keep ever Kuladik shitah in everything. However such a person is likely on a slippery slope to a non mitzvah observant lifestyle.

Talking about a story with a Yarmulka, I hear a really good one. There was a bright Jewish guy who passed his bar and was interviewing at various prestigious Law Firms for a job. Well he has an internal struggle if he should wear his Yarmulka or not and decides that its better not to wear it and he will have a better chance at landing a top job at a top firm.

Long story short he gets interviewed by a very big prestigious firm and the interviewer likes him. He is ready to give him a job, however the policy of the firm was that all new hires had to meet with one of the senior partners. Well the new recruit excitedly enters the office of the senior partner and he sees a nice Orthodox Jew sitting in the chair. The senior partner says “you are a bright fellow and on merit you would deserve the job, but someone who is not strong in his beliefs and is willing to bend the rules doesnt have integrity and is not cut out for this company, we need real men here.”

2 lessons one can learn:

1. These days any Jew can go far wearing a Yarmulka and even having a beard.

2. Bending the rules and seeking Heterim will not pay off in the long run.

Additionally,

Popa

Sorry, I guess it was d a who had the link, I wasnt sure. Thanks anyways.

Please stop the name calling and be civil. Thanks.

YW Mod 42

Thanks for that tip. I just created a few ICE contacts. I can’t believe I didn’t have any because I had made them in the past. I guess when you get a new phone and transfer contacts things happen…

Mod 42

Thanks for looking into it, however they seem like young teens and they are acting like children. All I ask is that you moderate their behavior so this place doesn’t become a kindergarten.

Rogatch Assistant

Thanks for the tip.

Sacrilege

Lol. Good because it would be kind of weird switching places 😉

Real-brisker

Please avoid derogatory racist terms like EDITED. However sometimes Chassidim don’t know English, or not that well so I am forced to bust out some broken Yiddish. When I speak to Spanish or other non natives I try to use simple words that they are likely to know and do a lot of “hand” talking.

Charlie

“I think RSRH is correct. And remember that we honor those who die al kiddush HaShem. I have even heard shiurim by rabbonim saying that that is the highest thing to which a Jew can aspire.”

You are likely referring to rabbi Akiva and the Asara Heirugei Malchus where Rabbi Akiva was smiling while reciting Shema as the Romans brutally combed his flesh off his body, so his students asked him how could he smile? So he told his students “I waited my whole life to be Mekayem To love Hashem with all my heart and with all my soul (nafshecha) now that I get that opportunity I shouldnt smile?”

But in essence we dont want to die. We dont ask Hashem please send non Jews to kill us so we can die Al Kiddush Hashem. The greatest accomplishment a Jew can achieve is living like a Jew keeping the Torah and growing in Torah and Mitzvah observance. Living with mesiras nefesh and not allowing himself to get lost in the Tayvos and materialism of America. We dont “want” to die. We want to live and do Mitzvos!!!

saftala

Give a gift card/certificate to a Judaica store. Let him pick the seforim, or music cds he wants. When I was Bar Mitzvad I got seforim and as Popa said many were old prints or seforim I have no real use for. Additionally I got a few doubles and it was just plain annoying.

If you really want to know you should compare the 3 side by side do some googling.

RSRH

I dont know…September 11 had Muslims all over the world (especially local communities in NYC) celebrating they were quite happy with the death and destruction…and martyrdom and whatever else.

Yes you are right theres more to their religion. Cutting off hands for stealing. Treating women worse than excrement. Beating their wives mercilessly for the most insignificant “crimes”…Ill find you some more of their holy mitzvos shortly…bli neder.

Sacrilege

“I firmly believe the system is abused and lends itself to abuse.”

Then hate the game not the players… thats what I do :D”

I try not to hate anyone unless they deserve it, like if someone is a piece of trash and he abuses his wife and kids, heck yeah Id hate him!

If a guy is self centered and is only in learning so he can marry a rich girl and get the big bucks, I dont hate him, I pity him because he is a pathetic human being and will not be a great husband (until his wife beats some sense into him lol).

rb and any other parents who have kids in school

If you want to do something really nice and thoughtful, buy a card… and write a nice personal message to the Rebbi thanking him for all that he has done and will continue to do for your child and his classmates. I cant tell you precisely what to write but it should be from the heart and sincere. I guarantee you that if you do this it will be appreciated and will pay off nice dividends in the attention the Rebbi/Morah/teacher will give to your child’s development and progress.

chesedname

I dont remember the exact source I will have to find it later. However Rashi in Yisro says

You shall not steal: The text refers to kidnapping. [The verse] [verse] refers only to stealing money and the one written further (in Lev.) refers to kidnapping? You must admit that [the meaning of] a statement is derived from its context. Just as [the former two commandments] [and] [i.e., a sin punishable by death] [from Sanh. 86a]

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minyan gal

“You have no idea about the science of addiction.”

Thanks….Listen I know a little bit about it and you obviously didnt get what I was saying. Many pathways and chemicals in the brain that are affected by nicotine addiction are affected in similar ways by other addictive drugs.

However I think the crucial difference is how much of a “hit” or high you get out of a cigarette versus cocaine or some other drug. I dont know the exact match up, but a cigarette is probably a small fraction of the pleasure of a cocaine hit. Which is why for drugs one needs intense rehab and for smoking “most” people can quit cold turkey.

Im sorry if you are having a problem quitting, but Im sure if it meant enough to you, you would quit, like oif your Dr. told you if you dont quit today you will die tomorrow 100% you would see how easy it would be for you to quit cold turkey!

whatrutalkingabt

Thanks!

MichaelB

Obviously they didn’t realize how out of hand it has gotten. Someone who is a true ben torah could never steal. Its one of the Aseres Hadibros (parshas veeschanan)