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Rabbis are not required to potentially lose their lives over weather — or, at least, not any more than non-rabbis.
If the weather is inclement to point where there is a real potential for loss of life, yes, the shul should be closed.
If something happened last minute, I’m not sure what you want the rabbi to do about it. Build a time machine to go back in time and warn everyone to stay home?
The Wolf
OK, fine. I guess it’s a bad thing to simply accept the differences between frum Jews doing the will of HKBH. Forget I mentioned it.
The Wolf
Why does everything have to be X vs. Y. Can’t we just appreciate the fact that we are all doing the bidding of HKBH, however we got there.
No, I suppose not. We have to label it as X is more this trait and Y is less of that one… 🙁
The Wolf
Don’t admire it.
The Wolf
I learned that I committed fraud and theft this Shabbos. The shul had a learning seder during the afternoon, where it was advertised that the shul was open for “learning with a chavrusa.” However, I attended and learned alone. It did not occur to me until afterwards that I was violating the terms of the learning seder and use of the shul.
The Wolf
Search was born before Moshe Rabbeinu.
(Not that it matters, because, as I pointed out years ago, upthread, the whole idea that we can’t live past 120 is bunk anyway.)
The Wolf
If a robot calls my house, I hang up. I don’t care how worthy your cause it, once I determine that it’s a robo-call, I’m done.
If you want me, speak to me.
The Wolf
Thank you, but I was not looking for a hug. I was looking for people’s opinions and answers to my question.
The Wolf
I only used it once, btw.
I know… but the famous quote is “You keep using that word…” 🙂
The Wolf
snorkeling
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The Wolf
Is the family of the guy you are talking about from Queens, and did they get married around 2005-2007?
No and no. I think that pretty much settles it. 🙂
The Wolf
about someone who lives in New York
The couple I know of never lived in NY as a married couple.
The Wolf
Wolf – really? It must be the same couple – how many can there be like that? –
Probably more than you know. It could be the same couple, but I highly doubt they are the only one.
The Wolf
I know a guy who is approximately negative 16 years older than his wife. When they got married, he was around 23 and she was around 39.
I know someone who did the same.
The Wolf
Ooooh… I didn’t know we could include pictures in the new version of the boards. #offtopic
The Wolf
Mazal Tov!
The key is to just have a good day. Remember that it’s only one day in a long, long marriage — yes, it’s an important day, but when it comes down to it, it’s just one day. It’s how you spend the rest of the days that is far more important than what happens on your wedding day.
The Wolf
We have a family tradition to bake hamantaschen every year. We don’t include them in the Mishloach Manos (largely because they don’t last until Purim 🙂 ) but I would have no problem including them.
If you don’t trust my kashrus and don’t want to it? That’s fine — just don’t be a jerk and say so to my face.
The Wolf
It is an explicit passuk
And that invalidates what lightbrite said, how????
Are not the directives of explicit pesukim also halacha?
The Wolf
Except for skirt hangers, my wife and I use the same hangers all the time. I guess we’re really spiritually mixed up.
The Wolf
(Interesting fact: My father and grandparents used to make hangers. I remember when I was a kid watching wire coming off these huge spools (at least six feet tall) and being fed into these machines that bent and twisted them. My favorite part was the part that created the little twisted braid near the top.)
Daylight savings time is bad because the extra hour of sunlight is bad for the crops and confuses the cows.
The Wolf
anyone believing the world is over 6000 years old is an apikorus.
It’s a shame, Joseph, that I can’t find the old thread where we argued over this, but at least now I have you on record as agreeing that I am an apikorus.
The Wolf
Lightbrite,
Thank you, but an apology really wasn’t necessary… just an acknowledgement that you mixed up my position and Joseph’s. 🙂
The Wolf
It seems that it is not accepted in many communities/yeshivos…
You mean that in some communities it’s accepted for bachurim to be cold for no reason?
The Wolf
But if anyone who has worth thinks you have worth, then you must have worth.
At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, then even Hitler had worth.
(And please don’t tell me that anyone who valued Hitler must be worthless, because then it just becomes a tautology.)
The Wolf
I did not castigate Jewish parents for allowing older children to sip kiddush wine. They were talking about giving children alcohol on Purim. Close to drunk but not officially drunk.
No, you explicitly said that you were addressing me (you mentioned me by name). See below.
I *never* allowed my children to get drunk. Heck *I’ve* never been drunk in my life. I don’t keep hard liquor (or anything besides low-alcohol wine or, occasionally, a liqueur) in the house. And I don’t have any alcohol at my Purim seuda. And yet, you chose to single me out as causing damage to my children.
The Wolf
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(Just for reference, since it’s in a different thread:)
Joseph asked me (in my response to saying that I allow my adult children some kiddish wine):
Wolf, aren’t you breaking the law by serving your 20 year old guests alcohol?
My response was:
Perhaps. But I’m not actually endangering them as I would be if I allowed a 13 year old to get drunk. If you can’t make that distinction, then I feel sorry for you.
To which Lightbrite responded:
Someone does not need to be visibly drunk to be impaired and have brain damage from consuming alcohol… especially a teenage or young adult whose brain is still developing until mid-20’s.
If you cannot understand that, then I feel sorry for those who look up to you as you serve them alcohol.
And, when asked who that was addressed to, she responded:
Wolf who had just said this to Joseph…
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Lightbrite,
Your silence to the question is deafening.
The Wolf
If I take a picture of it, I can make it so using a vibrance adjustment layer and a layer mask in Photoshop.
The Wolf
How is your email address publicly known? We don’t even know your name.
Google is your friend. Google practically the only thing you know about me.
The Wolf
I don’t think she actually implied criminal, although what she did say was quite harsh and confusing,
Not sure she stated or implied that either.
Fair enough. I probably overstated the case somewhat.
That being said, I *still* await her explanation.
The Wolf
What’s your favorite Purim Torah?
The same Torah that I have year round. I don’t adopt a new Torah for Purim.
The Wolf
Wolf… have you spoken to a professional in the behavioral health field about your feelings?
Huh? I don’t understand. You think me a horrible father because I give my adult kids a small amount of low-alcohol wine for shabbos (despite setting a good example to them about sobriety and responsible drinking) but now you’re concerned about me?
The Wolf
And saying that it only applies to you makes no sense, because if it’s based on the Chafetz Chaim, then it applies to everyone who it applies to.
I think (and I can easily see why you would this excusable mistake) you are conflating two issues. My self-worth has nothing to do with what the CC said. I grant the point that even a rasha gamur can have worth.
I’m sure your wife doesn’t agree. Or your kids. Or your friends.
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion.
The Wolf
I was out during that time, and didn’t open this thread until I got home to my computer.
Fair enough. Then I eagerly await your response, lightbrite.
The Wolf
Do you honestly intend to castigate every Jewish parent who allows their adult children to have a sip of kiddush wine as unfit to be a proper role model? And you see no moral difference between that and encouraging binge drinking among young teenagers?
It would seem, based on her (?) lack of response, that you have your answer.
The Wolf
Regardless of where I reach you it is still in your hands.
Considering I have absolutely no idea what it is you want to do, I can’t really address that, can I?
The Wolf
FWIW, about a decade ago, I lost 95 pounds over the course of a year using Weight Watchers.
The Wolf
Byzantium became Constantinople became Istanbul.
St. Petersburg (Russia) became Petrograd became Leningrad became St. Petersburg again.
Tsaritsyn became Stalingrad became Volgograd.
Hanyang became Hanseong became Geyongseong became Seoul.
And, of course, let’s not forget that New Amsterdam became New York.
The Wolf
What happens if the location changes over time? I guess nothing right?
Why would anything happen? City names (and, more frequently country boundaries) change. A kesubah, like any sh’tar, has to have the correct place at the time that it is written and/or goes into effect. It does not have to be correct after that.
Can you imagine what would happen if that were not the case and all the gitten written in a city suddenly became passul because the name and/or country changed?
The Wolf
Just realized that chocolate lentils are not chocolate covered lentils
Next you’ll be telling me that jelly beans aren’t beans and that Kit Kats aren’t made out of felines.
The Wolf
If all that’s stopping you from doing whatever you is the fact that you lack specific information from me, then all you need to do is contact me.
The Wolf
Absolutely. Without the details you control my ability to move forward.
You already have the ability to communicate with me, both publicly and privately.
The Wolf
nothing to do with the Chofetz Chaim
Not specifically… and please allow me to state publicly and make unambiguously clear that anything I state (unless I explicitly make the point otherwise) applies to me and only to me. Not to my wife, my kids, my extended family and certainly not to strangers on the internet whom I never met and have absolutely no way of saying if they are good, evil or anywhere in between.
What do you think doesn’t have worth?
The above being said, the answer is me.
The Wolf
Can I do you a favor? Or at least exact revenge?
Can I really stop you from doing anything?
The Wolf
The moderators don’t let you post such messages unless you are joking. So he had no choice but to be joking even if he really wanted to meet you.
My email address is publicly known. Anyone can email me.
I needed this person to do me a favor. They initially implied they would, but after an exchange of a few emails, it became apparent that he really had no interest in helping me.
The Wolf
Everything does have worth. It’s not a lie.
You’re entitled to your opinion.
The Wolf
You don’t have to believe.
And so I don’t.
The Wolf
Take a picture of it, open Photoshop and use the eraser tool.
The Wolf
I’d meet people in real life.
In fact, I tried to arrange a meeting a few years ago, but it turns out he was cruelly pulling my leg the whole time and had no real interest in meeting.
The Wolf
I was taught as a kid that everyone has worth. Today I know that to be a lie.
The Wolf
Heter or no, I’m still not getting drunk.
The Wolf