WolfishMusings

In lightbrite’s world, a father who makes a positive example about sobriety and responsible drinking by never getting drunk giving his adult kids 2 oz. of 5% alcohol is a criminal while someone who sets a terrible example by getting drunk in front of their kids is fine as long as he doesn’t actually give them any himself (because, as we all know, they won’t touch it if he tells them not to…)

The Wolf

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.

My kids are in the 20-25 age range. We give them (if they want) some of the wine from kiddush on Shabbos and Yom Tov.

My kids are now at an age where I do not tell them what to do or not do. However, they have learned the value of sobriety from myself and my wife, neither of whom has *ever* been drunk. My kids do not (and did not) go around drinking on Purim and, to the best of my knowledge, none of them has ever been drunk either.

If, despite that, you think that a quarter cup or less of low alcohol wine is going to damage them, then I invite you to call the cops on me for abuse.

The Wolf

Is. Thank God he’s still alive.

The Wolf

I don’t believe in wolves.

And that is your right.

The Wolf

No, I wouldn’t be offended. But then again, I don’t get offended easily.

The Wolf

There is nothing that says that I have to serve a child wine. So I don’t do it.

The Wolf

I use one on Shabbos. It’s not slip proof, but it definitely slips far less than the non-slip one I use during the week.

The Wolf

For example, in this case, they don’t care about it on Purim.

They will care if a child ends up drunk and in the hospital.

And what about every Shabbos for that matter? Don’t many Frum families serve wine to their kids on Shabbos?

When our kids were younger, no, they did not get wine (they got grape juice). When they got older, they were allowed to have wine, but clearly not enough to intoxicate them to any degree.

The Wolf

mik, you hold it’s okay to drink OJ that has no hechsher?

I would, if I squeezed it myself.

The Wolf

Perhaps.

Your question has no bearing on the story you told. Just because person A likes or does not like a pickle does not mean that you are eating one correctly or incorrectly. They are completely independent of each other.

The Wolf

If I want to give home baked goods for Mishloach Manos, I will. If people don’t trust my kashrus to eat it, that’s their problem, not mine.

The Wolf

Is Moshiach said to get married and have children?

Why would you think not?

The Wolf

As I’ve stated on these boards before, I don’t give tochacha.

The Wolf

Take a tip from Yitzchak Avinu (actually that’s why the Torah choose to write it) ????? ???? ????? ??? ??? ???? ?? ???? ???? ?? ???? ???????. He brought her in to his mother’s tent (he found her compatible – ??? ??? ???) he married her, and THEN grew to love her.

Or from Ya’akov Avinu.

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The Wolf

different type of ????

If you’re still going to be around on May 1 2079, a total eclipse will go right through the city. In fact, you can see the totality by standing on Flatbush Avenue, just north of the Marine Park Bridge.

The Wolf

Also, can someone explain to me why it’s only visible in certain places? If it’s during hours when the sun is out, shouldn’t you be able to see it from any place the sun is visible?

Take a lamp and shine it on the floor. Now take a marble (or similarly shaped object) and hold it between the lamp and the floor so that it casts a shadow on the floor.

Now, pretend the lamp is the sun, the marble is the moon and the floor is the earth. The marble is much smaller than the lamp bulb, and so only casts a shadow on a portion of the floor. Likewise, the moon is smaller than the sun, and so only casts a shadow on a portion of the earth. The part that is in shadow is the part that sees the eclipse.

The Wolf

All I’ll say is this —

I am an unabashed and unashamed romantic and happily married 25 years.

If you don’t have romance in your marriage, I *truly* feel sorry for you.

The Wolf

The baker in prison with Yosef. The butler was invited by Yosef to tell him his dream. The baker, on the other hand, did not wait for an invitation.

The Wolf (who assumed you meant *Sefer* B’raishis, as opposed to simply the first parsha.)

And at the RCA every twenty-something year old member gets the same vote as Rabbi Willig.

When Bais Shammai and Bais Hillel voted on halacha, did everyone have an equal vote, or did “Rav X” have 2.37 votes and “Rav Y” have 1.38 votes and “Rav Z” have 1.82 votes?

The Wolf

Why do you need a siddur app on the phone when you have printed siddurim in the shul?

I used a siddur app in shul when we had a blackout.

(Yeah, I know… it was probably better that I not daven at all rather than use a lighted screen.)

The Wolf