WolfishMusings

This one goes back a while. From Allan Sherman’s Chim-Chim-Cheree parody:

My Fastback has Wide-Track and Autronic Eye,

Which winks when a cute little Volvo goes by;

My tank full of Platformate starts with a roar,

But when I try to stop, it goes two miles more.

I measure my breathing with my Nasograph,

It’s nice, but oh my, how it hurts when I laugh.

My chair is upholstered in real Naugahyde;

(He moved to Chicago when that nauga died!)

The Wolf

No, it was a sharp answer.

No, it was a dismissal, because he refused to consider any of the possible alternatives. He also refused to consider the alternative of “if it makes no difference, then why should the school expel him?”

The Wolf

Rav Shteinman responded, “So if there’s no difference, why doesn’t he just wear the black one?”

That’s not an answer, that’s a dismissal.

There are plenty of reasons why he might want to wear the other yarmulke. Perhaps he likes the color better. Perhaps it stays on his head better. Perhaps it feels more comfortable for him. Perhaps it has sentimental value for him (it was made/given to him by someone who means a lot to him).

The Wolf

We urgently require a ????, that if a marriage ends in divorce within 10 years, that ???? is ????? to return the money.

That’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard in years. The Shadchan is not responsible for the couple’s marital problems.

“But,” you’ll say “it is his/her fault. The Shadchan should never have put them together if they were going to fail.”

Baloney. The Shadchan doesn’t force anyone into a marriage. The primary people who have to take responsibility for a marriage are the bride and groom. If they go into a marriage that is doomed to fail from the start (which is the only scenario where you might, conceivably, say it’s the Shadchan’s fault) then it’s their fault for not saying “No. This marriage isn’t going to work. I’m not going forward.” They have to take primary responsibility – not the Shadchan.

The Wolf

Wolf, specifically regarding that position, Rav Elyashev stated that while that position is apikorsus, the subscriber of that position is not necessarily personally an apikorus. If I recall correctly I think his reason was because the subscriber mistakenly, but sincerely, thinks its a halachicly legitimate position to hold.

So, you’re going to weasel out of it by saying that as long as the apikorus beleives his apikorsus, then all is well as we can welcome him? I don’t believe that normative halacha views the matter that way.

The Wolf

I can’t think of any positions you hold that are apikorsus.

For starters, I’m not a Young Earth Creationist. I believe that would put me outside the pale for you and many others.

The Wolf

mw13, do you disagree that a woman’s place is in the home and that civilization for thousands of years, until roughly 100 years ago, always recognized and acted as such. And are you unfamiliar that our seforim hakedoshim state that a man’s place is to go out in the world and engage outside the home while a woman’s place is to remain in the home and run they family’s domestic affairs?

Do you think not only the American founding fathers got it wrong, but all of civilization from the beginning of time until Susan B. Anthony came along all got it wrong, including Chazal and our own chachomim?

So, based on that logic, let’s empty out all the yeshivos were masses learn every day, so that they can go to work and their wives can stay home. After all, the phenomenon of so many people learning is very new, in the post-Shoah world.

Do you think that all of Jewish history from the beginning of the settling of Eretz Yisroel until the Holocaust had it wrong, including Chazal?

The Wolf

Wolf, which question are you referring to?

I asked:

How can an Orthoprax who doesn’t believe in God possibly be a ???? ???????

and Joseph responded with*:

And what is your conclusion on the question?

and so I responded with:

I would have thought that would be obvious. You can’t intend to make angry that which you don’t believe exists.

The Wolf

* Granted, he might not have been speaking to me, but his post was directly under mine, so, without any further indications, I have to at least consider the possibility that he was addressing me. For the record, this is why I always quote what I am responding to.

And my faith in the goodness of humanity just took another big hit this morning. I’m not sure I want to belong to the species anymore. 🙁

The Wolf

Wolf, you completed the investigation to conclude that the guy wasn’t a criminal

… and you completed yours and determined that he was.

While neither of us know much details on a case that is hardly 24 hours old

… and you’ve already determined that he was a criminal.

The Wolf

Can we conclude that an Orthoprax is closer to a ???? ?????? than to a ???? ????????

How can an Orthoprax who doesn’t believe in God possibly be a ???? ???????

The Wolf

I’m told by some that my photography is good.

I’ll let you judge for yourself whether or not that answers the OP’s question.

The Wolf

(I eagerly await Wolf’s retort and mea culpa.)

Whatever.

The Wolf

Here’s a piece for Reb Wolf:

I believe I’ve demonstrated in the past that I am more than capable of apologizing or retracting when I am convinced that I am in the wrong.

The Wolf

ZD, you’ll never hear the stories about the girls who would have gone OTD had they gone to college, and were saved because they didn’t.

How can you possibly know that someone would or would not have gone off the derech had they gone or not gone to college?

The Wolf

When it’s based on utter stupidity.

One poster once commented that my marriage wasn’t valid because we didn’t use a Shadchan. He told me that I needed to ask my rav. I refused, because his contention was based on stupidity and nonsense. I’m not going to bother my rav over nonsense.

The Wolf

The only logical explanation for this is that I am in my own universe.

An even more logical explanation is that the packaging is wrong or that you have a nonstandard toilet.

The Wolf

Reasons

Absolutely none of these reasons explain why we eat cheesecake.

1. Moshe (the one who received and gave us the TORAH) wouldnt nurse from non jewish woman. Therefore to recall his zechus on this day.

That might explain why we drink milk and/or eat dairy. Nothing to do with cheesecake.

2. As mentioned previously now the jews had halachos of Treif animals and shechita their kaylim were treif it was shabbos and they could not do Hagolas Kaylim until after shabbos.

Same as above.

3. Before Matan Torah they were choshed that milk was ayver min hachai and so asur. From the pasuk Eretz zovas cholov oodvash they learnt milk was ok.

Same as above.

4. Chalav is Gematria 40. kineged the 40 days Moshe went up

Same as above

5.The Midrash states that Har Sinai has 8 names, 1 is Gavnunim because it was white like Gevina. So we eat Gevina as a Zecher.

This might explain why we eat cheese, but says nothing about cheesecake.

The Wolf

You’ve been publicly proclaiming how bad you are for years. Why are you surprised it rubbed off on some people?

You have a valid point. Nonetheless, it is surprising to see it from someone else.

The Wolf

I was not aware that other people saw me as bad.

As to your question, my wife was not in Cedarhurst today. In addition, we do not have vanity plates on our car.

The Wolf

I’m very sad to see not even one person replied regarding my question & everyone failing, cause this was actually a test

Who appointed you as the one to “test” us?

everyone failing,

Wait… you’re saying that I failed some major test of life because I didn’t open and read a CR thread? I wasn’t aware that reading every thread (and responding) was one the mitzvos.

to see if people really do treasure their gift of life & at least try to spend it wisely without just sitting around reading news & blogs etc.

So, wait… you’re saying that I’m wasting my life because I didn’t respond to your thread??? Is your CR thread so important that it should override any time I do anything else?

The Wolf

OO identifies as MO. (A subset thereof.) MO isn’t only RWMO. LWMO is also MO.

And NK identifies as chassidic. Should I therefore ascribe all of NK’s faults to all of chassidus? Or even all of Satmar?

The Wolf

did anyone else here about this planet that’s supposedly about to do some damage?

Yes, I did. I heard about it while visiting my friend, the Loch Ness Monster while he was vacationing in the Bermuda Triangle. Both of us called our Lizard People overlords and, I’m told, they’re working on the problem as we speak.

The Wolf

I would *love* to hear Little Froggie answer my question regarding the pig meal.

The Wolf

The ideology that led to the founding of their state worked with Adolf Eichmann and his National Socialist Party in effecting the final solution.

Wow. It only took three posts to get a comparison of Zionism and Nazism. What is this? Stormfront?

The Wolf