WolfishMusings

Wolfish, it is Rebbi Shimon who brought out the splendor which was previously hidden.

And when the Torah was revealed by Moshe Rabbeinu, the previously hidden splendor wasn’t at least as great?

The Wolf

By the time I turned 22, I was already married for four months.

The Wolf

I was told that R. Dovid Feinstein does not approve of this.

I’m confused. If you know the answer, why are you asking the question?

The Wolf

Okay, new poll: How many actually read the OP?

Admittedly, I did not.

As to the OP’s question — I don’t know why people do that. I don’t. What time random (or not so random) strangers finish their seder is no business of mine.

The Wolf

you’re going to ruin the whole thread.

And, come to think of it, at least a few other ones as well.

You mean like this?

10 Proofs That Moshiach is Coming Now!

10 Proofs That Moshiach is Coming Now!

🙂

The Wolf

Of course, let’s keep in mind that there is a bias towards lunar eclipses happening on Pesach and Succos as opposed to any other day or the month — as the only time a lunar eclipse can occur is when the moon is full (and, for that matter, the only time a solar eclipse can occur is during the molad — hence right around Rosh HaShannah).

The Wolf

My daughter (a high school senior) is currently taking a class in forensics and she loves it.

The Wolf

Any family which can’t handle keeping gebrokts has much bigger problems.

Just to make sure I’m understanding you correctly…

Are you saying that any family that eats g’brochts on Pesach must have problems?

Or am I misunderstanding you?

The Wolf

My understanding was that because the 8th day is d’rabbanan and Gebrokts is a safek and safek d’rabbanan l’hokil.

My understanding is a bit different (although it could very well be wrong).

My understanding is that the 8th day is a safek* and g’brochts is a safek (i.e. we’re not sure that there is uncooked flour…). For a safek, you are machmir. For a double safek (s’fek, s’feika) you are not.

Not that it matters to me all that much — I eat g’brochts all of Pesach.

The Wolf

* Of course, today, we know that the 8th day is not really a safek anymore now that we have a set calendar (further reason to be lenient in this regard)… we only keep it out of minhag.

I’m now at the stage of life where the parents come to us for the seder. 🙂

In any event, I couldn’t imagine not helping — and not just by my parents. Whenever we go out to eat by someone’s house, Eeees and I are always asking the host/hostess if we can be of help.

The Wolf

Just curious if you ever eat out and pay $40 for a piece of steak. Do you waste money on vacations and drive a leased car? If the answer is yes then you have no business complaining about the cost of Shmura Matzoh.

And now to play the other side of the coin…

IF the price of shmurah matzah truly *IS* exorbitant (and completely out of line WRT the cost to produce), then why *shouldn’t* someone complain?

The fact that someone may voluntarily choose to engage in discretionary spending does not mean that he is bound to spend more than necessary to do a mitzvah. If matzah *could* be produced more cheaply, then why the heck not? What does his choice to eat out or drive a leased car have anything to do with it?

The Wolf

At the risk of taking an unpopular position, I’m going to ask the following question:

Are you familiar, at all, with the economics of running a shmurah matzah factory? In other words, do you think the price of SM is expensive because you’re comparing it to a box of Streits or other food items? Or do you have some insight into the costs of labor, rents, materials, etc. that goes into the making of SM?

Economics tells us that, were it possible to seriously undercut the bakeries (i.e. if it were possible to produce a pound for $4 and sell it for $8 instead of the $20ish that it currently goes for), then someone would do so. If they haven’t, then you’ve identified a golden opportunity — take advantage of it!

I suppose, what I’m asking is this: are you merely venting your (understandable) frustration at the high price of SM, or do you really believe that it is highway robbery and that there is collusion among the major bakeries to keep prices artificially high to maximize profits illegally?

The Wolf

I never knew that kiddush clubs like that really existed. I was sure it was some kind of urban legend and that snopes would declare it all a hoax.

Alas, when I was a young child, I attended a shul that had a kiddush club. Having no father or older brothers present in the shul, however, may have helped me, in that no one that I looked at as a Jewish role model attended one.

In the shuls that I’ve davened in regularly for the last twenty six years, there was no “kiddush club” during davening.

The Wolf

It’s mind boggling that over 200 pple can go missing in today’s day and age of technology. It is humbling to think that we don’t have “eyes” everywhere.

That’s because you have no idea just how large and deep the ocean truly is.

The Wolf

If the ten names are said in multiple breaths, the reading is 100% fine. In fact, I would argue that if reading it in one breath is going to cause some of the words to be swallowed or rendered incomprehensible, then you *should* read it with more than one breath.

The Wolf

Golfer,

I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or not.

However, for the record, my post had nothing to do with Chesed. I am not what one would categorize as a “ba’al chesed.”

The Wolf

The fact that Tis’alom rhymes with the other endings, which it is obviously meant to do, points to the fact that whoever wrote Yedid Nefesh pronounced it (as we now know, correctly) Tis’alom.

Perhaps. Perhaps the rhyme was forced (as it is, the rhyme is forced in the terminal line of the first stanza).

The Wolf

Of course you’re supposed to get drunk on Purim. Wine was made for something, wasn’t it?

Yes. Bringing on the mizbayach as a nesech.

The Wolf

(No, I don’t actually believe it was solely created for that reason, but if LF is going to assert that it was created only for getting drunk on Purim, I can just as easily assert that it was created solely to be used in karbanos.)

I highly doubt it’s a matter of minhag. It’s more likely a matter of proper dikduk.

The Wolf

Is there anything I can do, as a frum, ehrliche person who won’t mingle with the opposite gender online or otherwise, to get myself married??

I know this may sound like a shocker, but perhaps you should try going to where the girls are.

You say that you won’t mingle with the opposite gender, and perhaps that’s good for most situations, but if you want to get married, perhaps it might be time to loosen this restriction for this purpose. Go to a singles event.

The best segulah for getting a job is answering a want ad. The best segulah for having clean clothes is doing the laundry. And the best segulah for meeting a girl for marriage is to actually be where the girls are.

You’ve tried other methods and they obviously have not worked. Perhaps now it’s time to try the obvious.

The Wolf

* Note: I don’t know whether you are male or female (your post did not indicate one way or the other). If you are female, then obviously just switch the genders in my post.

Your premise that the children of a Challal are Assur le’Kohen is incorrect. See Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer 7 16.

Well, he’s only partially incorrect. Any daughters of male-line descendants of challalim are forbidden to Kohanim. So, the OP’s question is still valid.

The Wolf

Why do we need themes?

We don’t. We also don’t need messageboards — but that doesn’t mean we can’t have them if we want them.

It’s cute but many people cannot afford to do it or don’t have time but NEED to because everyone else is…

That’s ridiculous. We like to do themes, but, there are some years when for either financial or logistical reasons, we can’t do it. So far, no one has ostracized us for not doing a theme in certain years. If you can’t/don’t want to do it, then don’t — but that shouldn’t be a reason why people who can and want to shouldn’t be able to do it.

The Wolf