WolfishMusings

What defines a messed up school?

Any school that would allow me on the grounds.

The Wolf

We very often (at least every other week and often more often than that) had a divorced woman by our table (and sleep over at our house) on Shabbos. I guess this proves, once again, how horrible I am. But don’t worry… I won’t be having this person over to my house again.

The Wolf

You may want to try rereading the post

I listen to the following Jewish podcasts:

5 Minute Daf Yomi by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld
Chochmat Nashim Podcast
Daily Halacha by Rabbi Eli Mansour
Headlines
Iggros Moshe A to Z (inactive, but the archives are available, and I’m subscribed if anything new should come along)
Maimonides Minute by Rabbi Scott Kahn
Responsa Radio – Jewish Public Media.

Please note that not all of these podcasts will agree with your hashkafic outlook. Listener discretion is advised.

The Wolf

Wolf, what is the basis for that judgment?

I have to have a basis for hating someone?

The Wolf

There is one Jew that I do not love. It is because he is a rasha gamur and (as I’m often reminded on these boards) it is a mitzvah to hate him.

The Wolf

after trying that, we were thrown out of the bowling alley. then the boy proposed to me and I said yes!! mazel tov

Worst. Plot. Ever.

The Wolf

The Wolf: Of course you’re an unrefined boor. You were raised by wolves.

🙂

The Wolf

Has anyone noted the irony that one of the voices advocating an end to women’s suffrage and criticizing leadership by women has a username that commemorates a male politician who made one of the biggest mistakes in the last century?

The Wolf

Before Artscroll, the Gemara was a closed book to me.

Since using it, it has helped me to become familiar with the terminology and methods used in the Gemara. The more I used it, the more I learned how to read the Gemara without it. Since using it, the Gemara has opened up to me to the point where I can open a non-Artscroll Gemara and figure out, in most cases, what is going on.

The result is a deterioration in the quality and depth of understanding in all areas of Torah study, from Mishna and Gemara, through Poskim and Shutim. I doubt there is a way back.

I guess it was terribly selfish of me to contribute to the communal deterioration of learning in all areas of Torah just for the sake of my own learning. The classic case of a mitzvah haba’ah b’aveirah.

The Wolf

Undercove,

My understanding is that an admission card is given to parents when their past accounts are settled.

Can you please tell us ( a ) if I am wrong (and if so, how), or ( b ) why using this process to ensure the yeshiva receives monies it is entitled to results in the money being stolen?

Thank you.

The Wolf

To the best of my ability, yes.

I don’t necessarily get it right every time, but I try my best to pronounce a Sh’va Na/Nach correctly, especially since it sometimes changes the meaning of the word.

The Wolf

I actually own it. Is there something you want looked up?

The Wolf

There is one flaw in your argument: Despite your silly argument that they should not count, New York and California do, in fact, count.

The Wolf

I don’t know. I don’t even stay up all night the first night.

(I usually take a half hour nap after the meal and then go to shul for the rest of the night to learn.).

The Wolf

You mean why would a school call itself a Bais Yaakov instead of just a “Jewish girls school?” Same reason a place would call itself a yeshiva or mesivta instead of a “Hebrew Day School.” The titles signal the type of institution.

So, in other words, it’s just branding?

The Wolf

For some it may be muttar. CYLOR
For some, they may not have started observing the mourning portion of the Omer until today (Rosh Chodesh).

The Wolf

Good to see this thread. I’m always on the lookout for new places to go on dates.

The Wolf

I think I heard that there was an office there.

The Wolf

Wolf, maybe you are machmir to be maykil.

Not adopting a chumra (especially one I never heard of before today) does not being being maikil.

Next you’re going to tell me that I’m being maikil because I allow electric lights to stay on in my house over Shabbos or because I eat gebrokts on Pesach.

The Wolf

Anyone keeping the chumra of treating eggs like fleishig (because they are produced by chicken)?

No. I have eggs and cheese often.

I have never observed this chumra, never heard of it, and have no intention of ever following it.

Just another sign of my moral bankruptcy.

The Wolf

The posuk says ‘u’k’shartem’ (you shall bind them) , not “v’hinachtem’ (you shall place them) – indeed, we routinely call it “putting on tefilin” = “hanachas tefilin”, rather than the way the Torah calls it: “keshiras tefilin”..

Well then, I guess I must be a complete idiot and am ha’aretz, since I have never made the bracha of “asher kidishanu b’mitvosav, vitzivanu, l’kasher tefillin.”

Thank you for educating me.

The Wolf

I do not now how the term “shiva call” became part of our vernacular.

Do you also wonder why we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway?

The Wolf

What is your opinion about arranged marriages?

My opinion about arranged marriages is the same as my opinion about unarranged marriages. If it works for the couple, wonderful. If it does not work for them, then they should not do it.

The Wolf

Avi K, it is a common practice to say to be a melitz yosher.

There are two possible ways to look at this without having to resort to “doresh el hamesim” issues:

1. We are asking HKBH that so and so should be a melitz yosher. In other words, we’re not directly asking the dead to do anything for us – we’re asking HKBH to cause them to intercede and pray for us.

2. We’re not praying to the dead to be a melitz yosher, we’re just hoping that they are — much as I may express hope that the weather is good tomorrow without actually asking KHBH to make the weather fine tomorrow.

The Wolf