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I do.
Actually, I have three black school skirts. I alternate.
For the summer, I have five long black slinky skirts. Long black slinky skirts are a sleepaway camp counselor’s best friend.
But genuflection has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with proposals…
If in communion ceremonies they have wine can I not make kiddush?
What does one have to do with the other?
FIF: The first, absolutely.
interjection: Better not to give out personal information.
Back when I had my “what on earth is the point of seminary” phase (you folks may remember the thread), I had a lot of friends who were a bit flummoxed about it but let it go, a few who wholeheartedly agreed, and one friend who bugged me about it and did her best to make sure I at least applied to sem- she told me which one I should go to, why, what I’d get out of sem, and that she was going to make sure that I went.
Long story short, I’m applying and I’m happy I am.
Basically, if someone’d reached twelfth grade and decided she doesn’t want sem, I’d ask why, but it’s none of my business- only if it’d be a close friend asking (like that one was). I think part of the reason why people tried to nudge me about it was that they knew the reasons why I didn’t want to go and thought I was wrong- in the case of that friend, not so much wrong as delusional :). If no reason is given, then it’s just decent manners to drop it. None of anyone else’s business why- it could be financial problems or a medical problem keeping someone from going, or even just her not wanting to, which is also valid.
TL;DR: I think it’s fine (and caring, in its way) to ask why someone’s not going to sem- it’s NOT fine to keep bugging about it unless you know EVERYTHING behind the scenes and you know the non-sem-goer doesn’t mind.
I’m not the type who usually says “how are you” so if I do say it, it means I’m actually wondering… though I’m usually a bit more specific than that.
It doesn’t work on Chromebooks.
Why?
Copycat.
🙂
apy: for college purposes yes, they are Hispanic. This is a VERY wide-ranging definition- however, one thing it almost certainly doesn’t cover is people whose last Spanish ancestors left in 1492.
FOR THE COLLEGE BOARD, your Hispanicness (Hispanicity? 🙂 )is determined by self identity and refers not to your ethnicity but your identity. It meant for people from or identifying with South America, Spain and Portugal. The definition is notorious for being very loose- I could have filled in the Hispanic bubble on the PSAT because my grandmother is Argentinean and it would be 100% legitimate, as the Hispanic influence is definitely there. The race and ethnicity have absolutely no relevance. (In the end I did NOT put it down as I still don’t feel it’s honest even though it’s legitimate.)
If you are Sefardi, chances are your ancestors left Spain (if they ever were in Spain, which is obviously up for debate) in or before 1492 unless you’re descended from Marranos. Sorry, but that doesn’t even begin to make sense.
Also, African-American IS a racial designation to the College Board, so that white South Africans are NOT part of that group.
DO you endorse the shutdown?
Then by all means, consider Booker’s words as a reason to vote Lonegan.
Plenty of conservatives aren’t thrilled about the government shutdown…
jewishness: look, if you live in NJ and decide to vote for Lonegan over Booker, let it be because he might vote for things you don’t like, not because he didn’t get married. It’s not even as though he’s Jewish and has a chiyuv to get married that he’s avoiding- it’s completely his decision. HE ISN’T JEWISH- he doesn’t have to live in accordance with a Jewish way of life. If he votes the way you want him to vote, which is the entire point of a democratic republic, then his lifestyle has nothing to do with anything. The only way it could make even the slightest shred of difference is if something about his background will deliberately CAUSE him to vote a specific way, in which case still, just focus on the issues not the reasons behind them.
He could make an awful senator for all I know, but it won’t be because he can’t do Bring Your Kid To Work Day.
If suicide through mental illness doesn’t count as suicide, then what type does? Like, for avoda zara? Just stam for no reason (though you don’t know if maybe mental illness WAS the “no reason”)?
I’ve always been confused by this.
jewishness- if it’s all based on what they’re each likely to vote for, then what does Booker’s marital status have to do with anything?
“Booker is in his mid 40’s yet he never married. He certainly can get whomever he wants since he is a powerful politician with celeb status…what do his actions say about his family values?”
Seriously? Politicians don’t HAVE to get married just because they’re politicians. Give him a break.
heretohelp: While some of it is due to the whole 614th mitzvah of Republicanism (which is actually VERY recent- Jews used to be predominantly Democrat), some of it is just because, as in the case of gay marriage, Catholics and Jews agree on some stuff.
Please don’t ditch Columbus Day, evil slavelord or no! I actually got to school in time for a change today!
I remember a while ago people on here (including me) were quoted in Country Yossi’s magazine… not quite the same though :).
What, and nothing ever happens in Brooklyn and Lakewood?
Monsey is literally the most boring place on the planet- I guess it’s just that when something does happen, it’s a doozy.
LAB, I’m not pouncing on anybody here. I seriously did not get what you were trying to say (nothing people say is ever as obvious to other people as the sayer thinks it is- I can see in retrospect both why you’d think it’s obvious and why I didn’t get it).
Either way, that was not pouncing- that was polite perplexity, or at least it was intended to be. I was sincerely asking a question- I know people who say “tablet=assur” and I want to know why.
This has nothing to do with my worldviews except that it’s a new piece of knowledge that I want(ed) to gain and did not know previously. I can only react to things in the context I live in currently. My worldviews are ever-expanding and dynamic and I try to adapt as I learn new things. The sole reason I asked.
I’m not sure why I specifically got so defensive or verbose here of all places in explaining myself but I feel like as this is something I encounter a lot, I’d better set the record straight.
streeKgeek- don’t mention it 🙂
It was acknowledged at my girls’ high school.
I honestly thought from the title that this was a parody thread of some sort.
(I have no opinion right now on the OP’s point, but I’ll be looking with interest to see the responses…)
I really don’t get the whole “I just bought my kid a grenade, how do I make sure the pin doesn’t fall out” jokes. From a DANGER perspective (unless you’re talking of the danger of a Candy Crush addiction), the internet would be the dangerous part, no? There’s nothing inherently wrong with a tablet. If the kid’s just going to be playing Fruit Ninja, listening to music, etc., which is obviously the OP’s point as he/she wants to GET RID OF THE INTERNET BICHLAL, what’s your problem with the fact that it’s specifically on a tablet?
It’s not right or wrong, it’s just applicable or inapplicable.
Sam2- “undisputed” means within a specific community? Or within klal Yisrael? You could make that into an argument saying that when a rebbe dies all of his chassidim should tear kriyah because he’s their undisputed gadol hador (that could easily be a thing, but I wouldn’t know).
Torah- she could be incredible and still not have the funds/ability to advertise that the book exists.
Torah: you mean top law school.
Afterteens are definitely a thing- people stay teenagers for way too long, even after they make life decisions that would make it seem like they’re adults (marriage, career, etc). It’s funny, because today for the first time I actually encountered a teacher who believes that kids grow up too FAST. I haven’t heard that in forever. (Her reasoning in her scenario made a lot of sense, but it’s just such a different viewpoint than that usually given.)
streekgeek: I’m officially obsessed. That’s SO awesome.
Shoppong: it’s not a typo. There was a study by the Pew Research Center about the future of Judaism in the US.
Google the sites for the big publishers. They usually give submission guidelines. Whether they’ll read/take your manuscript is a different story, but at least you got it into the office.
Or, if you know anyone who does this kind of stuff (speaker, author, etc.) maybe ask for some vitamin P :).
VM: Actually, I never had the courage to out myself, but I’m not a high school girl. I’m not even a secret agent Pentagon geneticist masquerading as a high school girl. I’m actually a student at a top law school masquerading as a secret agent Pentagon geneticist masquerading as a high school girl.
So you’ve got your first one! We should make our own thread.
Shopping: LOL!
From the other thread, glad to hear everything’s going well!
Also, if anyone has any cool ideas for a subtitle, not that I don’t love my current cool subtitle courtesy of (I’m pretty sure) Syag, but it’s always nice to have a change- I’m open!
pba and Torah- besides, all the cool people on here are taken…
I actually shudder to think at what would happen if I went out with someone on yeshivaworld who figured out who I was. I mean, it would save a lot of exposition of opinion, but… yikes…
And I have time! I really do! It doesn’t matter that my friend just got engaged and that my co-counselor just got married and that… and that… I mean, I’m still a kid! Really, I am!
Frankly, fkelly, I try not to gain too much even while I’m wasting my time :).
The whole POINT of affirmative action is that there isn’t a quota for white people. It’s sort of filled automatically. (Also Asians, but that’s a different story.) And when I said that Jews aren’t European, I didn’t mean nationality-wise, I meant as far as in what group they’re being categorized. Then I realized that “European” apparently = “white” and I was like, “Ohhhh.”
Nobody is being accepted in order to fill a quota of white people, because they have enough white people. The quotas are for underrepresented groups (under which qualification neither white people nor Jews can be counted). Those quotas make it HARDER for white people to get in.
Your friend seems to either know something absolutely nobody else knows, like to pull your leg or have major misconceptions about affirmative action.
Signed, someone who researched affirmative action to see if she qualified as a Hispanic (I do, but I don’t feel that it’s ethical)
gotbeer: there are plenty of European people for Harvard to accept- Jews are not needed to fill any quotas. And either way, Jews aren’t European per se, they’re the citizens of the country in which they live, no?
It’s funny, not law school, but a friend of mine just told me about someone she knows who got into dental school with a BTL and SELF-STUDIED DATs. I’m incredibly impressed. The LSAT is not necessarily learning new information so much as new skills, to the best of my knowledge- however, the DATs and MCATs require a whole lot of knowledge you can’t get in yeshiva (bio, chem, etc.).
Whom would they pay who is not already subject to the draft? If they hire someone who has already finished army service, this person would probably either a) have stayed in the army anyway without the pay, in which case why should the army accept this person as a substitute when he would already have been there or b) require a WHOLE lot of money.
People have the responsibility to decide what to do with their lives.
The people who write these articles are espousing their own opinions, and, as is many times noted in the little blurb at the bottom, these views are not necessarily shared by the publication.
The advertisers, as long as the services they advertise are in accordance to HALACHA and not some random person’s idea of what is proper, do nothing wrong by supplying and advertising these services. The same goes to the magazines.
Many people who go to hotels go for other reasons than to act as spoiled rich brats while poor people are starving, believe it or not. Those who go to the luxury places are usually quite generous with tzedakah, and those who are not or are not enough will find out the truth after 120. Their life choices are their own and their consequences are their own.
HaLeiVi: This has nothing to do with gilgulim, but there are very specific mitzvos that Moshe Rabbeinu didn’t learn about on Har Sinai, and there are very specific reasons for each one (another one is Bnos Tzlofchad, etc.). To the best of my knowledge, everything else was covered.
If it weren’t twenty to eleven at night, I’d dig out my Chumash notes and figure out which mitzvos they were and why, but I don’t think that’s really going to happen.
Worst moment: I was in fourth grade and I had a kids’ book about inventions that I was showing kids in my class. One of the sections was about vending machines and one tidbit was how there was once a vending machine that dispensed underwear. Whatever. This was in the middle of recess and my teacher wanted to know what was making so much noise- we were supposed to be quiet during indoor recess or we’d get in trouble. I showed her the book and she said what we were doing was fine. She then asked to look inside it- when she read the section, she confiscated the book because she said it was inappropriate. (Something I still don’t quite understand, I gotta say.) I was infuriated, and said something to the teacher that I should not have said, which got me sent to the principal’s office for the first and only time in my school career. It was a low moment.
One of my best times was the time I yelled at my assistant principal, but I’m not going to go into that, no matter how epic it may have been, because it makes me instantly identifiable.
I believe the Chayei Adam wanted to declare potatoes kitniyos- I don’t remember exactly what the story was, but baruch Hashem that never happened!
rebdoniel, Bookworm: so someone else also likes that rainbow cake? I love that stuff and everyone thinks I’m meshuga. I could eat a whole container full.
Bookworm: so have you gotten your red candies yet? 🙂
nossond: I don’t exactly look forward to discussing rape in my spare time, so this is my last post. Tamar may have wanted to marry Amnon, but not because she was happy with being raped or anything ridiculous like that. She was incredibly shamed and mortified, as is completely obvious from the navi. My big beef is with what you said about it being different. IT’S THE SAME THING- same feelings upon being victimized- but society’s way of dealing with it (covering it up and having the victim marry the rapist vs prosecution and validation) has changed. Whether girls married their rapists is not the point- WHY is the point. When you said that nowadays it’s different because the feeling afterward is like murder, there is NO REASON why it should not have been the same then. If anything, the story of Amnon and Tamar is a proof of that (think of Avshalom’s reaction- not exactly happy about the upcoming wedding…).
nossond: Sorry, but rape victims, then and now, don’t decide to marry their rapists for their warm and fuzzy personalities. Bushah, etc can have a lot more to do with it. What you say sounds like victim blaming- like they “asked for it.” The whole point of the story of Amnon and Tamar was that he shamed and harmed her to the extent that Avshalom killed Amnon in revenge.
I think that they sell Mekupelet in most supermarkets. (Not sure if Oh Nuts! sells milchigs…?)
Is the red candy with white stuff in it that sour cherry flavor licoricey type stuff? If so, that they do sell in Oh Nuts! (my sis got it for yom tov).
Gamanit- I completely agree. “Breaking off ties” is a bit extreme and definitely reminds me of cultishness. If you think it may drag you down then perhaps try to limit and avoid initiating contact and don’t seek out such friendships, but to cut off all contact is extreme.
APY: Call me obtuse, but I don’t get the story…
commonart- we must have read different articles then… the entire POINT of the article was to contradict the first which quoted the original story (and the story as quoted in the original article was definitely mentioned to be incorrect at least in some pretty major details).
commonart: that story was written in a VERY controversial piece in Mishpacha that for all practical purposes ended up retracted. Rav Schwab’s son wrote an op-ed afterward saying that the story was not true the way it was told (it was actually his grandfather who said it and what he said was entirely different, etc.).
That’s forgetting about the fact that just because someone is great in one area, that doesn’t mean he/she will be great in other areas. This has NOTHING to do with Rav Schwab, of whom I don’t know very much, but rather in general, as a question out of curiosity- can you say that a given talmid chochom or even mechanech is necessarily the greatest parent in every respect? After all, NO parent is the greatest parent in every respect.
This is not intended to be disrespectful, just curious- my grandfather was a close talmid of a gadol and posek hador of the last generation and is very close friends with his sons, and the big impression I get from his stories is that of greatness through NORMALCY. He was an amazing person, but you knew that he was a real person, unlike the images you get in biographies and articles.
Sorry about the rant, and this is completely off-topic, but this is something I’ve historically not gotten at all.
Redleg- isn’t that i? Or is that just the Greek name?