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On many roads, driving at the speed limit is hazardous, regardless on what lane you’re in. I was once stopped for speeding on a local major road not in the NY metro area. The officer gave me a warning and was nice enough to tell me what the real speed limit was (40 instead of the posted 30, IIRC).
Yid18, why have you been in so many MLMs? Wouldn’t one good one be enough?
I prefer lulav jam. Not much flavor, but it’s high in fiber.
Don’t we all get a clean slate this time of year, assuming we do our job properly?
KnPanel seems to be British, so the 1st Amendment/5th Amendment discussion is out of place.
If the tadpole is already 3, he or she developed legs and came out of the water long ago.
Meaning what? All Pakistanis adhere to the 7 Noahide commandments? If so, there wouldn’t be the problem noted by the OP. Assuming for the moment that your slave does adhere to them, how does that affect the need for hatafas dam?
OblikoMorale, preventing public funds from being spent on stadiums is a state issue, not a Federal one. So there would have to be 50 laws.
Akuperma, I read an article somewhere that attempted to quantify the political beliefs of football fans, and it was more red than blue, but I don’t remember by how much or where I read it. It also said that the NFL is 80% black and the fans are more than 80% white.
KnPanel, is your Pakistani slave an eved kenani according to halacha? Presumably as a Muslim he was already circumcised when you acquired him, but did you ask a shailah about whether he needed hatafas dam?
Also, why does disliking the president mean you’re a liberal? He’s one of the least moral presidents ever. I don’t understand how social conservatives can support a serial adulterer who has a long history of stiffing those who have worked for him.
DY, raisins have bugs but currants don’t?
Anybody know the origin of the custom of putting raisins in challah? Is it just because they’re sweet, or is there some other reason?For those saying kaddish, perhaps a metronome would help them stay in sync. OTOH, some people have no sense of rhythm, so it might not work.
Actually, huju, it’s just getting good, with the slavery subtext. Since Popa has been inactive lately, we need a troll like KnPanel.
Gadol, there’s internet access in olam habah?
In a certain Litvish school, kindergarten children are taught the alef bais in Yiddish. For each letter, they have pictures of things that begin with the letter. The problem is that no Yiddish word begins with vais, so they use a picture of a lulav, which at least ends in vais. As someone pointed out, they phase out Yiddish after a few years, after which I suspect most boys forget it (unless they have Yiddish speaking relatives).
I just noticed ZD’s comments about Siri’s voice being pritzus. Personally, female synthesized voices don’t do anything for me, but maybe that’s just me. In recent versions of iOS, you can change Siri to use a male voice, and he/she can speak with an American, British, or Australian accent.
There’s something fishy about ZD’s story, but I’m not sure if the geirus is it. I could be wrong, but I think the issur is on the Kohen, not on the wife who’s not suitable for a Kohen. But for sure it’s assur for a couple to live together without a kesubah.
Health, why didn’t Pakistanis in the U.S. assault non-Pakistani women when Obama was president?
Joseph, are you really a kiruv professional?
An Israeli Yid writes, “A marriage that gets to the point where an outside counselor is involved is clearly already on the rocks.”
I’m not sure what you mean by an outside counselor (is there such a thing as an inside counselor?), or what you mean by “on the rocks,” but I think counseling (pastoral or otherwise) for couples who are having conflicts that they have difficulty resolving themselves can be a good thing, particularly early in a marriage. That’s before the “can’t teach old dog new tricks” phase.
As others have pointed out, there’s usually a point of no return where divorce is almost inevitable, but I hope most couples seek help long before this. I’m not talking about abusive spouses, but just the ordinary shalom bayis problems that most couples experience.
jakob, I’ve been to plenty of chasunahs where there are tables right near the speakers. But that’s not so relevant because the band cranks up the volume to ear-splitting levels for the dancing, which is usually near the speakers.
bplady, cotton balls are pretty useless. You need good-quality earplugs. I recommend the Flents Quiet Contour Foam earplugs.
Hoping for Brisk, how does he know in advance whether the band will be too loud?
Joseph doesn’t exist. Alex Jones told me.
It’s a major issue. I always wear earplugs at weddings, but I see infants with no hearing protection. Ask any audiologist what they think of the volume of the music at weddings. I’ve seen musicians refuse the baal hasimcha’s request to turn it down, claiming that if they do so, nobody will hire them.
MDG, as I pointed out above, abuse of women, even to the point of murder, is a recognized problem in India as well. Most of the perpetrators are not Muslim, and most of the victims presumably are of the same religion as their assailants (although they may be of a lower caste). I also wondered above why I’ve never heard of Pakistanis in the U.S. assaulting non-Pakistanis. Here’s another point to ponder: there are many non-Pakistani Muslims in the UK. Assuming that the official quoted in the OP is correct that there is a problem with Pakistani men assaulting non-Pakistani women, why isn’t it a problem with other groups of Muslims (or is it?)
With all that college education, Concerned Morah should know that plurals don’t have apostrophes.
In some places, mayonnaise comes in tubes, like toothpaste. Lowerourtuition, the plastic containers that non-squeezable Hellmann’s comes in are jars.
KnPanel, I find that hard to believe. Pakistanis are less than 2% of the population of the UK. While Muslims are required to give charity (2.5% of assets annually according to one web page I found), the relatively small number of Pakistanis in the UK makes the veracity of your claim suspect. I found an estimate of the total charitable giving of the British to be close to 10 billion pounds. If every Pakistani man, woman, and child gave 1,000 pounds, that would only be slightly over 1 billion pounds. Also, I suspect that Muslims donate almost entirely to Muslim causes (just as frum Jews donate almost entirely to Jewish causes), so the impact of their giving on non-Muslims is minimal.
We married off daughter #1 in Israel almost four years ago and daughter #2 in Brooklyn recently. For daughter #1, we had to do little more than buy our plane tickets (only a few — we have a small family, they have a large one, hence our decision to have the chasunah in EY). Our machutanim did the legwork. For daughter #2, the shoe was on the other foot — we’re local and our machutanim are long-distance. I’m pretty sure the costs are lower for EY weddings. We only paid for plane tickets for immediate family, so that wasn’t too bad.
If abuse of young white women by Pakistani men is a cultural thing, then why haven’t I heard of incidents like this in Brooklyn, which has a large Pakistani community? It seems that in the U.S., in violence involving South Asians and whites, the whites are almost always the perpetrators.
MDG, Chinese are not South Asians. And abuse (even to the point of murder) of young Indian women by Indian men in India is a significant problem. I don’t know whether the perpetrators are highly educated.
I couldn’t bring myself to vote for either of them. I did a write-in. I’ve always voted for a major party candidate in the past (sometimes Democrat, sometimes Republican). I’m hoping we have a major party candidate I can vote for in 2020, but the way things are going, I doubt it.
Pundits are predicting Trump will be out long before 2020. He may be wearing a jumpsuit that matches his orange complexion.
ZD, if you only travel to places with more than 5 kosher restaurants, you’re missing out on a lot of interesting places.
I’m wondering what “crimson authorities” means.
If you’re willing to work in a public school, the salaries and benefits are pretty good. If you’re going to be an employee of a yeshiva or a Jewish special ed program, they’re not going to be so good. There are other options such as P3 (in NYC) where you contract to a school district to teach/tutor, but you’re technically self-employed, which means you pay self-employment tax and have no benefits.
As for burnout, it depends on the population you’re working with, and I don’t just mean the students.
As for what the job entails, the range is very wide. You could be a classroom teacher with a small number of low-functioning students and several other adults in the room, or you could be co-teaching a class that has a number of students with learning disabilities. You could be working one-to-one or you could be working in a resource room.
ZD, the printing press enabled the non-wealthy to own seforim.
Jeff Bezos, one of the people Trump loves to hate, is 22% richer now than on January 20. At least that’s how much AMZN has gone up. OTOH, rumor has it that Donald made Melania cancel her Amazon Prime account.
Pediatric? What does Dr. Spock have to do with this?
I agree with Joseph. We need more drunk soldiers.
Joseph, SA said “current minhag.” Presumably the Tunisian rebbi’s father got married quite a while ago.
Joseph, you admit that there are more lawyers than jobs for lawyers. Please explain how the legal profession has “protect[ed] themselves from competition by deflating and severely reducing the number of people who can become a lawyer.”
BTW, a lawyer once made the same complaint as you’re making — about doctors. He said that the law schools were wide open while medical schools severely restricted numbers of students. This was at least 20 years ago.
Joseph, your comment about lawyers restricting their ranks is off base. There are lots of lawyers who can’t find jobs as lawyers. If they were plotting to restrict their ranks, there would be a shortage of lawyers.
Given that lenses can cost very little (single vision, small correction) or a lot (progressive, transitional, large correction), it’s hard to answer the “how much” question. I’m guessing any optician/optometrist can do it, and it’s quite likely the one-hour places, which obviously grind lenses in house, can do it while you wait (at least for simple lenses — I’ve never used such a place, but I suspect they send out for more complicated lenses).
Well, at least this quack isn’t selling an expensive drug.
I know of a situation where the man decided to go through with the marriage even though I’m told he had serious doubts (i.e. he really didn’t want to, but he didn’t want to make waves or something like that). I’m not privy to the details, but they ended up getting divorced after a short marriage.
Wrong, Joseph. My under-26 daughter, who’s on our insurance, went to a doctor who she thought was in network. The problem was that we had switched plans but she retained her old insurance card. The doctor was in network for the old plan but not for the new one. We were informed that the rate was $x. The doctor’s office (part of a large hospital-affiliated group) said they’d give us a break, but they weren’t allowed to go below $y, which was a discount of maybe 20%-25%. Obviously that’s nowhere near the discounts that insurers negotiate.
Avi, while his boss may think he’s reigning (rather than serving), you presumably think Sessions should rein in asset forfeiture.
Avi K, I should have mentioned that Sessions was talking about drug offenses. Throwing the book at low-level drug offenders has been shown to be ineffective. It’s hard to argue that the War on Drugs has been a success. Perhaps the Trump administration is pushing this to create jobs in prison construction and for prison guards.
Speaking of draconian punishment, AG Jeff Sessions told federal prosecutors in May to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” and follow mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines.
Joseph, I can’t tell from your comment whether you have ever sat on a jury. YitzchokM said he has been in jury pools, not that he’s been on a jury. I sat on a jury in the Bronx in a criminal trial over 30 years ago, and most of my fellow jurors were decent people who wanted to do the right thing. My wife recently sat on a jury in Queens, also in a criminal trial, and her experience was similar. Presumably, neither the prosecution nor the defense is interested in jurors who are “the lowest of the low.” It’s also not clear to me how one can tell in a jury pool who’s “the lowest of the low.” It’s not likely that you engaged in conversation with such people.
Gadolhadorah, don’t forget hit men and pig farmers. I wouldn’t be so sure about rodeo cowboys — the Five Towns branch of Bonei Olam is sponsoring a rodeo.
MDs, even if they have time to learn Torah two hours a day, probably don’t have time for the CR, so it’s best to stick to something less demanding like a Fedex driver. It has the added advantage of being able to double park and get away with it.