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Doctors do all the time.
Messiah is one of the fastest rising (ahem!) names in the list that the Social Security Administration issues every year. It’s right up there with King (which to me is a dog name). Several years ago, I had a student whose name was spelled something like Masia, but it was pronounced messiah.
Israel isn’t so expensive if you find alternative accommodations to hotels. Rent an apartment or a room in one, or if you’re fortunate to have friends or relatives with extra space, stay with them. If you can travel off season, you can get somewhat lower fares (we’re going in February IY”H for less than $650 per person).
Nuclear weapons are OK if you use them right.
lopman24, could you clarify why it costs thousands for a mitzvah tanz? I’ve never stayed that long at a chassidishe chasunah, so I’m not familiar with all the nekudos.
If it’s GERD, all the cultures in the world aren’t going to solve your problem. Make an appointment with an ENT. An endoscopy is really no big deal. In the meantime, take sensible measures against reflux — don’t eat close to bedtime, make sure your head is raised when you sleep (use more pillows or a wedge).
I don’t have the patience to check out whether graphology is shtuss or not, but I’d like to make an observation. As we use keyboards and the like more and more, handwriting becomes less and less important, to the point where cursive is not being taught in many schools. So if you seldom use handwriting, how can it tell anything about you? Are there people who claim to be able to tell what your personality is like from how you type?
Over 25 years ago, I was told not to wear a yarmulka on the street in Paris. I suspect there are many more Arabs there now, so it’s probably even riskier.
Of the three big tourist cities in Italy (Rome, Florence, and Venice), my favorite by far was Venice. One reason is that there are no cars. Italian drivers are crazy.
jf02, I think it was implicit that he’s learning full time, so he can’t raise the children either.
Working: Obviously, you are not a member of a group that follows whatever their leader tells them to do. I have it on good authority that the leader of a well-known group has ruled that children with major disabilities should be given up. His followers do what they’re told.
So, Curiosity and ZD, it seems you both think that if not for the issue of parnassa, 18-year-old boys are ready for marriage.
ZD, maybe you were responding to something that has disappeared, but I don’t see how your comment about the cost of living in the New York area is at all relevant to the topic. Suppose an 18-year-old boy has a trust fund that will support him and his family for life. Is he ready to get married?
Regarding registries, when we were engaged, we decided that we should pick out a china pattern. We went to Macy’s and spent a long time looking. When we’d finally decided, the saleswoman said that since we were getting fine china, we’d have to get fine stemware to go with it. We looked at the prices of the very fragile stemware, looked at each other, and decided we were neither “fine stemware” not “fine china” types. We didn’t have a registry.
We recently looked at the registry of a couple who were getting married. We were taken aback at the rampant materialism — do they really need that $150 clothes steamer? We ended up writing them a check.
Gilligan cruise + men only = no Mary Ann or Ginger.
MorahRach, you talk about standard deviations but you don’t say what you’re measuring. Sounds like a classic straw man argument.
You could start a ridiculous topic in the CR.
Oh. You’ve already done that.
Actually, until now I’d never made the connection between Elul and Lent. So you’re trying to do the equivalent of Mardi Gras?
My March 17 reference, as ROB hinted, is to leprechauns. Or, in Jewish context, lepre-cohens.
RD, the Chinese buses have been shut down by the Department of Transportation. Something about their safety and maintenance.
The country is spelled Colombia. The university is Columbia.
Were they spotted on March 17 by any chance?
Ender, India has a dearth of plumbing, but there are lots of very smart Indians. Which proves nothing, just like IQ.
re bikes leading to dancing: Search for fixed gear bike ballet on Youtube. You’ll see that yichusdik is not joking.
Ender, you’re assuming that IQ is an accurate measure of intelligence.
So unmarried Sefardim aren’t missing anything?
To pick a nit (which is a type of egg), eggs will be sold by the kilo, not the pound. The article says the packaging will not be allowed to say how many eggs are in the package. In the United States, egg cartons include the net weight (24 oz. per dozen for large, 27 oz. for extra large, 30 oz. for jumbo) along with the count. It sounds like they’re still going to sell eggs in cartons of a dozen in the UK, but they simply won’t be able to label them that way.
RD’s “our region” is the New York metropolitan area where there are many communities in fairly close proximity. It’s possible to use a mikvah in a nearby community.
SecularFrummy, it’s my understanding that the vast majority of commercial eggs come from farms where there’s no rooster in sight. Perforce (as Artscroll would say), the eggs aren’t fertilized.
Oomis, a cow’s egg is fleishig, but it’s too small to bother eating it.
When and where I grew up, there was an OU member congregation with mixed seating in the sanctuary (this shul also had a pre-selichos dance, strange to say). I found an article from 2005 about an OU shul in Denver that was the last holdout. According to the article, the OU had been trying to “convert” their remaining mixed seating members since the 1980s.
“Is it bigger than a breadbox?”
Jfem, I’d go to the shalom zachor except being British, they’ll serve warm beer.
It seems to me that the best way to buy trustworthy STAM is to ask your Rav to recommend a sofer.
Teaching is not exactly a low stress job. Have you considered becoming a shepherd? Unless there are wolves around, it’s pretty low stress. It gives you plenty of time to learn Torah — think of the Avos.
Onion soup mix?! Mustard?! Sacrilege!
Getty, the guy whose kidnappers cut off his ear? Or is this some gas station somewhere in the world (after all, there are hills all over the place)? Come to think of it, it’s appropriate that a gas station sells cholent.
But you might be alone in the stairwell with a strange woman. Best advice is to stay home.
In their coverage of the spelling bee, the press reported that it was a German word. Chutzpah!
As the Southerner who had the delusion that he was a mixture of apples, nuts, wine, etc. said, “Ahm charoses.”
I’ve seen products that are labeled parve but have an allergen warning saying that they’re made in a plant that uses milk ingredients (or maybe even “may contain traces of milk”). So I don’t think labeling something OUD has anything to do with protecting the company from lawsuits over allergic reactions. I’d be very surprised if a manufacturer told the OU to label something OUD if it wasn’t at least DE.
Decrying bitul torah … in the CR? Kind of ironic.
RD, if you check out the Kashrus Magazine annual list of hashgachas, you’ll find several that are identified as traditional or conservative.
Dash, thanks for the expertise, but to pick a nit, it’s O’Dell’s Supur-Kist Two, available on Amazon for 18.99 a gallon. In the photo on the Amazon website, there’s an OV (Vaad of St. Louis, I believe) on the lower left corner.
Dash, thanks for the expertise, but to pick a nit, it’s O’Dell’s Supur-Kist Two, available on Amazon for 18.99 a gallon. In the photo on the Amazon website, there’s an OV (Vaad of St. Louis, I believe) on the lower left corner.
Ben Franklin knew how to generate electricity? Or did his contraption only work when it was hit by lightning (in which case the flies would have been the least of his worries)?
There are frum people who work in Catholic schools. I know a frum woman who did P3 tutoring in the morning in Catholic schools and in the afternoon in Jewish schools. Guess which kids were better behaved?
I suspect there are frum teachers who actually work for Catholic schools. Obviously, they don’t teach religion, but math is math.
I know of a girl from a MO background who was hired by a BY day camp. She dressed and acted appropriately. Some of her campers eavesdropped on a conversation she was having with another staff member in which she mentioned movies. From that time on, her campers (little BY girls, maybe 1st or 2nd graders) tormented her, calling her all kinds of nasty names, making her cry.
Rabbi Aviner is talking about the situation in Eretz Yisrael. In the United States, there are people who use the title Rabbi who are not well-versed in halacha (and in fact, there are “rabbis” who don’t really believe in halacha). So when he says “If the consumer does not know that rabbi, he should check it out,” kal v’chomer in America.
All recent PCs have DVD drives, so you can watch it on your PC.
Toi is correct. It’s more likely that Tel Aviv will allow stores to open on Shabbos altogether than that they’ll increase the fine to a level that would hurt the big stores.
WIY, I find it disturbs me when others daven loudly. Perhaps when those around you daven more loudly, it’s so they can hear themselves over your voice.
The program is almost 50 years old. The form of a question shtick is just that — to differentiate it from other quiz shows.
I used to vanpool with a guy who had been on Jeopardy back in the Art Fleming days (no, Alex Trebek has not been on forever). My friend won the first day, but then bet the whole amount in Final Jeopardy on the second day and ended up losing. The question was something about Bette Davis.
RD, the difference between you and the high school girl who was the OP is that you participated because you were interested and enjoyed performing. As the OP said, many girls are not particularly talented in the ways that are useful in putting on a play, whether it’s singing, dancing, acting, working on sets, or whatever. It’s also a huge time sink. According to my wife, who has seen a few productions, they’re extremely long and not very good.