Sometimes there is a malicious intent.

However, many times there isn’t. For example, if I like the username yitayningwut and I already use it on a few different sites, and I come here and see someone already has it (because it’s such a common and sought after user name, right?) then I’ll call myself yitayningwat or yitayningwut1 etc. The example you have given is a name which most probably lots of people think of, hence the various versions of it.

BaalHabooze – My pleasure. I have never heard of a Yiddish word for hero, but I can’t say for sure.

Funny thing but I actually believe Peerimsameach.

I don’t think this was a troll thread, at least not to the extent it was taken.

Toi –

Nu nu. I don’t agree. One can get the same havanah by having the translation handed to them and toiling on a cheshbon in Tosafos, on the Beis Yosef Shach and Taz, on the Shmaytza and the Ketzos. I do not believe that struggling with teitsch is a necessary prerequisite for havanah. If it were, all of us who can read straight through a Gemara without an Artscroll but without a struggle would have a problem.

If what you say is true it is abhorrent.

For the school to brush it off saying “their kids should learn to expect it and be less “thin skinned” is a complete lack of sensitivity and very wrong.

One thing I will tell you though is to be pragmatic. No, do not tire of fighting to change the system so that such harassment not be tolerated. It absolutely must not be. But all the while keep in mind that kids will always be kids, and there will always be a kid who makes fun of the fat kid, or the short kid, the weak kid, or in your case, the black kid. It is a terrible thing, but it is a sad fact of life.

Shticky Guy –

Lol, I’ll try to remember. 12:34 5-6-78 should be here sooner.

Aha… So according to my cheshbon there should be four times!

A spouse. I’ve always wondered, shouldn’t the plural for spouse be spice? Mouse, mice; louse, lice; house, hice… oh wait it doesn’t work.

OneOfMany –

Toi –

So it didn’t work for you. Doesn’t mean it won’t work for anyone else. It certainly doesn’t prove that the whole thing is a shtus.

The tree falling in the forest isn’t a scientific question, but a philosophical one. Is there such thing as the world as it is or are there just our perceptions of it?

If indeed it is just as big of a miracle to bring someone from a coma back to life, as it is from death back to life, it is because in essence there is no coma, there is no death, and there is no life. There is only our perception of it. For that matter, there is only my perception of it. Whatever “I” am.

But I generally do not live with this assumption, and therefore I assume there is a “you,” and I assume you don’t either live with this assumption. Which means that I live assuming – at least on some level – that things are real. Ultimately this means that healing someone from a coma is less of a miracle than bringing him back to life.

RSRH –

Your point is taken about the ship having sailed. I can hear that from a historical perspective. Personally I do not think that it is an acceptable notion, as the Gemara says: ???? ????? ?? ?????? ?????? ?? ?? ??? ???? ????? ?? ????? ?????? ?? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ??? ???? ???? ?????? ???? ????? ?? ??? ??????? ???? ????? ?? ??? ??????? ????. But I can understand the social dynamics and that this is how it is not inherently hypocritical to look at the CJLS as beyond the pale while looking past questionable p’sakim of an Orthodox group. Thank you.

However, I do not agree with your assertion of there being many truths. There is one truth and one halacha. “?’ ???? ?????” is an esoteric concept that is not relevant (I will elaborate in the forthcoming paragraph). The proof is in the fact that anyone ever argued over a halacha. How is it possible to argue when there are no premises? Obviously there is a shared premise, when arguing, that we both accept that reason will carry the day, and that reason will yield one answer. Otherwise everyone should always just agree to disagree, which I think is ludicrous.*

There is a concept in halacha that ??? ???? ???? ??-??? ????. It does not contradict what I am saying. There are indeed many ways to interpret the Torah and this statement says that when Hashem gave the Torah he intended all of these interpretations. Therefore when R’ Eliezer says one thing and R’ Yehoshua says another, they are both true, because they are both possible ways of interpreting the Torah. However, it is the hands of the Sanhedrin to pass one interpretation into law and reject another one, and the accepted one becomes – by default – the only halachic truth. This was the point of the Chachamim in the famous story of ???? ?? ?????. At any rate, the statement ??? ???? ???? ??-??? ???? does not, in my opinion, vindicate what seems to be your idea of pluralism in any way. It only says that on the level of ???? ????? ??? various interpretations can be “true.” But we have one halacha, as ???? ?? ????? ???. And as such, if someone today were to pasken like R’ Eliezer in the above situation, we would scream and yell and call him a liar and a ????? ?? ?????.

There is no such thing as halachic pluralism. When there is a machlokes Rashi and Tosafos; Rambam and Ra’avad; Shach and Taz; or R’ Moshe and R’ Yaakov, one is right and one is wrong. End of story. You have a right to consistently follow someone who is a big person, and if he made a mistake – ?? ???? ???? ?????? ????. But the fact remains – in my opinion – there is only one true halacha.

[By the way, I happen to believe that a few of the things you seem to hold as a davar pashut to be assur, are not, but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.]

*You are in a sticky situation here. Because if you do not agree with me you cannot prove your point. If you attempt to prove your point, you will be demonstrating that you agree that there is one truth, because if not, any “proof” is moot.

🙂

I believe it might be dependent on whether you follow minhagei Ashkenaz or Sefard.

My rebbi once explained this to me as the reason some say hagefen and some hagafen. ???”?.

I heard a different girsa:

What’s the difference between a yeshiva bachur and a cell phone?

They both have free unlimited nights and weekends, but the yeshiva bachur doesn’t have a plan!

Yes! Thanks for volunteering to take care of it.

My account number is 186 223 7154 and my PIN is 2775.

Let me know what happens!

By the way, there is about $75,000 in the account so please, please make sure you don’t give out this information.

http://kosherstarbucks.com/

They have three kosher lists which vary according to different kashrus standards. I use the kosher ingredients list.

I agree with the OP.

If someone would normally refrain from conversing with the opposite gender, here should be no different.

I may not know that someone is indeed what they claim to be, but the fact remains that for whatever reason, rational or not, I assume that the posters are generally not lying about these details. And I do not believe I am the only one. That is why I think the (rhetorical) point that a poster might be a turtle or a horse is stupid.

The fact remains that I believe that to a certain extent I “know” some posters here. I might be fooling myself, but that’s how I feel. And do not tell me no one else has this feeling.

Someone who, on principle, normally refrains from talking to someone of the opposite gender has an inhibition. “Knowing” a person of the opposite gender, even via this medium, lowers that inhibition a little bit. It is a violation of such a person’s principles.

I answered that question.

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That’s stupid. I don’t believe you’re a horse or a turtle.

Kids who are just learning how to learn need to be allowed to let their mind roam free in order that they figure out how to learn.

If you would teach kids Gemara that is more geared “aliva d’hilchisa” you would have one of two problems: 1) You would limit their creative thinking skills due to inhibitions they would have about saying a shtickel that produces a halacha contrary to what they do all the time, or 2) You would have tenth grade shnuks making up halachos and doing things wrong.

In order to preclude both of these problems, and because Nashim/Nezikin does happen to have a lot of lomdus in in as many posters have already pointed out, it is worthwhile to stay out of “aliva d’hilchisa” sugyas until ones learning skills are honed and one truly “knows how to learn.”

That being said, I do think that a guy who really does know how to learn and has been sitting in yeshiva for ten years is wasting his time sticking to the “yeshiva masechtos.”

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/should-i-donate-my-kidney

Are you saying that they never made money on their albums since they dont do weddings?

Yup. Although they did make concerts. Miami has always been making concerts. Moreover, if I’m not mistaken you need to pay to be in Miami in order to cover expenses. (What other choirs were there? Tzlil V’zemer? London?)

When making an album there are a million factors. You need to pay for hundreds of studio hours. You need to pay musicians. You need a producer, an arranger, a distributor, and so on, and each one takes a hefty fee or percentage. Selling a few thousand albums barely covers your expenses, if you are lucky. And any profit goes mostly to other people. It’s a fact, ask people in the business, you don’t make money on albums – unless you somehow beat the aforementioned system (like a guy like Eli Gerstner who has his own studio and is capable of arranging and producing it all himself) – but that would be an exception to the rule. The reason people put out albums is for name recognition, period.

The overload doesn’t stop people from recognizing real talent. All it does is raise the bar. I really don’t think this is a bad thing.