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  • in reply to: Being asked if you're dressed up for Halloween #1189103
    Joseph
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    If Yidden are expected to give candy on halloween on the basis of being neighborly in a pluralistic nation, on the same token we should only expect to start doing so after goyim start giving us kosher mishloach manos every purim.

    in reply to: Wikileaks and Rabbeinu Gershom #1189136
    Joseph
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    Rabbeinu Gershom’s takanas are only applicable to Ashkenazim.

    in reply to: Wikileaks and Rabbeinu Gershom #1189132
    Joseph
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    YY: If someone regularly drives in public on Shabbos or regularly eats cheeseburgers and non-kosher without shame, he’s publicly known to be not frum.

    in reply to: Wikileaks and Rabbeinu Gershom #1189131
    Joseph
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    “lightbrite

    Member

    No one cares that DaasYochid has more than one wife?

    Posted 13 hours ago #”

    No, it’s his business; why would anyone be bothered that he follows his minhagim? Perhaps he Teimani (or Sephardic) and that’s his minhag. We wouldn’t care if he’s Sephardic and eats kitniyos on Pesach either.

    in reply to: Wikileaks and Rabbeinu Gershom #1189129
    Joseph
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    See Sh”utz Oz Nidviru 14:60,69.

    in reply to: Wikileaks and Rabbeinu Gershom #1189128
    Joseph
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    YY: Correct. If someone drives on Shabbos he isn’t frum and isn’t protected from being spoken l”h about.

    in reply to: To Redd or not to Redd? #1188723
    Joseph
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    lilmod, the OP asked about shadchanim too. Shadchanim should be redting appropriate shidduchim to Yidden who have emotional or mental health issues that wish to get married.

    in reply to: To Redd or not to Redd? #1188717
    Joseph
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    If a person wants to get married a third-party shouldn’t be taking it upon themselves to decide the person who wants to get married shouldn’t.

    in reply to: Limericks! #1221881
    Joseph
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    limerick ahein

    limerick aherr

    if I knew how to make ’em, I’d have a good career

    in reply to: To Redd or not to Redd? #1188715
    Joseph
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    People with emotional or mental health problems need (and have a chiyuv) to get married. You wouldn’t try to stop someone with physical health problems from getting married and nor should you here.

    in reply to: ruint a shidduch #1188481
    Joseph
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    lightbrite: older singles.

    in reply to: Vort presents #1188449
    Joseph
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    None.

    in reply to: This week's parsha (noah) and kiruv #1188367
    Joseph
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    bump

    in reply to: Wikileaks and Rabbeinu Gershom #1189118
    Joseph
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    Wikileaks publishes classified government documents and files. Additionally non-frum Jews aren’t protected as frum Jews are by Jewish law. For many protections they fall under the same category as gentiles.

    in reply to: Wikileaks and Rabbeinu Gershom #1189115
    Joseph
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    Governments aren’t Jewish, let alone frum Jews.

    in reply to: Being asked if you're dressed up for Halloween #1189090
    Joseph
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    Welcome back minyan gal!

    in reply to: Being asked if you're dressed up for Halloween #1189086
    Joseph
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    I (in frum America) wouldn’t have known it’s Halloween season if not for reading that fact here.

    in reply to: Wikileaks and Rabbeinu Gershom #1189111
    Joseph
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    1) R”G only is applicable for Ashkenazim.

    2) Even for Ashkenazim R”G doesn’t apply to activities of gentiles.

    in reply to: There Is No Eruv In Flatbush / Marine Park! #1188293
    Joseph
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    The Vaad of Flatbush used to run the old eruv. Do they still? The new eruv was supervised by a rabbi in Monsey.

    in reply to: Being asked if you're dressed up for Halloween #1189073
    Joseph
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    Say “I am a Jew!”

    in reply to: There Is No Eruv In Flatbush / Marine Park! #1188282
    Joseph
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    Wasn’t their two purported eiruvs, one highly contested from 50 years ago by the MO community and a second highly contested one built about 16 years ago that is similar to the one in BP?

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189871
    Joseph
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    Thank You lilmod.

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189869
    Joseph
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    gofish, that is your view based on your previously stated change in worldview to one of modern orthodoxy and your stated rejection and repulsion of traditional (chareidi) orthodoxy. Nothing I cited from Chazal can be objectively construed as offensive or misrepresentive. Indeed, it is important to note that not even once have you challenged any of the Mamrei Chazal I quoted or even purported to point out what allegedly is misrepresentive about any of them or otherwise even attempted to counter them with any alternative explanation that purportedly rejects any other explanation I might have posted.

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189864
    Joseph
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    mod in bold: disagreed.

    tis your prerogative

    in reply to: Which? #1188860
    Joseph
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    LF, is there a reason you put “minhag” in quotation marks (i.e. as what is sometimes referred to as scare quotes, if you disagree with its description) or you simply meant something else?

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189863
    Joseph
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    lilmod, you’re quotation of my post is an accurate reflection of my intent (as well as effect, imho.) And not to put down c’v, merely to counter the popular but inaccurate narrative.

    gofish, once again your comment does not remotely reflect any accurate description of my posts.

    although it accurately reflects the way most people read them

    Joseph
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    How long were you dating him?

    in reply to: Which? #1188858
    Joseph
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    Yes.

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189849
    Joseph
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    lilmod, her question is based on a false premise and is a canard. Additionally, today’s society in the secular world, and to an extent it has creeped in among some who call themselves frum, operates under the false assumption that there is little or no differences between the abilities and natural functions and duties of men and women. Quoting the various citations from Tanach, Mamrei Chazal, Rishonim and Achronim disabuses that popular notion.

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189841
    Joseph
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    I’ll note that that is a comment from someone who just days ago questioned the need to be frum because she disagreed with Chazal’s statements, gofish.

    in reply to: Which? #1188856
    Joseph
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    So you’re standing opposed to an old Minhag tznius amongst Yidden?

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189837
    Joseph
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    gofish, Jewish men have been (by necessity) literate throughout the ages of Jewish history.

    Regarding the rest of your comment, see:

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/womens-bina-yeseira

    in reply to: Which? #1188851
    Joseph
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    Herr Nur (Yiddish) basically translates to “Listen Up”. It avoids any semblance of calling one’s spouse in public in any affectionate manner.

    in reply to: Starbucks kosher? #1188792
    Joseph
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    Is there reason to think that an uncertified Dunkin Donuts (or any random coffee shop) washes its coffee equipment in a better manner, from a kashrus perspective, than Starbucks? Or must they all be avoided, l’chatchila, for even black coffee?

    in reply to: Which? #1188848
    Joseph
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    lightbrite: “herr nur”.

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189828
    Joseph
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    What do goyim do in gan eden? (Those that get in.)

    in reply to: Staying happy as an older single #1187948
    Joseph
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    A person must be *at least* as focused on finding themselves a shidduch as they are focused on finding themselves a job, career, education, wealth, nice home, friends, socializing, vacations, entertainment, etcetera.

    in reply to: Starbucks kosher? #1188787
    Joseph
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    Apparently a non-kosher certified Dunkin Donuts is thus better from a kashrus perspective, since they don’t prepare meat, than a Starbucks.

    in reply to: Starbucks kosher? #1188785
    Joseph
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    The maskama is that now virtually all Starbucks locations are treif even for plain coffee since they virtually all now prepare treif meat on location?

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189821
    Joseph
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    If she had multiple gilguls, did she go to her husband from her first lifetime or her last lifetime?

    in reply to: Why Was Woman Created? #1188065
    Joseph
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    “There are a few ????s about the purpose of women. Definitely not for power [see ???? ????? about why women are not for power and lessons from ????? and ?????]. One ???? says ??? ??? ??? ????? – for ornamental purposes. Another ???? says ??? ??? ??? ????? – to have kids. There is also a gemoro quoted a lot in the ??????? – i think the ???? is ??? ??? ??? ?????? – it means a woman is for her sewing. In short: In order so that the man can live an easy life!!!”

    Yekke2: Yasher Koach. Do you have the maare mekomos for the Gemorahs that you cited?

    in reply to: What do women do in Gan Eden? #1189812
    Joseph
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    They support their husbands and sons in the Bais Medrash shel Gan Eden and listen to the Kol Torah and shiurim emanating from the men’s Talmud Torah.

    in reply to: Chofetz Chaim boys #1187697
    Joseph
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    “chofetz chaim believes in harbutzus torah the way the other yeshivas do not and that means that many, many, of them end up in remote locations spreading judiasm.”

    So is CC kind of like the Litvish Lubavitch?

    in reply to: Which? #1188844
    Joseph
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    lilmod, there is an inyan among many frum families where a husband will not call his wife by her name when non-family are present.

    in reply to: U'shmartem es nafshosaichem #1188099
    Joseph
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    Cut it out!

    in reply to: Which? #1188840
    Joseph
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    “The Cook”, “The Baker”. 😉

    in reply to: Animals have it better in zoos #1187667
    Joseph
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    Animals were created to serve humanity.

    in reply to: Which? #1188838
    Joseph
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    Officer (police, etc.)

    Sergeant, Lieutenant, etc. of a police force or military. General.

    in reply to: Which? #1188836
    Joseph
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    President and Vice President (of a corporation or a country.)

    Chairman.

    in reply to: Which? #1188835
    Joseph
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    Cook and Baker.

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