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Satmar’s mesora dates from the Yismach Moshe and much earlier.

What time can I see you in the meat section?

Boro Park and Williamsburg are from the safest neighborhoods in NYC. And NYC is said to be the safest big city in the US.

The vast majority of the anti-Semitic crimes are yelling or property crimes that involve no assault.

Reb Eliezer, You’re not paying extra for the guaranteed Shabbos delivery if you have Amazon Prime, as the express shipping is included for free.

But if you order from Amazon on Friday with Amazon guaranteeing overnight delivery (or guaranteeing two-day delivery for a Thursday order), you know in advance that they are guaranteeing delivery on Shabbos.

Gadol: So start reexamining and changing. That’s a serious point. In Eretz Yisroel many don’t even use municipal electricity on Shabbos.

That’s usually the case with food products returned at chain stores; they’ll dump the food even if it was unopened. Opened non-food items will generally be monetized (i.e. selling it in bulk) for whatever reduced value the return has.

There’s a ton of information online describing how to manage healthily on a $3 per day, per person food budget. Some use a somewhat smaller or slightly larger budget. As these are written for the secular world it obviously doesn’t account for kosher pricing or Shabbos but it may still be useful as a guide.

The main staples used are eggs, dry rice, dry beans, on-sale fresh produce, whole chickens, ground turkey, pasta and tomato sauce, and bulk spices.

It assumes you have a slow cooker, rice cooker, and reusable containers (for leftovers.)

It is recommended that you buy on sale, use coupons, shop different stores with lower prices and use leftovers.

How do you explain that people don’t send mail on Erev Shabbos?

There’s a Halacha that you cannot mail a letter on Erev Shabbos since it will be on Shabbos. This principle applies here to. If it is obvious the package will be on Shabbos, you cannot initiate that action before Shabbos.

Many groceries, supermarkets and bakery shops give away their leftovers that they will no longer sell to neighborhood distribution points where anyone can take what they need at no cost.

cherrybim: What do you mean by if it is my view? Please explain your understanding of the meaning of “צריך אדם להתרחק מהנשים מאד מאד”.

CTL, do you still serve rib steak as many times a week as when my family was at the compound?

I’ll bet ZeesKite might be on your team.

If your family is a heavy meat eater or a frequent Pomegranate/Gourmet Glatt/Breadberry shopper, it may explain some of the heavy spending described here.

David: The fact that women dress far more immodestly nowadays means even moreso to follow the Halacha in the Shulchan Aruch to stay far away from women. Your boich svara limitation of a clear-cut Shulchan Aruch doesn’t hold water when that limitation is against what the Mechaber actually says in his psak.

Calling you out wasn’t easy but rest assured that I haven’t sent my goodbyes to you.

SL: You’re bringing in a bunch of extraneous points irrelevant (and not part of the question or described scenario) to the primary issue of your unreasonable insistence that someone purchase a second empty seat when you don’t insist the same if the seat change request rather than to sit next to the same gender is instead to sit away from a cranky child, sit next to a family member seated elsewhere or to sit closer to the exit to quicker catch a connecting flight.

A seat change request to sit next to a family member, someone of the same gender or away from a cranky child is a normal everyday occurrence in every airport that is equally unobjectionable regardless of any of the aforementioned underlying reasons the customer is making the request.

Yes, I agree you should smile to your neighbors. But that hasn’t to do with the question here.

SL: Why are you militantly against a Torah Jew trying to best adhere to Shulchan Aruch EH 21:1 with a seat change request but are okay with a goy making a seat change request to sit next to a family member, away from a baby or closer to the exit to quickly make his next flight?

You’ve never demanded that the aforementioned gentile purchase a second seat. Is that demand only reserved for a poor Jew borrowing money for one seat to go to do a mitzvah such as Kibud Av V’Eim or burying a relative?

Michael: Kibud Av V’Eim is mdoraisa and visiting one’s parents is halachicly required. There are various times and situations where flying is absolutely necessary and even halachicly mandated.

And requesting the same courtesy seat change as other flyers, both gentiles and Jews, do is completely realistic.

cherrybim: How do you realistically suppose the best way is to insure one does not get squeezed next to a woman on a 12 hour flight in order to remain in best compliance with S”A EH 21:1?

I think the most practical methodology would be to use the same courtesy request someone needing to ask for a seat change to sit next to a family member placed elsewhere on the airplane or someone unable to sit next to the baby or needing to be closer to the exit to quickly catch a connecting flight.

Last minute seat change requests are a common and accepted possibility.

In NY as far as all the many Yeshivos I know, they all provide lunch to all students. There’s no system or checking whether they’re enrolled in lunch. The same lunch is made available to all students regardless.

Syag: Yeshiva school lunches is optional?

The English term for a non-halachic Jew is a gentile.

CA: See my post immediately following the one you quoted, verbatim quoting S”A EH 21:1.