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I’m bothered by it. But I recognize that there’s little I can do. So I try my best. Most of my browsing is on incognito mode. I don’t use my real name on any social media. I buy from a variety of online and brick+mortar retailers. I never use store credit cards.
Basically, as long as you’re happy living like it’s 1998, you have nothing to worry about.
If they don’t immediately identify the tzedaka in the first few seconds of the call, they are breaking consumer telecommunications protection law and subject to a federal fine. There is no issue of mesira on a Jew breaking the law that causes tircha to another Jew.
New topics are infrequent enough that they all end up on the front page anyway. I never check the specific topics.
I cannot possibly agree more. The price is outrageous and completely unaffordable for most people. American seminaries are just as good, if not better, than Eretz Yisroel. Girls who want the “experience” should instead opt for a one month summer program with a shared rented dira nearby.
They take $25,000 of your money and can’t even be bothered to house and feed you for Shabbos.
Yes. As an 8th grade Rebbi in the school I went to once said “Black shoes must be black like a RACIST_EXPLETIVE_DELETED with a closed mouth”
@DaasYochid I agree. @1 is probably trolling, but I’ve heard people express similar sentiments in real life. Every one of those was just hiding their self-doubts behind mockery and derision. Pretty sure the RAMCHAL talks about that somewhere.
Professor Quirrel may have something to say to the Great Hall about something in the dungeon.
What a pretentious and offensive question. Don’t you feel like your life would be better off supporting a family and sacrificing your precious spare time for some Mussar or Limud instead of being all smug and self-righteous on the Internet?
@Joseph I know you’re just trolling, but I happen to agree with you. As recently as ten years ago asking for a picture was frowned upon. Recently it’s become expected.
As for everyone talking about “can’t marry without looking” what do you think the shidduch dates are about? Are you supposed to glance at a photo then date with a blindfold around your eyes?
In my opinion pictures are stupid and serve zero purpose. But this is the way the world works, thanks to increasingly ridiculous demands (mostly from the parents of people in shidduchim, and the shadchanim capitulating on said demands).
But if you really want to do pictures, there has to be an agreement with the shadchan that both parties will receive each others picture. Otherwise it’s just prust and arrogant to ask.
First part of my last post was really confusing as YWN keeps changing “two dots” + “close parenthesis” to π. The original “emoji” was a : followed by a ).
- What does the ‘S’ in Harry S. Truman stand for?
- How many hours of sleep does the Mashkiach reccomend for the bachurim?
- How expired does your registration have to be before you get pulled over?
- What is the state of CR?
- How hot does your mother have to be before she lets you out of the house without a jacket?
- Who wrote the Constitution of the United States?
- What is the name of the gnome who lives in the big mushroom in my backyard?
- Who is the current head mod of CR?
- Why do people say Chava ate an apple?
- A user on Usenet invented π when he wanted to clarify that his sentence was sarcastic. That’s accepted to be the origin of the emoticon, but it’s not technically an emoticon. In the 1990s, messaging software started automatically changing π and π into π and βΉ. Later, features started to become standard where the user can insert a “face icon” into their text, but that was limited to the application used for the message and non-standard. Japanese tech companies in the 2000s went a little overboard with these icons and started added tons of them into their custom messaging applications. When the Unicode Consortium sought to standardize international character sets, so that every device can read a webpage in any language without having to install specialized fonts, the asked each county to submit a set of characters in their native language. Japan sort of raised their hand “Um… we’ve got a standard pictographical alphabet, phonetical alphabet, ancient alphabet, and this thing with pictures that the kids are really into that we call ’emoji’ “. The Consortium was like, “K”, and that’s how we got emojis! π€‘πΎπβπ π§π¦½π€ΉπΉπ₯πππ
Professor Quirrell anything to add to this? Maybe something you want to shout in the Great Hall before fainting?
DO NOT LISTEN TO @DaasYochid. Any printer (and I emphasis any) that costs under $100 is simply not worth it. Those are ink-based printers whose cartridges only last 100 or so pages and cost about $50. You’re not buying a printer, you’re signing up to a subscription service for printer ink.
Get a laser, preferably Brother, and expect to spend at least $200 up front. $300 if you want the all-in-one.
continues munching popcornNah. They are usually eight to ten feet tall, grey mottled skin, covered in warts, live under a bridge, and constantly say things like “Rachmono litzlon! A REAL frum Yid would never have a smart phone!!!!!!”
…he says while typing his words on a device with systems invented by IBM, one of the biggest supporters of the Concentration Camps.
Anyone remember how Mincha-Maariv would start right before shkiya, then take a ten minute break (during which the Rov will usually give a shmuez) followed by Maariv after tzeis?
Breuers I believe was the first American shul to start relying on kulos and doing Ma’ariv right after Mincha. I believe everyone else started when half of Monsey would pack into KAJ every evening.
What is the name of this study and do you honestly think this one faulty study negates hundreds of valid studies that show the same thing?
@AvrohomAdler if you’re asking an Internet forum, you shouldn’t be doing it. Whatever question you have, you’re better off asking a Rov. If the Rov holds that a Goirel is the way to go, he will do it himself.
If you live in a place where snow stays around all winter long, sunscreen is an absolute necessity. The worst burns I’ve gotten were when I went skiing for a few days.
Ok, I’m going to have my fun for tonight, then watch these fireworks for another few weeks.
- “Thousands of parents report autism after vaccination”: Already shlugged up dozens of times in this thread. Diagnosis and symptoms for autism happen around the same time that kids get their first shots. That’s why you need scientific double-blind studies. Which there were. And they showed zero correlation.
- “Autism rates went to 1:10”: Shlugged up time and again. We simply got better at diagnosing autism instead of declaring everyone retarded or slow
- “Hundreds of studies” No there aren’t. You claim that that there’s a list of hundreds of studies, but the only list any of us found contained hundreds of studies that did not show a link between vaccines and autism. I even provided an article that debunked the studies one at a time, but you waved your hands and dismissed it because (and I quote) “The guy who wrote it is a doctor and can’t be trusted”.
- “CDC never did a comparison study”: Yes they did. You just have a very narrow criteria (based on your vast knowledge of science and years of dedicated study, no doubt) of what you expect a comparison study to be and the CDC never hit that.
- “Fraudulent CDC studies”: Only a small handful out of many many other studies. Not enough to even cast a shadow on the research. And in the worst offenders, the fraud was monetary and didn’t affect the actual data or research (the Danish Study).
- “Unvaxxed kids have less autism”: There’s one study that people claim shows this, but you’re simply misinterpreting the results. Have you ever done what I suggested and emailed the authors to see if they recommend vaccinating? The results may shock you.
Oh hey! This is still going on!
plops down in the dugout and grabs a bag of popcorn
A real conspiracy theory? Hillary Clinton bought votes to get elected senator in 2001. There were three people in jail for defrauding the government out of quite a bit of money. Hillary went to campaign in their small, near-insignificant, hometown and spoke with the guy in charge behind closed doors. Very little was said about what was discussed, and the town overwhelmingly voted for her. Several months later, her husband stepped down from the position of President and among the dozens of pardons were three men in prison for fraud.
@Joseph But I believe it was the RAMA who says it’s not. I’ve heard a shitta that it depends on how you interpret the concept of “Trinity” and how the particular Christians in your day, place, and age consider it. Christians that the RAMBAM was familiar with mamish worshiped a man as a god. Other Christians (and Muslims) treated him as a prophet.
@Health Narischkeit. Planned Parenthood and other places of its ilk is an absolute necessity in America where poor people have limited access to pregnancy and birth control education and care. No federal funds go towards abortions by law. The wall costs 5 billion, the amount in the Planned Parenthood federal budget was 500 million, or about 10% of what the wall would cost.
And I have no doubt that the wall can be effective in small areas, but that’s only because they have less secure areas they can cross into. If the wall would cover the entire border, I highly doubt you would see much difference. Better funding of US border patrol agencies and local PD along with more incentives for private companies to hire citizens and legal workers costs a lot less than five billion dollars and will go much further than a wall.
- It is ridiculously expensive and that money can be put to far better use
- It is very unlikely to do anything to effectively stop the flow of illegal immigrants
It’s a machlokes Rishonim if Christianity is A”Z or not. Last I checked, Rabbonim have absolutely no problem voting for Christians. Why should a Hindu be different?
@Takes3tomakemangos I was under the impression that Good Old Games was GoG…
About equally reliable as Rabbi Wikipedia and slightly less reliable as Rabbi Mi Yodeya.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but having an easily accessible internet connected device on at all times is just a Really Bad Idea.
As soon as I can be guaranteed that I can live in Eretz Yisroel and not be forced into an incredibly polarized society I will do so. Right now with standard Yeshivish hashkofos, you’re either signing up for a lifetime of Kollel and poverty, or putting on a knitted kippa and joining the army.
The “better supervision” for a Blooms label on Hershey candy is a myth. All they do is pay for a run of the candy and make sure that the mashkiach’s process is one that they are comfortable with. Most of the time the mashkiach doesn’t even know that he’s watching for a heimishe hechsher instead of OU or OK.
@Joseph Just looked up the Nitei Gavriel after shacharis. You are correct (and you got about 95% of your comments and ma’arei mekomos from his extensive footnotes). He is very clear, though, that it’s almost exclusively a Chassidishe minhag and only in Chutz La’aretz. So there’s a good reason why most people today don’t hold of it.
Also, although he doesn’t say it outright, he seems to imply that there’s no known reason for the minhag, just a lot of possibilities brought down by various poskim, and it’s just ΧΧ ΧΧ ΧΧ©Χ¨ΧΧ ΧͺΧΧ¨Χ. That’s enough to not criticize Chassidim for not learning, but still a very shakey thing to have to rely on. So I guess that unless you’re from a Nusach Sefard family, don’t use a metal object to cut your beard and peyos, hold of exclusively Chassidishe shechita, and all the other Chassidishe chumros, there’s no real reason to be mevatel Torah on either night of Christmas.
I stand corrected.
However, I specified a living posek, as Nittle was a thing due to violence in Europe which is clearly not nogeya anymore. In that respect, it looks like the Nitei Gavriel is a bit of a da’as yachid. I’ve never heard of a Yeshiva shutting down for Christmas, so it’s up to you to bring up a ma’arei makom.
@Joseph Does he have it in writing as a psak halacha or did he just say it once in a private conversation?
He’s still outnumbered by the myriad of other poskim who hold that nittel nacht in this day and age is pure bittul Torah with no heter.
@Joseph Give me a posek alive today who states that it’s better to be mevatel than to learn on either nittel nacht.
@Eli51 is that in Iggros Moshe?
You are clearly talking to the wrong shadchanim and looking at the wrong girls. There are plenty of girls with hashkofos that aren’t inherently hypocritical like you are describing. Maybe check out people that live in the Hinterlands, AKA that foreign country some people refer to as Not New York Or New Jersey.
I trust them all unless I’m given a good reason not to. As far as I can tell, most mashkichim end up supervising under various different haskachos. Like how Blooms and Liebers slap a label on an OU bag of Twizzlers.
@Joseph What restrictions? Nittel is batul today because the reason of the minhag doesn’t exist anymore. Even according to those Rabbonim that slapped a semi-serious retroactive ta’am to it (killing the klipa, or whatever) it still doesn’t excuse bittul Torah. Second, unless you live in Russia or Egypt, where the Christians still hold of the Gregorian Calendar, there’s literally no reason to hold of nittel today. Yes Chabad, Breslov, and Satmar. I’m talking about you too.
@Freddyfish What do you mean “real studies”? What’s wrong with what I posted?
Lommerzuggen: think about it for a minute. Why should there be a nafka mina on how a person ingests the nicotine, whether it’s from vaping directly or second hand?
@FreddyFish (and Luther, who I assume is close by as always)
See the following:
- “Use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) impairs indoor air quality and increases FeNO levels of e-cigarette consumers” by Wolfgang Schober 2014 from the “International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health”
- “5 Truths You Need To Know About Vaping”, Dr. Michael Joseph Blaha, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Analysis of Secondhand E-Cigarette Emissions, RTI International (RTI.org)
B’kitzure, there’s little difference in inhaling vapors directly or second hand. Both are dangerous.
@holybrother What are you on? There’s definitely second-hand smoke with ENDS. And no one cares that it’s safER. We are talking about whether or not it’s safe, period. You’re comparing heroin to fentanyl and stating that heroin is “better”. Since it took the government too long to catch on, a lot of people who would have otherwise never smoked a cigarette are now addicted to nicotine thanks to ENDS. It’s fine for smokers who want to quit, but on that note it’s no better or worse than a nicotine patch. But for the rest of the world it’s just as bad.
@Joseph The fact that no one was willing to do so implies that there is sacrifice involved, despite the major obvious gains. Then there’s the obvious, there’s no established community, no kashrus, relatives and friends can only be visited by flying in, etc. But all it needs is one big Rosh Yeshiva, one Rav Uren Reich, one Rav Yisroel Neumann, one Rav Nosson Stein, to move out there with ten kollel yungerleit to get things started.
@Freddyfish The most popular E-Cig/vape brands contain nicotine by default. You actually have to go out of your way to find nicotine-free juice. The FDA classifies them as “ENDS” or “Electronic Nicotine Delivery System”. Nicotine has been linked to cancer and addiction. But if you want to vape the nicotine-free systems, gezunteh heit, but it’s pretty much the same as breathing in the smell of boiling a soft drink and there’s no studies as to whether or not it’s actually safe.
Why is this a question on LA and not NYC?
To go off on a tangent, I understand why frum organizations and families are hesitant to move away from big population areas, but imagine what it can do for klal Yisroel! In Wyoming, farinstens, there are tons of state funded programs for everything under the sun, from private schools to extra tax breaks for multiple children. Property is ridiculously cheap, a large family home costs less than a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush. And with remote jobs plus the low cost of living, it means that a young couple can actually (gasp!) save some money without reliance on their parents. The Kollel of Cheyenne should be a resounding success,but for some reason no Rosh Yeshiva wants to make the sacrifice.
Can we debate schnapps vs. beer instead?
It’s der tzelba zach. Nicotine is bad for you. Period.
Wait wait, @Freddyfish, was this Yid a Levi who wore a tallis before he got married? If he is who I think he is, I highly doubt he knows or cares.
Get back to finding your kelp seeds or investigating the haunted schoolhouse? I dunno.
@doomsday: You clearly have not read the links, or at least not understood them. Because if you have you wouldn’t keep making the same mistake over and over again confusing methylethyl mercury (Thimerisol) with ethylmercury (dangerous stuff that’s in old thermometers).