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I met the YW Editor and Popa bar abba

since when is Rubashkin Avoda Zara

https://www.change.org/p/chassidic-jewish-community-make-sholom-m-rubashkin-the-lubavitcher-rebbe-8

The third thing you need to do is run as fast as you can away from the resulting explosion

I dont understand the Oval office comparison.

IT works for children, but for grownups it falls flat.

1) If I went to the oval office I wouldnt wear a tallis and teffilin

2) IF I was there 3 times daily for as long as I can remember and for as long as I have left on this planet.

You can bet I wouldnt wear a jacket

3) In a formal setting (assuming it wasnt 3 times daily) I would wear a tie and suit not a jacket

1) Nowadays we don’t wear them all day, but if you were davening shachris in the Oval Office then I assume you wpuld.

2) The culture has changed nowadays, but there are still many people who wear suits and ties to work every day, why should davening be less important than that?

3) So you should preferably wear a tie and suit to davening. But since this isn’t practical, there is a lesser darga of at least wearing a jacket.

I encountered a new moderator today

Bump

Is Joseph a Jewish name?

Krias ksuba should be given to one who can read Aramaic fluently.

Or if you have an enemy who doesn’t read well and you think is a monkey and you want to embarrass him (or her) in public, you can give it to them.

Listening to a Naugahyde song would be an issue for a Jewish man because everyone knows that all naugha are female

I Davened maariv. Happy Erev Gimmel Tammuz (for those of us who don’t wait 72 minutes)

No. I was in the coffee room

This is not as pashut as many think. It is only if there is no other choice. I heard of a certain gadol who used to Daven shachris b’yichidus, eat breakfast and then join the Minyan for kedusha in order not to eat before davening.

Some Chasidim will l’chatchila eat before davening.

Daf Yomi is a good thing. Learning Torah is a better thing.

Mishna Brura is short and easy enough that it can be learned properly using a “Yomi” program. One who learns Halacha every day is a Ben Olam Habba

The sign on Starbucks says, “All dairy in this store is STAR-K certified Pride of the Farm Cholov Yisrael Milk, Half & Half, & Whipping Cream”. This is a Starbucks sign, not a Kashrus certificate. (based on picture from TLS)

Nowhere does it say that STAR-K is “overseeing a milk initiative”. I think the big issue nowadays is that people are not educated. All they know is that “my minhag is to keep CY”. They don’t know what this means practically when it comes to things like using open bottles in uncertified areas. All they know is that this is their minhag and it makes them frummer and better than everyone else.

Is anyone actually certifying this, or is this just relying on Starbuck’s word? It sounds from that JP quote that R’ Holland from STAR-K is putting his name on this statement which could be misleading.

You can come up with a svara that Starbucks wouldn’t lie. That the employees would theoretically get fired if they were caught, etc. Of course, svaras are a dime a dozen. The whole point of CY is not to rely on those types of svaras. Even those who do rely on R’ Moshe’s chalav stam psak can’t make up their own svaras. They have to have someone knowledgeable in halacha who can tell them when the svaras apply and when they don’t.

The classic theory of the “shidduch crisis” is that this year’s “class” has 100 girls and 90 boys, so 10 girls will be left out.

But we need to add defective people into the equation. So let’s make that 95 girls and 85 boyss, so same 10 girls left out. But popa_bar_abba says that more boys are defective than girls so it is really 95 girls and 80 boys so we just made the problem worse. There are now 15 girls left out.

So the obvious solution is to invent defects in the girls…

Try to say “squawking chicken in kitchen” ten times fast

Simcha Leiner and Nachas are also very nice.

It is because in today’s world, we are taught to multi-task which means that it is harder to focus on one thing. Reading inside takes more active participation which increases focus and makes you more immersed. Listening is a passive act in which you can be doing other things or spacing out while doing it so you aren’t as focused and immersed.

That is why Apple came out with giant iphones – so other people can see your screen and know that you are learning. Bishvil Yisrael she’yisasku b’Torah… 🙂

DY wote:

(or quietly check your cell phone)

Don’t.

Why not? Isn’t that just as important as learning?</sarcasm>

It all depends on the time and place. On Yom Kippur it is normal for some to take much longer and is therefore probably not yuhara. If the minyan is way to fast then it isn’t yuhara either. Either way, if one knows that he will likely be longer than others he should stand in the front so as not to block people in. If you know you will be faster, daven in the back so that you can take your 3 steps without disturbing others. But, wherever you are, daven to hashem, not to the people around you. And don’t talk. And silence your cell phone (even from vibrate). If the shliach tzibur/Rav takes longer than you, then chap some learning during your wait (or quietly check your cell phone). Don’t check cell phones or learn during chazaras hashatz.

I understand that many congregations say a prayer for Obama. Will they continue saying it for President Trump?

Lamb shwarma with steak fries.

Frum people in South Africa should own dogs for security purposes.