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I will reveal the secret but you have to promise not to tell: at the asifa, the Rebbe shlita will reveal himself as Moshiach (shhhh)
A Ben Torah should dress like a mentch, wear your jacket liek a normal human being. Would you go in front of a King wearing your jacket over your shoulders? (It used to be that we would ask, “Would you go in front of the President of the US like that” but nowadays the answer is sometimes “yes”, we have lost the idea of a real king and what it means to be respectful in this age of Gaavah)
My opinion: It used to be kids with ADHD would cause a bit of trouble for their parents and teachers but they mostly turned out OK and ended up being the life of the party in camps etc. Now they over-medicate them, thus stunting their natural personality and making them feel that they can’t do things that really they could.
Wanna ride bikes?
If nobody copied music then I’m sure all new albums would have mp3 versions available immediately. The sad reality is that they can’t do this…
Sounds like a goyish custom.
I once had a Burger Buddy, does that count?
JKR once complained about fans using the nickname “Voldy”. She said something like it makes him sound like a big fluffy teddy bear and fans should realize that he is seriously evil and dangerous.
So I found it funny that she had Peeves use that term at the end:
We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter’s the one, And Voldy’s gone moldy, so now let’s have fun!”
to which Ron remarks:
Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn’t it?
I no longer know who all the mods are but I do agree that at least one of them (not including myself) is crazy – I might even go as far as to call him/her a retarded dolt.
(Yes, I enjoy acting like a two-year-old here in the CR – it seems to be contagious)
Back to the original discussion, Joseph is a boggart, he comes in many different screennames.
Jothar is a dementor instilling fear in people and making the CR a cold, dark place…
The way he saved the trio from the Death Eaters with his goat Patronus was pretty cool.
Squeak, at least he wasn’t a moiser… 🙂
Yes. He was definitely cool. Dumbledore called him admirable. The 2 people (other than Harry) who Dumbledore most admired were Aberforth and Snape who both mingled with Death Eaters for The Greater Good.
My patronus is a fire-breathing towel.
My boggart is Joseph.
My animagus form would be a niffler.
He did “inappropriate charms” on goats. Make what you want of that. Maybe he took out their spleens…
Out of town yeshivish, there are many such websites. Sawyouatsinai, frumster, the shadchan magazine, etc. Each works a little differently and has pros cons.
The problem is that not everybody is on these sites. If the Gedolim would pick one site and insist that everybody post their reusmes on it, that would be great but that won’t happen because “the Internet is assur”.
Also, these sites should be run by professional shadchanim and not allow every yenta to look through profiles. Otherwise you end up wasting a lot of people’s time. Would you go out with some random girl because some random person online who you have never met and the girl has never met thinks your profiles look compatible? Maybe if that was the only suggestion you got but if everyone is acting as shadchanim then you would probably be inundated with these random suggestions.
With the power of computers and the Internet this type of solution is possible if the gedolim would go for it… Of course, it is all in the hands of Hashem and we have to follow daas Torah.
Where did minyan gal go? She once posted that she’s a bas-kohein and therefore she gets the first aliya and doesn’t go to cemeteries.
True Logician, I have found Harry Potter to be a great series of Mussar seforim. If you want to work on zerizus just concentrate on “Destination, determination, deliberation”. For zehirus- “CONSTANT VIGILANCE!”
Aren’t Motzaei Shabbosim fun?
Baal HaBooze can be Mundungus.
Bar Shatya is the Weasley’s ghoul
😉
HaLeiVi – No soap radio.
OneOfMany – you are really Tonks, some days you look like Hermione, others you look like Ginny, others you look like a blast-ended-skrewt, depends on your mood that day.
those who are best suited to power are
those who have never sought it. Those
who have leadership thrust upon them,
and take up the mantle because they
must, and find to their own surprise that
will be a time when we must choose
Boca Raton – The Mouth of the Mouse!
Seems like smartcookie beat me to that one. How about Throgs Neck Bridge.
Villiamsburgh.
OneOfMany, Hermione is a troublemaker at heart too. She tries to be a goody goody but yet she breaks so many rules. One of the best parts was when she attacked Snape in the Shrieking Shack at the end of Book 3.
Popa is Horace Slughorn.
Joseph probably has a time-turner, that’s how he’s able to post under so many different screennames.
Feivel is Dumbledore.
more_2 is Mrs. Dursley.
Jothar is Filch.
HaLeiVi/RuffRuff is Sirius.
The Wolf is obviously Lupin.
Aries is McGonagal.
HaKatan is Flitwick.
And finally…
Shticky Guy is Harry Potter. I will humbly assume the position of Harry Potter myself if Shticky Guy refuses it, otherwise I’m Ron Chulda’ee.
True Yamoos, if you want your camp directed and counseled by Trolls.
The Goq can be Super-thread-bumper!!!!
Where are all the cynical comments about segulos?
Providing a picture is proper hishtadlus if it gives you a better chance of getting a first date. Supposedly there is a shidduch crisis out there. Perhaps we should make takanos that a girl can only give a picture to a boy who is within a certain age gap of her.
I think of popa as Gregory Goyle (definitely has some troll blood in him)
This mitzvah is diyoraisa and we say safek diyoraisa lichumra so here in the CR where we don’t know which posters are older, talmidei chachamim, or kohanim, we should be machmir and treat everyone with respect (except those who we know are dolts or retards)
NJ Toddler Booted From JetBlue Flight After Being Flagged ‘No-Fly’
They force Arabs off planes too.
http://www.thehalacha.com/attach/Volume3/Issue16.pdf
page 7 top paragraph
He doesn’t mention the Mishna Berura in his footnote so I assume its not brought down anywhere there. I looked in the Yad Yisroel and couldn’t find it
antikfira:
The Mishna Berura states l’hedya that the dinim of mourning do not apply on Lag BaOmer. He then clarifies that regarding haircuts specifically, one should wait until the morning, at which point the svara of miktzas hayom is applied. He does not mention this in regards to music at all. Therefore… one can listen to music the minute it is Lag BaOmer.
If he doesn’t mention anything about it, how can you just assume it is muttar? He doesn’t mention that it is assur to murder on Lag BaOmer does that make it muttar? It could be that he mentions haircuts and expects us to apply the halacha to the other signs of mourning as well?
Queens Scoop – coming soon, to a browser near you…
This has nothing to do with counting days and weeks, the minhag is 33 days of aveilus and Lag BaOmer is one of the 33 days so you need to be noheig aveilus part of the day (miktzas hayom). We do this by being noheig aveilus the entire night and then part of the day. I assume that one minute after Netz should suffice but as Sam pointed out, you can’t take a haircut before davening. I assume you can listen to music before davening though.
Nechoma, if you keep the entire sefira except Lag BaOmer then I think the night is mutter. It’s only those who keep only 33 days that have a problem because Lag BaOmer is one of the 33 days so you need to keep miktzas hayom.
Those who celebrate a hilula rashbi have a heter of music and dancing since it is a mitzvah (sort of like those who matir music on Yom Haatzmaus) but to stam listen to music by yourself not as part of the hilula would be problematic. The same concept goes for someone who goes to a wedding before Rosh chodesh while they are keeping sefira, you can dance at the wedding but shouldn’t listen to music in the car on the way back.
I don’t know all the facts of this story but it sounds like he asked at the gate to be seated with his parents and was refused. if there had been open seats they probably would have granted his request. Yet, he got on the plane anyway just assuming that he can do what he wants, he was already told “no” and then was told “no” again. He should have sat in his assigned seat or got off the plane voluntarily. My question is, if he was so concerned with sitting next to a woman, why didn’t he just switch seats with his mother?
The YWNCR GPS gets funcused by the “off the derech” threads. “Recalculating derech…”
They want to make sure itsnot Blood
“It is statements like the ones you made that divided the klal from their rabbonim. It assumes that the internet user would have been oiver issurim in his or her regular internet use, which is not true.”
You are assuming that they aren’t oiver every single click unless something bad comes up but every click is a sakana, the overall lifestyle of using a computer that way is a sakana for something bad to eventually happen. It is a ticking time bomb and therefore you are oiver by putting yourself at its eventual mercy.
Think of it like yichud, you can me meyacheid with somebody and not actually do any issur with her but you were still oiver on putting yourself into a makom sakana. The issur isn’t just the act itself, there is an additional issur of lo sikrivu. A yirei shamayim should realize this and therefore understand that even the “muttar” Internet use is an issur here.
“It is also absurd to think that the person will use the delay time to pontificate each and every time a server request is made (maybe once, maybe 10 times, but after that its just a nuisance).”
Of course they won’t think about this during every millisecond of every delay but the overall mindset should be that the extra tircha is well worth it. I try to think of it this way, every year the speed of computers and connections goes up, just a few years ago we were ecstatic to have even half the speed we have now, so just have patience and understand that it isn’t “that bad” to have to go through the extra bit of tircha. It might take some getting used to but eventually you get used to it and it becomes just part of the experience, a minor annoyance. Computers give us minor annoyances all the time, it freezes up for a few seconds, you frantically move the mouse around for 5 SECONDS while you go crazy thinking the world is about to end. We live in a fast paced world and people really need to take a step back and practice some savlanus.
(I have this same issue with drivers, people are in such a rush, changing lanes, honking horns, and what does it save them? Maybe if they’re lucky it will shave 30 seconds off a 10 minute drive. It’s really not that big of a deal in the long run. This mindset is what causes people to text and answer calls while driving. I was driving with someone the other day, we were less than 2 minutes from our destination and his cell phone rings. He made such a big deal of getting it out and answering as if the world would end if he missed the call and put us in sakana in the process. The proper thing to do would have been to just ignore the call and called the person back 2 minutes later. 2 minutes is not that long! It’s not the end of the world. Savlanut!)
The person giving the regards saw X, made eye contact and knew that X knows you, and through that regards were automatically sent telepathically so the regards he is sending exist even if X didn’t explicitly send them.
I recommend OpenDNS – a good, fast filter.
I thought you were the Grand Officer of the national Order of Queens.
Or we can call you The Goof – Grand Officer Of Flushing.
Fun? This isn’t supposed to be fun! It’s supposed to be hard, dedicated labor for the sake of Klal Yisroel.
Charliebrown
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ZeesKite, Severus Snape is one of the more Zees characters in Harry Potter (on a very deep level)
ICOT can be in charge of technical stuff.
OneOfMany can be the librarian (no Shakespeare allowed)
Gumball can be in charge of the Canteen where the campers buy their gum. Dr Pepper will be in charge of the soft drinks along with “coke not pepsi”. The alcoholic stuff will be sold by gefen and Baal habooze.
Yummy cupcake can be the baker.
Moskidoodle in charge of arts and crafts.
Joseph can fill all of the above roles.
Zeeskite seems like more of a camper. Oomis can be a camp mom.
Bar shatya can be the Camp Dolt and pba is the head of the semi-retarded division.
Charliebrown is the camp ego booster of course.
Pba can also be the motzei shabbos night activity director.
Real-brisker can be the head security guard in charge of keeping the trolls out.
600 kilo bear can be, well… the bear
Baal Habooze can be the Sar Hamashkim.
We use the prestigious law firm of Joseph, Joseph, and Joseph.