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So the problem is that there are very few boys who have this mindset compared to the number of girls. Rabbi Hoffman actually had an article similar to this point in this weeks FTJT.
Spooky fact: the amount of yards given up by the jets in their last game, 376, exactly equals Rex Ryan’s weight!
Oomis, apy’s Rebbe uses the phrase “gee golly” all the time. It bothers me a bit but I still listen to him because he’s a great speaker. I’ve been listening to him for over 6 years now.
I sincerely doubt
That the world could do without
My gooood ad-vice!
Would you throw candies at Chuck Norris’s bar mitzvah?
Chuck Norris can be Sandek and Mohel at the same time – while taking pictures at his own bris.
Chuck Norris can lein while being the gabbai rishon and gabbai sheini.
Chuck Norris can sing a beautiful kedusha without taking forever.
Chuck Norris can daven at Chabad and still make zman krias shma.
Always know where your towel is.
Snjn:I have several friends in the Bensonhurst community who are really tochendig, are would be the types to have long term torah learning but because their father are dirt poor they are in their mid 20’s and still sitting.
How do they plan to support their husbands in their holy, long-term learning? Do these girls have college degrees and jobs? Or do they plan to live “pas b’melach”?
If so, then do the boys want that? Why should they live a difficult life learning when they can marry a rich girl and learn with less tirdos?
Perhaps these boys aren’t as shallow as it sounds and would theoretically marry a poor girl but they are afraid that they will eventually be forced to work to feed their family, and they’d rather not take that chance if they want to learn long-term, especially when there is an alternative – marry a rich girl.
Have you consulted with the Skverer Rebbe, who is an expert at directing people to proper doctors? 718 436 9595
The Skverer Rebbe is currently in LA
Megamillions was at $42 million last I heard…
Aye aye General!
So the request is not to stick a thread with these numbers but rather to add them to the “numbers page”.
BTW, that link is available on the sidebar of every page on YW, including the CR
There is a concept of eid echad ne’eman bi’issurim, that is why we are allowed to eat anything that we haven’t made all the ingredients ourselves. When it comes to eating in other people’s houses this is what everyone relies on. But, if the person tells you themselves that they rely on certain kulos than you have to know what you personally hold regarding those kulos and how it affects their kailim regarding you. For this, you have to ask your own Rav.
When it comes to food items that are sold, most people nowadays are machmir not to rely on the seller as an “eid echad” because he is nogea b’davar, that is why we have mashgichim and hechsherim.
This is all regarding items where we know what they are, what the ingredients are, etc. But, most people nowadays don’t know (and usually have no way of knowing) what goes on in every step of the process with commercially available foods. For this reason, we need hechsherim. Even if you know the ingredients, you don’t know about the machines used to put the ingredients together, etc. so you need a hechsher. This is the mainstream view of Orthodox Jews. There is room to be maikil in certain cases but in places like NY/NJ where there is plenty of food available with hechsherim, most people do not rely on these kulos. Rabbi Abadi obviously holds differently.
I’ll have an extra caffeinated large coffee with 3 sugars please. Oh, and that jumbo chocolate donut with sprinkles.
Rakia – firmament
Ask your Rebbe 🙂
Qoheles – Ecclesiastes
Popa, how come you’re not in Chicago?
I’m more of a math guy so… +1
Mishkan – Tabernacle
When it says “potential yevama” it means that her husband had just died and she needed offspring (child or grandchild) to exempt her from yibbum. He explains this in the next paragraph.
Dida bei kulo bei ud’lo da bei ma bei…
Now let’s see if anybody can back up The Horses Mouth. And even if he is correct, it could be that R’ Elyashiv only banned the Hebrew Newspaper (if he ever actually issued any ban at all)
Why would I buy a book when I can get the information for free on the web?
http://www.orlandojewishinfo.com/
Also, this type of information is constantly changing as new places open, old ones close, etc. Just one more reason to rely on the web rather than a book.
The entire story (episodes 1-4) takes place in 1988
I think the case was that the husbands died after the babies were born.
Depends if you wake up with your scar hurting.
Next they will ban YWN. What will be left? As the article referenced in this thread pointed out, there is danger even in the appropriate web sites. Magazines are the same issue. How many Bnei Torah waste time reading Yated and Mishpacha when they could be learning or spending time with their families? But blanket bans will just make things worse. People need outlets. Some people feel the need to know what is going on in the world, that is their outlet and it is in general a Kosher one. But at the same time we need to use seichel and understand that spending too much time with this stuff is not healthy. We also have to realize that not everything written in these magazines and blogs is Torah MiSinai. As R’ Shmuel Kaminetzky said with regards to Internet/texting/smartphone bans, it won’t work for the hamon am, the Rabbonim need to work with it, not against it.
This thread is so Polish 🙂
It seems from the comments in the news story on the main page that the ban was for the Israeli newspaper, not the American magazine. Ayin sham.
Is that why people ask for pictures with Shidduch Resumes?
I suspect American Express does this specifically because their merchant fees are higher than other cards, and this is the sort of thing that convinces small businesses to accept their cards. This logic really doesn’t apply to Yeshivas.
Of course it does. There are yeshivos that don’t accept Amex because of their high fees. This sort of thing gets those yeshivos to reconsider. Why is this any different than a small business?
I’m hungry 🙂
I hope it is chalav stam, those always taste better 🙂
Sounds delicious. Send some over.
Was a great article. Shows how dangerous the web is even for those of us who are very careful with filters. If a top bachur can be affected this way, kal vechomer the rest of us random Joes
moi aussi:
Jothar wrote:
I hear from the mods that they have pretty solid evidence that one of the trolls here is a mechalel shabbos.
Did he hear this or didn’t he??????
He thought he heard it. Jothar hears what he wants to hear. He assumes that Joseph is a mechalel Shabbos. He assumes Joseph is the Aussie Troll. He assumes that moi aussi is Joseph. He hears that there are posts “on Shabbos” (NY time) by the Aussie Troll and moi aussi. So he puts it all together into a story that he likes which is that Joseph is sitting in Brooklyn posting on Shabbos.
As far as I know, this is not the case. Joseph may be many things but, as far as I know, a mechalel Shabbos is B”H not one of them. As far as I know, Joseph is not the Aussie Troll, nor is he moi aussi, nor are those two the same person. As far as I know, Joseph has not been posting in over a month, yet Jothar continues to see him in every thread.
That being said, I still don’t understand why people here were defending chillul Shabbos. To say that it didn’t happen is one thing (and probably correct), but to defend it is still very wrong.
For the record, as far as I can tell, none of the “Aussie Trolls” have the same IP address, they all have similar IPs (same prefix), and all point to Melbourne, Australia according to the lookup but they all have different IPs. The posters themselves change their own IP often as well so it seems he/she/they are using a service that is constantly switching IPs. This could be a normal ISP thing or they might be using a library or something. This is very normal, nothing suspicious about it.
Jothar was ASSUMING that these “Aussie Trolls” were all using the same IP, when you assume…
I still think that they are all the same person or few people considering their very similar style.
I don’t know what exactly Jothar is going on here that he is so certain that there was Chilul Shabbos Chas V’Shalom. Here is what I have found.
There was a poster called Ice-cream uscream we all…. His last post before being blocked was:
Friday 2011/11/18 00:07:25 NY Time, that is 12:07am Friday morning in NY. The post is at:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/petition-to-ignore-a-certain-someone?#post-324948
I will not post the exact IP to protect his/her privacy. But this is what I found on http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup
Country: Australia
State/Region: Victoria
City: Melbourne
ISP: OPTUS INTERNET – RETAIL
According to:
Shkia was 8:12pm on Friday 11/18/2011 in Melbourne, of course this can change based on exact location.
According to:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/difference.html?p1=152
Melbourne is 16 hours ahead then NY,.
Perhaps it was only 15 because of Daylight Savings Time so 12:07am in NY would be 4:07pm Friday afternoon in Melbourne, way before the 8:12pm shkia. If there was no DST then it would be 5:07pm, also before shkia. It is summer Down Under and Shabbos starts late.
What Jothar and Mod007 might have been referring to was the fact that there are often posts from similar IPs Saturday morning NY time, around 9:30am, this would be around 2:30am Sunday morning Motzei Shabbos in Australia which is way after Shabbos is over as well.
So as far as I’m concerned there has been no known Chillul Shabbos.
Acquitted of all charges of Chillul Shabbos!
Still guilty of being an annoying troll 🙂
Goq, how is your exercise going?
btw,
spell check changes “exersize” to “oversize”
There is actually a shaila l’halacha whether you say a bracha on Hallel when davening b’yichidus. Lemayseh we hold that you do say a bracha b’yichidus but it is better to say it with a minyan to be yoyzei the other shitta.
Sam, “Not everyone agrees that the elbows and knees must be covered…”
Of those that don’t, 50% of their kids text on Shabbos.
If we weren’t so judgmental about the parents then many of these kids would be in frum schools and would not be texting on Shabbos.
Can one recite krias shma if there is a woman in the room with less than a tefach of her elbow visible?
Bump. Oops, knocked over the wick 🙂
I don’t like floating wicks because as the oil level goes down it burns the inside of the glass. Also, they sometimes float to the side and get knocked over. The kind that stand straight with a holder don’t have these issue.
I use 2 bases instead of one. It makes it sturdier so it doesn’t tip over and drown. I guess using the old ones as the 2nd base can save from having to buy more.
Pintele Yid is available as a bonus as part of the fourth album on Mostly Music
+1
Signed J
Popa, have you ever tried deep fried baby spinach?