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Popa, you are cut from a different cloth. Perhaps the cloth you are cut from didn’t exist 200 years ago and now it does so Hashem made the CR to accommodate it.
Goq, you should know that this thread motivated me to start exercising again. The first few days aren’t easy but it feels good to know that you are doing the right thing.
Ayc, what unfinished business? You can email me if you want to discuss privately.
Michele Obama and Hilary Clinton are women.
Michele Obama and Hilary Clinton are not Jewish.
Therefore, women are not Jewish.
Simple logic!
There are about 3.5 Billion women in the world and most are not Jewish so I think we can use a Rov to pasken that women are not Jewish.
Speaking of Oscars, who is the Grouchiest Poster?
I drank 4 cups of coffee but only ate 2 of them.
Oh no! I’ve been discovered. Joseph was really me all along. Does this mean I have to change my subtitle?
Thanks ayc, I take it you’re no longer a yeshiva guy?
You know you’re not a yeshiva guy anymore when you pass over some free furniture because it doesn’t match.
You know you’re not a yeshiva guy anymore when you wake up at 6:45am – just in time for the late minyan.
You know you’re not a yeshiva guy anymore when you are not embarrassed to be seen learning from an artscroll.
Hope you’re doing well Goq.
By the way, assuming you exercise and eat an otherwise healthy diet, is diet Coke that bad?
For the record, I drink regular coke. Sugar and caffeine, part of this complete breakfast 🙂
Davening for each other is nice, but how about also suggesting shiduchim. Why leave the shiduchim to the expensive shadchanim who don’t know them personally when you can set them up yourself?
Interesting. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/archive/108086/Exercise+&+Your+Mental+Health+(Part+1).html
It seems that exercise can help cure things like depression. The problem is that people who are depressed have trouble getting themselves to exercise. Just the fact that you posted here Goq shows that you are determined to make a start. I would suggest to try to be consistent in exercising. If you skip one day, it will be much easier to skip the 2nd and then it spirals down from there. Try to force yourself not to miss days, even if it’s just a few minutes before you go to sleep.
Another suggestion that I think was mentioned above is to get a buddy. Find someone who also needs the exercise and walk together every day. Walking together with someone (or riding bikes together) can make it more enjoyable and you have each other to motivate each other for days when one of you wants to skip a day the other will hopefully push you not too.
The Chaos (by G. Nolst Trenit, a.k.a. “Charivarius”; 1870 – 1946)
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye your dress you’ll tear,
So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer,
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, beard and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say said, pay-paid, laid, but plaid.
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say break, steak, but bleak and streak.
Previous, precious, fuchsia, via,
Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir,
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles.
Exiles, similes, reviles.
Wholly, holly, signal, signing.
Thames, examining, combining
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war, and far.
From “desire”: desirable–admirable from “admire.”
Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier.
Chatham, brougham, renown, but known.
Knowledge, done, but gone and tone,
One, anemone. Balmoral.
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel,
Gertrude, German, wind, and mind.
Scene, Melpomene, mankind,
Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,
Reading, reading, heathen, heather.
This phonetic labyrinth
Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.
Billet does not end like ballet;
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet;
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which is said to rime with “darky.”
Viscous, Viscount, load, and broad.
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s O.K.,
When you say correctly: croquet.
Rounded, wounded, grieve, and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive, and live,
Liberty, library, heave, and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven,
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the difference, moreover,
Between mover, plover, Dover,
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police, and lice.
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label,
Petal, penal, and canal,
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal.
Suit, suite, ruin, circuit, conduit,
Rime with “shirk it” and “beyond it.”
But it is not hard to tell,
Why it’s pall, mall, but Pall Mall.
Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,
Timber, climber, bullion, lion,
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, and chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor,
Ivy, privy, famous, clamour
And enamour rime with hammer.
Pussy, hussy, and possess,
Desert, but dessert, address.
Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants.
Hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rime with anger.
Neither does devour with clangour.
Soul, but foul and gaunt but aunt.
Font, front, won’t, want, grand, and grant.
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say: finger.
And then: singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age.
Query does not rime with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post; and doth, cloth, loth;
Job, Job; blossom, bosom, oath.
Though the difference seems little,
We say actual, but victual.
Seat, sweat; chaste, caste.; Leigh, eight, height;
Put, nut; granite, and unite.
Reefer does not rime with deafer,
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,
Hint, pint, Senate, but sedate.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific,
Tour, but our and succour, four,
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, guinea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria,
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay.
Say aver, but ever, fever.
Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.
Never guess–it is not safe:
We say calves, valves, half, but Ralph.
Heron, granary, canary,
Crevice and device, and eyrie,
Face but preface, but efface,
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust, and scour, but scourging,
Ear but earn, and wear and bear
Do not rime with here, but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, clerk, and jerk,
Asp, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation–think of psyche–!
Is a paling, stout and spikey,
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing “groats” and saying “grits”?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel,
Strewn with stones, like rowlock, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict, and indict!
Don’t you think so, reader, rather,
Saying lather, bather, father?
Finally: which rimes with “enough”
Though, through, plough, cough, hough, or tough?
Hiccough has the sound of “cup.”
My advice is–give it up!
Hats of a feather, daven together
Hatzlacha Rabba!
And in case anyone is wondering, I am a 20 year old female slug. Jothar is a 42 year old male Angora Rabbit. And popa-bar-abba is a 98 year old gum ball.
Joseph has started this discussion many times in the past. Please search for the other threads.
For some reason this made me think of this:
Yes, yesterday, so long ago, A day today, a day tomorrow, a day yesterday…
Cut the poetry Rabbi…
Popa, can you post the funny lyrics you heard?
A comment on that site says: Your information is incorrect.
This song was written in 1947
by Malka Steinberg Saks at
Camp Bais Yaakov.
It was right after the end of
World War 2 and one year
before the establishment of the
State of Israel.
Camp Gan Israel was not yet in
existence at that time.
Sherwood Goffen recorded it at
least 5 years before the Tzlil
V’Zemer Boys Choir did. I was
born in 1942 and know this for
a fact. You were probably not
yet born when this song was
written. Malka is living in Paris,
France now and is 78 years old.
She was 15 and a junior
counselor at the camp when
she wrote the song.
The Jewish Lyrics site says the following:
First recorded by Tzlil V’Zemer
Boys Choir
Album: Wake Up Yidden
Composed at Camp Gan Israel
The little bird is calling,
It wishes to return.
The little bird is wounded,
It cannot fly but yearn.
Crying bitterly,
Oh, to see my nest again,
Oh, to be redeemed.
The little bird of silver,
So delicate and rare,
Still chirps amongst the vultures,
How long, how long it suffers,
How long will it be,
When will come the eagle,
And set the little bird free.
The little bird is Yisroel,
The vultures are our foes,
The painful wound is Golus,
Which we all feel and know,
The nest is Yerushalayim,
Where we yearn to be once more,
The eagle is the Moshiach,
Whom we are waiting for.
Dunno the answer to your questions but I always loved that song and wondered where it is from. Does anybody know if any CDs are available today with that song?
Ask your LOR but my psak FWIW is mutar lach mutar lach mutar lach. At least for the medicine. The cough drops might be more of a shayla. And whether or not there is grinding doesn’t make much of a difference. The rabanan made a takana whether there is grinding or not. Most ppl nowadays don’t grind their own medicine yet we still follow the issur drabanan of refuah.
42? I haven’t commented on this yet. I think you mean 20.
But back on topic – was this old green chair bought at Gimbles?
Astrix, why did you have a cigarette with you?
Hmm I thought I apologized to him multiple times in the other thread. Has he posted since then? If he indeed is not joseph then we for sure want him back.
Bar Shatya is shteiging away in yeshiva. Bein Hazmanim is over
Wolf, why are you so cheery?
It pushed off to the 2nd Monday of Cheshvan this year. I think this is because Shabbos is Rosh Chodesh so we don’t say the Mi Shebeirach on Rosh Chodesh. I know that the one after Pesach is often pushed off because of Pesach Sheini or something.
+1
Btw, I had lots of yummy kapusta over Yom Tov.
old man:
I find it repulsive that a random person is publicly vilified on this site for no apparent reason
Where has anybody “vilified” him? They just mentioned that he was once frum and is no longer and want to know how/why that happened.
GumBall: I’m sure and almost posotive that nobody has the slightest idea who I am…And btw Half of klal Yisrael is from Shevet yehudah…GO FIGURE!!
As far as I know, most of klal Yisrael doesn’t know what shevet they’re from other than kohanim and leviim. It may be true that half are from Yehuda, but not all of them know it. And even so, it is an extra piece of information that could help piece together a bigger puzzle. If I were to say that I am a kohen from Brooklyn that wouldn’t give away much. But it can be helpful later on after more identifying information has been posted. I’m not saying not to post anything, just to be careful and to realize the consequences. And to realize that people can use seemingly innocent information against you. Imagine that you are wearing a camp sweatshirt with your name on the sleeve and someone walks up to you on the street and calls you by your name and starts shmoozing about camp, you will trust them because they have this info until you realize that they read it on your sweatshirt. A name and a camp are innocent little pieces of information, but in the wrong hands can be used to manipulate you.
It is a Monday, Thursday, Monday. This year it starts 2 weeks from today. Some fast, some say selichos, some do both, some do neither. It is supposed to be teshuva for aveiros done over Yom Tov.
It was quickly discounted in the other thread because apparently Joseph doesn’t write poetry or haikus or heavy Tanach quoting among other things.
I rarely read the poetry threads. And one thing that Joseph is very famous for, is his heavy copying and pasting and heavy Tanach quoting. With his Google and copy/paste skills he can easily make himself into a poet.
And if you look further on the main page, you can perhaps see another side based upon my actual posts…(can’t believe you did that, guys!)…unless now you think I’m PrincessEagle, too, and authored the thread to myself…
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/att-everybody-who-knows-amyisraelchai-here
Lol, nice! I must have missed that. Did PrincessEagle start that because of what I wrote about you here or was it totally unrelated?
2scents:
Gumball your personal profile is getting bigger, we have now added a cousin to your profile. . .
GumBall:
What profile??
My point exactly! Of course in this case 2scents was joking, but the point remains. A bored person can put together all the random personal info that you post into one big “profile” which they can use to identify you and then manipulate you.
And perhaps it is not such a joke – Gumball claims to be from shevet Yehuda. This is a random, seemingly innocent piece of info. But if I were trying to identify her I can use random info from various posts to figure out her city and town, then use more info to knock it down to 5 possible families from that town, then I can find out which of those 5 families claim to be from Yehuda, then use her place in the family to identify who she is.
kapusta, you are correct. But my last line calling him a creep was out of line. I have edited it out so now the post just warns of the dangers without calling names.
“you are displaying very Joseph-like behavior in the way you are trying to defend yourself here”
Did you expect no reaction to your cyber punches? And I’m not stooping to calling you names.
And is this how you’re apologizing by evoking his name again?
Not mekabel.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t defend yourself, just that your style here is very similar to his, which is what makes it hard for me to accept that you are not him.
“then look what you (Joseph) have caused.”
It would be prudent if you (42) took responsibility and the blame.
Yes, you are correct. I shouldn’t have posted what I did. But I also shouldn’t have let Joseph get into my mind like that, but limayseh, he has. I can’t imagine I would have done this before I met him, so he is partly to blame. I am not placing the blame fully on him, just pointing out to him what he has done. He has always been asking me what is wrong with what he does so I am giving him an answer.
-“But I didn’t like the way he was arguing against the possibility of creepy people gathering info.”
You could have argued your position without attacking the poster. And to slam a poster because you don’t care for their opinion??
Modeh. I have edited the post and have apologized multiple times. Please be mochel me.
-You claim to be well-informed about Yummy’s family from other threads, yet you haven’t gotten a general composite of my style in the threads?
Truthfully, I haven’t been following enough to get your style or yummy’s. I only know about yummy because of shared IP addresses and I’m pretty sure it was mentioned explicitly, though those posts may have been deleted, but the family ties have been hinted at many times.
-Chocandpatience writes that I’m “always pleasant and positive”, and you counter with “Joseph can be sensitive, pleasant and positive at times.”
Do you get the difference between ALWAYS and AT TIMES??
At times, meaning that he can create a persona who is like that.
It is unfortunate that this one guy Joseph has caused so much confusion in our minds. Joseph, I am sure you are reading this. You have always wondered why your multiple screen names was such a bad thing. Well, here it is, if AYC is indeed not you as AYC’s posts and your emails claim, then look what you have caused. If you had never used multiple names then there would be no reason for us to accuse anyone falsely of being you.
Like I said. if you are not Joseph then I am sorry. I should have been more clear in my post that it was Joseph who I was calling a creep. And it wasn’t specifically “you” I was trying to get them to fear, it was the Internet in general. Posting private info online can be a dangerous thing, and that is the point I am trying to make here. I am sorry if it came out as an attack specifically against you.
Just as a side note, you may not be Joseph, but you are displaying very Joseph-like behavior in the way you are trying to defend yourself here.
Just to give a real example, it is fairly obvious to those paying attention that yummy cupcake has family members on this forum. From the content of their posts, we might be able to figure out what family they are but we still don’t know which daughter is which. From this thread, we now know that yummy cupcake is the oldest and that there is a 3rd sibling…
midwestern pieced together a bunch of info in the shofar thread, we deleted his post, but it did show that from random stuff said in different threads a larger picture can be painted.
chocandpatience, Joseph can be sensitive, pleasant and positive at times. It could be that AYC is just someone who finds this to be innocent fun like yummy cupcake. But I didn’t like the way he was arguing against the possibility of creepy people gathering info, I therefore concluded that he was either naive or had an agenda and, considering that some mods had previously accused him of being Joseph, I went with the latter. Like I said, if I was wrong then I sincerely apologize to him. But the point is that people need to be careful what they post here.
Aishes Chayil, I am pretty sure that yummy cupcake is a teenage girl who finds this to be innocent fun. I could be wrong of course…
am yisrael chai:
42
“And considering that you are one of the creeps we are referring to you should know very well what we are talking about…”
Stooping to call posters derogatory names is not acceptable and falls under the category of onaas dvorim, a very serious misdeed.
If AYC is indeed not Joseph than I am sorry for calling you a creep. As I had called you Joseph earlier in the post, it should be obvious that it was Joseph who I was calling the creep and by extension you. If you are not him, then I was mistaken and ask your mechila.
If you are Joseph, then I stand by my word that you were once upon a time, a creep. I hope that you have done teshuva and changed your ways since then but as I have seen no evidence of this, I feel this should be publicly known so that anyone who crosses paths with you is forewarned about who they are dealing with.
This is the type of thread that helps creeps like Joseph since he can glean personal information from it and I therefore assumed that AYC was Joseph trying his hardest to keep it going, trying to make sure that people are not careful, and that they reveal as much as possible.
“Is the last rebbe considered greater than all the previous Lubavitcher Rebbes, that the last rebbe is considered Moshiach (by some) but the all the previous Lubavitcher Rebbes are not considered to be Moshiach? “
In every generation there is someone worthy of being moshiach. I don’t see anything wrong with postulating that perhaps your rebbi is this special person. I assume that the Lubovichers considered all of their Rebbeim worthy of being moshiach in their generations and I have no problem with that. I don’t even have a problem with the last one being called moshiach while he was alive. But just as the previous Rebbe’s ceased being referred to as moshiach after their petira, so too they should have said that once the last Rebbe died, whether or not he was worthy to be moshiach in his lifetime, he is now definitely no longer moshiach. The fact that they continue calling him moshiach shows that they feel he is greater than his predecessors.
On a more serious note, I have heard that the reason for BeHaB is to do teshuva for any kalus rosh that may have occurred during the Yom Tov when there is more chance for mingling of opposite genders. I have never heard any differentiation between men and women but ont he other hand I have never heard of women doing BeHaB. For that matter, I have never heard of anyone who has actually fasted on BeHaB but I do know that some yeshivas say the selichos, I think that they say that fasting would cause bittul Torah so it’s better for yeshiva guys not to fast but that doesn’t mean you can’t daven.
Wow, that was one of the most random threads I ever read, I think you should all fast BeHaB for this leitzanus
I know of someone who did behab every week