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Yep! I read the Rita Skeeter article about the trio at the 2014 World Cup. It was great.
A grasshopper walks into a bar, and the
bartender says, “Hey, we have a drink
named after you!”
The grasshopper looks surprised and
asks, “You have a drink named Steve?”
Apparently Hamas doesn’t hold of waiting 72 (does NK wait 72?)
Perhaps that makes you a monkey’s uncle (or a Froggie’s)
Received today from the Halacha Text:
H-Text.Back to regular program.Pskei Tshuvas(218:31)says in todays times we DONT say the special Bracha when we see “Lot’s wife” as we dont know its forsure her
If the woman is over bat mitzvah we can assume that she is either a niddah or an eishes ish and therefore would be at least an issur kares and therefore has an issur of “lo sikrivu” which is included in the category of “giluy arayos” which is one of the Big 3.
Wow. I did the exact same thing. We must be brothers or something
Was this a Jewish song? Or some sort of Disney/kids songs? Sounds to me like a camp alma mater.
Sequel: And G-d spoke to the squid, and he spit Aryeh up onto dry land. Then he went to Ninveh where he was eaten by a 120 year old Bookworm.
I don’t know who does what when it comes to parshios tefillin. The machzor I use says that some say them and some don’t and there always seems to be a discussion about which way we follow. As the old joke goes, the minhag is to argue about it.
In terms of the question of the OP, I’m not sure what the question is. If you are saying the birchos krias shma, then why not say shma itself as well? It is part of davening.
Some people say the parshios of tfilin by mincha. I imagine saying krias shma as part of davening can’t be worse than that.
Perhaps R’ Chaim said something like “hopefully it won’t be needed this year” and the people listening “missed” the word “hopefully”. Or perhaps he said it as a bracha such as “it shouldn’t be needed this year”
Is the lightning looking for a shidduch?
There are also those who have the strange minhag of reading the haftorah of the 8th day of Pesach again on a random weekday a few weeks later.
While we’re at it, what are the most common haftorahs?
I assume Dirshu Hashem is the most common. Then there is Hashamayim Kis’i and Machar Chodesh which happen a few times per year. Then there would be Roni V’simchi and Roni Akara / Aniya So’ara which are lained twice a year when Noach is not R”Ch. The paragraph of Shuva is lained twice. So is Mi Kel Kamocha for those who lain it as part of Shuva and Yonah.
The paragraph of Al yishalel chacham is lained on Tisha B’Av as well as Tzav when it is not a special haftorah. And Haazinu has the same haftorah as 7th day of Pesach though Haazinu can be Shuva.
Did I miss any?
How about Mishpatim, Tetzavheh and Ki Sisa? Those are often replaced by daled parshios.
The app should not have a full resume. Just name, age, height, weight, father’s net worth, and of course a picture
You can quit smoking cold turkey (or never start to begin with) but you can’t quit eating. Hence obesity is harder to control.
It’s not a matter of forcing people to Google. I think the havana is that a fancy wedding hall is a known landmark that shouldn’t need an address (for those in town). For example, you might invite your neighbors to a “kiddush at the Young Israel of Coffeeland” without giving an address because everyone in Coffeeland knows where the Young Israel is.
Perhaps this is even some sort of a throw back to ancient times when towns were smaller and there were no addresses.
Since this is the CR, I’ll have to say that this is probably chukas akum because the goyim would always get married in the church in the center of town that didn’t need an address because everyone knew where it was.
How often does that happen? Once in a Super Blue Moon?
Whenever there is a double parsha, we generally read the haftorah of the 2nd one, but when achrei-kedoshim are together we read the haftorah for Acharei because we try to avoid reading the haftorah of Hatishpot whenever possible because it mentions the “Toavas Yerushalayim” (see Megilla 25b).
When Achrei and Kedoshim are separate, if one of them is a special haftorah such as Hagadol or Rosh Chodesh, we read the haftorah for Acharei on the other one.
The only time we would ever read Hatishpot is when the parshios are separate and neither has any special haftorah. Even then, there are some who have the minhag never to read who will just read the haftorah of Achrei twice in those years.
Which leads to another trivia question, other than reading the haftorah for Achrei twice in a row as mentioned above, when else do we read the same haftorah 2 weeks in a row?
I have seen invitations that do not list the address. It is considered fancier that way for some reason.
Anyone can just type the name of the hall into Google and get the address and directions.
Read through the Rambam, Shulchan Aruch, etc. You will see that any heter to listen to music is not pashut, even year-round and certainly during the 3 weeks. Obviously, a seudas mitzvah such as a wedding or even a chol hamoed seuda would be different.
The a capela that they have nowadays is also very not pashut.
People seem to take for granted that concerts during Chol HaMoed Pesach are muttar but there are actually those who would assur it due to the fact that it is during sefira…
I’m not saying that you should follow every chumra in the book but it is important to understand that some of the psakim we have are kullas, not necessarily lechatchila, and are often misinterpreted and taken too far.
A cappela concerts are against both the letter and spirit of the law.
Actually, according to the letter of the law, all concerts should be assur all the time since the churban, not just during the 3 weeks.
My wine which I drink in moderation.
There are frum “shidduch events” where you can meet multiple people for a few minutes each or even spend a Shabbos with them.
I want a president who wears a black hat and white shirt and is on food stamps.
The official full moon was 7:25am Shabbos morning so for the average person both Friday and saturday night looked full. It was brightest Friday night though was still very bright tonight as well.
There will be a supermoon for the coming 2 months of Av and Elul as well.
Does Hello Kitty have a shiduch crisis?
One is supposed to be extra careful to pronounce every word of pitom haktores so as not to chas v’shalom be “chiser achas m’kol samoneha”. This is why many peopke only say it on Shabbos and Yom Tov because they are afraid that during the week they will rush it.
Weirdness is fantastical. As long as it is clean
SiDi, the CR is like Never Never Land where you remain a kid forever ^_^
Was Arthur the best aardvark in Lakewood?
Hal, unfortunately A600KiloBear is no longer with us. Yhi zichro baruch.
Arthur and D.W. go to Lakewood Elementary School.
[Harry’s] hand was on the doorknob when Phineas Nigellus said lazily, ‘I have a message for you from Albus Dumbledore.’
Harry span round.
‘What is it?’
‘”Stay where you are.”‘
‘I haven’t moved!’ said Harry, his hand still upon the doorknob. ‘So what’s the message?’
‘I have just given it to you, dolt,’ said Phineas Nigellus smoothly. ‘Dumbledore says, “Stay where you are.'”
If you think the snow and cold in the city was bad this past winter, trying living in the Catskills all year long…
Why is it that this petition only has about 5,000 signatures after alll this time? The petition for the dodgy cancer treatment got over 100k pretty quickly and that was with many people davka not signing it while this petition I hope everyone is in agreement with. Perhaps people realized that these petitions don’t do anything anyways.
“Watching the news . . .” he said scathingly. “I’d like to know what he’s really up to. As if a normal boy cares what’s on the news — Dudley hasn’t got a clue what’s going on, doubt he knows who the Prime Minister is! Anyway, it’s not as if there’d be anything about his lot on our news –“
$1000 is a reasonable amount to spend on the Oorah raffle because then you have a chance to win a million dollars.
If the raffles/advertising is mazakeh the rabbim in giving tzedaka that they wouldn’t have given otherwise than that itself is a worthwhile thing. Obviously it would be better if that wasn’t necessary but if that’s the metziyus than kudos to them.
Is running for exercise bad for your eyesight?
Between one and thirty-six times per week.
If you give money to a yeshiva they can use it to pay the rebbeim, pay the mortgage, or to buy toilet paper. All are necessary parts of achieving the “goal of the organization”. Advertising is also part of this. It is part of the steps that Oorah thinks is necessary in order to function to the level that they do. Therefore, it should not bother you that some of “your tzedaka” is going toward fancy advertising.
On a similar note, if you give tzedaka through a fund raiser, he might get a commission. Some people don’t like this and want “all of their tzedaka money” going to the organization. But it is the same thing, the yeshiva paying the fund raiser is just as much a part of their business as paying the rebbeim.
In other words, I can’t stand people who fault Oorah for the advertising. Lemaysa it works so why not do it. They happen to be, in my opinion, a very worthwhile organization that does a lot of good work with the money they are making. Without all the advertising, this might not have been possible. (They also happen to be very entertaining which itself is a nice thing that I think the klal needs)
You are correct that the need for fancy auctions and advertising shows that many frum people have their priorities wrong and don’t appreciate tzedaka enough but that doesn’t take away from what Oorah does.
“type 1: gives tzeddakah for the sake of the mitzvah, for the sake of giving, to the places he deems worthy and without any other motives. these people may even specifically not give to the organizations that have fancy advertising campaigns.”
Why would someone in this category not give just because there is a fancy campaign? If it is a worthwhile tzedaka, what does the fancy campaign have to do with anything? If anything, they should be happy that a worthwhile tzedaka is getting its name out.
Who won the million dollar raffle this year and how much did they win?
Is The Wolf in Hufflepuff?