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I went to a siyum there once. I am not doing daf yomi though. Who here in the CR is still doing the daf?

Does Al Gore get shadchanus for creating the Interwebs?

Popa, I thought gavra means “retard”

Lol. I’m getting hoarse laughing…

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/drinking-away-a-bad-date

True. Eiruv tavshilin is probably on of the hardest things to remember because of all the other yom tov preparation going on and because it is not part of the usual yom tov preparations that we go through several times per year it can be easily overlooked. In today’s day where many people have smartphones to receive real-time email notification, this is a very useful service.

I didn’t say it last night. For that matter, I didn’t say any selichos last night (other than slach lanu in maariv). But I did pray selichos in the morning before shacharis. Does that make me a heretic that I decided I was too tired to follow that minhag and rather davened in the morning when I was able to concentrate better?

People in today’s world are so distracted by everything around them (such as the CR) that they can no longer remember to do basic mitzvos. if there’s one thing we can work on this Yomim Noraim season, it is Focus.

I heard an interesting pshat in eishes yifas to’ar, that it seems a strange thing for Hashem to just randomly matir something just because it is a hard nisayon. The answer is that during a war, the avoda of the people fighting is to concentrate completely on the war which means that you can’t focus properly on overcoming the yetzer hara. But, in most other non-war circumstances, we are required to constantly focus on beating the yetzer hara.

T613, I have been complaining about that for years. I often travel with a bag that is close to and sometimes slightly above 50 lbs. I can theoretically put a bunch of the stuff in my carry-on but then I have to shlep it around. It’s the same weight either way so shouldn’t make a difference to the airlines. Adaraba, they should be happier if I put most of the stuff in the overweight bag so that there is more room in the overhead. The bag takes up the same amount of space either way.

I usually take off my stilettos before shmona esrei of mussaf because it is very uncomfortable to stand in them through a 42 minute shmona esrei.

Popa wears his through shmona esrei because otherwise he is too short to see the machzor on his shtender.

Give them to your wife to wear.

Oh Shrek, I think the correct advice for a pure neshama such as you would be not to read those books although it will give you the answer, or perhaps the question.

My job is to moderate the CR, please continue to patronize it. 🙂

I always wondered why it is that people feel pride when a local sports team wins. I’m not talking about big fans, but people who might not even be able to name one player on the team. For example, if a little league team from Brooklyn goes to the Little League World Series, everybody in Brooklyn, and even throughout NY, is so proud of them even though they had never even known of their existence until now. But when they hear that this “local” team won, they feel pride. This seems to be a natural thing that people feel a connection to the people who they have some sort of “shaychus” to. This shaychus can be that they live in the same city or country (olympics) or it could be that they are somehow “related”. That same pride can be felt about “family” even if it is family that you’ve never met. And all Jews are “family”.

This doesn’t have anything to do with Judaism itself, it is just a natural feeling. Once a person has that feeling you can try to use it to bring them closer to the religious part of the religion.

Some yeshivas started last week on Rosh Chodesh. Others start this week when camp ends. Either way, Welcome back bochurim. Learn well, be courteous to the office staff, and don’t post on the CR during seder.

I nominate popa_bar_abba as the Rabbi and Torah613Torah as the Maharat ^_^. I nominate TheGoq as the President and Joseph as the shnorers who collect quarters during threads (when I see those guys going around during davening I often feel like I’m seeing the same guy multiple times).

Bitachon, patience, and a nice, warm smile

It says that in the days of Raban Shimon Bar Yochai a rainbow was not seen. I assume this does not mean that they weren’t there, just that nobody ever noticed them.

Perhaps misafek you should post in both places :).

Popa, can you post the link to the other thread?

On a different but related point, nowadays, many men (I’m not sure about women) have stopped wearing wrist watches because they are always checking their cell phones. So it has now become basically a “beged Shabbos” for these people although not necessarily because it is a fancy piece of jewelry. I wonder if this somehow affects the halacha regarding carrying.

The houses actually cost an arm, a leg, and a few teeth which is why you need a good dentist ^_^

And I didn’t say that the Presidentt went to Cambridge I I said he went to University near Cambridge – an area which includes Harvard, MIT, BU, Brandeis, etc. The University of New Hampshire can even be called “near Cambridge” depending on how near you call near. Outside of NY, you can be more than daled amos away and be considered “near”.

My yeshiva made me get rid of my pink elephant and my brown mule because they took up too much room in the dormitory. So instead I got a waddle of pink and purple ducklings who live peacefully in the yeshiva’s mikva.

This is a very important point. I think from now on all men should do their best to become as fat as possible so as not to chas v’shalom cause a shem rah on their wife’s cooking.

Seeing a bachelor in their 60’s & 70’s still not wearing a Tallis is so sad, not to mention how humiliating it must be for them to parade their celibacy.

I think I once heard that this is the reason why men don’t wear a tallis until they are married – it is to make them aware that they are missing something and encourage them to get married.