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i clearly saw that it was satire and saw the resemblance to swifts piece.
i thought it was quite funny and clever.
i also thought it was totally inappropriate for this website.
okay
fasting
forty thieves
i would be very very reluctant to have surgery for a torn meniscus.
it is indeed a Gemorrah, i dont recall it too well but i believe it has to do with whether or not Bais Din will accept testimony from her because of the natural dislike of a MIL for a DIL (which of course a natural tendency is no excuse for improper behavior)
abuse and nastiness is NOT “fair game” here
of course best ima of course
nevertheless you can see why it would be difficult for some mothers-in-law?
i changed it about 3 hours ago
a mother invests her heart and Neshama and all her efforts, focuses most of her attention, thoughts, care and life on her son.
then some strange woman comes from nowhere and the son seems to care more about her than her mother, spends all his time with her, not his mother
its only natural (though wrong) for the mother to feel resentful.
brisker
thats probably because you think straight
you have to be a bit twisted for it to work
it is not just ip addresses,
i know for a fact that you are chesedname
but if you wish to deny it, thats fine
i dont understand what you are saying. are you denying that you are one person who posts under 2 different screennames?
no he is not a mod
but he has a close connection to the mods in that a great deal of his posts under this and his other screename contain at least one reference to how he doesnt like the moderation here. he doesnt usually miss a chance to say something negative.
in my great humility, it was google not me
please dont encourage him
Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their picket signs?
i personally would NEVER walk over someone. i dont know why. but it was very important to my Bubby and thats good enough for me.
brisker
yes on one level i know its 10 min fast and subconsciously calculate the real time.
on a psychological level it looks and feels like its the correct time and gives me a spur to get moving
its not logical, its psycho-logical
and it works
i do it also
10 min fast in the kitchen
15 min fast in the bedroom
exact in the den
im not sure what people mean exactly by bubbe maasehs
and if they are using the term in a belittling way
some “bubbe maasehs” come from bubbes who had Kedusha no one here can even imagine.
the cat gilgul maaseh has sources.
i think we’ll change the title
no i was referring to “the banana boat song”
dayo dayayay o
daylight comes and me wanna go home
that would be one way i suppose, probably not the best, but might be helpful by providing a different perspective.
there probably is no perfect answer as, like most words (but even more so), it is used differently by different people.
and yes you could i suppose use the word to describe anyone, a mafia chief, a murderer, a reform person, a policeman. but again it would merely be to describe a mode of behavior which is parallel to a frum Jew, which is the only place the word is really used in its basic sense.
and note additionally gavra
nowhere did i mention or imply anything about what the word “frum” means. this was done deliberately.
i only explained that whatever it means the meaning is sometimes applied as a parallel in describing non-Jewish behavior.
are you a lawyer?
i knew as soon as i saw your first post you were expecting a certain answer to which you planned on springing your logic trap.
no gavra i said exactly the opposite of that
frum refers to Jews
when applied to goyim it is used (mostly tongue in cheek) as a parallel to the meaning which applies to Jews and really only to Jews
it means a goy who relates to his religion, lhavdil, in a parallel manner to which a frum Jew relates to his
for deiyezooger
i have no idea what this means but someone might find it interesting:
Forty is an octagonal number, and as the sum of the first four pentagonal numbers, it is a pentagonal pyramidal number. Adding up some subsets of its divisors (e.g., 1, 4, 5, 10 and 20) gives 40, hence 40 is a semiperfect number.
Given 40, the Mertens function returns 0. 40 is the smallest number n with exactly 9 solutions to the equation ?(x) = n.
Forty is the number of n-queens problem solutions for n = 7.
40 is a repdigit in base 3 (1111) and a Harshad number in base 10.
in the midbar 40 years
we changed into a people who were ready to enter Eretz Yisroel
the Mabul (in some sense) took 40 days
already completed
people that dont put away the shuls seforim after using them
that one gets me too
if i may i think sac just means it should be done discreetly and not “in your face”
if youre sitting with a chavrusa just turn away when you blow your nose
i think thats what she means
day o day ay ay o
you are right brisker that is proper derech eretz
on the other hand
sometimes these people are makpid to fulfill the Mitzvah of eating on Shabbos before chatzoz
sometimes they are diabetic
sometimes they have family and guests waiting for them at home
sometimes they are plain ravenous after not having eaten all morning
sometimes the baalai simcha should be more considerate and go directly to Kiddush and shmooze there
people who are obsessed with kleenex
more on the subject
when someone takes a public box of kleenex to use as their personal shtender, necessitating anyone who wants some kleenex to walk further away or to disturb the shtender guy.
on the subject
when people take two or three pieces of kleenex, at one time, to blow their nose, apparently without considering that it costs the Shul money and someone has to go out and buy more kleenex
40 makkos al pi Torah change a rasha into a tzaddik
chazal limited the physical makkos to 39, the person has to add the 40th by charatah and Tshuvah
it has been confirmed but if you read the whole snopes article you will see that the effects of the virus have been greatly exaggerated and there is a good deal of misinformation in that email.
its a “relatively” mild virus
Then again, this thread wasn’t meant to be a discussion on alt medicine vs anything else
too late
i know quite a bit about the subject
allopathy (“regular medicine”) is quite excellent and the only answer for most acute severe problems, heart attack, trauma, etc.
for the majority of the common chronic problems such as diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, it is worse than useless (except for advanced stages where it is necessary to control complications)
on the other hand the vast majority of “alternative” medicine is pure quackery and fraud. honeopathy is one of the most ridiculous although there are homeopathic practitioners that use a good deal of herbal and other treatments in addition to the useless homeopathic preparations. although most alternative medicine is at least harmless, as opposed to being in the hands of an allopathic practitioner
there IS something of substance to herbal and other natural remedies, but it tends to get lost among the quackery and hype.
the above consists of general statements. there are, of course, exceptions.
the above is the opinion of moderator 80 and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of anyone else (though it should)
thank you miss pie
if no one guesses it or tries after a day or so, ill take a stab in the dark
miss pie:
i take it moderators are excluded from your guessing game
you were around during that short time period when the moderation system was crippled
you got a glimpse
but even then we were still able to delete after the posts went up
I also regret that many interesting threads have been closed. Normally the people here are menschlach enough not to allow flaming and hurt feelings to take place without strongly castigating the offender. The CR usually has a self-correcting nature to it.
you would change your opinion if you could see all the deleted posts
i had the same thought.
but actually, an oxymoron is someone who tries to climb mount everest without oxygen tanks