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  • in reply to: Moving to Eretz Yisroel to attend a BT Yeshiva #1087572

    they are both very much geared to kiruv

    in reply to: Visiting Rome #807417

    i will only own the Bugatti Veyron Super Sports

    as you know it is endowed with a 8.0L W16-Cylinder, four turbochargers, and a dual-clutch DSG computer-controlled manual transmission. the Veyron can reach a top speed of 253 mph.

    it reaches 60 mph in 2.5 seconds

    in reply to: Moving to Eretz Yisroel to attend a BT Yeshiva #1087567

    in that case i feel VERY strongly that Ohr Somayach would be a better match.

    although Aish is a fine place

    in reply to: Moving to Eretz Yisroel to attend a BT Yeshiva #1087566

    its spelled ohr somayach

    http://ohr.edu/

    aish ha Torah

    http://www.aish.com/

    i agree one of these two is your best choice

    which one depends on the question i asked above

    in reply to: Moving to Eretz Yisroel to attend a BT Yeshiva #1087562

    do you feel more closely aligned with modern orthodox or with Charaidim?

    in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807702

    as to the persistent postings of zahavasdad about the flag flown at the Yeshivah, it is well known that R Shach,tzl felt forced to allow it, and was not pleased at all. i dont know the entire story as zahavaqsdad certainly does not as well.

    as one of the commentators pointed out:

    in reply to: Who Said It? #808528

    but the answer to my quote is obviously not daisy

    in reply to: Who Said It? #808527

    barium

    in reply to: Who Said It? #808525

    okay my turn

    “Oh! Look Daisy! Mickey and I have the same last name!”

    in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807690

    correct, not everything involved in the state has those intentions

    in reply to: Who Said It? #808519

    Au-H2O

    in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807688

    i specified secular zionism in my post.

    its not a question of having faults that need to be corrected.

    it is a question about the very essence of the state, what it stands for, the principles upon which it was founded and continues to promulgate and strive for.

    in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807686

    yes we want it to stay alive

    yes we have hope there will be change

    yes there are growing numbers of Torah observant Jews in Israel.

    in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807684

    i dont deny the good that comes from their being a state. and i am grateful to Hashem for it.

    but the ignorant naive worshippers of the state should understand what its nature is, thats all.

    in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807683

    I do not for a second believe that they were moseir nefesh for the Medina just to take others off the derech.

    i neither said nor implied this was the reason for the state, just to take others off the derech. if you would read my post or if you knew anything truthful about the founding of the state you would know this. but the state that they wanted (the reasons for which were explained in my post) was to be one free of the archaic, weak, embarrasing lovers of Hashem and His Torah

    in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807681

    he did both

    both are necessary

    but the learning is the ikar

    the army is the hishtadlus that Hashem requires, ever since Odoms chait

    in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807679

    middle, yes we should have karas ha tov to the soldiers of the army

    in reply to: Anti-Fruminism #807674

    the state consists of atheists who want to be like the goyim. that was the whole point of the burning desire of the secular zionists to form the state. to be a proud and safe independent nation like all the others. not to be different. they hang their heads in shame at the “weaklings” of europe who “went like sheep”. they hate anything that reminds them that they are different from the other nations. they hate peyos, they hate beards, they hate Frum Yidden, they hate the Torah and all it stands for. when golda meir was given a kosher meal at the white house dinner she was furious. this is ultra typical.

    for political reasons they have to make certain concessions to religion. this burns inside them and they have never stopped fighting against it. as time goes on the concessions are less and less, whenever and wherever they can avoid such concessions they do so.

    the basic composition and creed of the state is to be pig-eating, Torah hating, embarrassed, would-be assimilationists.

    in reply to: corn beef #806813

    what kind of a recipe is that?!

    its not corn beef its cornED beef

    past tense

    make sure you remove the corn before cooking, so it will be corned beef not corn beef

    in reply to: i REALLY like apple cherry pie. #806825

    that has actually been scientifically proven. it applies primarily to cake but to some extent to pie also. by cutting very thin slices you expose a larger surface area of the cake allowing a good portion of the calories to evaporate, also the longer period of time between slices gives a longer time for the evaporation to take place.

    in addition since this practice gives the mental illusion of eating less than you actually are, your brain sends a signal to your gastointestinal system, limiting its absorption rate since the brain has calculated a smaller intake of calories.

    in reply to: i REALLY like apple cherry pie. #806821

    i can never eat more than a tiny bite of apple pie but i like it. same goes for apple pie.

    i get it, so you just eat a little bit of apple pie and you also just eat a little bit of apple pie.

    in reply to: i REALLY like apple cherry pie. #806819

    you dont like apple pie?!

    did you ever have it heated up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top?

    in reply to: yeshiva guy back-up degree #806788

    okay my last word on the subject

    i cant explain it to you

    first you have to understand what a Rabbi is and what psychology is

    in reply to: yeshiva guy back-up degree #806785

    i understand why you dont understand.

    in reply to: yeshiva guy back-up degree #806783

    yes as i said you can stop arguing now

    i fully agree a modern orthodox rabbi needs a course in psychology to know how to deal with the problems of his congregants, psychological training is just the ticket. having proper Middos is nice but cant compare to a certified degree in psychology

    you are right

    in reply to: yeshiva guy back-up degree #806781

    but i dont know what were arguing about.

    i agree with those who say that a college education will make a modern orthodox rabbi a better modern orthodox rabbi.

    you are right.

    in reply to: yeshiva guy back-up degree #806779

    yes if you are a pulpit rabbi who has poor Middos and doesnt have patience or know how to control his anger, training by those who study “psychology” based on the sound principles of freud and skinner et al, will be so much better than learning from Mussar Seforim and Tzaddikim how to improve his Middos

    in reply to: yeshiva guy back-up degree #806776

    if you want to do it right, you learn from the experts

    like the experts in biology who deny The Creator, and give you the facts as to how blind chance created everything.

    like the experts in psychology (whose basic tenet is to rid oneself of shame and guilt),who understand the workings of the human soul (if they at least dont deny its existence) so much better than Talmidei Chochomin.

    and the economic and political experts who again ascribe all their conclusions to chance and “historical principles” and deny there is a Boreh who controls and conducts the events of the world

    yes certainly it is critical for a Rabbi to learn this “knowledge” in order deal with the problems of their congregants. the depths of the wisdom of the Torah just cannot compare.

    and of course Poskim cannot consult with technologic experts. their minds are too dull to understand what they are saying unless the Poskim first exposed themselves to the tumah of the colleges beforehand.

    in reply to: yeshiva guy back-up degree #806773

    not as a “back up” but because it makes them better rabbis.”

    agreed but i would modify that to “makes them better modern orthodox rabbis”.

    in reply to: Does Anyone Else Find This Short Story Disturbing? #840714

    yes but this is not a reflexive statement since today and day do not have equivalent meanings (eg tomorrow is also a day, and since tomorrow and today are not equivalent, neither one is wholly equivalent to day).

    the obviousity is that “today” is clearly a subset of “day”.

    and although the statement “today is a day” is not inherently a tautology, nevertheless the relationship between the two terms is so well established as to make its specification redundant.

    in reply to: will katia follow irene? #806474

    i also dont think it will be a threat

    just trying to stir up some excitement

    in reply to: will katia follow irene? #806472

    could be youre right

    i only know ive seen actual hurricane paths end up very different from their projected path

    many times

    just as inland storms sometimes appear out of virtual nowhere, or predicted storms never show up

    in reply to: A change in "Good Shabbos" in Borough Park? #806408

    “unless oldish people told them.”

    as you should know the use of the word “unless” makes the phrase conditional, meaning depending on other conditions it may or may not be fulfilled.

    in reply to: A change in "Good Shabbos" in Borough Park? #806405

    depends on your perspective but as regards this issue, yes i am

    in reply to: A change in "Good Shabbos" in Borough Park? #806403

    oh

    the same answer applies to wiy

    newish people would not know the original sn, unless oldish people told them.

    in reply to: will katia follow irene? #806469

    there was already a jose, and also a lee, they both faded before amounting to much

    in reply to: A change in "Good Shabbos" in Borough Park? #806401

    bpt isnt his actual screenname

    the profile can be found under the original screenname

    in reply to: Does Anyone Else Find This Short Story Disturbing? #840705

    “today is a day”

    obviously

    in reply to: Does Anyone Else Find This Short Story Disturbing? #840703

    when i saw the title i didnt suppose id see a 25 page story by o henry or saki

    in reply to: Does Anyone Else Find This Short Story Disturbing? #840702

    probably only to you and haifagirl

    in reply to: will katia follow irene? #806467

    it doesnt have to hang a left, right now it is headed directly to NY.

    all it has to do is fail to hang a right before it gets there.

    correct as i said the computer models are predicting that it will hang a right soon.

    wind direction is allways unpredictable, at least within any degree of certainty.

    in reply to: Does Anyone Else Find This Short Story Disturbing? #840700

    its a story isnt it?

    and as stories go its pretty short.

    ergo it is a story which is short.

    in other words a short story.

    no it is not a “short story” according to the limited literary criteria of that particular genre of literature.

    but this story does not pretend to be “literature”.

    in reply to: will katia follow irene? #806465

    i wouldnt call it a nais

    computer models often go awry

    in reply to: Hospital on shabbos #805260

    i dont know the parameters of the Halachah, such as when and to whom it applies, but there is definitely a gezairah the Chochomim made that if a person has to be mechal Shabbos by traveling for a matter of pikuach nefesh he is allowed to come back on Shabbos, for otherwise people might not go in the first place, something along those lines. i know a physician who occassionally has to go to the hospital for emergencies on Shabbos and a major Posek allowed him to return on Shabbos.

    in reply to: Asking Mechila #805161

    someone basically stole a large sum of money from me many years ago, at a time that i REALLY needed the money. i wasnt moichel the debt but i was moichel him. eventually i was moichel the debt as well, when i realized he was never going to pay it back, so that it should not be on his record.

    certainly my mechilah of his debt was effective, but my mechilah of him was not with a full heart. nevertheless whenever i thought of it i asked the Abishter to please accept my mechilah even though i couldnt quite do it with an open heart. i did this for many years and i the mechilah became fuller each time, especially as time passed. its the best i could do.

    in reply to: Better Girls Than Boys?? #806713

    girls and women of ALL ages are generally more responsible and mature than boys and men, generally

    is this halacha or just superstition

    it is neither. it is a Minhag of a large part of Klal Yisroel, eastern european i believe. i am very careful about it.

    what you really mean sam is that you dont know anything about it, its a new one to you so you assume it is endorsed by a small number of Poskim, its mekor is in Kaballah and all the other Poskim are silent. you assume this based on your lack of familiarity with the issue.

    How many Poskim have you done research on their opinions of this matter? Have you spent the last month poring over their Tshuvahs, calling them up, and doing further research that you can speak with such surety

    in reply to: Women Driving #805838

    wy wife drives, my daughter drives, i never even considered whether they should or not, its pashut that they should drive.

    nevertheless if women driving is a problem in other frum communities, for whatever reason, well i certainly respect them for that.

    now many posts have been deleted from this thread, most from the same people that cry tolerance and achdus, and complain about the frum who denigrate their lifestyles. these same posters see nothing wrong with bitterly criticizing those more frum than them, how they are so foolish, ridiculous, a throwback from outdated times, wanting to be holier than thou, discrimination against women, pushing chumras down everyone elses throat, etc.

    now you may have good reason to continue with your practice, most likely there is no problem with it at all according to most Poskim (im only guessing here)

    but doing it because you are comfortable with the practice or doing it because you dont see a problem with it is, at a minimum, foolishness.

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