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On the other hand, if you decline, one might think you are hiding something,
I was a camper there years ago. It was not a snobby camp at all. Good atmosphere,
Oomis,
It’s a pity I didn’t name the Posek who was involved here. You would never have question the facts.
In any case, as I appreciate the points you made. We all know Hashem rules the world though, and stranger things have happened…..
Several years ago in New York, a Frum guy was looking for a job.
As he glanced through the job adverts, a non Jewish company was looking for someone with requirements which suited him perfectly.
This required an interview on a specific date in late July, which happened to have fallen out in the nine days.
Being an observant Jew, he had two inquires to make on that matter.
First, was he allowed to apply for a job in the nine days. Lastly, what about shaving? He didnt want to present himself to Goyim looking like a mess.
After asking a very well known prominet Posek of that period, he was told that the first question is not a problem at all. The shaving was absolutley prohibited.
Well, as the time of the interview started to get closer, he became very nervous and uncomfotable about the psak. He kept on worrying on what impression he will make.
He needed the job very badly and didnt want to forfeit his chance. He tried to pospone the interview for after T’B’av, but it wasnt possible.
The day of the interview arrived. He got up that morning and approached the mirror several times. He couldn’t bear the ghastly image. After tormenting himself for about an hour, his yetzer hora go the better of him. He shaved his spikey beard!
He arrived at the Company , and the big boss, an upper class Gentile started friendly conversation .
As the interview came to a close, the boss pasued and said the following;
‘I am not Jewish, but I’ve lived in New York all my life. I see Jewish men everyday and interact with them. I know a lot of their customs and laws.
I especially know, that at this time of year, Jews are in mourning and the men do not shave!’
The frum guy became very edgy and before he wanted to explain, the boss interupted again and said, ‘But you shaved.You were not loyal to YOUR religion, and in that case, you won’t be loyal to our Company. I’m sorry, I can’t hire you’
Esther,
I know the mitzvos of Purim!
and it DOES says ‘chayov inish ….’
In fact, its been said that a person should get drunk to the point where he doesnt know the differnece between ‘Orur Homon’ and ‘Boruch Mordechai’
Every Mitzvah is holy, and in the case of Purim , there obviously is allowed to be ana element of Kalus Rosh.
As far is your story is concerned, this person was Mivayish someone in public. We all know how devastating the consequences of that could be, and there is no inyan of embarrasing someone else. But making a ‘clown of oneself’ is obviously permissable within limits. What does ‘vinahapch hoo’ mean? Dressing up, parading in costumes is obviously ‘letzonus. Ofcourse, its a holy idea and a mitzvah on purim.
Cherrybim,
don’t compare Succos to Purim.
Purim is a time for ‘Letzonis’ in general.
I mean, is walking around roaring drunk in some disguise becoming, and is it our way?
Obviously not, but Purim is an exception.
So as THIS is acceptable, why the ruckus about themed sholoch monos??
Cherrybim,
Can you please explain why?
Here’s a cute idea and very practical;
Buy a frying pan, put in a doughnut, potatoe chips, an onion, a potatoe, anything you can think of that can be fried. On the card , wrtie a ‘FRYlichen Purim.
Another idea is a DIET THEME;
Buy a salad bowl. Fill with some vegetables, diet coke, sugar free candies, rice cakes etc.
If you want something pretty. Buy a vase and fill it with jelly beans. Give it with a bottle of wine.
Italian theme;
Pasta
tomatoe sauce
potatoe chips with tomatoe flavor
tomatoe juice
cheese.
I know someone who’s last name is Shabbos .
If he had a son named ‘Yom Tov(which is a common name), his name would be Yom Tov Shabbos;-)
Beautiful heartfelt post.
I remember when the Tzunami occured, people were saying that this happened in a place occupied by Oivdei Avode Z’.
Germans never really paid a price for what they did and nor did the Communists.
Unfortunately , the innocent always are scapegoats.
I think if we start to educate our kids on how to be sensitive to others, regardless of their background and religion, we would feel like we accomplished a great deal.
I’m not sure but I think it applies to someone who LOOKS very frum but is not…..
man
1.
board
Ans. = man overboard
Okay, let’s see if you’ve got the hang of it.
stand
2.
i
Ans. = I understand
OK ..
Got the drift ?
Let’s try a few now and see how you fare
3. /r/e/a/d/i/n/g/
Ans. = reading between the lines
4.
r
road
a
d
Ans. = cross road
Not having a good day now, are you ?
Redeem yourself.
5. cycle
cycle
cycle
Ans. = tricycle
0
6.
M.D.
Ph.D.
Ans. = two degrees below zero
C’mon give it a little thought ! !
7. knee
light
Ans. = neon light
( knee – on – light )
U can prove u r smart by getting this one.
8. ground
feet feet feet feet feet feet
Ans. = six feet underground
Oh no, not again ! !
9. he’s X himself
Ans. = he’s by himself
Now ur messing up big time.
10. ecnalg
Ans. = backward glance
Not even close ! !
11. death ….. life
Ans. = life after death
Okay last chance ……………….
12. THINK
Ans. = think big ! !
And the last one is real fun – – –
13. abababababababababababababababababababab….
Ans. = long time no ‘C’
Rav Vorhand was the Rav in a Hungarian town called Makov.
The President’s Suit
As you know President Obama just returned from China. While he was
there the premier of China gave him a gift of a beautiful bolt of
cloth. When President Obama returned he wanted to have a suit made
from the cloth so he called a tailor on London’s famous Seville Row to
come over and make him a suit.
When the tailor arrived he measured the President and he measured the
cloth and declared that he could not make him a suit. “There is not
enough material” the tailor said.
The President was disappointed but after thinking about it for a while
he called the French Ambassador and asked him if he could recommend a
French tailor that could make him a suit.
The Ambassador said that he would have one of France’s top men’s
designers flown over
to make him a suit.
When the French designer arrived he measured the President and he
measured the cloth and declared that he could not make him a suit.
“There is not enough material” the designer said.
President Obama was disappointed and happened to mention the problem
to the Israeli Ambassador. The Ambassador told him not to worry. He
knew of a tailor in Israel that could make him a suit from this fine
cloth.
A few days later Yankel shows up at the White House. He measured the
President and he measured the cloth and told him that not only would
he make him a suit but a vest and an extra pair of pants to go with
it.
Stunned the President asked how this Israeli tailor could not only
make him a suit but a vest and an extra pair of pants when the English
and French tailors said that there was not enough material.
The Israeli tailor looked at President Obama and said,
“Mr. President, in Israel you are not such a big man”
There was a famous story with the Sanzer Rav.
He announced that he needs a shidduch for his daughter and he will award ANYONE who even proposes a suggestion regardless whether or not its the right one.
Naturally everyone came forward with their ideas and they were all paid.
One poor man who ddint even have money to make shabbos, decided that he has to propose something but he didnt know anyone.Finally he came up with an idea which he thought was unsuitable. Since he needed the money so badly, he approached the Rav on erev Shabbos. The Rav thought a bit, and then said ‘come back Motzei Shabbos’
The man argued that he needs the money for Shabbos.But as the Rav insisted M shabbos, thats when he returned. HIS idea happened to be the RIGHT ONE.
Assaf
Emanuel
shneur
Yekusiel
Paltiel
Kloinemus
Lets rephrase the question and make it more challenging;
Most common NON BIBLICAL names;
Lipa
Dov
Aryeh
Amitai
Yechiel
Yom Yov
Chovov
Yossi
Tzvi
Dovid
Girls:
Suri
Esther
Rifky
First names for boys I would say;
Bezalel
Pesach
Zecharia
Yishai
Kolev
Girls;
Tzivia
Kayla
Osnat
Re- the comment about Avraham Avinu being Mishadech with Besual.
It says that when Eliezer(avraham’s servant)went to see Rifkah, he had ‘Kvitzas Haderech’.
The wind blew him straight to where Rifkah was. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, he would have lodged on the way and the innkeeper would have probably asked him questions.
If he would have said that he is going to check out Besuel’s daughter for Yitzchock , the inkeeper would have talked him out of it……
So , if not here , then where can we learn that bad information can stop a good girl from getting ahead??
A few others that come to mind;
abimeleibt, Hakatan,MDshwecks,Shazam, sayitlikeitis,stan the man, abigezint.
YW, Moderator,
You have their contact details, why don’t you inquire as to why they just left?
Charedim Kol Yisroel was quite a asset to the site, I must say. He was clever, polite and thorough. Sammygol was hillarious and sharp. Then there was a poster named Yossi Brisuk, Midwesterner and ofcourse our resident lefty liberal, ILLINI.
I also recall Sarah.
Many of these bloggers are missing. Some cos they wer challenging, and others because they wre very qualified…..
I dont think they got bored! lol
They probably are still around under other names, as you say.
aussieboy,
Yes, but there were lots EVEN before them. I am wondering if anyone else remembers….
A600Kilobear I have seen recently.
There was also TORAHIS1, MDLEVINE, Sussnow,Sammygol(he was funny!), Cherrybim, .
Maybe the YWeditors can help?
There are lots who disappeared.
There was Moshe Fox, Gemorroh kop, Sheryl.
Any others you remember?
8, 2009 at 7:45Three Lives
It was a strange phenomenon. The famed professor Victor Frankl, author of the perennial best-seller Man’s Search for Meaning, and founder of Logotherapy, would send each year a check to Chabad of Vienna before the High Holidays. Nobody in the Chabad center or in the larger Jewish community could understand why. Here was a man who was not affiliated in any fashion with the Jewish community of Vienna. He did not even attend synagogue even on Yom Kippur. He was married to a very religious Catholic woman. He is not even buried in the Jewish cemetery in Vienna. Yet, he would not miss a single year of sending a contribution to Chabad before Yom Kippur. The enigma was answered only in 1992.
I Am the First Emissary
From the Chassidim to the Opera
On the very night after her performance at the Salzburg Festspiele, close friends smuggled her out of Germany to Italy. From there she managed to embark on the last boat to the U.S. before the war broke out, just a few days later.
Margareta settled in Detroit, where she married a fine Jewish young man with the family name Chajes (a grandson of one of the most famous 19th century Polish Rabbis and Talmudic commentator, the Maharatz Chayos, and they gave birth to a beautiful daughter.
Forward the tape recorder of history. It is now many years after the war. Jews were rebuilding their lives and their careers. The rabbis were rebuilding their communities. But one rabbi was thinking of not just of his own community.
You see, the daughter of Margareta married a prominent Jewish doctor, who was honored by the dinner of a Chabad institution in the US and his mother-in-law, Margareta, acquired an audience with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
The Rebbe listened. But he not only listened with his ears. He listened with his eyes, with his heart, with his soul, and he took it all in. I shared everything and he absorbed everything. That night I felt like I was given a second father. I felt that the Rebbe adopted me as his daughter.
Two Requests
At the end of my meeting with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, I expressed my strong desire to go back and visit Vienna. The Rebbe requested from me that before I make the trip, I visit him again.
A short while later, en route to Vienna, I visited the Rebbe. He asked me for a favor: to visit two people during my stay in the city. The first was Viennese Chief Rabbi Akiva Eisenberg, and give him regards from the Rebbe (the Rebbe said that his secretariat would give me the details and literature to give to Rabbi Eisenberg.) The second person he wanted me to visit I would have to look up myself. The Rebbe said that he was a professor at the University of Vienna and his name was Dr. Victor Frankl.
You Will Prevail
Using the German dialect, so Margareta would understand, the Rebbe spoke for a long time about the messages he wished to convey to Dr. Frankl. Close to forty years later she did not recall all of the details, but the primary point was that Frankl should never give up and he should keep on working to achieve his goals with unflinching courage and determination.
Margareta traveled to Vienna. Her visit with Rabbi Eisenberg was simple. Meeting Victor Frankl proved far more difficult. When she arrived at the University, they informed her that the professor has not shown up in two weeks. There was thus no way she can meet him. After a few failed attempts to locate him at the University, Margareta gave up.
You see, in 1947, Frankl married his second wife — a very devout Catholic, Eleonore Katharina Schwindt.
Victor Frankl showed up a few moments later, and after ascertaining that he was the professor at the University, she said she had regards for him.
Suddenly, the uninterested professor broke down. He began sobbing like a baby. He could not calm down. I did not understand what was going on. I just saw him weeping uncontrollably.
Forever Grateful
Suddenly, a change in his voice. Dr. Frankl melted like butter in a frying pan.
In the Camps
The Great Debate
You see, friends, this was no small debate. These two Jews were debating the very meaning of human identity and Victor Frankl had been advocating a view extremely alien to the then-dominant Freudian outlook. In a word: A human being has a SOUL, what we Jews call a Neshamah.
Freud, like most medical schools, emphasized the idea that all things come down to physiology. The human mind and heart could be best understood as a “side effect” of brain mechanisms. Humans are like machines, responding to stimuli from within or from without, a completely physical, predictable, and godless machine, albeit a very complicated machine, creating psychotics, neurotics, and of course psychiatrists.
Derision
Hope
“I began to sob. I cried uncontrollably. I was so moved. I felt like a transformed man. That is exactly what I needed to hear. Someone believed in me, in my work, in my contributions, in my ideas about the infinite transcendence and potential of the human person and in my ability to prevail.
Victor Frankl concluded his story to Rabbi Beiderman in these words: “??? ?????? ??????? ??? ???? ????”
I Love Chabad
And finally, Rabbi Biederman understood why he was getting a check in the mail before each Yom Kippur.
Their conversation was over.
Tefilin Each Day
But the story is not over.
In 2003, Dr. Shimon Cown, an Lubavitch Australian expert on Frankl, went to visit his non-Jewish widow, Elenor, in Vienna.
You get it? On Yom Kippur nobody saw him in shul, but a day of Tefilin he did not miss.
When they asked in interviews whether he believed in G-d, he would usually not give a direct answer.
But a day of tefilin he would not miss!
Oy, what a Jew!
The Soldier
In 1973, an Israeli soldier lay in the hospital, depressed and dejected, saying that he feels like committing suicide.
You see, he lost both his legs during the Yom Kippur war. He felt that without legs his future was hopeless.
One day, his doctor walked into the room. The soldier was sitting upright, and looked relaxed and happy. The doctor looked at him, and saw that his eyes regained that passionate gaze.
What happened? The doctor asked.
One Message
This, friends, was the potential the Rebbe saw when he decided to send Margareta on a mission to Vienna.
What is a soul?
My wife and I divorced over religious reasons;
She thought she was G-d, and I disagreed, !!!
1. Only in America……can a pizza get to your house faster than an
ambulance.
2. Only in America……are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America……do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to
the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people
can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America……do people order double cheeseburgers, large
fries, and a diet coke.
5. Only in America……do banks leave both doors open and then chain
the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America……do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in
thedriveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America……do we use answering machines to screen calls and
then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t
want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America……do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in
packages of eight.
9. Only in America……do we use the word ‘politics’ to describe the
process so well: ‘Poli’ in Latin meaning ‘many’ and ‘tics’ meaning
‘bloodsucking creatures’.
10. Only in America……do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille
lettering.
Pepper Steak
Slice the steak in strips and marinate it in a half a cup soya sauce with a quarter cup sugar.
Let it soak for about half hour.
The pour some oil in a frying pan. Saute garlic pieces with a tablespoon ginger.
Add sliced onions and green pepper slices. Add the steak with marinade and your favorite spices. Cook on low for about half hour or until brown.
DELICIOUS!!!
Sammy,
AMAZING!!!
Rochel Imeinu,
I heard that story a few years ago, and its really inspirational.
Unfortunatley though, its been said that it never really happened.
If your making it on Rosh Hashono, put in ‘leberlich’…LEIB ERHLICH!!! 🙂
Isnt this thread supposed to be humerous???
Why-Me,
I dont get it…..
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An American tourist
complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and
asked how long it took him to catch them.
“Not very long,” answered the Mexican.
“But then, why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more?” asked the American.
The Mexican explained that his small catch was sufficient to meet his
needs and those of his family.
The American asked, “But what do you do with the rest of your time?”
“I sleep late, fish a little and play with my children. In the evenings, I go into the village to see my
friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs. I
have a full life.”
The American interrupted, “I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help
you! You should start by fishing longer every day. You can then sell
the extra fish you catch. With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger
boat.”
“And after that?” asked the Mexican.
“With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second
one and a third one and so on until you have an entire fleet of
trawlers. Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then
negotiate directly with the processing plants and maybe even open your
own plant. You can then leave this little village and move to Mexico
City , Los Angeles , or even New York City ! From there you can direct
your huge new enterprise.”
“How long would that take?” asked the Mexican.
“Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years,” replied the American.
“And after that?”
“Afterwards? Well my friend, that’s when it gets really interesting,”
answered the American, laughing. “When your business gets really big,
you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!”
“Millions? Really? And after that?” asked the Mexican.
“After that you’ll be able to retire, live in a tiny village near the
coast, sleep late, play with your children, catch a few fish, and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying
your friends.”
And the moral of this story is: ……… Know where you’re going in
life… you may already be there.
yup-;(
I know that there was the famous story of how Reb Ahron Kotler noticed that when they advertised the Yeshiva, the artist enhanced the pictures of the surroundings with beautiful trees and green.
The Rosh Yeshiva saw this as a form of deception and requested the artist redo his work with more authentic graphics.
I remember witnessing a father of a boy giving his counselor a 500 DOLLAR TIP!!
This happned about 30 years ago in Camp Monk….
‘We have a family tree tracing us back to David Hamelech as well! ‘
Who did Dovid Hamelech come from?? Ruth Hamoavit!
Wolfish,
On the contrary. That logic means that if there IS a 1 in front of those zeros thats because YOU are worthy WITHOUT yichus.
I feel great when I am stuck in traffic and start honking along with everyone else even if I know it wont make anything move. It just relieves my stress!
reminds me of a pet peeve go: HERE to check it out