Awesome Stuff Yeshivish People Say

Is it a Yeshivish thing to make fun of someone and remind them of having eaten treif in their past? Is it a FFB thing? Or is it just a lack of good middos?

lol

It’s a Ma’aleh nowadays to be Over on Ona’as D’varim D’Oraisa?

Sam2, it’s chukas hagoyim not to

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Brooklyn Chareidim dont have tv, so newspapers represent a large portion of their news sources. (It is also true outside of Brooklyn but 1) they arent as concentrated outside of Brooklyn so it less noticable 2) outside of Brooklyn there are less opportunities to read the front page of a newspaper you dont own.)

Ever notice how when people say, “es chato’ay ani mazkir hayom,” they never confess anything really juicy?

EOM I’ve only seen them try and read Hamodia in the street boxes. I get to newspapers delivered daily – not tabloids – and with the exception of Yiddin opening them on Shabbos to look at the sports scores, I’ve never seen Yiddin stare at the papers.

DY: Meant in good humor is irrelevant. The worst of insults are often meant in good humor. Taken in good humor might change things, but how can you say that L’mafrea whether or not your action was Assur depends on if he cares or not? Maybe if you know each other well and know that this insult isn’t an insult it’s okay (there seems to be a wide number of Shittos about nicknames and whether it’s okay even if he’s Mochel and presumably it’s the same issue).

Also, I’m amused that McDonald’s and Hershy’s [sic] are equated.

Sam, which Gemara, the one about Vichikisem Bashem or Lista Bilistayusei Yada?

(I hope this is not Onoas Devarim, but I found Daas Yochid’s Chukas Hagoyim good and funny.)

Toi, Very funny, and innocent….

I didn’t grow up eating Hersheys and Haagen Dazs. I still eat them. And I haven’t grown up yet ^_^

About the newspaper thing, I see this a lot on Shabbos morning with people trying to check sports scores (perhaps the news too though that doesn’t usually change much between Friday afternoon and Shabbos morning).

If they are looking at a Jewish paper than it is probably because they’re curious to see it but don’t buy it themselves.

If you are seeing this daily I would say that it is just regular curiosity to know what’s going on in the world. Goyim would do this too if they hadn’t read the paper yet. They read it first thing when they get up with their breakfast while Jews go straight to davening so don’t always have a “newspaper seder”.

Hey 42 – that’s what we did last year and are going to do again – the big people who stayed up the whole night plus the big girls, we all made kiddush right after netz daavening and had chopped liver with our challah to satisfy the requirement for a fleishig meal. Then we all got up 6 hours later and had lasagna, quiche, and bagels/lox/cc – a rarity here in EY. Such a fun meal. We’re going to do it again tomorrow, byz”H.

Ummm, shouldn’t that be Chief Clergywoman? Or should we call it Chief Clergyperson?

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I miss the pralines and cream flavor havent seen it in ages!

Yeah, and forget about chumros like waiting for the new chometz from after Pesach (no lasagna noodles this year, whereas last year they had them and I also can’t buy the ready made graham cracker crusts or the premade pie crusts in the freezer section) and also for us folks who only eat a few of the hechsherim available it’s not always easy to find the stuff. My daughter i still looking for cinnamon raisin bagels like her grandfather z”l used to buy when we would visit the U.S. We started making our own cream cheese last year with pretty good success. I actually found cream cheese with a B’datz Eida Chareidis hechsher recently. It was a little stiffer than what I make (probably don’t let it drain long enough) but for the cost, I’ll deal with a little bit of a looser product.

Actually, as far as lox goes, I heard that there is a store on Beit HaDefus near Gutnik that makes the stuff and all of the other smoked fish products. I was told that you could get lox trimmings for 20 sha”ch a kilo, which is a tremendous price. I’m actually going to be not far from there next week, so maybe I’ll stop over and see what’s available. If it’s true, it would make an awesome lox spread with homemade cc, no?

we all know that bagels here arent as good

There’s actually a artisan bakery on our yishuv, with a real brick oven, the whole deal. He makes all kinds of breads, and his bagels are really good – as good as anything I’ve had in the states. People swear by his bialys as well, but I’ve never had them. See what you miss by not living out in the sticks?

Shabbat Shalom

and do you know what you miss by living in the sticks? being ten minutes from the kosel

There is no chiyuv to be at the kotel every day. It’s only an hour or so from where I live, so I’ll stay here – where there are no traffic jams and no parking hassles. B”H, I don’t need to take an 11 hour flight and pay $1200 just to get to the kotel (or anywhere else in Israel, for that matter).