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MichaelB,

I completely agree with you. And it reminds me of the following story…

A student of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter once approached him with the following dilemma. “I’ve been a shochet (ritual slaughterer) for many years. As I grow older, I become more concerned about my responsibilities. The fear of causing others to eat non-kosher meat is overwhelming. I would like to stop slaughtering and go into business instead!” Rabbi Yisroel Salanter asked him, “Are you an expert in the laws of slaughtering?” “Of course, Rebbe, I have studied the laws of shechita for many years!” Rabbi Yisroel Salanter then asked, “Are you expert in the laws of business?” The student laughed, “Of course not, very few people learn Choshen Mishpat (the section in the Shulchan Oruch [The Code of Jewish Law] that discusses business law)!” Said Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, “You are not making any sense – If you are prepared to stop slaughtering because of your fear of sinning, even though you are an expert in the laws, how much more so should you fear sinning in business, in which you have no expertise in its halachos!”

Source: http://www.torah.org/advanced/business-halacha/

Plenty of people in other countries are willing to work for less because their cost of living is lower doesnt mean that they are any less capable.

They are all pretty much the same but non of them is high end even if they charge higher.

Didnt essex move to ave M and e 19?

I dont mind them banning the sale of raw milk because we can still drink it if we wanted to by getting a cow.

What bothers me about FDA is that they will never review any natural cures (vitamins, herbs…etc) so are they really operating in our best interest? Or do they only care about the lobbyists from drug companies who pay them off?

WIY,

I was referring to:

“This is the way of Torah: Eat bread with salt, drink water in measure, sleep on the ground, live a life of deprivation – but toil in the Torah!…” (Avos 6, 4)

I hear that in Kiev, Ukraine it usually goes for around 250k US dollars. (dont know about this year)

I would like a way to go directly to the last post of any thread. Here are my suggestions how it can be implemented:

Next to a thread name have a little symbol and by clicking it you’ll go directly to the last post.

Or by clicking on the number of posts which are already written after the thread name.

Or let each user set up his preference (also go to first or always go to last post)

And the last way is the most simple but least effective way is once the person entered a thread he’ll see a link to click so he can go directly to the last post whether its on this page or not.

Would cooking with unfiltered water that might contain copepods treif up our pots?

Dont soda and juice manufacturer use tap water? Did anyone check it for copepods?

This thread started with someone saying that its difficult to pay tuition.

And Moq was the first person to mention about giving money and in his post he mentions:

“Poor OP is in pain; not a question of fair. Question of HELP. “????? ?????? ?? ???? ???? ?? ???’.”

So my assumption was that we are giving money to help OP to pay her tuition.

(i still didnt send my check because i ran out of checks but im considering sending cash by mail to make sure i take care of it before R”H)

Moq, should we just send it in or should we somehow note it to go towards the original posters tuition?

Well, you can buy “Mishna Berurah for Windows” and you can copy and paste from there. Otherwise, there is no free version of this text online.

HebrewBooks.org you can download a pdf and then copy/paste from there.

BP Totty “you realze this means 2 mother-in-laws!”

Yes that will insure that the guy actually sits in kollel the whole day.

Sometimes just reading the words of a prayer may not be enough. Hashem wants us to change through our prayers and segulos help us with it. Whichever way it happens but once we change then the decrees against us may change. When you go to a kever of a tzadik to pray somehow your kavonos may be a bit stronger. Because by doing something extra (something you dont usually do) you feel like your prayers will be more likely heard and answered so you concentrate on them better.

So i think segulos are needed for some of us to fool ourselves into praying with more attention. And once we do that enough times im sure we will change and our mazal will change with us.

(I think people can make up their own segulos as long as it leads you to pray better and to grow spiritually then it should work. However, it is obviously better to follow our tradition and only use the segulos that were passed over to us.)

Its a good solution for parents who are lazy, impatient and dont know how to talk to kids.

Mishna in Pirkey Avos 2::2 basically says that a person should learn and work together. Explanation brought by artscroll mentions that a person who only learns without working will come to do an avera. For example money from support will not be enough and then he’ll be desperate to find a job that pays enough to cover all the bills and will be forced to steal (or work dishonestly).

Generally, I think not enough people are learning halachas of business before going into the business world and then fall into temptations.

Whats DISHONEST about it is asking people to vote for YOUR picture. I understand someone asking us to vote for whoever we think is the most deserving of the prize but otherwise you are asking us to lie. midvar sheker tirchak! (stay away from a lie)

Before anyone tries to argue with me i’ll say this… I’m a programmer and i can easily send hundreds of fake votes to any contestant. Do you think i should do that? And do you think sending 1 vote from 100 fake people isnt the same thing?