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    29th century?

    in reply to: Herring #2163236
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    Never cared for herring.

    in reply to: Shame on EVERY Democrat – re Islamist-bigot Ilhan Omar #2162515
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    Next time a Jewish member of the House claims to be supportive of Jews and Israel, remember this vote. Jewish politicians, in the House and Senate, only care about themselves. This is ESPECIALLY true of Hypocrite #1, Chuck Schumer.

    in reply to: Board or bored #2153496
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    What’s a meat board?

    in reply to: Should all Yidden know Hebrew? #2151076
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    Aviary – giving “petch” was child abuse. Don’t kid yourself. You didn’t need to give “petch” to help a boy learn. My sons are now learning in Eretz Yisroel, one in his third year. They attended a Yeshiva where they didn’t give “petch”. BH a lot of fine boys came from that Yeshiva who now are in chinuch without ever having had “petch”.

    And I’m not talking about “petch”. I’m talking about sadism. I’m talking about the principal who once hit a kid so hard he knocked him unconscious and an ambulance had to be called. I’m talking about a rebbe who relishes verbally abusing children, calling them “ferd” and “hoont” and putting snow down their backs for laughs.

    You say that many Bnei Torah came from that Yeshiva. I personally know three classmates who went off the derech after graduation because of the abuse they received. Does that make it worth the “petch”? And now you’ll tell me these three probably had bad parents or were going off the derech anyway. You’d be flat out wrong. All three were from yeshivish Flatbush families.

    Deal with it.

    in reply to: Should all Yidden know Hebrew? #2150986
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    Avira: I was in Mirrer Yeshiva from 1978 to 1982. I’m sure things have changed in 40 years. For example, I’m sure the current principal of the high school doesn’t beat up talmidim anymore, like the one in my day did.

    My post was meant to say what it was like when I was there. I have no idea what it’s like there now.

    in reply to: Should all Yidden know Hebrew? #2150383
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    When I was in Mirrer Yeshiva, they went out of their way to keep us from learning to speak Hebrew. They told us that Ivrit was only spoken by the non-religious Jews in Israel and that Ivrit was an impermissible version of Loshon Hakodesh, which was only spoken by the greatest tzaddikim in Tanach. We were expected to know Yiddish (which I did). The Yeshiva refused to provide a Hebrew language course so we could take the Hebrew Regents exam. They even wouldn’t mention Yom Ha’atzmaut.

    in reply to: Does Hashem Want Us to Survive? #2142703
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    Do we even have the capability of reaching the level we need to reach? If we can’t, what’s the point?

    in reply to: Does Hashem Want Us to Survive? #2142585
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    akuperma: What’s the point of being kept alive only to live under existential threat century after century? How much longer can we live with unbridled hate?

    in reply to: Does Hashem Want Us to Survive? #2142583
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    ToShma: You say that Dirshu and all of the chiburim today don’t reach the prior generations. But all I read is how the Dirshu participants have tremendous spiritual strength and Ahavas Torah and Yiras Shamayim. If these people can’t reach the prior generation, what hope do we have?
    It just seems to me that no matter what we do the haters are allowed to arise. The tzaddikim of Europe were murdered brutally – if we can’t reach them, what hope do we have?

    in reply to: Does Hashem Want Us to Survive? #2142465
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    For those who say the quality of learning is missing. Don’t we see articles about tests being given everywhere on Shas by Dirshu to people in the thousands? Are these people not learning with quality? What does quality mean anyway?

    in reply to: More Bar than Mitzvah #2133848
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    I had a Shabbos bar mitzvah – a sit down lunch after davening, with a few speeches, some dancing and that was it. No music, no photographers.

    in reply to: Haazinu – Ask Your Father He Wil Tell You #2129358
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    I wish I could ask my father anything – he was niftar over 41 years years. Yom Kippur is his birthday.

    in reply to: 5t vs Teaneck- what’s better? #2128082
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    Marxist:

    I grew up in Kew Gardens Hills, lived there until I was 35. I’ve had enough of that place too.

    in reply to: 5t vs Teaneck- what’s better? #2127801
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    I’ve been living in the 5T for the past 21 years and I’m ready to get out. There is too much development going on, with large buildings planned, and the level of gaiva is ridiculous. Middos are lacking too. I’m not saying Teaneck is better but the 5T, in my mind, is done.

    in reply to: BTL degrees #2117524
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    Sounds like a scam.

    in reply to: Dear Zaphod-New Advice Column! #2104923
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    Zaphod’s just this froody guy, ya know?

    in reply to: Slavery Reparations #2092528
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    UJM: I’m a first generation American-born person. My parents were Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe who came to the US in the late 1950’s. All of their ancestors lived in Europe. None of them ever owned an African slave. I never have either. Why should I pay reparations?

    in reply to: Every Yids a safek mamzer #2091961
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    I’m not a safek manzer because I look EXACTLY like my father. And he was an only child so there’s no chance of hanky panky with a sibling. Plus, I have photographic evidence to show that my nose is the same as every male ancestor in my father’s family since at least 1800.

    in reply to: words that are not commonly used these day, #2081672
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    My mother a”h spoke mostly Yiddish to my brother and myself in the house when we were growing up. It was her first language (she was from Eastern Europe). My father a”h was also Eastern European but he only spoke to us in English. I am very conversant in Yiddish which has come in handy sometimes. Unfortunately all of my Yiddish speaking family members have passed away so I have almost nobody left to speak Yiddish to anymore. 🙁

    Looking at the OP, seems to me the elderly men were telling the young man to stop making such a commotion when lighting the candles. They used a colloquial expression.

    in reply to: Best and Worst inventions in the world #2062553
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    Best invention: Indoor plumbing. People take it for granted. My mother grew up in a little town in Eastern Europe and she had an outhouse in her backyard. She’d tell me about having to visit the outhouse in the middle of the night in the winter.

    Worst invention: Social media. It gives a voice to people who really shouldn’t have one.

    in reply to: profound question #2058540
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    My mother was from Czechoslovakia and she called it grfilte kraut.

    in reply to: Why aren’t autistic people that are orthodox open about their diagnosis #2045149
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    One word answer: Shidduchim. Or, more precisely, admitting that one has autism or has autism in the family would be a death knell for the possibility of being redt shidduchim. It’s shallow and stupid but that’s how it is.

    in reply to: Jewish Celebrities #2038263
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    Mayim Bialik is an actress who has been on several TV series and is currently the host of Jeopardy. She is a baalat tshuva who is an aspiring Orthodox Jew. She is quite public about it.

    in reply to: Jewish Celebrities #2034343
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    Reb Eliezer, the same goes for Paul McCartney – his children were born to his now-deceased wife Linda, who was Jewish.

    in reply to: It can’t be Chanukah already??? #2033168
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    I had a rebbe in high school who once said that five years for him went by faster than one year did for us teenagers. At the time I thought he was exaggerating but now that I’m older than that rebbe was at that time, I understand his sentiment.

    in reply to: What do you do to earn a living #2033167
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    Lawyer

    in reply to: The most unexpected place where you met yid. #2031154
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    You can often find frum Jews in unexpected places during Chol Hamoed Pesach and Succos.

    in reply to: Giving Your Child an English Name #2028368
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    I have an English name and I use it constantly. That’s because when I was a kid, my classmates would tease me endlessly for my Hebrew name.

    in reply to: I need help with homework #2023800
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    Check the Artscroll

    in reply to: will china do our next holocaust #2014496
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    Didn’t China save the Mirrer Yeshiva by allowing it to relocate to Shanghai during the Shoah? There is no historical animosity between the Jews and China although it’s true, you never knew.

    in reply to: i want my son to start shiduchim #2013696
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    If your son is 16, how old should the girls be who are going to be redt to him? 14? 13? Can you see your son marrying an 8th grade kid?

    in reply to: young chassanim #2013573
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    When he’s completed his education and has a good job with which he can support a spouse and not be a burden on parents, in-laws, the government or Klal Yisroel.

    in reply to: what is the meaning of life #2013572
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    UJM: I was hoping there would be at least one “Hitchhiker’s” fan here!

    in reply to: YWN COFFEE ROOM AGES #2012036
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    I’m 56. Full disclosure. Bar mitzvah in 1978, I leined parshas Tetzaveh. Shoin.

    in reply to: Hagbah Fails #2011192
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    Replying to zen3344: I am prone to sudden painful back spasms if I twist just the wrong way. To be safe, I never do hagba.

    in reply to: Frum Website? #1994062
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    How frum is your definition of “frum”, though?

    in reply to: shiduchim #1988162
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    I went through the Shadchan system when I was a young man in my 20’s. I learned pretty quickly that Shadchanim could only help you if you had at least one of the following qualities.

    1) You were very rich.
    2) You were a big learner and intended to be in Kollel
    3) You had a large family and exceptional Yichus

    Unfortunately, I had none of those qualities. My father died when I was 16 and left us no insurance, so I was not rich. Because I was not rich I had to finish my secular education and get a job as soon as I could, so I wasn’t a big learner and couldn’t be in Kollel. And my parents were Auschwitz survivors who lost most of their families to the Nazis and had to rebuild almost from nothing, so I didn’t have a large family or Yichus. So, as a result, most Shadchanim wouldn’t help me and the ones who did redt me girls who were not suitable for me (ten years older, et al). I finally married at 30 thanks to my mother’s friend, who knew a woman who knew a single girl. No Shadchanim.

    I hate Shadchanim.

    in reply to: We, Yidden: G-d’s Chosen People!! #1988157
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    Avi K: When I was in high school in Mirrer Yeshiva, I was taught that Loshen Kodesh was the true language of Torah and Ivrit was the language of non-frum Jews and shouldn’t be spoken.

    in reply to: We, Yidden: G-d’s Chosen People!! #1988156
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    Reb Eliezer: I had a rebbe once in the 8th Grade who gave a very lucid explanation about Jews being like the “stars in heaven” and the “sand of the Earth”. When the Jewish people are fulfilling their mission of being the light unto the nations and glorifying the name of Hashem, we are like the stars of the heavens – bright, beautiful, graceful in our movements and most importantly, close to Hashem and out of the reach of enemies. But when we commit aveiros and make Chilulei Hashem, then we become like the sands of the Earth – worthless, drab, plain, drifting endlessly and aimlessly with the wind and, most importantly, at the lowest point on Earth and susceptible to being walked on by even the lowest animals and insects. We can be scooped up, pushed around, thrown from place to place without anyone caring.

    I heard this explanation 43 years ago, and I have never forgotten it. Unfortunately, the Rebbe who stated it passed away young, at age 65, about 30 years ago.

    in reply to: We, Yidden: G-d’s Chosen People!! #1988037
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    We are the Chosen People – but what were we chosen for? This is widely misunderstood. We were not chosen to have the favor of Hashem no matter what – that much is clear. Jews have suffered more hatred and death than any nation on Earth. Rather, we were chosen to carry the עול of the Torah – to be the light unto the nations. And when we fail, we are punished.

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    The United States also employed Nazi scientists in the Mercury space program in the early ‘60s.

    in reply to: CAN THERE BE ALIENS?? #1963941
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    Choosid: I’m sorry, but such a Chulent will only exist in the time of Moshiach. Moshiach will be the true Great Uniter, someone whom every Jew from every walk of life will recognize as the Redeemer. The Moshiach is the only one who can create a Chulent that will be delicious to every Jew everywhere. Until then, there will be machlokes over how Chulent should look and taste.

    in reply to: CAN THERE BE ALIENS?? #1963452
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    I really don’t know why this is even a question. We refer to Hashem as “Master of the Universe”. The Universe consists of untold numbers galaxies, stars and planets. Hashem is the creator of all of them. Why shouldn’t beings exist on other planets? Perhaps they acknowledge the existence of Hashem in their own way? Who is to say that WE aren’t the aliens being pondered by beings on other planets?

    Hashem is the Master of the Universe. That means Master of everything.

    in reply to: CAN THERE BE ALIENS?? #1963094
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    Health: You mean Area 51. You’re probably thinking of Passenger 57, with Wesley Snipes.

    in reply to: CAN THERE BE ALIENS?? #1963049
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    Why shouldn’t there be aliens? Hashem is Master of the Universe and the creator of all living creatures, not just Jews. Hashem could easily have created creatures on other worlds, who also perceive Him.

    in reply to: Too Many Bank Branches #1948948
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    I feel we have too many bank branches in the 5T. We have Capital One, Apple Bank, Chase, Citibank, Roslyn Savings Bank and one or two others within a 3-4 block radius. We did have an HSBC too but that one closed.

    in reply to: Is there a middle class frum family financial crisis ? #1945990
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    Yes, there is a financial crisis. First, although I live in the “Five Towns”, I have a very small house – my plot is 40×122, certainly smaller than many homes here, in Monsey or in Brooklyn. We have two used cars, a Toyota can and a small Ford. We haven’t been to Florida as. family in 15 YEARS. Second, my wife and I are both professionals and make decent livings but we are struggling. We NEVER go away for ANY Yom Tov and we spend our summers at home. The truth is, the costs of Yeshiva tuition, summer camps and Glatt kosher food are so astronomical that only the very wealthy can afford it. Those of us of modest (ordinary) means are virtually living paycheck to paycheck.

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    Here’s why I thought Trump would be re-elected.

    People tend to re-elect Presidents who are in office while the economy is good. Jimmy Carter was thrown out after one term largely because of horrible inflation and his lack of confidence that the economy could rebound. Bush the First was bounced in 1992 because of a stubborn recession that began in 1990. I thought Trump would be re-elected because, prior to COVID, the economy was humming along and unemployment was at record lows among minorities. The Democrats were reduced to claiming that the “jobs” that Trump created were in fast food restaurants and the like, but jobs were jobs. The COVID pandemic was a blessing for the Democrats. The virus spread quickly without any knowledge of a cure or a vaccine, people died, the country went into lockdown and the economy tanked. Unemployment skyrocketed. Trump bumbled his way through this (not sure how anyone could have done much better – there hadn’t been a health crisis like this in 100 years) and in the end, the Dems were able to blame everything on him and, with the help of the leftist media, got their man in.

    I have no doubt that had COVID never happened, Trump would have been re-elected.

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