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A cross is a religious symbol but itsef is not worshiped.
Eat cocoa pebbles instead.
“how many crosses to you display in your home?”
So, now people worship things they have hanging in their home?
For the ambiance.
Perhaps if you bumped Shmuel Kolodny?
This should be your biggest problem in life.
Nobody worships the cross. Some denominations might worship the guy nailed to the cross.
Is it possible you have an overactive imagination?
why doesnt he explain what he means instead of everything guessing?
People pay upwards of 250 dollars or more for a lemon every year in the fall and it is chalked up to hiddur mitzvah. Nobody wonders why the lemons suddenly cost so much or why the lemon brokers are making so much money. Matzah is the same mitzvah, if you can’t afford the price of those matzos that come with every hiddur and chumra under the sun priced in, buy the less expensive matzos. You are yotze the mitzva just the same.
In fact, it is probably better than muttering about the cost under your breath while you are eating your matzah.
Perhaps they are internal documents accessible only to those with the appropriate network clearance? Why dont you call Rabbi Lebovitz?
sign up for a gmail account using your real name. dont worry about being found by those who want to find you using your real name.
Where do you shop? You dont have to pay $20 a pound.
Sign up for an email using your real name. You will be findable to all those who know your real name.
Oomis. You simply misunderstood what I was getting at. There is no hetter to be an obnoxious boor, rude or inconsiderate to others, with the exception of PBA, I dont think anyone disagrees. What I was simply saying, is that the coffee room is chock full of threads that are quick to speak to the negatives of other frum jews and hardly any that speak to the good.
Go to torahanytime.com and look for lectures by Rav Oelbaum. There is one that offers practical halachic guidelines regarding this topic.
We just love to bash each other. When push comes to shove it is these “nuts, selfish, out of it or something else” women who are the driving forces behind many of the tzedaka and chessed organizations that are out there.
The threads bashing other jews are plentiful, those praising them, are few and far in between.
The difference is, the 99 cent stores get them after pesach, when you you are better off eating dog food.
That’s Reb-Apushatyid to you!
Just curious. How many people reading this have been solicited for a donation to a yeshiva, by a yeshiva bachur home for bein hazmanim, whether at home, via the phone, at work, anywhere, ever?
Walk in behind them from now on.
“Like when they send you a free tape in the mail – most people give more
This deserved repeating. I’ve heard that if you repeat something idiotic, it starts to seem true, so I repeated it.”
I once heard from an administrator of a yeshiva the following anecdote, not sure how widespread it is though.
He was soliciting donations on the phone from the “mailing list” a little after Purim, and they came to old man schwartz who lived in another city. After some pleasantries, administrator asked schwartz why he didnt send his “usual annual donation” and schwartz responded that since he didnt get his box of candles chanuka time, he was annoyed at the school. They made sure to send him two packages of charoses and he sent back a nice donation.
My son attended the camp. He, and I are both satisfied with the learning. For specifics, call S. Kolodny.
Oh, and what exactly is “restrictive”?
Klal Yisroel has perfected the art of cooking with potatoes and potato starch! 🙂
Start with the concept of “eved hashem”.
I live in the heart of flatbush. Have several boys home for bein hazmanim. Neither my sons, or any of their chaverim from yeshiva, or chaverim from other yeshivos were asked to collect a single penny for their yeshiva over bein hazmanim and so far, not a single bachur has knocked on the door collecting for their own yeshiva. I’m having a difficult time believing the premise of this entire thread.
As for PBA. Consider those terms of endearment.
When did Rabbi Wallerstein give such a shiur? Which Rabbi Wallterstein?
On what setting in the dishwasher do you wash wrinkle free shirts?
The fact is, nobody knows the facts. Until then, it is all speculation.
Will the moderators allow your help to post on your behalf, while you are cleaning for pesach?
Thats because smokers are not a large enough voting bloc to worry any politician when they tick them off with another $1 tax added to each pack. Try that on a box of doughnuts with 15gs of fat per donut or a box of popular cereal that has 26gs of sugar per serving.
Obviously you have SOME 🙂
So, to answer the OPs question – “Should unhealthy foods be legislated against with high taxes and large warnings, much like tobacco products are?” I still maintain, in some way governments already do this in choosing when to charge sales tax and when not.
And some wear grey hats.
Black hatters, are not black.
This comes from the state of NY dept. of tax and finance website (the jurisdiction that governs the taxable status of items I purchase)…
Also, the following categories of food are taxable:
sandwiches (whether heated or unheated),
carbonated beverages,
candy and confectionery, and
pet foods.
Tax Bulletin ST-103 (TB-ST-103) Printer-Friendly Version (PDF)
Issue Date: April 13, 2011
Introduction
Most sales of candy and confectionery are subject to sales tax. This bulletin outlines items that are considered candy and confectionery for sales tax purposes, as well as items that are not.
Candy and confectionery
Candy and confectionery includes candy of all types, and similar products that are regarded as candy or confectionery based on their normal use or marketing. Candy and confectionery also generally includes preparations of fruits, nuts, popcorn, or other products in combination with chocolate, sugar, honey, candy, etc. Some examples of candy and confectionery include (note: any brand name product shown in italics is included as an example and is not to be construed as an endorsement of the product):
candy bars;
chocolates;
fruit, nuts, and popcorn covered with caramel, chocolate, honey, sprinkles, or other similar coatings;
honey-roasted nuts;
chewing gum;
fudge;
maple sugar candy;
mints;
peanut brittle;
cotton candy;
licorice;
dietetic candy; and
candied apples.
Products that are not considered candy and confectionery
Candy and confectionery does not include:
baked goods, including cupcakes, cookies, pretzels, donuts, and pastries, or any similar products such as granola or cereal bars;
baking or cooking ingredients, such as candied fruitcake ingredients, chocolate chips or bars, and marshmallows of any size (other than the candy or chocolate covered marshmallows described above);
maple sugar products, unless labeled candy or confection or advertised as candy; and
Packaging and marketing can determine tax status
In determining whether a product is taxable as candy or confectionery, or exempt as food, a number of factors are considered, including how the product is labeled, packaged, advertised, displayed, and sold. For example, pure maple sugar products are exempt as food unless displayed, labeled, or advertised as candy or confectionery. They are not candy merely because they are molded in the shape of a maple leaf or sold in individual quantities.
Lastly:
Purchases using food stamps
Food stamps* can be used to purchase any food, food product, or nonalcoholic beverage intended for human consumption (eligible items). If a food or beverage item is ordinarily subject to sales tax, the purchase will be nontaxable if the item is purchased with food stamps. Some examples of items that are generally taxable, but not taxable when they are purchased with food stamps are:
bottled water
candy and confections (e.g., candy bars, lollipops, chewing gum, etc.)
sandwiches
fruit drinks containing less than 70% natural fruit juice
fruit plants and seeds
vegetable plants and seeds
sodas (regular and dietetic)
soft drinks (regular and dietetic)
ice
sushe. where do you live/shop? I would like to shop there instead of my local shoprite.
They, are the roshei yeshiva of the yeshiva under discussion. If you disagree with them, go learn in another yeshiva, send your sons to different yeshivos, look for a shidduch for your daughter in other places.
For those who are talmidim of these roshei yeshiva, what I said applies.
When the gemara says “kul ma sheamar baal habayis taase, chutz mi tzei” it didn’t mean, listen to the roshei yeshiva except for their dating policy.
To some degree this is done already. The government doesn’t charge sales tax for a container of milk for example, but on a bottle of soda it does. No sales tax on potatoes but there is on potato chips.
Even if they tell you right is left…..
Sounds very torahdik to me.
She sees you posting online and figures you have all this free time…..
If the government can mandate that someone buys health insurance, why cant it to mandate people eat 3 servings of broccoli a week or mandate that people not be allowed to eat certain foods?
Oh wait, this isnt the forum for discussion on Obamacare.
Perhaps YWN should put all new users into a freezer for 3 months before allowing them to post anything.
Stores sell what people want to buy.
“If you look at the back”.
Unless you are her mother, father, teacher, rebbetzin. Dont.
Dont make BMG the first and only stop when looking for an eligible bachur. If you do, then live with the reality that that for several months each year a fair percentage of bachurim are not dating. MAke believe they are 14 years old.
AZ. Yes, what and no, what?
Tx
“NASI does wish to slightly lower the average age that boys get married/begin dating.
They have ZERO interest in modifying the freezer to accomlish that end.”
In other words. NASI would like to encourage boys to enter the freezer (and therefore “defrost”) at a younger age?
I think SolieK is basicly saying, if the question is relevant one has a long way to go. 12 inches below the knee can also violate the very same tznius mandate. It is more than the number of inches, but the proper attitude towards dress. With the proper attitude, the number of inches becomes an irrelevant question.
Should be plenty of space since it empties about 8 weeks before. Not sure who washed it out though.
The “freezer” concept, the way it was explained to me many years ago, was BMGs way of weeding out those who joined to learn from those who joined to facilitate their dating. True, not true, no idea. If true, that horse is so far out of the barn…..