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Hate to respond negatively to an overall positive message, but Av is not the 9th month, it is the 5th (we refer to the tzom harivii, tzom hachamishi and tzom haasiri, for example). Even if we were to ignore the fact that Nissan is the first month and count from Tishrei, the date would be 11/9, not 9/11 (month/date).
Unless Tina18 has an AGI greater than 400k, some portion of the 30k she mentioned is deductible.
Regarding CHP, the State of NY Dept of Health website has a calculator that helps determine eligibility and premiums (if any) based on family size and income.
Your medical expenses, including premiums are tax deductable provided they exceed 7.5% of your income. Based on the 30k figure you give, unless you have annual income greater than 375k or so (I am guesstimating) this should not be an issue. You must also itemize (fill out a schdule A) when doing your tax return (this means, you must file a tax return, which I assume you do). Why dont you speak to your accountant.
“I work some part time hours in public and sometimes don’t wish to converse with a customer.”
I dont know what you do, but conversing with customers might be part of your job description and not doing so might be a dereliction of duty.
I dont have much dealing with Telemarketers. If I dont recognize the number, I dont answer the phone.
I still don’t understand or get the assertion that working boys are less yeshivish that learning boys because this person has not defined “yeshivish”.
Some people can’t see any good in other people. Some refuse to. Others think it is funny to egg them on.
Now that you finished bashing YU, who is next on your list?
Several minyanim for maariv in my neighborhood scheduled for halftime. The Berditchever would be proud.
I think Stehphen King wrote a book, Pet Seminary, answering many of these questions.
If this is how chassan/kallah learn to communicate with each other…..
Some posters in the CR are a strong argument for people descending from apes.
A pretty bad one.
Boston. Moshulu. Glogov. Tomashov. The list is probably as long as the list of towns and villages in all countries where chassidus and chassidim are found.
“what happened to the good old days off to spend time with the grandparents or any other family orientated activity???”
It is very possible the grandparents are at work, so they can help their married children make ends meet. Grandparents these days are a lot younger than they were in the “good ole days”. How many 42 year old grandmothers did you know 25 years ago compared to today?
I read this assuming FB meant football and figured to see a discussion about a chassan and kallah getting together to watch the superbowl. Oh well 🙂
“because these days boys that work tend to be a very different type than boys that learn (yeshivish wise).”
Can you elaborate, especially on “yeshivish wise”?
It’s not like mid winter vacation sneaks up on anyone. Doesnt the school send home a calendar at the beginning of the school year?
Can someone put together a list of monthly expenses for a couple that requires $3000 a month?
With PBA, I never question the reality as presented, I figure he/she lives in some parallel dimension.
Where does one draw the line? If someone davens in a minyan factory with 12 simultaneous minyanim and one has a bris, do they all skip tachnun? If there is a bris at the kosel, do all minyanim at the kosel skip tachnun? Only the simultaneous minyanim? What about the minyanim up to pusukei dzimra when the bris is taking place?
“this whole idea that since i can sit and learn for about 6 hours a day i deserve to get $36000 a year of support, is a brand new concept”
This past Sunday we received a call inquiring if the father of a certain was willing to commit support of $50,000 a year for 5 years.
(The girls father replied, yes, on the condition he tells me what hishtadlus he has done, or plans on doing, for years 6 and beyond.)
Did someone address me?
Still?
PBA. where can we find this psak?
We have neighbors who used to smoke on their porch and the smell made its way over to us. We spoke to them, but they just couldnt understand what bothered us. We overheard the smokers mention that they hated the smell of certain foods. We made sure to buy a portable griddle and fry up this food on the porch so that the smell would reach them. Now, they understand where we are coming from and don’t smoke where the smell will reach us.
Nothing like working it out like adults 🙂
Exactly, so what.
“Well, R’ Shach was talking to todays learners”
How many of todays learners, learn like R’ Shach?
“Also, the yeshivish mesechtos are far more than 10% of shas.In pages, they are over a third.In concepts, they are probably over 90%”
Pesukei Tanach?
“There were amoraim who weren’t experts in Tanach either.”
What they didn’t know would put todays girls to shame 🙂
“men cant be the master of all”
What do you think the girls are learning, studying and memorizing? Page after page of meforshei tanach, all men.
“this new stuff which can’t hold a candle to it (sorry Miami”
For what it’s worth, the first Miami album was released when your parents were teenagers- maybe younger, when Jimmy Carter was still president.
Doesn’t take anything away from Abie and Journeys though. Still great stuff after all these years.
It is a vicious cycle. Over worked, under appreciated and probably under compensated (possibly even never compensated) shadchanim, working harder and harder to make shidduchim, and as parnassah dictates will go after the lowest hanging fruit (the “easy” girls). On the other hand, more and more girls growing older with less and less interest from shadchanim, resulting in even more nervous, or even hysterical people making even more phone calls and further badgering the already over worked under appreciated and under paid shadchanim. The cycle has to be broken somewhere, why not with monetary carrot dangled in front of shadchanim? I admit, I think the idea stinks, but a bad idea such as this is probably better than nothing at all. Anyone have a better solution? Spit it out.
ABCD. You opened by complaining about a grandchilds siddur play. If you cant make it, you cant make it. It is hard enough to accommodate all class parents, now you expect them to check with all grandparents too? If they did that, they will never hold a play. All they can do is give some advance notice and hope people can make the appropriate arrangements. If you miss it, you miss it. Its not the end of the world for you, your children or your grandchildren. Of course I can understand the pressure to attend if the other bubby or zeidy was there and you are not……but, that is not the schools problem.
Are they your partner or your shaliach?
Or is it, for parties, they are your partner, but for teaching, they are your shaliach?
One can always head over to Fort Lee, NJ bike across the GWB, down the West Side to the Brooklyn Bridge, save the tolls and still catch Maariv at the Marriot.
Just do away with all school parties. Come up with another way to make the receipt of a siddur (chumash, mishnayos, gemara) important in the eyes of the students. Perhaps have a local Rav come in and talk about the chashivus of tefilla, on their level of course.
I dont know if there is an equivilant anywhere near Gateshead, but for those who live in the NYC area there is “The Gluten Free Shoppe” in Boro Park.
Regarding tax deductible….Blue Cross allows me to use FSA dollars for the purchase of Gluten Free products (if in USA, speak to your health insurance company), the paperwork is a bit tedious and all claims must include a letter of medical necessity, but it certainly helps offset the costs of GF foods.
Most major commercial food companies now list all major allergens on their packaging.
Ad masay?
“Did you ask the Yeshiva why the party is on a weekday?”
This isnt rocket science. These children dont have school on the weekend.
School is for the benefit of the student, not the parent or grandparent.
So you didn’t make it to the siddur party to see einikle sing modeh ani or dress like a tree. Life goes on.
Wool is naturally yellow. The more you wash your tallis, the yellower it will get as you wash out all the dyes.
You can shlep all the nachas you want out of your einiklach the next time you visit them. This should be your (as well as the administrators) biggest problem.
You mean YWN is not an acronym for Yeshiva World Newts?
Phentermine is no longer available in Europe (the FDA probably not far behind behind), its use has been linked to lung and heart problems.
Skip the shortcuts, eat right and exercise regularly.
WIY. I was being sarcastic. If the vacation hurts the ruchniyus of this person, they should get up and go. Instead they self righteously whine about it online. And people appluad that?
You can always move to the Artic circle. Eskimos are not known to be pritsusdik people.
“would you prefer: My ____________(fill in the blank tatty/mommy/bubby/zeidy) was poster of the week on YWN CR”
Certainly a lot better than My ________ was on the poster of the week in the post office.
I think special bus Rabbeim should drive the bus, this way, no bittul torah on the bus.
“the balding smelly flabby-and-showing-it female drivers.”
Perhaps this is on purpose. To avoid situations the OP is concerned about. Her balding, smelly flabby-and-showing-it husband is driving the high school girls for the same reason.