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OK, back on track. If the place is a favorite of the Prospect Park / Park Slope crowd, and is kosher, I’m pretty sure its going to be a real scene. Not a teen hangout, not a place where the lights & sirens crowd goes, but a real scene none-the-less.

Think Matisyahu, as opposed to Lipa.

Lets see what the first CR report has to say

OK, Bomb.. lets begin:

1 – When I compared chometz to toevia, I was refering to the fact that both carry the penalty of korias (the penalty for the transgressions, when bais din cannot carry out the sentence.

2 – of course I know the outside world influences me. So I keep a safe distance. Not hide under a rock, but at the same time, I don’t cozy up to the suburban family man, with wife, 2.2 kids and a dog either. Those who don’t believe in the torah are to be dealt with from a safe distance. Makes no matter what rule you’re breaking.

3 – I didn’t think I was bringing R’ Levin into the picture. The “good govt” I was referring to is the one that keeps pur budget in check, crime under control, and the trains running on time (ok, that I could compromise on).

And for the record, I don’t give 2 hoots about “social services” as things like welfare, food stamps and sec 8 (or hud, if you live in NJ) only hurt me, as the collectors of these things cause the prices of goods and rent to spike for working stiffs like me.

And no, I don’t mean the single mom, or out of work dad. I mean the folks who drive a leased car and pay for tuna dip with a Benefit Card.

So, if a candidate is all for throwing around $$$ to social services, he’s not speaking to me at all.

Chaim is blue? What a pity!

What you’re implying is essentially the position of the folks in EY that don’t take a penny from the Govt. After all, its tainted money, and by extension, that taints everything it touches.

Personally, I have no problem with that whatsoever. I may not want XYZ as my kid’s schoolbus driver, and certainly not as a son-in-law, but do I really care if the governor or mayor or president has a lifestyle that runs counter mine? Not really.

Because when you really get down to the nuts and bolts of it, toevah is not that much different than eating chometz on pesach? Yet we don’t go running and screaming when a candidiate does that.

So (IMHO) its less to do with kovod hatorah, and more to do with social confort. I tell myself and my family, we are us (frum, bnei torah) and they are not. So it matter not one wit what the candidate does on his personal time, or who he associates with (unless its fringe nuts that pose a threat to my safety, like neo-nazis, which is not the case here).

Will this person run a good govt? Give him the job. Period. I don’t have to advertise who I voted for, and I certainly don’t need to hold press conferences. Let me hear what the positions are in the issues that matter to the city, and I’ll make a choice.

I can’t say for sure, but if the place is popular with EMTs, Hatzoloh and Shomrim can’t be far behind.

Now that’s ambiance!

I was told the female metabolism changes after childbirth, so all things being exactly equal (diet, excercise, ect) the wife will gain more than the husband.

On the flip side, many women work like mad to lose the weight (and succeed) yet men gain it and keep it.

Why just read the news, when you can MAKE the news!

Dunno, but I’m going to try and swing by either this or next Sunday. Its got a OK hechser, so my guess is, its run by a Chabad’sker. Smith and 3rd is only a few blocks from the Prospect Park Chabad house, so if in doubt, you can check with them to see if the place is under their watch as well.

Need to lose weight for shiduchim

1st stop should be the thread above, which had loads of advice.

2nd – Poppa is right; think of yourself as being in the shidduch market, and see how fast your husband notices the new you.

3rd – sort of like Minyan Gal’s idea, but instead, pick an activity you cannot do now (like walk 6 flights of steps without stopping) and try to meet that goal within 6 months.

Winter is coming, so outdoor excercise is going to be a challenge. Stairs in a hospital is an ideal place, as its safe, well lit and warm / dry. (forget the gym, its too condusive to chit-chat).

Start with a small goal, don’t race your way to the floor you set as a goal, and above all esle, portion control. Denying youeself the foods you love will not work. Eat, but eat with a cheshbon.

I can’t vouch for the pricing, but the quality of the food is top rate. We buy strawberries (gasp!) and they are the best.

We must not have been on the same ferry, as the one I was on had a tour bus full of Eastern Bloc looking fellas, that in a different era, would have been introducing me to the business end of a baseball bat.

Sad to say, this weekend was not nearly as exciting. Hope your was more fun!

“wrap your boys in a Talis the first time you took theim to Cheder”

Thank you for pointing that out. It was many years ago, and I forgot.

Truth be told, I’m just getting used to having an “empty tallis” by dichuning. I guess its a sign of aging 🙁

The same way we turn a blind eye to loshon hora:

Lighting does’nt strike on the spot and “everyone’s doing it” so it goes unchecked and unchallenged.

But let that same bocher try to sneak a Hersheys,or wear a blue shirt, and he is DOOMED.

That’s where we are today. Sad, but true.

We have our share of busy moments here at the widget factory I work for. But right now, the paperwork dept is a bit slow, so I have more time to CR.

Besides, if you want to really fall into a deep sleep, try standing in a store, where the only things on display are of ZERO interest to you (for me, yesterday, this was linen). Let me tell you, I could sooner spend 30 minutes watching an ant hill. But to see the frenzy in the store? You’d think the shoppers were examining the Hope diamond.

Taco chips. My real fav is Terra Chips, but at $5.00 a bag, I don’t see it as home as often as I’d like.

A close 2nd is kettle cooked potato chips, but those only get bought when we go to Walmart or Shoprite (meaning: July and Aug)

Gosh, I am REALLY hungry now!

I think it was quite funny to see R’ Levin written up this past week in a charedie weekend newspaper, toting the virtues of Mr. Paladino, with R’ Zwiebel getting 2 lines in the article to say that R’ Levin does not speak on behalf of Ortho Judaism .

Would love to see how the same paper digs its way out of the hole, now that R’ Zweibel has been proven right. Is Agudah necessarily THE mouthpiece of Orthodox Judaism? Perhaps not.

But they sure do a better job of handling the press.

Blinky be on the Mods watch list? You have a better chance of being on the FAA’s watch list (I mean, those 500+lbs suitcases on the LA-Paris flight did raise a few eyebrows). But when they called the CR for a background check, we told them it was 499 cans of tuna fish and a contact lens case, so they let it thru)

What I wanted to adress was a comment made in one of your lymmiricks.

You’ve got your eyes on a a white mink!

Boy, I sure hope your chosson as deep pockets!

When to give up? When they are shoveling dirt onto a person, at that point, I would say, its truly too late.

But prior to that, there is always hope. Look at this week’s parsha; things looked pretty bleak for Hagar and her son, but at the last moment, her eyes were “opened up” (meaning, she saw a source of help that she had missed before) and all went uphill from there.

In specific regards to shidduchim, I heard in the name of a prominent Rosh Yeshiva (can’t recall the name, so I’ll leave it off):

Every one has a zivug, and it “belongs” to one person in particular. The trick is “finding” the person. But once the person “gives up” on “finding” the zivug, another person can come along and “claim” the zivug for themselves.

Bottom line.. NEVER give up hope.

Arc –

They may have “filters” of a sort, but it will still let our yeshiva / bais yaakov eyes see all sorts of things they don’t see at home.

Many of these kids do not have televisions, and on-line (even the library filtered kind ) gives them a real shock.

And no, I don’t have my kids walk around blind-folded. But seeing the stuff that can get thru the filter, and un-mod controlled chat rooms, no, that’s not a good diet.

All I’m saying is, watch what your kids are doing. Even in the library.

Blinky – Are you out there?

Something you said in the lymmericks thread caught my attention. I don’t want to derail your thread, so let me know if you’re on yet

I agree with Minyan Gal; the CR is one of the more respectful places on the web (thanks to the Mods, I might add).

And Oomis, I’d taek you up on the offer, but I’m fleshigs (polite way of ducking out, don’t you think?)

Now that I think of my choice of “fleshig”, its more true than I realize. When it comes down to it, I (like all of us) are “odom gashmi” (poeple of flesh and blood) so certain dividers are necessary to maintain the kashrus we so value.

OTOH, I think you, SJS, Blinky, Minyan Gal (those are the 1st that come to mind) would have a blast, should you find yourselves face-to-face in the real world!

In the meantime, I’ll try to convince Squeek to host a blow-out kiddush…!

I can’t speak for all kids and all libraries, but the ones in Bklyn have a much bigger danger than problem books.

Its called internet access. Think all kids go to read? Think again.

Good point, Ezrat. But back then, we had the resources (and then some) from Yam Suf and what was taken from Mitzrayim. Also, things used for “kedusha” things (like animals being used as a korban,or for food, which we elevate by saying a brocha upon) is use.

What society does today is ABuse. And this is the price humanity pays for being abusive.