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Sounds like recognizing and accepting that your emotional state isn’t
always as you would like it to be and can be affected by various factors
(that guess is based on nothing).

And don’t forget, while everyone else says to wear a mask,
the CDC says to only wear them if you are sick.

I recently read somewhere online that masks are designed
to protect others from the wearer’s sickness, not vice versa.

I wanted to tag the thread (and thought you’d just delete the blank post).

That was my assumption 

Does seminary’s cause a shidduch crisis?

Was that allowed deliberately?

Yes, after much thought and determining it may not have been as it seemed. But it’s gone now.

Testing (part 2)

I don’t see why Joseph’s statement should be interpreted as
referring specifically to people who watched the Super Bowl.

Seriously you know the costumes are going to be an issue so find something else to do for 30 minutes. I wanted to hear [the singers, who are female] so I took the tablet into the kitchen, and while it was facing away from me

I don’t think most authorities are okay with that, either.

what a great idea! instead of looking for the zivug Hashem designated for us, let’s make our own criteria and actively avoid shidduchim sent our way that don’t fit our made up rules! 🤦‍♀️How could we not have thought of that years ago?!

I thought we did.

If I’m wrong show me how if I’m not then what’s your issue?

My issue is that you should know by yourself that you’re wrong. You asked for this.

I believe that is a war crime

Is your next question “Does it say anywhere ‘war crime’ is only if it’s part of a war?”

Geneva Conventions… civilians… armed conflict

“People coming across the border” are not involved in armed conflict (which is what the Geneva
Conventions apply to) and cannot be classed as non-civilians as opposed to their children.

Someone committing a crime, which he knows carries a certain punishment, who commits the crime while with his children so he can then say you can’t punish me because it will leave the children in a terrible predicament. That is classic human shield.

The classic use of “human shield” is as a military law term with a specific meaning. (It’s also come to
be used for any situation in which the tactic is used, but it has no legal ramifications outside war.)
Also, I disagree with the reason you give here for why people bring their children along
when attempting to move to another country (the alternative being what, exactly?).

The OP (I assume) sent the OP with minor changes as a letter to
Mishpacha, which printed it this week. Let’s see how that goes.

Digital versions of Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne (both best-selling, award-winning
board games) are free to download from the Epic Games Store until February 13.

(I think GH thought it was Sam – it’s his sort of talk – but it wasn’t.)

I don’t remember. Also, Sam (Klein, I assume?) is not the name I remember
the second poster having (“and I…”). Was their name changed twice?

The process is simple. Step 1:
Don’t feed trolls.

If you have a really long post with nothing too controversial in it,
you can split it up into multiple posts. (Years back, I think I used
to make a copy of every post I submitted and then delete it once
it had been approved, but that’s kind of a hassle.)

From an article somewhere on the interwebs:

Four years ago, the national media and liberal activists converged on the city of Baltimore, Maryland, following the shocking and unconscionable death of Freddie Gray, a man who died in police custody in 2015. Intense protests and riots occurred in the aftermath, and the city engaged in a consent decree with the Department of Justice to reform itself. The government’s investigations did indeed find corrupt and unconstitutional practices by some of the city’s police force.

But as Baltimore engaged in much-needed reforms to prevent police brutality and heal relations with the citizenry, it also effectively de-policed much of the city. There were 39,654 arrests in Baltimore in 2014, compared to 25,820 arrests in 2016, while homicides increased from 211 to 318 in that period. By November 2017, gun arrests were down 67 percent from the previous year.

Reverend Kinji Scott, a community activist in the city, told me last year that he blames this de-policing for the spike in homicides. “We saw the police department arrest less during a period of high crime,” he said. “So what happened is you have a community of emboldened criminals.”

I’m somewhat curious about who added “Country Yossi and
the Shteeble-Hoppers game” (1984) to Boardgamegeek.

(I realized what happened with my last post shortly afterward;
I forgot to delete the line I had used as a line length reference.)

Why isn’t Judaism the most ancient of all religions if it is the correct
one or is it the most ancient just wasn’t officially considered a religion?

Because people had plenty of time to make up religions before Matan Torah.

How come idolatrous religions are still alive and strong even in this age of understanding?

Age of scientific understanding, I assume? If you don’t make any claim
that can be proven or disproven by science, science is irrelevant.
(Science has nothing to say about right and wrong, for example.)

Obviously there are many instances where modern medicine is not fit
to cure and more homeopathic and herbal remedies are necessary and can fix.

Homeopathy has been thoroughly demonstrated to be based on nothing and doing nothing. (According to Wikipedia, “Although the treatments themselves had no effect, they were far safer than most medical practices at the time [late 18th-19th centuries]. The outcome from no treatment and adequate rest was usually superior to mainstream medicine as practiced at the time of homeopathy’s inception.” So there’s that.)

Wouldn’t it be strange if Judaism doesn’t have those
essential secrets but having to rely on other religious wisdom?

lot of times it’s intertwined and difficult to separate the wisdom from the religion aspect

One of your examples was medicine, a field we are told
that Chizkiyahu haMelech took away our knowledge of,
and your later comment about the difficulty of separating
religion and wisdom tells me you mostly mean Eastern stuff.
I’m going to assume that in that category, if we don’t have it,
it’s either not wisdom at all or it’s not essential for us to have.

I don’t think that’s a good argument. They said that success was portrayed,
not popularity (and real life tells us that successful people can often afford
to ignore others’ opinions of them).

Hmmmm.

The ways in which Jewish musicians can make money, and their potential audience numbers, are far more limited than those for non-Jewish musicians. What the latter does is not a basis for expectations of the former.

There are ways to listen to large amounts of Jewish music without great expense. They just can’t help you make a mixtape CD (which is also true for non-Jewish music).

(If you have the time, you could always audio-record the music you
want playing from a free source and then put that audio onto a CD,
though this might well result in quality reduction.)

I fully agree with Joseph here (which is rare).

And now the Coffee Room button on the top bar points to the Decaf forum,
which is perhaps better, but means that people probably won’t see any threads
categorized otherwise by well-meaning posters.

(Also, I don’t remember if this was different before, but this
thread isn’t showing its category at the top of the page.)

They may not have been seeking publicity, but it sounds like they’ve gotten it.

I don’t understand why they don’t just put the album on YouTube they will be making more money having their songs up there rather than selling overpriced CDs. All the non Jewish music is on YouTube ready to be downloaded so if it works for them why not for the Jewish songs?

YouTube is not a music sales platform, and I don’t think it offers downloads
of anything. You can make some amount of money on YouTube by allowing
YouTube to play ads on your content, but from what I hear, it’s not a lot
unless your view counts are very high. I don’t know if YouTube even has a
royalties system the way Spotify does (meaning artists are compensated
each time their music is played), and I’ve heard Spotify isn’t too profitable
for artists either.

Can your car play music off a USB drive? That’s another option.

There’s an unusually high number of screen names I don’t recognize
in this thread. (I can’t be bothered to check if they’re new users now.)