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Of course second marriages have a higher divorce rate than first marriages.

They’re mostly populated by people who already had a failed marriage.

So today, I was popa.

I sat on a chair and it collapsed.

It was nice to see that there was something else in the room with a screw loose.

Also, http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/bread-theory-of-the-shidduch-crisis/page/2#post-603991.

So in other words, you agree with me hashkafically, you’re just sticking with your nonsensical reversal in agreeing with simple math.

That depends how you define it

I think he doesn’t assume a penguin has such emotions.

That does not seem to be related to hakaras hatov.

If you think that the actions of the penguin do not seem to display hakaras hatov, then gezunter heit, don’t learn hakaras hatov from it.

Or perhaps, tono v’shier. The gemara likely could have found other midos to be learned from baalei chaim.

If others do, and are inspired to hakaras hatov, why stop them?

Honestly, if someone had posted that we should learn tznius from a cat, etc., and you didn’t know the gemara, wouldn’t you have the same question?

If not, why, and is whatever chilluk you have so muchrach to shlug up someone who wants to learn hakaras hatov from a penguin?

Unless the Volover was involved, and I dont know if he is, if you think the holier than thou hechsher

There are some good heimishe hechsherim (including but certainly not limited to the Volover Rav), and some almost worthless ones. People need to do their research, and not assume that a fancy symbol with Hebrew words automatically means it’s good.

You’ve identified the wrong yetzer hora here, though. This is not so much about gaavah, it’s more about gelt.

Re: non dairy creamers. I was in the supermarket last night, and the two or three brands they carried did not say NON DAIRY in a very visible place; the product description was “coffee creamer”.

The ones I remember seeing were Nestle Coffee-Mate and International Delight.

Your comment about Oreos is a bit off.

What did I say about Oreos that is off? I think all I said was that the status might change and you need to stay updated.

No? Okay, I’ll go first.

We’re learning from their actions, not their motivations.

Now your turn.

That’s very kind of you, but I’ll let you go first.

Bridgette from Card Services is in violation, though.

Marry a goy? Huh?

Never through a CR thread, that’s for sure.

Not sure the point of your question.

Not because of a chumra; because it was misrepresented.

If you look through Shas, Shulchan Aruch and poskim, you will see that inherently, chumras are a good thing.

When the chachomim added the chumrah of muktzeh, it worked.

So Torah613Torah thinks it’s a bitachon crisis, an I think it’s a shidduch crisis.

We’re probably both right.

Let me give my own analogy.

Everyone knows how tough it is in today’s economy to get a job. There simply are not enough jobs for the number of potential employees (whether this is actually currently true or not is irrelevant to my point).

If an individual panics and thinks there’s no way he’ll be able to support his family, that’s a chisaron in bitachon. On the other hand, if he’s offered a good job even in a bad economy, he’s foolhardy to turn it down because he thinks there’s a better job out there somewhere for him.

If an askan sets up a job training and placement program because of the unemployment crisis, that’s not a chisaron in bitachon, that’s a very big mitzvah.

You can all figure out the nimshal.

Today I decided to be extra makpid in this area, so I made sure to peek at my neighbor’s siddur every now and then and made sure to be just a little bit ahead.

I’m sure you also were careful to take note of how much kavanah your neighbor appeared to have.

How about not worrying about how long everyone else is davening SE and just worry about your own (however long it takes)?

If it’s a small minyan, davening extra long might delay chazaras hashatz and hold back others from getting to where they need to go (e.g. work in the morning).

This by itself is not a justification for giving tzedakah somewhere.

I didn’t say it was.

She is trolling us. She is a grandmother.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/dentist-in-brooklyn#post-530931

Supporting the printer and caterer and the hall, etc, are all nice things but not if those expenses are unnecessary in the first place.

They need parnassah whether or not the tzedakah’s expenses are necessary.

As explained several times, though, the expenses are necessary.

He said part of the ???? ?????? of ????? was allocating the donated gold to the items with a higher level of ????? according to the purity of the intention of the donor.

So too, Hashem arranges that the money given with pure intentions goes directly towards the ???? ?????, and the money given with less pure intentions goes to the horse and wagon.

As I recall, it was R’ Chaim Volozhiner.

Yes, ZD, those are also good examples.

I think it’s also worth noting that a great deal of the money which you see as “wasted” is actually going back to the community. The meshulach you mentioned is but one example.