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The anti smoking people have just as much of an agenda as the smokers, say just as much gibberish, and twist halacha just as much, in furtherance of their agenda.

HaKatan: Why? If one is of the opinion that living is E”Y is a Chiyuv, why wouldn’t one be obligated to give up their Ruchniyus for it? If taking a Lulav hurts my Ruchniyus, does that give me a P’tur from taking Lulav?

I assume Hakatan is not going with the shittah that it’s chiyuvis. Still, why the harping on the possible negative? Chibas EY is a positive, and should be cultivated.

Using Sam’s example of lulav, say I have a kosher lulav, but can get a nicer one, but I would need to drive for two hours to get it. I would miss my chavrusah or anger my wife who needs help making Yom Tov. Should I get it? Likely not, but still, hiddur mitzvah is an important value, one in which I try to be mechanech my children, even if sometimes there are other priorities.

LF: Well, sort of a time machine… http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/-1-years#post-536088

he doesn’t propose to create an unhealthy balance between “chibas E”Y” and the mitzvos. He doesn’t write that one should sacrifice his ruchnius for the sake of “chibas E”Y” or living there.

Did anyone on this thread propose such a thing?

Yes, Gam Ki Eileich…

Popa, ????? ??? ????? ???? for ????.

Here is the Sefer Charedim PAA referred to:

http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37325&st=&pgnum=197&hilite=

Hakatan, give it up. You’re wrong on this one.

But maybe your wife is dead and now the brother has no kids left?

Right. That was my kashya.

Also, ??? is an ????? in the ???, but ??”? is not.

Beautiful story.

Houses are cheaper further away from BMG. Also, most houses today are built with rentable basement apartments (built to code) which makes buying more affordable.

Most newly married couples rent, and when it comes time to buy, buy in a new development a fair distance from BMG.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/what-is-your-favorite-yaakov-shwekey-song#post-373991o

Nice idea for a thread.

I like rude people.

A Zilzul should mean something inherently antithetical to the notion of being Shoves. A ShabbosApp might Taka do that; I can’t see how an elevator does.

First, I’m glad we are maskim that this is worse than an elevator. This is indeed a stirah to being shoves. I like how you put that.

I think the reason an elevator might be considered zilzul is is because you are actively (for lack of a better word) using it, i.e. it is transporting you, whereas lights are just on, albeit benefitting you. I think 29 might be alluding to this point. Agav, my rav may be mattir to visit my grandmother on the 40th floor. With no alternative to walk, and a tzorech gadol, it might be okay. In the situation I was involved in, although there was a tzorech gadol, there was a reasonable alternative to walk.

Ivory, popa is referring to the fact that tzedukim held you can’t even have a fire lit from before Shabbos. However, we’ve always been allowed to have fire/light in our homes on Shabbos, the only thing that changed is that the source is now electrical.

Actively using an electrical device is entirely different.

Lior, there’s no ???? ???? ????? on ?????? ??????.

PAA, I remember thinking the same thing, but finding that someone (I don’t recall who) is medayek Rashi that it doesn’t apply to a pleasure trip.

Sam, I assume that you don’t condone chillul Shabbos for even an hour.

The developers of this app will have to give huge din v’cheshbon if they go through with this. Besides for not making anything muttar, they are fooling people into thinking they are making it muttar by inventing issurim which this app supposedly takes care of.

And no, Sam, emphatically NO, it would not be okay even if they somehow took care of the technical issurim.

http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14336&st=&pgnum=158&hilite=

Are they really?

Well, yours is a more feminine version.

And I’ve been waiting for a get for 11 years now.

Stop letting him have the last piece of cake, and maybe he’ll give it to you. It shouldn’t be a big deal; he’s got enough wives without you.

That reminds of the yekke and the non-yekke who were at shalishudis and there were two pieces of cake left, and the non-yekke takes the bigger one. Says the yekke, “you know, if I had taken first, I would have left you the larger piece.”

“So what’s the problem?”, responds the non-yekke, “you got the one you wanted!”

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What data is missing?

Population growth? Aside from being pretty obvious anecdotally, the Pew report has data on it.

Age gap? You’re right. No studies, but I’ll go with what my eyes tell me, that the starting age for shidduchim has a 3-4 year spread, and most marriages follow suit.

Disparity of older singles? I’m maskim to not accept anecdotal evidence alone on that, it’s reasonable to suggest that there would be a perception bias there. I’m not maskim to dismiss the fact that the first two (growth and gap) lead to a disparity, it is pretty simple math, and experts have confirmed that.

Ela mai? Girls go otd more than boys? 10-12% more boys are born than girls? 8-10% of girls are marrying chsssidishe boys? It’s my weakest link, I’m maskim, but these are all highly counterintuitive (or in the case if birth ratio, against census studies).

Sold. I think squeak is making the mistake of thinking I hold of age gap because of the PR.

Good comeback. Completely taking my position on the shidduch crisis out of context, but a good line nevertheless (and fairly mild considering how I blasted you earlier).

Shidduch Crisis Solutions

So you mean it’s better than the old one? OK, but why would someone use it instead of a regular browser (unless, as one poster mentioned, the don’t want a browser at all.)