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ZD,
Make up your mind. Are you discussing Twizzlers, or, Twizzlers was just a subsitute for anything that is made by a normal brand and a Hemish Sticker is slapped on it. Ive seen it on paskez stuff, Ruffles and more.
MorahRach: If you hold by it that’s your business no one should tell you to save money by not keeping it.
Agreed. Unless it’s your rov.
ZD,
Some of those products (maybe even most) are manufactured differently for the heimishe companies. Most heimishe products are made in big factories which are kashered for their production. Usually they use separate packaging, but sometimes they save on the cost by using the same packaging and just adding a sticker.
I should have pointed out in my earlier post that many who keep CY do so not as a chumra, but as the actual halacha. Many poskim did not agree with R’ Moshe Feinstein’s heter.
Charlie, nice to hear from you. How’s everything?
Empire is not cheaper than Alle (Marvid) where I shop. I happen to eat Empire; it’s supposed to be very reliable.
Natural and Kosher cheese is very affordable.
Someone who is pinching pennies shouldn’t be buying much ice cream anyways. Of course, CY products in general are more expensive, but not so much so that it really makes much of a difference in a family’s budget.
ZD,
Chassideshe shechita meat, in my experience, is no more expensive. For a small family, the financial difference in keeping these chumras is negotiable. You just have a pet peeve against them.
If you can put it together yourself, BJs sells one (if they still have it) for about $300.
Zahavasdad and MorahRach,
I agree that there is better use for the money. But it still is valid tzeddakah.
I’m nor sure I agree that there’s a finite number of tzeddakah dollars. I doubt everyone gives 20% or even 10% of their income, and even a higher percentage is often allowed (see the Chofetz Chaim’s Ahavas Chessed for specifics), so often, if a particular cause arises, more money is distributed than would have been otherwise.
I’m sure some tzeddakos lost out because of the amount of money given out to Sandy victims. I have no doubt, though, that the sum of tzeddakah money given out will still be more than had there not been such a need.
Similarly, some money given to support a certain lifestyle would have otherwise been spent on more basic needs, but some would have simply remained in the philanthropists’ accounts.
Lots of them (screen names – might be one person) are flaky.
ZD,
It is hard, but sometimes a friend will foot the bill. I’ve heard of cases where a friend will pay for the lease for a luxury car, to save the marriage.
ZD,
Yes, shmendrick is a put on character.
Hamodia copied the New York Times.
Eliminate
WIY,
Nice pickup.
Didn’t R’ Chaim Volozhiner remove it?
ouch
Oomis,
What’s a fancy, upscale Yeshiva? If you’re paying for gourmet. meals and expensive trips, I agree. If the higher tuition is for better rebbeim, I don’t think you can tell someone to scrimp on that.
ZD,
Collecting money to raise someone’s standard of living (which you are rhetorically suggesting) is not a valid use of tzeddakah money. Helping someone maintain their current standard of living is. That’s the halacha.
BDE
🙂
I guess now we should call it “Shang Meis”.
It drives me nuts.
Ah, so that was the cause. 🙂
Syag,
As a suggestion, yes. As an excuse not to support him, it’s, well, an excuse.
Al pi din, we should even hire people to run before his wagon. Allowing someone to stay in the community where he is comfortable is a valid form of “l’fi k’vodo”, IMO.
Actually, the Vaad of Flatbush is much better than it used to be, probably because of “attacks from the right”.
http://www.bethjehudah.org/music.htm
Towards the bottom, there’s a music book. It might have it (contact them before you buy it to make sure).
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GAW, from DBM’s OP: I have a wife and one child, with another child on the way. Doesn’t sound like he’s holding out an eidim in kollel (but you just had to get that in, right? 😉 )
ICOT, you’re right on the mark.
Oomis,
Please don’t call yourself ignorant. You are well informed about more important things (and, more importantly, a real “mentch”, if I may use that term for a lady. Other posters (myself included) have much to learn from your respectful and pleasant manner).
Anyhow, airplane mode (it may be called something else on some models) shuts off all active connections, including the phone, data, wi-fi, and all messaging. Aside from davening, it is useful in situations where you can’t use the phone for these things, and conserves battery.
I agree that it might be problematic even if not halachically so; I personally don’t do it. But since it’s certainly not assur, there are situations where it might be appropriate. And it’s really more a question of what people are used to, so it might not be appropriate in some places, but perfectly fine in others.
Apple store?
Thank you for sharing. You must indeed be in a lot of pain, and it’s quite valuable to hear your perspective.
Some of those you encountered were inexcusably rude. Others, however,
you judge unfairly.
There’s no excuse to berate you, especially in public. Kol hamalbin p’nei chavero barabim…
Not everyone, though, can afford to give every collector more than a dollar, and although you need the money, I don’t know. that you should be judging someone else’s financial condition. Besides, unless someone knows your position first hand, it might be unwise to give more than a token donation. You may be legit, but there certainly are some who are not. hakrdos. How would someone know?
I wish you much hatzlocho, and may Hashem bless you that you no longer need to come on to “matnas basar vadam”, ki im l’yado ham’leia, hap’suchah, hak’dosha v’ har’chava.
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound?
The Wolf
Actually, I think he does.
It’s grammar
Actually, it’s grammer. Grammar, you wouldn’t have to bother anyone. 🙂
When you don’t need to ask.
When you do need to ask, it might be the right one, but you don’t know it.
I hate the first few drinks, but after that, it’s fine.
I think it is more important to pay for the jewish education of frum children than non-frum children.
Yes, that’s why I always put in for the tuition prize.
I also put in for “l’shem shamayim” so I can tell everyone what a tzaddik I am.
Oomis,
Airplane mode.
Single me,
A serious learner might very well go to work 5-7 years or so after marriage. There are many who will do that, and for the vast majority of their married lives they will be “breadwinners”.
What you’re looking for, though, is a bachur with a good job who is very committed to his learning. That’s rare.
ZD,
So you’re saying that charedim do pay taxes.
Regardless, my point is that although tax money does fund certain services, those services are not “pay per use”, and nonpayment of taxes does not constitute theft of those devices.
Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that one legally didn’t pay any of those taxes either. Would you still say then that he’s a thief?
SaysMe,
I agree. Would you say, though, that constantly correcting others’ spelling and punctuation errors fits into the rude or kind category?
Why is that??
Answering that question will probably set off fireworks here, but the truth is, it’s because the “yeshivishe” hashkofah is that a serious learner should be learning full time, certainly as a bochur, and several years into marriage as well.
RD,
I didn’t mean it that way. 🙂
I don’t think “a shiur here and a seder there” is what the OP had in mind.
HG,
On Mensa, I assume that one is an outcast if he or she uses incorrect grammar, but I doubt that’s the case in most chat rooms.
Wouldn’t Facebook be dependent upon the specific people with whom the user interacts? It seems rather broad to say that Facebbook is a repository of proper grammar.
frozen strawberries
ZD,
Let’s say someone doesn’t pay taxes due to lack of income. Is he also stealing if he uses the sidewalk or running water?
The CR makes my BP rise.
Are other internet chat rooms and blogs better?
Oomis, it’s hard to give an eitzah since I don’t know the specifics, but is there mutual acquaintance, such as a rov, who can try to make sholom?
If someone dont like it dont read it
If someone dont like the comment disliking the thread dont read it (same to me, ad infinitum).
Oh, and using multiple screen names would enhance the illusion that this is the way the majority of kollel yungerleit feel and talk.
Food for thought: if someone had disdain for the kollel system and wanted to share it in the CR, what better way could there be than posting outrageously haughty and condescending statements in supposed support of the kollel system, and put down anyone who isn’t part of it? If such a thing would hypothetically happen, does anyone think some people might, a bit naively, fall for it and engage in serious discussion? (I know that I’ve been gullible.)
RD,
It seems that the OP is BY girl (she says a YU type wouldn’t be interested), so unless you’re the “yeshivish” type (and your posts indicate that you aren’t), your profile isn’t really relevant to her question.
Wolf, what happened two months ago? Did you not have a siddur, so you needed to use your ipad to daven?