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  • in reply to: The Mechalel Shabbos Troll #839337
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    You can keep changing your IP address by logging in and out of free proxy websites that are a dime a dozen online.

    That would be $0.008333333333333333, which, I guess, is close enough to free. 😉

    in reply to: Hebrew Fonts #839936
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Did you try fontzone? (not font-zone)

    in reply to: question that will probably be controversial #841363
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    Oomis,

    The fact that they had a baby does not make it muttar. if not for other factors (darchei shalom) it would still be called chinam.

    in reply to: Hebrew Fonts #839933
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Did you try Davka?

    in reply to: I decided the crazy thread was offensive #838669
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Stirah! (JK, I know what you meant.)

    in reply to: question that will probably be controversial #841344
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    It hasn’t gotten controversial yet. Should I start by referring to the issur of lo s’caneim? 🙂

    (Actually, it doesn’t apply here.)

    in reply to: Increase in OTD Children… are made to feel like second-class citizens, #839798
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Sam, “Not everyone agrees that the elbows and knees must be covered…”

    Of those that don’t, 50% of their kids text on Shabbos.

    If we weren’t so judgmental about the parents then many of these kids would be in frum schools and would not be texting on Shabbos.

    Popa beat me to it, but I’ll also respond to the point of the OP.

    How many kids really are in public school because the local cheder or Bais Yaakov didn’t accept them? There’s a lot of room between the frummest schools and public school! The parents who don’t dress according to chassidish or yeshivish standards of tznius rarely want to send to these schools. Their kids are in MO schools.

    And those who do want to grow and send their kids to a school which has ideals which are frummer than their own, have a choice to make. Either get rid of the TV (for example) or don’t expect to be accepted.

    A school has a right (some would say an obligation) to shield the kids from the more sheltered homes from being influenced, through other students, by the very same secular influences they are moser nefesh to keep out of their own homes. (I’m not referring to a case where there are no other frum schools; that’s a different story)

    I blame the parents, not the schools.

    in reply to: So you're married…THEN WHAT?! #838819
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    And you start worrying about marrying off your kids.

    in reply to: Popa Is Retarded. By, Popa #1200451
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Actually, it probably does. Go figure.

    Racial terms are also descriptive, yet you agree they’re offensive.

    in reply to: The YWN Coffee Room Welcome Wagon #1064340
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    I though it was hilarious. I searched for it under threads you’ve started.

    in reply to: I decided the crazy thread was offensive #838667
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    You can’t request your threads up and down at will, y’know.

    Is that in the Rules of the CR? (I know you don’t have to listen, but he can’t request?)

    Sure. You can request what you like.

    in reply to: Popa Is Retarded. By, Popa #1200449
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    popa,

    No, I didn’t mean to say they are bad. I meant that it is bad to be retarded.

    Yes, I knew that (in fact , I even said it!)

    I think the reason people think it’s offensive is because it is often used as a pejorative. If I call you “retarded”, I’m insulting you. Now if someone who has a developmentally disabled child hears that, they’re offended, because I’ve used a description of their child as a term of belittlement.

    Sort of how your mother might feel if I started calling anyone in the CR who said something silly a “popa”.

    Now do I get $20?

    in reply to: Popa Is Retarded. By, Popa #1200438
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    DY: you mean any word used to describe something which is actually negative will eventually be considered disparaging.

    Actually, I meant a word used to describe something which is seen as negative.

    Well, I think that is stupid.

    Another good example. 😉

    I agree we shouldn’t use words which describe ethnic groups which attained a negative connotation. But that is different, since the ethnic groups aren’t actually bad, they were just considered inferior for stupid reasons, and using those words perpetuates that.

    But words for things that are actually negative, it doesn’t make sense to keep changing the word.

    I lost you there. You seem to be saying that mentally disabled people are bad.

    I know you didn’t mean that, but that’s what it sounded like.

    in reply to: The YWN Coffee Room Welcome Wagon #1064336
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    in reply to: Popa Is Retarded. By, Popa #1200435
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    The terms mental retardation and mentally retarded were invented in the middle of the 20th century to replace the previous set of terms, which were deemed to have become offensive. By the end of the 20th century, these terms themselves have come to be widely seen as disparaging and politically incorrect and in need of replacement.

    In other words, any term used to describe something or someone in a negative way will eventually be considered disparaging.

    Much like certain terms which describe members of various ethnic groups.

    in reply to: Popa Is Retarded. By, Popa #1200436
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    The terms mental retardation and mentally retarded were invented in the middle of the 20th century to replace the previous set of terms, which were deemed to have become offensive. By the end of the 20th century, these terms themselves have come to be widely seen as disparaging and politically incorrect and in need of replacement.

    In other words, any term used to describe something or someone in a negative way will eventually be considered disparaging.

    Much like certain terms which describe members of various ethnic groups.

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883215
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    the majority of Poskim… a Mechalel Shabbos does NOT create Bishul Akum.

    What’s your majority? The machmirim include: PR”CH, PR”MG, Pischei Teshuva (113 aleph), CHZ”I, CH”S. You added R’ Elyashiv as well (I did’t see it inside.)

    You mentioned the meikilim as: Tiferes l’Moshe, Pischei Teshuva, Yabia Omer, Halichos Olam, Tzitz Eliezer, and, sort of, Minchas Yitzchak.

    So far, it’s even. I guess R’ Moshe would be the machria.

    (My point isn’t really the precise numbers, it’s that the machmirim are not a daas yochid.)

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883214
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    The obvious reason is because Mumar may be Menasech

    Actually, in this teshuva, R’ Moshe explains how it’s not because of that. He comes out that it’s based on minhag. Whether bishul would be included would presumably be dependent on what the minhag was.

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883213
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    “You haven’t explained why he needs another sevara to be matir a mechalel Shabbos’ pas”

    He doesn’t

    No, he writes: ???? ?? ????? ?”? ??????

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883211
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    You haven’t explained why he needs another sevara to be matir a mechalel Shabbos’ pas. If he holds l’maaseh that a mechalel Shabbos has the din of a Yid (I know he holds it in sevara), he should be matir even if it wasn’t difficult to hire other workers.

    Where does he state that their halachos are intrinsically different?

    in reply to: Increase in OTD Children… are made to feel like second-class citizens, #839741
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Thirty years from now, when new chumras that I can’t even imagine will be the new norm; someone will write in the coffee room of 2041 about our time;

    “Inasumuch as they didn’t keep halacha- yes, they were less frum.”

    Yes, there will still be people writing stupid things.

    Meanwhile, though, the people writing that are correct.

    in reply to: That Donut I just ate was totally evil. #838904
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Imagine what the donut thinks about you!

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883209
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Hello99, any comment?

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883208
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    You are actually missing the context; he’s contrasting all other issurim of maachalei akum with cholov akum. He mentions yayin because that’s where the acharonim are explicit.

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883207
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    No, I read it right. If you think it’s possible to read it the other way, you’ll still have a hard time explaining the first one.

    in reply to: Peyos #874096
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Yet, his haskama is on the poster (and I know it’s legit). I don’t have access to ??”? ????? ?? to check.

    in reply to: Peyos #874094
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Although not according to Rashi’s pshat. See Aruch and Tos. Harosh.

    in reply to: Peyos #874093
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Brachos 11a:

    ??? ???? ??????? ?? ???? ????? ??? ??? ???? ???? ????????

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883205
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Hello99,

    I checked the Igros Moshe. It is not as you say. Here are the relevant quotes.

    YD 1:45:

    ?????????? ?? ?????? ?? ??? ????? ??? ??????? ????? ???? ???????? ???? ??? ??? ???”? ????? ?? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ????? ??? ???? ?????? ???? ???????? ???? ???? ?? ????? ?”? ??????

    He agrees with the sevara of the matirim, but is only willing to be mattir for bread in a commercial establishment, in conjuction with his earlier sevara.

    YD 1:46:

    ????? ?????? ????? ???”? ??? ??? ???? ?? ?? ????? ??? ??????? ????? ??? ???? ???? ???? ??? ???? ????”? ?? ????????? ?????? ???? ????? ????? ??? ??? ?????? ?????? ?????

    Clearly, although he personally would be mattir, he does not do so in the face of the consensus of the Acharonim. (He is also clearly equating other issurim of maachalei akum with yayin.)

    in reply to: The Coffee Oscars! #992446
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    I’m going for humor here, no offense meant in any way. I apologize if I offended anyway.

    Apology accepted.

    (JK – I don’t think there was any apology needed) 🙂

    in reply to: Peyos #874089
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Hello99,

    This response from someone involved in the production of the poster:

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883204
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Thanks for the mareh m’komos (B”A). I’ll check out the IG”M, bl”n.

    I wasn’t disputing that there are sources l’hatir (TL”M brought in P”T, etc.), only that the tzad to be machmir is only a chumra.

    in reply to: Peyos #874088
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    r-b,

    Why would it get removed

    I might decide to change it. Or, a moderator might, but still leave the post. It’s hard to understand why certain links are allowed and others not, because different moderators are on duty at different times.

    in reply to: Story Tapes #1118406
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    Marvelous Midos Machine 4 is great. Highly recommended. As a bonus, there’s a beautiful song sung by Baruch Levine.

    in reply to: CHANUKAH QUESTION: #912615
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    I didn’t quote Wikipedia (or even see it). Probably, Wikipedia took it from the same source as I did.

    Your quote, by the way, actually confirms that it was originally a folk tune, not a religious one.

    Interesting question, though; if it subsequently used in a religious context, does it become assur?

    Hello99 was referring to converting a church, not a tune.

    in reply to: Popa is Brave #858395
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    Is it a merit to strive to daven without a siddur?

    Not that I know of. Everyone should do what works best for them.

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883202
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    Hello99,

    YD 53:4 : Yes you need a tlia, but it’s otherwise assur meiikar hadin. The term “?? ?????? ??????” is obviously only used where there is another approach, but still represents the basic din according to the one using it.

    48:12: See Shach, who explains it’s a gilui milsa because there’s already raglayim l’davar. Sounds meikar hadin to me.

    To me, a “chumra” means it’s optional. I don’t think one has a right to be meikel in these cases without additional cause.

    in reply to: ANNIVERSARY GIFT IDEAS??? #837149
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Professional photos of the grandchildren, maybe a poster sized one.

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883200
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    What would you recommend?

    in reply to: girls lighting #911654
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    DY: The first quote was more precise.

    I assume you meant to address GAW.

    in reply to: CHANUKAH QUESTION: #912611
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    According to edit link removed this, it’s from a German folk song.

    Why don’t you tell us the name of the german song, and then we can google it and listen to it.

    Because I don’t know it (but I’ll try to look it up).

    Found it.

    The present melody for the ?anukkah hymn has been identified by Birnbaum as an adaptation from the old German folk-song “So weiss ich eins, dass mich erfreut, das pluemlein auff preiter heyde,”

    in reply to: CHANUKAH QUESTION: #912610
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    nitpicker, actually many many many chassidishe niggunim are based from old Eastern Eurpean military marches or songs. (From what I have heard)I actually wasn’t in their military.

    There’s a difference between a secular melody and a religious one.

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883198
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Hello99,

    Could you post the basics (Gemaros, ikar Rishonim) here?

    in reply to: Shell To-Go Gas Station on 59 in Monsey #838117
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    parve yapchik

    I thought by definition, yapchik was kugel with meat.

    in reply to: Popa is Brave #858387
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    is it a sort of new “cool” thing to daven without a siddur? I have never heard of that. Maybe its like being cool and showing off?

    Some people concentrate better with their eyes closed.

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883197
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    MoMoMB,

    I basically agree with your understanding of the term, but not your comment that he hasn’t spent any time learning halacha. He obviously has.

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883194
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    I found the term “?? ?????? ??????” in

    ???? ??? ????? ????? ?”?

    ???? ??? ????? ????? ?”?

    There are, I’m sure, many more. Are these cases merely a ??????

    in reply to: In-grown toenails URGENT ADVISE PLEASE #838175
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    I always shut my phone off before performing bypass surgery.

    in reply to: Bishul Akum? #883192
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Hello99,

    But wouldn’t you agree, to answer her more recent question, that the CHZ”I would asser?

    in reply to: The YWN Coffee Room Welcome Wagon #1064321
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    yossi z.

    Full name/mother’s name, if you don’t mind?

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