? DaasYochid ?

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    Remember if yeshivas get vouchers, Madrassas’s will get them too and other religious schools as well

    Why should that bother me?

    And if vouchers do become legal, they will not pay for Limude Kodesh, but would pay for secular education and the state would have the right to dictate what secular education is taught

    They already do.

    in reply to: The Kiddush Hashem of Lakewood #1309784
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    You said clise to 8,000 in BMG kollel.

    in reply to: Overturn Lawrence v. Texas #1309737
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    That’s not a defense of your position.

    Wasn’t supposed to be. Regardless, you didn’t answer the question.

    There are cases in halacha where life and death matters are not decided by a simple numerical majority of lives saved and where the proper course of action to take is one where more people die.

    That’s not a defense of your position.

    in reply to: 4th of you know what! #1309738
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    I heard rav gifter used to hang an American flag outside his house

    I heard Meno hangs salamis at the top of the staircase going down to the basement.

    in reply to: Dried salami #1308871
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Simple. Keep a piece of salami lodged up each nostril.

    The additional benefit is that you can go back to telling your wife to get the laundry.

    in reply to: Decadent food #1308783
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    I tried complimenting my wife by telling her that her food was very good for my pursuit of prishus.

    That didn’t go over very well.

    in reply to: Shidduchim Stigma’s isn’t the way to go. #1308732
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    But we’re so good at stigmatizing people over things that have little or no consequence…

    Are you suggesting that mental illness is of little or no consequence?

    in reply to: Nonprofit grocery stores #1308727
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    NPGS is no longer non profit, but they kept the initials as the stores’ names.

    in reply to: Dried salami #1308726
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    There’s no accounting for taste.

    Especially with people who drink Folger’s.

    in reply to: Dried salami #1308718
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    If you don’t like the smell of salami, you probably won’t like the taste either.

    in reply to: Sefardim own Ashkenazim #1308711
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    Write away.

    in reply to: Overturn Lawrence v. Texas #1308709
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    I’m not convinced that a numerical superiority is the proper way to judge that.

    How would you judge it?

    in reply to: Overturn Lawrence v. Texas #1308605
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    I think your overwhelming trust in arch-conservative lawmakers to make sensible exceptions in certain cases is severely misplaced.

    Who says it would be overturned entirely by arch-conservatives? They would likely need to concede exceptions, even if they didn’t want to.

    For argument’s sake, let’s say it became illegal in all cases. Still, it’s hard to imagine that more halachically mandated abortions would be prevented than ones that are halachically proscribed.

    in reply to: Shidduchim Stigma’s isn’t the way to go. #1308583
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    DY, what will you answer when you are asked if you leard ??? ???? ????

    I don’t understand what you’re asking.

    in reply to: Government programs #1308287
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    TONIGHT DINA EVENT:
    educating our community on legal and buissness topics. in Williamsburg
    The continental 75 Rutledge st

    Learn to use spell check.

    😉

    in reply to: Shidduchim Stigma’s isn’t the way to go. #1308269
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Maybe he means that

    ????? ??? ?????? ??? ?????, ????? ??? ???? ????? ????? ????? ???? ??? ???? ????? ????

    is because she loved him. It doesn’t say that, though.

    in reply to: Shidduchim Stigma’s isn’t the way to go. #1308265
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Right – I’m asking him to explain his reference.

    in reply to: Shidduchim Stigma’s isn’t the way to go. #1308097
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Love conquers all (EH 165:4)

    Care to explain?

    in reply to: Government programs #1307474
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    DY, in debt? They made a million but spent $2 million?

    Nothing close to that. A simple kollel family not involved in any such numbers or shenanigans. There may be a bigger investigation going on in which innocent, or at least less guilty, people are getting caught up in.

    in reply to: Government programs #1307458
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    While I still see that to be lying and illegal, that seems to be a misrepresentation of what the case is really about.

    I don’t know about all, but at least one family struggles to make ends meet (is in fact in debt). It wouldn’t surprise me if they’re exonerated.

    in reply to: Underrated Jewish Music Albums ? #1307285
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    I know Yanky at the Pesach Seder is a classic. Yanky and Shabbos isn’t? Isn’t that the one with the Challah Lady and Shabbos Queen?

    in reply to: Synthetic engine oil is better #1307216
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Yes they do.

    in reply to: Synthetic engine oil is better #1307204
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Even if there’s something better than what they recommend?

    in reply to: And so it begins… #1307201
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    They got the money from taxes, which they have the right to collect.

    Who gave them the right to collect taxes?

    in reply to: Shidduchim Stigma’s isn’t the way to go. #1307132
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    People without mental illness don’t have emuna and bitachon? Why is that implication not discriminatory?

    in reply to: Eating in the store before checking out #1307131
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    You can’t compare a restaurant to a grocery. The way business is conducted is very different.

    In a restaurant, there is someone providing the food before you pay for it. This is not the case in a grocery.

    Obviously, if the store isn’t makpid, it’s okay, but I don’t know how you could just assume that they’re not.

    The fact that “it’s done” doesn’t convince me. The store owner nay not want to antagonize his customer by telling them to stop, but that doesn’t mean that he likes it.

    in reply to: And so it begins… #1307119
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Where did the government get the money from?

    in reply to: Dead men give no hashgachos #1307118
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    I have no idea what the lease said, but if it compromised kashrus, they need to comply with the hechsher’s demands.

    in reply to: Underrated Jewish Music Albums ? #1306419
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Doesn’t everyone have different tastes in music?

    Thats why I asked! If everyone had the same taste, I would know already!

    I’m asking what your gems are.

    in reply to: Marrying a Bas Talmid Chochom #1306307
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    That doesn’t make them wrong in some cases, it just means they weren’t saying a blanket rule.

    in reply to: Marrying a Bas Talmid Chochom #1306238
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    What about it?

    in reply to: Dead men give no hashgachos #1306234
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    The Bach would amend Joseph’s comment to this:

    Winnie, although common practice is as you say – because yiras shomayim in our generation is lacking – meikar hadin the owner is trusted (if he is a shomer Torah umitzvos).

    in reply to: Dead men give no hashgachos #1306229
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Winnie, you only partially quoted me.

    To slightly rephrase:

    Common practice is as you say, because yiras shomayim in our generation is lacking. However, meikar hadin, the owner is trusted (if he is a shomer Torah umitzvos).

    in reply to: Eating in the store before checking out #1306192
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    “but most stores don’t allow”
    what makes you say that?

    Some stores certainly don’t allow.

    Unless you know that this store allows, you can’t assume that they do.

    It’s usually easy enough to ask.

    in reply to: Peanut Ban in Schools ???? #1306188
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    The upside of allowing kids to play sports is tremendous. You can’t simply ignore that.

    The upside of allowing peanuts in school is not as great.

    in reply to: Lying about garage and yard sales #1306032
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    I was hoping for Rashi, but I guess I should be happy I wasn’t called Shteinzaltz.

    in reply to: Upstate cell coverage #1306025
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Sprint and T-Mobile are very spotty in the Catskills. Verizon and At&t have better overall coverage, although it varies from place to place.

    I’m pretty sure Sprint works in Camp Agudah.

    in reply to: Marrying a Bas Talmid Chochom #1306012
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Ubiq, that’s fine if the shver is emotionally supportive as well.

    A girl from a wealthy family is more likely to want a higher (more expensive) standard of living.

    Also, the literal bas talmid chochom has lived through it, while the virtual bas talmid chochom has merely learned about it, and there’s a big difference.

    in reply to: Lying about garage and yard sales #1306000
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    What ubiq is saying is that using a common expression is not lying.

    in reply to: Dead men give no hashgachos #1305998
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Winnie, although common practice is as you say, because yiras shomayim in our generation is lacking, meikar hadin, the owner is trusted (if he is a shomer Torah umitzvos).

    in reply to: Dead men give no hashgachos #1305763
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Menachem Mendel Schneerson is alive.

    He is a partner in Basil.

    in reply to: Kosher Sushi ?? ? #1305736
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Really? Am I the only one that makes decisions based on price?

    Yes. Don’t believe the others. They’re pulling your leg.

    You do buy Folgers, don’t you?

    in reply to: Eating in the store before checking out #1305734
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    I agree with LC.

    in reply to: Eating in the store before checking out #1304783
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    It means that it’s not allowed according to the NYC Department of Health.

    in reply to: Yeshiva tuition vs catholic schools #1304586
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    The church subsidizes it (it’s an investment for them) and they have very cheap labor (nuns get paid a lot less than rebbeim).

    in reply to: How do I know when my guilt is just yetzar hara? ?? #1304585
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Some guilt is good, and some is indeed the yetzer hora.

    Some is both, it depends how you deal with it.

    You really need a personal mentor to sort out the different situations and how to deal with them.

    in reply to: Peanut Ban in Schools ???? #1304548
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Yes, Meno, that was my point.

    If the rule is no peanut butter, kids will adapt. I don’t believe any kids have gone insane or starved to death because they couldn’t eat peanut butter in school.

    I do believe being singled out can be socially detrimental.

    I think using the term “mental health”, on either side of the argument, is going overboard.

    in reply to: Peanut Ban in Schools ???? #1304462
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Cute, suddenly emotional health is important! lol. What is emotional health in the face of a physical danger (to paraphrase almost all the above posts)? Are we worried about him feeling….inconvenienced perhaps?

    That makes no sense. He’s arguing that that how the kid feels is important, as well as the physical. He’s not pitting them against each other.

    in reply to: Peanut Ban in Schools ???? #1304466
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    So you have no problem having a kid skip lunch, if all he/she likes is peanut butter sandwiches?
    Do you think that’s good for that child?

    I’ll ask again what I asked earlier: if a kid is allergic to peanuts but all he likes is peanut butter, does he not eat in school?

    in reply to: Peanut Ban in Schools ???? #1304447
    ? DaasYochid ?
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    Yes, I did. The reward is death!

    That’s okay. If you don’t want to have a serious discussion, you don’t have to.

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