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He’s running for U.S. Senator, not king. Regardless of his goals, he’s not going to change any laws unless a lot of other Senators and Representatives agree with him.
A simple solution to this is for shuls to provide dating facilities. A place to meet, volunteer chaperones, cheap prepackaged meals (e.g. $5/person), a bookcase with board games.
“What I am saying is you have to love our COUNTRY (which is what our FLAG represents)”
I don’t believe that you have to “love” our country, but if you live here, you need to respect the government, including the court system and the police.
“Please explain… thank you”
nachas seems to be pointing out some interesting aspects of the Rosh Hashanah prayers. I remembered this post, and noticed these same things in the Machzor.
What exactly would you like explained? Would you like the Hebrew translated?
The irony of these protests is that they support violent criminals who get stopped by law enforcement officers.
5. prayer 🙂
And from today’s Daf Yomi:
“Rav Chanina and Rav Oshaya would sit [together every] eve of the Sabbath and delve into the Book of Creation. A calf which was at one-third of its maturity would be created for them and they would eat it.”
Sanhedrin 65bIs “lab-grown meat” really meat (in a halachic sense)?
Would “lab-grown parchment” be acceptable for mezuzos and tefillin?
I just noticed this in the original post: “helping children learn to become more confident readers by reading to my dog”.
Does that really make sense? I can’t decide.
“I think it talks about learning tznius from the cat and industriousness from ants…”
“R’Yochanan said: ‘Had the Torah not been given, we would have learned modesty from a cat, [not to commit] theft from an ant, [not to commit] adultery from a dove, [and] the proper manner of conduct [for marital relations] from a rooster, which [first] appeases [its mate] and then has relations [with it].'”
Eruvin 100bWhat would happen if you ignored the letter?
And again the forecast shows Jose going in a circle. If the boy wants to be famous, he needs to choose a target and attack. As George-Jacques Danton said, “de l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace.”
iacisrmma:
Ok. But why couldn’t the local kosher butchers do whatever was necessary to ensure that their products were glatt? Low volume of business? Politics?
@ctlawyer
I’m just about convinced to start doing my own meat grinding.Re: #3
Why couldn’t the locals learn how to make their products Glatt?CTL: Thanks for the detailed explanation. But now I’m going to think about smelly, spoiled meat whenever I buy ground meat. 🙂
I wonder if the national grocery chains have higher standards for their ground meat.
“Was it after Noah that Hashem said that you can eat animals? Or after Adam and Chavah were expelled from Gan Eden?”
I think it was Noah (Bereishis 9:3).
However, the commentary in the Artscroll Talmud Bavli (Sanhedrin 56b) states: “Tosafos write that the Gemara below means that Adam was prohibited against slaughtering an animal to eat, but if an animal died on its own he could partake of it.”
“People ate raw meat for thousands of years before cooking was invented.”
When exactly was cooking invented? It seems to go back at least as far as Noah.
I assume that bacteria were created along with the other species in the first days of Creation, before Adam showed up?
CTL: Do you do anything special to avoid the presence of harmful bacteria in the uncooked meat?
From the web site of the United States Department of Agriculture (usda DOT gov):
“Is it dangerous to eat raw or undercooked ground beef?
Yes. Raw and undercooked meat may contain harmful bacteria. USDA recommends not eating or tasting raw or undercooked ground beef. To be sure all bacteria are destroyed, cook meat loaf, meatballs, and hamburgers to a safe minimum internal temperature of 160 °F (71.1 °C). Use a food thermometer to check that they have reached a safe internal temperature.”We’ll be posting in Neo-yiddish instead of English.
“If the only way people will be frum is to make them speak a language nobody else understands and not let people speak the language of the country, then there is something wrong with your yiddishkeite.”
Speaking Yiddush is one tool, not the whole toolbox.
Does the practice of speaking Yiddush have value as an anti-assimilation tool?
Now Jose is going in circles again. He’s not going to get in the headlines that way.
The current forecast has Jose arriving at the NC/SC border on Shabbos.
“But how do I know if people are just doing this so that I should feel good about myself or if they’re doing it honestly cuz they like my voice?”
Start a part-time business giving singing lessons (for women only, of course). If you get rich from it, that will prove that you’re a talented singer.
What about increased observance of mitzvos, including daily Torah/Talmud study? In my admittedly limited experience, observance leads to more observance.
In my opinion, that’s part of the effect of the prevailing “you can do whatever you want” attitude in today’s society.
There are no rules, so everyone’s bored. They have to go to extremes to make things interesting.
“If the pilot is flying over a crowd at the beach, that’s also a shaila, because I don’t know if the pilot is close enough to actually see individual people in their likeness.”
FAA regulations prohibit flying an airplane that close to people, except for takeoffs and landings.
As far as the Shabbos issue, banner towing is probably a good way to be self-employed, assuming you can find enough customers. But you can do your own advertising. 🙂
It could even be a way of doing kiruv. 🙂
“I just didn’t (and still can’t) understand that someone has to be turning dials 24/7 to keep electricity going.”
Many problems can occur in a generating plant. Electrical circuits can overheat. Mechanical bearings can break. Steam lines can rupture. Even with 100% automation, there have to be human beings around to deal with unexpected issues.
To keep my lulav bundle from drying out, I spray water on it and store it in a plastic bag sealed with twist ties.
Isn’t the definition of “observant” closely related to intermarriage?
If you perform observances based on the “norms/rules of Judaism as laid out by your branch of Judaism”, or based on your community norms, or based on family tradition, it’s easy to rationalize deviating from those norms/rules if a good reason emerges.
But if you perform observances because they’re in the Torah that G-d gave to Moses, deviating is not an option. And the Torah specifically prohibits intermarriage.
Isn’t it well-known advice that you’re supposed to prepare for hurricanes by storing a several-day supply of drinkable water?
Here’s a related, interesting comment I recently encountered:
“A tzaddik is so captivated by the love of G-d that he attends to mundane matters almost casually, preoccupied, as he is, with far more exalted interests. During ordinary discussion his mind relates the subject at hand to G-d by natural transfer, like a lover whose every experience reminds him of his beloved.”
From page ix in the introduction to the Book of Nehemiah, in Daniel-Ezra-Nehemiah, Kesuvim / The Writings, Mesorah Publications Ltd., 2016.
“No. Too many winners ended up as suicide victims, murder victims and insane asylum victims. ”
But a few hundred million dollars would pay for a whole team of live-in psychologists to keep you mentally and emotionally stable. And you could have your own private Yeshiva as well.
“Maybe we should throw such a party, but none of us go? And instead we all send someone to represent us?”
And for added security, the time and place of the event would be known only by the moderators.
It would only make sense if everyone wore a burka with his/her screen name taped on the forehead.
And in other news, an Asian-American sports announcer was just pulled from announcing a University of Virginia football game. Why? Because his name happens to be “Robert Lee.”
At my location, it was only a partial eclipse. I glanced at it briefly without protection (it was really bright), then used binoculars to project an image onto a sheet of paper. But I forgot to say the blessing, 🙁
“Bigger Kappel Mor e yires shamayim”
That goes along with being more conspicuously Jewish.
As Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai said to his disciples, “May it be [G-d’s] will that the fear of heaven shall be upon you like the fear of flesh and blood.”
Berachos 28bI did a web search on “DIY soap on a rope” and got a bunch of results. So Bob’s your uncle.
The news said that we’re sending another 4000 troops.
That’s really my only significant complaint about the President. But he needs the support of the military and the defense industry, so he has to throw money at them and give them something to do to justify it.
When eclipses occurred hundreds or thousands of years ago, many people must have stared at them, ignorant of the risk to their vision. Are there any historical accounts of the widespread blindness that resulted?
“So, when does the wrecking ball take aim at the Jefferson Memorial. He was a slaveowner too. ”
The University of Virginia (UVA), located in Charlottesville, was founded by Thomas Jefferson.
Last fall, a group of UVA faculty members asked the president of the university to refrain from quoting Jefferson in her emails, because Jefferson was a slave owner.
“The Confederacy crushed itself by borrowing money from its citizens to fund the Civil War effort, and when the war was lost, the debt was worthless.”
That’s a good description of what’s been going on in America for the last several decades.
After the Civil War ended, the country was reunited. The people who were part of the Confederacy regained their status as Americans, equal in every way to those who were part of the Union. That applies to the leadership as well as the rank and file. So why should they not be honored?
iacisrmma: My size 8 kippa doesn’t stay in place very well, and I prefer not to use clips. I thought that a larger one might work better. And I would be more conspicuously Jewish.
But where do you get big yarmulkas?
I currently wear a size 8. I ordered two size 9 from an online judaica store, but they turned out to be size 7, falsely advertised as size 9. When I complained to the store, instead of letting me return them for a refund, they responded that “buying kippas is ‘tricky'”. I would post the name of the store, but I suppose that would be lashon hara.
I’m thinking of either getting some kippas custom made by a tailor, or figuring out to make some myself.
For an interesting perspective on the Charlottesville incident, do a web search for the article “Charlottesville never had to happen — How craven local politicians led our nation into tragedy” by Arthur Herman, a Charlottesville resident and historian. I first saw the article at foxnews DOT com.