Gadolhadorah

Per UJM, just drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with minced garlic, salt, pepper and maybe even some fresh rosemary and pop in the oven at 350 F until golden and crisp.

not every shayla is a root canal….

Nor do you go to an endodontist for a colonoscopy. There are poskim with expertise in the subject matter of your shyla based on its complexity but in most cases (aka baracha over pizza) your LRP is the obvious starting point.

In the time spent soliciting halachic opinions, “psudo-psaks” and uninformed speculation from the CR talmedei chachaim, you could say hamotzi several times over as well as a few kapital tehillim and perhaps even do chazorah on a blat gemorah. If you don’t value your time, definitely keep on asking questions.

But will Biden sign it?
He will check with John Kerry as to whether it will facilitate tikun olam. I’m not certain that netz/alos haschachar will be part of that assessment.

Reb E: You might also mention that for those who endeavor to serve the tzibur w/o expectation of immediate compensation, there is the promise of a dual stream of future benefits in that Hashem will reward them in some undefined way but will ALSO but also will remove any sickness….HaKadosh Boruch Hu y’shaleim s’charam, v’yasir meheim kol machalah. Whether cleaning the beis medrash, putting seforim back on the shelves, serving in Hatzalah or the Chevrah Kadisha, HaKadosh Boruch Hu y’shaleim s’charam. I doubt the tzibur could ever really “compensate” these selfless individuals for all they do so its a goog thing the Ebeshter has committed to backstop whatever appreciation the klal can provide

We’ve been purchasing most of our produce for years at Sunday AM farmers’ markets, supplemented by monthly deliveries of fresh produce from one of multiple subscription organic farms where you purchased a fixed interest in their crop which will result in biweekly (May through October) delivery of incredible fresh produce even though you never know in advance what will be included in that week’s boxed selections. For the past two years we also subscribed to beef and sheep deliveries from a local organic farmer (along with 5 other frum families) and import a shochet from Baltimore driving down twice a year to shecht the animals and prepare multiple freezer packs. We have a small inexpensive chest freezer in the garage that provides for a couple of months worth of meat. When we try to figure costs, its probably 20 percent MORE than the local kosher meat markets but we think the quality is much better. Fish is still purchased from local seafood markets and the prices have gone crazy. Would love to have a nearby fisher that sells off the boat like some friends have access to up in the Portland (ME) area.
Bottom Line: Much better quality but not cheaper.

AAQ: Cholov stam is only allowed where there is a shaylah that the tzitsis might also be shatnez.

rightwriter: Trump will tease another presidential run to rake in the $$ up to the last minute and might even announce his candidacy if his ego/reputation require further nourishment. The lunatics who keep peddling his stolen election trash can and will continue their crusade. Bottom line: Even those who are generally supportive of Trump’s policies and acknowledge some of the Biden family stupid ethical lapses (remember Jimmy’s Carter and George Bush brothers who sought to cash in), there is zero liklihood the Dems “stole” the 2020 election so GET OVER IT.

” pretty much everyone’s economy is ruined due to the local and global COVID lockdowns which ruined individual economies as well as being impacted by the chain effect..

Rightwriter: Either you haven’t bothered to read any recent reports by the World Bank, IMF, OECD etc. but the world economy is not “ruined” due to Covid and is bouncing back with incredible speed. Indeed, global equity markets (except for the usual suspects) are near all-time highs, bond yields are up only 150 basis points from their multi-year lows, unemployment is so low it is depressing output etc. Inflation is the biggest near-term challenge. Whats with your “doom and gloom” postings lately??

Clearly, it would have been total chaos, had they attempted to hold the levayah erev shabbos. The Sunday AM timing clearly prevented mass chillul shabbos by attendees as well as providing minimal time for planning the necessary security to prevent sakanas nefesh from a sudden mass crowding event. If you watched the levayah, you could see how tight and narrow the streets were around the Rav’s Z’L home which could have been Meron 2.0 without some pre-planning. Even with those security precautions it still seemed semi-chaotic but perhaps thats inevitable in these situations.

Even with all the “woke” stuff going on the military, some really necessary and some looney tunes, I have little doubt that our forces would wipe out any competitive force, especially after watching several weeks of Putin’s “manly” warriors in Ukraine.

Marxist: More sechel, more $$, more gashmius (primarily in the Hampdens which of course is the far, far east of 5T) and surprisingly, even more ruchniyus although the latter data is subject to conflicting interpretations.
All of this validates the admonition as famously articulated by
R’ Horace Greely: “גיי מזרח יונג מענטש”

Just like the Russkies to expropriate $10 billion in aircraft on a yom tov of the owners of most of the planes. About two-thirds of these aircraft are leased by Irish companies, including Dublin-based AerCap, the world’s largest aircraft leasing company, with 152 aircraft valued at nearly $3 billion. To take such action on St. Patrick’s Day is a real shanda.

Marxist: You are correct and I could add several other groups opposed but the vast majority of lobbying groups are supportive, there are health studies showing lower cardiac and other illnesses during DST, etc. More importantly, the politics of this issue have changed substantially since the 1970s and this legislation is likely to become law within the next several months and take effect in 2023.

Ugyanígy neked és a családodnak!!

Akuperma: Totally agree that its unpatriotic (or worse) never underestimate the willingness of a small cadre of bankers to find ways of profiting off the most tragic events of human suffering. I can’t post the link but google “Russian War Bonds Never Die” for a fascinating story of the huge profits realized in a final settlement several years ago on Russian War Bonds from the Czarist era that were repudiated by the newly installed government after the 1917 Revolution.

The CR Chief Rav has issued a press release (not for attribution) totally denying this story and affirming that his ONLY compensation (at least in olam hazeh) is trying to dispassionately redirect all the OTD posters back towards a Torah-based perspective supported by objective facts and citations to T’nach (and an occasional Ungarishe vert).

But how many of these (relatively) BIG tzadikim are ganz meshugah Big tzadikim (as in the lead story just posted on the YWN news page) and have the mesiras nefesh and courage to assist another yid at the risk of his/her life.

Since its all relative, I was considering changing my screen name to MegaTzadik but out of consideration for those who might be visually impaired and read it as MagaTzadik, I’ll keep the status quo.

Great advice. Good news is that with a huge backlog of unprocessed returns from 2 years of Covid and fewer agents, there will be fewer routine (random) tax audits for most middle income taxpayers. You would probably have to be a really big baal tzadakah for the IRS audit software to flag your return for review based on unusually high charitable deductions.

If all yidden are “big tzadikim” why do we even focus on the lamud vuv tzadikim?? Are they “bigger” than the rest of us??

UJM: Many thanks for the geography lesson. I’ll forego the acronym and just use “Israel”. In any event, there was apparently another telephone conference several hours ago between Bennett and Putin, although no details have yet been released.

EY is desparately trying to thread the needle between the Russian and Western positions on Ukraine w/o triggering any reaction from Putin which would hurt EY in both Syria as well as the situation of Yidden in Russia. So far, they’ve been reasonably successful but their efforts may be styled as a dangerous geopolitical version of an old idiom warning that מיט איין פּאָר פֿיס קען מען ניט טאַנצן אויף צוויי חתונות

As usual, common saychel is right on point. Implicitly, he also captures the absence of common saychel on the part of our Troller-in-Chief who perversely believes in his usual “the most distorted interpretation of halacha always trumps (excuse the pun) common sense” mantra that teenagers should get totally inebriated without a figleaf of a caveat regarding pikuach nefesh.

AAQ: Sorry but too tired and too late to litigate the balancing of “public service” represented by the points you cite in comparison to what some of us consider the incredible disservice that was done (and continues to be done) to our democracy and social fabric. Much of what he “accomplished” was self-serving with collateral damage far-outweighing the benefits.

Perhaps you articulate a view (such as expressed today by former AG Bill Barr on the Sunday talk shows) that in a world of binary choices, you would prefer Trump and all his baggage to what you perceive as the alternative. I’m naive enough to believe there is an alternative that might provide most of the benefits you cite w/o leaving a trail of chaos and destruction. We have builders who have provided 5x to 10x more homes that are also affordable, educators who provided opportunities for hundreds of thousands to gain knowledge of the business world w/o being sued for fraud (and agreeing to pay millions in a settlement), etc. etc.