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  • in reply to: Do you love all Jews… #1800829
    Gadolhadorah
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    As the radio podcast asks every motzi shabbos: “Moishiach in the Air”.???? Based on the substance and tone of this thread, I’d renew your radio contract for the next year or two since your question will still be timely.

    in reply to: After millions spent on promotion why are 30% of seats unsold? #1800704
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    Millhouse: One would assume that the heilege rabbonim planning something as complex as the daf yomi cycle back in the early 1920s would have recognized the complicaitons of celebrating the 13th siyum in the NYC metro area in the middle of the winter. Perhaps they were a bit ahead of their time and assumed that once the Trumpkopf announced his intent to make aliyah from New York to South Beach, the entire yiddeshe tzibur iwould have immediatley followed him to Florida and the 13th siyum held in the Hard Rock Stadium

    P.S. I am definitely NOT for real

    in reply to: After millions spent on promotion why are 30% of seats unsold? #1800701
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    Thank you Reb Yosef…perhaps if they had learned a bit more slowly, the siyum might have been scheduled for a more thermally appropriate date. Conversely, assuming a fixed 7 year, 5 month+ daf cycle, the rent for MetLife stadium in July 2027 (the next siyum) may be a bit higher and the gadolim might end up sharing the stage with Bruce Springsteen.

    in reply to: After millions spent on promotion why are 30% of seats unsold? #1800600
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    BTW….Can anyone remember why the learning cycle was timed for a Siyum to occur in the middle of the winter (aside from getting a special discount on MetLife stadium given the likely absence of multiple bidder seeking to lease the facility on New Years Day)?

    in reply to: After millions spent on promotion why are 30% of seats unsold? #1800432
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    GH: Yes and no….It depends on family circumstances and at what price. For a family struggling to pay tuition, pay for essentials, have deferred repairs on the family’s car, and agonized several weeks ago over paying an extra $20 for a nicer esrog to be mehader mitzah, paying several hundred dollars to attend the siyum live is probably NOT worth it. For those more fortunate, price is not any issue.

    in reply to: After millions spent on promotion why are 30% of seats unsold? #1800399
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    Will the siyum be webcast live? While being there is always preferable, some may feel that observing the proceedings from a recliner in their heated luxury suite (their living room) with a personal chef catering to their culinary preferences (aka their wife’s leftover kugel from Shabbos with some take-out sushi) at ZERO cost would be preferable on what could be a cold, snowy New Years’ Day.

    in reply to: After millions spent on promotion why are 30% of seats unsold? #1799882
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    The facility and vendor charges change from year to year along with the projections of attendees. I don’t recall the prices for prior years and how they were allocated across the stadium, but they have always had staggered price levels so those at the top subsidized those at the bottom. They are not claiming to have “problems”….that’s your term. If the seats don’t sell at current price levels, than they should cut them gradually since at this point, the marginal cost of additional attendees is very low.

    in reply to: Do you love all Jews… #1799871
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    A yid cannot just give a “simple” yes/no to a very complex question….. we must bring down and illuminate BOTH sides of the issue before providing a reasoned, non-committal opinion.

    in reply to: After millions spent on promotion why are 30% of seats unsold? #1799860
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    “For the thousands who cannot afford the pricey seats while others are dining on steaks & wine, this won’t lead to much chizuk Hatorah at all..”

    A really stupid and cheap shot at the organizers and baalei’ tzadakah who are already subsidizing the lower cost seats…..Maybe to make this more egalitarian and provide more “chizuk” to the masses, the Agudah should just stage the event on 13th avenue and have the gadolim stand on top of a few flatbed trucks with big ‘boom box” speakers

    in reply to: Do you love all Jews… #1799858
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    מצות אהבת ישראל – לאהב כל אחד מישראל אהבת נפש, כלומר שנחמל על ישראל ועל ממונו כמו שאדם חומל על עצמו וממונו, שנאמר (ויקרא י( ואהבת לרעך כמור ודיני מצוה זו, כלולים הם בתוך המצוה, שכלל הכל הוא שיתנהג האדם עם חברו כמו שיתנהג האדם עצמו לשמר ממונו ולהרחיק ממנו כל נזק. ואם יספר עליו דברים יספרם לשבח ויחוס על כבודו ולא יתכבד בקלונו, וכמו שאמרו זכרונם לברכה (ירושלמי חגיגה פ”ב ה”א) המתכבד בקלון חברו אין לו חלק לעולם הבא, והמתנהג עם חברו דרך אהבה ושלום ורעות ומבקש תועלתם ושמח בטובם עליו הכתוב אומר (ישעיהו מט ג): ישראל אשר בך אתפאר.

    As they say, don’t risk your chelek of olam haboh by being too selective in your choice of who is “Reacha” based on your lack of empathy and understanding of others whose hashkafah is different from yours

    in reply to: After millions spent on promotion why are 30% of seats unsold? #1799805
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    Two reasons.
    First, the ticket prices reflect the cost of renting the stadium and all the operational costs of staging the event. They are already charging VERY high prices to those in the better seats (well above cost) to subsidize folks like you who kevetch about $100 tickets. No one says you have to bring all the kids to sit in the cold for 3-5 hours

    Second, I suspect a large part of the reason for unsold seats is simply that the unsold seats are those in the open areas of MetLife stadium where many are reluctant to commit for a New Years’ day event when the temperature could be a bit on the “cool” side.

    in reply to: Do you love all Jews… #1799472
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    KY: He had some fairly storng wrods for certain segments of the tzibur whose practices and behavior he did not approve of. Whether this was “tough love” or simply the Rav delivering his own unique brand of musar is hard to tell.

    in reply to: Shidduchim #1799401
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    Reb Yosef: Edited-tactless 🤨 Thus, there are many meforshim who opine that “18” really can be read as 18-20 YO and even then, that is when they should START looking for their beschert, not that they MUST be married as of the date they can legally purchase their first beer at the kiddush club (on chol ha’moed of course).

    in reply to: Guys, Satmar is ONLY 107 years old! #1799368
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    Going back to the originalpost, WHO CARES about their temporal position on the so called “Totem Pole” of mesorah. If moisiach shows up tomorrow and he is from a chassidus that dates back 1755, will we tell him we cannot follow all his instructions since we hold by another Rebbelah whose yichus dates from the late 1600s??

    in reply to: Do you love all Jews… #1799367
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    Nor those who ar in positions of power (or very close to those who are) and rmain silent in the face of evil

    in reply to: Jewish music with english words=Goyish. #1799287
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    If a big rebbe or even the most poishete yid has a melody in his mind and begins hunning if is that “yiddeshe music” . Does the individual have tovisualize lyrics from t’nach to make it legt?

    in reply to: Shidduchim #1799102
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    If a young man lacks the” שקול הדעת” to make such a far reaching decision, than he shouldn’t be pushed to marry and start a family.

    in reply to: Whats Baltimore like nowadays.Still OOT or suitable for intown fam #1799063
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    Rachamim: You left out Baltimore’s single most significant attribute…..The Ravens are HOT….the Giants/Jets are NOT. Why would any self-respecting Yid want to continue suffering the busha of another losing season where the only reason to ever step foot into MetLife stadium is a siyum .

    in reply to: Moisha’s Supermarket – A Request #1799062
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    “Some of their clientele don’t have internet and I wouldn’t be surprised that this is the bulk of people that take the carriages”… “What is that supposed to mean”

    I think he is saying that there is a group of yidden who shop at Moishas’ who follow the hashkafah of the Tsemishte Rebbe which holds that it is assur to use the internet but OK to steal shopping carts.

    in reply to: Shidduchim #1798912
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    On a serious note, your son is probably the one who knows best whether he is “ready”. The pressure some would place on our young men and women to marry “as early as possible” creates unnecessary stress. Your son should have much hatzlacha and find a wonderful girl with whom to build a bayis ne’eman b’yisroel.

    in reply to: Moisha’s Supermarket – A Request #1798920
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    Why doesn’t Moisha simply provide an online purchase and delivery service option to its customers so they don’t have to drive and park several blocks away and then “steal” the shopping carts when they have to shlepp their groceries back to the car etc. Its much more efficient and convenient to have a single truck drop stuff off to people’s homes meaning less traffic, less double parking, less noise and pollution (and more time to help the kids with their homework). As the technology rapidly evolves, even smaller markets will find it cost-effective to offer this option to their customers.

    in reply to: Looking to sell a between 100-250 used Excellent condition seforim #1798921
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    How is it that we can skip over a year in time and some will just enter a thread from October 2018 w/o missing a beat. Do you assume that the OPoster has further discounted these already “cheap” seforim and now is the time to cut a deal???

    in reply to: Rav Tzion Menachem, Mekubal #1798892
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    99 percent of the time, you will get a more accurate prophecy from Princess. Zora on 13th avenue in Brooklyn than some “mekubal” who flies over from EY and places online ads offering forecasts and segulahss for a “modest contribution”. Take the money and give it to your favorite tzedakah, learn and extra few hours every week, say a few kapitalach tehillim and ask your local rav/posek for advice on whatever it is you feel the need to know about the future.

    in reply to: Shidduchim #1798886
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    As Reb Yosef noted, he is probably 4-5 yearis too late…..all the good girls are gone

    in reply to: Moisha’s Supermarket – A Request #1798638
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    CT Lawyer: You are 100 percent correct….I’ve gotten too used to parking an SUV in a large open parking lot and pulling up to the front of the market’s entrance and having the “loading guy” carry my Tikun Olam Inon-plastic) bags from the cart to my car. Its been a few decades since I schlepped 5 blocks with my mother wheeling our own shopping carts to the market and shlepping it home. I can understand the role of the store’s shopping carts have become a surrogate for those we used t bring from home (we never owned a car back then).

    in reply to: Whats Baltimore like nowadays.Still OOT or suitable for intown fam #1798522
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    Philip: In fairnes ot Reb Yosef, he moved out of his mother’s basement years ago. His trolls are consistently well informed, articulate and occasionally humorous.

    in reply to: Guys, Satmar is ONLY 107 years old! #1798494
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    Does anyone believe Rav Yolish’s shitah on Tzionim and living and cooperating with the Medinah would be any different today than when he first articulated his views 70* years ago??

    in reply to: Moisha’s Supermarket – A Request #1798493
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    CT Lawyer has a good idea but even easier and more effective are the shopping carts now the norm in most big cities in Japan and China which use a chip that triggers a locking system on the cart wheels if someone tries to wheel them through the exit doors. I suspect the system pays for itself within a year or so by substantially reducing cart losses or damage.

    in reply to: Whats Baltimore like nowadays.Still OOT or suitable for intown fam #1798383
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    Reb Yosef: I had forgotten that size does matter…..BTW Baltimore has multiple shuls mikvos but obviously not on the scale of Brooklyn or Lakewood

    in reply to: Whats Baltimore like nowadays.Still OOT or suitable for intown fam #1798343
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    The choice is NOT between BP, Willy and “inner-Baltimore”…..this is a big country with lots of options for frum yidden to locate where crime is minimal and quality of life and affordability are considerably better than the older metro areas where yidden settled over 100 years ago. One does NOT need close proximity to 12 yeshivos, 6 mikvahs, and dozens of kosher markets to be a shomer torah u’mitzvos.

    in reply to: Out of Town – Chassidish community options? #1798264
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    Meir: Perhaps better to frame your question as to why a frum yid with a young family would want to STAY in the NYC metro area.

    in reply to: Whats Baltimore like nowadays.Still OOT or suitable for intown fam #1798221
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    Baltimore is great if you focus on OOOB rather than just OOT……(outer outside of Baltimore…aka Owings Mill etc). I wouldn’t move a family into the older areas around Ner Tamid etc. when there a really lovely areas in the suburbs with really nice 4-5 BR homes available for less than $1 million.

    in reply to: Boys Learning in Eretz Yisroel #1798061
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    “The level of Torah is higher in Yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel”
    What is the metric you are using in re your assessment of the level of torah in EY “higher” or “lower” than in chutz la’aretz.. I’ve asked the same question in re the frequent assertions that the “gadolim” of the alte heim were greater than those of today. Seems like a highly subjective assertion given the incredible growth of yeshivos here in the U.S.

    in reply to: Can you request an online purchase for delivery on shabbos?? #1797924
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    “In Eretz Yisroel many don’t even use municipal electricity on Shabbos…”

    Reb Yosef: And you somehow think the chumrah of not using IEC/local muni distribution power on Shabbos is a positive? Check on how many fires and injuries have resulted from a bunch of ehrliche yidden illegally (and electrically inappropriately) interconnecting their own portable “Shabbos generators” so that they can go off the grid for Shabbos. Not something I would encourage, even in the name of shamiras Shabbos.

    in reply to: What’s the plan if it snows the day of the Siyum Hashas? #1797844
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    If you had the poor judgment to purchase an open-air seat in the upper, upper grandstand (perhaps to be closer to the ebeshter in himmel), than you might bring along an umbrella, fleece-lined raincoat (checked for shatnes of course) and a big thermos of chulent (assuming you have a seat near the proper facilities). Otherwise, just rely upon the energy of your davening and tanzin to generate sufficient heat to melt the snow.

    in reply to: Can you request an online purchase for delivery on shabbos?? #1797824
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    If there really is an issur on knowingly taking an action that you know has a material likelihood of resulting in “avodah” on Shabbos, possibly by a yid, there are many actions in our daily lives that need to be reexamined and potentially changed.

    in reply to: What’s the plan if it snows the day of the Siyum Hashas? #1797774
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    Not a problem. The ads celarly state that Siyuum tickets include

    *Private enclosed Suite holder entrance and lobby protected from the elements
    * Fully adjustable and precise heating and air-condition systems
    *Private suite level washrooms
    *Multiple flat-panel televisions in each suite
    *Wet bar and fine wine and spirit selection
    *Outstanding culinary options from the finest NYC restaurants, all with Chassideshe hashgacha

    in reply to: If There Would be a Jewish Music Hall of Fame.. #1797769
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    Which Uncle Moishe, Reb Tannenbaum or Reb Berktin??? If i recall, the beis din said BOTH could lay claim to be Uncle Moishe??? However, there was, is and will always be only ONE Lipa.

    in reply to: Can you request an online purchase for delivery on shabbos?? #1797645
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    I thought this was a simple matter but apparently not. Only in SOME cases does Amazon explicitly let you know at the time of ordering that you will get ‘next day delivery” so that if you order erev shabbos, you are fairly certain it will come on shabbos, In some cases, you don’t even have the option of requesting “slower” delivery if the next day is the standard delivery option as is increasingly the trend. Perhaps easiest option is to defer all your online shopping to Sundays.

    in reply to: How much $$$ does a typical Frum family spend on groceries per week? #1797416
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    Meir G: I’d be very excited about the “1/2 off sushi”…..its one thing to purchase a discounted chunk of carp near its pull date to be ground up for gefilte fish but you must have great emunah to feed the family tekka maki on the cheap.

    in reply to: Jews in High Places #1797411
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    Billywee: Thank you!!! very informative and something I had not heard before.

    in reply to: Geneivat Daat #1797348
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    1 Purchasing an item with the intent of using and deriving value from it and then returning it is mamash ganavah since the value or the returned item for the storekeeper has been substantially reduced but then again, you will say that is the store’s tough luck since their return policy didn’t explicitly prohibit such returns. Some expect yidden to act morally but I suspect your were a big fan of Bernie Madoff and the others who believe it is an obligation of yidden to push the boundaries of unethical behavior.

    in reply to: siyum ha shas #1797136
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    Oocho: I assume its ok to provide the URL below since it is linked on the home page of YWN.
    https://thesiyum.org/

    On the center of that page is the link to “Reserve Ticket”. Note that for the siyum website (and many other sites as we move towards year-end 2020) you must use any web browser other than Internet Explorer which will NOT work.

    in reply to: siyum ha shas #1797115
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    Ocho….please adjust the filter on your web browser. For 99.9 percent of us, its impossible to log-in to YWN without seeing an ad reminding you to purchase tickets for the Siyum.

    in reply to: Airline seating alerts #1797070
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    Abba 5…..Generally, a business class seat is a good option to avoid “issues”, unless of course, you are flying in one of the older UAL, Emirates (or other airline) 777-200s which still offer 2-3-2 configuration as I discovered this summer on a UAl return flight form Tokyo on UAL.

    in reply to: How much $$$ does a typical Frum family spend on groceries per week? #1797060
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    Reb Yosef: You were probably focused on your usual heilege endavors and missed the news several weeks ago when the Democratic controlled state legislature in Connecticut enacted new laws mandating a transition to vegetarian diets in the state by 2025 to help combat global warming (given that the red meat food cycle and bovine emissions are known to be one of the primary sources of methane). The law provided a narrow exemption for yidden for a de minimis Shabbos portion of fleishto satisfy Halacha and minhagim. CT Lawyer was one of the first to sign the pledge and commit to achieve compliance with the new statute and has banned steaks from his Connecticut estate (although he might indulge periodically visiting misphaca in Brooklyn). From now on its only tofu chulent and Impossible Burgers.

    in reply to: How much $$$ does a typical Frum family spend on groceries per week? #1797064
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    I suspect that with really careful shopping (lots of Costco visits) and batch cooking, it would still be possible to feed a family of 6 or 7 for a month with a minimally sufficient nutritional diet on $500 but it would take lots of time from a talented “chef” to provide diversity, visually attractive and tasteful meals. I also realize that this may not be a matter of “choice” for many frum families so kol hakovod to those who manage well on limited means.

    in reply to: Geneivat Daat #1796965
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    There is unfortunately an incredible level of cheating and plagiarism in the educational system as evidenced by the recent prosecution and guilty pleas of dozens of parents who in some cases paid hundreds of thousand of dollars to “consultants” to get their kids into college. Anyone in NYC knows the stories about bribes paid to get their babies into prestigious pre-school programs. You can go online and google the terms “term papers”, “compositions” “essays” etc. and you will find multiple offers to write them for you for a modest “fee”. Parents “help” their kids with essays on college applications or purchase a pre-drafted essay online.

    The good news is that schools are now using sophisticated software to detect such cheating by comparing it to tens of millions of other documents already online or flagging writing patterns that seem different form other samples of the individual’s writings.

    in reply to: Colonoscopy prep #1796959
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    Most docs are also recommending to eat and much lighter diet (both in quantity and color) for a few days prior to the procedure. Makes it easier for you to clear the system and for them to get a clear, unobstructed view for any polyps

    in reply to: Trump goes OOT #1796926
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    MDG: You are probably right but the revisionist history of the Hurricane that ate Alabama was too good to pass up, Its one thing to misspeak about “the other 57 states” but it would have been different if Obama took a map of the lower 48 and a black sharpie and redrew the northern border to include 10 of the Canadian provinces within the U.S.

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