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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.
“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.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.
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 hashgachaWhich 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Reb Yosef: For the same reason a Torah V’Daas boy would have to learn how to communicate his thoughts in the English language. Of course, you can offer us Troll theme No. 3,231 version 3.07 asserting why a girl shouldn’t be educated, should remain at home to the maximum extent and avoid and PDI (public display of intelligence).
xcel……if you spend $200 for Shabbos for a family of 7, that leaves $200 for the other 6 days or approximately 35/day for the family or $5/day per kid. I suspect you are either terrible at math or at risk of a visit from child protective services for child abuse. NYC spends about $8/day for food for its juvenile detention facilities.
The OP speaks to an earlier, simpler time when learning s’shma was the norm and the poishete yidden who had committed to the daily learning cycle in addition to an already busy daily schedule of kids, job, davening etc. were the focus. The same can probably be said of at least one or two posts in the CR every month where for one reason or another the simpler lives of yidden in the alte heim is invoked to make some point about how we have “lost” something with todays, faster, bigger and more technologically sophisticated lifestyle. Change is scary and stressful but staying in place o reverting to the past is not an option when you can access the highest level of kedushah and the most vile pritzus in an instant and the press of a button (or icon).
Baltimore Mayven: Thanks for sharing that tidbit with us…..just what we all needed to put us in the proper mood for Shabbos. I’ll be thinking about it during davening….
Baltimoe Mayven neglected to mention that there have been reports of itelligent life with a Litvish hashkafah in Baltoimore as well.
“By out of town I mean out of NY/NJ area..””
I stretched it a bit to include Cleveland (where there are small green sprouts of chassidus in a desert of Litvish hashkafah). It also has the Browns, Indians and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Antwerp is WOOT (Waaaaay out of town).I would add Cleveland and possibly Chicago to the list….it all depends on what you mean by a Chassidish comunity.. There are rebbeles all over the U.S. who dress in chassidish lvush and give themselves a title (e.g. the South Beach Rebbe”) but its not what I think the oP has in mind. Likewise, there are enclaves of established chassidus living in towns distant from their rebbe.
At a minimum, stand quietly and don’t use the time until the shaliach tzibur starts the chazaras hashatz to schmooze with your chevrah. Its not only disrepectful to the Ebeshter, but it really obnoxious behavior and disruptive to those around you who are still completing the shmoneh esreh.
Big Baal is sort of right…..country music is essentially multiple variations of the same lyrics (aka my good for nothing husband ran off with another woman and also took our only tractor but I found solace in G-d, etc.) sung repetitively in the same key in alternating major and minor chords. Hard to call those kinds of songs ” pruste niggunim” if the lyrics were translated into Yiddish.
אלעזר ליפא שמעלצער אלעזר ליפא שמעלצער אלעזר ליפא שמעלצער אלעזר ליפא שמעלצער אלעזר ליפא שמעלצער אלעזר ליפא שמעלצער
Littleyouthoughtyouknew: Voting rights would only be for federal elections since the federal government cannot dictate state drivers license or voting eligibility. Some Dems are concerned though that adding more chimps to the voting rolls would only increase the chimp vote already known to be hard-core Trumpkopfs.
Ramateshkolnik: Just hold on for a year or so and then you can come to the U.S. for treatment. There are several remarkable new health plans under consideration by the Dems including one that will allow you to have your pet chimp treated under the same coverage as you get with no limits on pre-existing conditions. One catch is that both you and the pet will share the same out-of-pocket minimums and the that you may be required to see a vet for routine health care issues during peak service hours at the clinics.
“Joseph, cite a source that says that one may daven Shacharit when it is almost time for Mincha”
Avi: Get your facts straight before questioning Reb Yosef. He is referring to a new and relatively contrarian hashkafah among some progressive yungerleit in response to those davening shachris vasikim. It began as a minhag during bein hazmanim to avoid having to make separate trips to the beis medrash for both schachris and mincha. This way they can go directly from birchas hayom at the end of shachris to Ashrei for mincha without missing a beat. Having established this time-saving minhag, it has now become popular even after the beginning of the new zman..
Perhaps these “would-be killers” are using the wrong hashgacha. People (aka dinner) don’t walk around with a plumba that the average tiger will understand, much less be willing to accept as sufficient for mehadrim (which is the hashkafah for most endangered tiger species).
People talk with their hands so its probably unrealistic to expect yidden to stand in shul davening like a mannequin in a store window. Some movement is also normal and actually helps to physically relax the body and allow you to engage in the davening with greater kavanah. I think this whole issue involves the extreme shuckling in shteiging and davening that has become a metric to define whether you appear to others as a real tzadik and yiras shamayim.
In every shul I’ve been too over many years, there always seems to be one or two erliche yidden who sit towards the front and pull their tallesim over their head during shmoneh esreh, shuckling with great energy and verbalizing the words of the Amidah very loudly while the Rav of the shul nearby is davening w/o tallis over his head, very little body movement and very silently.
” what about shuckling? One would definitely not behave that way in front of a king. One certainly would not shake his fist at him as I have seen some people do..”
KIds learn from adults and follow their actions. Have you ever watched an entire class of youngsters as young as 5 or 6 years old trying to “out-schulke” one another when davening. Clearly, they have seen this from some of the rebbeim (or maybe the rebbe himself) and are simply copying their behavior w/o any idea as to why. In many cases, they don’t even understand the words of the teffilos but have unbounded shuckling energy.Well intentioned musar delivered in the wrong way/wrong time can be a very dangerous tool when applied to a younger man/woman whose own hashkafah is weak. Unless you know what your doing, DON”T do it or perhaps arrange for a Rav or somone experienced be the shaliach.
Akuperma: Yes, but it can be very complicated with some unusual risks. For example, the mohel also has to be a licensed electrician in the jurisdiciton where the geirus is contemplated.
Joseph” GadolH: Had you posted on YWN/CR a decade ago as “sammygol’??
Reb Yosef: Nope, I’m a relatively “new” poster on CR (several years but not a decade). However, your triggered my curiosity into my predecessor “sammygol” so I dug back into the CR archives and searched. One of the first postings that surfaced from back in 2008 was an apparent plea from one of YOUR guys with the screen name of chacham who demanded to know why the Mods allowed postings from a lengthy list of posters he labeled as apikorsim. Sammy, of course, was among the 8 worst offenders he insisted should be banned from the CR. None of the 8 are still regular posters here, so I’m apparently the last of the offenders still around (although unrecognizable as one of the lamid vov virtual CR tzadikim lurking).
Coffee Adict: Would it be possible to put a Borselino on the imojis of your 3 friends?
It would be more appropriate for the YWN “bot verification” tests to have more of a yiddieshe context where the “correct” answers were only something a “yeshivish” yid would possibly know. For example, “please check boxes showing photos of Ungareshe gefilte fish” The only “correct” answer would be the photo of a 5 lb bag of sugar.
CT Laywer: “So sad to see what has happened to the Beautiful Bronx…”
It will probably bring tears to your eyes if you lived across from the Schiff Center which had been the center of the secular Jewish community in the East Bronx for several decades from after WWI to the 1950s. I’m not sure the Mods will allow a link (below) to a photo of the former Schiff Center today but if not, just google “Jacob Schiff Jewish Center and Bronx” and you will see the photo of a once majestic building with a big sign “El Mundo Super Discount” just below still visible carvings of the shnai luchos with the lions on either side. The paint is peeling off the facade but one can readily visualize what once was the center of secular Jewish life in the Bronx (along with at least a dozen big shuls that are now Evangelical Churches).
P.S. You probably don’t recall an ice cream place (defnitely not cholov yisroel) called Jan’s across from the Paradise Movie Theatre on the Grand Concourse where it was common back then for the MO crowd to go for “dates” on motzi shabbos. I suspect you already had moved on to New Haven by then.
Cherrybin: Actually, chicpea pasta is very “global warming” friendly. I won’t aggravate Reb Yosef with musar on the importance of tikun olam (the most recent addition to taryag mitzvos) but within several months, we will he having a debate here on the merits of hashgacha and whether its OK to serve beyond beef burgers or impossible burgers at an otherwise dairy/pareve meal.