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  • in reply to: Wedding Veils: Charedi vs Hassidic vs … 👰 #1267860
    golfer
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    That’s interesting CTL.
    I understand there’s no mention of religion; however, if you yourself happen to be aware that one party is Jewish and one is not, are there Halachic ramifications? Obviously you are not validating Kiddushin, (and the whole concept of Kiddushin cannot apply) but are you allowed to knowingly perform a civil service to unite a Jew and a non-Jew in a legal marriage?

    in reply to: Wedding Veils: Charedi vs Hassidic vs … 👰 #1267823
    golfer
    Participant

    The veil that covers the face of the Kallah is one of the Minhagim of a Jewish wedding, and is placed (in most cases by the chassan) over the bride’s face at the Badeken (a Yiddish word meaning covering) that takes place before the Chuppah.
    The veil in back is usually attached to the headpiece the bride wears, and is part of the pretty bridal outfit that is worn in Western countries, like the white bridal gown and the wedding bouquet. They seem to be going a bit out of fashion, but there’s no connection between the “back veil” and Jewish custom.

    golfer
    Participant

    The lesson here is the amazing selflessness and kindness of Rachel Imeinu in giving the simanim (prearranged signs) to her sister Leah.
    The other lesson is the actual series of events that led to the births of the 12 Shevatim.
    It isn’t always necessary to come up with esoteric explanations and inspirational messages.
    Just reading and understanding the psukim in the Torah is beneficial to a person’s Neshama, and allows us to fulfill the Mitzvah of Torah study, even (and perhaps especially) without philosophizing and trying to insert our own uplifting or mystical speculations.

    golfer
    Participant

    Zdad, you posted on May 1.
    And where I live it’s still Monday, May 1.
    Monday, May 1 is 5 Iyar, (which began in the final hours of April 30) so your referring to “tomorrow” as the 5th of Iyar is incorrect.
    I always thought that yom haatzmaut is 5 Iyar, but for some reason it appears that Monday is yom hazikaron and independence day is on Tuesday. I have no idea why this is so, and it appears you are confused as well. Yidden everywhere said Hallel and observed Rosh Chodesh last Wednesday & Thursday so the timing of the fifth day of the month is not open to argument.

    in reply to: Attn: Wolf #1262882
    golfer
    Participant

    Thanks WinnieTP!
    The supply of things people can teach you in the CR seems to be unlimited.
    And can be entertaining too!
    As for the creature in question, I must be missing something.
    Always looked to me like Wolf enjoyed posting his (her?) opinion on a variety of subjects, and while the comments were sometimes self-denigrating I thought it was all in fun. Or if anything, trying to elicit the opposite reaction.
    Is something the matter?
    I’m not in the habit of hugging entities on my computer screen whose identity and gender I have no way of verifying.
    I’ll just offer Wolf and all the denizens of this place a happy and healthy new Chodesh!

    PS
    There are wild boars in Tehillim. Can anyone say where?
    Is the cuddly “kipod” in Tanach? Was it one of the listed shratzim? Can’t remember.

    in reply to: Shadchan list #1262846
    golfer
    Participant

    The pigeonholes are multiplying and at the same type getting smaller and smaller.
    One morning we’ll wake up and find that each one of us is sitting all alone confined to his (or her) own lonely little pigeonhole.

    in reply to: Attn: Wolf #1262842
    golfer
    Participant

    Yehuday, I’ve never come across one. And I hope I never do. But thanks for the info.

    in reply to: Attn: Wolf #1262499
    golfer
    Participant

    No, I didn’t know that LilmodU.
    Cute story.
    I didn’t even know there were porcupines in Israel.
    What are they called?

    in reply to: Shadchan list #1261680
    golfer
    Participant

    Why is everyone ignoring Meno?
    Why is nobody answering his question?
    Surely one of the most profoundly vital questions to appear in the CR since its inception.
    (Alas, Meno, I cannot answer you as I have never worn a black hat.)

    in reply to: Don’t build more galuyot. #1261148
    golfer
    Participant

    AviK, you’re not seriously thinking (are you?) that suggesting someone move OOT to find an affordable house or a welcoming community is creating “new galuyot”.
    Maybe according to Webster’s we Jews are in exile if we’re not in E”Y. Galus, as opposed to exile, is the sad state of hester panim we all find ourselves in right now whether we’re in Brooklyn or Beitar or Brussels or out at the Int’l Space Station.
    I’m not comfortable discussing the Meshech Chachma because while I find his writings very beautiful I can’t pretend to have any solid grasp or understanding of his deep thoughts. I would like to say that the reform jews in Germany in the late 1800’s & early 1900’s when he lived, advocated replacing Yerushalayim in the siddur with Berlin. I don’t know whether they actually did so (though I do know they made many changes to our Tefillos). It’s clear that they are the ones he was referring to. They were in no shape or form like frum Yidden today in the US, EU, GB who face Mizrach 3 times a day, and beg Ve’le’Yirushalayim Ircha Be’Rachamim tashuv, and say Ani Ma’amin with a bren.
    There are challenges today raising children in Chu”l and in E”Y as well.
    Ve’ha’ikar she’nechavein libeinu el Avinu She’Ba’Shamayim.

    in reply to: Abeshter #1258782
    golfer
    Participant

    Lightbrite, you might also at some point hear-
    Der Fun Oiven-
    The One Above
    These are all Yiddish terms for HKBH

    in reply to: I don’t like Benjamin Franklin #1258780
    golfer
    Participant

    It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood….
    Must be the weather.
    Or all those kneidlach.
    Or all that pizza.
    Everyone is in top form today.
    Goq that was a great post!
    And 29’s enhancements were spectacular.
    And zdad, that good laugh was much appreciated.
    Seconded only by DY’s ML King quotation on the dual /colored screen thread.
    Look it up!
    Worth your time.

    in reply to: April 6 1917 = WW1 does April 6 2017 = WW3, ch”v? #1252814
    golfer
    Participant

    Akuperma, while it’s convenient to put all the bad guys on the same side, ISIS and the Syrians are opponents in this war, not allies. Hizbullah and the Russians are with Syrian regime aka Assad. ISIS is on the same side as Syrian rebels aka insurgents, and apparently the USA. If it sounds like a mess, that’s because it is.
    As for the title of this thread, Al tiftach peh…
    It’s almost Pesach. May we be zoche to a true zman cheiruseinu!

    in reply to: Afikomen Presents #1252033
    golfer
    Participant

    Warning:
    The source of my post above is my tired brain and nothing more.

    * This is in honor of certain CR posters who take everything literally, even when that requires the mental manipulations of an acrobat spiraling off a trapeze.

    in reply to: Afikomen Presents #1251856
    golfer
    Participant

    The Afikoman negotiations are a holy Minhag reminding us of the steadfast negotiating stance of MRA”H when he said,
    “Binareinu uvizkeineinu nelech”

    in reply to: Obscure Frum Music #1251808
    golfer
    Participant

    Syag, Thank you!
    {blushing emoji}

    😊

    in reply to: Making Up Divrei Torah At The Seder #1251668
    golfer
    Participant

    LilmodU,
    Glad you said that!
    I hope someone’s listening!
    Of all the bugs in the new system, this one is hardest for me to figure out.
    A coffee room that doesn’t know aleph beis?
    Chadesh yameinu k’kedem!

    in reply to: Obscure Frum Music #1251533
    golfer
    Participant

    Yes shopping, I agree, it is hard to find frum music that is heavy metal.
    I wonder why you think that is.
    Do you think it’s a lack of proficiency on the part of frum musicians?
    Do you think there could be another reason?

    in reply to: Forcing chumrot on others #1251248
    golfer
    Participant

    I’m not following.
    Yehudis and Judy are good friends. They help each other out often. They have long conversations. One day Judy says, “Would you like to join me for cheesecake and a latte at the new cafe?” Yehudis says, “Sorry, I’d love to join you for a latte sometime, but the new cafe does not serve chalav Yisrael and my husband and I have taken this new chumra on ourselves.” A while later Judy says, “Yehudis, my husband and I would love to invite your family for Kiddush on Shavuos. I will be preparing only chalav Yisrael dishes for your enjoyment.”
    So what’s the problem?

    But that’s not why I’m here.
    I’m here because I stopped in and saw this word in your post Zdad:
    Hashgafa
    I’m sure it’s an innocent typo that snuck in.
    In case not, the word is hashKafa, with a kooff as in kugel and Kiddush (and not a gimmel as in hashGacha).
    It’s from a lashon of looking. It means outlook (or weltanschauung, if you’re a chassid of Rav Shamshon R”H ZTZ”L) and there are many examples in Tanach (“Va’yashkef…”).

    (Now if the Mods had activated the feature we suggested a while back allowing us to edit each other’s posts, I could have solved the problem with a simple click of the mouse!)

    in reply to: Video of woman being attacked at peleg protest #1248110
    golfer
    Participant

    For the sake of clarity, I was responding to yekke, who was responding to a poster wondering why parents aren’t teaching their children “ahavas chinam” and “acceptance”.
    As is obvious from my earlier post and from yekke’s, neither of us is advocating violence.
    People on all sides of the issue, when becoming overly excited and overly emotional, are prone to making poor choices, and may arrive at false conclusions.

    in reply to: Video of woman being attacked at peleg protest #1247961
    golfer
    Participant

    Yekke2, thank you for your post.
    You said so much that needed to be said.

    One of our biggest problems today is our exposure to secular ideals until they become so entrenched in our minds that we think they’re OUR ideals too. We are appalled at the immodest images we might expose ourselves to when we use the internet, but we often disregard, at our peril, the poison seeping into our brains from our overexposure to secular morals and mindsets.

    It sounds so nice and kind to say that we accept all people regardless of their lifestyles and behaviors. In fact the Torah does not allow us to accept deviant and heretical beliefs, actions and words, and we have to vocally reject them for the reasons you stated. Kvod Shamayim must be our top priority. Wanting to be tolerant to others doesn’t give us permission to Ch’v disregard that.

    The subject of “yitamu chata’im” vs “yitamu chotim” is more complicated as you also mentioned, but the principle of firmly rejecting all forms of evil stands.

    in reply to: New Word Game 📖🎲 #1247774
    golfer
    Participant

    elephants

    in reply to: Video of woman being attacked at peleg protest #1246674
    golfer
    Participant

    I can’t believe I have to say this, but it seems somebody does.

    Negia is an issue of a man and woman who are not closely related (e.g. mother & son; husband & wife) not being allowed to exchange physical touch.
    This has no connection whatsoever with the following:
    It is assur to violently assault another person, even if you are a man and so is he, or even if you’re a man and the other person is a lady that you are married to.

    Kicking another human being, or a dog or a cat, is assur.
    In case you’re still confused:
    No, you can’t do that even if he (male neighbor) dented your car, or she (wife) insulted you, or it (cat) made a mess in your flowerbeds.

    (I would add that being a “little kid” is no excuse, and this is one of the first areas where we begin to be mechanech our children in knowing right from wrong.)

    in reply to: New Word Game 📖🎲 #1246305
    golfer
    Participant

    voicing

    in reply to: New Word Game 📖🎲 #1245995
    golfer
    Participant

    in

    in reply to: New Word Game 📖🎲 #1245209
    golfer
    Participant

    elegant

    in reply to: New CR Bug Reports #1244252
    golfer
    Participant

    The most obvious issue, though it’s not a “bug”, is that they made off with all our hard-earned subtitles and transformed all of us into nondescript (may I add- nebbish?) “participants”.
    I think the only way to make it up to us would be to implement DaasY’s last sentence.
    Oh what fun this place would become if we could edit each other’s posts.

    in reply to: New Word Game 📖🎲 #1243250
    golfer
    Participant

    Emerald

    (Hi LilmodU! Thanks for the welcoming words!)

    in reply to: New Word Game 📖🎲 #1243180
    golfer
    Participant

    absconding

    in reply to: 0 seconds #1237892
    golfer
    Participant

    That must’ve been some stuffed cabbage, mods!

    in reply to: Do computer mice like peanut butter? #1224812
    golfer
    Participant

    I’m sorry, LilmodU, because that’s maybe not how you meant it, but your first sentence there gave me such a good laugh:

    “… or because they do” !!!

    So in the spirit of that beautiful sentence–

    On Yom Kippurim we ask mechilla and we are moichel others, and truly try to find forgiveness inside our hearts for all the family members who give us heartburn.

    On Purim, we get a little tipsy and lightheaded, either from alcohol or just from simcha. Then we sit with those same relatives and laugh with them and laugh at them until we erase as many of the bad feelings as we can.

    Le’Chayim!

    in reply to: who is "The Gadol Haddar" of America #1228536
    golfer
    Participant

    I learn so many interesting things here.

    Case in point-

    The “Yeshivishe” and the “baal habatim” (his terminology not mine) have a different “gadol haddar”.

    I’d call troll, but zrizim makdimim and in the spirit of “kol haposheit yad…” maybe we should try and answer the llamdan.

    (Sorry I personally can’t oblige.

    When I see gadol haddar the only thing that comes to mind is one of those huge Teimani Esrogim I saw in E”Y. I notice LU, probably already packing her Mishloach Manos, is thinking of cookies.)

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222981
    golfer
    Participant

    Fancy foods for Shulchan Orech?

    Not at my house.

    Same menu every year.

    (But my family are nice. They always make it seem like that’s just what they wanted. Who knows? Maybe it is.)

    The Matzah and simanei haseder take center stage. Literally and otherwise.

    And there’s always serious discussion about this year’s shmurah matzah vs last year’s & this year’s maror vs last year’s. Anyone else have that minhag?

    in reply to: Purim versus Yom HakiPurim #1222594
    golfer
    Participant

    Meno & iacmma,

    Nice!

    Just goes to show you, you never know what you’ll come across on the CR…

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225844
    golfer
    Participant

    Gerdie, I’m going to hazard a guess that marmite is even less popular among the (possibly human) denizens of the CR than tomatillos.

    And I have to admit I had no idea it’s chametz. I wonder if it’s actually edible, or if it even falls into the category of ra’ui le’achilas kelev.

    I hope I haven’t offended anyone an ocean away from me…

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225842
    golfer
    Participant

    To AvramMD,

    This particular question is not an LOR question. You are correct there.

    However, and it’s a big “however”, I think the concept of LOR (as opposed to ask your 2nd cousin, ask your neighbor, ask your grocer, or worst of all- ask anonymous possibly human entities on the internet) is a concept that needs reinforcement in this instance.

    in reply to: Halacha: no chametz or sell chametz? #1225830
    golfer
    Participant

    Your question reminds me of a story, Lightb.

    There was once a community of frum, upstanding Jews who davened together in a proper shul but had no Rav. They all directed their Halachic queries to two brilliant poskim who lived a great distance away. While the poskim gave answers, they felt it advisable that the kehilla get their own “in-house” Rav. They conspired to no longer respond to shaylos originating in that community. The kehilla got their own Rav.

    The End

    in reply to: Good tune to sing Grammen to? #1222586
    golfer
    Participant

    I’m sure there’s someone here who will be happy to inform you that it’s completely assur to lekatchila make plans to gramm grammen to a different tune than minhag avoseinu.

    Not that I’m saying that; I don’t actually pasken shaylos here. But a lot of posters do. You’ll just have to wait for one of them to sign in.

    in reply to: Hot Dog Eating Contest #1222956
    golfer
    Participant

    Lesschum, I’m searching for a DON’T like button next to your post.

    In lieu of that kindly take this advice-

    Basic etiquette (or mature adult behavior if you prefer):

    When eating with others at a social event or gathering, keep your eyes on your own plate.

    How to behave like a Yid:

    Don’t start your day by maligning wide swaths of the population in a disgusting manner.

    in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224787
    golfer
    Participant

    Yes, I very much do like your tag!

    Thank you!

    And, Ah Freilichen!

    in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224786
    golfer
    Participant

    This has been around a while, but every time I drop in it jumps out at me and I think, Why is “Miracle on 34th St” on theyeshivaworld?

    I’m probably betraying my decidedly unyeshivish yeshivishness by mentioning this.

    And I’m also guessing the mods’ thoughts never ventured in that direction.

    But if I had CR superpowers I’d go in and change the title to “Purim Miracle” or whatever…

    The juxtaposition of a holiday that is decidedly unholy, and our upcoming celebration of Nes Purim isn’t sitting well with me.

    agreed, did you like my tag?

    in reply to: Anyone use Soncino Gemara? #1228478
    golfer
    Participant

    Isn’t it obvious what the problem is?

    The man just got an entire set of Shas.

    Doesn’t have a minute in his day to stop in here for idle chatter.

    in reply to: Haiku writing #1222094
    golfer
    Participant

    To GG

    Gedaliah Goomber

    Exactly Five syllables

    What a perfect fix

    Won’t work on Shabbos

    So he yelled watch out below

    Dropped his ton of bricks

    Many years later

    CR revives our hero

    To get his last licks

    in reply to: What did the color yellow do? #1222511
    golfer
    Participant

    Thank you Mods. That sounds delish!

    See you after your Purim Tish!

    in reply to: Limericks! #1221895
    golfer
    Participant

    If anyone has the patience to dig up the old haiku thread, could they please post it for lightb?

    in reply to: What did the color yellow do? #1222510
    golfer
    Participant

    The CR is just not the same

    And posting feels a little lame

    With the color yellow gone

    My posts all look so pale and wan

    Are the mods all playing bridge

    Or is it this year’s Adar fun?

    Are they cooking stuffed cabbage

    Or playing tricks on everyone?

    Perhaps we’ll never really know

    What happened to our friend yellow

    But post we will for post we must

    And in the Mods we surely trust

    We’re cooking stuffed cabbage. We’ll be done eventually

    in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224747
    golfer
    Participant

    I think not.

    But things seem to be a little confused here.

    Adar sometimes has that effect on CR / Mods.

    in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224746
    golfer
    Participant

    Hold on a minute, LilmodU, while I check for you.

    in reply to: Miracle in the CR #1224730
    golfer
    Participant

    Interesting

    in reply to: Bachurim/yungeleit wearing sweaters #1222174
    golfer
    Participant

    A black or blue sweater!!!

    What can possibly be next???

    Pink and orange striped socks???

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