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  • in reply to: Worms In Fish #771083
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    cherrybim: Not at all. I think Rav Belsky’s reasoning is much more logically sound than Rav Kuber’s. However many Gedolei HaPoskim rule it is assur miDeoraisa, and if you want to be safe there is a simple solution to buy Norwegian.

    in reply to: Worms In Fish #771081
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    oomis: I don’t understand your point. Hashem also says we may eat lettuce, but the the bugs on them. Eat Norwegian Salmon and you’re safe.

    in reply to: Worms In Fish #771078
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    I don’t know who Yair Hoffman is, but most of his points revolve around an outdated assumption that Rabbi Kuber represents the OU.

    in reply to: Worms In Fish #771075
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    cherrybim: “I don’t know of American poskim who say there’s a problem”

    Rav Bess from LA and Rav Reissman from Far Rokoway do.

    in reply to: Maaser Kesafim / Tzedaka � The 20% Ceiling #683831
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    absolutely NO difference btw EY and Chutz l’Aretz

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682858
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    Binah does it again.

    In the Pesach issue they lead article quotes a very experienced shadchanta who says she did extensive research and discovered that there have ALWAYS been older single girls and that there is NO new shidduch crisis caused by the age gap. Also in a later article in the same supplement the journalist demolished Rabbi Pogrow’s arguments for the “age-gap shidduch crisis”.

    Good Job!!!

    in reply to: Please Help Me With This Phone Number #682881
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    Which city, country???

    in reply to: Census 2010 #682907
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    We see in Sefer Shmuel that it is dangerous for Yidden to be counted.

    in reply to: Census 2010 #682898
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    it is halachically questionable to count people

    in reply to: Music on Isru Chag #682481
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    ROB: I have no problem with those who follow the second time frame, today is actually my anniversary. However for those who DO follow the first time there is NO basis to be lenient on isru chag. If you have a specific source please quote it.

    in reply to: Schlissel Challah #1072733
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    b’kitzur it is a purely chassidishe minhag.

    in reply to: Music on Isru Chag #682475
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    If you keep the first half of sefira you may not listen to music even isru chag

    in reply to: Kitniyos #1105405
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    I have heard from a respected Sefardi Rav involved in Kashrus that the reason behind kitniyos are as relevant today as ever. He told me he has inspected a number of factories producing Pesach Soybean oil and found numerous grains of wheat in each facility. In his opinion even Sefardim may not use soy oil on Pesach.

    in reply to: Your Favorite Matzohs #865309
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    koma: Machtzis HaShekel writes that “rekikim dakim” is up to a finger thick, even Sfardi matzos are not that thick.

    in reply to: Your Favorite Matzohs #865304
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    Yanky: depends very much on which machine. I fully agree with you regarding Yad Binyomin, however many other machine bakeries cannot be cleaned properly and are a serious problem.

    in reply to: Cleaning Your Computer #682065
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    Halacha does not require one to clean crumbs that are under the keys since they are inaccessible. Just wipe the surface well with a cleansing agent, and preferably wash your hands after touching the keyboard before handling food on Pesach.

    in reply to: Single and Growing #675653
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    AZ: “It is NOT part of HIS plan.”

    That comment is borderline apikursis. Everything in the world is under hashgacha pratis and is part of His plan.

    in reply to: Kosher L’Pesach Grains #673791
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    The Mordechai is the earliest source of the minhag which was not yet widely established in his days (d. 1298). The Rosh, his contemporary did not hold of it.

    One reason given is that kitniyos could be ground into flour resembling the 5 grains. Therefore corn SHOULD be included. Peanuts are a legume, the original minhag was not to eat legumes, so it SHOULD also be included.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682805
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    mox: I qoute you “The number relevant to us is not the population growth rate but the growth in the birth rate. this number is calculated by taking births from one year subtracting the previous years births and dividing by the previous years births”

    Please make up your mind!!!

    in reply to: Kosher L’Pesach Grains #673760
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    It’s certainly NOT chometz, the question is if it is kitniyos.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682797
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    az: “Are you suggesting that the average family size in the “yeshiva” world are smaller now than they were 20 30 years ago”

    Certainly. Yungerleit in their 20s and 30s are having LESS children then their parents did.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682792
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    mox: “another relevant point that has to be taken into account is the tremendous advances in reproductive medicine over the past ten or so years”

    While it is wonderful that medicine is helping solve another “crisis” by saving many couples from childlessness, it has little impact on overall birth rates. People are not using IVF etc to have 10 children but to have 1 or 2. Also many of the issues it solves are hormone imbalances due to excessive obesity or anorexia, issues largely new to this generation. So it is not causing an increase in overall birth rates, just mitigating a potential cause of decline.

    So if all this hullabaloo about fixing the “age gap” is based on the miss-assumption that birth rates are rising, I think NASI should call back the 70 signatories and explain to them that they were fed faulty data. As mox explained, it’s irrelevant if the birth rate is 2%, 4.5% or 10%; what is important is whether it is rising or falling.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682791
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    az and mox: as mox so capably pointed out the issue is not the birth rate itself but the INCREASE in the birth rate. Sure classes are growing because we have a relatively high birth rate compared to the Western world, but anyone who is part of the Yeshiva World is aware that the current generation of young couples is much different that 20 years ago. In the 70’s and 80’s birth control was virtually unknown in the Yeshiva world, today “spacing” children is routinely accepted in many circles and by many Rabbonim. I have heard many Kollel couples remark that they have 5 children “and my Rav says that is enough” (in my opinion a crude and un-tzniusdik comment), something unheard of 20 years ago. I look at dozens of my contemporaries in their 30’s and 40’s and 5-6 children is the average, a big drop over last generation.

    In short, I think anyone with open eyes can see that the birth rate, while high, is shrinking NOT growing.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682776
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    Thank you for the insightful post, haifagirl.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682774
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    az and mox: Do a gather from your thundering silence that you have come to acknowledge the fallacy of the “age gap”???

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682772
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    mox: you make a good point, that the change in birth rate is more relevant then the overall population growth. However in my experience there has been a significant DROP in the birth rate the past 10-15 years as birth control has become more popular in our circles, for better or for worse. According to this we may find a shortage of BOYS 10-20 years down the line. In any event, unless there is concrete evidence of a recent INCREASE in the birth rate I think the “age gap” may correct itself w/o overturning the current system.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682767
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    lomed: as AZ often says, we have to know the SOURCE of the problem to fix it.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682766
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    I checked half a dozen more girl’s schools and all of them had less than 5% single by age 25. Combined with the testimony of the older singles interviewed in Binah and contributing to the CR, it doesn’t seem that there are many more singe girls then boys out there. The gap seems to be at the professional shadchanim who attract many more girls then boys. We don’t have a “shidduch crisis” we have a “shadchan crisis”.

    Certainly this is NOT attributable to the “age gap” and narrowing the gap will help noone.

    in reply to: Typical Yearly Cost for EY Bais Medrash #823486
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    oomis: if he’s renting an apt, he can stay there and if he’s in the dorm it is likely to be open.

    in reply to: Typical Yearly Cost for EY Bais Medrash #823485
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    That’s new. How much?

    in reply to: Typical Yearly Cost for EY Bais Medrash #823482
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    BPTotty: Mir and Brisk do not charge tuition.

    in reply to: Typical Yearly Cost for EY Bais Medrash #823472
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    Poster: I know and don’t disagree. I simply stated the minimum one could spend in my experience, and I feel a parent may demand their child live frugally if he wants to learn in EY.

    in reply to: Shidduchim and Outside People “Helping” #673369
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    The Moslem birthrate is no lower and there are plenty of homogeneous Moslem countries in the Middle East and North Africa. None of them come close to 4.5%

    in reply to: Help With A Computer Issue #673383
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    haifagirl: a computer w/o a mouse???

    in reply to: Typical Yearly Cost for EY Bais Medrash #823469
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    I’m married about 15 years so my info isn’t current, but since noone else is answering i’ll share ny 2 cents. In my days a Mir/Brisk dira ran 80-100$ per boy per month. plus say $20 utilties and $100 meals in Brisk (Mir serves 3 meals a day). Take into account laundry and other misc and a frugal boy shouldn’t need more then $300/month, $200 in the Mir. If he gets into the Mir dorm, life can be virtually free.

    in reply to: Shidduchim and Outside People “Helping” #673366
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    lomed: “quoting you from your words on your other thread”

    Actually you are misquoting. I said that there is only 1% singles attributable to the “age gap”, according to az’s innacurate statistics he gets to a maximum 5.5% which still does not match his other numbers.

    in reply to: Shidduchim and Outside People “Helping” #673365
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    az:”we can debate exact population growth and thus the exact number of unmatched girls, but the concept is pashut and obvious”

    Neither pashut nor obvious. At 2% growth, 3 year gap and %5 more boys born there are only 1% more boys then girls. Older singles themselves see no issue with the age gap. MO has little to no age gap and same problem, as MO members of the CR wrote on other threads. if anything is “is pashut and obvious”, it’s that the “age gap” is not the major issue here!!!

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682750
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    mox: “I do believe that the growth rate is that high and likely even 4%-4.5%”

    Are you aware how extreme your belief is, Liberia is the only country in the world in that range. Very, very hard to believe!!!

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682746
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    mox:”Do you really think that the growth rate in the community is only 2%”

    Do you really think that the growth rate for Orthodox Jews is 3.5%??? According to UN statistics only 4 counrties in the world have such a high growth rate: Liberia, Burundi, Afghanistan and Western Sahara.

    Even if we would have 3.5% growth *3 year gap -5% more boys born then girls only accounts for 5.5% girls w/o shiduchim and does not justify AZ’s claim of 13%.

    in reply to: Shidduchim and Outside People “Helping” #673359
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    az: “(the age gap is) Clearly the Primary cause of having so many older singles”

    Not true as has been demonstrated statistically in other threads.

    “It is something that is eminently solvable.”

    Sure, be either dramatically increasing the divorce rate or by eliminating post high school Yeshivos with everyone’s “good ideas”. I think I’d prefer this crisis

    “At present their are probably less than 15 people in the country who are actually doing anything about the ROOT causes of the situation.”

    And you are NOT one of them!!!

    in reply to: Shidduchim and Outside People “Helping” #673358
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    “If you ask the singles (the one effected by this flawed process) most would not have the age gap theory within the top ten reasons the system is flawed”

    That was the whole point of this whole thread. Binah did ask singles, and they did not think the age gap was the root problem.

    in reply to: Shidduchim and Outside People “Helping” #673340
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    “By the sweat of your brow will you eat until you are in the ground It is quite clear who it was who was given the mitzvah of providing for his wife and family.”

    that pasuk is a CURSE

    in reply to: Is it Private Info or Not? #673139
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    oomis:”to seek counsel with a teen”

    How many times do I need to repeat, we are not talking about “seeking counsel”!!!

    Also, they are similar to the Principal’s neighbor that they know the person personally rather than professionally, and matching appropriate students to schools IS very similar to a shidduch.

    in reply to: Is it Private Info or Not? #673138
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    aries: YOU were the one who drew the parallel to asking parents about a principal!

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682726
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    az: “First the community needs to be educated as to what the problem is (age gap created by our present system) Then we can focus on solutions”

    Great!!! let’s review some posts from a previous thread of yours to determine if the “age gap” is TRULY the problem.

    the Avi Chai survey shows 12% growth over 5 years in Orthodox dayschools. This translates to only about 2% a year not 3-4%. if you count all Orthodox schools or 1% if you count Yeshiva and half of centrist. Even 2% * 3year age difference equals 6%, minus 5% more boys born leaves us only 1% more girls then boys. Not even taking into account the dropout gap. Clearly the “age gap” is NOT a significant factor in the shidduch crisis.

    if you assume that half of the 10% decline in “centrist orthodox” was students who became more “yeshiveshe” and transferred to “yeshiva” schools you are left with only 9% growth. Divided by 5 years averages 1.8% growth.

    Of course 7% among MO is a problem, but the fact that it exists disproves your theory. With a smaller growth rate and the same 5% more males born they have also closed the age gap to the 1.5% as you recommend. Based on your theory we should be seeing a surplus of MO boys, but instead they also have more single girls then boys. Tiyuvta!!!

    MO have a growth rate of 1.3% per year. Their age gap is 1-2 years, for arguments sake say 2%. That gives a total of 2.6% “gap” which does not even overcome the 5% birth gap and should result in 2.4% BOYS unmarried. The facts on the ground contradict this!!!

    after seeing the Avi Chai survey inside it is clear that the “age gap” can not account for more then 1% unmarried, which is insignificant

    in reply to: Is it Private Info or Not? #673134
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    aries: you are still missing the point. Noone is promoting the principal asking ADVICE from the students and he is not walking into the classroom announcing “who knows Ploni?” A better mashal would be if the directer of the board’s brother-in-law was neighbors with a candidate for principal it would be extremely reasonable to ask his impression. If you want to really know about the midos of a prospective shidduch, ask his roommates not his Rebbi.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682721
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    az: “How’s this for a long term idea, take out a year of either high school (12th grade) or elementary (8th grade) for the boys.”

    Terrible idea. The boys are already too young.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682703
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    Phyliss: “The maturity of a boy or girl has to do with how long they have been thinking of marriage”

    This MAY be true to a degree, but maturity is also a direct product of age and experience. If you would start discussing marriage with an infant they would still not be prepared for matrimony at 3.

    in reply to: Is it Private Info or Not? #673124
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    aries: “A child’s perspective is just that, the perspective of another child with their own spin on things. What makes you think a child does not have their own agenda at hand?”

    True, but an ADULT’S perspective is ALSO just the perspective of another adult with THEIR own spin on things. What makes you think an ADULT does not have their own agenda at hand.

    The answer is that a responsible, professional principal gathers all the relevant info he can, and weighs it proportionally to make his final decision.

    in reply to: Binah-Shidduch Issue #682699
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    az: “The problem is that at 29 years old (having dated 10 years) 10%+ of girls still single”

    My point is that this does not seem to be true.

    “There is absolutely no data whatsoever that the close in age shidduchim have any more shalom bayis issues”

    That’s called having your head in the sand. Everyone involved in Shalom Bayis issues knows that immaturity is one of the primary causes of divorce in our community. and it is foolish to think that if boys marry younger they will be MORE mature. I have to agree with oomis on this one.

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