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I misinterpreted the headline on this topic. I thought it was going to be about bochurim getting jobs and supporting themselves with their earnings while learning. I guess I have not been paying close attention.
I am generally opposed to the death penalty, but I have an open mind if it were applied to robo callers.
I think there are some NFL quarterbacks who are Jewish. Maybe they could pass it to bochurim.
AAQ gave a sound answer.
When Baskin-Robbins opened its first store more than 60 years ago, it offered 31 kinds of herring, but no ice cream. It nearly went out of business, until someone suggested ice cream instead of herring, and they took the advice.
You are a hoarder. Deal with it (and not by imagining that you can invent something that can hold all the junk you hoard without taking up any space).
I never bentsch for Janine Pirro. Her husband Albert was a convicted tax cheat, but she beat the rap.
To redleg: Two answers: (i) Eastern Cincinnati Alliance for Palestine. (ii) Something E-GENTILES wear on their E-HEADS.
To paraphrase the Mad Hatter (or Queen of Heart?), when lakwhud uses an acronym or abbreviation, it means exactly what he/she intends it to mean.
Dip da dip da dip da dip. Very popular in the 1950’s, it was every everywhere, but not any more. It went especially well with bang shanga lang and bomp ba bomp ba bomp.
I think the OP is mixing apples with ball bearings.
I don’t have statistics, but I think crime rates against Jews are lower in the US – we have fewer rocket attacks and terrorist bombs.
And putting all the Jews into Israel would make it easier for anyone to wipe out all Jews in a well-planned attack. Here in America, we hide among gentiles, just the way Hamas hides its rockets among Palestinians living in Gaza. I say, wait for Hashem to bring us home. And just to be clear, I am not Satmar – I don’t like their hats.
Chocolate.
Thank you, Syag.
I do not recall any post this long or detailed from ujm. Did he/she have help in preparing it, and was he/she paid, directly or indirectly, to post it?
Thank you, jackk. And, lakewhut, are you paid, directly or indirectly, for any of your posts? I think I have asked you before, and I do not recall your replying.
To som1: I stand by my comment.
Ask your doctor. Period.
To DaasYochid: You must be very short, because my fabulous jokes always seem to go over your head.
And yes, one can go into the future without going to another place.
To Participant – I think you are right and I am wrong about Moshe’s speech challenge.
To nOmesorah: The anti-abortion crowd is not monolithic, but some of them would not allow an abortion to save a mother’s life, and some of them favor saving the unborn child over saving the life of the mother, if the medical situation is such that one of them cannot be saved. Our rights as American Jews would be jeopardized by some (not necessarily all) anti-abortionists, and that is unacceptable to this here American Jew.
The longest thread ever was used to sew the pants that Donald Trump’s ego wears.
a. I have never heard Biden stutter.
b. One of the smartest people I have ever known was a heavy stutterer. And the stupidest US president of all time did not stutter. (And he had the worst comb-over of all US presidents.)
c. What does the Torah say about stuttering? If I am not m-m-m-mistaken, Moshe w-w-w-was a s-s-s-s-stutterer. And the Torah probably does command us not to ridicule stutterers.
And, to dovrosenbaum: Ripping a baby out of the womb to save the life of the mother is a mitzvah that the anti-abortion crowd would prohibit Jews from observing.
To DaasYochid: If Yiddish is not going anywhere, are you saying it will not go into the future? Is your command of Yiddish any better than your command of English?
When devout Catholic Joe Biden refers to G-d, he is referring to “the father, the son, and the holy ghost.” Is it good for the Jews for a US president to do that? Hashem does not need the support of any Earthly political leaders. Do you?
This thread illustrates my problem with the use of Yiddish. “Rebbetzin” is a fundamental word about an important part of Klal Yisrael and Yiddishkeit, but so many frum people disagree over its meaning. I will not even offer my understanding of the word, because I have no basis for believing my definition is correct, or even half correct.
The English language has no central authority that defines English words or even passes on what words are English and what words are not. There are a few respected dictionaries that take a prescriptive approach to defining English words, and a few other respected English dictionaries that take a descriptive approach. (I prefer the former, but that’s just me.)
The French language has an official board of big shots who pass upon what is French, what is not, and what the French words mean.
I don’t know who, if anyone, governs German, but I am sure it is orderly.
If Yiddish is to continue as an effective language, I think (as illustrated by this thread) it needs a central authority to govern what is and is not Yiddish, and what each word and phrase mean.
So, who wants to be on the board? And who wants to be on the board that appoints the board? And just to be clear, I am surely not qualified for either.
What “article” is the opening poster referring to? Without it, does this thread have any meaning?
To Always_Ask_: So … what.
“Unity” is one of those words that politicians of every stripe invoke when they want to say something that is meaningless and bland. Another good example of such a word is “change,” which only begs the question: Change from what to what else? The change I would like most is when I order schwarma, and tender a $5 bill, I get some change back. In fact, I would like change when I tender a $10.
And just to confuse some of you nudniks, I am a registered Democrat and unregistered liberal, and the two politicians who invoked “change” the most were Bill Clinton and Barak Obama.
So many posts, so little knowledge.
To nOmesorah: My comments addressed only errors of economics. As you said, your comment of 4/30, 9:37 am, addressed only Torah issues, on which I did not comment.
Posts 9 through 15 are no better than posts 1 through 7. (My first post is number 8.)
A partial answer to DasYochid’s reasonable request of me is: most of the economic errors of the posters result from reliance on the “free market” theory of economics. We learned it in Economics 101, but we did not learn, in Eco 101, that economists have been testing it over many years and found that real markets do not behave like the free market of the theory. One simple example is the notion that all participants in a market have complete knowledge of all information relevant to the market. Another is that there are no barriers to entry into the market. A third example is that the effects of taxation are known and understood.
Another source of errors among the posters (other than me, of course) is the failure to distinguish micro- from macroeconomics. All posters, including me, have to balance our household budgets and limit our borrowing and interest costs. Governments are not subject to that requirement in the same way that households are. Many times I have heard successful business owners say, if I ran my business like the government, I would be broke. And that is true. But it does not tell us how governments should behave.
An essential part of any science, especially the dismal one, is testing the theories by looking at the real world and measuring what the theories predict. That is a big part of what economists do. If you don’t follow the testing, you don’t know economics.
I explained the falsehoods of the allegations against Kerry in a comment to the “news” article that reported his supposed revelation of Israeli secrets.
Any CR Reps or Cons want to defend Trump’s slavish devotion to Vladimir Putin?
I should add, regarding the opening post, that it is excellently alliterated. But that does not make it true.
To Participant: My post was neither (i) hilarious, nor (ii) satire, nor (iii) hilarious satire. Fauci has been a distinguished medical expert for over 30 years. Anyone who does not know that is (a) not paying attention, which is OK, or (b) misinformed, which might be OK, or (c) stupid, which is not OK.
Excellent (Axcellent?) alliteration. But no truth.
In fact, the alliteration is so good, it makes me wonder whether MadeAlliyah is being paid for his posts or getting outside help. Let me emphasize: I have no evidence other than the axcellent alliteration. And that is a long way from proof.
The allegations of treason by Kerry go back to 2015. If there were any truth to these allegations, surely the Justice Department of the Trump administration would have conducted a prosecution, but that never happened. Clearly, Republicans are so desperate to smear Democrats that they are recycling old phony news.
The first seven posts contain not one bit of correct economic analysis.
Zohars-R-Us. It’s shomer shabbos.
To David Greenberg: So you went to a Gadol for a bracha? Did you hear the one about the Jew with the Jaguar automibile?
The problem with the opening post is not that he/she is not living in America. The problem is that he/she is … hmmmm, how can I put this politely … misinformed.
According to Minnesota and US law, which (i) over all, has been good for the Jews, and (ii) has actual jurisdiction over Chauvin, Chauvin was not allowed to kill Floyd. Chauvin goes to jail.
The Torah is fairly clear that Jews must respect and live by civil law, with few exceptions. As usual, lakewhut is off the mark with his question.
I vaguely recall an incident more than 5 years ago, in which an NYPD cop shot (and, I think, killed) a frum Jew weilding a hammer and threatening passersby in Boro Park or Williamsburg. The ywn commentators were mostly outraged at the brutality, especially because, it turned out, the shot man had a long history of mental illness.
One thing we learned from the Chauvin/Floyd murder is that when a cop kills someone, the cops release a phony story. The cell-phone video of George Floyd’s death unequivocally showed that the police department press release was a lie.
I don’t know enough about the shooting in this story to start passing out medals, or indictments, but I know that the facts in these situations are complicated, and police departments have an ugly history of lying.
Did lakewhut learn about the French Revolution?
Auto leasing disguises the interest rate and the cash purchase price of a vehicle. Before leasing, one should consider the cost of purchasing a car, and the interest rate one would pay on an auto loan. A leasing company that discloses these alternatives would be a good one.
So this Jewish immigrant to America has the good fortune to become wealthy and he buys a Jaguar automobile. He goes to a Conservative rabbi and asks him to make a bracha on the Jaguar, and the Conservative rabbi says he does not know an appropriate bracha for a car, ask an Orthodox rabbi. So the guy goes to an Orthodox rabbi and asks for a bracha on his Jaguar, and the Orthodox rabbi asks, “What’s a Jaguar?” So the guy goes to a Reform rabbi and asks for a bracha on his Jaguar, and the Reform rabbi asks, “What’s a bracha?”
My kid got a scrape on the knee. I spanked him and the scrape healed in a few days.
It helps to have obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Can you make the same Bracha in a Toyota?
Borsalinos look better than other black fedoras. Are they $200 better? I don’t know.