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  • in reply to: America #964340
    ItcheSrulik
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    Amen.

    in reply to: Because my father wasn't a kohen #964328
    ItcheSrulik
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    *Insert joke about gadolatry here*

    in reply to: Yeshiva guys know stuff, by popa #964947
    ItcheSrulik
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    popa: You mean baleibatim know stuff 馃檪

    in reply to: ?? ?????? ???? ???? #1104545
    ItcheSrulik
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    tzaddiq: Look the pasuk up again. The word Haman doesn’t appear.

    ??? ??? ????? ?????? ?? ??????

    in reply to: Troll Committee #958517
    ItcheSrulik
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    Given the way our local trolls operate, they are clearly working in a hothouse not a freezer.

    in reply to: Citi Bike bike share #956176
    ItcheSrulik
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    Citibike is an abomination. It is assur, and against the Torah.

    in reply to: What if you weren't Jewish? #974485
    ItcheSrulik
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    I would get in my weekly chillul shabbos by stirring the cholent on Friday night to get all the meat that sunk to the bottom.

    I would get around the prohibition against learning Torah by only learning my chavrusa’s svarot (hope he doesn’t see this).

    in reply to: Why is there the "Women of the Wall" group? #956203
    ItcheSrulik
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    Sam2: You are part of the problem! Reshaim is a masculine plural. FOR SHAME!!

    in reply to: Why is there the "Women of the Wall" group? #956196
    ItcheSrulik
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    Women of the Wall is an Oynesh midda k’negged middah for the frum oylem’s insisntence on using awful dikduk and havara b’meyzid l’hachis. As proof I cite the worst of their sins — that they call themselve’ n’shot hakotel instead of n’shei. What in heaven’s name is a n’shot?

    in reply to: Am I the only one #979232
    ItcheSrulik
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    I sing ?? ?? ?????? …

    in reply to: Tefillin Shel Rosh poll #1226101
    ItcheSrulik
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    mobico: Which version of the double dalet does he use?

    in reply to: Mitzva of Mashkeh #950216
    ItcheSrulik
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    According to Toi, getting hammered is only a mitzvah if you sit on your hat after you drink, not before.

    in reply to: Do any charedim wear straw fedoras? #950352
    ItcheSrulik
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    just my happence: You lose your discworld points because we changed fandoms.

    in reply to: Tefillin Shel Rosh poll #1226097
    ItcheSrulik
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    I tie a single dalet because my father does though the fact that the Rambam says the knot is “square like a dhol” and that two communities known for best preserving ancient minhagim in both Ashkenaz and the Mideast use the double seems to suggest that was the original custom. It is interesting to note that the Yemenite/Yekke double dalet is tied differently than the Hungarian one. It has been suggested that the Hungarian knot changed because the inside of the Yekke/Yemenite double dalet looks like a cross.

    in reply to: The Bias Against Black-Hatters #949750
    ItcheSrulik
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    Charlie: ^This.

    in reply to: Buying tefillin online. Need help. #985171
    ItcheSrulik
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    Reb Yerachmiel: While I haven’t (yet) done business with you, I’d like to compliment you on your site. The educational materials are a very nice touch.

    Regarding holding the knot in place, another trick I’ve seen is to stuff a small piece of retzua into the ma’abarta. Never done it though because I’m always afraid it will fall out.

    in reply to: Fun in Judaism #949783
    ItcheSrulik
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    There are, however, more than one Hebrew word for pleasure. If you call it pleasure instead of fun does that make it holier?

    in reply to: Buying tefillin online. Need help. #985163
    ItcheSrulik
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    There is no reason not to buy tefillin online if you do your due diligence. There are a number of reliable soferim who have websites you can purchase from. I have no affiliation with any of the sites as a customer to some of them.

    I too can vouch for hasofer.com. The owner is a talmid chochom as well as a professional and known as an authority on STA”M shailos.

    Tefillin Beit El is a relatively (safrus is by it’s nature a cottage industry) large operation with an excellent reputation for quality. They also offer free shipping which is a significant bonus if you’re in Scandinavia. A word of professional advice: though Beit-El recommends the “chofetz chaim” knot, most soferim and batim-machers don’t because it puts heavy stress on the ma’abarta. Ask them to fasten the knot with a gid instead.

    torahscroll.com is the website of a senior sofer named Yitzchok Reisman. My own STA”M teacher remembers hearing of him as a veteran magiha 30+ years ago. There is no order form on his website and the site is kind of thin in general but he does have contact information.

    in reply to: Girls' Names #948102
    ItcheSrulik
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    OOM: Ganesh is a Hindu idol shaped like a six-legged elephant sometimes depicted with an extra trunk. Your friend’s parents probably didn’t know that, she probably should.

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948268
    ItcheSrulik
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    As any serious student of art knows, “Modern” ended in the 70’s. We are now all postmodern Orthodox Jews, though my own Orthodoxy still tends to show some dadaist tendencies.

    in reply to: Emunah Help? #1194813
    ItcheSrulik
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    You act like you believe i.e. keep halacha, do mitzvos, daven like you mean it not just like you’re expected to be seen in shul. Just “faith” without doing anything is a Christian concept.

    in reply to: Emunah Help? #1194808
    ItcheSrulik
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    mr: For a change, I second WIY. Emunah comes through practice. I would add that it is important to remember that while when we daven we talk to God, when we learn that is God talking back (Rav Soloveichik). Try learning sefarim on emunah in particular and Torah in general that discusses emunah. Haazinu is more than a segulah for Emunah, it is Moshe’s own mussar shmooze on Emunah. Many chapters of tehillim are also David’s teachings of Emunah. Try reading these perakim both simply and with mefarshim.

    in reply to: Brainwashing as Part of Chinuch #1014280
    ItcheSrulik
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    popa: You’re assuming everyone is competent.

    in reply to: Mecho'ah and Moda'ah regarding my new subtitle #941775
    ItcheSrulik
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    Popa: We have one for you. (The Kanoi’s. NDG’s was just trash talk and none too imaginative at that.)

    in reply to: The CR Discworlders Club #1114436
    ItcheSrulik
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    Chalilah!

    in reply to: Bracha on Matzah Brei #941739
    ItcheSrulik
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    If you eat matza brei you are clearly a sheigetz and shouldn’t be making brachos anyway.

    in reply to: The CR Discworlders Club #1114434
    ItcheSrulik
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    OOM: Both.

    I’m currently reading I shall wear midnight

    in reply to: Source for ?????, by DY #941204
    ItcheSrulik
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    The joke was too easy. Everyone knows you can do better so we’re leaving this one alone.

    in reply to: Mecho'ah and Moda'ah regarding my new subtitle #941770
    ItcheSrulik
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    nishtdayngesheft: I’m maskim –with the backing of the powers that be in this forum no less — that I had to be megayer because I used to wear a black hat.

    in reply to: 砖讜专抓 讜讟讘诇 讘讬讚讜 #941155
    ItcheSrulik
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    This is true. Especially the yeshiva guys who think they’re daykanim.

    in reply to: Why I won't let my kids do ????? #1186751
    ItcheSrulik
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    In my shul we give hagba to the nebbachs, but we have a good reason. We only give it to the one particular nebbach who forgets that he has to bentch gomel until after the last aliya was called up.

    in reply to: 砖讜专抓 讜讟讘诇 讘讬讚讜 #941153
    ItcheSrulik
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    Correction: It’s b’ras with a patach. I checked Jastrow.

    in reply to: Coming to shachris #941061
    ItcheSrulik
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    Gamanit: Yeshiva bocherim who don’t know yiddish attempt to speak it anyway all the time. I know it’s painful to listen to (even for bad yiddish speakers like myself) but it happens.

    in reply to: What do you use for Zoreah? #941039
    ItcheSrulik
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    I use seeds.

    in reply to: Drinking Wine with an Evolution Believer #941991
    ItcheSrulik
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    I have good friends for whom there is no heter for me to drink wine with and I’ve never had any problem. Beer tastes good too.

    in reply to: 砖讜专抓 讜讟讘诇 讘讬讚讜 #941152
    ItcheSrulik
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    Don’t worry, the yeshiva is full of likeminded shkotzim.

    Maskilishe grammar nitpick: I’m pretty sure ??? is given a chirik and shva nach in Aramaic similar to bint in Arabic.

    in reply to: Afikomen presents #1070275
    ItcheSrulik
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    My honor student beat up your kid and trashed your car when he saw that sticker.

    in reply to: A chometz-free CR #1011763
    ItcheSrulik
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    Why should it be, first?

    in reply to: 砖讜专抓 讜讟讘诇 讘讬讚讜 #941150
    ItcheSrulik
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    I last learned challa about six months ago and I’m pretty sure tevel refers to terumah gedola. That is definitely the colloquial usage. Either way, keep ’em coming. Your troll threads are the only reason I still frequent this place. (That and the discworld thread) The politics are aggravating and now that I’m learning full time, I don’t need to come here for halacha arguments.

    in reply to: ?? ????? #941035
    ItcheSrulik
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    You have a strange definition of “fit.”

    in reply to: Drinking Wine with an Evolution Believer #941989
    ItcheSrulik
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    talmud: What a helpful and informative post.

    in reply to: A chometz-free CR #1011761
    ItcheSrulik
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    Booze is chametz.

    in reply to: Drinking Wine with an Evolution Believer #941974
    ItcheSrulik
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    rebdoniel: I hope so, but it probably isn’t.

    in reply to: 砖讜专抓 讜讟讘诇 讘讬讚讜 #941147
    ItcheSrulik
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    No, because teruma gedola was either taken or not necessary. He’s shoretz ugzeilat hakohen b’yado. But then the pun is nowhere near as good, so tevel b’yado it is.

    in reply to: ?? ????? #941033
    ItcheSrulik
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    It doesn’t fit. Then again, when did that ever stop a chazzan?

    in reply to: ???? ???? #940936
    ItcheSrulik
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    Is this the mekor for sending your mother-in-law to a nursing home?

    in reply to: Making Up Divrei Torah At The Seder #941380
    ItcheSrulik
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    Thanks to you when my kids are in school, they’ll be told this story as if it were true. All because of some ibberchochom and his audience who didn’t get the joke.

    in reply to: The CR Discworlders Club #1114425
    ItcheSrulik
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    Gaiman wrote The Doctor’s Wife?

    Explains a lot.

    in reply to: The CR Discworlders Club #1114404
    ItcheSrulik
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    Delurking just for this. I don’t remember how many I’ve read though.

    in reply to: Recommendations for a Good Pair of Men's Boots #929246
    ItcheSrulik
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    Army surplus. Pick your favorite army, most of them have issued black boots at some point in recent history.

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