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it’s kinda funny, the homepage has got an article on the price raise of shmaurah matzah this year!!!
shindy: i just heard tonight, that the shmurah matzah that my family gets costs $18.50 a pound this year!!! you don’t even wanna know how many pounds we get-we only eat shmurah matzos(cause none of us like the square box ones)!!!
mod72: how about post the multiple letters, but say who really posted it first to get that letter?
squeak & ames: i’ll start concidering my cr hours as my chessed hours for the day-with the shul thing!!!
blubluh: One thing that has amazed me about Passover get-away packages is that people are able to afford them!
ever noticed handmade shemurah matzah these days costs over $15- a pound??
isn’t matzah called poor man’s food???
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ames & all: i would like to talk a little about our previous middah of the week(which we all should still be working on)”not to hurl back insults”:
this is something that i have been working on for some time now, even before we started it in this thread. i just wanted to fill you in that B”H, i’m doing much better at this. i recently heard that one who holds back from hurling insults is compare to the Shemesh, who did not hurl comments to the Moon by Brias Haolom, when the Moon said he wanted to be an equeal with the Sun in size! the sun held back commenting on this and stayed the center of the world-the earth revorves around the sun & if not for the sun’s ray’s we all on earth would not be able to survive on this planet! thus proving good things come out of not hurling insults, or even comments when we feel we could just run on mouths when we get a chance in anger!
i’ll be short with a story here, an israeli couple didn’t have children for many years(over 20yrs) & went to a Rav for a Bracha. they told the Rav they wanted more then just a Bracha, the Rav says when you meet a person that is able to not hurl insults back to a person when put in that matziv, ask that person for a Bracha, that that person is compared to the shemesh-the apitamy of this middah-with full Emuna, & a Bracha from such a person would be mikuyam-even more so than a Bracha from me[the Rav’s]! the wife of this couple 2 years later is at a wedding/bar mitzvah & hears someone in public being yelled at & cursed out at! the wife of the childless couple, runs over to the woman being cursed out at in public & says to her please don’t say anything, i’ll explain it to you after, i beg you! so the woman says nothing while being cursed at. the childless lady expalins to the other lady, that was just being cursed at, about what the Rav had told her. about getting a Bracha from someone who didn’t hurl back comments when put in that situation & their Bracha being mikuyam for them to have a child! the woman gives the childless lady a Bracha for children & with in the year, has a child!
this is from Rav Pesach Kron(if anything in here seems slightly different from the version you heard, please let me know, i’m typin this patt 2am & need to find my bed)
how many kiddushim do you honor with your presence each shobbos?
(a)0-2
(b)3-5)
(c)7 or more
(d)I just got a Heter to carry a map on shobbos
jaymatt: his neshamah should have an aliyah. great vort there.
anonymisss: D
Michal bas Avraham: welcome to the cr!!!
areivimzehlazeh: i’m glad your back too!!!
lgbg: wow mazel tov!!!
charlie brown & areivem: welcome back!!!!!!!
Rabbasai, we need a volunteer for thursday. please sign up. thank you.
David S.: wow what an amazing thread you started. your post i did read it is very well thought out.
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da: wow all those books you mentioned are on the top of my list too!!! i own all those books!!! Plan B is a great one too, you should really read it!!!
these days i actually go for the short story books:
all the People Speaks(i loved kids speak as a kid)-Chaim Walder is an amazing author, all Touched by a Story Books, all he Visions of Greatness books-i recently read the latest volume of it-wow it was great!!!
anonymisss: i’m so happy your B”H doing better!!! that’s so great!!!
kapusta: sorry to hear about your phone, hope you can get the numbers back!!! hatzlacha with that!!!
proud tatty: thanx that was great! welcome, please continue to share devrei torah.
i got a random question:
how many people know Hatzlolah’s number by heart??? if you were placed C”V in a situation that you had to dial Hatzolah, would you go into panic mode, or remember the number???
i’m asking, cause today i was in such a situation with others, & i was in complete shock that someone ran to get a telephone book to look up Halzolah’s number!!! i personally knew the number & quickly dialed 230-1000!!!
D’Var Torah – Parsha Vayakel/Pekuday:
The Torah describes in great detail the building of the Mishkan. It was an impressive work with stunning beauty. It had fine detailed gold, jewels and intricate tapestries. When the Jews donated building materials to the Mishkan it was important that they did so with the proper intent. The Mishkan was not just a cold lifeless edifice; rather, it was the living house of Hashem. The dedication and love for Hashem were as vital to the construction as the actual wood and stone. Then intention makes the gift, as the following anecdote illustrates:
The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became even more upset when the child pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a gift box.
Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her father the next day and said, “This is for you, Daddy.” The father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found the box was empty. He spoke to her in a harsh manner:
“Don’t you know, young lady, when you give someone a present there’s supposed to be something inside the package?”
The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said: “Daddy, it’s not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was full.”
The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his little girl, and he begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger, and thanked her for her precious gift.
Only a short time later, a tragic accident took the life of that child. The father kept that gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. And whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
anonymisss: a here’s a story about the Noam Elimelech!
An unusual guest for Tea:
this one’s an extra one!!! my d’var torah for tuesday will be up later on!!!
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55: wanna host the game???
39: my vocabulary is on an elementary level!!!
B…..tryin not to kill him!!! add payos!!!
J….for Jax!!!!
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39: she’s your buddy!!!
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JayMatt19: well done, especially for short notice!!!
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I can only try: D!!!
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> We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
> But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
> One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
> Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
> You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
> Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
>
> If the plural of man is always called men,
> Then shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?
> If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
> And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
> If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
> Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?
>
> Then one may be that, and three would be those,
> Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
> And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
> We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
> But though we say mother, we never say methren.
> Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
> But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
>
> Let’s face it – English is a crazy language.
> There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
> neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
> English muffins weren’t invented in England .
> We take English for granted, but if we explore its
> paradoxes,
> we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are
> square,
> and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
>
> And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t
> fing,
> grocers don’t groce and
> hammers don’t ham?
> Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not
> one amend.
> If you have a bunch of odds and ends
> and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
>
> If in the past, teachers taught, why didn’t preachers
> praught?
> If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian
> eat?
> Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking
> English
> should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
>
> In what other language do people recite at a play and play
> at a recital?
> We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
> We have noses that run and feet that smell.
> We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
> And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
> while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
>
> You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
> in which your house can burn up as it burns down,
> in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
> and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
an open book: thank you for davening for my ankle, b”h i don’t need the surgery!!!
an open book: D
good night ya’all!!!
moish: what do you mean???
cool word!!!