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Size and pictures are wrong, period.
The Mint is now also circulating the Presidential coin dollar series, in a similar fashion to the state quarters.
nameless: What happened to you???? JK 😉
gavra: I can look into it when I’m back in town.
ICOT: Absolutely. I’ve been a collector since I’m 9, when my grandfather got me into stamps and coins (more on the stamps side.) Linn’s Stamp News is a great periodical to read.
Josh, read YW comments prior to getting behind the wheel?
I always meet a few frum stamp collectors (including Chasidic) at the ASDA stamp show twice a year in Manhattan.
The “hooliganism” reported in the secular media currently, and in the past, is fanciful imagination designed to denigrate Torah Jewry.
There is no importance in knowing every time someone is unfortunate to be hit by a car, etc.
mdlevine: You make very good points here, but just regarding your last one, perhaps you can be dan that the “sticker Rav” only allowed his name to be put on so long as the original hechsher existed. (Not that it justifies your other concerns.)
My fingers are still red from typing that answer to pi… er, Einstein’s Riddle.
Incorrect cantoresq. Torah Jews preceded (and will succeed) the zionists in Eretz Yisroel. I love Eretz Yisroel. It is those that defile it (the zionists), that are reprehensible.
Dr Pepper: Okay. I only requested the deductions to see something more comprehensive than “the water is drunk by the Norwegian and the Japanese is the one who keeps the Zebra.”
Here is a long-winded explanation of ICOT’s solution:
STEP 1
We are told the Norwegian lives in the 1st house (10). It does not matter whether this is counted from the left or from the right. We just need to know the order, not the direction.
From (10) and (15), the 2nd house is Blue. What color is the 1st house? Not Green or Ivory, because they have to be next to each other (6 and the 2nd house is Blue). Not Red, because the Englishman lives there (2). Therefore the 1st house is Yellow.
It follows that Kools are smoked in the 1st house (8) and the Horse is kept in the 2nd house (12).
So what is drunk by the Norwegian in the 1st, Yellow, Kools-filled house? Not Tea since the Ukrainian drinks that (5). Not Coffee since that is drunk in the Green house (4). Not Milk since that is drunk in the 3rd house (9). Not Orange Juice since the drinker of Orange Juice smokes Lucky Strikes (13). Therefore it is Water (the missing beverage) that is drunk by the Norwegian.
STEP 2
So what is smoked in the 2nd, Blue house where we know a Horse is also kept?
Not Kools which are smoked in the 1st house (8). Not Old Gold since that house must have Snails (7).
Let’s suppose Lucky Strikes are smoked here, which means Orange Juice is drunk here (13). Then consider: Who lives here? Not the Norwegian since he lives in the 1st House (10). Not the Englishman since he lives in a Red house (2). Not the Spaniard since he owns a dog (3). Not the Ukrainian since he drinks tea (4). Not the Japanese who smokes Parliaments (14). Since this is an impossible situation, Lucky Strikes are not smoked in the 2nd house.
Let’s suppose Parliaments are smoked here, which means the Japanese man lives here (14). Then consider: What is drunk here? Not Tea since the Ukrainian drinks that (4). Not Coffee since that is drunk in the Green house (4). Not Milk since that is drunk in the 3rd house (9). Not Orange Juice since the drinker of that smokes Lucky Strike (13). Again, since this is an impossible situation, Parliaments are not smoked in the 2nd house.
Therefore, Chesterfields are smoked in the 2nd house.
So who smokes Chesterfields and keeps a Horse in the 2nd, Blue house? Not the Norwegian who lives in the 1st House (10). Not the Englishman who lives in a Red house (2). Not the Spaniard who owns a dog (3). Not the Japanese who smokes Parliaments (14). Therefore, the Ukrainian lives in the 2nd House, where he drinks Tea (5).
STEP 3
Since Chesterfields are smoked in the 2nd house, we know from (11) that the Fox is kept in either the 1st house or the 3rd house.
Let us first assume that the Fox is kept in the 3rd house. Then consider: what is drunk by the man who smokes Old Golds and keeps Snails (7)? We have already ruled out Water and Tea from the above steps. It cannot be Orange Juice since the drinker of that smokes Lucky Strikes (13). It cannot be Milk because that is drunk in the 3rd house (9), where we have assumed a Fox is kept. This leaves Coffee, which we know is drunk in the Green house (4).
So if the Fox is kept in the 3rd house, then someone smokes Old Golds, keeps Snails and drinks Coffee in a Green house. Who can this person be? Not the Norwegian who lives in the 1st house (10). Not the Ukrainian who drinks Tea (5). Not the Englishman who lives in a Red house (2). Not the Japanese who smokes Parliaments (14). Not the Spaniard who owns a Dog (3).
This is impossible. So it follows that the Fox is not kept in the 3rd house, but in the 1st house.
STEP 4
From what we have found so far, we know that Coffee and Orange Juice are drunk in the 4th and 5th houses. It doesn’t matter which is drunk in which; we will just call them the Coffee house and the Orange Juice house.
So where does the man who smokes Old Gold and keeps Snails live? Not the Orange Juice house since Lucky Strike is smoked there (13).
Suppose this man lives in the Coffee house. Then we have someone who smokes Old Gold, keeps Snails and drinks Coffee in a Green (4) house. Again, by the same reasoning in STEP 3, this is impossible.
Therefore, the Old Gold-smoking, Snail-keeping man lives in the 3rd house.
It follows that Parliaments are smoked in the Green, Coffee-drinking house, by the Japanese man (14). This means the Spaniard must be the one who drinks Orange Juice, smokes Lucky Strikes and keeps a Dog. By extension, the Englishman must live in the 3rd house, which is Red. By process of elimination, the Spaniard’s house is the Ivory one.
By now we have filled in every ‘blank’ except one, and it is clear that the Japanese is the one who keeps the Zebra.
SJS: In your hypothetical, and the mother wasn’t well and abused her child, clearly the child and the mother should be separated. That does not mean a Jewish mother should be imprisoned prior to a just determination. The protests here are against the imprisonment of a Jewish mother, rather than against separation. (With the allegations hurled against her not credible itself.)
With the constantly added factors, the answer keeps narrowing…
Indeed Israel is worse than the USSR, Saddam’s Iraq, Islamic Iran, North Korea, and China. It is an uncivilized country with an unjust court system.
Calling them jackbooted is an understatement. They are murderous thugs who have no morals and will stoop to contently new lows in their fight against Jews and Judaism. They will leave no stone unturned in their fight against the Torah.
And we have a winner!
Congratulations goes to ICOT on solving the Zebra Puzzle.
Dr Pepper: ICOT got it in record time. Didn’t seem to take too long at all…
You’re female.
If the question pertains to Shabbos, there may be legitimacy to it. Using china on Shabbos, is a kovod for Shabbos Kodesh. (Not to discount there may be reasons someone is not using china on Shabbos.)
Dr. Pepper: I do believe a fine grained, and well trained, memory as you posses IS very intuitive (unlike counting down post numbers.)
Now did I get you stumped (on behalf of squeak) with my above posted riddle? No resorting to help.
mdlevine: Unless I overlooked something in your comment, how are you confident that the culprit wasn’t the store, and in fact the “sticker Rabbi” was completely unaware that his stickers were being affixed to the product in question?
Riddle:
1. There are five houses.
2. The Englishman lives in the red house.
3. The Spaniard owns the dog.
4. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
5. The Ukrainian drinks tea.
6. The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
7. The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
8. Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
9. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
12. Kools are smoked in a house next to the house where the horse is kept.
13. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
14. The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
15. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
Now, given that one resident drinks water, which is it? Given that one resident owns a zebra, which is it? (And explain how you deduced as such.)
In the interest of clarity, it must be added that each of the five houses is painted a different color, and their inhabitants are of different national extractions, own different pets, drink different beverages and smoke different brands of American cigarettes. In statement 6, right refers to the reader’s right.
Are any two schools ever the same?
Dr. P, how did you calculate it to have been 7 months <i>and one week</i> ago?
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squeak: Agreed. She shouldn’t. Who is accusing her? Jackbooted zionists and their media enablers. If there are real allegations, we have a system of justice. Its called the Torah. And Beis Din. Throwing a mother in prison, before even being tried, is a crime.
He was sleeping on the job.
Jothar: The government is responsible for the loss of more Jewish lives than it will ever portend to save. The child being sick is not in dispute. That the child should be appropriately medically treated is not in dispute either. The false incarceration of the innocent mother is what the protest is about. You can treat the child without jailing the Yiddishe mother.
Mazal Tov!
What are you teaching? What are the hashkafos?
“being careful with how they cover their hair” is another chumra?
Gee, I always assumed that was plain halacha.
Kangaroo “justice”.
He should of told you right away he insists on someone within walking distance…
There is due process in Israel, no?
No.
Wow, noitallmr believes he got Dr. Pepper stumped before squeak had a chance to!
I believe Canon has a much better reputation.
ames: Females are allowed into the riddle thread. (At least if it isn’t too hard. Remember the Barbie doll that feminists had a cow about since when you pulled its string one of the things it said was “Math is hard” ? [They apparently had no objections to its other random sayings like “Will we ever have enough clothes?” and “I love shopping!”]
oomis: PM’s comment regarding “anonymous rabbis and family members” was a response to cherrybim, NOT YOU.
cherrybim: We have been cited several times in this thread the chapter of the Igros Moshe supporting PM’s statement. Where is your citations of the Igros Moshe regarding your claims of Reb Moshe ZT’L? PM is certainly correct that you cannot rely on anonymous sources. At minimum you need to cite a verifiable Rav/Posek who will agree with your assertions regarding an unwritten psak of Reb Moshe. Who are these (still anonymous) “talmidim and family members” who are in accordance with your assertions?
Good point about it not being a legitimate news source. I wouldn’t even trust the veracity of their so-called “quotes”.
39, I did notice and appreciate that. But I also believe that even giving a modicum of credence to an anti-Torah/anti-Jewish zionist outlet is unwarranted.
I wouldn’t believe it (especially in the context claimed) just because the JPost or some other zionist outlet claims a video exists.
bein_hasdorim: Good point.
oomis” You must’ve missed the “anonymous” part of PM’s sentence.
Ed, No the Gedolim do not call for Hafganos in Yerushalayim for rock throwing violence. These acts are few in numbers (yet blown out of proportion by the zionist/secular media who attempt to make it appear it is widespread), committed by bored youths who have no shaichos to Gedolei Yisroel Shlita.
What Gedolei Yisroel Shlita DO call for, are rallies to protect Kovod Shabbos Kodesh.
A600KiloBear:
Thank you for your senseful posts, and looking forward to your post Tisha B’Av return to posting from Yerushlayim Ir HaKodesh.
gourmet,
I fail to understand your point.
If your parents had taken your advice, you would not be here to tell us it.
AZ: It isn’t a “problem” (as you put it.) It is a brocha.
PY: I am curious how you are such a buki on what the average NYC subway rider doesn’t wear? I often travel the subway twice daily, and am not as familiar with the female riders dress choices as yourself.
Josh, Which reasoning specifically led you to that misinterpertation?
My “sect” isn’t lax in any area of halacha. You’ll need to speak to someone who speaks your language.
PM: 15 pregnancies with the oldest being 14, is quite an accomplishment!!