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yros – that is not the case. The Israeli Army is an immoral Un-Jewish service.

The reason modern orthodoxy is withering on the vine (while Chareidim are growing by leaps and bounds — both internally and through the Baal Teshuva movement), is because by and large the MO children either become more Chareidi, or they move further left and R’L fall off the Jewish map.

And what will be accomplished? Will Hamas cease to exist? Will Hamas be afraid or unable to commit further suicidal murderous attacks?

The Zionist – Arab conflict has NO military solution.

umm yeah, you seem to forget you’ve spilled all your beans already 😛

like your over 19, “but not by much” (whatever that means)

lets spit it out: you are 21!

asdfghjkl

start by telling us about the hippies in the ’60’s!

brooklyn, yes – you are over the hill! but don’t worry; there is still life after 25 🙂

Feif, Reuters put that on the wire specifically to antogonize you. lol.

Actually there is a side discussions regarding the Jewish vs. secular calendar above.

asdfghjkl

of course

you’ll be sitting by the reunion bonfire telling all the youngsters how things were in your day.

you’ll reminisce how excited you were when you heard the typewriter was invented

you’ll tell us all about the Model T

brooklyn, we wouldn’t want the girls to lose their dates.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Those eager to put 2008 behind them will have to hold their good-byes for just a moment this New Year’s Eve.

The world’s official timekeepers have added a “leap second” to the last day of the year on Wednesday, to help match clocks to the Earth’s slowing spin on its axis, which takes place at ever-changing rates affected by tides and other factors.

The U.S. Naval Observatory, keeper of the Pentagon’s master clock, said it would add the extra second on Wednesday in coordination with the world’s atomic clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC.

That corresponds to 6:59:59 p.m. EST (23:59:59 GMT), when an extra second will tick by — the 24th to be added to UTC since 1972, when the practice began.

UTC is the time scale kept by highly precise atomic clocks around the world, accurate to about a billionth of a second per day, the Naval Observatory says. For those with a need for precision timing, it has replaced Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT.

The decision to add or remove a second is the responsibility of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, based on its monitoring of the Earth’s rotation.

The goal is to make sure clocks vary from the Earth’s rotational time by no more than 0.9 seconds before an adjustment. That keeps UTC in sync with the position of the sun above the Earth.

Mechanisms such as the Internet-based Network Time Protocol and the satellite-based Global Positioning System depend on precision timing.

The first leap second was introduced into UTC on June 30, 1972. The last was added on December 31, 2005.

They have been added at intervals ranging from six months to seven years, Daniel Gambis, head of the IERS Earth Orientation Centre at the Observatoire de Paris, wrote in an explanatory piece this month (http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/).

Among the reasons for Earth’s slowing whirl on its axis are the braking action of tides, snow or the lack of it at the polar ice caps, solar wind, space dust and magnetic storms, according to the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, another timekeeper.

By contrast, a leap day, February 29, occurs once every four years because a complete turn around the sun — our year with all its seasons — takes about 365 days and six hours.

In 1970, an international agreement established two time scales: one based on the Earth’s rotation and another on highly accurate atomic clocks.

The U.S. Naval Observatory’s master clock is based on a system that now includes 50 atomic clocks, 36 based on the element cesium and 14 known as hydrogen masers.

With the Earth’s rotation gradually slowing, the periodic insertion of a leap second into the atomic time scale is needed to keep the two systems within a second of each other.

asdfghjkl

you can talk about how things were during you’re youth.

start believing 🙂

asdfghjkl, you must mean ”rolling dough” (no IN.)

72, I’m moichel any personal kovod. 🙂 On a personal basis I can be criticized without bother…

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Our beloved squeak.

If it saves one life, every red light camera was well worth it.

1) All Jews are obligated in the Mitzvah of lighting Chanukah candles.

This applies to men, women and children (who have reached the age of Chinuch; approximately 5 or 6 years of age), as all Jews were saved in the miraculous victory of the Macabbees over the mighty Greek army. (Additionally, as we discussed in the previous Halachos, women are specifically obligated in the Mitzvos of Chanukah, due to their being saved from the harsh decrees levied against them, via the heroic act of Yehudis, a woman)

2) The prevalent Minhag is for the male head of household to exempt all the female members of the house (adults and children alike), through the lighting of his menorah.

The females being exempted should make sure to be present and listen to the recital of the Brachos [and answer Amen] while the menorah is kindled. (Mishna Berurah 675:9)

Of course, if no man is available to exempt her, a women may light [and make the blessings over] her own menorah. A woman can also exempt other people with her lighting, when no man is available to do this. (See Smag Hilchos Chanukah, Taz 675:3, Magen Avraham ibid.)

Boys who have reached the age of Chinuch should preferably light their own menorahs [with all the Halachic details involved] and not rely on the head of the household’s lighting. (Ram’a 675:3. See also Mishna Berura and Biur Halacha ibid. Dibur Hamaschil U’Ldidan, regarding if there is a Mitzvah of Chinuch for “Hidur Mitzvah” or just for the “letter of the law” and thus children would only have to light one candle per night.)

(Halachos for Today)

I am of the strong opinion that every light should have a red light camera attached.

rob, I do periodically (i.e. infrequently) participate in a small number of other Torah discussions (under the same name as here), but as you can imagine I don’t have a monopoly to the name. Rav Eidensohn’s place perhaps?

jphone, to explain KiruvWife’s point it by way of an extreme analogy, if a Jew G-d forbid is in McDonald’s ordering a cheeseburger, (after being unable to persuade him otherwise) are you going to advise him heck you are eating a cheeseburger anyways so get shtick chazer fieselch with it? I would at least try to dissuade him from the chazer, notwithstanding that he is going to eat a cheeseburger anyways.

This point stands even though we both agree both cheeseburgers and chazir are treif gamur.

(p.s. i am not literally comparing following professional sports to eating chazir. better sports than chazir.)

(p.p.s. the mod has already stated the official position. “Playing sports for fun, excerise and even competition is fine. Spending hours reading up on the latest deals, trades and statistics is not the ideal (to say the least).” at: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/should-the-cr-have-sports-threads/page/2#post-21001 )

qaws, B&H Photo IMHO.

Wolf,

You are correct. It is appropriate for neither.

The Gemara asks the following question: ” Mai Chanukah, What is Chanukah”?

Rashi explains the Gemara’s question to mean, “Due to which miracle was the Yom Tov of Chanukah instituted?”

The Gemara goes on to answer the question as follows: On the 25th day of Kislev begin the eight days of Chanukah. It is prohibited to eulogize anyone on these days and it is prohibited to fast on these days.

Why?

When the Greeks entered the Bais HaMikdash they[handled all the vessels and touched and] made all the oil [that was used to light the menorah] impure. When the Chashmonaim (sometimes referred to as the macabees) overpowered the Greek army and won the war they searched the entire Bais HaMikdash and were only able to find one small jug of pure oil [with the seal of the Kohen Gadol on it].

There was only enough oil in this jug to light the menorah for one day. However, a miracle occurred and the small amount of oil was sufficient to light the menorah for eight days (until they were once again able to purify themselves and produce more oil).

The following year, beginning on 25 Kislev, the Chachamim instituted an eight day Yom Tov (which we refer to as Chanukah) dedicated to Halel (praise) and Hoda’ah (Thanks) [to Hashem].

(Talmud Shabbos 21b, also brought in the Tur beginning of Hilchos Chanukah)

1) According to many Rishonim there is no requirement to have a Seudah (festive meal) on Chanukah, and any Seudah that is made is a Seudas Reshus (non obligatory meal).

Others argue and maintain that there is indeed a requirement to have a Seudah, with bread, on Chanukah.

The prevelant minhag when having a Seudah on Chanukah is to sing Shiros V’Tishbachos (praises) to Hashem and/or talk Divrei Torah, thus making it a Seudas Mitzvah according to all opinions.

2) It is customary to eat foods made with cheese on Chanukah in commemoration of the miracle of Yehudis’ slaying of the Greek general Heliphornius which is considered one of the miracles of Chanukah, in which cheese played a role. (See Ram”a Siman 670:2 and Mishna Berura S”K 10. for more on the story. )

(from Halachos for Today)

Feif, The M.B. discusses on the Shulchan Orach O.C. 161:3. The discussion pertains to women. To the best of my knowledge neither the mechaber nor the M.B. refer to rings on men. (Obviously it would also be a mechitza on a man.)