I don’t know what part of Flatbush or BP you are looking at, but where ever I lived in Flatbush, the driveways were legal.

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate.

BTW, Lipa dropped everything and ran to entertain a child he didn’t even know because the mother (my friend) saw him and told him about her son who was in the hospital and was a fan.

This is for sure the midah of a rasha.

So well said DaasYochid!

My thought about it are:1)If someone earned the money honestly and didn’t ask me to subsidize his expensive watch (or whatever bauble)I don’t care. 2)I personally wouldn’t don’t understand the need of someone to buy such high end thing unless it is much better than a lower end item i.e. lasts much longer, better resale value, more comfortable. 3)People should look at their own budgets and pockets and not someone else’s.

Oh, and more ahavas Yisroel and less jealousy would make Moshiach come faster, I think.

The only one I found showed rebbes lighting Chanuka licht. It wasn’t complete. It looked very good.

Micro, that is where the role of a shadchun comes in. Your shadchan should go to the young man and ask him what is going on.

All aged cheeses such as parmesan, romano and sharp cheddar are “hard” cheeses. These are aged at least 6 months and you must wait 6 hours (depending on your minhag) before eating meat. Some cheeses these days are chemically aged so they aren’t aged 6 months, but I’ve been told by the mashgiach of a cheese company that they are still considered aged. When in doubt, call the company. I’ve found most mashgiachim to be very helpful.

That year, in his pre-shofur drasha, all my rav said was “If the events of this week can’t inspire you to do tchuva, nothing I can say will either.” With that said, he klopped/banged on the table and we started musaf.

I’m coming from work. I will wear a better skirt and top, but not Shabbosdik. I read that you can bring an umbrella. I plan to. I’ll also wear my fall because it is cooler and I don’t care as much if it gets rained on.

The problem is that many people want to join and it cost hatzala alot of money for the gear the member’s get. There is also lots and lots of politics.

The problem with a new volunteer ambulance, it seems to me that they started it more to show Hatzalah they could do it than out of a need to help others. I say that because Hatzlah is doing the job very well. Another ambulance staffed by guys who couldn’t get in to Hatzala isn’t needed. ALL of these organization have more politics than you would believe! The expression used is “Hatzahlah works DESPITE itself”.

You want to help? Volenteer for Project Yes or Camp Simcha or Tomchei Shabbos. Somewhere where they are looking for people and would want you.

Once I was at a family bar mitzvah and a cousin said that yesterday (which was Shabbos) she dreamed a figure of a woman came to her and said she was the Tzailimer Rebatzin and she was unhappy because since she had no children, no one came to her grave on her yurtzeit. Another cousin said that she also had a similar dream the day before. Someone checked the calender and it seems it was a few days before the yurtzeit. You can be assured that people made sure to always go to the kever on her yurtzeit since then.

I know other people who have had dream that were true.

Kissing someone’s hand is a sign of respect. I remember seeing my father always kiss his father’s hand when we would leave his house. My father never had us do it, but it made an impression on me seeing my father’s respect for his father. He and my mother also used to talk to him in 3rd person i.e. Does the Tatte want a drink of water?

One of Many, if you read the post, the class is called Toras Habayis. The girls learned how to check vegitables for bugs among other things. Who says loving Torah only comes when a person has a sefer in front of them? While you don’t ONLY want to teach Toras Habayis, it will probably be more useful to a future mother of Yisroel than leaning how to read a RaMBaM.

So you are saying the NK are right and gedolim like R’ Finkle, the Steiple, Chacham Ovadya Yosef and others are wrong?

I think that once a person denies the Holocaust and hugs people with Jewish blood dripping off their fingers, the rest of what they say is moot.

No person likes to feel that they have to do all the talking. For that they can sit home and talk to a wall. If he is that introverted that he can’t even hold a conversation, maybe he should take a public speaking course or do something to work on himself.

emuna, you must be young to say such things about 30 years ago. I am married 34 years and I can tell you that even though there weren’t so many brands of wigs, most women wore wigs. Also, I graduated Yeshiva of Brooklyn in 1969 and if you look at my graduation pictures, you would see that MOST of the hems only touched the top of the knee.

In my opinion, a big difference from those days to today is:

1) there were so few children that schools WANTED any warm bodies.

2) Most people were more open minded because they say what WWII did to the Yidden spiritually as well as physically. Most people had family that wasnt’ frum anymore after WWII.

So much of today is shtiyut (stupidity). When I got married, it was considered a major faux pas to wear black to a wedding. Now? And why is it ok for the Chosson or kalla’s sisters to wear colors but not anyone else? When I got married, during the summer about half of the Aguda where I davened wore straw hats! And we were still an Aguda shul.

People should not send their child to a school were the child is the frumest or the least frum. A MO parent who wants to send their child to a Chassidic yeshiva is looking for trouble. The same with a Chassidic parent who wants to send a child to a MO school.

WE HAVE ALL GONE CRAZY! I also have problems with people who wear “the uniform” then walk into a store and treat the staff like dirt. I have problems with people who wear “the uniform” and then do things that hurt people. Like the heads of a certain major frum organization that threaten to blacken reputations of people that threaten their power. Then these people sit there self-righteously and wonder why people are off the derech. DUH?!

OK, I’ve raised my issues with things, here is my answers: In places where there is a choice (like NY), schools have a right to restrict their school to people who uphold their levels i.e. Cholov Yisroel or not, denim or not, sleaves all the way to the wrists or 3/4 sleaves, white shirts or not. In places where there is not choice (like many places out of town), schools cannot deny a child a Jewish education. If your community school isn’t frum enough, MOVE. You can’t scream that everyone should change for you.

Schools also have to realize that if you squeeze kids too much, they will rebel. SOME things must be allowed. Pick your battles.

Sorry for the long post, but this bugs me alot!

Post high school religious studies. They will understand the fun part since some colleges are known for the partying.

My daughter went to sem in Gatehead. She loved her sem, hated the community. It makes sense to me to have the different hour in stores because of the crowded stores. 2 tiny stores and lots of people is not tzniyus. My daughter complained that the boys didn’t get into trouble if they shopped at the wrong hours, but the girls could have been sent home from sem. That is life. Yeshiva boys always have more freedom than girls.

I’ve had mono. All you can do is wait it out. Take a multivitamin and when you do feel like eating, make sure you eat healthy things. Refua shelaima.

There is a lovely shul on…I think 82 Sheishes Yomim or 82 Yam Suf (they intersect by the kikar near Poran)…I think. But I do know for sure that my husband loved the minyan. There is a small yeshiva on the top floor, if that helps. It is a block off Sedorot Eshkol.

I turned on the radio at 9 AM expecting to hear a light talk show. The morning news team was on instead and they sounded very serious. I don’t remember whether I heard it on the radio or heard the news when my mother called a few minutes later. I was horrified and scared. From where I live in Brooklyn, I could see the smoke coming from Manhattan. It was very scary. The day is very somber to me because of all those deaths and also because the whole world changed on September 11.

Justsmile613, the ORIGINAL Mom’s Knishes in Woodburn! A tiny hole in the wall with 5 million people squeezed in waiting for a knish!

I don’t understand why you are bringing this to annonomous people instead of your rav. Who are we and why do you care what we say?

About European Hair, being in the business, I can tell you that SOME of what you say is true BUT NOT all of it. 1) There is no hair collected from Italian anymore but there hair processing is a large industry there. 2)Rav Moshe matir-ed the shaila of Indian Hair many times. 3)Chabad rabbis never assered Indian hair 4) Very long hair is available from Eastern Europe and Brazil 5)An expert can easily tell the difference between European and Indian hair.

Good luck with what ever you decide to do. Taking on a chumra is a good thing if you can stick with it and doesn’t impose on other people. May Hashem help you in your quest for growth.