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Avram – lol (literally)
Joseph, how do you know?
Very important aspect of Yiddishkeit! I am shocked that in all your years of learning, going to shiurim, and speaking to Rabbis and Rebbetzins, no one has yet told you about Uncle Moishy!!!
You know all about Shabbos, tznius, mishloach manos, purim constumes, etc, and no one has yet told you about Uncle Moishy????!!! Shocking!
Don’t worry- as long as you find out before you have kids, IY”H, it’s okay 🙂
RY, I guess I’m a mermaid then! I think most of us are, except for those who don’t like to read. And I suppose there may be some people who never swam in their lives, but probably not too many.
There is no one who has not created change in society. Their very birth was a change.
Golfer +1. Yeah 5ish for being such a masmid!
nishtdayngesheft, I don’t notice boys’ clothing. Barely notice girls’ clothing. Much more important things in life to focus on!
25 – is that post there? I’m just curious.
Enjoy the stuffed cabbage!
Health, here is Meno’s question:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/what-age-to-start-smoking#post-650093
ZD – that is scary! Glad you’re okay. What happened?
“Maybe you need to adjust your monitor”
don’t even know what that means.
Did this post go through?: “Now your thread is back, and my posts went back to “pre-approved” status. Guess the site is in the process of being worked on.”
It’s from 17 hours ago.
Can’t imagine that it’s intentional.
Read from there on. I actually made an error in that post which Ubiquitin kindly corrected.
As kids, everyone learns “two brachos” but when I got older, I learned there is no source for that. The Shulchan Aruch speaks of 2 foods which presumably means “two types of foods”.
As an adult, I learned that there is no source for “2 brachos” and that is one of these misconceptions everyone learns as kids.
LB, you wrote that it is “better” to do 2 brachos. That is something I never heard. I would love to know your source. Thanks!
“LB: Good point about internal/external!”
maskim (I agree/+1
looks like the glitch is fixed.
I have a post on this thread that is partially yellow – it looks like it’s still in “pre-approved status”. Can’t figure out if that’s deliberate or not.
Maybe you need to adjust your monitor
LB & RY & anyone who is interested – in case it wasn’t obvious, I knew she was trolling and trolled back. Like what exactly is someone supposed to do with a troll thread?? Especially so late at night?
LB – I know you have a habit of taking things literally (I do sometimes also, but not as much as you do, and not as much as LF thinks I do) I think it’s a very good middah – shows yashrus (honesty) and sincerity :)!
nickers
crayons
hey, what happened to my: Suffern
furnish ?
I thought I posted it while the glitch was going on and it went on right away?
When did I ever say that I suspect that you don’t actually go to kollel?
“Just One Jew” by Moishe Mendlowitz
And there’s a biography of Rebbetzin Vichna Kaplan that came out recently that is really good. I think you would like it. It’s called “Rebbetzin Vichna Kaplan”. She was the founder of the original Bais Yaakov in America. It has lots of stories about the school and the girls, and it was very interesting.
lol
LB – did you see the posts I quoted above (with or w/o yellow)? One of them was written 4 hours ago and one was written two hours ago.
“Jewish Literature and frum literature are not nessasarily the same thing”
From a Torah perspective, there is no such thing as Judaism apart from Frumkeit. Something which is Jewish but not Frum is not Jewish (I’m not talking about people, but about concepts). THAT is exactly what is wrong with these books!
“The Chosen was written in 1967 during Rav Moshe’s Lifetime. I am sure someone at some time asked him about it. I would not call it Kefira unless Rav Moshe said this book was Kefira”
That is ridiculous. I wouldn’t assume that anyone asked him about it, and I wouldn’t assume that you would necessarily know if someone did.
Are you going to say that Portnoy’s Complaint is not full of pritzus because you don’t have proof that Rav Moshe said that it is?
Is it Rav Moshe’s responsibility to list every book and every place that has problems, and if he doesn’t, that means it’s fine?????
If Rav Moshe said that anyone who believes in Conservative philosophy is an apikorus, that would mean that everyone who believes in Conservative philosophy is an apikorus regardless of whether he mentioned every single Conservative person in the world.
frumnotyeshivish – +1
I have two yellows on this thread and one on the “Jewish books” thread (a new post awaiting moderation, I think).
Can you guys even see these posts above (in yellow)?
“Maybe Yellow is shy and she only likes me, but she gets scared away when I tell others that she is there.
She must be very tzniusdik.”
and: “It’s gone again!!! It must have done something really bad this time to be banished as soon as it came back.”
I think these posts are awaiting moderation, but I’m not sure. Do you see them?
Randomex – guess it’s a good thing I never read it then.
If anyone wants to read a book about a real person who was a tzadeikis but also a human being who is presented accurately as an imperfect human being (yet still a tzadeikis) who had to constantly work on herself to become the tzadeikis that she was, read “Emunah with love and chicken soup”. Definitely much better reading than Chaim Potok or Fiddler on the Roof, etc.
I googled Chaim Potok and according to Wikipedia, he was raised Orthodox and became a Conservative rabbi. Someone like that is someone whose perspective on Chassidism or Charedi’ism is not going to be accurate and is not going to be something we would want to be influenced by.
If I am not mistaken, Rav Moshe Feinstein, zatsal, wrote that Conservative Jews are apikorsim (meaning those Conservative Jews that actually know what Conservative hashkafa is and believe in it) even if they are tinok shenishba (even if they as people are blameless, the fact is that their beliefs are kefira).
According to that, it would seem that CP would qualify as an apikorus, and in any case, his beliefs were kefira. The purpose of his novels was to present his hashkafos regarding Orthodoxy and these hashkafos are kefira.
Avrum – +1
Randomex, what book? Fiddler on the Roof? Are you joking????
Maybe Yellow is shy and she only likes me, but she gets scared away when I tell others that she is there.
She must be very tzniusdik.
LB, right after my post about yellow being back, I posted this:
“It’s gone again!!! It must have done something really bad this time to be banished as soon as it came back.”
There had been yellow in “Jewish books” but the yellow disappeared.
You want to hear the funny part??? The post I just quoted about yellow being gone is in…guess what color?…. none other than good old yellow.
Can you see my post, or is it awaiting moderation? Do you see the yellow? Or is it for my eyes only?
some of my posts didn’t go up right away.
As for Fiddler on the Roof, I thought you were talking about the movie. Sorry if I misunderstood. I read a lot of Shalom Aleichem as a kid, but I don’t think I ever read this, so I can’t really comment.
Is it the movie or the book that people criticize? I would have thought it’s the movie. I didn’t think there were too many Frum people who were familiar with the book. I don’t think I ever even heard anyone mention it until now (besides my family).
ZD – it is true that it is important to portray Rabbanim as complex human beings who had to work on themselves to become what they are as opposed to portraying them as perfect malachim. That is the only way that they can be role models for us. Rav Hutner writes about how it is problematic that Gedolim are portrayed as though they were born perfect which makes us feel like we can’t emulate them.
But, that has absolutely nothing to do with the problems with Chaim Potok’s books. The problems are as I stated above. And regarding Reb Saunders, the issue is not that he is portrayed as a human being with imperfections, but that he is portrayed inaccurately and negatively.
I actually had some dark chocolate tonight. Thank you YYTZ for allowing me to eat chocolate guilt-free.
Yes, I was fleishiks. (why else would anyone in their right minds eat pareve chocolate? But it actually was pretty good, and served its purpose).
So far no one here seems to think so.
And it’s pretty rare for everyone in the CR to agree on something.
Depends. That last one went on right away but others didn’t. Or went back and forth.
Testing, testing, 1,2,3,…
Remove what? The thread or the tag?
That one didn’t go right away. Some do and some don’t. They seem to be working on the site.
I see your thread too. I think it disappeared and came back.
I see your posts as soon as you post them too.
And when I post, I see right away on the home page that my username is listed as the last post. It wouldn’t make sense that only I see that.
Well it is a good topic of discussion for the CR as it is a lot less likely to lead to LH, MSR, onaas devarim, and machlokes than topics such as zionism; definitions of MO, Chareidi, & OTD; Trump & Clinton; drinking on Purim, etc.
Although I’m sure if someone really wnats to they can find a way.
Also less tznius (maybe that’s what makes them less feminine).
I don’t know if it’s true that women are less into addictive vices than men. Women are more into alcohol, and they probably drink as much coffee as men do. It’s true that those things are less dangerous than smoking, but I don’t think that’s the reason why. I highly doubt that the reason that women enjoy chocolate more than smoking is because it’s less dangerous.
I think that smoking and getting drunk are somehow less feminine than eating chocolate.
Now your thread is back, and my posts went back to “pre-approved” status. Guess the site is in the process of being worked on.
That last post went on as soon as I posted.
Randomex – that’s weird- what happened to the thread you started? I saw it right away and posted on it, but I think it disappeared now. Did the mods ask you to test something for them?
Can I read it if I want to?