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Someone here said MO only eat glatt meat. That depends. If the regular rabbanut hechsher is glatt, then yes. If the regular rabbanut hechsher is not glatt, then the statement is incorrect. Many MO will eat a regular rabbanut hechsher. Those that are chardal will only eat glatt.
I know exactly what you mean. I also think about the same things, but I’ve managed to cut down somewhat. For example, I always felt robotic when putting on the tallit/tefillin in the morning. I solved that by getting to shule about 12 minutes early each morning; I’m not rushing to get them on, and I am able to take my time and put them on in a meaningful way.
In general, for me, as long as I’m not rushing to get things done, it makes it easier to feel like I can put some meaning into what I’m doing.
they looked at my family like we came from a different planet…
We went to Boro Park once to do some shopping, and parked on one of the side streets. When we returned, the kids who lived in the house were sitting on the steps, and were staring at us as if we had two heads. It really annoyed my wife, so she said, “What’s the matter? You’ve never seen anyone from Baltimore before?” Of course, they kept right on staring. It is terribly rude.
Mods, please change the thread title to “Reform Jews.” “Reformed Jews” makes it sound like it’s about alcoholic Jews who stopped drinking, or about Jews who had plastic surgery.
There’s a couple across the street from us, and they collect grandfather clocks of all types. They have several that are well over 100 years old, and I think one that’s close to 200 years old. It’s fascinating to hear the history behind some of them, and how they came to own them.
We had a grandfather clock in our house while I was growing up. No minhag, just my parents liked how it looked. I used to love watching the clock technician work when he came once a year to maintain it.
One of my favorites is “kumkum.”
Don’t know what it is? Ask any Israeli 🙂
Facebook is opening yourself up to all kinds of narishkeit. It is NOT a place for someone that wants to guard themeself and their family from the garbage that is out there.
You could say the exact same thing about the internet itself. Instead of calling for people to delete their Facebook accounts, why not call for everyone to stop using the internet completely? Where are you going to draw the line?
I myself am not deleting my Facebook account. I have undertaken to learn an extra mishna a day until the shloshim in Leiby’s memory. To each his own.
Minyan Gal, this is for your request!
Alaska Salmon Bake with Pecan Crunch Coating
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
3 tablespoons butter, melted
5 teaspoons honey
1/2 cup fresh breadcrumbs
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
3 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
6 (4 ounce) filets salmon
salt and pepper to taste
6 lemon wedges
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 400 F (200 C). In a small bowl, mix together the mustard, butter, and honey. In another bowl, mix together the breadcrumbs, pecans, and parsley.
2. Season each salmon filet with salt and pepper. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Brush with mustard-honey mixture. Cover the top of each filet with bread crumb mixture.
3. Bake for 10 minutes per inch of thickness, measured at thickest part, or until salmon just flakes when tested with a fork. Serve garnished with lemon wedges.
Enjoy!
Meatballs and spaghetti are not Shabbas foods.
Fortunately, the world does not run according to mosherose.
I can never understand how people eat milichigs on Shabbos.
Because with a vegetarian in the house, it makes things easier. Also, we don’t always feel like eating a heavy fleishig meal when it’s so hot. A cool milchik meal is quite enjoyable, especially when dessert is Ben & Jerry’s.
I’m glad I saw this – it reminded me I have no non-leather shoes for Tisha B’Av. I threw my old pair away after wearing them twice a year for 21 years – they wore thru. I gotta remember to get some new ones, quick!
We had milchiks for lunch yesterday, and my wife made some out of this world salmon.
How dare you say that our mitzvos don’t count?
It’s in the Gemara. Go and learn.
Speak to your Rav who can guide you as to what should be done in your particular situation. Would your friends be interested at all in learning about the halachot of warming foods on Shabbat? This could turn into something positive – they learn the proper way to do things, and you would be able to continue to eat at their home.
Who told you that you’re allowed to date for three years?
Who told you you’re allowed to use the internet?
<blockqiote>A large percentage of the Russian (and other) women living in Israel are shiksas.
But they are still a minority, by far.
Mr. Bear, not everyone merits the zechus to live in E”Y. Obviously, you don’t. There are many who do. I walk out to shule every morning, knowing I live in a place where many more mitzvot are incumbent upon me because I live in E”Y. I know that my mitzvot count fully, while the mitzvot of those who live in chu”l don’t. I’m sorry you feel the way you do.
You say that HKB”H didn’t give us the land, it was established by chilonim. Yet everything happens for a reason, and I believe that if we are here, it’s Hashem’s will. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be here.
Your reasoning reminds me of the old joke about the man in a flood. People try to rescue him with a boat and a helicopter, yet he refuses, saying he’s waiting for God to save him. After he dies and goes for his true judgement, he complains to God that he was waiting for him to save him. God replies, “I sent you a boat and a helicopter. What more do you want?”
E”Y is the same thing. It’s obviously not perfect, but it’s here, despite the Arabs, despite the internal politics and strife.
Dvorak, I’m curious, is this gadol someone who knows you well, or just stam someone you decided to ask. I personally always ask for a reason behind the answers I receive – I don’t think it’s an unreasonable request.
Can I recommend To Dwell in the Palace-Perspectives on Eretz Yisrael?
Why would it be unreasonable? It’s assur.
with Avi Shafran as editor?
It’s so annoying how the frum community often leaves proper titles off when referring to them. The correct reference is Rabbi Avi Shafran, or Rav Avi Shafran. Let’s not disrespect people.
Tevye’s famous question: Are you crazy,or just out of your head?”
My daughter was in NY a few weeks ago and saw “Catch Me if You Can” and “The Book of Mormon.” She liked both of them, and both got good reviews. My wife is still raving about “Billy Elliott.”
So you leave your tallis unfolded from after Shachris until Motzei Shabbos?
Yes. I would say that in the shule where I grew up, 95% of the men left their tallitot bunched up on their seats, and folded them after Shabbat. I do this as well. I heard that folding it right after Shabbat is a segula for shalom bayit over the new week.
I have seen a 417 from RBS with WiFi and egged is switching over to RavKav as well.
Not until the light rail is up and running.
charlie: I have a dumbphone so I can’t do that, but I’m curious, is there a way to keep calls from interrupting you during davening? Even if you silence the phone don’t you still get on screen alerts?
Sure there is. It’s called the off button. And it anyone says “But I have the davening on my Blackberry/Ipod/Whatever” I would say “We have something very low tech that will help. It’s called a Siddur.”
I was on an Egged 417 from Yerushalayim to Beit Shemesh a few days ago. There was no internet. There is nothing on the Egged website about internet.
As far as I know, the only bus company in Israel with internet is Metropolin, and only on their intercity buses. I won’t have anything in access internet with on the buses until this fall, so it doesn’t affect me . . . yet.
I don’t understand this whole phenomenon. People think they’re so important that they can’t turn the phone off for ~45 minutes? That’s pretty sad.
Same for EY until Moshiach comes.
How utterly sad.
Never having been to Gateshead, I can still say with confidence that E”Y is the place to live, with Gateshead charitably listing as a poor second.
Hey, I’ve had mishulochim – or people posing as mishulochim – throw money back at me when they think I’ve not given them enough. They end up with nothing except a door slammed in their face.
A lot of these “rules” seem designed to avoid giving tzedaka.
A lot of these “rules” are for the safety of the family. Meshulochim have been known to try to force their way into homes on occasion.
Our rule when we lived in the states was we kept our tzedaka “in-house;” in other words, we gave to our city institutions only. The second rule was that my wife and/or kids would not answer the door if I was not home. The third rule was we would not answer the door after 9:30 p.m.
Halacically one is allowed to ask for a teuda, and to refuse to give in the person does not have one.
We used to occasionally have Chinese take out for Friday night. We would order a whole bunch of lunch specials, bring them home, and heat them up before Shabbat. That was gevaldig!
Coojude, can you stop with the all upper-case letters? It’s considered yelling on the internet, and it makes it hard to read. Calm down. We’ll all understand you better if you stop yelling!
How much kavana does the 34 minute minyan have?
I personally don’t have any problems. I can say all the words and I understand what I’m saying. If anyone really had a problem, I guess they would find a slower minyan.
Oldest daughter wanted to travel from Israel to America after HS graduation to see friends, family, etc. She babysat a lot and earned enough to make the trip. (She did the same thing a few years ago, pre-aliyah, when she wanted to spend a summer in Israel.)
Second oldest daughter wanted to do the same thing this year. She cleaned houses after school; she had several regular customers on the yishuv. She also picked up extra business before Pesach. She earned enough money for a round-trip ticket, spending money, and one Broadway play.
They both knew that as much as we loved them, we just didn’t have enough money to give them for these types of things, so if they wanted it badly enough, they would have to earn it. And they did.
I use both Chrome and Firefox and YWN works fine on both of them. Sometimes the ads take some time to load.
I dont know where you live, but around here, everyone goes to camp!
Kids have to go to school. Despite the fact that you say “everyone goes to camp,” school tuition comes first. That makes camp a luxury.
Camp is a luxury, not a necessity.
BSD, may I ask why you wrote H-shem instead of Hashem?
It’s assur to go swimming during the 3 weeks.
What is clear in halacha is:
1. Seeing the writing, which brings all sorts of holy influence on a person.
2. Saying the passuk of Vezos Hatorah.
The Rav of the shule where I grew up always said Hashem elokaynu emes v’soraso emes before saying the pasuk of v’zos hatorah. I’ve looked in many siddurim over the years, and I’ve only seen this printed in one of them.
Sounds like a chinuch crisis to me!
The boycott was started by a very strange extreme Zionist blogger
Really? How do you know he’s strange? BTW, I do know the blogger who started this. He and his family are good friends of ours. Not sure why you would consider his strange, since he’s shomer mitzvot. In fact, he’s more machmeer on some of the mitzvot than you are, you know, the ones like yishuv ha’aretz, terumot, meisrot, those things you don’t bother with because you don’t live ba’aretz.
And yes, the boycott does have an impact. People have already gotten emails back from the distilleries and the coporations that run them expressing their disgust at the actions of that local Scottish council. Why? Because they are already losing business. (Yes, I’ve seen some of the emails.)
It is started by people who hardly care about kashrus or any real Jewish values. . . It is a foolish idea started by people who do not have Torah values.
I think we know who has the foolish ideas here, and it’s not the person who started the boycott.
Shkoyach HaLeiVi!