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And to comment on the main topic here. NYC’s “dont block the box” laws are very clear. There is no reason why anyone should get “stuck” in the intersection. You are required to stay out of the intersection and not proceed until you see that there is enough room on the other side to cross and keep out of the intersection.
no, it is NOT legal to “double park”, with or without someone in the drivers seat. In fact, I would like to start a campaign to ban the term “double park” which makes it sound so innocent. Lets actually call it what it is “parking your car in middle of the road, in a lane of travel”
Why don’t we also post stores where the clerks are absent minded so we can snatch a few items without paying for it?
Obey all driving laws, whether you feel they are fair or not, and you don’t have to worry about speed traps, red light cameras and others. If you are paranoid about a cop pulling you over when you have done nothing wrong, knowing the cop is there wont make any difference, so that point is moot.
Whatever your personal feelings are about him, we as orthodox Jews owe a lot of our freedom and liberty to the cause he fought for, so be careful before you condemn the man.
That is a great recipe for those of using following a low carb/low sugar diet, thanks!
The feature you are looking for is called “text to speech” – as long as the model you are getting has that feature, it will speak the name of the street. There is a Woot Off happening starting tonight at midnight, you may want to follow that, they usualy have great deals on GPS units
Although smoking once a year is still foolish, i am alot more concerned about the boys who smoke year round, and not enough is done within the yeshivahs to discourage this type of practice. This is an age old argument about how one can consider themselves a frum jew, and yet do something so damaging to their bodies. The very first mention of man in the torah is when hashem says “let me make man in my image” – before we worry about any other mitzvah, we have to preserve the holiness and perfection of that image, and smoking is a violation of that. Any frum person who feels righteous for keeping shabbos, and kosher, and yet smokes, is in my opinion a hypocrite. The argument that it is addictive is meaningless to me, it is a habbit that can be ended. Delicious mcdonalds burgers can be addictive too, but we resist the urge to eat them because it is against the torah.
There is nothing wrong with someone learning full time, as long as it does not put a strain on anyone or anything. If the wife has to work three jobs while running the household, if the in laws have to dig into their retirement savings, if the government has to dole out food stamps, hud, welfare, wic which drains resources from those who truly need it but aren’t able to earn a decent wages, if any of those situations apply, learning full time is not appropriate in my opinion. I highly doubt hashem is sitting on his thrown, looking down at the married buchor and saying ” that’s my boy” as his wife struggles to put food on the table.
“It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And though we are not now that strength which in old days
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will;
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
Frasier Crane – Final Episode – Written By Alfred Tennyson
It just so happens that a lot of “non” yeshivish jews lived in lakewood before the yeshivah crowd came in here, so to say that we shouldn’t move here if we dont want to fit in is ridiculous. I am a 3rd generation lakewood resident, and my grandparents were here way before this town was yeshivish, perhaps the yeshivish people who moved into our town should mold themselves to fit our lifestyle?
If you can afford the extra premium, buy a mac, with OS X. It is out now, and is stable now.
mass hysteria.. some may not agree with obama, but the US government is setup so that his powers as president are minimal at best, and there is no way having someone like him in the white house will affect us to the point where we will need to “flee” the country!
And when security asked them if anyone gave them a package to delivery, they figured it out to lie and say no?
is it possible that just because the torah sanctions something, that does not make it ok? Slavery is sanctioned, and yet we no longer follow that practice. Perhaps not every commandment in the torah is applicable to the modern age, including the consumption of meat produced by mostly inhumane procedures.
and kudos for not using margarine, most have trans fats, which are the worse kind of fat, they lower good cholesterol and raise bad cholesterol, a double whammy!