MRS PLONY

Oh no, what’s going to happen to the Constitutional A-MEN-dments?

2cents, please be nice. Reb Eliezer’s argument did have substance. Bonus: He agreed with me 🙂

Hmmm… I know that we don’t pasken from a story, but I recall a chapter in A House Full of Chessed where Rebbetzin Machlis kept bringing her baby to have his bilirubin tested so he could have his circumcision on the eighth day, and miraculously his levels fell to an acceptable number just in time.

But my point is: If your doctor tells you to do something then you listen to your doctor. Have any of the people who refuse to wear masks asked their doctors for input?

Um, Health, slavery has been around for millennia. Are you trying to say that a specific Black person in Africa came up with the idea?

MODS! Why didn’t you edit the OP to read ‘My theory’? WHY did you leave it as ‘The Facts’?!

IT’S NOT FACTS! IS IT? HOW DID ALEX GET THESE ‘FACTS’?

HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?!!!

(For the record, I do not usually use all caps. This time it was necessary. Can’t you delete this thread?)

I think that there aren’t enough good boys for all of the good girls. And by ‘good boys’ I don’t necessarily mean learning – I’ve met my fair share of yeshiva bochrim with rotten middos. Maybe the boys think that they don’t have to self improve because for them it’s a buyers’ market?

This is the first I’m hearing about it. West Hartford, CT? Wow.

I didn’t know that about Jules Verne. Thanks, akuperma. I knew Roald Dahl was an anti-Semite. But I know people who like his books anyway.

The truth is that there are a lot of bad people who have produced a lot of beloved artworks. I think that the OP was focusing on the content of the artworks.

And it’s not like buying a copy of “Around the World in 80 Days” is gonna result in a contribution being made to the Moslem Brotherhood or something. Verne is dead and gone these many long years.

It depends. What other works has he read so far? Is he a rebellious type of kid? What do his friends read? What sort of yeshiva does he attend? Is he ‘conventional’ in terms of his social standing with the other bochrim?

And what, if anything, gives you pause in terms of Tolkien?

For example, the Little House books by Wilder are generally considered wholesome (apart from the contemporary controversy over her treatment of Native Americans, which is an issue in itself) but many frum parents might be uncomfortable with their children reading about the characters’ Xmas celebrations. The Arthurian Legends are considered classic reading in the outside world, but I personally wouldn’t want my children reading them any more than I would want them reading Greek mythology, as religious matter of course.

You have to trust yourself.

If somebody is “on the fence” on this topic, then I doubt that they will be convinced by thirty-three pages of CR quarrelling. If the Pro contingent is still Pro and the Anti contingent is still Anti after all this, then is anybody’s argument that compelling?

Thirty one pages. Is this a new CR record?

You only need one – the right one.

They COULD have been kosher birds. The geese around Suzanne Lake in Monsey are such a nuisance that some people might be tempted to kill them with rocks, two at a time if possible. But geese are kosher. I suppose that there’s more than one way to peel a cantaloupe.

I used to work in a bake shop (decades ago). People would come in on Friday morning and buy a dozen freshly-baked challah rolls. We’d hand them a bag of piping hot bilkelach and they’d exclaim over how hot they were. The boss would tell them “I can’t bake ’em cold.”

Ah…good times, good memories.

RebYidd, what’s gotten into you? You used to post in full sentences and spelled out your words. Now U R doing s/t different.

Okay, this is obviously an analogy for SOMETHING, but I can’t figure out what.

You can’t sell babies for the same reason that you can’t sell adults: They’re people. You can ‘abandon’ a baby at a safe haven, meaning that you can absolve yourself of the responsibility for the baby, not that you ‘owned’ the baby. (More like he or she owned you.)

Maybe I’m supposed to know this already, but does the “T” in the thread title stand for ‘trigger warning’? ‘Cause this is a really triggering topic.

(‘T’roll thread)

Texting while driving is very bad. But that doesn’t make not vaccinating good.

Christians use a wedding canopy? Never knew. Not that I’ve ever been to a church wedding, but they have them in movies and tv shows.

And I’m positive that the white dress thing is from Queen Victoria; In ‘The Bostoner Rebbetzin Remembers’ Rebbetzin Horowitz wrote that white bridal gowns were considered un-Jewish in her day, so her wedding dress was a light pastel color. Fact check, anybody?

Just a comment on flyer’s comment: ‘An Ordinary Wednesday’ is not part of the Yael Reed series, so it doesn’t have to be read before or after any particular book.