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Can’t you hire someone who is in the US legally?
Did Avigdor Miller say anything about the Narnia books?
Oooh! That is a *great* series! We each have our own standards, but I can’t imagine anyone finding anything objectionable in MBS. That said, not everyone enjoys the same things. You might like it, you might not, but I don’t think that you will be disturbed or offended
I’m BT and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
Y’know what? I became frum because the Torah is true. Not because I was looking for honor. Not because I was looking for a shidduch. Not because the food is so good and the clothes are so cute.
I’m NOT part of the “lowest class” of Judaism, unless you have some really shallow definition of class.And now I’m seeing stickers around Monsey with “Isplakaria” (in Hebrew) and a local phone number. Mostly they are posted on the backs of Stop signs. Does anybody know anything about this?
Um. Bump.
So, at Finkelstein memorial library here in Rockland, they have book one and book three of a trilogy about a boy in Yetushalim named Elisha Davidson.
According to the blurb on the back covers, the books are based on legitimate Toràh sources.
Book two is called Elisha Davidson and the Ispaklaria. I did a web search to see if I could find book two and I wound up here.
I suppose that what I am really asking is this:
Did anyone read this series? Did you like it? Where can I find book two?
Stay silly! Stay strong!
In my experience, shadchanim are very judgy.
Oh no, what’s going to happen to the Constitutional A-MEN-dments?
Probably so that your hands shouldn’t accidentally touch. I’ve been a cashier; it’s no big deal. In fact, it’s probably more sanitary.
2cents, please be nice. Reb Eliezer’s argument did have substance. Bonus: He agreed with me 🙂
Thanks for the support Reb Eliezer (although you could have skipped the first line and still made the same point).
Syag, I’ve only heard the opposite from health professionals: we should all wear masks; if only people who are at risk mask up then it’s not as helpful.
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?
I make my medical decisions based on what medical experts say. Not on what politicians say. Not on whet celebrities say. Not on what opinionated media personalities say. Not on what YOUtubers say. The halacha is that if you have a medical question (like whether to be mechalel Shabbos for a choleh, or whether a baby boy is too yellow for milah) then you ask a doctor. Any medical question should be decided by doctors.
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?
WHY IS THIS THREAD BACK?! TAKE IT DOWN!
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?)
Didn’t the Baal Shem Tov live around the same time as Ben Franklin? Chassidus in general is not really an ancient phenomenon
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?
So what Tothpick17 (the OP) is saying is that the mannequins are wearing not-tznius clothes? Why would a store catering to a frum clientele advertise that they offer not-tznius merchandise?
This is the first I’m hearing about it. West Hartford, CT? Wow.
But the whole point of shudduchim (as opposed to social dating) is that the shadchan clears the two parties so that people who have dissimilar worldviews don’t accidentally meet and form an emotional attachment (resulting in heartache), and also so that a non-interested party can avoid having to hurt someone’s feelings when turning down an undesirable potential partner.
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.
Uh, Jules Verne…? Huh?
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.
I would not have gone out with a boy who wanted a picture of me. The shadchan and the references can describe girl (or for that matter the boy). “She’s short.” “He’s robust and substantial.” “She walks with a cane.” “He has a distinctive scar on his left cheek, but his beard covers most of it.” Etc. You’ll see exactly what the person looks like when you meet.
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 two pages. And still going strong. You really think you’re going to convince each other?
Thirty one pages. Is this a new CR record?
Eh. If there were enough good boys for all of the good girls out there, then there would be no shidduch crisis.
You only need one – the right one.
And obesity from eating vegan foods, no less!
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 generally say “Catch two fish with one net” when I want to make that point. The original version of the saying would create nivailos.
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.
And you misspelled ‘Plony’. You ADDED a letter. I mean, abbreviating is one thing, spelling ‘fallacious’ wrong is one thing, but making a word LONGER? Are you feeling okay? I’m not being flippant; I’m honestly concerned.
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.
Troll. Uh-huh. Who put that there, in the title? The Original Poster? Or the Moderators?
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.
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