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I don’t think that the word ‘badeken’ comes from ‘bedecked’. I think it comes from ‘bodek’, like the groom is checking that the kallah is who he thinks she is.
The mods changed the ‘s’ to a ‘D’. Thanks.
I didn’t come here to talk politics.
The only reason I came to this thread was because the title is misspelled, and it’s getting on my nerves. Mods, could you pleeeeeeease change it from ‘Outrages’ to ‘Outraged’? Pretty please? Thank you.I miss paper straws. When they dissolved you knew it was time to stop drinking.
I don’t think that you and I ever directly corresponded, but I do remember you. Welcome back. Stay strong.
Well, we teach that murder is wrong. Cannibalism is impossible without killing someone, right? So we don’t have to add the extra anti-cannibalism lecture, do we?
Randomex, you are spot-on. Does It Is Time For Truth really think that we should keep ignoring abuse? IITFT, if it (CH”V) happened to your loved ones, I think (hope) you would feel differently.
This started out as a PSA and turned into a moshev laitzim. Some people are trying to warn us to protect our children and some posters (you know who you are) are saying “No, don’t bother.”
Hey, trolls, WHAT are you trying to accomplish? You want to enable abuse? Mods, this thread might be doing more harm than good.
Whoops. I didn’t even realize that this was an old, bumped thread. Now I feel truly sick to my stomach. Ten years and we’re STILL wrangling with the same issue: bad drivers, worse pedestrians, and un-supervised tots? the horror.
Reb Yidd, I sincerely apologize. I thought this was a current topic and you were making joking comments about safety.
I apologize to both Reb Yidds. How should I have phrased it?
I apologize. How should I have phrased it?
Reb Yidd, this is not the type of thread for your jokes. Please either be serious or else take your comments to a different thread.
Actually, Rabbi Plony and I have marveled in horror at exactly the sort of behaviors that the OP and subsequent posters have described. Whenever we’re tempted to ask ‘Where are the parents?’ when we see tiny kids outside alone, we recall the drivers who apparently consider stop signs and red lights to be merely suggestions, and the pedestrians who have so much bitachon that they don’t even look before stepping into the roadway. (Okay, THAT was sarcasm.)
Aside from everybody venting in the Coffee Room, does anybody have any productive suggestions? All I can do on an individual basis is educate my own kids and maybe mussar the neighbors’ kids a little.
You can’t believe everything you read, either on-line or in print.
Huh?
He was brilliant.
Yeah, sprinkle cookies are real good.
Screwdriver Delight, sometimes people do kiruv because they want to control ‘their’ BT’s. If you honestly want more Jews to keep the mitzvos and live a Torah lifestyle, then it shouldn’t be about you; therefore BT’s should be encouraged to build a network of their own, and not ‘belong’ to one particular kiruv family.
Daas Yochid, my point is that if a kiruv-er promises a potential BT “Oh, don’t worry, if your family can’t accept your new lifestyle, then we’ll be your family”, then that’s a HUGE responsibility. The kiruv-er might only be thinking of the emotional factor, but real family goes beyond that.
ZD, that’s sad, but thank you for sharing the rest of the story.
DovidBT, thanks for the analogy.
ZD, oh my gosh, that’s TERRIBLE about the BT lady whose mother blackmailed her into participating in her brother’s mixed-marriage wedding. That poor woman! Can you tell us what happened in the end?
I need to get this off my chest: People who do kiruv, formally or informally, have a responsibility to promote independence of BT’s. If you have your little coterie of people whom you’ve ‘made frum’, but you keep them under your exclusive influence then you’re doing them a real disservice. Let them see how other observant people manage a Shabbos table or Pesach Seder; let them try a different shul or a different community. If you claim that you’re ‘just like family’ for ‘your’ BT’s, then you should be committed to caring for them (and their descendants) in perpetuity – not just that you’ll get all the honor and glamour of walking them to the chuppah and being invited to siyums, etc., but be ready to support them (financially, not just emotionally) if their families reject them or if they have other emergencies.
I’m not addressing anybody personally on this thread, I’m just speaking in general.
No one has it easy.
I have seen packaged food products with a hechsher and also with halal certification. What’s the difference? Maybe the restaurant was promoting the fact that they don’t use wine?
Can’t you ask a Rov?
Yserbius, I don’t think everybody gets your point.
Rand0m3x, no, I don’t think Marvin was lying. (BTW, thanks – I couldn’t remember his name when I posted and Googling it or Wikipedia-ing it was too much of a hassle.)
RebYidd, horror stories are horrible.
In one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books (probably the first one) the grumpy robot, when asked if he’s telling the truth about something, says something along the lines of “Life! Isn’t there enough of it already without making up more?!”
I think that there are enough terrible things happening in the world without making believe that there are extras.
So, no, I don’t enjoy being scared by fictional media. And I don’t understand people who do.
Halevai it should be that GMO’s are just to ‘shorten the process’. But if that were the case then there would be no controversy.
Right, I am a hybrid of my mommy’s DNA and my daddy’s DNA. That’s not a GMO. I don’t think that anybody objects to, for example, a tomato that has been cross-bred from a plum tomato and a beefsteak tomato. But genetically engineering a tomato to contain DNA from a flounder? That can’t be right.
Whoa, Jersey Jew, you sound REALLY hostile when you say “you, yes you, are also a genetically modified organism?” I think that you’re using the term GMO differently than Josh (and I ) are here. How am I a GMO?
Akuermaq, would you PLEASE stop it! There is a world of difference between cross-breeding two similar species in a natural way and creating GMO’s by splicing genes in a laboratory.
When I saw the title of this thread, I thought that the OP was asking if, in the days of Moshiach, we’ll be able to pick dinosaurs off of a tree like we would with clothes and stuff. Forget dinosaurs – I would want a unicorn.
I know that the hamsa looks like a hand with two thumbs, but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a lily.
Mwah-h-ha-ha!
Sure, this loser has freedom of speech. But he’s still a jerk. (And if anyone wants to pick on my choice of words – go ahead. You and I have freedom of speech, too.)
It’s unanimous – RED!
I totally understand why Goldilocks is asking the CR. Sometimes you want input from laymen, not necessarily from experts. BTW, I might also need some extractions, so it’s good to know which questions I should ask, from both my dentist and my peers. (No, my peers are not dentists.)
We go shopping in grocery stores that sell kosher food alongside the non-kosher food. We shop in department stores that sell acceptable items alongside non-tznius clothing. We each have to decide for ourselves which items we can buy and which ones we can’t. Every adult has to trust his or her own judgment.
I personally have given a lot of thought as to whether I and my children should visit public libraries, and what we should and shouldn’t read. It was not an off-handed or emotional decision.
This lecture just comes across as ‘holier-than-thou’ posturing and an attempt to stifle independent thought.
Is that the way to convince somebody? If I like books and I like reading and I like libraries, but you think that libraries are bad, then will you change my point of view by belittling libraries and comparing them to toilets?
Hmph.
ZD, was your second post a quote from the person you mentioned in your first post?
Either way, coin collecting is just a fun thing to do. Yeah, it’s gashmiusdig. So what? It’s a little bit like collecting post cards.Thanks, CTL. And, yeah, I’m from Philly.
Um, my family called them ‘prakas’. CTL, do you have any linguistic explanation?
Huh?
Not exactly minhagim, but for sure familial:
My parents always called slippers ‘bedroom shoes. No one else I knew used the phrase. Then I grew up, became frum, moved to Monsey, learned ah bissele Yiddish, and learned the phrase ‘stenk shiach.’
Another phrase that I never heard outside of my family was ‘on the riggle’. Other people locked the door, we put it ‘on the riggle’. Then as a Mommy in Monsey I was asking a more experienced Mommy how to keep my toddler from making trouble in the bathroom, because he had just reached the door-opening stage. She told me “You need a riggle” and presented me with a hook-and-eye lock to put on the outside of the bathroom door.
Mazel Tov!
But, Lightbrite, how did you know? You two know each other in real life?
lightbrite is so sweet. And Oomis seems so nice. I hurt coffee addict’s feelings once, so I’d like to apologize to her.
There are other interesting posters, but they’re men, so it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to want to meet them.
Some people just like to kvetch. Some people will heartlessly scare you with horror stories because it somehow makes them feel better. Maybe they feel like, if they can talk about this, then it demonstrates how strong they are. If such people have given birth then they might needlessly upset first-time mothers with chatter about their own bad experiences. Those people are the ones that the article in your opening post refers to.
If a mother has had bad experiences while giving birth, but she can use it to offer advice to other expectant women, then it’s good for her to share her thoughts.