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It’s nice to see elephant jokes making a come-back, but I wish the new ones were funny.
Marty.
Finally, there will be such a thing as free lunch.
Thank you again, zahavasdad, for confirming my previous advice. You evidently do not understand that the shortest distance between two points on the surface of a sphere (without leaving the surface)is a “great circle,” i.e., a line that precisely bisects the sphere into two halves of equal volume and identical shape. The equator on a globe is an example of a meridian, and so is the pole-to-pole meridian, but a great circle can between any two points on the surface of a sphere.
Maybe you should study ontology, so you can have a parnassah taking care of cancer patients.
I know someone who likes the idea of a kiddush club, and I must say, I think he is utterly wrong. He is, for the most part, sensible and very dedicated, but for some reason, he thinks our shul needs to have a select group of men walk out during the rabbi’s d’var Torah to drink schaaps. What could be more insulting to our wonderful rabbi? I cannot figure it out.
Bar mitzvahs are all the same size. The celebrations differ. In fact, I am not sure that a bar mitzvah can be said to have a size. What size is Hashem?
I want to thank zahavasdad for illustrating the wisdom of my advice not to seek advice on a web site. He/she is not alone, but I think he/she did the best. Could you tell me where you bought the globe that is narrower at the North Pole (which is not the North Pole of course, but merely a representation of the North Pole), which you believe accounts for the unduly northerly direction of a flight from New York to London. All the globes I have ever seen are perfectly round.
You say tehillim, I say tefillin. Potato, potato.
I recommend no. 2, focusing on ontology. You can have a nice parnassah taking care of people with cancer.
I also recommend that you not be guided by the nudniks who give advice on this (or any other) web site.
Men (and women) should consider marriage when they have the financial resources (from income, family wealth, or family support) to support a family (with or without contribution from their wives). If men are marrying later, it may reflect the fact that they need more time to acquire the necessary financial resources to marry. This is a good thing.
To givingitago: The pun was excellent. You shoulda stopped there.
Whamp bhomp a loo bhomp, b’lamp bamp boom. Tooty fruity.
bochur1818: Save your money. I have inside information that the gedolim are going to switch to those Kongol caps – frontwards – before Rosh Chodesh Elul.
Does wearing a toupe, by itself, satisfy the mitzvah of wearing a kipah?
Re post by eyalovich: One of my great aunts worked as a typist 90 years ago, on her own typewriter. When I saw the typewriter 50 years ago, I noticed it had no key for the period (or the numerals one and zero). When she passed away, I looked for that old typewriter, as I found it an interesting relic, and, possibly, a collectible with dollar value. I never found it and assumed she discarded it before she left this world, but I now think you are using it to type your posts.
Cousins.
To the OP: If you’re at the age when your hand is not steady enough to hit the close-button on the first click, it is only going to get worse.
This morning I left an empty pot on the stove with the burner on, for the first time. If my kids find out, they are going to put me in a home before I burn down the house.
Best kosher pizza anywhere.
Best of the best: “Bulgarian pizza” at the King David hotel. Pricey but excellent. And it’s nice to sit in a place where Jewish terrorists were successful.
Can anyone explain the difference between Jews owning dogs and a Jew-owning dog?
I’m thinking of starting a topic called “Jesse Owens’ Dogs.” Does anyone have any misinformation about that?
So, which is more likely to result in the end of cancer for Jews: Scientific research, or a day when all Jews stop talking during davening. Even if Rav Wosner is right, a scientific solution will be found before every Jew stops yakking during davening.
Re Redleg’s Third Comment: You got one thing right, i.e., there should be a maximum age on driving. Otherwise, you completely miss my point, which is that driving age should be based on relevant facts, particularly the driving records of drivers old enough to reach the pedals of a car. And, yes, the determination or driving age or speed limits should be based on the weighing of risks versus the need and/or rights of people to drive cars.
And, for your information, I do not allow 12-year-olds to drive on my private 1200-acre ranch.
Re Redleg’s second comment: Your equation of American traditions and Jewish traditions is unsound and does not trump anything. And some accident rates are too high to allow a driver onto the road, because hazardous drivers kill and cripple and maim, and some things money cannot fix. I’ll stick with the facts.
I don’t speak between washing for bread and saying hamotzi, but between minchah and maariv is to long to keep my mouth shut.
Derek Jeter, but you forgot the “n”.
I say yes, you say no, I say why, I say I don’t know.
Does this clear it up? I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
The factually sound answer to the question of driving age could be answered by knowing the accident rates among drivers stratified by age and experience. All the rest is “commentary,” and I don’t mean that in a good way.
First of all, the Joneses (with few exceptions) don’t celebrate Pesach.
Second of all, everything in the US is a contest, if you accede to American cultural values. And like it or not, and frum or not, many of us do. So the next time you are fussing over holiday preparations, ask yourself whether your concern is holiness or bragging rights.
Re comment by charliehall, final sentence: I think you are underestimating the power of the moderate/business-friendly/country-club/establishment wing of the Republican party.
Jeb Bush would be a strong candidate in the general election, and the Republican party establishment would rather win than be ideologically pure (which, incidentally, is not a bad thing in a democracy). But 2016 is a long way off, and speculation about who will be the candidates, and who will win, is fun but meaningless.
To DaasYochid: the limo.
Torah tells us that Jews are supposed to live to be 120. So what do you say to a Jew on his/her 120th birthday? “Have a nice day.”
nfgo3
I can’t defend the behavior, or even your assumption that Chareidi politicians understand politics.
Re Bookworm120’s second post: So I guess the “120” in your screen name is your age.
Shadchan Blues – isn’t that a song by the Altman Brothers Band?
Shirley Shirley bo Birly
Bo-nana bana fo fanna fee fie foe firley
Shirley
I ran into a BY girl, gave her the name of boy.
I ran into a BY girl, gave her the name of boy.
How was I to know, when she checked him out his mother was a goy.
The BY girl’s so mad, she thinks I don’t know a goy from a Jew.
She used to be my best friend, now she don’t know what she’s gonna do.
I lost my good friend, I got the Shaddchan Blues.
It’s easier to find good kosher pizza in Israel than in Brooklyn.
Shidduchim? I don’t know.
And, btw, the British do not consider themselves part of Europe. I don’t, either.
I am sufficiently egocentric to conclude that Froggie is responding to my post immediately above his.
As to his/her comment (B): The problem you highlight is no different that conflicting opinions of rabbis, and the solution is the same: choose one and stick with it.
As to his/her comment (C): I was addressing the institutions that call themselves yeshivas. As you and I agree, personal health is both a secular and a religious subject. I presumed – perhaps incorrectly – that yeshivas teach, at least in their secular curricula, some fundamentals of personal hygiene, in the lower grades. There are 2 values to such a subject: (i) improving the hygiene of kids with indifferent parents (which may not be significant factor among yeshiva parents), and (ii) giving an introduction to the science of health and medicine, which boosts secular education and may even provide a spark, in the future, for parnassah.
Am I the only person who if fascinated by the discussion of the “shidduch crisis”? What fascinates me is that there can be so much discussion, so much text, and apparently so much passion, about something that seems devoid of facts and reason. No one can define what constitutes the “crisis,” no one has facts to support his or her quasi-mathematical explanation of the “crisis,” and no one in the discussion has the mathematical knowledge to account for the crisis (OK, I’m tired of using the quotation marks).
I think a discussion of the “Pennsy Pinkie crisis” would be more illuminating. I have not seen a Pennsy Pinkie in years (other than at the bottom of a bin in my garage). Has Pennsy stopped making Pinkies? Has a rabbi in Boro Park determined that Pennsy Pinkies are not tznius? Has a decline in motor skills among children led to the abandonment of play with a Pennsy Pinkie? A discussion of this topic would be as informed and informative as the discussion to date of the shidduch crisis.
a. Torah requires a Jew to keep his/her body healthy.
b. There are people who study the need for brushing teeth and other dental medicine and hygiene. They are called dentists. Do as they say, and forget the bubbameintzers posted here.
c. Attention, Yeshivas: What are you teaching about personal hygiene, including dental hygiene?
+1 more.
Re post by oomis that begins “I’ve never met a guy who …”: oomis asks “who will know” if a bochur who leaves yeshiva to work is not putting any time into learning? Well, Dayan Emmes will know, and so will the bochur. I hope oomis is not saying that she does not believe that yeshivas are not doing their job in getting their students into the habit of life-long learning, or if she is, I hope she is wrong.
Is a bunch of bochurim collecting tzdokkoh in a limo any more peculiar than a yeshiva holding an elaborate, black-tie dinner to raise money for the yeshiva? I personally do not like either idea, but they are effective fund-raising gimmicks.
Does anyone know what portion of the current generation of fathers and fathers-in-law who support their children in full-time learning started their own working lives without any post-yeshiva full-time learning? I have a feeling that the prosperity of the American economy from 1945 through 2008 is part of what made the current phenomenon of the full-time learner-head-of-family-with-parental-support possible. I would be curious to see whether it is sustained over the next 25 years.
I thought it was a third-rate TV show.
I would be interested to know the name and birthplace of the opening poster. When I was a child, in the late 1950’s, living in the New York metro area, there were only 2 fillings that were used in hamantaschen – prune and poppy. (Times were tough.) Apricot, strawberry and raspberry fillings did not appear, as I recall, until the early to middle 1970’s, along with doubleknit polyester suits, disco music and small black fedoras that religious Jews of that time favored.
I like the “conservative” position I have heard on right-wing talk radio: The US has no interest in Ukraine, we therefore should not get involved, and Obama is too weak. This only begs the question of how strong do you have to be to not get involved.
The alternative is to do for Ukraine what President Bush did for the US after 9/11: Invade Iraq.
Can’t we all just get along?