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“Have a gut yom tov.”

After all the honey cake we will be noshing for three days, a gut is exactly what we will have for Yom Tov .

I am frankly surprised to learn of some of these statements. I personally wouldn’t feel comfortable to do it. If I cook a pareve item in a fleishig pot, it is only eaten with fleishig utensils, though I WILL eat milchig items immediately thereafter, as I have not become fleishig. I would never put it on a dairy plate, though.

Minyan Gal, you sound great, kinehora. I am so happy you are doing so well. DON’T push yourself. Hashem can hear you wherever you daven. The idea is to get fully healed, so you can go to shul for Yom Kippur.

What do they say, mit monik mir kennen koifen honik! (pardon my lousy Yiddish).

What kind of unlce talks about his niece in that way, and to a stranger, noch de tzie?

OK, I believe we really are on the same page, Aries. Have a gebensched and healthy year.

It is s matter of so few credits – it might look better on a college application, but int he long run, it made no difference for any of my children, all who had dual enrollment (at their HS’s urging, because they were such good students). It is costly, and really doesn’t save time in college.

I haven’t read through all the posts yet, so I may be reiterating what someone else has already posted. I think in general we are raising children wo believe that the only thing in life that is important is for them to be happy. We are so worried about their self-esteem that we are actually raising them in a way that predisposes them to having self-esteem issues.

When we were kids, our parents told us to “suck it up,” (well, not in those words, but you get the idea). If we fell down, we had to get right up. maybe with a little kiss on the booboo. If we were yelled at in class, we, not the teacher, were ALWAYS at fault. Though we were urged to always do our best, our best HAD to be better than we were trying to do. We were not coddled in the same way as kids are today. That’s a fact. So when things did not go our way, were were not “allowed” to act overly sensitively. There were fewer kids OTD in my neighborhood, and I suspect that those who were, did not get that way because someone hurt their feelings.

That being said, we do have such a problem today and it has to be addressed properly. Maybe the way to start is to worry more about our children’s actions, than their feelings amd call them on it. Being a responsible human thing builds their character. And even better, it helps build better self-esteem.

I never heard about vinegar. Nuts (egoz)ostensibly are equal in gematriah to cheit (sin), so we are noheig not to eat them at this time. BUT, aleph= 1 gimel = 3 vov= 6 zayin =7 and

ches= 8 tes =9 and aleph =1.

You do the math. (I know, I know, one more or less is not significant, so they say. Still, I believe If you are already doing gematriah, do it consistently and don’t kvetch the answer to fit your idea). (and BTW, I do not eat nuts, either, during this time).

In any event, what is the problem with vinegar altogether? The sour taste? If so, cider vinegar and rice vinegar are sweet, as is balsamic. So what is the inyan of this minhag ?

Anyway, his middle name includes both Pi and e. “

So we are back to pie again.. What it is about 3.14, that is so interesting?

Bless you, BP Totty. (I do the scooped out cucumber for yom tov.)

add some zinc, and you’ve got a recipe for better health.

When you use hyperbole like comparing bike riding to a choice of taking poison, then you fail to make your point. Bike riding may not be tzniusdig for a whole bunch of reasons, the clothing, IMO, being the least of them. I think the focus of seeing a woman’s view from the back is more probpematic. I do not advocate for bike riding. I MERELY pointed out in answer to the implied question of why would a woman need to ride a bike, that there could be a very good reason. Maybe she likes the exercise, maybe she cannot afford taxis everywhere (do you actually know how expensive car services are on a regular basis???). It is not for anyone to judge whether or not she can avoid it. The idea is to find tzniusdig ways to do something that in and of itself is not assur.

BTW, apropos of what Aposhitermaidel posted, I also never learned ONE WORD about the so-called “kosher” fit for sleeves. Not one Morah ever told us we should not wear tops made of leotard type material. In fact, they, and all the rebbetzins ALL dressed that way. They wore vests or such over them, but the long sleeves were all close-fitting. Did you never see a turtleneck sweater?

“Uhh… she told you that he’d be made fun of for his entire life? “

More likely she pointed out that it might not be pronounced with the long “i” sound, but more likely as “ee.” Dr. Pepper – would you REALLY want your child to have to get beaten up in the playground every day?

Dressing in a manner that is not consistent with the accepted norms of tnzius, is not necessarily the same thing as out and out dressing with pritzus. Are you going to tell me that you equate a girl wearing a nice outfit, but the sleeves come a little above her elbow, and she is wearing sandals without stockings, with a zonah standing out on the corner at 42nd Street late at night, dressed to make some money? The former is perhaps not conforming to our ideals of tznius, but it is the LATTER that is pritzusdig.

I just do not see this as comparable to Baruch Goldstein. He was not doing what he did out of rish-oos, or to maim, mangle, and murder innocent people. He was being a kano-ee, and though I might feel he made a horrible mistake, his motives were to protect his country and people, not to terrorize and massacre his enemies. Many NON-Jews died on 9/11, too. In any case, the biggest difference is that the Maaras Hamachpelah belongs to Jews, no matter what the Arabs think. OUR Avos and Emahos are buried there. It is the Arabs who trespass on our holy ground. And now they are trying to do the same thing in NY in a way guaranteed to re-open all the old wounds and rub salt and acid in them. The fact that they know how antagonistic this is to go forward, yet they still plan to do so, shows they could not care less about anyone’s feelings.

“Enjoy the tuna bagel with your husband today!”

What a memory – – I AM IMPRESSED!!!!! (And I did, thank you…)

Da, mazel tov! How exciting!

It’s so funny – within a couple of days of seeing this post, my daughter’s friend gave birth to twin boys! Must be something in the water.

Tova, I wish your doctor to be matzliach and for you to have a refuah shelaima bimheira. You should be up and around very quickly!

Mod 80, I have followed your directions perfectly, and it was delicious!!!!

A doctor is there to save your life. And btw, I personally try to get female docs, as much as possible, though in some fields, that is more difficult than others.

Hairdressers OTOH, are not a necessity of life, but a nice luxury. You can always chop off your own hair, but you cannot take out your own appendix. I would not go to male Jewish hairdresser, there are so many females in the field, there is no justification for doing so.

For anyone who believes that there is really nothing wrong with this particular Mosque (formerly called Cordoba House, until they realized what a gaffe that was in really making their agenda obvious), would you want a halfway house for drug addicts built next door to you, if one of your loved ones chalilah v’chas had been murdered by a junkie? Several religious “junkies” hopped on three planes and forced them to be crashed into three thousand of our loved ones. Should we be ok with them building a “home” near that spot? I don’t care if it is legal. I care that it is WRONG, and if the Muslims really were interested in memorializing our dead and reaching out in a spirit of friendship, they would cease and desist immediately and look for another location that was less controversial.

For my money, the best cookie in the world is the recipe on the back of the Nestle Morsels (Toll House cookies)package. Nestle’s is milchig, so I use Bloom’s or Lieber’s chocolate chips, but the recipe has to be Nestle’s Original Toll House Cookie, and it is best if made with chopped walnuts and dark brown sugar rather than light brown. I have never tasted a better chocolate chip cookie.

They’re being such akshanim for no reason.”

Not for NO reason. Their reasons are very clear. They are doing it because they CAN. It serves their agenda to rub it in our noses. This memorializes no one else but THEIR “martyrs” who were killed when they hijacked those planes and flew them into the Twin Towers, and almost into the Pentagon. And they know it.