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To easily get rid of really stubborn deep down tarnish, use

Tarn-X (or however it is spelled) followed by a polishing with whatever polish you typically use. By the time you polish it, it will be easy to quickly shine it up. Someone else once suggested to em to put aluminum foil on the bottom of the bath tub (shiny side up), put tarnished items flat down on it, fill the tub a little bit with Spic and Span and hot water, then cover the silver items with more aluminum foil, shiny side down this time). Apparently this causes the trnish to transfer to the foil. I never tried it, but have heard from others that it works.

The fact that the ????? lasts longer by a baby girl than by a baby boy shows that there is more ??????? by the birth of a girl than by a boy!! “

Funny that you mention that – I actually was thinking of it, but chose not to add it to my previous post. There is another reason for the tumah lasting twice as long by the girl, and that is because every female born, carries in her AT BIRTH her future potential for creating additional life. So the tumah is both for the mother and the female baby, hence the kedusha is likewise double.

There is nothing like a dame….

A boy may be the kadish’l, and he may carry on the family name, but the girl will grow up to carry, birth, and nurture the next generation of klal Yisroel. Her level of kedusha is higher than a male, hence the need for her to do fewer mitzvos in order to be at the same level as her male counterpart. As far as I am concerned, ANY healthy baby who is born is a brocha beyond belief. And if chalilah a baby is not 100% healthy, that baby is still a brocha when he or she is loved.

My favorites are everyone who mentioned ME!!!!!

A person can be chozeir b’teshuvah, but he may not be able to make it a complete teshuvah. That does not mean he should not do so. Better to make it up to five people he remembers harming, than ignoring ALL of the people from whom one stole because he cannot recall all of them, so why bother trying.

Unless something is non-transferable there is no reason why it cannot be sold. Sometimes a gift card is tied to a promotion through someone’s purchase of a service of some type. It might require ID in order to be used. In that case, they really should not sell such a card, as the person to whom they are selling did not buy the service. The latter is just my personal opinion. If it IS transferable, no one cares who uses it.

If this is HS, you need to ask yourself why you are in an advanced class when math is not your best subject. If you need a tutor in the subject and cannot keep up, you should ask to be transferred if possible to an easier-paced class. It is NO shame or crime to not be in the advanced class. In fact, you might enjoy math a lot better if you felt more confident in being able to keep up. Have you talked to the teacher about this, not to mention your parents (are THEY the ones who want you in the class)?

My friend loves Kerestirer matzos. OT slightly, does anyone knwo of a totally gluten free matzah that is tasty? A relative of mine has been provisionally diagnosed with celiac disease, so we want to avoid problems on Pesach. Also, dos anyone know Non-Gebrochts companies that can be relied upon to not make their products with traces of nuts? My granddaughter has a nut allergy (to all nuts and seeds – but seeds are not shayach to Pesach), and I want to know if there are any products that we can safely use for her that will not trigger anything.

I eat gebrochts. If someone comes to me who does not, I specifically make several alternatives for that guest that will be non-gebrochts, so the guest has plenty to choose from. Al pi halacha, the guest IS permitted to eat even from food that was cooked in a pot that previously held gebrochts. Saying that it is not permissible is a mistake. Gebrochts/non-gebrochts are only a minhag. The fact that they are b’davka eaten on the eighth day of yom tov, proves it is not assur l’chatchilah. If there were a chashash of chometz, gebrochts would be assur even on the eighth day, just as mamesh cometz is. But to each his own. Pesach is definitely a gluten-sufferer’s delight.

No, she didn’t have to eat from it. It would probably never have happened had her husband not added a CHUMRAH onto Hashem’s mitzvah, instead of teaching her the halacha exactly as it was given.

Not so, Zeeskite. I am a fan.

It’s What I Believe (Journeys???) AKA Poppa Please Tell Me.

Pineapple kugel is delicious, and is made with a little potato flour, no matzah meal as the binder.

If you live in NY, Chicago is out of town. If you live in Chicago, NY is out of town. Most people are referring to states other than the Tri-State Are when they say out of town, more like the Midwest.

The topic was started by a TROLL. What’s better and apple or an orange? I could make a case for each. Men are not better than women, women are not better than men. We are each designed and assigned for differing roles in life. Women need fewer mitzvos than their male counterparts, to attain the same level of kedusha as men, because THAT IS HOW HASHEM DECIDED IT SHOULD BE. There is no need for argument about this, it is what it is. As a woman, when I say She-asani Kirtzono each day, I really mean it.

Smartcookie, I would hate to be the friend who makes people feel they must walk around on eggshells around me. People eventually begin to resent that person for not allowing them to feel and enjoy their simcha publicly and to the fullest. So while I see your point, I too, respectfully and strongly disagree with you. Better that those friends should stay home and not cause the baal simcha to feel bad for expressing his own joy.

I have three children as yet unmarried, two are girls in the older category. Hashem knows my true heart, that every single wedding I go to, and even where the kallah is very young (meaning 19-22), I am VERY much b’simcha for my friends who are zochim to marry off that child. I daven that I would likewise be zochah, but I would hate to see myself as a person who cannot feel joy for others,even when I am not feeling it (yet) for myself. And even more, I would HATE for my friends to feel they could not share good news of theirs with me, for fear that it will “hurt” me to hear it. I believe that every mazel tov we wish others with a full heart, is credited to us, that we should hear it from others, as well.

Simple. Don’t put down the down payment if you can’t afford it.”

Don’t do it, even if you CAN afford it. Since when do whiney kids get to make such unreasonable demands of their parents??? Quelle chutzpah!!!!

A parent does what he or she can do OUT OF LOVE, not out of the child’s feelings of entitlement. We have sadly and deplorably raised a generation of truly thoughtless and selfish brats who think they have a right to demand that their parents continue to raise them as if they were still helpless children. And if the parent DOES say no, their noses get out of joint.

Conversely, many parents deliberately encourage their kids in this selfish behavior, because they are better able to retain control over them when they hold the purse strings. That is incredibly bad behavior on the part of the parents, not only their children.

Blinkeleh, you can apply directly to ME for the poetic License (hereby granted).

No, we do not have the legal right to vandalize. We may, however, have the halachic right to. Then it’s a just a question of what you put more by, the American law or the Torah.”

I follow “Dina D’Malchusah Dina” as per Halacha. Our Dina states that it is a CRIME to vandalize, and the Halacha states we have to abide by the rules of the State. No one told those guys to look up at the picture. it was not an untzniusdig picture according to standards set forth by law of the land. You don’t like that – move somewhere that is more to your liking, or somewhere over which your opinions and halachioc observance are allowed to prevail. Until then, you have to live where you are, and that might include the goyim who live around you, who by the laws of this land (a land which gives us ALL freedom of religion)are allowed to post pictures that are not obscene (and they are NOT, even if they are of a different tznius standard than your own)and have a reasonable expectation that no one will damage their property.

We do not have the right to vandalize. This is not a Jewish State or even a Jewish City under Jewish rule. So OUR absolute standards of tznius (which vary in many respects among frum Jews),

have little shaychus to the goyim. THEIR standard of tznius, as long as it does not violate common accepted decency (and the wearing of pants and even sleeveless shirts by women, is accepted as modest attire in this country)should not be treated in such a holier than thou manner. Suppose they had a giant ad for a ham sandwich or Red Lobster? Would you think they had the right to black it out? What we hold for ourselves we have no right to expect people who are NOT unzerer to likewise hold for themselves.

It would be wonderful if everyone dressed appropriately to our way of thinking, but that is NOT our call to make. Not in this country. Supposing a Muslim had done this and not those guys.

“OOMIS!”

So nice of you, Sacrilege. And a shout-out, too! 🙂

however –

“If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve…”

I always came to work (and everywhere else)a little early. One co-worker always came 15 minutes late. After four days, she was being paid for an hour in which she never worked each week. I don’t like that – it is dishonest, even when one does not acknowledge that this is so. And no, she had no prior arrangement with the boss to come in later than the rest of us. She just took a later train than she should have.

“,

Scrubbing and scouring,

While your sweat is pouring,

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My take on this – Excuse me for taking poetic license to change what you wrote:

Cleaning every cranny and nook,

Down to the last Sefer and book

Scrubbing and scouring

And not “Happy Hour”-ing

No one is let off the hook.