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Impressed am I with all this rhyme

So we’ll ask you Eclipse, one more time.

We’d like to convey

That we want you to stay,

To leave now, would be such a crime!

I don’t know how anyone else makes it, but mine comes out almost like a pareve quiche. Preheat the oven to 350 degree.

You slice up and saute two really large onions, along with a can of mushroom pieces until all are soft and a little browned. Drain off the oil and add 1/2 cup of mayo, 4-5 eggs, 1 1/2 – 2 tsp. salt and a good shake of black pepoer. Put in a Pam-sprayed 9″ square disposable pan, and bake at 350 degrees until the top looks golden brown and feels firm to the touch (almost spongy). I check after a half hour to see if it has baked enough.

No squeezing the baby. On Shabbos or any time.

Yeah, probably. Or vinegar.

Thoughtful post, I must say, Robert. Make the genuine offer to help, but do not be hurt if they do not take you up on taking care of the baby. New parents in general are leery of leaving their baby with someone. The trust fund is a generous idea. It’s wonderful that you are respectful of your sibling’s choices.

since starbucks sells treif hot meat sandwiches, why should getting a coffee in starbucks be any different than getting coffee in mcdonalds”

The main difference is that when you go to McDonald’s it is NOT for the coffee. A Yid going to Starbucks is ONLY going for the coffee.

As to the question of cleaning the machines – as far as I know, coffee machines are not cleaned like cutlery or dishes. Though I could be mistaken, I believe there is a coffee cleaner that is run through the coffee machine. The only thing that makes the machine “dirty” is the accumulation of coffee oils. Running the coffee brewing cycle with vinegar in the machine, cleans it out completely. If there were ever a “hechsher” on the coffee served in Starbucks, it would have to be that only a kosher cleaning process was utilized. CRC, of course, has raised the relevant question, and it needs to be checked out.

Mosherose, uh uh.

Some of you might possibly be surprised to know that I virtually never uncover my hair in my home, specifically because someone might be able to see into a window, though it is not really likely, and also because my son or my husband might be making a bracha, etc. I also don’t want to have to scramble for a snood or cap, should someone ring my doorbell. Being head-covered until I am ready to go to sleep, makes life simpler for me.

Shaas Had’chak translates to mean emergency. What you are talking about, I believe, is B’dieved, which is something else. L’chatchilah and b’dieved are opposite ends of the spectrum. Sh”HD is when there IS an emergency involved. If that is incorrect, then I want a refund from the yeshivos I attended here, and from my Seminary in E”Y.

We are all, to a certain extent B”T every time we are mekayeim a mitzvah whoch we did not do beforehand in the proper way. But what is generally meant by the term, is not the frum Yid who tries to grow in his Torah and Yiddishkeit, but rather the Yid who was never minimally frum to begin with, or who was OTD, and in both cases, returned to frum observance.

HAH! I KNEW IT!!!! Large white ursine, indeed! Welcome back, Adar or not.

rabbiofberlin,

(If I understand your point correctly) if you’re right, then in every ?????? in ?”?, we should pasken ?????. And in every ?????? in the ???????, we should pasken ?????.

We don’t. “

L’kula, is the minimum standard of halachic chiuyv. it IS the halacha that Hashem gave us. He also gave rabbonim the power to pasken, and they often pasken far more than is required by the perfect halacha that we were already given. we make a choice to be more strict, or follow the given halacha. Kula is not a four-letter word (except as I spelled it). And the people who look at it almost derisively, err seriously. following the kula is NOT the same precise thing as saying someone is more mekeil, because being mekeil sometimes involves letting something “slide” to a certain extent (like when a rov paskens that something is “kosher” b’dieved, but really it should not be used). A kula means that the item was never a chashash in its kashrus. Just some people hold more strictly for themselves.

LWU, you stated that you did not know the woman in question, right? I am shocked that ANY mother would even toy with the idea of having a total stranger watch her child, in OR out of the cold, out of the mom’s line of vision. People kidnap babies of such careless parents,and if anyone would have noticed the mother TALKING to you, they would assume she knew you and not pay attention, were you so inclined.

I doubt it was a tznius issue. Take him at his word, he was late,too. And he probably didn’t want to be responsible for potentially damaging someone else’s car.

And while guys’ spatial skills are supposedly better than women’s, you cannot assume ANY guy is a better driver than yourself. Guys get into more car accidents, according to insurance reports.

it’s even more that men and women talk to each other without the barriers people used to have. “

That might possibly be true in terms of the subject matter of their conversations. But I believe that men and women talked far more to each other 50-60 years ago, than they do today. They socialized more together, the men AND women had conversations at different occasions, they sat together at simchas, etc. We did not hear about frum men going after other women, or married women behaving inappropriately with men. And admittedly, those frum women dressed according to standards that would not be considered particularly tzniusdig today (but were considered so then). So if we are the ones who are seeing this problem becoming prevalent TODAY (when women dress much more modestly than in yesteryear when there was very little problem in this area), to what do you believe can we attribute this behavior?

What’s the difference with all this arguing? If the food is unquestionably kosher, either eat it or don’t. But don’t take the taam away from other people who want to eat in these places. I was ecstatic when dunkin’ Donuts kashered their local franchise. And they are ecstatic, too, because it quadrupled their profits.

We asked a shailah about salting the steps and walkway, and were told we absolutely MUST do it. I did not ask about shoveling, because it would not have occurred to me that it would be permissible.

ROB, the problem with the chumros is when people begin to believe the chumrah IS the halacha, and that the kula is clearly an avoidance loophole to get out of doing the REAL halacha (which I know for a fact is the negative connotation several posters in the CR think, when they hear “kula”).

All these responses go to show one thing. ASK YOUR ROV what to do if lo aleinu this happens.

I always thought balabatish meant someone who is pleasant and menschlech. it literally comes the hebrew baal habayis (or homeowner, and more loosely, head of the house), and when said quickly, becomes the one word.

I thought you, eclipse oomis and I were all the same age, based on the things we value, and the things that hurt us. Now I think they may be a bit older than me (not sure where you fall) but we are DEFINITELY from the same dor. “

I make no secret of it – I am in my 50s. Bli ayin hara!

WHAT talent!!!!!!

Wolf – I did not mean it literally, I meant that if the torah assured Milk and Meat than why does one have to find a loophole to eat it together? “

Do you utilize the local eruv or use pareve creamer? If not, then read no further. But if you do, then you need to let these ideas sink in.

Every frum person who answers the way you did, makes the same mistake. The Torah assered the mixing of milk and meat. PERIOD. It did NOT asser the mixing of kosher pareve items that merely resemble meat, with cheese, nor did it asser mixing pareve items that resemble dairy foods with real meat. Trying to argue that Hashem must have had a reason for the issur, makes no logical sense here. His reason was only regarding actual meat and dairy. You are making assumptions that do not exist, and that is how a lot of chumros come to be observed, that have no real basis in halacha.

It’s not a matter of loopholes. Hashem told us what the law is. If there is a way to do something without breaking the law, it is not a loophole, it is a different law.

“: They were eating enough

2: If they had decent table manners

3: Had something insightful to say on either the parsha or just something going on in the world

4: Decent sense of humor

5: Polite in their table manners and their dialouge with other guests. (some of my friends had very different views on life and it could get ugly if not defused)

6: It wasnt imperitive but that they bring something (something practicle rather than ostentatious)

Most importantly!

7: If they called after shabbous and said thank you!! “

I tell all my guests I am not looking in their plates, they can eat as little or as much as they want (taking seconds after everyone else has had a first serving). Decent table manners are important (not worrying about which fork to use, but they should not talk with a full mouth, or grab things across the table). Carry on a conversation at the table, don’t just SIT there. Don’t argue with anyone, though you are allowed to have a differing opinion and express it thoughtfully. Nice if they bring something the first time. If they never EVER do, I will still invite them, but i think it shos poor manners. I would rather have someone after several invitations for Shabbos and Yom Tov, give my husband and me a gift certificate to eat out, than have them spend money on trays of candy that we cannot eat (or even keep in the house because my granddaughter has serious allergies), flowers that die quickly, or wine. But I will still invite these guests, regardless, as long as they are polite, make themselves at home, and add oneg Shabbos to my table. It’s very lovely if someone calls after Shabbos to say thank you (I once got a note from someone during the week, to that effect, and I always used to write TY notes when I was invited for a Shabbos). BUT – it’s more improtant for me to hear the Thank You at the time when they are the guests. I don’t personally need a follow up call.

In all these years, I have only not invited back two people to my home. One acted very offensively to us and made us uncomfortable in our own home, when we were doing a chessed to have him for that meal (he had nowhere to go, and our Rov asked us, because he himself was going to be away for Shabbos), and one other person was a loudmouthed barbarian at my table, and said something that could be deemed somewhat inappropriate to my daughter. Otherwise, I will tolerate almost anything.

My kids’ friends (as relayed to me by my children) always felt welcome amd comfortable in our home, and in fact always looked forward to being invited over. Some of them asked if they could move in. 😉

I’m sure most don’t know that Mr Rodgers, A”H, was a Christian minister.”

He never preached religion in his show, only good middos.