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Yes. I am.

Maybe some of you (girls) can explain what type of bachur you are looking for, so that we can start working on ourselves a few years before getting “on the market”.

I’m looking for a bachur who cares about learning more than he cares about working, but will work instead of learning.

One who cares about his family more than he cares about making money, but is making money.

One who stays up late learning, but never comes late to shachris.

One who likes to have fun, but has never had fun–only learned.

One who never drinks, smokes, watches movies, reads goyish books, but is worldly.

One who will make a good parnassa in exactly 4 years, but has never gone to college.

One who will just learn in kollel for several years, but will not insist that my parents support us or that I work.

One who will only appreciate me for what is inside, but will also think I am beautiful outside.

One who will stay home to help with the kids at night and in the morning, and will have a regular seder with a chavrusah.

Can anyone help me find this guy?

Yeah, I would, but only because I think these medications are overprescribed and she almost certainly doesn’t need it.

But, no way I’m getting engaged to them after 2 months; it would need to be a much longer relationship so I could see how they react to more stuff in life.

Good bye, you will be missed. I think I sometimes forget there is a person on the other end, and this was a nice thing for you to say.

About a week ago Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, a well regarded MO rabbi from New Jersey, referenced on his site a new study that finds that 50% of the graduates of Modern Orthodox high schools are no longer Shabbos or Kashrus observant within two years of their graduation. This shocking statistic came only a year after another study found that 25% of those graduates who attend secular colleges assimilate during college and completely abandon Torah and mitzvos.

So am I to understand that the ones who don’t go to secular college are going OTD at even higher rates?

And if we assume half of them go to college, then we’d have to say that 75% of those who don’t go OTD! Amazing.

IOW: why are we getting worked up over a clearly false set of data?

I reckon mine wins again.

So I called Dor Yeshorim to give in the numbers for my daughter. And the way it works is, that you input all the numbers into the automated telephone system, and then, they call you back some time later and you have to read off numbers again and they tell you the results.

So I call, and give machine the numbers.

They call back, and I miss call, because I’m busy or something.

So I call back, but it just sends you straight to that automated system to reinput the numbers. So I hang up.

The next day, they call me and say: you didn’t get the results, do you have the numbers now? But I was driving, so I don’t.

DY Lady: Ok, so call us back when you have the numbers.

Popa: But then it will just send me to the automated machine.

DY Lady: And then we’ll call you back.

Popa: …so just call me back…

The Torah doesn’t mention kangaroos, either.

And I have never seen one.

Feif: Yes, it is always uncomfortable when people criticize what someone else does. But, I am compelled to point out that two posts ago you were criticizing us for adding to the torah.

OK: Feif,

You are certainly aware that we think men and women should not be socializing.

Now, if the men are going to sit only next to their wives and other men, and the women only next to husbands and other women–then what is the point of the mixed seating? If you are talking to your wife, you can do that at home. If you are talking to the guy next to you, you can do that with separate seating much better.

The point is to socialize. So what part don’t you understand? You simply disagree and think the socializing is ok.

I always go to the women’s shmorg since it has better food, but I am too frum to go to the badeken.

See, at the shmorg there is no problem because I am ???? in eating, but at the badeken there is no heter.

It makes no sense. A few years ago, someone asked me to sign up, because they were going to accelerate his shadchan membership if he got guys to sign up, because they have not enough guys.

So I said, if you don’t have enough guys, you should be giving the guys incentives–not the idiot who signs them up. The site should be free for guys.

2cents is correct. The VAS plates don’t give you any special parking privileges. You need the DOT parking permit to get the privileges.

Perhaps he’s saving Ner Yisroel from taking someone’s money on false pretenses and having to come back in another gilgul.

Which other yeshiva is most likely to be ner israel’s gilgul?

2. Bobcats are either: 1) large wild cats that could attack children and not domesticatable; 2) very small Cub Scouts who tend to leave lots of crumbs, which will attract mice (unless there are cats around, infra)

Bobcats are small and cute. Google image them.

Adopt a bobcat.

We sing it in my shul on simchas torah.

Shelo asani isha, shelo asani isha, baruch hashem shelo asani isha…

And the women sing shelo asani eved.

And the avadim sing shelo asani goy.

And the goyim sing sheasani kirtzono.

Also, did you all notice what I posted a year ago:

Why don’t men say “shelo asani k’rtzono”?

Now if we could develop a sensitive, vetted, no opening, no refund, “sealed box” system for shiduchim ?

Because if you think that marriages are bad now…

So this year, my funny brother decided that we should say mashiv haruach 89 times on shmini atzeres at night, and then just say it once at mussaf and we will be done. So we started saying, and he was counting.

Then, when we are done, he says “haha, we said it 90 times, so you all better be careful to not say it at shachris tomorrow.”

But, then he was spacing out at shachris, and probably said it.

He realized at mussaf time, which was already after chatzos. So he davened 2 mussafs.

But, at mincha, he realized that he had been being so careful at mussaf, that he accidentally was careful to not say it, instead of to say it.

So he immediately davened another mincha in place of mussaf.

But of course that wasn’t correct, since it is still zman mussaf, so he davened another mussaf.

Then he realized that he was still short a shachris, and that the extra mincha wouldn’t work as a shachris, since he had daas for mussaf.

But at this point, he was so confused about what he had and hadn’t said, that there was only one solution. He got drunk ??????? ?? ???, and was pattur from mitzvos. In the morning, he said 2 shachrises, went 14 times around the bima, and was good to go.

really squeak? the difference is that the minhag of circling the bima is brought down in halacha, while their walking in circles is just stupidity.

I agree with you that they are probably reasonably well meaning, but I agree that about most of such people that I make fun of on this forum.