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  • in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897111
    popa_bar_abba
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    OK, so the guy in front of me had really big ears. I mean, like huge. And I was so amazed by them, and wondering if they were always that big, or if they got bigger as he got older.

    So I wanted to show my brother. But it was during chazaras hashatz mussaf so I couldn’t talk. And I didn’t want to point. So I first tried to motion with my eyes, but he didn’t catch. So then I found the word “ear” in my machzor, and pointed to it. And then pointed to the word “gedolah”. So then he saw and we giggled quietly to ourselves.

    But then, I realized I should have showed him from sefer yonah. So I looked in my seatpocket, and found a chumash, and it had maftir yona. So I showed him ???? ??????. And then we giggled again, and I walked out so I wouldn’t laugh.

    in reply to: Killing A Cat #983690
    popa_bar_abba
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    It is insane, they absolutely must put out poison in jerusalem.

    in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897107
    popa_bar_abba
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    It depends. Are the the baal korei?

    (Hey wolf!)

    in reply to: Killing A Cat #983682
    popa_bar_abba
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    There are more ways to skin a cat than a bug.

    Speaking of which, we saw a huuuuuuuuuuuuge toad on friday night. My niece was scared as blazes of it.

    in reply to: dry cleaners #896823
    popa_bar_abba
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    They are burn marks. Most cleaners will pretend it is stain and that it was already there. It is basically just part of the price of owning shirts and using cleaners.

    in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897100
    popa_bar_abba
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    Wait until they start shmone esrei, then stand right near them in their personal space and start shmone esrei also.

    in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897099
    popa_bar_abba
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    Blast a shofar in their ear!

    in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897098
    popa_bar_abba
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    Stone them with your esrogim.

    in reply to: NYC Board of Health Votes to Regulate Bris Milah #1096212
    popa_bar_abba
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    Perhaps this will spur a revival of metzitza bpeh if lots of people think like me.

    in reply to: NYC Board of Health Votes to Regulate Bris Milah #1096206
    popa_bar_abba
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    Dash: I’m not convinced of that.

    enlightened jew: You should reconsider that. If the DOH was in earnest, they would not be falsifying information in an attempt to win public approval. They would simply say it as it is.

    And if you care, it isn’t very sanitary when a baby nurses from its mother either. Nor when they kiss their baby.

    This is absolutely a milchemes Hashem, and I would be proud to be part of it, and would be thrilled to go to jail for it.

    in reply to: NYC Board of Health Votes to Regulate Bris Milah #1096202
    popa_bar_abba
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    In my yeshiva, we generally don’t do metzitza bpeh. (Nor mechitza bpeh).

    However, if I have a son while this is in force, I will insist the mohel do metzitza bpeh, and I will find anther mohel or do it myself if he won’t.

    And no, I won’t sign their ox’s horn either.

    in reply to: Getting kids to behave at Shabbos Meal #903449
    popa_bar_abba
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    I don’t agree with your goal. I don’t think there is much positive served by getting kids to sit nicely at the table. If they want to run around, or read a book, let them go. It’s boring for them.

    in reply to: This may sound like a crazy question but I'm serious… #941838
    popa_bar_abba
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    Also, considering that their bodies disintegrate also, what will they be?

    in reply to: I'm gonna get a ticket #896217
    popa_bar_abba
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    I took my car to the shop, and the replaced it. Charged me like 30 bucks to fix it too. They also replaced a brake light for another 7 buck.

    in reply to: So I left #1066814
    popa_bar_abba
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    Why, what does the drisha hold about mechitza bpeh?

    in reply to: Gender Segregation in Jewish Cemeteries #896203
    popa_bar_abba
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    I heard from old-timers that before the war many women kept Shabbos and were entitled to be buried in Shomer Shabbos sections while, sadly, most of their husbands and sons did not stand up to the incredibly difficult Nisayon of Shmiras Shabbos in those years and they were refused burial in Shomer Shabbos sections.

    By the time the 1930s came around, cemeteries evolved into men’s and women’s sections originally being non-Shomer-Shabbos and Shomer-Shabbos sections.

    People in our time just continued these policies of the old cemetaries. Many thinking that it is some sort of Tznius or Frumkeit when it is just a relic of a very sad chapter in Jewish American history.

    This is easily disproven by the existence of much older cemeteries which have separate rows for men and women, and by the fact it is not separate sections, but separate rows. That is:

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    in reply to: Did Neil Armstrong really land on the moon?? #896866
    popa_bar_abba
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    There is no proof that the moon is solid in any way.

    A small conspiracy aimed at scaring the Russians is a far more plausible explanation than that we somehow were able to land and then take off again from the moon.

    in reply to: Did Neil Armstrong really land on the moon?? #896847
    popa_bar_abba
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    Occams razor would say that it is simpler that he just lied, than that they actually landed on the moon.

    It wouldn’t take a complicated conspiracy; just a few dudes at NASA.

    in reply to: I'm gonna get a ticket #896215
    popa_bar_abba
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    Probably it is from my neighbor telling me that I am 8/12 for hitting their car while parking.

    in reply to: I'm gonna get a ticket #896212
    popa_bar_abba
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    Maybe. Doesn’t say that, and I didn’t get a letter from anyone.

    I think it is from the mafia and it means I have to pay my protection dues now.

    in reply to: I'm gonna get a ticket #896210
    popa_bar_abba
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    No, I looked on the street and every other car’s sticker is not expired yet. Only mine. I probably am getting a ticket whilst I post this.

    in reply to: So I left #1066808
    popa_bar_abba
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    Gavra:

    Maybe not. But not because of the taaruvos aspect, but because then it could be that they are not really part of the shiur and are just listening in.

    If they were behind the mechitza and participating by asking questions, I certainly would have left.

    in reply to: Gender Segregation in Jewish Cemeteries #896196
    popa_bar_abba
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    Cherry: It is not a new minhag at all. You can see some very old cemetaries with the men and women buried in alternating rows, so that they are one in front of another instead of side by side.

    One that I am aware of is the southern street cemetery in Baltimore, which is well over 100 years old.

    As far as the avos, I don’t know what information you have that they are buried side by side instead of one in front of the other.

    in reply to: Why are pple voting for Obama #896321
    popa_bar_abba
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    People are scared and want to feel safe. They feel safe that someone is promising to pay for their needs.

    in reply to: So I left #1066806
    popa_bar_abba
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    I’m sorry, is this mechitza thing you are all talking about related to the mechitza bpeh issue being debated in NYC right now? Is that somehow related to this shiur?

    in reply to: ruint a shidduch #1188461
    popa_bar_abba
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    Give me a break. Who says the rebbi was more right than the teacher?

    in reply to: simple question: who decides when to close a thread? #896425
    popa_bar_abba
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    2cents: It’s true for me. I don’t post on matzav, on VIN, or any of those.

    (I should also note, that this is the only site on which I use the handle Popa bar abba. I heard some nut was pretending to be me somewhere, about a month ago. I didn’t go there to say it wasn’t, because I don’t need to disavow every nut who uses my handle elsewhere.)

    in reply to: So I left #1066801
    popa_bar_abba
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    FTR:

    1. I walked out because it was a gemara shiur; I probably would have stayed it was a chumash shiur.

    2. That is only because of the norms in this shul. I happen to think that a more proper norm is that men and women should not be part of the same interactive shiur. But if this is the norm, then I don’t find it so objectionable that I have to leave.

    in reply to: simple question: who decides when to close a thread? #896418
    popa_bar_abba
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    G-d decides when to close a thread. The fact that the moderators do it only reflects on their free will, but it would have been closed in any event. The most you can be upset at them for is their bad intent.

    Also, I’m here specifically because it is a moderated site.

    in reply to: So I left #1066791
    popa_bar_abba
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    2. There probably wasn’t a Mechiza, so it’s Taroovos.

    No, both were issur.

    in reply to: blessings for animals (in particular, pets!) #895978
    popa_bar_abba
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    I think the best way to deal with the cat problem in Jerusalem is to scatter poison.

    in reply to: blessings for animals (in particular, pets!) #895975
    popa_bar_abba
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    Some (actually, most chareidim) argue that it’s completely fine to just kill street cats – but oy vey, if you would neuter them it’s a horrible thing that must be protested against. But killing them is fine. Sorry, but I just fail to understand the reasoning behind it.

    You are asking why G-d made an issur to neuter animals? Ask G-d.

    in reply to: Selichos….ooooh NOOO #896453
    popa_bar_abba
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    I went to slichos last night. I think it was the first time I’ve done nighttime slichos in a few years.

    in reply to: Need Source for Allowing or Not Allowing Teacher to Confiscate Items #906945
    popa_bar_abba
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    You aren’t going to find precise sources. You want sources for asmachta lo kanya?

    in reply to: Need Source for Allowing or Not Allowing Teacher to Confiscate Items #906940
    popa_bar_abba
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    Seems a bit problematic. Even if the school has such a policy and you have to agree to it, it would need to be done in a way that it is not asmachata. How likely is that?

    No?

    in reply to: How many wives? #1003423
    popa_bar_abba
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    Because some people will get hanaa from figuring it out themselves, and I don’t want to be ??? ????? ???

    in reply to: How many wives? #1003421
    popa_bar_abba
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    I’m sure a cursory reading of the hamodia or yated this week will solve the mystery. No secrets here.

    in reply to: How many wives? #1003419
    popa_bar_abba
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    No, I thought up the follow up. And yes, I do recall now that it was the host rosh yeshiva.

    in reply to: How many wives? #1003416
    popa_bar_abba
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    I (and midwesterner) heard several roshei yeshiva speak today, including Rav Malkiel. One of them (I forget which) quoted the Alter fun slabodka saying that ?? ??? ???? ????, that when you give your daughter to someone, you must check that he is a mensch (ish means mench).

    Now, the rest of the passuk is that this mensch hated her so much that he is making a false and malicious taanas besulim. So you see apparently that when a man gets married, even if he is mensch, it is normal that he will hate her so much that he will make false and malicious taanas besulim. Apparently.

    in reply to: How many wives? #1003397
    popa_bar_abba
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    Haleivi: That sounds like doubling down on a bad bet to me. If you buy an ice cream sundae and don’t like it, do you buy a second?

    in reply to: How many wives? #1003388
    popa_bar_abba
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    Given today’s economy, where many men cannot manage to support even ONE wife…

    Well, I’d pay someone to take my wife off my hands.

    in reply to: Whistle blowing? #894914
    popa_bar_abba
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    They want me to be nice.

    Aries: I think your posts in this thread are very good and sensible.

    in reply to: "failed bridges"…scary #894292
    popa_bar_abba
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    I drove on the williamsburg bridge and it did fine. Didn’t collapse or anything. I put my whole car on it and it stood fine.

    in reply to: Whistle blowing? #894907
    popa_bar_abba
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    No, WIY, thinking of him as a “monster” is not a victimless crime either. The way we think of people affects the way we act towards them. The kid needs to be stopped, but he does not need to be punished–like many in this thread have suggested.

    YehudahTvzi: I am the one who found you a contact, called him up and asked permission to post his phone number here, and did so. I care about this-I just care about all the parties, not just the obvious ones.

    I do commend you for getting involved, but I am horrified at your attitude about it. Like I suggested in a previous post, why don’t you just lock up the 6 year old victim also before she has a chance to do the same thing to another kid when she’s 15?

    in reply to: Whistle blowing? #894904
    popa_bar_abba
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    Like I said, this thread is not making me think very highly of you.

    in reply to: Whistle blowing? #894902
    popa_bar_abba
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    Because you are calling a poor 15 year old kid who was probably molested by his rebbi in 3rd grade a “monster”.

    You are angry at the wrong person.

    in reply to: Whistle blowing? #894896
    popa_bar_abba
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    yehudahtzvi: This thread is really not making me think very highly of you.

    in reply to: Whistle blowing? #894874
    popa_bar_abba
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    little: Don’t be ridiculous. Ask someone sitting near you to explain my post to you.

    in reply to: ACS #894239
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    in reply to: Whistle blowing? #894861
    popa_bar_abba
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    Sam: Certainly. So is a man who doesn’t do anything but credible false witnesses say he did.

    The point is that the judicial system G-d set up for us is just that–it is a system. But we have no idea whether what we are doing is punishment for a crime or just part of what G-d wants to happen.

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