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September 19, 2012 7:52 pm at 7:52 pm in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897111popa_bar_abbaParticipant
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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantIt is insane, they absolutely must put out poison in jerusalem.
September 16, 2012 5:22 am at 5:22 am in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897107popa_bar_abbaParticipantIt depends. Are the the baal korei?
(Hey wolf!)
popa_bar_abbaParticipantThere 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantThey 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.
September 16, 2012 3:43 am at 3:43 am in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897100popa_bar_abbaParticipantWait until they start shmone esrei, then stand right near them in their personal space and start shmone esrei also.
September 16, 2012 3:42 am at 3:42 am in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897099popa_bar_abbaParticipantBlast a shofar in their ear!
September 16, 2012 3:42 am at 3:42 am in reply to: So it's rosh hashanah and the people sitting near you are chatting #897098popa_bar_abbaParticipantStone them with your esrogim.
September 16, 2012 3:33 am at 3:33 am in reply to: NYC Board of Health Votes to Regulate Bris Milah #1096212popa_bar_abbaParticipantPerhaps this will spur a revival of metzitza bpeh if lots of people think like me.
September 14, 2012 10:58 pm at 10:58 pm in reply to: NYC Board of Health Votes to Regulate Bris Milah #1096206popa_bar_abbaParticipantDash: 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.
September 14, 2012 12:44 pm at 12:44 pm in reply to: NYC Board of Health Votes to Regulate Bris Milah #1096202popa_bar_abbaParticipantIn 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantI 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.
September 12, 2012 3:51 pm at 3:51 pm in reply to: This may sound like a crazy question but I'm serious… #941838popa_bar_abbaParticipantAlso, considering that their bodies disintegrate also, what will they be?
popa_bar_abbaParticipantI 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantWhy, what does the drisha hold about mechitza bpeh?
popa_bar_abbaParticipantI 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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September 11, 2012 8:24 pm at 8:24 pm in reply to: Did Neil Armstrong really land on the moon?? #896866popa_bar_abbaParticipantThere 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.
September 11, 2012 4:57 pm at 4:57 pm in reply to: Did Neil Armstrong really land on the moon?? #896847popa_bar_abbaParticipantOccams 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantProbably it is from my neighbor telling me that I am 8/12 for hitting their car while parking.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantMaybe. 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantNo, 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantGavra:
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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantCherry: 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantPeople are scared and want to feel safe. They feel safe that someone is promising to pay for their needs.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantI’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?
popa_bar_abbaParticipantGive me a break. Who says the rebbi was more right than the teacher?
September 11, 2012 3:10 am at 3:10 am in reply to: simple question: who decides when to close a thread? #896425popa_bar_abbaParticipant2cents: 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.)
popa_bar_abbaParticipantFTR:
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.
September 10, 2012 7:26 pm at 7:26 pm in reply to: simple question: who decides when to close a thread? #896418popa_bar_abbaParticipantG-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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipant2. There probably wasn’t a Mechiza, so it’s Taroovos.
No, both were issur.
September 9, 2012 7:57 pm at 7:57 pm in reply to: blessings for animals (in particular, pets!) #895978popa_bar_abbaParticipantI think the best way to deal with the cat problem in Jerusalem is to scatter poison.
September 9, 2012 7:34 pm at 7:34 pm in reply to: blessings for animals (in particular, pets!) #895975popa_bar_abbaParticipantSome (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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantI went to slichos last night. I think it was the first time I’ve done nighttime slichos in a few years.
September 6, 2012 2:21 am at 2:21 am in reply to: Need Source for Allowing or Not Allowing Teacher to Confiscate Items #906945popa_bar_abbaParticipantYou aren’t going to find precise sources. You want sources for asmachta lo kanya?
September 6, 2012 1:50 am at 1:50 am in reply to: Need Source for Allowing or Not Allowing Teacher to Confiscate Items #906940popa_bar_abbaParticipantSeems 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?
popa_bar_abbaParticipantBecause some people will get hanaa from figuring it out themselves, and I don’t want to be ??? ????? ???
popa_bar_abbaParticipantI’m sure a cursory reading of the hamodia or yated this week will solve the mystery. No secrets here.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantNo, I thought up the follow up. And yes, I do recall now that it was the host rosh yeshiva.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantI (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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantHaleivi: 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?
popa_bar_abbaParticipantGiven 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantThey want me to be nice.
Aries: I think your posts in this thread are very good and sensible.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantI 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantNo, 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?
popa_bar_abbaParticipantLike I said, this thread is not making me think very highly of you.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantBecause 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.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantyehudahtzvi: This thread is really not making me think very highly of you.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantlittle: Don’t be ridiculous. Ask someone sitting near you to explain my post to you.
popa_bar_abbaParticipantJust saying, do you really want to get these reshaim involved http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/138833/Parents-Threatened-With-Criminal-Charges-Over-Circumcision.html
popa_bar_abbaParticipantSam: 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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