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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.
It is insane, they absolutely must put out poison in jerusalem.
It depends. Are the the baal korei?
(Hey wolf!)
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.
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.
Wait until they start shmone esrei, then stand right near them in their personal space and start shmone esrei also.
Blast a shofar in their ear!
Stone them with your esrogim.
Perhaps this will spur a revival of metzitza bpeh if lots of people think like me.
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 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.
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.
Also, considering that their bodies disintegrate also, what will they be?
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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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.
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.
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.
People are scared and want to feel safe. They feel safe that someone is promising to pay for their needs.
Give me a break. Who says the rebbi was more right than the teacher?
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.)
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.
I think the best way to deal with the cat problem in Jerusalem is to scatter poison.
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.
I went to slichos last night. I think it was the first time I’ve done nighttime slichos in a few years.
You aren’t going to find precise sources. You want sources for asmachta lo kanya?
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?
They want me to be nice.
Aries: I think your posts in this thread are very good and sensible.
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.
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?
Like I said, this thread is not making me think very highly of you.
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.
yehudahtzvi: This thread is really not making me think very highly of you.
little: Don’t be ridiculous. Ask someone sitting near you to explain my post to you.
Just 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
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.