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Is chessed really prized on a man’s resume?
Do men really have a resume? (I sure never did.)
Definitely positive if you have a DOT parking permit and can park all over manhattan for free.
(And for all the haters who say that is abusing it, it isn’t. Because part of the purpose is that your car should be near you in case you have an emergency. And there are situations where you would help someone even on a date, like if someone collapses at the restaurant you’re in.)
Oh, I thought you were suggesting that hatzolo people make shidduchim between people from the houses they go into, since they see everyone at their worst.
I sounds like it would violate HIPPA
DY: What do I have to do with this?
I wasn’t sephardic. I was ashekenazic at har sinai.
Ok, but see the comment before yours.
Look, I don’t have an issue with how you learn, if you were mekabel a derech from a different rebbe than I was. There certainly are different mesoros about it.
the pilpul learning done nowadays in most yeshivas (at least in america) is very entertaining but not how learning was historically done. all those mnemonics you see all over shas are there because the whole point of learning was to remember it – not necessarily dissect it and forget it like is done today.
On the other hand, all the pilpul discussions done in shas (is aish mshum mamon or cheitz, is the reason for b’fanai nechtav unechtam because of l’shmah or m’zuyaf, etc) show that the whole point is to understand.
But I suppose it makes sense that if you never tried to understnad anything you learned, you might make the mistake of ignoring the entire corpus of shas and focusing on the mnemonic devices that appear every 20 or 30 blatt.
PBA: There is a Chiyuv to know Kol HaTorah Kula by heart. Rote memorization sounds better for that than most Lomdus.
I understand that chiyuv as being able to answer substantively–not to respond to: “can you please tell me the words of mishna gimmel in perek vov of shabbos”?
I don’t think there is any value in rote memorization at all, and it is worse than watching movies, since it is bittul torah without even getting any relaxation out of it.
No.
PBA: Both, maybe. People have had trouble convincing me that the Ikkar Talmud Torah is throwing everything ever in existence into Chakiros.
But they have had success convincing you that it is rote memorization??
And it makes it easier for me to listen to torah leining if the baal koreh wears a clown suit and scratches his armpits like a monkey whenever he mentions the names of any of the avos.
Sure, you are yotzei leining even if you do it in funny voices. But isn’t it a bizayon?
apushatayid – If it is a Mitzvah for women (even if they are Eino Metzuva V’Oseh), then by definition learning can not be “nothing” (as otherwise it would violate Schar V’Onesh).
Not necessarily. The Rambam seems to disapprove of women learning in most situations. It is easily possible that if Hashem does not want you to do a mitzva and you do it anyway, that there is no schar.
It is not so improper to say that most of learning is memorization. Not memorizing words that you don’t understand, but if you can memorize the Shakil V’tarya of a lot of Blatt Gemara (or memorize whole sections of Rambam, Shulchan Aruch, etc.) you end up being appreciated a lot more than the guy who can make Chakiras like R’ Chaim. In Yeshivos we enjoy and respect the mental backflips that we can do with Rishonim, but at the end of the day the Pashtan who knows Shas often receives just as, if not more, respect than the Lamdan.
Are we discussing the mitzva of talmud torah, or how to get respect on the internet and in shul?
Right, cuz walking around drunk and serving booze to 13 year olds is a MUCH more respectful way to celebrate Purim. I get it.
I mean, you’re comparing respect for purim to respect for the megilla itself, and the takanas chazal to read it publicly.
You can still make a point that you think getting drunk is disrespectful to the yontiff of purim itself and it’s mitzvos, and we’ll can discuss that. But I don’t think it’s immediately relevant to this.
Is the Goq formula some sort of home remedy? Does it work for colds?
Where can I find someone to stomp on a sefer torah, and who will do it for a girls crowd?
DY: a chicago style deep dish pizza pan
Most of what is called “learning” is really nothing more than rote memory.
Nothing like declaring an opinion, and then in the same paragraph announcing that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Yes, it needs a hashgacha, because of gevinas akum.
My whole family is jointly dressing as Joseph. We’ll all have different names, wear different clothes, be different ages, different genders, different backgrounds, and we’ll all repeat whatever lines from Rabbi Miller the others are saying and yell right wing stuff at people and then stalk them.
(lol DY, nice)
Don’t use zinc. It can cause you to lose your sense of smell permanently. (And much of your sense of taste)
Viruses usually respond to Zinc. Also, a humidifier in your room helps.
They do. But also sometimes you lose your sense of smell.
lol
4 weeks? That is concerning. Have you seen a doctor?
Which ones? I want the one with more calories. It probably tastes better.
A bris? I wanna go to a bris!
Oh, I was in the middle of typing and remembered I already admitted to going to a bris today.
I took my bagel and tuna to go, since I did the “baal-ha-bust-out”. There wasn’t lox. There won’t be lox at my kids’ brisses either, since it’s expensive, and who says you have to serve lox at a bris?
But I really do like bagels and lox. So I’ll buy myself a package and eat it with the leftover bagels, after my kids’ brisses.
Boy, even my bag of pretzels has 230 calories. Now what should I eat?
I usually eat the whole chocolate bar. But if you eat only a quarter, you might try simply eating a quarter slice of pizza.
(And I figured you’d find a 1 oz bag of potato chips, but most people eat the bags that have like 240 calories, or eat from a big bag and eat half of it.)
And now, please post for us the nutritional content in 2 Entenmanns (or Franczoz) donuts. And I don’t mean the mini ones. I mean Entenmanns, rich chocolate frosted, full size, donuts, that you love, es yitzchok. I’m sure we’ve all eaten two of them as a snack, at some point.
Yeah, if I couldn’t read hebrew, I don’t think I’d quite understand what the rambam says from your little synopsis.
Now thats just ONE SLICE!! I’m not coming from a health point, but
rather, Can anyone find me any other “snack” with such nutritional value?!
I just want to point out to those who say they are just “snacking” on one slice, and it just happens to be in between breakfast and supper; Stop fooling yourself!
Take a look at the nutrition facts on a bag of potato chips, or a chocolate bar.
I’m sending a bag of Ringers and an IV. The theme is “got taken to the hospital and almost died because I drank irresponsibly”
What is the bracha on my deep dish pizza?
The crust is:
liquid: 1 1/4 cups water; 1/2 cup butter.
grain: 3 cups flour; 1/2 cup corn.
Between the butter and the corn, is it possible the ikar taam is not the flour?
Best. Theme. Ever.
Mother and kids (father absent) dressed up in rags and barefoot. Giving out airline meals.
“Father did insider trading and is in jail” theme.
DY: According to his son-in-law it’s actually not.
And now we know who else was in the story.
He said it’s hamotzi. Unless you eat a whole pie. Then it’s asher bara.
That’s was not my observation. What do people whose cars were snowed in do to get them out?
Not a good point.
You can get your car out, but leave such a pile of snow in the spot the next guy won’t be able to get in, and it will all freeze in a slushy pile.
You’ve seen the difference between a spot where the shoveler intends to return and where he doesn’t.
Wow, someone is way behind on the daf.
of course there is. Also there really is a daf yomi hagadah
I found the tablet article that spawned this thread.
It was me. I like pizza so much, that I bring it into any conversation I have.
So one time I was driving Rav Moshe somewhere, and after I slammed the door on his fingers, I wanted to talk. So I asked him about pizza. But his shamash whispered that I should talk torah. So I asked him if what bracha you make on pizza.
lol, T613 already made my joke a year ago. Marcus Lehmann Hagada.
2. If you had good insurance (typically from a major employer such as the FEHBP or a state or local government or union), you still do. Be happy.
Um, unless, they like, cancelled it, because it wasn’t compliant under obamacare and they didn’t qualify for the grandfather because they changed anything since obamacare was passed.
Charlie: I’m on your side. I think burzynski is a fraud peddling poison. That was pretty clear from my post.
“Are they required to accept testimony from apostate moslems in America?”
Ah, clever slander directed towards Rabbi Avi Weiss, who even according to his most bitter enemies such as Rabbi Pruzansky is a kosher eid. Nobody who is actually Orthodox could question that.
Toward Maharat Weiss? What on earth makes you think that was directed at the Maharat?
I was obviously talking about the actually reform and conservative people that would be accepted as witnesses and rabbis if he has his way and the rabbanut is decentralized and dismantled.
(Also, rabbi pruzansky? Since when is he the anti-weiss? I have to hold by him? As I’ve said before, I don’t know if I’d accept weiss even to be mattir an agunah)
I was in brooklyn for shabbos, and did not see a single house that needed shoveling. Just saying. I don’t know what you’re all in a tizzy about.
You’re looking for a guided tour?
I’m sure such things exist, but they’ll be marketed to you–not to us.