popa_bar_abba

some think that I don’t find them confusing because I don’t understand them.

But that makes no sense. everything which I don’t find confusing is only because i don’t understand that i don’t understand it at some deeper level.

Can I be featured in the book?

I went to yeshiva, I drank in the dorm, and now I’m a delinquent who spends too much time on the internet.

lol

But why do you refer to the “YU camp”? Why and how are they a “camp”?

Because they have barbeques and sing songs and play baseball.

I retract my response and agree with yytz.

???? ?????

Modern Orthodoxy is called Modern because it deals with how halacha applies in the modern world – where the Shulchan Aruch and Mishna Brurah don’t tell us what to do, because the circumstances didn’t exist yet at those times. Jews going out to work and learning in the evenings, or going to a gemara (daf yomi?) shiur early in the morning, is how it was done for centuries.

That explanation is about as accurate–but has about has elegant a flow–as saying that Conservative Judaism is called that because they believe in conservative politics.

brony be right

Yes, that is precisely what I think.

pba: Trust me, I’m sure the people in all of these sects of different religions feel EXACTLY the same way.

No, I think it’s different. At least most of the different sects of Christianity think they are practicing Christianity. And both shiite and sunni think they are practicing Islam.

But the premise of all the other jewish sects (YCT, reform, reconstructionist) is that judaism is not obligatory–they don’t think they are practicing any religion. YCT people think that all religion is just a silliness, but it has nice cultural meaning so it’s nice to do the parts you like. You can’t compare that to a protestant who believes in a god and believes that there are things incumbent on him as a result.

So maybe to be more accurate, I should have said “there are some jews who still practice a religion and some who don’t”.

(Aside: Another great article by a YCT type guy today. I read it and said ??? ?????? YCT; this is who you worship.)

I switched from a smartphone which I had had for about 10 weeks back to my old kosher phone (which has texts, btw).

Side effects included compulsive hand movements towards the pocket where said phone used to be.

I spend only slightly less time online, and that time is usually spent twiddling my thumbs. Because if I’m at home, I can just go on my computer, so it is like when I’m sitting in the gate area in the airport or on a bus, etc.

My wife says not having it has made me a monster. I think that’s her way of saying she liked when I checked my email at red lights instead of making fun of the other drivers.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/posting-from-my-blackberry

sorry

Was that section writen by a YCT grad?

if I didn’t know better that comment would have had me peg popa as a closet feminist.

Come now, that paragraph is so elegant. It is so beautiful. It so perfectly and easily makes the whole cohesive. (It’s a paragraph. The first number is the section; the lowercase letter is subsection; the second number is the paragraph; the uppercase letter is the subparagraph; the lowercase roman numerals are clauses.)

Popa, who knows you better, your CR friends or your RL friends?

RL

A few people here know who I really am. It doesn’t bother me.

Do your IRL friends generally agree with you that you are a horrible rasha, or are they like us and disagree?

We should be treating pot like vicodin

We do treat it precisely like vicodin. It is a controlled substance, and only allowed with a prescription. And you can only write a prescription for a use that the FDA determines has a medical benefit, and the FDA has determined that smoking weed has no medical benefit.

The THC however, does have medical benefit and you can get a prescription for pills that contain THC.

Or, just put it back wherever you stole it from.

(hmm, first post here, username is random characters and numbers)

I came back to shep nachas from my first response.

If anything tobacco would be worse, as long term effects of marijuana are minimal at worst.

The mood and mind altering effects are different also, y’know.

So what changed that so many want exemptions today?

People had children. The children grew up, and then they had children. And now they have children.

Funny how the world works like that.

what, maybe I went to a zilberman school.

This isn’t exactly true. The draft — and exemptions — didn’t start until after independence. (And the original number of exemptions was only 400; it remained under 1,000 for three decades.)

When you say that, you mean they were unlimited and it happened to be that only that many people wanted them. Right?

charlie:

Maybe you’ve said this already, but I’d like you to explicate what you are contending.

Are you saying that a mechitza is not halachically required in a shul?

Or are you saying that it used to not be but now is?

Also, being drunk helps big time.

Maybe there’s a minhag to paint eggs on pesach is so that you’ll know which eggs were laid before yontiff and were already mevatel any chometz stuck to them.

No, it’s only for motzei shabbos.

You should rise the dough in the fridge over shabbos.