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I get nervous, but it’s the audience I’m worried about. I’ll be fine–they’re the ones who have to listen to me.
Very nerve-wracking indeed.
Fakert, I have much more experience with gaining weight. I’m telling you exactly how it’s done.
You can balance the ice cream with a reisman’s brownie bar. Perfectly balanced. Carbs, proteins, fats.
Popa thinks this is naarishkeit. Ice cream works much better than ensure. Also chicago style deep dish pizza.
(I should mention that I never wrote down that recipe, and I google for that thread each time I make a new batch of dough. Each batch is good for 3 of my pizzas, so it lasts 3 weeks of motzei shabbos.)
In some old fashioned Modern Orthodox shuls, Chassidishe shteibels and Rebbishe batei k’nessiois
Hmm, mine is not really any of those three.
It is the people who used to be reformed or conservative Jews and are now modern orthodox that join kiddish clubs for the most part.
No, that isn’t the case.
1. Probably bec they are a socialist state and fund everything else.
2. No.
I wouldn’t want a minyan in my house, bec then I’d need to be on time.
not bad, not bad.
Oh my, kiddush club this week was awesome. We had a celebrity appearance, but I shan’t say who.
Booze: Dalwhinnie 15; Balvenie 14 (Caribbean cask)
Herring: Matjes herring, homemade by popa.
Crackers: Ritz.
Donuts: Yes, but not telling which; too identifying.
Cupcakes: Excellent ones, didn’t see whom by.
When I say here, I mean the gemara in nedarim. Apparently you are saying there are two theories of dina d’malchusah, and neither apply to the gemara’s case, but the ?? only explained why one of them does not apply.
As far as the shutfus theory, I respectfully disagree. I do not think there is a shutfus theory that works in democracy, since nobody in the country views it as a shutfus; everyone views it as struggle to get the most value for themselves, including risk aversion, satisfaction of belonging to a social welfare state, and other satisfactions.
I don’t find that very clear. And again, do you see how difficult it is to read this that there are different theories behind different types of dina d’malchusah, and he never explains why the other theories don’t apply here?
Yes, but don’t you see how then you run into the question I’m asking. Which is, we know there is also usually dina d’malchusa for other stuff besides taxes, and so then that must be for a different reason. But the ?? never explains why that different reason doesn’t apply to taxes. And never even explicates that there are two different theories of dina d’malchusah, and nobody else I am aware of says such a thing either.
And taxes back then were also for public services. That is, for the king’s protection, and for his public works (roads, aqueducts, etc). I don’t see any difference between the taxes then and the taxes now except in the means of collection, and the reason we switched from a tax farming system to a direct taxing system is that now we have the ability to confirm your income through third party reporting.
I have met Rabbi Askotzky personally, and was impressed.
I suppose if Rav Schachter says that, he must think that.
But the most natural reading is that he is talking about dina dmalchusa in general–otherwise, does he think there is one reason that applies only to taxes, and one reason that applies to everything else but does not apply to taxes? (because if there is a reason that applies to everything else, he’d need to distinguish why it also doesn’t apply to taxes or doesn’t also apply to eretz yisroel).
also: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/shas.aspx?mesechta=16&daf=28&format=pdf
sam: why do you think the interpretation of that ran is incorrect? It seems the straightforward reading to me.
popa: For some reason, most people who need to gain weight lose weight over Pesach.
Good idea. Next pesach I’ll just decide that I need to gain weight.
And what if you can only recharge by having fun? That is, if you only do things you enjoy while thinking that you are recharging, it ruins it and it doesn’t work and you don’t recharge?
3.Do you have any suggestions for people who need to gain weight and keep CY?
Yes. Pesach all year.
A teen who goes every Motzei Shabbos told me that everyone is at the bonfires tonight.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/bonfires-on-motzaei-shabbos
Anyone going tonight?
Ok. You might have just asked then about a shul that has no mechitza but they sit separately (see Igros Moshe OC1:44).
Why not just throw the food at the other passengers?
Rationalist:
So are you asking
a) whether we follow Rav Moshe’s psak b’dieved, or
b) whether it is better to daven in a shul without a mechitza or at home?
In either event, I still recommend my alternatives above.
I got the letter in the mail! 5tjt reported it so did some other blogs who shall not be named.
Yes, I was trying to get you to admit to reading those blogs which shall not be named.
Where did you hear about it?
There is an entire section of law called Trademark, whose entire purpose is to enable the existence of brands. They are very valuable to society.
Why can’t you simply go to the shul with the too short mechitza, and then throw garbage and dogs and cats over the mechitza (which should not be hard since it is so short) until there is nobody left on the other side?
Alternatively, you could burn the whole thing down, and then when it’s rebuilt politely ask for a higher mechitza.
Alternatively, you could bring your own mechitza with you, and stand inside it. I’d recommend using a large plastic bag (not see through).
Alternatively, you could come in the middle of the night, and bring a shovel, and dig up the floor several inches until the mechitza which is left is now tall enough.
Alternatively, you could subtly start putting seforim on top of the mechitza, and keep adding one or two siddurim every minute and maybe a gemara sota or two, until by the time you get to yishtabach it will be tall enough.
Alternatively, you could line up the bottles for the kiddush club on top, and then you won’t even need to leave shul for kiddush club and it will be high enough.
So you see, there are so many good alternatives, and I have to choose one of your ridiculous ideas?
I don’t think emunah is the solution to feelings of unhappiness. I think figuring out the source of the unhappiness and changing it is the solution.
You use words like “justice” and PBA says “natural law” but all I see is circular reasoning. If this is justice, or natural law, explain why we it is a good thing to have justice or natural law. And do it in a way that demonstrates why they are not just new words for the impulse for revenge.
Sure, I’ll do that.
So humans are made with certain emotions and certain natural feelings about how the world ought to work.
Like for example, ownership: It is completely natural that people think that there are things which you own and that if somebody takes it from you they are doing something wrong. It doesn’t need to be that way, and indeed philosophers ask why it is that way. And the philosophers invent all sort of apologetic reasons why it is that way–but it is all just trying to describe something which they know exists. And when you read their arguments, you come away feeling very unconvinced–because they are refusing to acknowledge that it is that way just because we naturally feel that way.
People are made that it makes sense to us that a crime needs to be punished, even if the crime wasn’t done to us. And that the way we express that something is wrong is by saying that it has to be punished. And I think that is a good thing.
Funniest story was once when my brother overslept and ended up at the 9:30 shteibel minyan. Halfway through Chazaras Ha’Shatz Mussaf he realizes that there’s barely a minyan in shul. The rov stops the chazzan for a second, goes to a nondescript door in the back and bangs on it going “Nu? Nu?”. Door opens to a room packed with men, kugel, cholent and whiskey.
Oh do I want to join that shul
Sam:
I figure if kavod shabbos is enough to be doche the issur of shaving, it is probably an important enough inyan that I should do it even though I’m lazy. I look pretty awful.