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  • in reply to: Bar Mitzvah date? #938912
    popa_bar_abba
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    Bar mitzva is too early to be dating. Even if there is a shidduch crisis.

    in reply to: Rambam and Free Market Economics #943235
    popa_bar_abba
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    That is sort of condescending of you; but I’ll respond anyway. The rambam says Hashem will be mezache to them, like He is zoche to the kohanim and leviim–which are communal obligations.

    in reply to: Rambam and Free Market Economics #943232
    popa_bar_abba
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    Poppa, that quote tells us that anyone make aspire to kesser Torah, and trust in the havtocho of divine providence. It does not indicate that an individual or community should sit and learn with a hand stuck out.

    Quite the contrary, it is precisely saying the community must support them, as well as relieve them of sharing all societal burdens, like shevet levi.

    GAW: I disagree with you about the reading. Parak me’al tzavaro means they decide not to engage in productive activity, and rely on the community like the leviim, as I noted.

    in reply to: On a plane #939024
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    no, it was 1230 AM

    in reply to: Rambam and Free Market Economics #943223
    popa_bar_abba
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    The chareidim are the ones who follow the rambam. The rambam writes at the end of hilchos shmita v’yovel:

    ???? ?? ??? ??? ????? ??? ????? ??????? ?? ????? ???? ?????? ????? ?? ?”? ????? ??????? ????? ?????? ??????? ??????? ?????, ????? ???? ?????? ????? ?????? ??????. ????? ?????? ????? ?????. ?? ?????? ????? ???? ?????, ??? ??????, ??? ????? ????? ??? ????. ??? ?? ??? ??? ????? ??? ?”? ????. ???? ???? ??? ???? ??? ????? ??? ???? ??????. ??? ??? ??? ????, ??? ?? ??? ???? ??? ??? ????? ??? ???? ???? ???? ?????? ???? ????? ????? ???? ?”? ????? ??????? ???? ?? ?”? ???? ??? ??? ????? ?????? ???? ??? ????? ??? ???????? ????? ??? ???? ??? ????, ??? ?? ????? ??? ?????, ????? ?”? ???? ?????? ????? ??????? ??????. ????? ?? ???”? ??? ?????? ?? ??? ???? ?????? ?????. ??? ??? ?”? ???? ?”? ??? ???? ????? ??? ????? ????

    So don’t throw your rambams at me, because I throw it right back.

    in reply to: On a plane #939022
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    why is everyone sleeping when I’m awake?

    in reply to: Is Popa Cynical? #938158
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    oh yes indeed

    in reply to: I can't believe its not Chometz! #939065
    popa_bar_abba
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    why is everyone sleeping when I’m awake?

    in reply to: Rambam and Free Market Economics #943221
    popa_bar_abba
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    that people are obligated to choose austerity and hard work

    hmm. How about sequester and hard work?

    in reply to: I can't believe its not Chometz! #939061
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    matza. Not dairy, but can become gebrochts

    in reply to: Is Popa Cynical? #938156
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    yeah, this is sort of what I expected. My posting is not cynical. I’m still self-aware.

    But today, I said something really cynical. The flight attendant announced that if you return someone’s smile today, you’ll have Irish luck. So I said to the person next to me “you mean like I’ll have a civil war rip my country apart for hundreds of years?”

    in reply to: Rabbi Chaim Druckman #938489
    popa_bar_abba
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    I don’t need the dati; I don’t need the MO; I don’t need any of them.

    If you want to be part of the community, you ought to clean out your house. I can’t trust any of you when you tolerate the clowns in your midst.

    in reply to: On a plane #939019
    popa_bar_abba
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    on a plane!!!!!

    somewhere I guess above alaska, because the inflight wifi doesn’t work above canada because it’s a third world country.

    I think I spotted sharp, or maybe that was someone’s cat in a bag under a seat.

    in reply to: Going To The Dentist #937882
    popa_bar_abba
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    nisht brew kit. Brew kit is for plebians.

    We assembled the whole thing from scratch. Not very hard.

    You need:

    Mashtun. Take picnic cooler, install a washing machine hose on the inside of the spigot, and a valve on the outside of the spigot.

    Kettle. Use a 10 gallon pot.

    Buckets. At a homebrew store.

    And there you are.

    in reply to: Ways Not To Gain Weight On Pesach #938031
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Eat only goose shmaltz. The modernishe chicken shmaltz is what makes your fat.

    Think about it. Geese can fly; chickens just waddle around.

    in reply to: Going To The Dentist #937879
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Yes, rabbidr, I discussed this notion with aforementioned dentist, and I predicted correctly that they can tell both if you never brush, as well as if you only brush when coming to the dentist.

    in reply to: Kol Mekadesh Sh'vii #939865
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    I actually do sing different words in hatikva, based on a recording I heard from pre-war europe in yad v’shem.

    They sang:

    ??? ?? ???? ????????

    ????? ??????

    ???? ???? ???????

    ???? ???? ??? ?? ???

    But, the only part of that I like better is that the tikva was “lashuv l’eretz avoseinu”, I don’t really have a preference whether it was a tikva noshana v. shnot alpaim. So I sing shnot alpaim and yerushalaim, but eretz avoseinu.

    in reply to: Is Popa Cynical? #938149
    popa_bar_abba
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    DY: Why yes, that thread was.

    Syag: It’s ok. I don’t believe you think I’m cynical anyway. I think you don’t like my posts for other reasons, but, I think that it unfortunately is usually a misunderstanding between the twain of us.

    in reply to: Is Popa Cynical? #938144
    popa_bar_abba
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    syag: post it right here. It’s open season on popa in this thread.

    in reply to: Kosher L'Pesach Cigarettes: Is Something Wrong With This? #938065
    popa_bar_abba
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    need seminary: you can make a list that looks like that for most foods.

    in reply to: What to pack and what not� #937804
    popa_bar_abba
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    Farock: It is much worse than that; she didn’t say it at all–Tina Fey said it on SNL while impersonating her.

    The source for Tina Fey was an interview were Palin noted that you can see Russia from one of the far islands that are part of Alaska.

    in reply to: What Is Your Ideal Endgame In Israel? #937986
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    So your ideal endgame is to give the country to Turkey. Fascinating.

    in reply to: What Is Your Ideal Endgame In Israel? #937983
    popa_bar_abba
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    Well mdd, you are incorrect about that, if we assume that not being forced into a shmad army is better even when you also aren’t paid.

    in reply to: Dating in Seminary? #937840
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Ridiculous. Yeshivas let it; why won’t the seminaries.

    in reply to: What Is Your Ideal Endgame In Israel? #937980
    popa_bar_abba
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    akuperma: you may be correct about the rest of it, but it is way wishful thinking that the chareidim or anyone can end the war with the arabs except by dismantling the state and agreeing to live in the dar al islam.

    Notwithstanding media coverage to the contrary, the reasons for the conflict have nothing to do with settlements or with land captured in the six day war. The proof of this is the six day war, ????.

    in reply to: Going To The Dentist #937868
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    sharp: You are not interpreting the post correctly.

    in reply to: Come with popa #937542
    popa_bar_abba
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    a toque is a ski cap, in canada

    in reply to: What to pack and what not� #937790
    popa_bar_abba
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    pack your teddy bear in case you get lonely

    No need. They have real ones.

    in reply to: What to pack and what not� #937789
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    I will help.

    In snowboard bag:

    Snowboard.

    Binding screws

    Binding tool

    Helmet

    goggles

    head/face cover

    coat

    snowpants

    spare socks

    boots to wear while walking

    bread

    salami

    condiments

    cheese

    peanut butter

    snacks

    contact lenses stuff

    frying pan

    sweatpants

    extra touke

    In backpack

    boots

    bindings

    In other backpack

    computers

    In carry on

    teffilin

    GPS

    phone chargers

    wear

    touke

    base layer shirt

    tzitzis

    fleece

    all-purpose-pants (stained khakis that are used for every purpose)

    snowboard socks

    crocs

    in reply to: Kol Mekadesh Sh'vii #939862
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Hmmm, we have more subtle differences.

    One is by ????. My father stretches out the word azor and then bunches ??????? ?????? together, while we don’t. Our way is better.

    Another is the last two lines, where there really is an extra line. We solve this by simply repeating the last notes. But my father just bunches both phrases into one line of notes.

    Also, I’m feeling very attacked that someone else was m’chavein to our minhag. It makes me feel less unique.

    in reply to: Is Popa Cynical? #938137
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    “she is cynical”?!?

    I know, I had the same reaction. Why did he think I am cynical?

    I should add that it is appropriate to link to cynical or non-cynical posts when you state your opinion.

    in reply to: Kol Mekadesh Sh'vii #939858
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    My family also has such machloksim, but we just sing each our own.

    Post what the shailos are.

    (We have a really good seder machlokes. See, some of the kids hagados from school have the anthem from Ossoi Medinah in the back, so some of us sing that. Then, the others respond by drowning them out with B’shilton Hakofrim.)

    in reply to: Bein Hazmanim #937698
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Maybe they think there is no frumkeit in Haifa and therefore it is a good place to live.

    in reply to: Yeshivas To Date From #937614
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    No yeshiva guy would date a girl from Seminar. Try guys from Brooklyn college.

    in reply to: Come with popa #937539
    popa_bar_abba
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    I’ll wear a touke.

    in reply to: Come with popa #937537
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    midwest: We made lethal beans for shabbos. Stop on by.

    in reply to: Going To The Dentist #937864
    popa_bar_abba
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    in reply to: Co-op Issue #936834
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Speak to a lawyer. I wonder if you can withhold your monthly maintenance payments and put them in escrow until they fix it.

    in reply to: Going To The Dentist #937860
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    you took the words right out of my mouth

    Sorry, was aiming for teeth. Open up again and I’ll try with the pliers.

    in reply to: Popa Critiques Troll Posts #942862
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    It’s too late for me not to read this thread.

    But your taking the wind out of my sails was better than mine out of yours.

    Good job.

    Ah, this is much better. In this post, you are pretending to not be a troll–but you are cleverly masking it in a compliment, which takes down the target’s guard and they bite the bait.

    Well done. Take this one to the big leagues.

    in reply to: Popa Critiques Troll Posts #942861
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    You stole my line

    Again, first the positives.

    Like DY’s, this has the benefit of being short and concise. I don’t mean to imply that short concise posts are better, since it is only one style and sometimes an idea really calls for a long intricate post. But, in the beginning of a thread a short concise one is often really good.

    However, this style is really very hard to pull off, since it is tricky to make it also clear enough that people will understand it. Simply posting “you stole my line” will usually leave people scratching their head.

    Keep at it! I know you can!

    in reply to: Popa Critiques Troll Posts #942858
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    DaasYochid

    a singular mind

    Too late…

    Thank you DY for contributing the first submission.

    First I will talk about the positives. When your troll post is a response, it is very beneficial if you are the first response on the thread, since you can then set the route the discussion will take. A good example of this can be found here: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/here-we-go-again-1

    Also, I like how you very gently take all the air out of your target’s sails, by just simply and bluntly stating that her object is unattainable.

    So all in all, I’d say this is an excellent first attempt; you should be proud of yourself.

    Now let’s discuss how to make it even better than it already is.

    It isn’t immediately clear what you mean when you say it is “too late.” Perhaps you mean that it is too late for anyone to post any troll posts for them to be critiqued, but you don’t explain why that would be so.

    So, this is a good path, and I’d like you to keep on the same idea. See how you can make it clearer what you mean. I look forward to reviewing your edits.

    in reply to: Going To The Dentist #937857
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    WIY: I don’t provide commentary for my posts. You either understand them or don’t.

    in reply to: The Pope #965540
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    lol

    You’re getting better, getting better. I could give you some lessons, but I think I should charge you.

    Isn’t that a wonderful idea? I should give trolling lessons. How much would you be willing to pay?

    in reply to: To the Parents of Teens #939335
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    So, first poster has an abusive parent. Second poster responds that his parent is even more abusive.

    Sammy: your experience is also illegitimate, because some people have parents who lock them in cages.

    talmud: I’m drunk; this happens every now and again.

    in reply to: The Pope #965535
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    But for my christian brothers and sisters, I am really proud for them

    What narishkeit is this? They are not your brothers and sisters. If you give that title to every human, what title do you save for your family, the am hanivchar, the bnei yisroel?

    in reply to: Kosher L'Pesach Cigarettes: Is Something Wrong With This? #938055
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    the little I know:

    That is apikorsus.

    in reply to: The Pope #965534
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    I am the popa.

    Also, you are not a non-jew; you are a troll. There is a difference. The difference that you are a frum jew who thinks it is funny to troll us. And it might be funny; but you have to say some funny things, not just be a retard.

    in reply to: Bein Hazmanim #937696
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    I complain that Sheep without a spleen and Bar Shattya are not online yet.

    in reply to: Dating and car services #937719
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    This is what happens when parents are retarded babies and don’t teach their teenage kids to drive. The sons graduate high school, go off to yeshiva, go to Israel, come back and start dating and don’t know how to drive.

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