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2. Select tosfos
3. Search for ??????, and for ????
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This is the stupidest question that has ever been asked on this site.
For the record, there is at least one very choshuv posek (and likely more) who held smoking is muttar. I am referring to Dayan Fisher, who is reputed to have responded to the question by taking a long drag and exhaling “muttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar”.
For the record: It will be cheaper for you to live at home and get a car, than to live in NY.
Frankly, I know you haven’t told us why you don’t want to stay in Chicago, but I’m thinking you really should rethink it. Striking out on your own is really hard at your age, and you really need to be thinking longer term–not just scraping by.
HorsePower is a measurement of how many pounds of pressure the engine produces. I think you get it by multiplying the amount of pressure each cylinder produces by the number of cylinders. I think it tells you very little.
Torque is a measurement of circular pressure, that is, how much pressure is exerted in a turning fashion. This is calculated in pound-feet, and is calculated by multiplying the pounds of pressure by the distance from the axis.
To make that clearer: Imagine you have a rod that you wish to turn. You are going to turn it by exerting pressure on another rod which is attached to it perpendicularly. (shaped like a T, you are moving the top of the T to spin the upright). The amount of pressure you exert on the top of the T will have more effect if you hold it farther away from the shaft, because of a lever effect. This is why you are able to remove your lug nuts with a wrench but not with a screw driver.
Therefore, to calculate how much pressure is being exerted in a circular way on the shaft, you need to multiply the pressure by the distance from the shaft–“pound-feet”.
In a car, the pressure is exerted by the pistons on the drive shaft. You need to multiply the pressure exerted by the distance from the center of the drive shaft to arrive at torque.
Thus, torque is an important number for measuring how much weight your car will be able to move, though not really for how fast it will do so.
I have no idea anything about pickup. Pickup can usually be measured by numbers the car companies report as 0-60.
Do blue shirts cost less than white shirts?
Yes, because it is easier to find sales.
I think moshiach will be chareidi, but will arrive wearing a srugi, just to test our ahavas yisroel.
Or maybe to test our convictions.
Only magic ones.
I hadn’t the slightest idea what the point was. And now even less so.
Ah, back to that? The dati are just as bigoted as the chareidim, what with your mechitzos during davening, not counting women for a minyan, not counting women as witnesses or dayanim, grooms buying brides for silver, etc.
To the outside observer, we’re all just the same on that score. At least we believe in what we’re doing, so we have a good justification for it. You guys claim it is really bigotry but the Torah makes you do it (for now)–you’re the much realer bigots.
in EY: You are aware, that the chazon ish was speaking to people who have a much different dating system than do we. It is obvious that nobody is going to feel chemistry after 2 dates, which is when the community he is speaking to is thinking of getting engaged.
And correspondingly, the absence of chemistry after 2 dates does not signal anything wrong with the relationship, so the only question then is if you are willing to jump in knowing very little–which the chazon ish’s community was accustomed to.
I think it is very different in our system (depending on the who “our” is), where we date for a more extended period, and the expectation is that you are developing a relationship before the engagement. In such a system, I personally think the absence of chemistry is notable, since I would expect it to develop.
I personally once dated someone for an extended period of time, and ultimately broke up for this reason, and I don’t regret it at all.
But not all situations are the same. Sometimes it can just be that the couple doesn’t really know how to act towards each other in a way that will develop a relationship, and that is why there is nothing. So I’m not comfortable giving advice on this.
Taxes pay for services. If you want clean water, sewage and garbage removal, roads, etc. you need to pay them.
This is not relevant to this thread, but please don’t perpetuate that myth.
The majority of tax revenue does not go for public expenditures; it goes for redistribution of wealth. The main purpose of taxation is to reallocate resources from the more productive people to the less productive people.
Also, just for the record: We shall outlive you.
This is interesting.
First I was wondering how it could be not lishma, since, did he make the matza intending it for purim? No, he intended it to be sold to someone to eat on pesach while doing the mitzva. So that seems lishmah.
But the teretz is, that he expected them to fall for his extortion, so he was intending it to be thrown out after he told them which one it was.
You should quit being a nurse, if you think it is ok to let a woman die on the floor in front of you while the 911 dispatcher is begging you to do CPR, because you have decided her life is no longer worth living.
I need more explanation. I think you’re saying more than just that you don’t think the NASI style advertising is effective.
commonsense: That may or may not be true, but usually people who don’t want CPR just sign a DNR order. The home still did call the EMT’s, who doubtless did CPR. And the nurse could not have known that those were her wishes.
syag: Of course, that is precisely what I am saying: that she was comfortable allowing someone old to die, and didn’t care enough even to ask a passerby to do CPR. Because she thinks old people should just die.
I don’t think she chose her job over what she thought was right–that is what artchill is claiming. I think she did exactly what she despicably thought was right.
And that is precisely the attitude that I am criticizing. She should be ashamed of herself, and America should be ashamed of itself for allowing such attitudes to develop.
Hey Gumball, thanks for dropping in.
artchill: I don’t exactly know what issue you are addressing. The question I am addressing is whether the nurse is a callous and despicable person, for not caring that her following company policy was allowing a person to die in front of her.
My answer is “yes”, and I don’t think that the corporate policy is at all relevant to this question. I don’t know why you think corporate policy is relevant to that question, or if you are perhaps answering a different question, hence my explanation.
syag: I concur that many Americans including the daughter do not value human life. That is precisely what I am reacting to.
(gets married)
(no longer cares about the girls left behind still single)
Well yes, I think YU will come with us to yeshivish, and will cease to be the same institution at all.
artchill: Are you serious? You think you can just excuse any behavior with “I am an employee and these are the rules”?
It was bad enough when the forced conscripts of the Nazi’s said that. You would extend it to any employee?
Any employee would break the rules if it was something they cared about. If it was their nephew being assaulted 300 feet away, you better believe they would go save him. If it was this nurse’s mother, you better believe she’d have done CPR or at least tried to find someone to do it.
It is so sad how little people value human life.
So exactly what is your point?
I see you saying that nobody except a metzuyan should learn for 10 years. That I don’t agree with.
I also see you saying that only a metzuyan should ask for support for the years he wants to learn. That I also don’t agree with.
I also see you saying that parents should know their children. That I agree with, but still don’t agree with the application here.
I also see you saying that support should be shared between the parents if they are able. That part is worth discussing.
Don’t go to YU. They aren’t going to exist in 20 years. It’s going to be just YCT and Yeshivish.
mazel tov to a certain CR member. I’ll let him post it himself.
I once had a roommate who made chumus. I liked Sabra better. (he doesn’t read yeshiva world)
My homemade lox was much better. And beer. And we’ll see about my pickles.
oomis: that is a good point. Leah did always feel second best, and Yaakov did always love Rochel more, and loved her kids more as well.
True, Yaakov had feelings for Ruchel before they got married, but (as the mod nicely pointed out) that doesn’t mean that that must always be the case; feelings can and often do develop later on.
Of course, I’m not claiming that if you don’t fall in love before marriage, that you will certainly have a bad marriage. I’m just responding to those who claim that any love before marriage is necessarily fake and meaningless.
I fully believe that the level of love achieved after marriage cannot be achieved before marriage. But I think that the feelings that people do feel before marriage are real and valuable. And the absence of such feelings might ask a good question about your compatibility in a situation when you’ve been dating long enough that you’d expect such feelings to have developed.
I think I’ll easily admit that when I go on vacation, I dress so that it is not obvious that I am frum, and I deliberately do so.
Mobe’s proof was actually inapposite, since when I snowboard, I dress in normal snowboarding gear, which necessarily means I don’t look frum. But I’ll concede it anyway.
I do so probably for several reasons. The main one is that I want to be friends with the people I meet on the hiking trail, or on the ski lift, and I don’t want them to focus on my differences.
At the same time, in my regular life, I am in a non-jewish environment, and I deliberately dress like a yeshiva guy, and deliberately do stand out as different.
And I’ll even readily concede that we are supposed to dress and look different, and are supposed to stand out as different–because we are different, and we want to remember that and want our relationships with others to take that into consideration. So perhaps there is a good tayna on me for what I do on vacation.
And that’s what I have to say about this topic. And if you show up at the hostel looking like a yeshiva guy, I will be thrilled.
Popas posts are all important. How else would we know when he’s going skiing? I for one would love to join, but I joined the coffee room a bit too late for that. I think.
Not too late. You are welcome to join. I will be staying at the Alyeska Hostel from Mar 17 to Mar 21. It is 20 bucks for a bunk, and like 50 bucks for a lift ticket.
????–??? ??????? ????? ?????? (I’m so glad my wife doesn’t read this.)
Good luck with that one.
I have a riddle:
Q. Where does the Torah lie?
A. It says ????? ???? ?? ???, and they weren’t married yet.
yes but he also married Leah and that seemed to have worked out for them.
I don’t even count it as Judaism. But I would gladly recommend a YCT grad for a pulpit in a conservative temple. Or an “orthodox” one without a mechitza like the one in Denver that has a YCT grad.
Looks good to me. I know the people who set it up personally, and I trust them.