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The fact that Ron Paul is an fool does not make President Obama any less of a fool. Also, Pon Paul is a fringe lunatic with little or no influence in the affairs of state. President Obama is, well, the President. When he utters a narishkeit it has national and international impact.
Reba, you’re not even close. I’m pushing 70
Frankfort is a major European hub. My only trip through Frankfort gave me an opportunity to say something I’ve always wanted to say. I was supposed to connect in Frankfort to a flight to an African country but I couldn’t board the flight because I was missing a consular document. I returned to the Lufthansa ticket counter to book a flight to Zurich where I could get straightened out. I explained to the girl behind the counter that I could not board the flight to Africa because, “my papers were not in order’.
“The evil of two lessers.”
Who said that?
Oderint dum metuant (Let them hate as long as they fear)
Okay, here’s a hypothetical. Let’s say a single frum young man and an unmarried frum young lady are working in the same office. Their relationship is completely above board and their conversation has ben restricted to “Good morning” and work issues only. Now, as we know, nothing propinks like propinquity and the two young people begin to be attracted to each other. Should the boy:
A. Ask the girl out on a date?
B. Ask a shadchan or other third party to redt the shidduch?
C. Leave the firm?
D. Do nothing?
Should the girl:
A. Ask a shadchan or other third party to redt the shidduch?
B. Leave the firm?
C. Do nothing?
Rikki2: Personal horror stories or hearsay horror stories? The fact is that millions of women (and thousands of frum women) work in offices everyday with dignity and safety. Saying “good morning” to your boss or coworkers and being pleasant in general will not get you or anyone else in trouble. No one is suggesting (CVS) that a women working in an office needs to go out for drinks with the guys after work, but a pleasent resonse to “how ’bout them Red Sox” doesn’t strike me as the first step on the road to degredation.
The weirdness is not in the concept but in the degree. If you are in a position of trust with this girl, as you were as a councelor in camp, it is not unreasonable that she may have felt close enough to you to want to unburden herself to you. On the other hand persistent, unencouraged close familiarity can verge on stalking. That’s where it starts to get weird.
Darmstadt (Germany)
is **Chaim Shlomo** your son or the other kid?
Contrary to what some would have us believe, workers in an office, particularly a professional office, require a certain degree of collegiality to be productive. A so called “professional atitude” isn’t professional at all. It is simply cold and vaguely offensive and it negatively impacts the business of the company. If Ms. Mentch finds such collegiality uncomfortable, perhaps she should avoid the working world.
Clarke’s Three Laws:
1.When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2.The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
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3.Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Charlie, just because a phenomenon cannot be detected empirically does not necessarily mean that it does not exist, dark matter for instance. The real issue re sheidim to my mind is, if they cannot be detected and cannot be definitively shown to have an effect in real world, who cares if they exist or not.
Also re whistling. Both the Mechaber and the Mishna Berurah hold that whistling is not only muttar, but muttar on shabbos.
Wow! All that and college too so they can support their husbands in learning. You know, maybe part of the “shidduch crisis” is that the boys want to be smarter than their wives and there are too few girls that they are smarter than.
Hard work and perseverance pay off in the long run, but laziness pays off right now.
Better vote for the strongest pro-United States candidate
Darfur
“…Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!…Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
Yazoo City
Being milked is also a relief for the cow. Should she thank the farmer?
P.S. Dairy cows have to be milked twice a day, every day, rain or shine, even if the farmer has to spill it on the ground as he does on Shabbos.
Toi, I prefer the English equivalent, “You know what”.
How old a son are we talking about?
The Colosseum was built mostly with funds and Jewish slaves captured in the First Jewish War. I think that it is appropriate to rais kria upon seeing it and the Arch of Titus.
Hey Mod. I see that you deleted one of my posts. This subject touches on an area that some may feel is too sensitive for the CR. If it has to be edited so heavily that the shakla v’tarya is lost, maybe you’d do better to just shut it down.
Nah, it’s from women wearing long sheitelach.
Okay, here is a hashkafa question.
Does one who is orthoprax (I believe that’s the word used to describe the folks you are talking about)receive any sachar for the mitzvos that he is performing, albeit by rote and not by conviction?
Oh, Abe, I answered the wrong question. …because he’d have to be a “midhusband”.
Abe, that’s why I said “oddly”. Maybe it’s because of the inordinate respect that Jewish women have for doctors. (Que Jewish mother/doctor jokes)
Mod, no computer model in use today would predict that a hurricane could ignore the steering winds aloft and hang a hard left. Sure, the unpredictable sometimes happens but as Shlomo Hamelech says in Koheles, “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.” (at least I think he says that.)
G-d has been apparently angry with Haiti for a long time, based the wreck the country has made of itself since 1819.
All models show Katia’s track to be far out in the Atlantic and well away from the East Coast of the U.S. Barring what would have to be a neis niglah, Katia will not bother us.
PBA, from the reports in the local papers it appears that all of the guns used in this past weekend’s mayhem were posessed illegally as all of the shooters were additionally charged with illegal posession.
PY, no lomdus in the world could conclude that owning a gun, per se, is illegal.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a world wide increase in hooliganism which seems to be the proximate cause of the violence. I’ll leave to Charlie Hall and others to debate the ultimate cause.
I believe that the origin of applying scents to people (perfume, cologne, incense, etc.)was to cover the smell of unwashed human bodies, both male and female. During the middle ages in Europe, bathing was considered evil. However, so was the smell, so perfume was applied to the person and his or her clothes.
Harder in what respect? The physical and time demands on a ben Torah baal habayis are unquestionably more severe than those on a kolel avreich. On the other hand, the baal habayis usually enjoys more creature comforts than the avreich (unless he has a rich father-in-law). In terms of mental effort, what we call “skull sweat”, I would say they are about equal for serious practicioners of both disciplines.
Golden Mom, are you serious, or are you implying that you wouldn’t allow such a shidduch for your son?
Iryan Jaya. Yeah, I know it ends in “A” but how many of you know where it is?
If you are so often moved to tears and sadness over what you yourself describe as trifles, maybe you should seek professional advice. I am not being mean or sarcastic. There is a difference between being “sensitive” and being clinical depressed.
I thought that physical therapy was a medical procedure. The question is the same as, “Is it appropriate for a Beis Yaakov girl to go to a dentist or an endocrinologist?”
I’ve aske this before: Why cant the posts be listed in reverse order, I.E. the latest post first?
Why would be different from studying stam nursing or medicine?
BTW R’ Moshe, ZTL, never used the term, “cholov stam”. He was specifically writing about commercially available milk which he called “cholov hacomapnies”.
Havre de Grace, MD
Perhaps the RBSO could be the shadchan
How old are your brother and your friend? Are they old enough to be in the “shidduch parsha”? If they are, I suggest that you mind your own business. It’s a good bet that your parents or grandparents met the same way. I.E. socially. (not texting, of course).
Yente isn’t such a bad name, I no a derivative of it that is not so nice, Yachne.
And if you were wearing the levush, you could have gone to the Rebbe’s tish. An important lesson learned you have , young padawan. Appearances count. If youlook like you belong, you do belong.
The key issue is that a sheilah was asked and opgepaskend. Notwithstanding the religious aspect, if you respect an individual enough to seriously ask for his (or her) advice, it would be a slap in that induvidual’s face to not follow it.
Mustangrider and Kako. The difference is between responding personally and responding professionally. Responding because your officially dispatched is metzuveh v’oseh because membership in the organization or employment in a business requires that one respond to dispatch. Being asked personally is eino metzuveh.
Mod, on these long threads is there any way to display the latest comments first instead of last?