Shimon Nodel

Swiss airlines is also very good. Free beer as much as you want

You think wrong

Talk to a professional (a talmid chacham/psychologist, someone who is both), not the coffee room

Chabad. Org perhaps?

My father was in mesivta in the 70s. He would frequently be told off by the rosh yeshiva fir shmuzing with beis medrash bachurim. I actually understand that very well. That isn’t shtoltz, it’s a boundary that has a clear purpose. Not a discussion for this thread, but I don’t think the message has any impact at all in this generation of no boundaries

Sam Klein, what is ‘unbelievable’? My mother also taught me numbers when I was three. If you’re just learning addition and subtraction now, I wouldn’t recommend starting with meaningless gematrios.

1. Not you
2. Not me
3. Someone who is a direct descendant of Shlomo Hamelech, so that rules out most of beis Dovid
4. Someone with a sword, but that’s just my assumption

That’s it, I’m not misyaches to your number 5 suggestion

It’s a remnant holdover from prewar Europe, when bnei Torah were routinely scorned and belittled. Things take a very long time to adjust in our culture

@simcha613, the Mishna Berura does NOT say that. He says “וכן ראוי לעשות” and it’s going on the words of the Rema “וישן ומתוך שישן וכולהו” He’s saying for those who wish not to drink so much, then it’s proper for those people to sleep a little. No where does he say this is the mitzva min hamuvchar. The Rema say “ein tzarich” meaning it’s a way out for those that can’t.
Gedolim do get drunk on Purim, but they have complete shlita that not everyone notices.

Aaq, I don’t understand your comparison. Are you saying that drinking is a סרך איסור כרת?

I thought all the remaining Jews in Yemen left since the civil war

@goldersgreen, הן

The solution for older single guys? Be עז כנמר and go up to any girl you think you may like and ask her out. Just do. Just do. If the avos hakedoshim were hanging around a well to find their wife, I can’t think of anything more ‘inappropriate’ than that. You too, just do. חטוף!

I don’t think Avira quite understood my message.

Gadol, I hear under the Manhattan Bridge just past Chinatown has a very unique flavor. Also the water just off Rikers supposedly is something really special

Ujm, I’m somewhat well versed in psychotherapy. I think I would be an ideal candidate to help you full time

Whenever my wife tells me to stop doing something, I shout ‘but it’s not illegal!’

Well this theory would only make sense if the entire world was as flat and smooth as kitchen countertop. Think about it

Why all the paranoia and self righteous indignation? I never said anything anti chareidi or even brought up the subject. I myself identify with chareidim.
I just thought that the OP’s post seemed to be focused only on chareidi related infrastructure, and it appears to be oblivious to everything else. Chareidim are not 20% of the country, it is about 12% so it’s a little weird to be expecting all this

You seem to be under the illusion that only chareidim exist

Here’s what you do: use as much plastic as you possibly can. Get as much plastic residue and microplastics into your body and your young children. I mean you don’t want your kids having healthy brains because they might start to think and possibly be concerned about the air they breathe and the food and water they consume. No, it’s much safer to just fill them up with plastic while you still can and so they won’t have healthy minds capable of rational thought. What could possibly be wrong with plastic? I mean, it just goes to a landfill and stays there right? It definitely doesn’t reenter our water and food supplies, and certainly doesn’t break into microplastics and fill the air. That would be insane!

Go show those libs!

I figured that the kedusha of the magical tzibur is passed in through the mother or at least from one parent. There seems to be chalukei dei’os.

Jokes aside, Voldemort is actually supposed to be a mashal for Hitler yimach shemo

If people improved their reading comprehension, then maybe they would have noticed that specifically excluded the holocaust from my comparisons. Ever since Napoleon liberated Europe, Jews experienced a significant increase in freedoms and civil rights. Of course everything is from Hashem. Since the beginning of the 1800s, the Ashkenazi population increased more than tenfold. Obviously it is an incredible nes, but you can’t ignore that in Muslim lands, Jewish population has stagnated for centuries and only started to pick up the pace after being under European colonial powers.

It’s definitely true that European atrocities were far greater in scale. But those were individual occurrences that happened periodically. Overall, Jews were able to live under lawful and effective governments. Muslims however made life so fraught with danger and chaos that it was considered a normal routine, and the tragedies were not as distinguishable. Life was generally much more unstable, and prosperity was almost nonexistent.

Incredible how much choshech there can be when information is so readily available. When did people become so averse to education?

The Rambam wrote that Jews under the Muslims were persecuted far more than any other civilization in history. He lived well into the era of crusades and Christian persecution.

Any historian can tell you as a matter of fact that up until the holocaust, Jews in Europe were treated exceedingly better than those in Muslims lands. You don’t learn about Muslim persecution of Jews because it was so constant and brutal, that it wasn’t limited to specific events. The corruption, extortion, injustices, the stifling of all cultural and economic development, and the frequent slaughters and executions were a normal and constant routine. However, in European countries (even in the more backwards regions of Eastern Europe) the severe persecutions were limited to sporadic events. Jews did have the benefit of lawful governments and relative stability.
This is precisely what enabled the Ashkenazi population to explode from barely more than 1 million in the year 1800 to over 13 million in the 1930s. Sfardim increased from less than 1 million in 1800 to about 5 million in the 1930s (and that’s already many decades after being under European influence and colonization).

Learning history from your high school rebbe doesn’t always work out. (Unless you have a history class from Rabbi Langer.) But reading actual books discussing history will maybe help you get rid of the psoles

In sefer chofetz chaim, it specifically says that it’s mutar to vent so long as your intention is not to talk negatively about another Jew (yes, even if he/she is terrible and deserves it), and that the listener knows your intention is to vent and won’t be mekabel