🍫Syag Lchochma

burnt steak- I think he was trying to be funny

Thank you all, and mazel tov jf! That should be very exciting, I wish you much hatzlocho!

Mazel tov on your cousin’s engagement nlnsh, and more simchas all around!!!!

Just heard this on a tape. After she told him she felt so elevated/inspired, the Rav told her that that is nice but what she did had absolutely no halachik value, and had she been a man, it would even have been a lav.

when you offer to pay for it.

but self-righteous condemnation of the way that someone else chooses to enjoy their yom tov

That’s very funny

this isn’t a movie sequel, it’s someones life.

Write or wrong, we are still thinking of you. Hope you can see Hashem’s Hand guiding you all.

I am with achosid on this one. Some people have legit reasons for going to a hotel for Pesach but I really feel it is the wrong thing to do. Besides the fact that cleaning for chametz is supposed to be a process equal to ridding ourselves of our yetzer hora, and how we clean is sometimes very telling about how we go about ‘cleaning’ ourselves.

I also see being in the hotel to be so indulgent and the activities are so contrary to what we should be spending our time on.

This year I don’t feel like I am coping, life has been a bit difficult lately and I believe Pesach will magnify my losses of family members. I would love to pick up and go anywhere for Pesach, but I would hope I could stay true to my beliefs if push came to shove. Instead I am wishing for an empty house in a new town where it still ‘just us’ but with a fresh feel. (a woman can dream, can’t she?)

Gamanit – stam selling miles, or making it into a business with advertising?

but in some communities, machine matzah is not accepted at all.

that doesn’t mean it has anything to do with halacha. there are a lot of things that go on “in some communities” that can be done without, if halacha allows it, this can be added to the list.

Mazel Tov to my son on his bar mitzvah!!

By the way, someone (A mod or an admin I guess) messed with my signature. Thank you boss! How Nice of You!.

You don’t have a signature, are you talking about the subtitle? They didn’t “mess with it”, they established it. It’s actually a privilege.

rationalfrummie – I wouldn’t take that post(er) too seriously

Haleivi – I got a different impression of what the OP was asking. I had a ben bayis who was a solid BT. Solid, meaning secure in frumkeit. He was getting married to someone who was also a BT and secure in her frumkeit. The boy and I were discussing just how much detail is important to discuss. The kallah knows he had a secular past but she may not know just what type of recreation he was into. She may assume he had taken drugs, but maybe she would never have assumed heroin use. It isn’t that the spouse doesn’t know that there were indiscretions, it is about providing detail of the amount and nature.

Along those same lines I had a friend who was from a BY family but was very promiscuous in high school. She married a very solid straight boy from a very good yeshiva many years later. I asked her if he knew about her ‘past’. She told me that he knew she was sent away for high school and what that implied but not the details. It wouldn’t be right for him to think it never happened, but he may not need to know the specifics.

I am assuming you know how to read yet you don’t seem to be retaining much of this thread. I never said I was against it. I JOINED a conversation about showing videos to kids and about giving kids inaccurate information WITHOUT rabbinical approval. Perhaps you hold stock in the film or are married to the writer, I don’t know, but you are way off and rude. Drank too much perhaps?

nice try but that obviously makes no sense since I stated above;

“I haven’t seen the lester movie so I cannot bring examples from there”

“I never knew he ran it past his rabbonim, I just heard that someone said they thought he did. And I don’t have a problem with it if he indeed did so.”

“I will say, however, that I had no intention of implying this was a hashkofa I expect others to follow, it is just my mehalach.”

If you really were “just curious”, you would have found a lot less obnoxious ways of saying so.

Goq – no slurpees, that would have involved leaving the house and it was way to darn cold for that.

Smile E. Face – your welcome, and I sure hope he shared.

I wasn’t making you any, poppa. I don’t give shalach manos to people who go to kiddush clubs. Or to people who serve in the IDF. Or to people who learn in kollel. Or to people who have a relative who takes medication for mental illness. Or to anyone who once showed a dvd to their kids. Or to people who daven in sfardish havarah even though they are ashkenaz. Or to people who say “oy” for the cholem.

This year I only made one shalach manos and couldn’t think of anyone to send it to.

E-O-M – Nice!

That is the real controversy, its all about revenues and control. I once read that if you want to get to the truth – just follow the money trail.

Yup! that’s why the movie stars are rich and the Rebbe’s are poor.

(You can’t possibly believe your own comment)

thanks for posting the first half.

The second half will surely bring achdus among people. C’mon Mods, you couldn’t have left it for Monday?

my kids put their friend’s mishloach manos in slurpee cups with a laffy taffy rope as a straw.

i was making challah with my 6 year old yesterday and she wanted to make a hamentashen from the dough instead of a challah. it made me think of this thread.

i think people are hesitant to throw the garbage away because if they decide to return the stuff they want to be able to come back and find all the wrappings.

play no games – like I was saying . . .

Apushatayid – yes I do believe the same about 613 etc. but I must not have made my point well. As I said above, the fluffy slippers and silliness were NOT the concern, and the bomb and pasta very clearly fall into that same category. And I think I was pretty clear about the stuff I felt WAS problematic, and the difference between them. So, no thank you for your implication that I’m stupid enough to worry about my son talking about lamp posts at his bar mitzvah. Feel free to disagree (not that you seem to have understood what you are even disagreeing with), but try to be a bit more respectful about it.