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Mazel Tov!
OOM – The books aren’t more expensive, their dollar is worth a little less than the American dollar so that higher cost makes it the same. Or were you just joking?
DY – who were you talking to in that first post? Was someone deleted or are you hearing posters who aren’t there? Sheesh, can’t even trust your own senses.
actually, I didn’t at all.
DY – 😛 I wouldn’t even consider that. The question to a halachik question would have to be a halachik answer, but with a disclaimer or clarification about the compatibility. I think it would be awful if we started answering halachik questions with subjective answers. If you are asked if he is koveia itim, and to you there should be a 3 hour minimum, you can say yes to that question if the boy only learns one hour because it is still halachically accurate. If he just reads the Yated every night you would be lying if you said yes, even if the girl would consider that gevaldik. Halacha is halacha, hashkofa is hashkofa, and as far as I am concerned, emes is emes.
And I add for Brony’s sake that that doesn’t change their value as a human being, it is just stating the facts as they stand.
DY – I think you are missing the point. If someone asks you if the girl is dressed tzniusdik and her knees are showing than it doesn’t matter what his standards are. She is not dress tzniyusdik. He may not mind, but that doesn’t change the halacha. If she was dressed in a way that was not tzniyus according to SOME poskim, but yes tzniyus according to others, than by all means, say so. The boys standards of tzniyus don’t determine whether or not she is dressed tzniyusly, they just determine whether or not he will APPROVE of how she dresses. If she wears pants and he doesn’t mind, then the shudduch can continue. But that doesn’t change the tzniyus answer to ‘yes’.
I think the discussion is being based on questions of hashkofa, but the example that was given was halachik.
They never were. the fact that more people are comfortable wearing clothes like that doesn’t mean that they are tzanua. And my friends who wear clothes like that are more than willing to admit that they are not dressed halachically appropriately and they acknowledge their struggle, just as I acknowledge my struggle with certain mitzvos. Why does that offend you? It doesn’t make the person less valuable in my eyes, but I’m not obligated to accept everything they do as torahdik.
Torah613 – Hey, I give that same type of answer! I always tell them to ask me specific questions as I don’t do narratives.
In regard to the tzniyus question above, I understand the point you are trying to make but if a girl is not dressing tzniyus according to halacha, why are you going to let the person decide if it is tzanua not? It’s not up to them. They may still be willing to pursue the shidduch, they may be “okay” with her level of tzniyus, but why are you wondering if tight clothing and barely covered knees constitute a yes or no for that question?
Maybe you know it is a no but didn’t want to say so? That shouldn’t be your decision to make. I have too many friends suffering in marriages because people were more sensitive to their friend than to the shidduch. If the girl wants people to say she dresses b’tzniyus, then let her dress b’tzniyus. If I don’t want people to say I’m fat (which I am) then I should either lose weight or not be seen in public.
Taking something at face value means accepting it as truth without looking into it.
I was just saying that someone may have noticed that there were a lot of great tragedies during this week, but without extensive research I wouldn’t be able to say that it is a fact that it is the only week like this. I didn’t mean to nit pick, I am sorry it came out that way.
I second that, too
But I am saying no other week in American history has had this many tragic events to this degree of magnitude.
And I was saying that I wouldn’t accept that at face value, though I don’t know that it is not true. But I also thought I had answered you anyway.
Then throw out the darn nintendo because its sso damaging. Kids should read and do creative things not sit like morons with a nintendo. These devices are creating zombie like dummies.
Yup!
2scents – he can’t moderate his own posts but he does get to delete them.
torah613 – now that’s funny! *blushing*
BH – do you want to do a “former addicts/where are they now?” section?
Brain Games is great. But you would have to get them to play . . .
On one hand I would guess that if you picked any month of the year you could probably draw the same number of tragedies, as there have been so many world wide over the course of time. I don’t know that it is notable at all.
On the other hand, if it is notable, I would wonder if there is a connection to this being the time following Pesach where we spoke of geula and Yeshua. Whenever we have a stronger connection to Hashem we find occurrences and reasons to break those connections as the Yetzer Hora tries to baffle us with tests to our Emunah.
I’m not mekabel.
I’ll do them!
147-are you a landsman?
I’m not bored, I’m practicing work avoidance. Actually, I have practiced it so much I am something of the expert.
Making a collage of pictures of my family.
Making a mezuzah case for my kids bedroom.
Getting my masters.
Re painting several rooms in the house.
I just thought of one – when you have several CR users in one house and you post a whole shpiel only to realize you posted under a siblings SN!!!!
Phil99 – I can SO relate, I am often either spaced out or laughing at the wrong time. By the way, welcome to the CR, can I see your ID?
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DY: I can’t believe word #485 on line #62 and word #359 on line #48 got through! MODS!
I see where you chiseled your name into the building!! I’ll have to talk to Rabbi Shapiro about that next time I bump into him!
I bought you a slurpee, better get over here before it melts!
Goq – Oh gosh, you are right! I am standing here at this gas station wondering where the slurpee machine is and it’s a block north from here! Sheesh!
is there a will?
Wow everyone, thanks. Happy energy received.
Unfortunately it is an ongoing situation, presently in the courts and I have to curb my need try to “spread truth” and “save the world”. The only way to prove someones’ innocence in this case is by maligning someone else. It is a tremendous nisayon for to sit back and watch but I am begging Hashem for bounty in return. I am willing to share though.
Goq – Now about that slurpee, meet me at the ole’ Foster and Kimball 7/11 and I’ll treat you to an extra large. Just say when. And I thought of you on Pesach when I was looking through yearbooks, I bet you were in there somewhere. If I ever figure it out I will mail you a slurpee card anonymously and you’ll know it was me who did it.
I would like to do the photo spread. It will be blank so it shouldn’t cost too much 😉
Sure, feel free to send a private message. Just don’t be surprised if we all read it.
SaysMe – I wanted to write yesterday but didn’t have a keyboard available. Now that I have time to answer there are too many posts to read through so pick out the most intelligent, sensible posts and assume that I would have written the same thing had I had a chance.
Goq – thank for the laugh, I needed it!
thank you. Your cliches were right, and we have seen some unbelievable acts of kindness and we remember that Hashem has His cheshbonos so we don’t have to keep a tally.
Thanks for your kind words, as always. Thanks for your chizuk, as always. Tizke L’mitzvos. 🙂
who did I stab?
He didn’t say you have to wear socks when you are sleeping, he said I was wrong in thinking it was nonsense. I didn’t get any further info.
This may be slightly off topic (gasp) but my sister was the type who always put on socks and shoes in the morning and wore them all day. I always walked around barefoot (as in not even socks). When my sister died I was 19 and I had a dream that she came to see me. She told me a bunch of things, and then turned to me as if she was bringing up a topic we often discussed and said, “and by the way, you are supposed to wear socks when you’re sleeping”. I thought it was nonsense but someone close with Reb Moshe ZTZ”L mentioned it to him and he said that actually it wasn’t.
But since I have to be on the computer for work anyway, I know from past experience that I will just read more news sites instead, which is definitely not better for my ruchniyus than YWN.
exactly why I started posting! I would sit in meetings reading news stories about serial killers and missing children and then unsolved mysteries and all the things I used to read in novels before I stopped reading secular books. It was really bad. So I would post here. Now I have a boss who doesn’t always let us bring our computers to meetings 🙁 I also had no internet at home for over a month.
Lately, I have been involved in a miserable situation in my community that has almost taken away my faith in mankind and I kept wanting to post threads about why moshiach isn’t here and why he probably isn’t coming any time soon. I knew that would be be a terrible thing to post online so I just tried to stick my face into magazines and tehillim instead.
But enough blabbering, I never answered your question. *ahem* You don’t post too much if your words are pleasing and pleasant (which they are!) and if your time online is not in place of time you should be spending with either Hashem or other humans. Like when you are on the computer anyway and you are keeping yourself from less ruchnius sites.
And thus endeth my re-emergence soliloquy.
Do you think the Golem is a gilgul of a former poster?
VM – you’ve got to be kidding. When 500 girls apply for 65 slots it isn’t narrow criteria and misjudgments that dictates the rejection.
I had the flu last month and listened to every Rabbi Wallerstein, Shechter and Rubinstein shiur on Torah Anytime. Whatever sunk in, sunk in. I replayed anything that didn’t.
I got a saphire. I think they are prettier, it was more affordable, and that is what I believe the luchos are made of.
We just finished our seder. We ran late because I hadn’t turned over my kitchen.
onegoal thinks he spotted some nephews, brothers, fathers in the same city as him this yom tov. I said he should have introduced himself but it was already after the fact. Next time he sees them I think he should give a code-word to see if it’s really them. How ’bout ‘troll alert’?
I’m working today, just not at my job:)
I worked til 4 on Friday though and if I wasn’t on spring break now I’m not sure if I could’ve taken the day off.
Kinda depends on what they are supposed to be doing instead . . .
Bagels coming in an hour! My neighbor and I split an order of bagels and cream cheese and we all eat it in her back yard. Any leftovers go to drooling neighbors who have been eating potato starch cookies all week 🙂
Yes, but consider yourself lucky that you don’t have to spend any more money on her. May this Yom Tov of Geula take you out of this personal “galus” .
thanks. Want to come by for bagels and cream cheese tomorrow morning?
And food stamps provides a lot more food than WIC. And tzedakah orgs (Tomchei Shabbos and many many more) fill any other void.
That is true in theory only. There is a limit to what many families receive, and many families are too high income for food stamps but are under budget by hundreds or thousands a month.