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    Chareidim shouldn’t be out protesting at all. If they have that much extra time, they should be in the beis medrash, or in the IDF.

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    Rocky, I thought the equivalent term for a male is “Yoily.” “I made our date later so Yoily wouldn’t miss his chavrusa.”

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    I seriously think there are more important problems in the world to worry about.

    in reply to: Herring #2163365
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    Maskildoresh: my daughter had the entire poem memorized when she was 11; we both have Jabberwocky memorized.

    in reply to: How to Reduce the Cost of Getting Married #2162610
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    “I cannot imagine anyone walking from shul to shul begging for money to pay for his son’s/daughter’s chassanah.”

    We once had someone show up who announced after davening that he was there to collect money to fly family in from the U.S. for a family wedding.

    in reply to: Herring #2162508
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    Back in my younger days, every morning after shacharit the oldish men would put herring on stale kichel left over from Shabbat, and wash it down with a shot or two of cheap rye whiskey. Then they’d go off to work. Now that I’m their age, I have yet to duplicate that feat.

    in reply to: How to Reduce the Cost of Getting Married #2161603
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    Want to reduce the cost of a wedding? Walk through shules and ask strangers to pay for it. It must work, since so many seem to do it.

    in reply to: What really needs doing in E. Israel #2160590
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    Zushy, while I appreciate the effort it took to answer my question, like a politician, you didn’t answer my question: where is all the money going to come from to pay for all this?

    And Participant, there’s no need to raise the speed limit on Kvish 6, because nobody drives that speed anyway. I drove to Yerushalayim and back today, and my cruising speed on Kvish 6 from Beersheva to Soreq was 120, and there were many cars passing me.

    in reply to: What really needs doing in E. Israel #2159781
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    Zushy, I’m curious. Where is all the money coming from to implement your plans?

    in reply to: Differences between newspapers and Jewish news sites #2153120
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    It’s “they’re,” not “there.”
    What’s the difference what they show in YWN? All the alleged “chareidi” and “haimish” people who use this site, yet they claim to cling to a Rebbe or Rosh Yeshiva who in no circumstances would allow them to use the internet.
    Filtered, unfiltered, makes no difference.

    in reply to: Should all Yidden know Hebrew? #2152153
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    The short answer is yes, all Yehudim should know Hebrew. IY”H Mashiach will be here before you know it, y’all will be moving here, and how do you expect to find jobs here without speaking the language?

    in reply to: Important Advice for Jews #2144998
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    “Jersey City happens almost every month in Israel”

    I think you’ve lost your mind.

    in reply to: Tal Umotor Reminder #2143680
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    Of course, if you all lived where you’re supposed to be living, this entire discussion would be moot.

    in reply to: Siblings’ machatonim on shidduch resumes #2143027
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    Why do people have shidduch resumes at all? They certainly didn’t have them in the alter heim.

    in reply to: The lonely nation #2140899
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    *low lifes, not low lives

    in reply to: Florida Gov. Says Judea and Samaria Are Not ‘Occupied’ #2140898
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    jdf007, what are you talking about?

    in reply to: Moving to EY #2140365
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    “Which American Chareidim are moving to EY? Chasidim are staying put. Lakewood is growing.”
    There’s no mitzvah to live in America.

    in reply to: Rigged Election #2138375
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    Show us reliable and unbiased proof of this.

    in reply to: Should Yeshiva Bochurim go out and vote on Tuesday’s election? #2136239
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    Don’t they have a break in the middle of the day? They can’t go and vote then?

    in reply to: Should Tanach be Taught in Cheder? #2135016
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    Tanach should be taught, along with English, math, and science.

    in reply to: 5t vs Teaneck- what’s better? #2128288
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    Be’er Sheva would come out ahead against any of these places. It’s a shame people won’t look beyond their dalet amot.

    in reply to: Stem or not? #2126715
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    “-Esrog pitom or not? Yes Why? Otherwise it’s possul. ”
    You’d have a hard time in E”Y with that one. I’ve not seen one with a pitum here since we made aliyah. Are etrogim with a pitum even available here?
    The only time I’ve had a etrog with a pitum in the last 15 years was in 2020, when I was in Pittsburgh due to a family medical emergency. After I bought mine from one of the shules, I asked the Rav if there were any without a pitum, and he said no.

    in reply to: Thank you for your love, best wishes and prayers #2120422
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    ברוך דין האמת

    in reply to: Hospital Wait Times #2119636
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    “One more note. If you’ve been sick since Monday, don’t be surprised if your insurance co refuses to pay for your outpatient visit on Thursday. Why? Because it’s not an emergency.”

    Interesting story. Many years ago, I was playing with my kids outside, and my oldest accidentally kicked me in the center of my chest. That night, I had some chest pain, and I couldn’t get comfortable – couldn’t lie down, couldn’t sit, couldn’t fall asleep. Finally, around 2:30 in the morning, I woke my wife, and said I was having pain in my chest, and I thought E broke a rib. I was going to drive myself to the hospital. My wife’s famous line to me: “You know, if it’s not an emergency, the insurance won’t pay.”
    My wife woke the next morning, and I still wasn’t home. She got the kids off to school, and went to work – at the hospital where I was still in the ER. I had suffered a heart attack, and a few days later I had 4 bypass grafts. It was an emergency after all!
    (BTW, my hospital stay between diagnosis until the day of the surgery was over a weekend. I found out a few months later that the insurance company wanted me to go home over the weekend, over the strong objections of my cardiologist. I stayed in the hospital, and I don’t know if the insurance covered those few days or not.)

    in reply to: Hospital Wait Times #2119174
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    Reb CTL, wishing your wife a refuah shlayma, and wishing koach to you and your family.

    in reply to: Derech Emuna settlement #2117734
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    “Nowadays yeshivos only allow touro/other “Jewish” colleges.”
    Not Ner Yisrael.

    in reply to: Israel LAnguages #2117076
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    ujm: “Yiddish has historically been the lingua franca of Jews across countries.”

    Really? Sfardim spoke Yiddish? I’m sure they’d be surprised to hear it. Ladino was just a popular amongst the Sfardim as Yiddish was in Eastern Europe/Russia.

    in reply to: Derech Emuna settlement #2117069
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    @common saychel
    “Wrong, its the MO crowd that is changing, they are going black hat or going frie.
    The average kippa sruga minyan resembles a geriatrics ward.”

    In America, perhaps, but you’ve obviously never been to a datei leumi/chardal minyan in E”Y.

    in reply to: The process of asking for money for a wedding #2112022
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    According to ujm, I guess we’re not traditional. When our daughter got married, we did not give the Chatan a dowry. We paid for half the wedding. (The Chatan’s parents are still living in the U.S.; we pretty much split wedding and transportation costs down the middle. We had the Shabbat sheva brachot in our home city.) We did not buy them an apartment, nor did we pay their rent. We didn’t buy them a car, or pay for their monthly groceries, or anything like that. Both kids worked before they married, and both work now, and the son-in-law continues to study for his Master’s. I find the “requirement” to buy an apartment quite distasteful.

    in reply to: The process of asking for money for a wedding #2112020
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    mentch1: In Beersheva. This is not a chareidi city by any stretch of the imagination; those that come to collect funds are from out of town.

    in reply to: The process of asking for money for a wedding #2111760
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    Does anyone know the answer to my question about what happens if the amount isn’t raised? And mentch1, we also did not buy our daughter an apartment when she got married. (Of course, we’re not Chareidi, but I have heard of these things amongst the chardal as well.)

    in reply to: How to enforce Tznius guidelines in a Kehillah #2111284
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    I was reading the beginning of this thread, and so many wrote comments about having the rebbetzin talk to the women who were allegedly failing with a lack of tznius. How do we know that it wasn’t the rebbetzin who was the problem?

    in reply to: Yeshivos #2111282
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    Beis medrashes???

    in reply to: anybody heard of new heimish/chasidish community in Ramat Shlomo #2107845
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    Seriously? People pay that much in rent? You can move to Immanuel and live much cheaper. B”H we bought several years ago, and a mortgage is much less than what you’re paying in rent.

    in reply to: school memories #2107602
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    ujm: That would be hard to do, since their kids would be in school in E”Y, and there are no “A” grades here. Besides, I know my kids, and they’re not built that way.

    in reply to: school memories #2107556
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    My children are well past the school parsha, but I will tell you that if a teacher or school administrator had EVER laid a hand on any of my children, that teacher or administrator would have been nursing some black eyes and broken arms. I would not have regretted it, either.

    in reply to: leaving yeshivah and going to work #2107101
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    Years ago, in Baltimore, I had a chavruta who learned in yeshiva in the mornings, worked in a law firm in the afternoons, and attended law school at night. It was hard, but B”H he graduated, opened his own law firm, and still learns in the mornings. (And I might add he married a nice girl from a yeshivish family; she had no problems with him either working or going to law school.)

    in reply to: looking for an apartment to rent in israel #2101061
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    “the Negev, they are give houses away there”
    Where are “they” giving away houses in the Negev? I live in the Negev, and I haven’t seen or heard of any houses being given away down here.

    “but the communities suggested here are not my style and too Israeli”
    This is Israel – what do you expect the communities to be here? If you want to live here, you learn to deal with it and become Israeli.

    in reply to: WWRAS-What would R’ Aharon zt”l say? #2095650
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    ” . . . Lakewood being the fulfillment of R Aharon’s dream.”

    I would imagine that being in E”Y would be the fulfillment of R. Aharon’s dream, at least that’s supposed to be the fulfillment of everyone’s dream. I don’t see Lakewood mentioned anywhere in Tanach.

    in reply to: BAN SEAFRIA. #2093053
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    “you will find pictures of a Beis Hamedrash filled with women, Rachmona Litzlan”
    There is a problem with women learning Torah, or are you simply trolling?

    in reply to: Every rebbe, every gabbai – get a pistol #2091977
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    When we made aliyah, we first lived on a yishuv for 9 1/2 years. Every year for Yom Kippur we’d daven at the local Hesder yeshiva, and there were always plenty of people carrying weapons – including the gabbai. I always felt sad that the weapons were needed, even if they weren’t used.

    in reply to: OOT personality is lost. #2085343
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    Anyone outside of E”Y is OOT, so I don’t understand what you’re complaining about.

    in reply to: Bochurim on YWN #2078691
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    “Is it kdai for bochurim to be using YWN coffee room during bein hazmanim?”

    You’re asking the wrong question. The proper question should be “is it kdai for any alleged Chasid or Chareidi person to be on YW at all, since we all know that there is not one Chassidich Rebbe or Chareidi Rosh Yeshiva that would give reshus to any of their Chassidim/talmidim/followers to be using the internet in this manner.”

    in reply to: How much hand shmurah matzah should I buy? #2074582
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    What does that mean, nobody eats it after Pesach? I eat matza year round, and I make sure to finish the shmura first so it doesn’t go stale. This year it will be a bit of a problem because I’m flying to the states on chol hamoed. Such is life.

    in reply to: Washing on Pizza #2074561
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    When I asked our Rav back in the olden days when I was a teen, he answered, “The Rebbetzin always serves a slice of bread on the side, so there won’t be a question.”

    in reply to: Missing a parsha #2072226
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    “Most big cities [NYC MIA ORLANDO LA] have a Israeli minyan, ask around”
    Not going to be in any of those places. I’ll ask around before I leave.

    “As you are from Israel, I think the above should be done in CH’L when leined in Israel.”
    Yes, from Beersheva.

    in reply to: King Charles and Queen Camilla #2064401
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    “He’ll be king and she’ll be queen, it’s as simple as that.”

    Incorrect, as has already been pointed out. He will become King, she will be the Queen Consort, not “the Queen.” There is a difference, Hohum, that you have failed to grasp.

    in reply to: Bowling? #2061975
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    I went bowling the last time I had time in America, which I think was the fall of 2019.

    in reply to: Favorite Siddur #2061170
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    My favorite siddur is “Minchas Yerushalayim.” For those of you that don’t know it, it’s small and very thick, about 1500 pages. As far as I know, it’s been out of publication for several years now. I love it because it has everything – calendars, times, pictures and diagrams, Avodim Hayeenu for Shabbat Hagadol, you name it, it’s in there.
    I’ve had 3 or 4 copies over the years, and wore each one out. It’s almost impossible to find them anymore, which brings me to a nice story.
    One of my daughters was reading my posts in the CR, as she knows my screen name. She saw the post where I asked if anyone had any info about this particular siddur, like if new copies were still being published. The answer I received to my post was that the family that owned the rights was no longer going to publish it.
    So, my daughter poked around in various Yerushalayim based FB and email groups, asking if anyone had a copy of this particular siddur to sell or give away. Someone did have one, gave it to my daughter; all my kids chipped in, had it rebound, and gave it to me for my birthday a few years ago. It was quite meaningful.

    in reply to: Quick & healthy Friday lunch #2059667
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    2 or 3 potato bourekas, or what I used to eat in America – 2 slices and either fries or a knish

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