Little Froggie

Everyone here knows me.

(long time no see)

Thank you, Oomis!!

I’m not saying I’m completely down, only….

Still I’ll have your beautiful piece in mind. And “the husband of Oomis” too.

Oomis. Thanks for your concern (Oomis as usual!!)

It’s just a few things that have gotten to me lately, plus the frightening matzav of Eretz Yisroel, our period pf mourning etc. have taken the fluff out of my otherwise (not so wise) self.

Hope to be back, both IRL and here too (Mod & Great Grand Editor willing) with a more cheery, chirpy mood.

and Bookworm120

Thank you again.

(it’s like saying hello/ good morning to someone in the street. It shows someone is thinking of him/her)

But again, I fail to note anything I have done or written here lately. I’m more or less fluffed out. (in a general sense, IRL too)

Scary.. You plan on SEEING me?!?

OHHH!

So it’s you, the one with the sticker in the back!!!!

(ok, stop hyperventilating.. I’m just kidding.. at least so far.. I’ll check my mail..)

I like that last line – You should be zoche to make your Simcha b’simchah!! True happiness and gladness, with only good and fond lasting memories of it (and preparations too!)

Tzefardea HaKatan at Coffeeland

Ha! You don’t know what you’re missing.. (neither do I)

It’s a real sha’alah. I think the seforim deal with that particular sort of problem. In Talmidical terms it’s called “mareh makom hu lo”.

Kidding aside, I’ve seen such. And there’s one who’s a close friend, and I don’t know where on earth the hall is (actually I know it’s somewhere in the state of New York). If you’re only inviting people from the immediate surroundings, nu – why bother. But if you plan on inviting someone not from that neighborhood (and you really want them to attend), I would think it’s common sense to put an address on it too.

(maybe to save on ink, print two sets of invitations…)

Tell them to lower the charge. Maybe that will make it less feasible..

“Is a good president possible?”

Just wait and see.. “Little Forggie 2016”

OK, I’m not a fishel CR user. Only a froggie.

‘scuse me, looking for WHAT?!?

Why do some who have long been absent get their names listed TWICE, while active ones …

And how!!!

And that’s why I post here!

(deep down I’m really not so dumb..)

Oh, wow, I was busy for the past few days, and didn’t not have time to waste (still don’t, but..)

PAA, the sefer I quoted from was from Rabbi Miller’s “Awake My Glory”. He was one of the greatest giants of the previous generation, (a musmach of YU, I think). A genuine Godol bTorah, giant of a baal musar, hashkafa, real chochma etc. (I have a niggling feeling he doesn’t need little me’s approbation)

Sam2, you too can look up in his books. I didn’t make up a thing, he writes a whole lot more than the little I posted.

Sorry, I subscribed to this “dangerous”, “scary”, “potentially lethal game” way of life at Matan Torah (couple of years ago), so did most of us. ???? ????? and ???? ???? ?? And that is what and how I was taught.

Sam2, PAA,

I’ve purposefully taken a back seat to the most important orders of the day, proceedings going on over here in the CR, due to the communal tzara, calamity, distress of our brethren in Eretz Yisroel, and our natural participation in our national sorrow.

So I’ll be brief.

Yes, there’s a mountain of a difference between two Gedolim arguing, two lions engaged in ?????? ?? ????, and some conceited, arrogant boor trying his hand at judging, reckoning with, appraising a Torah leader. Sure, as I wrote earlier, everyone down here makes mistakes, some big some small, that’s what being human is all about, but it’s not for the layman (or woman), commoner, to evaluate, appraise a Gadol.

That’s elementary to any boy starting out learning Gemarah (in an Orthodox surrounding), there’s a ?????, a tradition, ??? ??? ???? ????? ????? ??????. No, we don’t break ranks, no matter how smart we think we are. There’s more, much more to Torah than brains. They say Esav had more brain-power than Yaakov, where did it get him? OK, so his head rolled into … No, Torah is not just a “subject”, so that the so-called “smarty” gets to call the shots. There’s a Rebbe – Talmid tradition, along with the way of life the Torah is supposed to impart into one’s being. So at elementary grade any child knows one Amorah does not argue with a Tanna. Same with Rishonim and Achronim etc., down to this day. Indeed that is our ????, our existence, how we (us commoners) never swayed from our cherished leaders.

Sure, you bet, there was always a here and a there, where a naughty, disobedient, insolent individual disobeyed and rebelled, the first actually in this week’s Parsha – and all his “talmidim” followed (or did teshuva in time). But the general populace was always faithful and a true to its’ leaders.

What they think of me?

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“Don’t aks what happened!”

I won’t.

Sorry, haven’t heard of him. But the Torah Greats we learn from are thoroughly Torah. ????? ???? ?????, every aspect of our Torah leaders is Torah. No divisiveness, no time-outs. A true Godol is a Godol 24/7/52/120+.

If My Rov would tell me this week is parshas shelach, I’d have to lein parshas shelach this week.

Oomis: I don’t think this should be the place for you to hock against Rabbonim. In your particular case, I could well understand this Rov’s retort. Why should a frum woman put herself into such a position of danger. (Sounds like a sound advice, why look for problems!) But I’m sure he went further and delved into, dealt with the issue at hand. He didn’t just walk out. Am I wrong?

And as a general rule we are (as per Chafetz Chaim) supposed to give a Rov the benefit of the doubt MORE than a regular person. So a person off the street will be more, much more inclined to give his own biased opinion.

And my favorite: “Hello how are you I wanted to ask you to..” (punctuation, question mark, etc. intentionally omitted) Caller had no interest in my well-being, at all.

So my response when hearing that introduction on the phone: “Liar!”

Hu?!?

You asked me something. Did you mean it?