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Just in case Popa needs some backing, let me affirm my view. Popa is a serious, learned and open minded person. We all recognize his humor but few seem to realize the point behind it, most of the time. As I wrote here: …#post-182826. I wonder if he is th emost misunderstood person in the CR. I’ve seen his perfect arguments taken for lightheaded nitpicking by those who didn’t undersatnd them.
Can the same be said of the OP and the follow ups?
Or perhaps the idea is that it is always possible for someone to convince you that their way is much higher than yours and that you are practically a Chotte for ignoring their holy Avoda. “You think it’s Avoda Zara? Ach! What do you understand? Come, I’ll explain everything.”
It sounds reminiscent of how the Christains through the ages would chastise us that we are doomed for not believing their belief.
pacman, this is in Bava Metzia. You may tell him that you’ll double the pay if he’ll stay on. It is he who is being dishonest, so therefore you may trick him.
Speaking of frequencies, why am I not getting any signal on the ILS of JFK’s runway 4? Did they change the frequency?
But SMS, email, and email newsgroups should have replaced Twitter before it started, so go figure.
I’m not sure about why such a survey would be so much fun, but you aren’t really supposed to publicize a misdeed. It is a Chilul Hashem.
Why Brooklyn 19? If anything it should be 18.
Rebbi was not a ghost, it was more like Eliyahu Hanavi. When people that you know and relate to have seen something there is no reason to disregard it. Abductions are related by anonyous people that might be the dreamy type. However, I don’t dismiss their experience either. I think the scientific explanations of mass hypnosis don’t really hold water. They are forced explanations by those who are not open minded enough to say, maybe.
I don’t think he changes character. What example do you have of that?
The Sefer Habris also derives from Shiras Devora that there might be inhabitants on another planet. Inhabitants, meaning life, not humans and a society.
From what I’ve read in the coffeeroom it seems that even after death is not to late to fix up a relationship.
Why would you tell someone that you don’t have proof to what they saw? There are many famous incidents of people revisiting. Many are mentioned in Sefarim. Rebbi made Kiddush — although that wasn’t a ghost. There are many references in Chazal of Ruchos.
As for stories of abduction, I wouldn’t be that arrogant in that case either to say that because I can’t believe it, it didn’t happen. It is by no means as common as ghost sightings. It sounds exotic to us because aliens aren’t a well found existance. However, whoever said that they are aliens? Perhaps the person got entagled with some ‘Sheidy’ business. The concept of a Sheid doing things to people is not unheard of in our Sefarim. The Ritva does say that these things were more common in the north than here.
New management. Same great soul.
Don’t let a sub title eclipse you.
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There are three elements in the CR. Everyone is made from either one or many of these three.
No, nothing in that Gemara indicates that they appear to people. I did not quote it as proof, rather as an explanation of why they are. The proof that it happens is the fact that many people have experienced it in many different levels. Many more people have heard raps, knocking, things falling, than those who (were lucky enough to) see them.
Daas Yochid, I believe that issue was resolved as well.
You won’t share the conversation?
Goq, the Gemara says that those who die before their time hang around until their time. I don’t know if that explains all sightings, since many are long past their had-been life span. Most such things are from people murdered or suicide.
No, it was one of the invisible mods — the one that doesn’t sign his name.
the one who doesn’t sign her name
Why should it be spoken about a lot, it is a horrible topic. Yes, parents should warn their children in an appropriate manner, without frightening them, about untollerable behavior of older people and that they shouldn’t keep secrets from their parents and so on. But why should it be an open topic of everyday conversation? Besides, don’t overblow the situation. While any incident is too much and there were several incidents, it is not a rampant issue. It does not warrant dominating the conversations the way almost all other blogs are busy with it. If you really enjoy this topic you can find a lot of company on all those sites.
amichai, in case you are wondering, no. Unless you want to be “Dan Lekaf Zechus” like klach.
Why would you give Joseph credit for a moderator’s whim?
Yes, you may. You may lie for Tznius, humility, to save someone trouble, and of course, peace. You may wiggle the truth to avoid getting stuck arguing with someone when you know he won’t let up. The Gemara has many instances where Amoraim said things and the Gemara says it was only to save himself from embarrasment.
I laughed so hard until my face turned as red as a banana painted red!
Machshava means thinking, and it’s a pretty common thing to do in Yeshivos as far as I know.
I don’t understand oomis’ comment. First it says it’s Muttar, then goes on to say that Bidi’eved the child is not a Mamzer.
By the way, the child is considered Paggum, whatever that means to you.
When Rabbanim are Mattir couples to use this method they are always very careful that there should be strict supervision making sure nothing gets mixed up. Although the Gemara is Mashma that someone doing this can marry a Cohen Gadol, I cannot imagine the child not being a Paggum.
Reb Patur, that is the actual Halachik status. Gezel Shina is just a fancy name for that type of Hezek.
Why do you call it cheating the government? Who are you/they to define marriage!? My definition is two people who appriciate each other for who they are and say ‘hi’ whenever they meet.
You get constant breezes from the water?
Do you do this three times a day? If not, perhaps you can switch your special Shmone Esrei to Maariv.
I really don’t know why they are ignoring you. However, as long as you realize that nobody here thinks you aren’t sincere, it shouldn”t really bother you. If you aren’t getting the treatment then the mods probably don’t think you are a him, either.
What bothered me was the fact that everyone took the word of the editor/moderator without a moment’s doubt, regardless of whether or not it matched. Someone even started a thread to analyze if the content of all the accused, match. I thought that would be a good thing, but of course nothing came of it other than long speeches from unquestioning folks. I was upset that people would attribute my content to a conniving scheme.
By the way, Joseph’s many screen names (that unthinkable sin) was forseen by Chazal: Kamma Yoseph Ikka Bashuka!
One thing that might help is to create a tune to Daven with. This helps focus yourself. The Gemara says that a Teffila is not answered when it is not said with Tachnunim (beseeching tone).
So many things became more accepted. Music, Tznius, Apikursus, Taavos. On the other hand many things got picked up as well. Torah spread to formerly unknown horizons, and in a sense, Tznius standards rose, too. Tzedaka almost exploded (unfortunately, so did the need for it), and Dikduk in Mitzvos became in style.
Do you really keep Kavana for an hour? I never heard of that! Just try to arrange for your concentration to be on how you are talking to Hashem more than how badly you need the goodies. The Chassidim Harishonim spent an hour before each Davening in order to attain that clarity and vividness of how they are standing in front of Hashem.
When I’m not in the act and I’m alert enough to think of it that way, it is possible to display an extreme disinterest of that topic. You say, ‘I don’t know, whatever’ and move to a different topic.
I use two passwords, one for secure stuff and one for non-secure, like blogs and second class email and electric bill, unless you want to hack into my bill and pay it. In either case I use a word not related to address, birthday, phone… Pick an aspect of someplace you like to visit. Also, you can use a simple encryption of a word. It can be a keyboard based encryption or two letters off or whatever is easy enough for you to be able to punch in on the spot.
A person with a healthy self esteem is someone who doesn’t wonder if he has one. You get one by not wondering, as well.
Now, how’s that for an over-simplification?
Yes RavShalom, that is what I am referring to.
Tro11,
All Brachos end in third person. Shehakol Nihye Bidvaro, Shomer Amo Tisroel, Mekabetz Nidchei Amo… The Pshat is like RavShalom said, that it is bouncing off the first part. The reasom I gave is, I believe, from Rabbeinu Bachye in his Shulchan Shel Arba, usually printed together with his Kad Hakemach.
Real Brisker, is it the sub title you are trying to get rid of or a special treatment?
Umekayem Emunaso is also in third person. I think ItcheSrulik’s response is the reason. Speaking direct is only when we mean to speak directly, as in a request. I think you can find examples in your day to day life where, upon carrying on to someone about a certain good trait, you’ll end up dropping the direct addressing.
Regarding the end of the Bracha, all Brachos start out direct and end in third person. The reason for this that we don’t really know Hashem. As soon as we focus ourselves to Hashem we realize that we can never truly fathom His greatness.
The only exeption to this is the Birchas Hoda’ah in Shmona Esrei, Hatov Shimcha. It seems that through praising Hashem, there is a special strong bond, as it says, Yoshev Tehilos Yisroel.
Pay the tax.
It’s the editor and some moderators who seem to be obsessed. The other moderators expressed that they don’t care that much. I’m sure you aren’t calling real-brisker obsessed when he faces the possibility of having every thought that he expressed here over the course of time, dismissed as a joke, fake, deciever etc.
At first I was blocked without an explanation and figured it was a computer error, since they had absolutely no content-related reason to believe I was him. After trying to email and being ignored I created the RuffRuff account. Then, that was blocked along with a subtitle of “Joseph again”.
At that point I realized what the issue must be. I used OperaMini on my phone as my browser. This app tries to save data cost by rerouting every request to their server and downsizing the response. YeshivaWorld gets the IP of Opera instead of mine. Anyone using the same app would appear to be coming from the same IP.
Therefore, I emailed and posted this fact, which got deleted, and another member posted that they know me personally, and contacted the mods as well. After a little while they figured it out, either on their own or through my advice. They never told me which.
But like I wrote earlier, Joseph seems to get special treatment. So, if your comments don’t get chopped up and manipulated, they don’t really think you are he.
But 80, that’s only the mid range frequencies. Most people put up the bass only.
Thanks, 80. I can only imagine.
Once in a lifetime everyone must go through a Joseph stage. Are they editing or deleting most of what you post? If not, they don’t think you are Joseph.
The thread being open or closed has something to do with if corn is a problem in America or not!?
Zach, the main flaw was the fact that the allies got hold of it before the war started. They had to keep it a secret and even let soldiers die so as not to give the Germans reason to believe they were hacked.
Here’s another system. Open a large bitmap picture in a byte editor and replace every twelfth bytes with the byte of your letter.
Or get the byte values of your message, multiply them by a predestined number, encode it in base64, then multiply again, encode in utf8, and so on.
Zahavasdad, you are right. During the time of the giving of the Torah, an animal would have gotten Skila for going where it wasn’t supposed to (onto the mountain).