ubiquitin

“This year will be the problem for those who only eat gebrokts the last day which is on shabbos, when will it be made?”

Not a problem, we will do the same thing we did 2019, 2018, 2015, 2012
We will make them on Friday, don’t forget an eruv Tavshailin*

(* No reason to say Hoil doesnt apply, many eat Gebrokts on shevii shel PEsach (as can be seen in this thread) kids can eat it, choleh shein bo sakana etc )

CA
“The Gemara in Rosh Hashanah says that Tishrei is Rosh Hashanah for non Jewish kings so when referring to a non Jewish king reign it would be the 11th month”

Your post was written fine. I understand you completely.

However the Gemara (almost explicitly) states not like that.
In the tzad that Daryavesh is considered like non-Jewish kings The Gemara quotes passuk reffering to Tishrei as “chodesh hashvii” and asks why it isnt a new year. The Gemara doesnt even address, and takes it for granted that even if it is a new year, and is the first month of the new year it is still “chodes hashvii”

CA

This is not correct (and is the same mistake he is making).

If you look at the beggining of Rosh Hashana the Gemara goes through several possible rayah that We start the year for Jewish Kings from Nissan , and for Goyish kings from Tishrei you will see this clearly.

for example The Gemara says how do we know Jewish Kings are counted from Nissan?
Answers Hekish to Yetzias Mitzrayim.
Asks How do we know Yetzias Mitzrayi is from Nissan?
Answers It says Aron died in the 5th month of the fortieth year ie Av then says Moshe spoke in the 11th month of the Fortieth year ie Shevat So you see within a year Av is before Teves which means new year cant be Tishrei.

CLEARLY the fact that the Torah calls Av the 5th month doesnt tell us anything about when the year starts. In fact the Gemara entertains the possibility that the story of Shevat (ie the 11th month) precedes the story in Av (the 5th month) all in the 40th year!
In other words if the year started in Tishrei (as it does for most things) The first month is “chodesh Hashvii” the second month is “chodesh hashmini” etc etc
these are the NAMES of the month .

The Torahs’s name for Av is “Chodesh hachamishi” whether it is the 5 th month of the year or the 11th,. The NAME of the month is Chodesh Hachamishi.

Many over the years have discussed why we no longer use these names/ and not all agree with the Ramban. but to actively change the number system doesn’t seem right

SK

“Today’s generation and for the last thousands of years we change the year number to a new year in Tishrei with the new Year starting and counting Rosh Hashanah as the start of the new year ”

Incorrect you are mixing up two things

The year starts w/ Tishrei (for most things) Yet Tishrei is still the Seventh month.

Tishrei is called the Seventh month even though it is the first month. In the torah the months don;t have names. Much like days of the week We use sunday Monday etc. In Hebrew today the months don;t have names just yom rishon/Day one yom shieni Day two etc Except for shabbos.

with me?

so Biblical months
wha twe call tishrei is chodehs hahshivii the Seventh month. This was and remains the name of the month. Even if the New year begins in tishrei, it still begins with chodesh Hasivii the seventh month

(Lehavdil September is the ninth month even though it is called seven/sept – lehavdil not a perfect comparison don;t get caught up on it.)

bottom line is Av is never called 11, it MIGHT even be a bitul aseh to do so.

AAQ

My question wasn’t about my leaving
It was about the headhunter. The headhunter who approached me seems no different than someone approaching cleaning help.

There are no doubt halachic issues Ani hamehapecha becharara comes to mind, yet the yonly seem to come up in thse cases. I’m wondering why that is. Is there a halachic difference?

SK

“Who decided on the names of these countries?”

You did. some you chose to use their English names (Russia, Libya) some you chose Hebrew names (Mitzrayim)

some not sure what you are using, In what language is Europe “yireh pe”? I guess yiddish is close but that isnt English nor Hebrew.

I’m all for good Purim Torah, andthe above is pretty harmless, made me smile

however this part of your Purim Torah:

“B”Av is the 11 month of the year from how we follow for the last thousands of years starting from Rosh Hashanah as Tishrei as the first month.”

Is probably a bitul mitzvas aseh according to the Ramban. Although there are heterim to use other months or names etc, if you are activly assigning a new numbering system to Jewish months that seems to be an active bitul aseh

Besalel
“for me a refugee is someone who was born and lived in a place which for some reason becomes uninhabitable. ”

1) I see plenty of kids, they were born there
2) I’m not sure why being born the place you are is a requirement, my sibling was born in Brooklyn moved to Baltimore, if R”chl he is forced to flee he isn’t a refugee because he wasn’t born there?
3) Why was Ukraine “harms way” 5, 10 or w for that amtter even one year ago ? IS this a war you predicted when these people moved there?

“and now need money for what?”

For living

Obviously

I don’t know how long it takes. But Obviously this is true. I do t think there is a movment to go back to the “correct” borders of 1939, 1914, etc.

“A Ukraine that is part of NATO can be considered threatening to Russia”

Threatening or a threat?
And you have lots of what ifs. The strangest part is that, as you may know Russia annexed Crimea. So your argument, that if Ukraine joins NATO then if Russia takes Crimea, is at best questionable.

Your historical analysis, while interesting is a bit irrelevant too. As you know European borders changed dozens of times over the past centuries. Things change. all of Ukraine was part of Russia, as was Poland for that matter . I think it was you who first shared with me the “I was born in Austro-Hungary, bar mitzvahd in Czechoslovakia, married in Hungary, had my first child in the USSR, and died in Ukraine, without ever leaving Munkatch” in 1954 Crimea became part of Ukraine. Shoin! fertig Mazel Tov

smerel
“we disbanded the Warsaw Pact why does the West continue the militaristic buildup of NATO?” there is legitimacy behind what they are saying.”

firstly when have the Russians said that? And if they did there wouldn’t be legitimacy. nor even logic to such a claim. The idea of NATO is an attack on one equals an attack on all. To have a problem with NATO, you’d have to say “well what if I want to attack one of you and not face all” It is hard to argue that that is “legitimate”
And the Russians didn’t disband the Warsaw PAct, all the member countries chose to leave it (thus it was disbanded) and ALL (outside the USSR) joined NATO. Russia has since formed it s own treaty the CSTO which includes several former Soviet Republics.

So in short Russia DOES still have a military alliance. and even if they didn’t , “well what if we want to attack one of you” doesn’t sound super legitimate

You have been drinking up Russian Propaganda.

“the u.s. agreeing to leave Ukraine a neutral nation.” why isnt it up to Ukraine? An independent country has the right to conduct its own foreign affairs. It isn’t the US bringing Ukraien into NATO (unless Ukraine is being forced) it is Ukraine. If they view it as being in their best interests then by all means they should look to join. If not, not.

The rest of your post is largely riddled with whatboutism, what about IRaq what about China. (with a few fair points thrown in) but it is built on a distortion.

Bottom line. Putin is invading a neighbor not in self defense. That is wrong full stop.

RM

“But at least no more mean tweets!”

Agreed and that was one of his better qualities

Baruch Hashem Baruch Hashem Trump isnt in charge

could you imagine Trump in charge of the Nuclear arsenal at thsi time Rachmana Litzlan

He would have given Ukraine over to his buddy Putin AND likely still manage to start a wrodl War

Trump’s loss was truly the Refua before the makah

boy are we lucky

CS
not quite

“Actually the tread was about animal insults in yiddish and they are not so common in other languages”

Yes, thats how it started and I popped in to provide plenty of English examples of animal insults in English

On the subject of insults someone else (not me) popped in with the worst Yiddish insult “The worst insult is “Am Ha’aretz”. The very, very worst”

You replied to that fellow (not me) with two statements

1) ” I would rather be associated with an am hareatz who has emucha peshuta then a lamdam who has warped haskafa,”

2) “PS other than in the zip code 08701 an am haretz is not insult.”

Statement 1 has nothing to do with the thread as I pointed out in my last comment (somethign can still be an insult even if you prefer them because of some other quality)

Statement 2 was relevant, though incorrect which is what I replied initially, and we got conformation from other zip codes too

Screwdriver

“A vaccine mandate for all companies with more than 100 employees was b”h ruled unconstitutional. ”

It was not.

In fact arguably it was ruled constituional.

The court ruled that OSHA as written did not allow for it. IF the federal government were to revise OSHA (or create a new law) requiring vacccines, then it may be allowed
Or to quote directly “Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly. Requiring the vaccination of 84 million Americans, selected simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees, certainly falls in the latter category”

If congress DID give OSHA that power then the mandate MAY be able to proceed and may not be unconstituional( like the healthcare worker mandate)

CS
“PS other than in the zip code 08701 an am haretz is not insult.”

I’m not 08701, and, in my book, “am haaretz” is the worst insult mentioned in this thread

far worse than “a lamdan with warped hashkafa” not even close

“When you compare it to Tefillas Kol Peh where every paragraph is in a different font either different letter size, or bold to differentiate the paragraphs.”

Interesting.
I like the Artscroll siddur for the exact reason that it doesn’t randomly change fonts. It makes me nervous that one Halleluka is bigger than the next. or Berachos during shemoneh esrei randomly change size.

To each their own

Agree with th OP

” For example many of their reports implicitly push, equity based worldviews.”

A website that calls itself “yeshiva” world news should be far more explicit in their call to equity

RW

” And no YWN is not social media its a forum and those have been around many years and are not as problematic as social media.”

By any defintion, YWN (At least the coffee room) is social media

Websters:
” forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content ”

Oxford:
“websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.”

YWN Coffee room falls squarely into those definitions. you say it is “older” than other forms, I suppose thats true, not sure why that changes things .

you says it is ” not as problematic as social media.” I agree, but this sprt of answers your question.

Why use something simply because it is “not as problematic”? Obviously you find some good here. In spite of it being a bit of a time waster, often full of silly ideas, inane arguments often by people who don’t understand the topics they are talking about (I once had a long drawn out discussion with someone on whether a study was valid, with someone who didn’t understand the basic idea behind studies)
I spite of those negatives WE find something of value here, whatever that may be

Same for other forms of social media, sure there are downsides, but people find that the good outweighs the bad. yo umention “just an excuse to use the platform since everyone else is using it.” YES! that is a big chunk of it. PEople dont want to feel left out. They find value in that

RE

“ubi, your question is an old question”

I didnt ask a question.

In fact, since I was worried some might mistakenly think I was asking a question, I explicitly wrote ” Note I’m not actually asking,…” To make it clear that I was NOT asking a question

akuperma
“However Biden is the first president, ever, to announce that gender and race are the ONLY factors he’ll consider.”

Is that what he said?
I agree that would be bad. I didn’t realize he said that .

The quotes I saw were all along the lines of “The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court,”

RS
“In the ideal world the most qualified individual should be the nominee.”

How would that work? What is the measure by which we could judge who is “most qualified” for the Supreme court.
And are you saying that whoever has the highest measure, of whatever it means to be “most qualified” should be the nominee regardless of when he/she plans to retire regardless of ideology?

LP
Go for it, if that is important to you lobby the current administration or start supporting likely contenders for 2024. If enough of you support that you might get it

Avira

“Israel had an advantage in its advanced technology, weaponry, training and other factors”

Interesting. Never expected to hear you subscribe to “Kochi Veotzem yodi”

kidding, of course I did. Still funny to see

CS

“my toilet flushing properly is about as irrelevant”

don’t be so quick to dismiss things as irrelevant. Sometimes you may be surprised.

toilets should not have trouble flushing. You either need a plumber or need to change your diet .

I wouldn’t just put it off.

#themoreyouknow

“And yes, there is a mistake in my first sentence which illustrates a mistake I see secular teachers make”

Maybe those spelling mistakes are there to illustrate mistakes too?

Excellent example of Ubiquitin’s law of the internet btw (Sometimes called Skitt’s law)

RW

Trump didn’t change at all

You ask “Are you still behind trump 100 percent ” People who were behind him 100% arevery confusing to me. Trump has shown his true colors many many times

The question was ON BALANCE does/did the good outweigh the bad. To me not by a long shot, others felt that while he had many chisronos, on balance the good outweighed the bad. Sure as time passes they can reevaluate either based on new information (or perceived changes) or clearing up of old hidden information and now feel that on balance the good no longer outweighs the bad. Thats fair

but very few people here (if any) were ever behind Trump 100%. Though admittedly it did sound that way at times , but when push came to shove, most people conceded it wasnt 100% (why it was so hard for them to say that is a separate issue)

You say “just shows that once someone hurts his ego he will flip a 180. He’s not to be trusted.” this isn’t news Trump is not a young man he has been around and in the public view for decades. This was not a secret. It is a bit odd, that you ever thought that somehow you were special, and even if you (I dont mean you personally, I mean people/groups you care about) hurt his ego he would still be a mensch

“He basically flipped everything he said before”

That is literally his entire modus operandi. He was a Democrat as recently as 2009 , and has publicly identified as such , and with many “liberal” positions. It is confusing that you are surprised by this now

” And the fact that he attracts such big crowds is frightening and reminiscent of other powerful and maniacal individuals.”

again, very confusing. He did this in 2016 too.

EVERYTHING you have said was true in 2016.

Lastly, “I would say the fact that he is suddenly encouraging vaccines and boosters after claiming to be against mandates proves it all further. ”
This part doesnt prove anything. Encouraging vaccines has nothing to do with mandates. I encourage everybody to try french fries on Pizza, absolutely delicious game changer. Try it! even if you don;t like it at least you’ll know. that said I dont think there should be a mandate requiring you to try it. no contradiction there at all