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  • in reply to: Baba Sali #2048059
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    YO: You’ve been fooling us all along?!

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    They let you out so fast?

    Where do I file a complaint?

    in reply to: Penniless #2047960
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    The penny is far from gone.

    in reply to: Baba Sali #2047907
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    YO: Don’t be so humble. We all recognize you as the greatest Sefardic voice we have.

    in reply to: How Close Are You To Your Siblings? #2047902
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    Anyone become closer to their siblings in adulthood or later in life than they were during childhood or even young adulthood?

    in reply to: Short Skirts #2047877
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    I just counted the tznius threads in the coffee room. In the over 13 years the coffee room has existed, there is less than one thread per year, on average. And a larger than proportional representation are from over 10 years ago. If, literally, less than one tznius discussion per year is too much for you, the problem lies within. Why are you afraid of discussing this uncomfortable-for-you topic?

    This is one of the least discussed topics and yet perhaps the one that needs the most attention, given the abysmal state modern society finds itself on this issue.

    There have been more than 10 times *each* as many discussions about shidduchim, cholent, elections, corona, Shabbos and Trump, among others. I haven’t heard you complain about there being too many discussions about the elections or about cholent.

    in reply to: Short Skirts #2047833
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    I wonder whether those folks who downplay pritzus or mock those who adhere to Halacha and promote encouraging others to follow the letter of the law on this topic, also mock and downplay Mechalel Shabbos and eating treif.

    in reply to: Short Skirts #2047553
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    Are you sure you’re human?!

    in reply to: Kollel life with no parental support #2047542
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    A true Kollel family is where neither the husband nor the wife own or have access to a smartphone.

    in reply to: Covid takeaways #2047543
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    N0m: You used Rav Brudny as your proof. Your proof was absolutely false.

    in reply to: Short Skirts #2047538
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    If you were driving on a rural road and unexpectedly passed your wife or mother or daughter, you wouldn’t have noticed who she is and would have simply driven right by her?

    Even if she was crossing the street in front of your windshield while you were braking to let her cross?

    in reply to: Covid takeaways #2047513
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    N0m: I *do* have an excellent idea of what’s going on. Which is why I shared the accurate information with you in my previous comment, to respond to your erroneous point prior.

    in reply to: Short Skirts #2047502
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    So you wouldn’t even realize whether the pedestrian who crossed in front of your car, while you waited with your foot on the break watching them pass, was a man or a woman. Interesting. How do you know when you can move your car again without running him/her over?

    Would you have known the difference whether it was an indecently dressed woman or a horse from the NYPD stable on street patrol that passed in front of your eyes while you patiently watched and waited for her/it to pass?

    in reply to: Non jewish isreilis #2047505
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    N0m: Halacha has what to say regarding selling land in EY to non-Jews. Or to bring them from outside to EY for permanent residency, for that matter.

    in reply to: Covid takeaways #2047484
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    N0m: The Mirrer Yeshiva in Flatbush, where Rav Brudny is Rosh Yeshiva, elementary and mesivta decidedly did NOT use Zoom.

    in reply to: Non jewish isreilis #2047463
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    They should expel all the Goyim who immigrated to Eretz Yisroel, whether because they descended from some Jewish grandfather, or they had a fake conversion or however else they got there.

    in reply to: Putting Back Sfarim #2047462
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    Has anyone heard of a shul that banned a frum Yid from shul at all, let alone for such a petty infraction?!?

    in reply to: Short Skirts #2047460
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    N0m: Do you cross the street or drive through intersections with your eyes closed?

    What are you talking about “preferred”? Preferred as in what compared to what else, for example?

    in reply to: Covid takeaways #2047457
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    N0m: Yes, you’re confused. It was the younger more modern Yeshivos that permitted zoom.

    in reply to: Shailos – Psak Halacha Hotlines #2047385
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    Here in London our Federation Beis Din has “ShailaText” (texting only) for shailos:

    Text: +44 7403 939613

    It is available internationally.

    in reply to: “Frum” therapist #2047361
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    N0m: in response to the recent CW tragedy, just in the last week alone I’ve seen many choshuve and prominent Rabbonim and poskim insist that people should only use therapist as the same gender of themselves or their child.

    in reply to: Short Skirts #2047311
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    AAQ: Rambam paskens a Beis Din can execute 100 people a day, if the situation warrants it.

    in reply to: Shailos – Psak Halacha Hotlines #2047305
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    Are there any others that haven’t been mentioned, or newer services?

    in reply to: Putting Back Sfarim #2047271
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    Hang signs all over the walls imploring people to return Seforim to their correct shelf, immediately after use.

    in reply to: Get Over Ended Shidduch #2047233
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    IMHO, with a stress on the “H”, the reason for all the unnecessary stress people experience in shidduchim is because the tzibbur has moved further and further away from how Yiddishe shidduchim have been done for time immemorial. When Tattes were Tattes and when kinderlach were kinder, two Tattes would get together and agree that my Yankel in Cheder is a perfect match for your Shaindel in your Yiddishe shteeb. A few years after the Bar Mitzvah we’ll make a nice little chasuna, with the Seudas Mitzvah on Friday night after Shabbos davening.

    I don’t know if we can get all the way back to that ideal, though that should be the goal certainly, but surely we should move back as close to the above scenario as practical and feasible.

    in reply to: How Close Are You To Your Siblings? #2047164
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    Would it be fair to say that (more often) males are closer to their brothers and BILs than to their sisters and SILs whereas females tend to be closer to their sisters and SILs than to their brothers and BILs?

    in reply to: Covid takeaways #2047163
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    Videos can have highly inappropriate content. Once you permit “kosher” videos, you lose a large degree of controlling/stopping emails from containing non-kosher videos.

    in reply to: Kollel life with no parental support #2047152
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    You’re very very far from the only one. Many people are in the same shoes.

    in reply to: Teachers salaries #2047138
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    Any Jew qualified for public benefits should accept every penny he’s legally entitled to. Regardless of his employment status.

    in reply to: Get Over Ended Shidduch #2047100
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    It seems to me that the OP’s scenario is not significantly different than if a guy is very interested in the girl from around the corner but he becomes aware that the interest isn’t reciprocal.

    in reply to: Writing on Paper #2047084
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    Reports on the death of books and paper are greatly exaggerated.

    in reply to: Get Over Ended Shidduch #2046942
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    Swallow and move on.

    in reply to: Gut Shabbos vs. Shabbat Shalom #2046917
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    DaMoshe: Did you ever get an answer from your Rabbi for Avram’s question?

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    Take it easy, Biden reduced your sentence to only five days.

    in reply to: “Frum” therapist #2046812
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    N0m: What’s your comment have to do with my point or address it in any way? There will be good and not good therapists regardless if they service both genders or only one gender. But if they service only their own gender, they’ll have less opportunity to sin or have Yichud.

    Your example of the male therapist specializing in troubled girls makes my case. If the community wouldn’t tolerate opposite gender therapists, he would have been denied the ability to have inappropriately acted as you described.

    in reply to: The world should take action on Israel’s treatment of charedim #2046813
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    N0m: Yes, the statement is a blanket one.

    in reply to: “Frum” therapist #2046800
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    n0m: I don’t see any coherent rational in your comment why if our communities had firm expectations that male therapists would only service males and that female therapists would only service females, how that would entail any significant loss, while its benefits, whatever their limitations, are clear.

    in reply to: My Poasts/Comments are not getting Approved. #2046782
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    n0m: how old be you?

    in reply to: Covid takeaways #2046754
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    Yseribus: You’re blinded to the serious dangers of opening up the Pandora’s Box known as the Internet.

    in reply to: The world should take action on Israel’s treatment of charedim #2046752
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    huju: Mechalel Shabbos, treif fressers, are not included in being considered our brothers in Klal Yisroel, and the associated benefits and considerations that entails.

    in reply to: “Frum” therapist #2046540
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    n0m: Why not?

    in reply to: Israel’s frozen economy #2046449
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    Romain, what you’re describing is called “fat fingers”.

    in reply to: Controversial topics list #2046445
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    About that controversial topic, n0m, I had submitted several days ago a very pareve response to your Titanic-type scenario, on the old thread. But the mods apparently, in their infinite wisdom, deemed it insufficiently feminist to even permit the halachic thought to see the light of day.

    in reply to: “Frum” therapist #2046397
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    Very simple solution:

    Jewish male therapists should only take male clients, if individual privacy is required for sessions, and Jewish female therapists should only accept female clients.

    And, then, they can all be therapists. There are enough of both genders to cater to each one.

    Problem solved. Next topic, please.

    in reply to: The world should take action on Israel’s treatment of charedim #2046334
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    follick2: the irreligious authorities don’t carry the benefit of being considered part of Klal Yisroel.

    in reply to: Happy Birthday!!! (you know who you are) #2046333
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    My birthday only occurs once in four years. And sometimes not even once in four years.

    in reply to: The world should take action on Israel’s treatment of charedim #2046321
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    Bravo! The OP, Romain, is 100% correct.

    The US should put sanctions on Israel for its human rights violations against Chareidim.

    in reply to: Protecting the innocent and false accusations #2045938
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    N0m: Would therapy in a glass see-through office/conference room that is completely sound-proof to the outside, that has people milling about outside able to see but unable to hear anything, be convoluted? It would seem the privacy is preserved.

    in reply to: Waukesha Killer #2045822
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    B_T OP: You’re 100% correct.

    in reply to: Police Woman Potter #2045825
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    Bored Teen: Thank you.

    Now brace yourself to be called a sock puppet and misogynist (like you said) by the folks who cannot believe there are sane folks out there who don’t subscribe to their feminism.

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