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  • in reply to: Are you allowed to give Tzeddakah/charity to Non-Jews #1991809
    ujm
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    Giving money to a nochri is not considered to be tzedaka.

    in reply to: High Rise vs. Low Rise Residences #1990830
    ujm
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    There’s a limit how high frum families will purchase an apartment on. Too high a floor becomes a problem on Shabbos.

    in reply to: Funny stories while traveling #1990827
    ujm
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    Eight year olds definitely go and use it.

    in reply to: Anti semitism poem #1990591
    ujm
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    And not have a fancy mansion or ostentatious displays of wealth.

    in reply to: Judgemental people #1990209
    ujm
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    How does eating treif on Yom Kippur help you achieve a stronger bond with your creator?

    in reply to: Anyone know anything about SOUTH AFRICA #1990190
    ujm
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    Post-apartheid the country has gone steeply downhill.

    in reply to: Conservative sounds better for people with ADHD #1990105
    ujm
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    Can’t they have specialized minyanim at the dayhab?

    in reply to: cost of living #1990042
    ujm
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    Syag, you restated Reb Eliezer’s point in a much wordier way.

    in reply to: cost of living #1990026
    ujm
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    Reb Eliezer hit the nail on the head. Bingo.

    in reply to: cost of living #1990015
    ujm
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    CA, how much are *you* paid? I’ll bet it isn’t enough to explain most of the cost differential between kosher and treif. 100k is definitely an extreme on the high side.

    akuperma: What you wrote is true for men/boys but not for women/girls.

    in reply to: Conservative sounds better for people with ADHD #1990008
    ujm
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    Yes, but you scream the ENTIRE davening out loud.

    in reply to: cost of living #1989989
    ujm
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    I know the cost of a mashgiach and hechsher. That doesn’t explain the cost differential between kosher and treif.

    in reply to: Conservative sounds better for people with ADHD #1989986
    ujm
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    You need to go to a Karlin-Stolin minyan. Issue resolved.

    in reply to: cost of living #1989972
    ujm
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    The cost of the masgiach/hechsher is NOT the reason for most of the extra cost of kosher versus treif.

    in reply to: cost of living #1989900
    ujm
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    Same reason that kosher food costs more than trief food.

    in reply to: Anyone know anything about SOUTH AFRICA #1989899
    ujm
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    Downhill since the ANC took over.

    in reply to: Grey or Blue Kapotas #1989569
    ujm
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    Get a Rebbishe bekishe, instead. They come in all kinds of colors.

    in reply to: Grey or Blue Kapotas #1989470
    ujm
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    They started making stylish kapotas??

    in reply to: Lakewood asifa #1989400
    ujm
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    The one where they warned against it due to the threat against Yiddishkeit from the Israeli government?

    in reply to: Otzar HaCochma vs. HebrewBooks vs. Bar-Ilan #1988773
    ujm
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    Sholom: If Otzar Hachochma has multiple editions, with one of them (“Bnei Torah”) lacking the works you’re interested in, then simply get their more inclusive edition that has the books you’re interested in. I’m not following why this should be an issue for you.

    in reply to: growing up #1988774
    ujm
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    Growing up I used to sit in a high chair with a pacifier after finishing my baby food.

    in reply to: Otzar HaCochma vs. HebrewBooks vs. Bar-Ilan #1988553
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    Sholom: Multiple commentators above have mentioned that Otzar Hachochma has many tens of thousands of Seforim that are missing in Bar Ilan and in Sefaria. So I have no idea what you’re talking about regarding censorship. Otzar Hachochma has far far more that are completely missing in the others.

    in reply to: Chief Rabbis of France and South Africa #1988554
    ujm
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    Gadol: New York had a Chief Rabbi.

    in reply to: Chief Rabbis of France and South Africa #1988463
    ujm
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    As far as his authority, even the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain has no formal authority in religious matters. Any Jew can, and very many do, completely disregard him in all religious issues.

    The same principle applies in France and South Africa as well as, to a somewhat lesser degree, even in Israel.

    in reply to: We, Yidden: G-d’s Chosen People!! #1988336
    ujm
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    Many Yiddish words have entered the English lexicon.

    Yiddish is spoken by hundreds of thousands of Yidden today around the world. About half of them speak it as their first language.

    in reply to: Otzar HaCochma vs. HebrewBooks vs. Bar-Ilan #1988221
    ujm
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    What is the difference between Otzros Hachochma and Otzros HaTorah?

    in reply to: Otzar HaCochma vs. HebrewBooks vs. Bar-Ilan #1988211
    ujm
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    Thank you for the explanations.

    Is more or less everything in Bar Ilan (as well as in HebrewBooks, Sefaria, DBS) also in Otzar Hachochma?

    Is there any hashkafic issues wish Bar Ilan, considering it is produced by a secular university? What are the hashkafic concerns with Sefaria?

    How does Sefaria, DBS and other similar offerings compare to the aforementioned?

    On a technical note, I understand that some of the older versions of Otzar Hachochma or Bar Ilan were made available as an all-in-one complete on CDs with a one-time purchase, whereas the currently sold versions are accessed online with a subscription rather than having it all installed on your PC. Is that correct?

    in reply to: shiduchim #1988179
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    5TR: Who were meshadech your children?

    in reply to: shiduchim #1988143
    ujm
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    huju: You seem to be confusing the Saudis with the JAPs.

    in reply to: Sukkah roof idea #1987988
    ujm
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    It’s called a Shlach.

    in reply to: Modern Orthodox OTD by Gender #1987876
    ujm
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    DaMoshe: I’m not. I’m relying on one of the most eminent MO rabbi with one of the largest congregations in one of the most prominent MO towns.

    You may wish to nitpick what he said but regardless of the particulars of any survey or scientific poll, or lack thereof, the fact that he with his intimate knowledge of the community could publicly make the case that 50% of MO post-high school students go OTD, and lament that terrible situation, means the figure or general situation is minimally plausible, and more likely, given he being in a better position than most to comment about the subject, fairly close to reality.

    in reply to: ger rebbi vs. r’ shaul alter #1987859
    ujm
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    There’s no versus. They’re on the same page.

    in reply to: shiduchim #1987857
    ujm
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    What other “decisions” has she made?

    in reply to: Modern Orthodox OTD by Gender #1987695
    ujm
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    DaMoshe: Nowhere close to 50% of MO high school students come from irreligious homes. As such, any way you slice or dice it, r’l a high percentage of formerly frum MO high school students go off the derech.

    in reply to: We, Yidden: G-d’s Chosen People!! #1987550
    ujm
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    Jewish ghetto mentality is far far superior to an American mentality.

    in reply to: Free summer meals #1987510
    ujm
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    Yeshiva of Flatbush, Torah Temima, Masbia, etc.

    in reply to: Men wear black and white? #1987511
    ujm
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    Jews always had a Jewish mode of dress.

    in reply to: OOT Kollel #1987265
    ujm
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    sammygol is well traveled.

    in reply to: shiduchim #1987264
    ujm
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    TrueBT: Lakewood is over 1/3 Chasidish.

    in reply to: shiduchim #1987190
    ujm
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    Stick to a family strictly adhering to all proper practices.

    in reply to: Modern Orthodox OTD by Gender #1986249
    ujm
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    yytz: That rabbi is a leading rabbi of the MO community. He has no reason to exaggerate the failings of his own communities.

    Are we going to simply ignore this monumental failures because there’s a lack of published studies with detailed “methodologies” that are well designed? Perhaps the real percentage is 65%, but we’ll relax with our heads buried in the sand until Pew Research, Quinnipac, Gallup or the Marist Institute for Public Opinion conduct a well-heeled study, strictly using rigorous standards, determining the full, real and accurate statistics.

    Until such time we’ll tolerate further generations of countless youths to discard Yiddishkeit in favor of college frat parties, with wine, women and song, along with some hazing and a hedonistic lifestyle, r’l?

    in reply to: Any shuls with daily minyanim in dark places #1985922
    ujm
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    What’s wrong wish bring around people who don’t have Asperger’s or around people who aren’t younger than you?

    in reply to: Modern Orthodox OTD by Gender #1985819
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    Are Roster: The MO world has a far far far higher OTD rate in general. Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, eminent MO rabbi from Teaneck, wrote that about 50% of MO university students (which is close to all MO post-high school kids) go OTD while in college. You hear that? 50%!! Another study indicated that overall MO have a 25% OTD rate.

    Reb Eliezer: The Chareidim (Chasidish/Yeshivish) have a tiny OTD rate in the 1% range neighborhood. It is incomparably smaller than the MO rate. As such, the idea that chumras lead to going OTD is preposterous on its face. Had that been the case you’d see a larger OTD rate among Chareidim, who are known to keep chumras, than among MO, who keep kulas.

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1985261
    ujm
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    Do the non-Yekkes who sometimes do the Yekkishe washing before Kiddush also sometimes eat milichigs three hours after fleishigs?

    in reply to: Where have all the Yekkes gone? #1985108
    ujm
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    What’s the halachic basis for Yekkes only waiting three hours and Dutch only waiting one hour between fleishigs and milichigs?

    in reply to: Democrats and Far Left #1985079
    ujm
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    The title is redundant. Democrats and far left are synonymous.

    in reply to: Is English the new Yiddish? #1985001
    ujm
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    Reb Eliezer, you botched the joke ah bissel. Actually, for many it was no joke, it is their reality:

    I have been born in Austria-Hungary, I have been married in Czechoslovakia, I have given birth in Hungary, I have lived with my family in the Soviet Union, I reside currently in the Ukraine,… And I never have left the city of Munkatch.

    in reply to: Is being on time a Jewish value? #1984992
    ujm
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    You can often better manage to not waste time by starting later than the official schedule.

    in reply to: Is being on time a Jewish value? #1984980
    ujm
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    It’s a Yekkishe value.

    in reply to: Why “Peysach”? #1984963
    ujm
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    Gut Yuntif!

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