Mod80- I apologize for causing you to become angry. Have a good YT.

“I really find it ridiculous that people think if a guy is offering a ride to girl that it somehow will always end up with dating or marriage. Why does that have to be the case? Why can’t a guy give a girl a ride home just for the sake of being a nice person? Do you think every girl I talk to or deal with every day will result in a love affair? Of course not! I don’t think about marriage every time I talk to a woman.”

Popa does. See HERE

The financial penalty is not “one year of support”. The attacker is obligated to pay the difference in value between a kesubah of a besulah and a kesuba of a beula. This is appropriate because he caused her “marriageable value” to decrease by that amount.

The actual punishment is that if her father so chooses, the attacker must marry her and forfeits his right to divorce her. If the father does not exercise this option, seemingly there is nothing further. Obviously, there is dinei shomayim.

“Let’s all remember: It is possible to be right and stupid.”

I cannot resist the impulse to point out the tautology.

I also can’t wait for some nitpicker to then point my finger back at me.

gavra-at-work:

That won’t work, because you’ve misquoted the scripture. I think you wanted to say 5:40, which is if someone asks for your shirt give him your coat also. Ee atoh don eloh ke ain haprat.

Thank you

ZeesKite-

I refrained from mentioning the site so as not to lead others to it. But now that it’s out there, I ask- why is it (do you think) that this poster is allowed to have a link to his blog when no one else is allowed to link to even an innocuous site?

Why do I never hear any complaints about 3 day weekends the way I hear them about 3 day Y”T?

for comparison sake i just checked on a particular poster, who is no longer here

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Hey! I am too still around 🙁

I remember Confederate soldiers forcing their way into our home to spend the night.

Option B: (If you live in a place where the “besserer mentchen” don’t seek out gov’t programs)

1. Get married to someone willing to work a full-time job also.

The rest of the country is living on dual incomes, that’s why it’s harder to compete on a single income. Even if your salary is above average, it is most likely less than twice the average.

“somewhere between Leviticus and Samuel.”

And I can be found somewhere between California and France.

Are radishes heretical?

Must be she was Ron then

DY: Coffee is used socially? Coke is not used socially?

It most certainly is used socially. And I believe that if someone uses Coke on a date it is a 100% valid reason to end the shidduch. But I’m radical.

Smile. All the time.

broad generalizations make ignorant people sound stupid.

great line!

Is it? It sounds like a broad generalization to me.

I don’t know that I’d categorize weight loss surgery as “cosmetic.”

Wolf- Sorry I was unclear. The tshuva discusses cosmetic weight loss surgery, not health related weight loss surgery. I last saw the tshuva about 6 years ago so I could be mistaken, but I believe that R’ Moshe dismisses the shaila of health related weight loss surgery upfront by saying that whenever the health benefit of the surgery is expected to exceed the risk it is absolutely allowed.

Cosmetic surgeries are more problematic, because the guf (body) is on loan to us and not owned by us. Perhaps over Shabbos I will find time to look it up and provide an exact phrasing.

Mod 80- I have one. My tallis gadol is meyuchad l’teffila. My neighbor also has a gartel which is meyuchad.

Don’t bother. YWN loves the NK gossip. If you don’t believe me, take a look at posts from a couple of years back – there were 2-3 stories a day.

binahyeseira- You define yourself as an introvert per MBTI and you talk through your thoughts? Sounds to me like you need to be retested, or you didn’t test well.

Your generalization about men and women may or may not be true, but the MB Test results are that you are I or E, not “Man” or “Woman” 🙂 (Personally, I disagree with the generalization).

“statistics of myers-brigg show that 75% of population are extroverts”

The Myers-Briggs definitions of introvert and extrovert is different from the colloquial usages of the words. In MBTI, an introvert is one who thinks “internally” and an extrovert is one who thinks “externally”. For example, an MBTI extrovert is likely to be someone who talks through their thoughts. An MBTI introvert is one who is likely not to say anything until he has thought through the subject and solidified his ideas. if you put the two of them in the room together, the likely outcome is that the introvert will think to himself, “why can’t that guy be quiet so I can think”, and the extrovert will think to himself, “that guy just doesn’t have any useful ideas”.

In the colloquial sense, we mean socially introvert and extrovert, i.e. shy vs. outgoing. So MBTI isn’t really useful in this discussion.

🙁

I was sure my post would do it

NO PAIN….. is GOOD ?

Wolf-

Oops! At least I got the right sedra :). You are correct, I meant ki yikarei but must have focused on the root of the word and gotten mixed up (K-R-E).

80-

I know that, and you know that, but I’m just telling it like it happened. He could have been mafkir just the tree but he didn’t. Anyway, I don’t think the city would have allowed the subdivision so he would have had to give up the rest of the property to me anyway.

My friends father had some birds nest in his tree. So somebody said, “hey, you can do shiluach hakan!”

I think this is a mistake. “Asher korcha baderech” – the nest can’t be on private property.

I got my house this way. I was at a friend’s house and he told me he was going to do shiluach hakan on the birds in his backyard tree. I told him it can’t be private property, so he was immediately mafkir the tract. While he was up in the tree, I got two eidim and gained a piece of land.