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Fruits
Vegetables
Matzah w/spreads (gebrokts eating people, of course)
Tuna fish
Eggs
Macaroons (is it truly Pesach without macaroons?)
Meat/Cold Cuts
Yogurt
Cheese
and much, much more. There is plenty to eat on Pesach.
The Wolf
The feeling is that if you give blood, and then a few weeks later someone in the community needs blood, you won’t be able to donate.
That’s odd. The only time I could possibly see that being a problem is in one of the following two scenarios:
1. All potential donors give blood at the same time (which is unlikely).
2. If the potential donor has a particularly rare blood type.
But for someone like me who has “gutter blood,” there are always plenty of other people with my blood type available for donating.
In addition, there are times (especially WRT emergencies) when the doctors won’t have time to wait for donors — they need to have the blood on hand right away.
The Wolf
On my 18th birthday, I went to donate blood to Bikur Cholim, and blacked out in middle.
Don’t let that stop you. I passed out my first time, but I’ve given many times since then without problem.
The Wolf
i am having trouble understanding what that means
So ask them to specify what they mean. Don’t accept generalities because your definition of a general concept may differ from theirs.
Bad question: Are they yeshivish?
Good question: Do they ask their Rebbi for help in major life decisions? Do they only eat cholov yisroel? Do they discourage going to college? Do they only wear black/white?*
The Wolf
* I don’t know that these questions are indicative of “yeshivish” behavior. They are used as examples only.
I have been giving blood since I was eighteen.
The first time I gave, I passed out in the chair. 🙂 However, every time since then I’ve been fine*. B”H I have good veins and it goes very easy for me.
Six months ago, I took my oldest (he’s 16) to a blood drive and he gave for the first time. He’s since given another pint as well — he’s a quarter of the way to the gallon mark. Eeees often gives as well (although for her it’s harder as she has lousy veins). As my others get older, I am going to encourage them to give as well.
I personally recommend giving blood if you are able to.
The Wolf
* Except for the one time I gave platelets, when I passed out too. Go figure.
Do you think a pruzbul ruins the etzem of shmitas k’safim?
Do you think that hyrdoponics ruins the etzem of shvi’is?
Do you think that shabbos clocks/timers ruin the eztem of shabbos?
Do you think that Bacos ruin the etzem of Kashrus?
Do you think pareve cheesechake ruins the etzem of Shavuous? (OK, that one’s a joke.)
The Wolf
Thank you for the compliment, Volvie. 🙂
The Wolf
Just out of curiosity… how did you know I wasn’t entitled to vote? I don’t believe I ever mentioned where in Brooklyn I live.
The Wolf
There is no reason why anyone should get “stuck” in the intersection. You are required to stay out of the intersection and not proceed until you see that there is enough room on the other side to cross and keep out of the intersection.
I’m usually very careful not to block the box and wait until there is room for me to go. Nonetheless, there was a time that I ended up, unwittingly, blocking the box. I was on a two lane street waiting by an intersection for a spot to clear up beyond the box for me to move up. When it did, I began to move. However, shortly after I began to move, the driver from the next lane decided he wanted that spot (since his lane wasn’t moving as quickly) and rushed forward and cut me off. By that time I was in the box and the light changed again.
But cases like that are rare. Generally speaking, there is no reason to block the box.
The Wolf
That’s true. But it doesn’t change the fact that I, in fact, did not vote.
The Wolf
I didn’t vote.
The Wolf
Chillul hashem nit to vote
I’m assuming you meant “not to vote.”
My question to you is this — assuming the person doesn’t take out a billboard in Times Square or otherwise advertise the fact that they didn’t vote, how is it a Chillul HaShem?
The Wolf
Thanks for the clarification. I just wanted to ask because the situation you are describing is impossible based on the true meaning of the word.
Have a good Shabbos.
The Wolf
I’m confused. The way my question was set up is not ideal for a former/latter answer.
Are you saying that you’re using b’dieved according to it’s true meaning?
If so, then please explain how a posek can tell you to do something which is only b’dieved?
The Wolf
Furthermore, even where a Rov will tell you of course women should vote today, it is clearly a b’dieved.
Volvie,
Forgive the ignorance here, but if a rav is telling you to do something (before you’ve done it), how can it possibly be a b’dieved?
Or are you using the word “b’dieved” to mean “not ideal” as opposed to what it truly means?
The Wolf
One person I know solved the problem by selling his chometz to the rav before he left. The Rov then sold it to the non-Jew together with his chometz. After Pesach, the rav bought it back from the non-Jew and then sold it (or gave it back) to the traveller.
The Wolf
A nicer Esrog and beautifying Yom Tov are mitzvos themselves.
Maybe… but charity is minHaTorah. Buying a nicer Esrog is a hiddur mitzvah at best.
The Wolf
With so many people out of work, and people needing to take from Tomche Shabbos to put food on the table, wouldn’t it be tremendous if every person took the thousands of dollars they spend on a hotel and gave it to tzedakos that need it desperately?
But hey, why stop with Pesach hotels?
Wouldn’t it be better if everyone bought a cheap esrog and gave more to Tomche Shabbos? Wouldn’t it be better if, instead of a $25 bouquet of flowers for Yom Tov I bought a $5 bouquet and gave the balance to Tomche Shabbos?
The Wolf
Going into Golus to celebrate cheirus really doesn’t make sense.
You know, as I give the matter a bit of thought, it seems to me that the authentic Jewish thing to do *is* to go to a hotel.
After all, in the times of the Beis HaMikdash, unless you lived in Yerushalayim, you went away for Pesach *every* year. 🙂
(No, I’m not really advocating that people go away — but let’s quit knocking those that do.)
The Wolf
Wearing a helmet is a must!
Ah, but the mitzvah of wearing a hat (a yehoraig v’al ya’avor, certainly) is doche the silly helmet rule (which is only dina d’malchusa dina anyway). 🙂
Kidding aside, you’re absolutely right. Helmets are a must. My kids don’t go biking without them. I’m glad to see your R”Y enforcing the point.
The Wolf
Eeees and I have always stayed at home (or with friends/relatives) for Pesach. We have never gone away to a hotel for Pesach and, truthfully, cannot even imagine it — even if we did have the money for it.
But that being said, I have no problem with it. Just because it isn’t for us personally and conflicts with “our idea” of Pesach doesn’t make it wrong or bad for everyone. To each his own and all that.
The Wolf
Here’s a silly idea:
The couple works it out among themselves.
Consider it a test — if they can’t work out something this simple, then the shidduch is probably not a good match anyway.
The Wolf
FWIW, as a parent of formerly little children, I *know* what it’s like to be stranded with a carriage and no easy way to get it up or down stairs.
I *always* make it a point to help people (of both genders) up and down stairs when they have little kids in a carriage. This happens quite often in the subway.
And yes, I have managed to do so without coming into contact with, let alone doing anything worse, with any of the women.
The Wolf
Issues of Shomer Negiah certainly seem to be applicable here to me. Is the woman an aishis eish, or other Arayah?
Granted, there *might* be issues with handling items back and forth in a non-contact situation, but, again, those aren’t issues of Tumah and Taharah, but issues of harchaka from an ervah.
The Wolf
re Taharah between a man and woman touching via an object, that are more critical here than Tznius
Considering that this thread is not talking about a husband and wife*, I’m forced to ask what taharah issues are there? In the absence of the BHMK what Tumah/Taharah issues are relevant? Do you not take objects from your mother’s hands or the hands of your teenage/adult daughters? If there really were Taharah issues, then you would have problems with immediate relatives as well — which I *highly* doubt to be the case.
The Wolf
* And even with a husband and wife, the prohibition on handing objects back and forth while she’s a niddah has nothing to do with Tumah/Taharah, but rather as a harchaka so that they shouldn’t come to be intimate.
As long as we’re combining Tom Lehrer and math, make sure you check out “The New Math.” The song is a bit dated, but still very funny.
The Wolf
As for pi day, I must have missed it.
I’ll have to be Yotzei with the make up day in Europe — July 22.
The Wolf
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Oh sure… edit it just as it’s getting to the good part. 🙂
The Wolf
My “minhag” is that sometimes I nap, sometimes I learn, sometimes I spend time with the kids, sometimes we have friends over and sometimes we go out to friends.
Since I’m constantly changing my “minhag,” do I have to do hataras nedarim every week? 🙂
The Wolf
Where did I ever say otherwise?
Admittedly, you did not.
However, if you say it’s dangerous to attend public school because of bullies, then would you say the same about yeshivos since the same problems exist there?
The Wolf
how would you respond?
In the front seat? Then you’re not riding in my car.
In the back I tend to be more lenient *if* they are adults.
The Wolf
There is a frum lady who owns a store down the street from me. I pass it regularly. I always wave and/or wish her a good morning/evening.
I make it a point to say “good morning/afternoon/evening,” to everyone I interact with — the bus driver when I put in my metrocard, the cashier at the store, the mailman/woman when I meet him/her in the street, etc.
And, believe it or not, very often when I mention this, someone will give me flack for “being friendly” with a woman (as at least some of those people tend to be female).
Perhaps we’re becoming afraid of associating with “someone improper” (whether it be someone of the opposite gender, someone not from our particular sub-group, or even someone not Jewish) that we tend to be “amazed” when someone actually displays common courtesy regardless of what others might think.
The Wolf
What would you say to those people whose lives were saved only because they were thrown from a vehicle in an accident?
a. Such cases are few and far between. Seat belts save vastly more lives than they may cost.
b. People thrown from vehicles still become projectiles and can injure other people and themselves.
The Wolf
I think it is extremly dangerous for any smaller then average child to attend public school as the law requires becaus ethe bullies gravatat toward those they most easily abuse and the abuse sometimes turns deadly as in a case in NYC a few years ago where some bully punched another kid and killed him with one punch.
If you think bullying does not occur in yeshivos, then I have a bridge to sell you. As a parent of a child who has been bullied (yes, with physical abuse) I can tell you with certainty that it happens and exists — and probably far more often than you think.
The Wolf
Why is it that guys are so unsensitive when it comes to girls needs, but when they have an isssue they expect us to bend over backwards to their needs (in reference to shidduchim)
Can you be more specific in this complaint? What are they “unsensitive” [sic] about?*
The Wolf
* I’m assuming it’s not the issue WRT their past, since you listed that as a separate issue by using the word “also.”
Drugs impair people and under the inlfuence they harm to others.
One example is that case of the Jewish guy who was just executed in Florida and many
excused him saying “It’s not his fault it was the drugs, he was on”.
One could make the very same argument about alcohol. Why should narcotics be different in this regard? Or are you in favor of prohibition as well?
Whether legal or illegal, drugs are traffiked by organized crime.
I think you’re wrong here. They are trafficked by organized crime because they are illegal. If they were legal, they would be regulated on an open market, much as alcohol is today.
If leagl they are increasingly taxed and the Mob simply maked billions by selling it on the street without paying the tax.
Do you see a lot of mob activity involved in tax-free beer?
Users to, pay or it (and with taxes it will never be ‘cheap’) break into peoples houses and rob and sometimes kill for the money to keep getting high.
You could say the same about alcohol, cigarettes and other addictive substances. However, that doesn’t happen for a reason. The reason is economics.
When drugs are illegal, the dealer takes substantial risk in trafficking in the drugs. To compensate him/her for this risk, higher prices are charged. Since the drugs are very expensive, it is likewise expensive to maintain a habit.
If drugs were legal (as alcohol and cigarettes are), there would be more open competition on the market. This would drive prices down. In addition, if the drugs were regulated, then there would be no need for the dealer to take the risk — people would buy the drugs at lower prices on the regulated market.
In the end, you’d have people stealing to buy drugs — at about the same rate that people steal for other legal substances today — which is not much.
Mind you, I’m NOT in favor of legalizing drugs. But the arguments you put forth are just wrong.
The Wolf
Wolf: I don’t think there are any laws against stuffed animals… You could stay.
Alas, while I am fat, I am not a stuffed wolf.
The Wolf
I think the law regarding which animals one is allowed to domicile in NYC should be changed. The very first animal listed (Health Code 161.01) as illegal is (gulp) wolf.
I guess until the law is changed, I need to move out of the city…
The (illegal and fugitive) Wolf
Probably the fourth or fifth circle, would be my guess.
That high? Wow! I was certain it was the ninth or deeper. 🙂
The Wolf
jphone,
I’ll take the blame. I don’t mind.
The Wolf
Perhaps because halachicly a wife has to listen to her husband.
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The Wolf
Why is it the “accepted thing” that the boy has to start the conversation?
The Wolf
Wolf: Doing something improper is disrespectful.
I don’t agree… but it’s not worth arguing the matter.
The Wolf
To my surprise he showed me three additional places as well.
The only one that comes to mind off the top of my head is “????-??????? ?????? ???????”
The Wolf
:: grabs a bag of popcorn and sits down for the show ::
No… that may make it improper, but not disrespectful. There is a difference between the two.
Oh well… I wonder what circle of the netherworld I’m going to go to because I allowed Eeees to speak to me first…
The Wolf
No one has yet answered *why* it’s disrespectful for the girl to start talking first.
The Wolf