WolfishMusings

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The Wolf

Would a family outing to Bear Mountain be a corono-safe visit considering its great outdoors permitting sufficient social-distancing?

From the NYS Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Page (Bear Mountain is a NYS park):

COVID-19 UPDATE: New York state parks, trails and grounds of historic sites are open for open air outdoor recreation. Governor Cuomo is urging all New Yorkers to stay home as much as possible. If you do plan on visiting, it should be for a healthy nature break. For the safety of all visitors and to stop the spread of COVID-19, all State Park playgrounds, athletic courts and sporting fields are CLOSED. Please limit outdoor recreational activities to non-contact, and avoid activities where you may come in close contact with other people. If you arrive at a park and crowds are forming, choose a different park or trail, or return another time/day to visit. We appreciate your support and patience as we navigate this public health crisis together. Learn more about COVID-19 and its impact on NY State Parks. Visit: COVID-19 UPDATE

NEW: CAMPING UPDATE

Early Season Camping: Due to the global health crisis, all campgrounds, cabins, and cottages are CLOSED to overnight visitation through April 30. All visitors with reservations will be issued a full refund. We ask for your patience as refunds are processed.

Camping Reservations: New York State has suspended all new camping, cabin and cottage reservations for the 2020 season until further notice. We are assessing campground status on a daily basis. If you’ve made a reservation for the season beginning May 1, and we determine your campground is safe to open, your reservation will be honored. However, visitors who wish to cancel an existing reservation may do so and receive a full refund. Thank you for your patience as we work to protect the safety of our visitors and staff.

CTL, yet you lose the privileges of being a b’chor.

Big deal.

If someone like me can be a bechor, then it obviously doesn’t have too much meaning.

The Wolf

I got married at 21. Still happily married nearly three decades later.

But I’m a rasha gamur, so what do I know?

The Wolf

My family and I just recently got the game Spyfall. Great game (especially with more than four players) and no problem with Shabbos (as the game only consists of cards).

The gist of it: All the players are at a location (determined by the cards), but one person is a spy and doesn’t know the location. The players begin asking questions of one another. The job of the players is to figure out who is the spy. The job of the spy is to figure out where they are.

The Wolf

Is it ok to learn while your rosh yeshiva is giving a shmuess or shiur?

When I was in school, the RY gave a shiur in Yiddish once a month. The shiur lasted between an hour and a quarter and an hour and a half. This was the only Yiddish used in the Yeshiva at all.

I didn’t understand a word of Yiddish. Being forced to sit there for that long as a kid with literally nothing to do was, to me at the time, torture.

One day, after the shiur, he said to me “I’ll give you $20 if you can tell me over what the shiur was about.” He *knew* I didn’t understand Yiddish. I’ve never ever (that I can remember) wanted to punch someone in the face in my life, but his comment drove me about as close as I ever came to that.

I just walked away.

The Wolf

What defines a messed up school?

Any school that would allow me on the grounds.

The Wolf

We very often (at least every other week and often more often than that) had a divorced woman by our table (and sleep over at our house) on Shabbos. I guess this proves, once again, how horrible I am. But don’t worry… I won’t be having this person over to my house again.

The Wolf

You may want to try rereading the post

I listen to the following Jewish podcasts:

5 Minute Daf Yomi by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld
Chochmat Nashim Podcast
Daily Halacha by Rabbi Eli Mansour
Headlines
Iggros Moshe A to Z (inactive, but the archives are available, and I’m subscribed if anything new should come along)
Maimonides Minute by Rabbi Scott Kahn
Responsa Radio – Jewish Public Media.

Please note that not all of these podcasts will agree with your hashkafic outlook. Listener discretion is advised.

The Wolf

Wolf, what is the basis for that judgment?

I have to have a basis for hating someone?

The Wolf

There is one Jew that I do not love. It is because he is a rasha gamur and (as I’m often reminded on these boards) it is a mitzvah to hate him.

The Wolf

after trying that, we were thrown out of the bowling alley. then the boy proposed to me and I said yes!! mazel tov

Worst. Plot. Ever.

The Wolf

The Wolf: Of course you’re an unrefined boor. You were raised by wolves.

🙂

The Wolf

Has anyone noted the irony that one of the voices advocating an end to women’s suffrage and criticizing leadership by women has a username that commemorates a male politician who made one of the biggest mistakes in the last century?

The Wolf

Before Artscroll, the Gemara was a closed book to me.

Since using it, it has helped me to become familiar with the terminology and methods used in the Gemara. The more I used it, the more I learned how to read the Gemara without it. Since using it, the Gemara has opened up to me to the point where I can open a non-Artscroll Gemara and figure out, in most cases, what is going on.

The result is a deterioration in the quality and depth of understanding in all areas of Torah study, from Mishna and Gemara, through Poskim and Shutim. I doubt there is a way back.

I guess it was terribly selfish of me to contribute to the communal deterioration of learning in all areas of Torah just for the sake of my own learning. The classic case of a mitzvah haba’ah b’aveirah.

The Wolf

Undercove,

My understanding is that an admission card is given to parents when their past accounts are settled.

Can you please tell us ( a ) if I am wrong (and if so, how), or ( b ) why using this process to ensure the yeshiva receives monies it is entitled to results in the money being stolen?

Thank you.

The Wolf

To the best of my ability, yes.

I don’t necessarily get it right every time, but I try my best to pronounce a Sh’va Na/Nach correctly, especially since it sometimes changes the meaning of the word.

The Wolf

I actually own it. Is there something you want looked up?

The Wolf

There is one flaw in your argument: Despite your silly argument that they should not count, New York and California do, in fact, count.

The Wolf

I don’t know. I don’t even stay up all night the first night.

(I usually take a half hour nap after the meal and then go to shul for the rest of the night to learn.).

The Wolf

You mean why would a school call itself a Bais Yaakov instead of just a “Jewish girls school?” Same reason a place would call itself a yeshiva or mesivta instead of a “Hebrew Day School.” The titles signal the type of institution.

So, in other words, it’s just branding?

The Wolf

For some it may be muttar. CYLOR
For some, they may not have started observing the mourning portion of the Omer until today (Rosh Chodesh).

The Wolf

Good to see this thread. I’m always on the lookout for new places to go on dates.

The Wolf

I think I heard that there was an office there.

The Wolf