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and I encourage those who don’t have one to give it away
Now THAT’S a feat I’d like to see. 🙂
The Wolf
You’re 100% correct. I cant say that that’s called keeping shabbos. But the meforshim can and do. Thats how they explain the piyut.
So, you’re saying then that they kept Shabbos in Mitzrayim, with all the Halachos? If so, then what was given at Marah?
And that remains true no matter how many times you put your name at the end of your post 🙂 lol
That’s only because I’m a poor editor. I go back and edit my post and mistakenly sign my name again.
The Wolf
Lately? I just sit and stew. Eventually it subsides. If it doesn’t, it becomes a rant here.
The Wolf
Reading,
The mods apparently won’t let me post my email address, but if you Google me, you can very easily find my email address.
The Wolf
In the beginning of ?????? ???? ????? it says ????? ???? ??? ??? that Hashem retrospectively brought forward the gift of ???. The ?????? explain this to mean that Moshe arranged with Paraoh to davka be given shabbos off, even before ???, in spite of the fact that a lot of ????? had yet to be given.
I wasn’t disagreeing with that point. But simply taking a day off from work is not keeping Shabbos. Keeping Shabbos means refraining from the 39 melachos. There is no reason to say that that’s what they did in Egypt before the Halachos of Shabbos were given. So yes, they may have taken the day off from work, but they might have still written things, engaged in borer, carried in and out of their homes and so on. They may have had the day of Shabbos off from their toils, but I don’t think you can say that “kept Shabbos.”
The Wolf
The Wolf
I was on Park Row in Manhattan, a block away, when the towers fell.
I was at home when I found about Osama bin Laden’s death.
The Wolf
There is no one that says that you have to get a TV upon marriage if you’re going to have one at all. You can certainly decide to start the marriage without one and then get one later if you so decide.
Who knows, you might even find married life without the TV more interesting.
The Wolf (who, for the record, does own a TV).
Who is Peter Philips? If he was really a prince hed be Prince Peter. Dont make up stuff.
Peter Phillips is the Queen’s oldest grandson. He’s not a prince because he’s the son of the Queens daughter and, according to the Letters Patent issued by George V, only children of the Sovereign’s sons are styled as Princes and Princesses.
It should be noted that an exception was made for Elizabeth II’s children. When her father became King George VI following the abdication of Edward VIII, it was pretty obvious that King George was not going to have sons and that Elizabeth, as the eldest daughter, would inherit the throne. However, since any children she would have would be the King’s Daughter’s children, they would not be able to use HRH (or be styled as Princes and Princesses) until after George’s death. George therefore issued a special Letters Patent stating that any children of the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh were entitled to use HRH at birth. Hence, Prince Charles and Princess Anne were HRH from birth, even though they were born while George VI was still alive.
The Wolf
If you’d rather not say in public where in Flatbush, feel free to email me.
The Wolf
Where in Flatbush?
The Wolf
The first time they kept ??? en masse (as brought down in the ??????) was in ????? , when ??? asked ???? for a day off each week for the Yidden so that they would be more productive and be able to work better, and when ???? agreed they got ??? off.
That may have been the first time they stopped working for a day en masse, but they certainly didn’t keep the halachos of Shabbos en masse. Shabbos, as you are well aware, is not merely the ceasing of labor. There’s no reason to expect that absent a specific command to do so (which did not exist) that no one wrote a single word, or engaged in borer or even cooked a meal.
The Wolf
Did you at least have a valid reason?
I was tired.
The Wolf
Clairvoyant just because someone works with girls does not mean he is hanging out with them. on the contrary that is inappropriate. however there is NOTHING wrong with learning how to be comfortable talking to the opposite gender if its in line with business or work.
Indeed.
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of jobs that are out there are in mixed-gender environments. That’s just the nature of the job market today. I can’t think of any occupation that one works in where there is no reasonable chance of meeting someone of the opposite gender — either as a co-worker or customer.
I work in an office that is about 50% female. I don’t “hang around” with the women in the office. I don’t socialize with them either. We simply do our jobs and that’s it.
The Wolf
If it is a mekach ta’us the marriage itself is invalid, so how can you say there is a possibility the kesuba would be valid?
Because, if when he finds out, he has no complaints, he may agree to accept the higher kesuba payment anyway. On those grounds, I would think that it’s possible that the kesuba is valid. OTOH, I recognize that it’s entirely possible that they may need a new kesuba anyway.
The Wolf
As of Friday 1.
2. You forgot Peter Philips’ marriage to Autumn Kelly.
Two out of five who married. Nonetheless, I did a study of royal marriages in the other thread and showed that the majority of the Royal family are, indeed, still married to their first spouses.
The Wolf
Yes. I won a megillah will a large silver case that I never use and a sheitel for my wife.
The Wolf
If a Kalla who is not receives a kesuba written for a besula, is her marriage kosher?
Yes, provided her husband knew about it beforehand.
And if so, is her kesuba kosher?
Again, yes, provided that the husband knew the true situation beforehand.
What if she never informed him of her status, and he only found out after?
Then you may have a case of a mekach ta’us and a rav should be consulted. If the husband has no post facto complaints there is no reason the marriage cannot continue* and there is a high degree of probability that the kesubah would still be valid anyway.
The Wolf
* Barring kohen – zonah/g’rusha issues.
Heck, forget yawning. I once fell asleep on a date. Fortunately, my wife chose to remain married to me anyway.
The Wolf
Edward VIII (the king who abdicated) was a Nazi Sympathizer and had Hitler been able to conquer England, he would have been put back on the thrown.
He was removed from kingship because of this (Not because of Wallis Warfield Simpson – that was just an excuse)
Considering the fact that Edward abdicated in 1936, before the British Government (which, if you remember correctly, still thought as late as 1938 that peace with the Nazis was possible), I doubt that to be the case.
Nonetheless, it is true that Edward *was* unpopular and unliked. It is true that even his own father (George V) thought he was unfit for the throne. That he did have Nazi sympathies certainly didn’t help his case any.
Nonetheless, divorce was still a serious subject back then. Even if he had not been unpopular, he could not have ruled with Wallis Simpson as his wife. Saying that his choice of bride was a pretext to getting rid of him is a gross simplification — especially since of the three options he was given by Stanley Baldwin (give up the marriage, marry and risk the government or abdicate), at least one (and maybe two) would have allowed him to keep the throne.
The Wolf
What I found funny is that the vows omitted the word “to obey” (each other), yet left in “for richer or for poorer”.
That’s nothing new or unusual. Most women leave out “obey” nowadays.
Should ‘lil Willy’s $$ take a nose dive, Ms Princess will drop him faster than you can say momma (or in their case, Mum).
Source? Seriously, how do you know this? Or do you think that that applies to everyone who marries a rich person?
The Wolf
I mean after that whole Revolutionary War & trying to break free from British rule & everything…sorry, just trying to figure out the logic in why it’s such a big deal to care.
Perhaps we find it fascinating precisely because we DON’T have it here in the US.
The Wolf
Mnemonic for the six wives of Henry VIII:
Divorced, beheaded, died,
Divorced, beheaded, survived.
The Wolf
I personally think its really silly that many of the frum guys I work with (who all come from a large Jewish town in south Jersey) go by a goyish name at work. Its one thing if people can’t pronounce a “ch” but ppl can all pronounce Shmuly, Shlomo Ari…. The koreans, muslims and japanese dont all choose to go by a diff name at work and those names are impossible to pronounce
True story… as it happened to me.
When I got my first job, it was at a place owned and operated by frum Jews. As such, I used my Jewish name (which is what I use socially as well).
About three months, I got called into the office because the IRS came back to them and said that the first name attached to my social security number is different than the first name I gave them. It took some paperwork to fix the problem.
Since then, I’ve found that it’s much simpler to just use my secular name at work.
The Wolf
To be honest, being married to that dolt who’s next in line to the throne is a good excuse.
No it’s not. And the fact that he cheated as well is not an excuse either.
Diana also did a lot of chesed
Absolutely true, but I don’t know that one excuses the other.
The Wolf
I do not believe the request is unreasonable. Had it been me (I do have secular magazines around the house) and I had guests over, I would have understood the request to put such magazines out of sight*, even if I don’t mind having them around the house.
The Wolf
* Note that this goes for magazines. Asking someone to remove pictures of their kids from their walls (for example) because you think pictures of women are untznius is not reasonable.
What about wearing a yarmulke to an interview? What about having a Goyish name?
I can’t speak about accounting, but in my experience (in tech) I have always worn a kippah to interviews. I do use my secular name, but simply because that’s the one that’s on my birth certificate, social security card and all other important paperwork.
The Wolf
has a certain chain…
Oooooh…. MUST. RESIST. PUN. OPPORTUNITY.
The Wolf
Avram,
I don’t think your approach is correct. She didn’t ask for six MORE cartons, she asked for six (in total).
totalCartonsofMilk = 1
If(eggs) {
totalCartonsofMilk = 6
}
return totalCartonsofMilk
The Wolf
Correction: Her parents were married in 1980, not 21 years ago.
The Wolf
but the fact that she was chrissened doesnt prove anything.
Granted, it doesn’t definitively *prove* anything. But I would say that the fact that her parents had her christened is far greater evidence of her being Christian than the rumor the questioner had of her being Jewish.
Her parents were also married in a church 21 years ago. Her ancestors include the Rev. Thomas Davis, a hymn writer for the CoE. Again, not definite proof, but I’d say it’s a pretty strong indicator that she’s not Jewish.
If the person who brought it up has any proof, I would suggest s/he bring it. The burden of proof is on them to prove that she is Jewish, not on me to prove that she’s not.
The Wolf
I hear that the princess-to-be is Jewish. True or false?
False. She was christened at the age of six months on June 20, 1982 at St Andrew’s Bradfield.
The Wolf
I would think that Lord Rabbi Sacks is more than qualified to pasken such a shaila — or would likely have asked the question in 1999 when the Earl of Wessex got married.
The Wolf
FWIW, I was job hunting a number of years ago and had a job interview during either Sefirah or the three weeks (I don’t recall which now). I asked and was told that I should shave — and that was in tech, where being clean-shaven is not nearly as standard as in accounting.
Of course, keep in mind that my rav then (who is not my rav now) is (probably) not your rav, my situation is not yours and my p’sak is not yours.
The Wolf
Never mind: I found it. It’s from the North American Jewish Data Bank. The data was for 2008. You think the Jewish population in New York went from 1.6m to 2m in three years?
The Wolf
Just out of curiosity, what’s the source of these numbers?
The Wolf
wishful thinking, if they dont give it, they dont get the guy!!!!!
I hope to God that I’ve raised my daughter with enough sense to realize that if she’s seeing a guy whose going to decide whether or not to marry her based on any amount of money that I “must” give, then she’s obviously seeing the wrong guy.
The Wolf
Wolf – Where did you ride/belong?
I’m going to decline to answer that question. I will say, however, that (a) I was never a member of any Hatzalah organization and (b) I am no longer an EMT.
The Wolf
So what area of medicine are you an expert in?
I used to be an EMT.
The Wolf