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Okay, so they’re both silly and immature. Or, to paraphrase Yenta:
The way she speaks and the way he acts, it’s a perfect match.
The Wolf
Answer repressed on the grounds that I want to remain anonymous. I will say, however, that my sons do not go to the same school that I did.
The Wolf
They wouldn’t want me.
The Wolf
wolf i watched that movie in civics class. and i think one of the witnesses was a lady
That’s correct. But you never see her testify and she never appears in the movie. You only see the all-male jury discussing her testimony.
The Wolf
Is it safe to assume you’re having a diabetic guest for your seder? If so, then why not call him/her and ask what they would like or what is safe/not safe?
The Wolf
Wolf – I’m not here to call your mother names, but I would like to know has she tried quitting recently? There are drugs out there that really work. Even a few years ago we didn’t have these. The best approach to quiting is taking these drugs along with some sort of counselling.
That’s a fair question. The answer is that I don’t know. I know she tried in the last three years or so. She may have tried again since then, but I can’t say for certain.
It should be pointed out that my mother has an extensive medical history and takes quite a few medications for a number of different conditions. I honestly don’t know anything about the drugs that are involved and whether or not they are safe for her to take in combination with the ones she has to take.
I don’t mind people taking my mother to task for smoking — heck, I, my wife and my kids do that too. I’m not here to defend her habit — I cannot and will not do that. I do mind, however, when people make broad generalizations about her, including implying that she’s a brainless boor who hates her kids.
The Wolf
when you watch a movie no matter how “clean” it is (theres bascially no such thing)you distance your self with Hashem
Why? Is there something inherent in the act of viewing pictures at the rate of 30 per second that causes one to distance themselves from HaShem regardless of the content (as you claim)?
The Wolf
Because there are females dressed inappropriately in virtually every movie.
I guess you haven’t seen the classic 1957 movie “12 Angry Men.” There are no women in the cast at all.
The Wolf
You are 100% WRONG!!!
There are NOT smokers who have middos, brains, & love their children!!!
No, you are wrong.
I am not a smoker, but I am the son of a smoker. My mother has been smoking for over forty years. She began, foolishly, as a teen. Unfortunately, as others have pointed out to you, nicotine is very addictive and that addiction is a tough one to break. Some people are able to overcome it, and some people are not. My mother, unfortunately, is one of the latter. It’s not for a lack of trying… I *know* she has tried very, very hard to quit. Alas, to this point, it has not happened.
But that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have middos. On the contrary, I look to my mother as a role model for middos. She is one of the kindest, most caring people in the world. Her emunah in HKBH dwarfs anything I could ever hope to achieve in my life.
In addition, my mother is one of the wisest people I know. True, she is not college educated. In fact, being a ba’alas t’shuva, she never even went to a yeshiva. But she is one of the wisest, most clear-headed people I know. You may argue that she can’t be very wise if she knows what smoking does. But, alas, we all do foolish things when we were young. She did, I did, and I’d be willing to bet dollars to donuts that you did too. The difference between you and I and her is that the foolish things we did didn’t leave us physically addicted. So we did our foolish things and moved on. She cannot. We all mature… and if she had a choice on whether or not to start smoking today, she wouldn’t. But you can’t turn the clock back to the 1960s — you have to deal with the reality as it exists today — and today she is addicted.
Lastly, how can you possibly say that someone who smokes doesn’t love their children with such definitiveness. Do you know every smoker? I know smokers personally, including those who raised perfectly normal and healthy kids. Considering you don’t know my back story, and you have no idea how much my mother sacrificed to raise my sister and I as frum Jews, you certainly have no grounds to make such a categorical claim that smokers don’t love their children. How could you even make such a claim? Is it because they may cause their kids heartache with disease later on? If so, would you say that people who are overweight don’t love their kids? Would you say that people who don’t exercise on a regular basis don’t love their kids? Would you say that people who do anything that entails any slight bit of risk more than the norm doesn’t love their kids?
That being said, are there smokers who are, in fact, don’t have middos, don’t have brains and don’t, in fact, love their children? Sure. But since you seem to love to live in a black-and-white world, you’re ready to reject every smoker as a drooling idiotic boor who hates their family. Well, guess what? People are more complex than that. People have their good points and bad points. I doubt any of us are perfect enough that we can say that our middos are perfect. I doubt any of us can say that all of our actions are perfectly rational. And I doubt any of us with kids can say that everything we’ve done by our kids has, in hindsight been perfect.
I respect my mother greatly. And yes, I can separate her smoking from the rest of her attributes. I hate the fact that she smokes, but that doesn’t stop me from seeing the fact that otherwise, she is a wonderful person.
But yeah, I understand. To you she has rotten middos, is a blabbering idiot and hates me. Or perhaps maybe you’ll learn not to generalize large groups of people based on a single attribute.
The Wolf
My friends and I have the Kol Isha issue.
You could compose instrumentals. Or have other people sing your songs.
The Wolf
Yes. If you eat matzah on the first night of Pesach, HKBH will reward you for your mitzvah.
The Wolf
I can’t say it’s my absolute favorite, but I always liked it:
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx
The Wolf
D. An (slightly) alternate solution.
I like the fact that the presidential campaign is, in essence, fifty-one smaller campaigns. So, I don’t mind the theory behind the current set-up.
The one small change I would make is getting rid of the actual electors. Instead of electing a slate of electors, have each state count for a number of points (calculated the same way that the current Electoral Votes are calculated). The winner is the first candidate that gets a majority of the points.
What does this do? It gets rid of potential faithless electors (electors who vote for candidates other than those whom they are pledged to vote for).
The Wolf
It’s a bright, shiny day
Let’s play two.
The Wolf
There’s probably not much you can do for them, other than be there for them and let them know that they have your total support.
The Wolf
Wolf, are you suggesting that in fact if one does not give the maximum amount- 20%, then he should feel guilty?
No, I am not. That amount is optional. Now, please answer my question. Are you proposing to say that one should not engage in any discretionary spending (i.e. a second shirt, to use your example) as long as there are needy people anywhere in the world?
And if not, then what, exactly, are the guidelines you are proposing?
The Wolf
Since there are always going to be people somewhere in the world in need of charity, are you proposing to say that any discretionary spending by anyone is bad and that no one should ever spend a discretionary cent?
I don’t think that’s the case. Chazal gave us guidelines for charity — up to 20%. Beyond that, we need not give — it may be nice to, but you don’t need to feel any guilt for not giving beyond that point.
The Wolf
I also prefer to give everybody the benefit of the doubt (especially in ruchnious areas)
Within reason. I don’t think saying that everyone who rushes out to eat pizza after Pesach is doing it l’shem shamayim is reasonable.
and what do i care if this is what they do.
I don’t care either. But let the record reflect that YOU were the one who brought up their potential motivations, not I. As I said, it’s silly but harmless.
The Wolf
Who says anyone buying pizza motzei yom-tov is any different. It is all part of their avodas hashem.
Pssst… Want to buy a bridge? I’m running a two for one special on East River crossings…
The Wolf
Oh, we have soooooooo many….
The Wolf
I don’t suppose you’d be interested in non-fiction suggestions?
The Wolf
Like many things, I think this is silly… but ultimately harmless. I would never do it, but if this is the worst thing we have to complain about, then we’re doing pretty good.
The Wolf
Why does everyone take my posts in this thread so seriously? Es tu, Wolf?
Because I had no reason to not believe it. You gave absolutely no indication that you weren’t serious.
Check out the Wikipedia article “Poe’s Law.”
The Wolf
k those were all the classic answers now plz everyone think outside the box
There’s a very good reason why these answers are “classic” answers — because, in general, they work.
The Wolf
Yes, but do you have any idea what eating chometz did to the n’shama of this future Gadol B’Yisroel?
Do you know what it did? Do you know that it did anything?
The Wolf
p.s. there was no pretzels left to burn or cover; the kid ate it all apparently…
Then my point about burning doesn’t apply. The rest of it does. She’s, at worst, a shogeg, so there’s no kares and, from your description, it sounds like she did teshuva since then.
FWIW, I’d say she’s in the clear.
The Wolf
What are they eating?
He obviously meant fish that you pick up live from the fish store and then bring home and make yourself, as opposed to packaged fish.
I don’t know what he would say about fish that are dead in the store but whole and on ice.
The Wolf
Tutoring. Help a young kid with gemara, chumash, math, science or anything else that you might be good in.
The Wolf
It makes sense for grandparents to be diff. since especially after the war were pple married cousins, pple from their hometown, shidduchim were really limited.
My grandparents (whom I mentioned above) were both born in New York City and did not meet via shidduchim. In other words, it’s not always about lack of opportunity.
Nonetheless, despite their very different personalities, my grandparents were married for over fifty years.
The Wolf
Now it has received OK supervision. Can anyone confirm? Thanks
At the risk of sounding silly, why don’t you call the OK? Or use their product search on their website:
The Wolf
it is a Mitzvah for a Melech to wear a Sefer Torah on his arm (a very small one)
Minor nitpick: It’s a mitzvah for a king to have a sefer Torah with him at all times. It is not, however, a mitzvah for him to wear it on his arm. It may have been done that way for convenience, but it’s certainly not required.
The Wolf
I know someone who years later is still traumatized making Pesach…the mother can’t forgive herself, despite feeling that she had cleaned meticulously at that time.
None. The child is obviously not responsible. If the parents thought they did a good job of cleaning but somehow missed this one piece by accident, then, at worst, it’s a shogeg.
If you find chometz on Pesach*, you have to burn it**. Period, end of story. No other halachic consequences.
She said that she was told she gets kares, that the parents r responsible for the child eating chometz.
Whoever told her that was a fool. You get kares for *intentionally* eating chometz on Pesach. Did the person think that she deliberately handed her kid a pretzel?
And, even if, for whatever reason, you want to say that she does get kares, it sounds to me like she’s already done teshuva — she confessed her sin, she has regret for it happening and she’s resolved not to let it happen again.
The Wolf
* Assuming, of course, that it’s an accident and that you didn’t intentionally keep chometz over Pesach.
** Keep in mind that if you find it on Yom Tov or Shabbos, it is muktza and must be covered over until after YT/Shabbos and then burnt.
Though if I were a rebbe I might only give you half marks cos you gave the words when you were actually asked where the pasuk was…
My apologies. It’s B’raishis 31:47.
The Wolf
Where in davening do we have 5 consecutive words beginning with the letter alef?
In the same place that we have it in the chumash.
The Wolf
y’gar sahadusa.
The Wolf
I’m sorry… I obviously still had the text from the other thread on my clipboard when I pasted. My apologies.
The Wolf
children and kids do not need any ipod touch or iphone
True, but they don’t need pizza either, and yet most people don’t seem to have a problem with it.
In other words, lack of need is not necessarily a reason to say that someone should not have something. If you have a legitimate reason why kids shouldn’t have Ipods or Iphones, then by all means, articulate those reasons — but lack of need alone is not a reason.
The Wolf
Also I notice that stores like Pomegranate offer hand sanitizers
FWIW, IMHO, shy people tend to be quiet. However, not all quiet people are shy.
The Wolf
Also I notice that stores like Pomegranate offer hand sanitizers
I would think that in the case of hand sanitizers, the owners WANT all people who handle the merchandise — customer, window-shopper and employee alike, to use the hand sanitizer and not spread germs on the merchandise.
The Wolf
but what is the reason for cleaning like crazy and not eating chometz also?
Because the Torah tells us that we may not eat or have Chometz.
The Wolf
from ruining millions of marriages in the the u.s.
Source, please?
to creating wars between the arab nations.
Source please that Facebook is the cause of these conflicts.
The Wolf
could there not be a chashash or sofek kiddushin by giving an engagement ring altogether?
No, we’ve been over this.
He knows he’s not giving the ring for kiddushin, she knows that she’s not accepting it for kiddushin and anyone viewing it knows that the ring is not for kiddushin because there’s going to be a proper kiddushin later.
The Wolf
Yes Hashem has a very interesting sense of humor. Just goes to show that he doesn’t necessary plan for you what you have on your lists!
I don’t know about that. I got *exactly* what I was looking for. In addition, it would not surprise me if some people actively *do* look for people who are not like themselves.
The Wolf
Well, I guess you can throw me in the trash. I don’t use the eruv, but I don’t have a problem with those that do either.
The Wolf
Does it matter? We’re supposed to expect Mashiach whether or not anything in particular is happening to scare us
It matters IF the basis for saying “Moshicah is coming soon” is because of the troubles in the world, which is what the OP is doing.
I agree that we should be expecting him anyway. But if you’re going to base his imminent arrival on current events, you need to show why those events are different than any of those in the past when those people too could have said “Moshiach is coming soon” and he didn’t.
The Wolf
Yes, I’ve known a few “odd couples.” One of my sets of grandparents were just such a couple.
It always seemed a little strange to me because Eeees and I are very alike. I don’t know if I could imagine myself with someone so radically different from me in terms of personality and temperament.
But hey, it seems to work for them. They seem to be very happily married.
The Wolf
they are in fact under water and under ground.
you might argue that “in” is more specific.
Very well. I stand corrected. My apologies.
The Wolf
HLM,
Can you tell me a time in the past 500 years when there wasn’t major trouble in the world?
The Wolf