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Thanks for clarifying, Wolf. Now what can I take for dizziness?
Why are you asking me? There is a physician who has commented in this thread.
The Wolf
But I do know this, the Catholic schools charge $3500 a year tutiton and the Yeshivas can charge $15K (or more)
Off the top of my head:
The Catholic Church has a centralized hierarchy and system. We do not — by us it’s usually every small group for itself.
The Catholic Church has about a billion more people supporting it than we do. The cost of the school gets spread among far more people — and that’s true even just at the diocese level (leaving aside any funds the local systems may or may not get from Rome).
The Wolf
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The third and fourth ones on the list are NOT redundancies (in the sense that the second one is). Yehuda does not mean lion and Binyomin does not mean wolf. Just because those people are associated with those animals does not mean that the two together mean the same thing.
The Wolf
Just please tell me my house didn’t move from where I left it this morning.
Sorry to tell you this, but unless it’s sitting on one of the poles, your house has rotated several thousand miles to the east since this morning. That’s to say nothing of the distance it traveled as the earth orbited the sun, the sun around the center of the galaxy and in relation to the other galaxies as the universe expanded.
The Wolf
Another interesting fact from that “Straight Dope” column:
The practice of putting East on the top of the map became the origin of the term “to orient.”
The Wolf
(North is the top direction on maps these days and I don’t think I ever saw a map with East on top). Does anyone know how that happened?
According to Cecil Adams (author of the column “The Straight Dope”), North ended up on top of the map was originated by Ptolomey. Nonetheless, his system wasn’t universally used. Many maps in the medieval period had East on top. Eventually, however, the “north-on-top” convention won out.
The Wolf
Is it mean to go out with a boy a second time when you think theres a 90 percent chance it wont work out? I just wana be 100 percent sure.
That means that there’s a 10% chance it will, right?
So, if someone told you that you had a 10% chance of winning the prize of a lifetime by spending three hours or so, wouldn’t you take the chance?
No, it’s not mean. Go out and have a good time.
The Wolf
Interestingly enough, the “goyish” song I’m listening to right now is one that the yeshivish crowd believes in:
Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can’t have one without the other
Love and marriage, love and marriage
It’s an institute you can’t disparage
Ask the local gentry
And they will say it’s elementary
Try, try, try to separate them
It’s an illusion
Try, try, try, and you will only come
To this conclusion
Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can’t have one without the other
The Wolf
Diverse? Who cares they are frum yiddin singing music that is coming from the most discusting lowlives!?!? Which part dont you understand. Please enlighten me
My problem is your very broad classification of non-Jewish musicians as “lowest of the low.” Musicians are a very diverse group… and if you can’t differentiate between them and can group all of them as “lowest of the low” and “discusting (sic) lowlives” then I question whether or not I should trust you on such matters.
The Wolf
see ‘agre dekaleh’ on passuk ‘surei istacha, al tikra shema surei ala sarah’. also meforshay hatorah why yosef hatzadik did not include in ‘vechataNU lashem, but said vachaTUSI’ lashem.
Since you’re bringing it into the conversation and I don’t have access to a “agre dekaleh,” why don’t you tell us what the seforim say?
The Wolf
In all seriousness, with regard to taxes, there is a very simple thing to do — ask them to send the request in writing.
Seriously, I don’t think the IRS *ever* initiates contact with people except via mail — and I would be surprised if the state did so as well.
So, if someone calls from a 202 area code (Washington DC) and says that they’re from the IRS and they need to confirm some details, ask them to send you the request in writing.
As a general rule, never disclose sensitive information to anyone unless you initiated the call.
The Wolf
trust me these songs are taken from the lowest of the low!!
(Emphasis mine)
Why should we trust you? Especially when you paint such broad generalizations about such a diverse group of people?
The Wolf
Laws of the City of New York: http://24.97.137.100/nyc/
The Wolf
No link this time?
Will you let me post it?
The Wolf
According to NYC law, Title 45 Section 187, any student is allowed to ride the city bus for free, and don’t need to show ID, as long as they are going for a “qualified school purpose”.
Poppa,
Where would I find this law? I searched for NYC law and came up with the city charter (which is not organized by titles), the City Administrative Code (which only has 29 titles) and the Rules of the City of New York, in which Title 45 concerns itself with Borough Presidents.
The Wolf
EDITED POST:
No link this time?
Wolf , it would interest you to know that on the story on the home page about contesting parking tickets someone commented on the story and posted a city website so i dont know why you are being picked on.
To be fair, there may be different rules for the main site and the CR. That’s fine with me, as the two parts of the site serve different functions.
At a bare minimum, can we get a list of approved sites? This way, if another question of this type comes up on the forum and I can’t post a link, I’ll know to just ignore the thread altogether.
I’d also like to hear from the mod who edited my post what is unkosher about the Rent Guildelines Board site. I’m not an unreasonable person — if you can show me that there is some logical and sensible reason why that site is bad, I’ll shut up about it — even if I disagree. But, to date, all I’ve gotten from the mod is a cutesy response of “we love you too.”
The Wolf
See that, Wolf, you did the mitzva anyway!
Just barely. But that’s not the real point. The point is that had the OP not been smart enough to find the link on his/her own, s/he would have been out of luck.
Look, I’m not asking for the ability to link to YouTube or anything like that, but there’s got to be an understanding that certain official information (especially non-political, non-controversial material such as rent guidelines) should be allowed. I have yet to hear a single reason from anyone as to what could possibly be unkosher about such a site.
I don’t mind following rules — even if I personally don’t agree with them — as long as I can see that there is some logical reason for the rule to be in place. Here, however, I am having trouble finding a reason why even the “frummest” moderator in the world* would object to such a link.
The Wolf
* Notwithstanding the fact that we are all on the Internet anyway.
We love you too, don’t take it personally, remember who is pulling the strings.
You *don’t* love me (you don’t even know me), I *do* take it personally and I *don’t* know who’s pulling the strings.
If you’re not going to allow people to respond to the OP with the information s/he needs, why even allow him/her to post the question in the first place?
The Wolf
Fine, so I can’t help a fellow Yid because the NYC website isn’t on some official list. Thanks for depriving me of a mitzvah guys.
The Wolf
EDITED POST:
We love you too, don’t take it personally, remember who is pulling the strings.
Perhaps you should start a thread about that.
Forget it. It’s not worth it.
If you determine that I am not allowed to point the OP to a perfectly kosher resource that will help him/her, then it’s your problem, not mine.
The Wolf
The New York City Rent Guidelines website is bad????
The Wolf
EDITED POST:
Perhaps you should start a thread about that.
Cheap shot.
The Wolf
You might want to look here:
If a landlord breaches the warranty of habitability, the tenant may sue for a rent reduction. Alternatively, rent regulated tenants can also file a rent reduction complaint with DHCR. The tenant may also withhold rent, but in response, the landlord may sue the tenant for non-payment of rent. In such case, the tenant may countersue for breach of the warranty.
The Wolf
EDITED POST:
Dear Mr. Wolf,
Please be advised that we do not post links here in the CR that are not on the Kosher Website list.
Thank you.
Mod
Obviously it’s not true 100% of the time. If it were, then people will terminal illnesses would pray for recovery on Purim and miraculously recover.
I know a gentlemen who’s father fell down a flight of stairs on Purim a number of years ago. While I can’t state for a fact that he davened for his father’s recovery on Purim, I would be extremely shocked if he told me that he didn’t. Sadly, his father did not recover and passed away a few days later.
Of course, that’s not to say that prayers aren’t answered on Purim. But to answer the OP’s question plainly, the answer is clearly no.
The Wolf
you know there are those (like my DH) who say that you don’t say tehillim at night? I’m just sayin’…..
Oh, I understand. I was just reacting to the sentiment of “saying gantz tehillim, how can you lose?” I was merely illustrating that you can, indeed, lose.
The Wolf
I’ll probably be far too busy on Purim day to post.
The Wolf
Saying gantz tehillim? How can you lose?
Very easily. I stay up late at night to say it and therefore miss davening in the morning. Maybe my time is better spent learning. Or doing other mitzvos.
There are ALWAYS costs, and they must be evaluated accordingly.
The Wolf
For the question Wolf poses, the Shiita of the Rambam works nicely, I think.
Which is…?
The Wolf
Don’t know… I’m still fasting (10:20PM). I’m too lazy and tired to actually get up and get myself something to eat.
The Wolf
Can you give examples of ‘sages that had unresolved questions’?
I’m pretty sure that no one has ever satisfactorily resolved the paradox of omniscience and free will.
The Wolf
just because they may be innocent babies in this life, its very possible they r gilgulim and needed to be punished in this way
Again, maybe, maybe not. But that’s all you can go on. Once you throw the possibility of gilgulim into the mix, you can never say *anyone* is ever innocent. How do you know that [ insert the name of your favorite gadol here ] wasn’t a lowlife gangster in a previous life?
We define innocence or guilt based on actions that occur in *this* life, not on any possible former lives or future lives. By that definition, again, an infant is innocent.
The Wolf
It says you may give it from Maaser money!
Who, or what, is the “it” in the above quote? And (assuming the Rebbe isn’t poor and the tip isn’t required) what is the justification?
The Wolf
I’m fasting. B”H, I generally have an easy time going without food on fast days.
I have fasted every fast day since my Bar Mitzvah with one exception. On Asara B’Teves about three or four years ago, I came down with a fever. I left work early and went home. When I got home and saw I had a fever (which I already knew just by the way I felt — I know my body’s signs of a temperature higher than 100), I had a hot tea and toast. There was no way I was going to make it that day and so at about 1PM or so, I called it quits.
That is, to the best of my recollection, the only time since my Bar Mitzvah that I ate on a fast day.
The Wolf
That’s fine. But that doesn’t mean that those individuals aren’t innocent. A baby bechor born to an Egyptian the night before yetzias mitzrayim was an innocent. The fact that he was punished for the sins of his nation is a separate matter — but he was still innocent.
The same can apply to our contemporary cases as well.
The Wolf
I thought your wife was a monogamist, so what’s the difference? 🙂
Touche. “Were I single…” should have been appeneed to the front of my statement. 🙂
The Wolf
How dare anyone call them innocent??? If Hashem has taken them there is obviously a very good reason!
Maybe, maybe not. But that doesn’t preclude them from being innocent.
Sadly, many infants die worldwide every year. By definition, infants are innocent.
The Wolf
anyone who completes Sefer Tehilim between the 1st and 2nd Megilla lainings
I guess for those of us who lain again right away at night, we’re out of luck, as I don’t have time to finish Sefer Tehillim in between. 🙂
The Wolf
so if he earns $1000 a week at work, he (and she) owns the full $1000; not just $500. so he made a “kinyan” on the full funds and he has full rights to the full funds.
I opened up a side discussion (not wanting to take the focus off of husband/wife issues) on the point of making a valid kinyan at the following thread:
The Wolf
midbar sheker tirchak
Agreed. Stay away from untruthful wildernesses. 🙂
Seriously, however, none of the posters in this thread has said that they have lied or would lie.
The Wolf
i would think that too would fall within the three, since embarrassment is akin to death.
Not in a halachic sense. You aren’t put to death by Bais Din for embarrassing someone in public.
The Wolf
No one. No one inspires me.
The Wolf
Meh. Someone on the boards figured out who I was. No real big deal, I suppose. Most people that I know are trustworthy enough to be discreet.
The Wolf
Mods,
A linguistic map of the US is so bad that it can’t be linked to?
The Wolf
Prior, we have to seek to do what G- commands us to, without being more “righteous” than Him
Invariably, such things, when they happen, do so on the spur of the moment. No one, when a grenade is thrown into a room, is going to reach for his Shulchan Aruch to see if he should jump on it. Either someone will heroically sacrifice himself or else he will flee.
Yes, you can say “well learn the halachos before the situation arises.” However, I find that (a) most people prefer not to learn about such things and (b) I would hardly be surprised to find that cases vary so much that it may be difficult to formulate a general rule.
The Wolf
I say Tomayto, you say Tomaato; I say Potayto, you say Potaato?
Let’s call the whole thing off. 🙂
The Wolf