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Anatidaephobia – The fear, that some time, somewhere, some how, a duck is watching you…
Oh, man…. I miss The Far Side. 🙂
The Wolf
The pledge text was altered to remove g-d from it
Actually, the pledge was altered to *add* God, not remove Him. The original pledge did not have the words “under God.” It was added on June 14, 1954 by a joint resolution of Congress.
The Wolf
Are knife manufacturers responsible for murders and assaults committed with them? Rope manufacturers for people who are strangled with ropes? Lead pipe manufacturers?
The Wolf
Just to elaborate on DH’s last post:
Sha’ah Z’manios would tell you the length of your 6-7pm “hour.”
Your position within your time zone would tell you when that “hour” starts (regardless of how long it is).
The position in your time zone explains why some places start Shabbos earlier (and have sof z’man krias sh’ma, etc.) than others in the same time zone. Since (just to give an example) New York is further east than Scranton PA, sunset comes to New York before it comes to Scranton. So (just to pick numbers out of thin air) if Shabbos begins at 5:30pm in New York, it might begin at 5:47pm in Scranton. So too, the midpoint between noon and midnight (which is what the 6:00 hour is) would be earlier in New York than in Scranton.
To further understand why this is so, you might want to read a bit on the history of time zones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#History
The Wolf
Just out of curiosity, for those in this thread who said that they don’t make kiddush between 6 and 7, do you account for DST and for your position within the time zone, or is it strictly 6 and 7. (Don’t worry… I’m not going to jump down your throat if you don’t account for one or the other… I’m just curious.)
The Wolf
Since the paths of the ?’ ????? ??? in the sky are not typically constrained by the decision of any government to abide by DST, I would say yes. The same would be true of ???? ??????.
True enough. But since they’re also not constrained by the government decision to establish time zones, shouldn’t the time not to make kiddush be (approximately) 5:30-6:30 at the eastern end of the time zone, progressing later and later as you move west in the time zone until it’s from 6:30 to 7:30 at the western end of the time zone?
The Wolf
is it yeshivish fotr a guy to wear patterened socks??
Why would it not be?
The Wolf
that alcohol will be made illegal
Not too much danger of that in the U.S. We learned our lesson during Prohibition.
The Wolf
They all are – and, in fact, all three would be heard in my home.
Walter & I — Kosel
George — Koysel
Wilma & Eeees — Kotel
The Wolf
For those who don’t make kiddush between 6 and 7 — does it become between 7 and 8 when Daylight Savings Time is observed?
The Wolf
wolf- I thinkm that a girl is converted under three (eiunah reu-ah lebiah)it may be different
Rambam (Hil. Issurei Biah 18:1) seems to make it a categorical rule that any non-Jewish woman is a zonah. He later says (7) that in order for a woman to become a zonah through forbidden sexual activity, she must be three. But this is a case where she is not a zonah because of forbidden sexual activity, but because of a definition.
Nonetheless, I could be wrong. If you have something different, I’d love to hear it.
The Wolf
was 5760 a leap year? Thanx
5760 was a leap year.
Here’s how you figure out whether a year is a leap year or not.
Take the year and divide it by 19. Look at the remainder of that calculation. If the remainder is 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 or 19, that year is a leap year.
5771 modulo 19 = 14, and hence 5771 is a leap year.
The Wolf
Who shows pictures at 30fps? NTSC is 24fps and pal is something else, but neither of them are 30.
I thought films were shown at 30fps, but I could be wrong.
The Wolf
Wolf: do you in fact think that ppl who don’t watch TV and/or movies do it cuz the pics are going at the rate of 30 frames per second?
No, of course not. They don’t do it because they object to the content. They’d have no problem watching a video recording of a shiur. That was my point — no one has an absolute blanket ban on video/TV. It’s only the content.
The Wolf
If its any consolation, I think I spotted you on the train about 6 months ago, and from listening to the bits and pieces of the conversation you were having with your co-worker (?) and the overall general impression you make, trust me, you are squarely in the top 80% of social / normal / not out of it folks.
I don’t usually take the train with co-workers or other people. Most of the time on the train I’m with my Ipad either writing, reading, watching/listening to a photography podcast or a shiur.
Just out of curiosity, however, what made you think the person was me?
Nonetheless, thanks for the kind words.
The Wolf
Wolf.. were you kidding? Please tell me you were kidding.
Absolutely not.
The Wolf
Before starting to eat every individual course, my father says “likovod shabbos kodesh, shabbos shalom u’mivorach”
I like that. I may even adopt it. 🙂
The Wolf
guy-ocho,
It’s all about content. There is nothing inherently wrong about showing pictures at the rate of 30 frames per second.
The Wolf
TOTAL tz’nius
Except for you, of course… but then again, I suppose SOMEONE has to know. 🙂
Kudos for your efforts at making it as private as possible.
The Wolf
My weirdest fear is that even though I seem perfectly normal to myself, I am, in truth, odd, abnormal, cognitively and/or socially impaired and I am just too “out of it” to even notice — and everyone knows it except for me — but no one will ever say anything about it to me because (they think) they are being nice.
The Wolf
We always sing Aishes Chayil before kiddush, except when Eeees tells me that she’s too hungry and would rather eat now. When that happens (which isn’t too often), we usually sing it during the meal.
The Wolf
I know this is a sore subject, but I would think a school would want to make sure that they are not being taken advantage of, just like you would want someone whom you gave tzedaka to should be “checked out”.
GAW… I fully understand the need to make sure that the family is on the level. However, I was just giving an example of a situation where I felt it was too invasive and too much of a breach of privacy.
The Wolf
Before eating something fattening we say “Shabbos calories don’t count!”
I know you mean it as a joke, but in high school, a Rebbe publicly berated me in front of the entire class because my diet included Shabbos. He spent a good ten to fifteen minutes ranting about how Shabbos is not a time for dieting.
And no, I did not listen to him. I continued to diet on Shabbos.
The Wolf
Why are you standing in teh way of helping people with their tuition and getting money to yeshivos?
Why do you think that *I* am standing in the way? Would anything change if I said “yeah, sure, let’s do it?” Would that change the law?
The Wolf
MDG,
I understand your point, but sometimes it just goes too far. One school, as I reported, wanted all of our bank statements for the previous six or twelve months. While that may sound innocuous enough, keep in mind that we pay doctors from our checking account as well. It’s not the schools business to know which doctors I see. This is especially so since you can learn a lot about a person based on what doctors you see. It doesn’t take a nuclear physicist to figure out that if someone in the household is seeing Dr. X and Dr. X is an oncologist, that someone in the household is facing some serious issues. But the point is that it’s none of the school’s business if someone is seeing an oncologist, a psychiatrist, a physical therapist or any other doctor. And, furthermore, even if the school *must* know (for some reason that I can’t fathom), can they guarantee me that the info will remain confidential? All it takes is one gossip in the office to start spreading rumors (even if the rumor may be true).
And it’s not just medical issues. Similar issues can be raised with payments to attorneys, accountants, marriage therapists, etc. All of these things can reveal lots of information to the school that they frankly have no business knowing.
I appreciate the need for a tuition committee to have a good idea of a family’s finances in the aggregate — but when they start getting down to the individual transactions, I felt that there was simply much too invasive and had the potential to violate my privacy in ways in revealing things that the school had absolutely no right to know.
I know that some may say that if you’re asking the school for charity, then you have no right to privacy at all. I disagree — vehemently.
The Wolf
Not being concise is not necessarily synonymous with superfluous
True, but that still doesn’t show that there are no superfluous words.
The Wolf
inquiries can be made about the grandparents.
Whenever I see that, I leave it blank. The last thing I want is for my kids’ school to call up my non-frum father and demand money from him. 🙂 Or my mother, who is frum but is disabled and has no money.
The Wolf
it is assur to call your children wilma, george, or walter.
I’m confused. Did MR ask you to post that?
In any event, those aren’t their names. In fact, my kids don’t have secular names at all (aside from their last names).
The Wolf
So, if I discuss ideas about people using things, does that make me big, mediocre and small all at the same time?
What if I discuss people using things to generate ideas?
What if I discuss things that produce ideas for people?
The Wolf
sponges should not be manufactured on shabbos
Neither should pots and pans… but you’re not makpid on that, are you?
The Wolf
We have our own Friday night minhagim.
Every Friday night I say at least some, if not all, of the following things:
Walter, please put the book away.
George, please use a fork AND knife.
Wilma, spaghetti and meatballs are NOT for making faces on your plate.
No, Walter, you can’t have wine yet. Give it a few more years.
Wilma, napkins… they aren’t just for decoration.
George, I told you not to pour it so fast.
You see, Walter, there’s this thing called gravity…
Wilma, I don’t mind if you sing, but please… on key.
Walter, and please sing the same song!
George, that’s a good question.
Walter, agreed, the chances of the universe ending because you have a second piece of cake are less than 0.00000000000000000001%. But why risk it?
George, that’s a great question.
Yes, Walter, I know *precisely* how much wood a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood. It’s exactly 32.874 pounds of wood per day.
George, please lead the bentching.
Walter, you’re a great kid (yes, I can still call you a kid).
George, keep up the good work, we’re proud of you.
Wilma, I couldn’t imagine a better daughter.
The Wolf
Parents (especially mothers) try to alienate the children from their father.
My parents had a very messy divorce about thirty years ago. There was lots of fighting and the fact that my mother became frum during the process (and my father didn’t) added much more stress to the situation. But in the end, my mother went to great pains to make sure that she wasn’t putting down my father in front of my sister and I.
In the end, I did become alienated from my father for a while, but it was pretty much my own doing. Even while going through the divorce process, she would every now and again try to convince me to end my estrangement from my father.
My father and I did end up reconciling when he remarried a few years later. Oddly enough, my mother and step-mother are now very close, and my parents have long since evolved to the point where they can be friends.
The Wolf
I’m the oldest. What’s best? I don’t know that is a single answer for that question. For me, being oldest is best… because if I wasn’t the oldest, I probably wouldn’t be the person I am today. I also have no doubt that being the youngest is the best for my sister… again, because it helped to shape who she is.
However, even if being the oldest wasn’t the “best” for me, so what? It’s not like I can change my birth order now. So why bother obsessing about things that can’t change? Far better to work on yourself and change the things you can.
The Wolf
Twice.
I won a megillah (which I still use) and a silver case (which I never used and sits in my house gathering dust).
Another time I won a sheitel for my wife.
The Wolf
When my kids were in elementary school: No. Now that all of my kids are in high school, yes.
The Wolf
I’ve had two requests in addition to the items you mentioned.
One school wanted a credit report. I had no real problem giving it to them.
Another school wanted copies of our bank statements for the past six or twelve months (I don’t remember which). There I balked. While I understand the school’s motivation, it’s really not their business what doctors I see, which supermarkets I shop at and the like. I didn’t want them picking through it and seeing “Oh, they spent $12 at the bakery, then they obviously can afford luxuries…”
Both schools were in the New York area.
The Wolf
I’ve always found that poker chips are wonderful for keeping scores.
The Wolf
Also, it should be noted that like many services, public education is not charged (taxed) on a per-use basis. Everyone pays for public education (as it’s a social public benefit) whether they have kids in the school, whether their kids have already graduated and grown up or even if they never had kids in the first place. It isn’t only parents of schoolkids that have to pay for public school — so you’d be paying for “Sheniqua” and “Shaquilla” anyway.
The Wolf
the wolf- Both your suggestions seem good however, how essential is writing down scoring in wheedle?
It’s been a while since I played, but IIRC, you don’t have to write the score at all. In Settlers of Catan, I’m certain there is no need to write down the score (your points are basically the number of cities/settlements and certain cards in your possession).
The Wolf
To curse? Why? For a watch? Please!! It is so not nice.
Hey, perhaps I deserved it. Lord knows that I’m not perfect. Perhaps I need to be punished for not buying him a watch.
The Wolf
does anyone know if 12 years ago was a leap year?
5759 was not a leap year.
The Wolf
But from reading the book, I got the feeling, she would not be considered a “Zonah”, she behaved like good “christian girl” prior to her return, so I myself did take issue, that only because she lived among Goyim, made her unable to marry a kohein.
All converts are considered zonos, regardless of how they acted… it’s an across-the-board definition classification regardless of personal behavior — just the same as the fact that we make a divorcee/widow wait three months to remarry — even if there is absolutely no possibility that she is pregnant.
The Wolf
If he’s interested in strategy games, I might recommend a game called Settlers of Catan.
If he’s looking for a fun, fast-paced game, I might recommend Wheedle.
The Wolf
how there is not a single extra word contained within the entire Gemorah!
From whence do you know this?
I was taught that the Tana’im were purposely concise. The Amoraim, however, were not — in fact, the word Amoraim comes from the word for “to speak” — i.e. they were not deliberately concise in their words.
The Wolf
I have no clue what St Patricks Day actually is.
A feast day in the Catholic Church in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
I don’t know for sure, but I would be highly surprised if St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York (and other similarly named churches worldwide) did not have a special mass on St. Patrick’s Day.
The Wolf
So going back to the original poster et al, in addition to coed classes, are you also willing to put up with sex ed, science, etc. (you’ll just love the lit choices, I’m sure) that the system will provide?
Before I showed her(?) otherwise, the OP lived in a fantasy land where she thought that the government will just throw money at the yeshivos and let them operate as they have been (religious studies, exclusionary entrance policies, etc.) just to keep the kids from flooding the public school system.
I’ve since disabused her of this notion.
The Wolf
Maybe the amount deducted for tuition, in the chesbon on Rosh HaShana, is also based on the amount of emunah one has in this concept.
Ah, I see. So here’s the scenario:
School Administrator: OK, so for three kids, your tuition this year is $30,000. Would you like to pay by check or charge it to your credit card monthly?
Parents: Well, actually, we were hoping we could get a break on the tuition. We only earn $40,000 a year, so we really can’t spend 75% of our pre-tax income on tuition. Isn’t there something we can do to work on that amount?
SA: Well, you know, the Torah teaches us that what you spend on chinuch for your children comes back to you at the end of the year, so really the yeshiva isn’t costing you anything at all.
Parents: Yes, I know the Torah says that but, at the moment, we just can’t make that sort of financial commitment.
SA: Ah, obviously you don’t have emunah. I don’t want someone with no emunah in the school.
The Wolf
Maybe it’s based on the amount of Emunah.
Please elaborate. I’m not sure I follow what you’re trying to say.
The Wolf
Isn’t it just an opportunity for people to celebrate or party, not really observed these days as a religious event?
Would you say the same about a Christmas party or an Easter Parade?
The Wolf
So, ZeesKite, I’m assuming then that you would have no problem with every yeshiva upping the tuition cost to $30K per student per year. And no yeshiva should give any tuition breaks either, right? After all, money spent on education isn’t counted in the yearly chesbon anyway, right?
The Wolf