WolfishMusings

I’m far too busy on Purim to be collecting.

The Wolf

(besides a watch and shas)

Are you looking for something *in addition to* a watch/shas or *instead of* a watch/shas?

And what price range were you looking at?

The Wolf

Admittedly, when I was in Israel, I had to do a bit of mental re-adjusting before I was able to eat in the KFC there. 🙂

The Wolf

photos taken of your 1st child vs the total taken of all subsequent children

Heh, so true. 🙂

Reminds me of the truism: if you see parents with a baby and you want to know which child it is (in terms of birth order), just watch for a while and see what happens when the baby drops his/her bottle.

If it’s the first child, the parents will pick up the bottle, dump out the milk/formula, sterilize the bottle and nipple and prepare a brand new bottle.

If it’s the second child, the parents will pick up the bottle, run the nipple under water until it’s clean again and then give it back to the child.

If it’s the third child, the parents will simply kick the bottle back to the kid.

If it’s the fourth or subsequent child, the parents will tell the kid to get it him/herself.

The Wolf

My point was that he probably did write music, not that I ever heard it, although I can only imagine that it was spectacular.

I didn’t dispute that either. I was only disputing Chana’s assertion that Dovid is her favorite composer on the grounds that she never heard any of his compositions.

The Wolf

You’ve got to figure that since Dovid Hamelech wrote the lyrics, he must have written the trop also!

A. I don’t have to figure that at all.

B. Even if so, have you ever heard anyone lain Tehillim with the trup?

C. Even if you did, how do you know the tune used for the trup then is the same as is used today?

The Wolf

Dovid Hamelech?

Considering that I find it highly doubtful that you’ve ever heard a composition by Dovid HaMelech, how can you say that he’s your favorite composer?

The Wolf

Salted or unsalted?

Salted. Definitely salted.

The Wolf

A hidur mitzvah is not the same as extravagance.

Hiddur mitzvah is, at best, a d’rabbannan. Charity is min HaTorah. Based on the way this thread is going, one should buy the cheapest esrog and give the rest to tzedaka. I wasn’t being disingenuous at all.

The Wolf

wolf – I assured that a few posts earlier to onegoal.

So you did. I missed it — my apologies.

So, at the end of the day, your problem is not with Subway, but with fake milk/meat.

The Wolf

My parents are divorced, but fortunately, they are now at a stage where they get along well. It helps that my stepmother is such a nice person — she put a very big effort into getting everyone back together again — to the point where she and my mother are now very close.

The Wolf

Go someplace local and not astronomically priced, and give the difference to Maos Chittin. Or your yeshiva.

Why stop at Pesach hotels?

Wouldn’t it be better if everyone just bought a $20 Esrog and gave more money to Tomche Shabbos or Project Mazon or some other similar program? Wouldn’t it be better if, instead of buying a $20 bouquet of flowers for Shabbos (or Shavuous), we limited ourselves to a $5 bunch of three carnations? Or instead of a fancy silver menorah, we use a simpler plain one and take the money we would have spent and give it to tzedaka?

The Wolf

Kosher chinnese, pizza, sushi, choclate… there is nothing inevitably wrong with, it just doesn’t have a hechsher, Fake Milk and Meat is trying to copy something that is assur.

Ah… but that’s not what you said. You said it’s a problem of “eating like goyim” — and you said that before the issue of fake milk/meat ever came up. You seemed to have a problem with it in toto. So tell me, if there wasn’t an issue of fake milk/meat products, would you have a problem with Subway?

The Wolf

than why does one have to find a loophole to eat it together?

But they’re NOT eating it together. HKBH said “don’t mix meat with milk*.” He didn’t say “don’t have anything that tastes like dairy with anything that tastes like milk.”

The Wolf

* Well, He didn’t say exactly that either… but you know what I mean.

Why is it necessary to davka use the name Subway?

To take advantage of franchising.

The Wolf

But to make a restaurant with their name just so that we can say that we can also eat at subway?

Now you’re assuming something on the part of the restauraunteur. Why are you assuming he did it only so that “we” can eat at Subways. Perhaps he was looking specifically for a franchise opportunity? Perhaps he was looking for a restaurant that would attract not only Jews but the general public as well?

And, again, I ask the question… why is this worse than Chinese food, or sushi or even pizza — all of which are non-Jewish in origin?

The Wolf

I would literally kill myself working to get out such a demoralizing inhuman rut.

Well said, but to nitpick, I think you meant “figuratively.” I don’t think you’d literally kill yourself since you could do the same by simply not getting food stamps and not eating.

The Wolf

what i mean is that the limud Torah brings more tangible benefits (ie protection) than the tax dollars does.

If the issue truly is one what brings more tangible benefits from tax dollars, perhaps the voters should decide whether they feel the benefit from kollel is worth it. After all, it’s their money…

The Wolf

But as Wolf said

For the record, I did not actually say that. I merely asked KH to clarify his question to be consistent with the title and posed that as a possibility.

The Wolf

The most despicable thing I ever heard of. Why do we have to act like goyim, eat like goyim???

Is this really the MOST dispicable thing you’ve EVER heard of? I highly doubt it.

And, in any event, do you ONLY by foods in the supermarket that non-Jews don’t buy? Do you never eat spaghetti, for example? And if you do, how is a spaghetti-and-sauce materially different than a Subway sandwich (vis-a-vis “eating like goyim?”)

The Wolf

I might live in the wrong place but sadly i live in the area with the most frum jews! And of course we treat our wives like queens but the way its supposed to be woman doing housework

Well, I guess my home isn’t a home with frum Jews then… because I do housework, and so do my kids… even when my wife doesn’t “need” the help. In my home, the housework isn’t only my wife’s job — it’s a collaborative effort of all the people in the house.

I cook, as do my sons and daughter. I was dishes, as do the kids. I take out the garbage, as do the kids as well. And I did all these things in my mother’s house too when I was learning full-time. I guess my mother’s home wasn’t a home with frum Jews either. Oh well…

The Wolf

btw there were torah giants who held a kollel guy should generaly not take out the garbage because he is a guy learning torah all day so just because you dont like it if he is doing it because he is following those gedolim he is doing the right thing!!

Please tell me (and provide sources) which gedolim said that if the wife needs help and asks the kollel husband to take the garbage out that he should refuse because of Kavod HaTorah.

The Wolf

(P.S. — just as using ALL CAPS is considered “shouting,” using all lowercase is considered mumbling. Please use capital letters where appropriate. Thanks.

The Wolf)

Do you want people to have hirhurim abot yur daughter

If you really think that people looking at pictures of my then-three-year-old are engaged in “hirhurim,” then you have problems that need to be addressed professionally.

The Wolf

Yes im sorry Wolf didn’t mean any offense

I don’t know why you’re apologizing… I was responding to KH, not you. In any event, there’s no need to apologize for disagreeing with me.

But a yeshiva bochur who smokes is different then someone you need to respect i have no chiyuv there what so ever unless some buckey in halacha tells me otherwise…

Why does it have to be all or nothing? Is smoking *so* heinous that it makes it impossible to respect someone regardless of any other good he does? Can you not respect him for his learning and his dedication to it even while you disapprove of his smoking?

The Wolf

do you respect yeshiva guys that smoke? prob not right?

You *can* respect someone even if you don’t approve of everything they do. My mother smokes and although I hate that about her, I respect her immensely.

Or is it your opinion that because they are yeshiva bochrim that I cannot disagree with anything they do?

The Wolf