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Obsequious, purple and clairvoyant. 🙂
The Wolf
i think my concept of OTD must be quite different from other posters here.
My concept of OTD is that they are no longer actively observing the mitzvos — usually the mitzvos of Kashrus, Shabbos (and Yom Tov) and Taharas HaMishpacha on a consistent basis.
The Wolf
Of all the words used above, the only one I hear from any of my kids is “awesome” — and the one kid of mine who does so has made that word her word to overuse. 🙂
The Wolf
Mammash sounds like the pesukim in Yeshaya describing the days of mashiach…
No, that would be if I said “Good Shabbos sheep.”
The Wolf
every single one that i know, and i know quite many, have very strong anger towards their parents, mingled with a significant element of “hatred”
Then we must know *very* different people.
The Wolf
Why is Shira any worse than Yiddish names that have been used for hundreds of years without any problems? Why is Shira any less a name than Yenta, Pessie, Shrpintza, Zlata, Golda or any of dozen of other names?
The Wolf
Most of the time was bec they hated their parents
I’ve got to say, thinking of all the OTD people I know, I can’t think of a single one where there is any hatred of parents. Every single OTD person that I know still loves their parents.
The Wolf
On Shabbos I try to greet everyone (man or woman, adult or child)* I pass in the street with either a “Good Shabbos” or a “Good morning” if they aren’t Jewish.
During the week it’s a bit more difficult. Nonetheless I try to greet people in the morning with a “good morning,” but, to be honest, I’m not as consistent about it.
The Wolf
* And, yes, as strange and as stupid as it sounds, I’ll even sometimes say “Good Shabbos cat” to a cat I pass in the street on Shabbos.
the meaning of life
life
? ?/la?f/ Show Spelled [lahyf] Show IPA noun, plural lives ?/la?vz/ Show Spelled[lahyvz] Show IPA, adjective
1.
the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
2.
the sum of the distinguishing phenomena of organisms, esp. metabolism, growth, reproduction, and adaptation to environment.
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the animate existence or period of animate existence of an individual: to risk one’s life; a short life and a merry one.
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a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul: eternal life.
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the general or universal condition of human existence: Too bad, but life is like that.
6.
any specified period of animate existence: a man in middle life.
7.
the period of existence, activity, or effectiveness of something inanimate, as a machine, lease, or play: The life of the car may be ten years.
8.
a living being: Several lives were lost.
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living things collectively: the hope of discovering life on other planets; insect life.
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a particular aspect of existence: He enjoys an active physical life.
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the course of existence or sum of experiences and actions that constitute a person’s existence: His business has been his entire life.
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a biography: a newly published life of Willa Cather.
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animation; liveliness; spirit: a speech full of life.
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resilience; elasticity.
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the force that makes or keeps something alive; the vivifying or quickening principle: The life of the treaty has been an increase of mutual understanding and respect.
16.
a mode or manner of existence, as in the world of affairs or society: So far her business life has not overlapped her social life.
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the period or extent of authority, popularity, approval, etc.: the life of the committee; the life of a bestseller.
18.
a prison sentence covering the remaining portion of the offender’s animate existence: The judge gave him life.
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anything or anyone considered to be as precious as life: She was his life.
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a person or thing that enlivens: the life of the party.
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effervescence or sparkle, as of wines.
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pungency or strong, sharp flavor, as of substances when fresh or in good condition.
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nature or any of the forms of nature as the model or subject of a work of art: drawn from life.
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Baseball . another opportunity given to a batter to bat because of a misplay by a fielder.
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(in English pool) one of a limited number of shots allowed a player: Each pool player has three lives at the beginning of the game.
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for or lasting a lifetime; lifelong: a life membership in a club; life imprisonment.
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of or pertaining to animate existence: the life force; life functions.
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working from nature or using a living model: a life drawing; a life class.
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as large as life, actually; indeed: There he stood, as large as life. Also, as big as life.
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come to life,
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to recover consciousness.
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to become animated and vigorous: The evening passed, but somehow the party never came to life.
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to appear lifelike: The characters of the novel came to life on the screen.
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for dear life, with desperate effort, energy, or speed: We ran for dear life, with the dogs at our heels. Also, for one’s life.
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for the life of one, as hard as one tries; even with the utmost effort: He can’t understand it for the life of him.
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get a life, to improve the quality of one’s social and professional life: often used in the imperative to express impatience with someone’s behavior.
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not on your life, Informal . absolutely not; under no circumstances; by no means: Will I stand for such a thing? Not on your life!
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take one’s life in one’s hands, to risk death knowingly: We were warned that we were taking our lives in our hands by going through that swampy area.
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to the life, in perfect imitation; exactly: The portrait characterized him to the life.
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Origin:
bef. 900; ME lif ( e ); OE l?f; c. D lijf, G Leib body, ON l?f life, body; akin to live1
The (literal-minded) Wolf
I’ve been on my first date for nearly twenty-three years…
The Wolf
Well, for starts, I assume that it helps if both parties are carbon-based life forms… 🙂
(sorry… couldn’t resist)
The Wolf
Well, no one here said this was restricted to television, so here are some of the funnier clean movies that I can come up with off the top of my head…
Arsenic and Old Lace (utterly hysterical)
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (there is one scene with a woman in a bikini, but it doesn’t last very long and is not important to the plot).
Lilo and Stitch
Bringing Up Baby
It Happened One Night (yes, despite the risque sounding title, it’s pretty clean — the worst is when Claudette Colbert shows a bit of leg.)
The Princess Bride
Singing In the Rain
The Wolf
Knowing how to properly use the doubling cube is also essential.
The Wolf
We’ve had a hamster pretty much continually for the past eight years or so. And we had multiple hamsters at a time before we had kids.
The Wolf
I like to take pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/WolfishMusings/WolfishMusingsPictures?feat=directlink
The Wolf
Is there a song on a jewish album named Wind beneath my wings? The line does not appear in the original by Bette Midler.
Are you sure? Here’s the chorus of the Bette Midler song (bolding mine):
Did you ever know that you’re my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
’cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
The Wolf
what is the idea of not speaking to your chosson while engaged?
where does the minhug come from?
What community to you belong to (in a theological, not geographic sense)?
The Wolf
There are probably so many variables that change from case to case that a general answer is probably worthless.
Instead of focusing on “everyone,” try to find out if your particular son (cousin, nephew, whomever) will grow in a specific yeshiva in Israel.
The Wolf
This ought to be interesting…
I’m going to hold back for a bit and see what develops.
The Wolf
My issue here is that if someone EXPECTS a real diamond, or feels slighted when they dont receive one, they are simply not ready for a real relationship.
Again, the issue here isn’t that she didn’t get a real diamond. The issue here is that she was either told or led to believe that it was real.
If someone hands you a ten dollar bill as a gift, you have a right to expect that it’s real, unless you were told otherwise. You may not have a right to expect the gift in the first place, but once given, you have the right to expect that it’s genuine, unless otherwise told.
An engagement ring is really no different. We may agree that she doesn’t have the right to expect a diamond, but once a ring with a stone that looks like a diamond is given, she has the right to expect that the diamond is real. His not saying anything to the contrary (and certainly his actual lying about it if it happened) is a cause for loss of trust.
The Wolf
So any assumptions that it is real are your own.
On the contrary. Since diamonds are customary for engagement, she has the right to believe that something diamond-looking that’s given to her as an engagement ring is an actual diamond.
You can argue that the custom is wrong or silly… but for the nonce, it is the custom.
The Wolf
And, more importantly, who told you that you could not drive *in your circumstances*, for what reasons, and, again, under what sanctions?
The Wolf
Yes, its very nice to receive and exchange gifts but to say that you would lose his trust if he doesnt give you a “real” diamond seems absurd to me.
The loss of trust isn’t because he gave a fake diamond. The loss of trust is because he either outright lied about it or led her to believe it was a real diamond.
If he told her upfront the diamond isn’t real, there would not be a loss of trust.
The Wolf
Where do you live that you are not allowed to drive? And who, specifically, is not allowing you to drive (and under what sanctions)?
The Wolf
When I became engaged, Eeees knew that I was not rich, and would have been fine without an engagement ring. As it was, I proposed with a candy ring (perhaps making Eeees the first person to eat her engagement ring).
After a few months, we did get a ring. My mother gave the diamonds from her engagement ring (my parents are divorced). I had them reset into a new setting for her.
The Wolf
So, if I make a slideshow of my photography and post it on YouTube, that disqualifies me as a Ben Torah?
The Wolf
You also might want to consider the fact that the average HaModia reader is not poor. According to their website, the average household income of their readership is $147,000.
If that’s their average reader, then perhaps $3.00 an issue isn’t so much after all…
http://www.hamodia.com/ourreadership.cfm
The Wolf
Misterhock,
I’m still curious to know what you consider to be an acceptable level of profit. If being a “multi million dollar profit making business”* is unacceptable to you, I then ask you what *is* an acceptable level of profit which you think they are entitled to earn — and how did you pick that number.
The Wolf
* This is leaving aside the fact that it is far from “very clear” that they are, in fact, earning multi-millions of dollars in profit and that you have brought no evidence that they are even in the black, let alone making millions of dollars.
My real problem is because the Hamodia claims to be ‘The newspaper of Torah Jewry’
So what? It’s still a luxury. If it’s too expensive for you, don’t buy it.
when they are very clearly a multi million dollar profit making business.
They are a business producing a luxury item. Their purpose is to make money. I’m sorry if that disturbs you.
I’m curious as to what you consider to be an acceptable profit — and why that amount?
The Wolf
I did not say that there is something wrong with having a birthday
I should hope not. Everyone has one once a year… whether they want to have one or not. 🙂
The Wolf
The HaModia is not a necessity, it’s a luxury. Why are you getting so worked up over what the charge for a luxury is? If it’s too expensive, don’t purchase it.
The Wolf
I think you may be talking about a situation where the rav knows that the violation is occurring but is not asked about it and will not say anything on his own.
I can’t imagine that if the father asked him point blank that he would lie about the actual halacha.
If you ask a rav point blank about removing a sheitel after a divorce, I would take it at face value that it is a hetter.
The Wolf
Grandparents and Great-Grandparents can have the same last name.
So?
Sometimes when talking about my mother or mother-in-law, they’ll say “Bubby_____,” but sometimes they’ll just say “Bubby.” Nonetheless, we figure out who they’re talking about.
The Wolf
Cute story: We were spending Shabbos by my mother’s house when my oldest was very young (probably about two or three at the time). He was playing with my mother when there was a knock at the door. Naturally he ran to the other and when we opened it, it was my mother-in-law, who came over to visit.
Squealing with joy, he exclaimed “More Bubby!!!!” 🙂
That, and I start the kapitl of Tehilim of the next arriving year
So what do you plan on doing when you reach your 150th birthday?
The Wolf
And for the record, many Chassidm (Chabad in particular) make a HUGE deal about a person’s birthday
Awwww… you spoiled it! That’s where I was heading with Bed-Stuy. 🙂
The Wolf
Apparently, you’re all unaware of the true sign of MO-ness (and therefore being in league with the devil).
The true sign of this is when the congregation sings together with the Chazzan (such as in Kail Adon or L’cha Dodi), as opposed to the chazzan singing a stanza and then the congregation mumbling the stanza after him. Shuls that do the former are far too modern to be frum. The latter is the sign of an Authentic Frum (TM) shul. 🙂 :p
The Wolf
Rav Moshe’s heter is only for widows, not divorcees.
I’m curious about the distinction. Does he state that there is a distinction (and if so, why?) or was that simply the case before him at the moment?
The Wolf
MDG: Just because some people do the wrong thing, doesn’t make it into a minhug.
Just because you have not heard of a minhag or have a different minhag doesn’t make his actions wrong. Perhaps he asked a sha’aila.
The Wolf
Wolf: Indeed. Some people don’t agree with me that keeping Shabbos is mandatory either.
So, are you saying that the prohibition against celebrating birthdays is as clear-cut and a “davar barur” as the prohibition against chillul Shabbos, to the degree that there is no possible room to say otherwise?
The Wolf
IOW, birthday celebrations are distinctly a non-Jewish concept.
If you feel so, then by all means, don’t celebrate yours. Just keep in mind that not everyone agrees with you.
The Wolf
a Neshama is like a flame
Maybe, but then it’s no longer a “part of that person’s neshama” as the OP described. It may come from there, but it’s not a part of it, no more than a newly lit flame is a part of the old flame.
The Wolf
Regarding Basar V’chalav with basar neveiloh you cannot guarantee that all the pet food comes from neveilo.
My understanding of basar v’cholov is that it is dependent on the species of animal, not whether the individual animal is kosher. In other words, a cow (or any other kosher mammal) can be subject to basar v’chalav regardless of whether it was properly slaughtered or not.
Or am I mistaken in this?
The Wolf (who, like all canines, is clearly NOT subject to basar v’chalav).
And is it true a “part of that person’s neshama” is in you,or someone just made that up?
What if you’re named after someone who is living. Is that person now missing a part of their neshama?
The Wolf
I celebrate my birthday every year on the thirtieth of February.
The Wolf
Wolf, I am just curious: why eees? initials?
It’s a nickname.
The Wolf
Just for the record, I’m not impressed that someone is trying to impersonate my wife.
The Wolf
Wolf are you joking or for real?
Very real. See the entry on my blog for July 6, 2010.
The Wolf
Just as if a soldier refuses to wear his uniform, he will soon no longer be a soldier; and if a Belzer Chosid starts wearing a kipa sruga and shorts, he probably will no longer be considered a Belzer Chosid; so too if a Chareidi starts wearing jeans casually every day, it may cause him to no longer be considered a Chareidi.
And that’s fine with me as I never self-identified as a Belzer Chosid or a Chareidi… and furthermore (and more importantly), there is NOTHING WRONG with NOT being a Belzer Chosid or a Chareidi.
The Wolf
wolf are you sure it was Bavli?….
Positive. I knew the woman fairly well.
The Wolf
it’s the way people perceive you and like said previously, people judge based on the way you look without knowing who you really are.
I can’t help how other people are going to perceive me. If they’re going to judge me as being sub-standard because I wear jeans, then that’s *their* problem, not mine. I don’t have to live my life by other people’s standards.
And with regards to shidduchim, if you’re dealing with someone who is going to reject you *solely* because you wear jeans, then you’re better off without such a match. You probably wouldn’t want to be married to someone who is that judgemental, narrow-minded and superficial.
The Wolf