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Sam2 I have seen a water fountain where the button is electric. I know it exists. It looks mechanical but sometimes it’s electric.
Shopping613, FYI it was called the bubonic plague/black death. Ring around the rosies-the victim’s face would turn red. A pocket full of posies-The victims would smell bad, so they put flowers in their pockets to smell bad. Ashes ashes we all fall down-the victims died.
When you use a water fountain for a little while, the motor starts to run to keep the water cool. So when you press the button, the motor starts to run. I heard that it’s like a refrigerator door. When you open it, the warm air comes in and thermostastat causes the motor to start running. Most Poskim are maikel in the case of a refrigerator. However in a water fountain sometimes there’s another factor. The button to press for the water is an electronic button. In that case it would be assur to use the water fountain.
According To wikipedia, he was R’ Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sulikov (wherever that is) and was the Baal Shem Tov’s grandson
If I remember correctly and I’m not confusing this with something else, Mishpacha had an feature on this several years ago. They asked him what makes his cholent so good. He said that he doesn’t give away secrets but he uses a different type of beans (lima, maybe, I don’t remember).
This thread has not been updated for awhile so I decided to put in a Dvar Torah
The Seforim HaKedoshim tell us that the we have 248 limbs which draw life from Krias Shema which has 248 words in it. However, if you count up the words in the three parshiyos of Shema you will find only 247 words. Where is the 248th word? The answer is, the word “Emes” that we say after Ani Hashem Elokeichem.
The Degel Machenei Ephraim says we find a Remez for this in the Pasuk (VaEschanan 4:4), “V’Atem HaDveikim B’Hashem Elokeichem Chaim Kulchem HaYom; And you who attach yourself to Hashem are all living today.” The word Atem is the same letters as Emes . If you attach it at the end of Shema to Hashem Elokeichem, then Chaim Kulchem HaYom, all 248 of your limbs will be alive with the Shefa infused by the holy words of Shema.
from revach.net
The Mishna Berura says in simun Reish Lamed Seif Katan Zayin “If someone sneezes and his friend tells him Asusa, and he should answer back Baruch Tihyeh Leshuascha Kivisi Hashem.” Asusa is aramaic for Good Health, which is Gezundheit or Labriyut. The Mishna Berura goes on to say that In the original times nobody got sick before they died, they just sneezed and died. So when they sneezed people said Asusa until Yaakov Avinu came and davened to Hashem to take it away. It sounds like from this Mishna Berura that you could say it.
musser zoger, there was a story on here that there was a poster who started a thread that I’m new and i want to welcome myself to the cr and in the end the poster admitted that their old screenname wasn’t working so that poster started a new screenname under a new email address. But as far as I know, most people here are honest and wouldn’t do something like that. In any case you do have a point all the posters here are anonymous and will stay anonymous unless they want to reveal themselves (or if someone else says). I believe Shopping613 was asking out of curiosity how many users can you name off the top of your head, not how many do you know.
PBA, Mark Levin, WIY, The Goq, WolfishMusings, writersoul,feminist02, shopping613, apashutayid, haifagirl, gefen,torah613613 (it think that’s what’s it is, this is without looking),crazybrit, TheChassidisheGatesheader,not from ny, Lemony Snicket, midwesterner, The list goes on and on
It’s funny that you bring this up because yesterday I was looking at an Igros Moshe and I came across a tshuva where someone asked R’ Moshe zatzal if it’s it’s muttar to go to a doctor to be healed through hypnotism. R’ Moshe answered that there’s no issur involved, it’s not an act of kishuf. However if the doctor isn’t a shomer Torah U’mitzvos, then you would be choshed him on an aveira and you shouldn’t go to him. If he’s a shomer Torah U’mitzvos then it’s muttar to go to him. It sounds like that there is such a concept that hypnotism exists.
The Biur Halacha (in ?”? ???)gives a reason why the olam isn’t noheg to be careful nowadays. I think he’s saying that this din is only where he doesn’t eat from the foods that the ??? ???? gives him. But where the ??? ???? gives him to eat then you don’t have to give him first. I think anyways WIY is right. He’s not eating with you. He has his own food from the restaurant and he’s not eating with you. He’s just serving you. By a servant he eats with you and you’re responsible for feeding him. By a restaurant you’re not
Where does it say where you go to a restaurant? It says shamash. A shamash usually means a servant where you pay him to serve you, like he lives in your house or something to that effect. I don’t think we have this nowadays.
This was pasted from 8th day’s website
Use a match and light a piece of paper in the sink. Let it burn out
Sam2 Does this have anything to do with Moshiach? I think I heard somewhere that Tisha B’Av will be a Yom Tov when Mashiach comes.
There’s a chassidishe maaseh that there were two rebbes that were bothered by the question why isn’t Mashiach here yet? One Rebbe thought it was because due to lack of tznius and he went went traveling from community to community giving drashos on tznius. The other Rebbe thought that if People would be careful to answer Amein nad Amein Yehe Shmei Rabba with kavana and and not talk in middle of davening, then Mashiach would come. He went traveling from community to community giving drashos on this inyun. One day they met at an inn and each tried to persuade the other that he was right. Neither could pesuade the other so they decided to do a Goral Hagra. They did it and it fell on the pasuk ?????? ???? ?? ??????? which is in ?????? ?? ??. The Targum Yehonasan translates this as It’s not proper that it should be said in a Jewish gathering. According to one meaning it means tznius, according to Targum Yonasan, it meant that People don’t talk properly in a jewish place which means Amein and Yehei Shmei Raba. So both Rebbes were right and they both continued to travel to different communities to darshan on these topics.
yoyo56, it that’s the recipe you’re looking for, then I found it online from imamother. if you google kosher corned beef recipe from kosher palette then you’ll get a thread from imamother discussing recipes from that cookbook and in that thread there’s that recipe.
rebdoniel, the way it was explained to me by someone in the kashrus field is as follows. There are many different types of doctors out there. For some types of doctors if you tell him you’re sick, they’ll tell you “take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” Those types of doctors aren’t really doctors. They have no idea what they’re talking about. The person next to you could have told you the same thing. However there are other doctors that you could go to and tell them you’re sick and they’ll look at your symptoms and see how sick you are and they’ll diagnose you and offer treatment. Those doctors know what they’re doing. This is the same thing with kashrus. Some people call themselves mashgichim and say “I know kashrus, it’s easy.” In reality, however, they have no idea what to look for. There are other people that learn Hilchos Kashrus, know all the Chumras and kulas, and they are reliable Mashgichim.
I noticed it last night, I figured it was a mistake. I guess the mods fixed it that whichever thread you click on, it goes to the same one.
Mark Levin, what’s the difference between “recommended” and “acceptable?”
Kasher- in a way you’re right but here you at least get a picture if it’s a good hechsher.
Toi- thanks.
This is in yalkut shemoni Yeshaya Tuf Tzaddik Tes, Samech. There was a thread on this several years ago. I was once looking for the mekor to this. So I googled Where are the words to anovim and I got this thread. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/source-for-anovim-anovim
Does anyone know if the hashgacha KF from London is considered a reliable hashgacha? I’ve heard that it’s not the best and it’s only good for some things. I’ve seen it on candy (Vidal’s) and on american cereal in EY.
apashatayid, are you making assumptions? The star-k has a cereal list and they trust other organizations on the kashrus. The crc has a list of reliable organizations, they worked with the star-k on the quinoa issue, they work with the other organizations when it comes to posting kashrus alerts on their websites. There are other examples as well. My point is that kashrus organizations that are reliable want to be known as reliable. They want people to use their hashgacha.
apushatayid, calm down. No need to yell at me.
FYI- Who mentioned anything about kosherquest? I didn’t. In any case, I don’t think that’s a reliable list anyways. There are several unreliable hechsherim on there.
Rabbi Belsky and Rabbi Heineman are credentials already. You don’t need credentials for the credentials. They’re chashuva well known Rabbonim.
And that goes with all the other reliable kashrus agencies. They work with one another and they all respect each other.
If you look at other reliable kashrus agencies, they usually say why their reliable, either they have a beis din, or a rav, a posek etc. who tells them what to do.
apushatayid, a kashrus agency that’s reliable that’s under strict rabbinical supervision would want to make sure that everyone knows that they’re reliable. They want to have connections with the frum world. They would want to work with other kashrus agencies. If they want to do that, they would want to have (and need) to have credentials listed for everyone to know that they’re reliable. If they wouldn’t want that listed, then nobody would think they’re reliable. If they don’t want to work with other agencies in one way or another, (although they may disagree but they’ll respect other agencies) then they’re not reliable.
Actually after I did some researching online, I think it’s made in Holland.
You can google torah lectures and get the website done by the Yehuda Mond Foundation, they have shiurim there by Rabbi Avigdor Miller. Addidtionally you can google Simchas Hachaim Foundation and buy an ipod loaded with his shiurim on their website.
Ruchi I didn’t say anything about Rabbi Silver.I said that I don’t think the hechsher is reliable. I think you should direct your comment at rebdoniel.
I think I have an answer, but I’m not 100% positive that’s why. If you look on the package it’s made in Switzerland. It says on the package certified kosher by the Rabbanut of Switzerland.
If you google shield star k you’ll get a forum from imamother discussing whether it’s good. It’s npt on the Kosherquest site either which makes it seem that it’s not recommended.
If you don’t hold of the B’B one, how do you eat Mentos(the round candies)? (I think I have an answer, but I want to see what everyone else thinks.)
charliehall, In the rules of scrabble it says that you write to record the score. It may even come with a pad of scorecard sheets. If you usually use that to record the score then it would be assur miderabanon. If you normally don’t, then I think it’s muttar, but I could be wrong. There’s an Israeli version of scrabble, it’s called Blanko, I think there’s a different way how to record the score there. In deluxe scrabble, there are places where the blocks are held in place. The poskim as Sam2 mentioned say that’s forming a word and it’s assur mideoraisa. I don’t remeber the Rema offhand, but the gemaras in shabbos and gittin discusses whether you’d be chayiv m’deoraisa for writing two letters. That doesn’t matter English, Hebrew or any language. In any case the Rabbonon assur’d even one letter.
talmud- it’s in R’ Dovid Ribiat’s sefer Sefer Lamed Tes Melachos The 39 Melachos Vol. 4 page 978. On pages 954-955, he also writes about scrabble if you want to look it up.
Sam2-who is matir scrabble? The Chachamim made a gezeira that you can’t do things that normally involve writing because it may lead to writing. In regular scrabble, you record the score. It’s assur miderabanon. In Scrabble, the pieces interlock, it’s really writing and it’s assur mideoraisa.
I would recommend to play on shabbos
risk- but that can get boring after awhile.
chess-some poskim say if you will have agmas nefesh if you lose, you shouldn’t play.
checkers
Quick Shtick (I don’t know if this game is around anymore.)
uno
battleship
Outburst (I’m not sure if that can be played on shabbos, but I think it’s fine)
Malarky
Notasheep, I heard the joke about snoring in regard to something else. I was at a camp in the Catskills, it was sort of in the middle of nowhere, and there was a sign that read,”My wife told me that if I go to the camp one more time, I’m going to leave you. I’m sure going to miss her.”
There was a thread about listening to music when exercising during sefira http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/listening-to-non-live-music-on-sefira#post-370591
Also Halachically speaking by R’ Moshe Dovid Lebovitz also talks about this. I’ll copy and paste it, but if you want you can see it also by googling Halachically Speaking and going to the archives It’s Volume 5 Issue 9.
Without Intent
Many cases of listening to music are not because one wishes to enjoy the music. For example, one who is exercising and wishes to listen to music to make the exercising better is permitted to do so since his intent is not to enjoy the music.
Harav Yisroel Belsky Shlita, see Shiurei Halacha (Harav Felder Shlita) page 26.
HolyMoe, are you sure of this? The Mishna Berura clearly states when he brings the lashon of the Magen Avraham ??????? ???? ????? ??? ??? ????? ???? ???? ????? ??? ?? ???? ???? ????? ?????? ????? ??? ????? ??????? ???? ??????? ?? ?????? ??????? ??? ????”? ?????? ??? ???? ???? ???? ????? ???? ?????? ??? ????? ???? ????. The lashon of ??? ?? ???? is mashma even under the shirt.
midwesterner, I can see why you thought that what’s I meant but that’s not what I meant. What I meant was is that there are different hashkafic points at this area. Both schools are very frum. One happens to be more yeshivish than the other.
You probably saw this already because its in the comments of the article but just in case you didn’t the names to daven for are eliyohu ben devora yocheved.
The Mishna Berura says you should wear it out.
gavra at work- The pizza shop in denver is good but it has very crazy hours. The joke is that its open from 7:00 to 7:01.
It can be annoying but YWN is doing that for us to stay on. Without advertisements, YWN can’t be totally free.
MorahRach, I visited the jewish community in washington dc about 9 years ago, there was one shul in Georgetown which is a suburb, the community was older, the restaurants that were there had all closed up. It wasn’t a very yeshivish community either. I wouldn’t recommend moving there unless its changed within 8 years.
Vogue, what you said about hanna sacks was loshon hora and could have even been motzi shem ra. I know the several people on the administration personally and they are wonderful people. If you want to know the difference between hanna sacks and bais yaakov high school, I’ll tell you what I think the diffrenece is. Bais Yaakov High school is extremely yeshivish and very strict,. The principal’s husband is the Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe Chicago. It’s that hashkafa. Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov is extremely frum but only to a certain extent. They say you need to look proper and be human.
Sam2- shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim Kuf samech ches seif yud. You can also look at the brachos sefarim, they bring it down (Vezos Habracha, R’ Forst’s sefer,R’ Bodner’s etc)
Sam2-When you boil bread (or in this case matza), it loses the shem hamotzi and turns into mezonos.
I think it’s all animals. Halachacally Speaking by R’ Moishe Dovid Lebovitz brings down a machlokes. I’ll try to copy and paste it, or if you want you can google halachically speaking and find it in the archives on the website so you could see it yourself.
Visiting a Zoo
Shlita).
However, others are lenient with this. Bunei Beischa page 332, Opinion of Harav Felder Shlita, see Ashrei Yiladito page 31:footnote 25 who is lenient
PBA, The Slonimer Rebbe says similiar to your vort. He says sometimes we act like the Chacham, sometimes we act like the Rasha, sometimes we act like the Tam, and sometimes we act like the Sheaino Yodea Lishol. Whichever son you’re acting like, Hashem always wants to have a connection with you. That’s why we say Baruch Hamakom
I want to thank everybody who posted a dvar torah on here. They enhanced my seder.