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Now we have to ask what is considered living month-to-month and how much does a person need to live 6 months. The answer is a lot less than people think. All the houses we have nowadays would be considered mansions in the days of the gemara – and that’s even without indoor plumbing, etc.
The problem is that we live in the age of the mega-millions where most people are not happy with what they have. They all say, “if only I won the lottery…”.
Let’s say you did win $100 million in the lottery. Would you be rich? Can you afford a new home? Yes. Can you afford to buy a baseball team? Probably not. Do you need to buy a baseball team? No. Do you need to buy a new house? That is questionable. If Hashem feels that you do need it, and you give maaser, than he will provide you with the means to buy it, but he won’t necessarily give you $100 million.
You say the promise is “wealth”. Pirkei Avos defines “ashir” as “sameach b’chelko”. I’m not sure exactly what your source is other than the pasuk in Malachi which says “bracha ad bli dai” which basically means “a blessing of enough”, why do you define that bracha as “wealth”? And even so, how do you define “wealth”? Should Hashem give you $1 million? $2 million? $100 million?
With the new system it seems that links are no longer blue so this trick doesn’t work, the links are now the same color as the rest of the text but become underlined when you mouseover them. (I don’t like this btw, I would rather be able to see that something is a link without putting my mouse on it)
And when I post in the CR it gives me a page with just that post, no page header with link to main CR page, etc
One thing I would really like in the CR is at the bottom of the list of threads have a link to “more theads” that would give the next 20 threads the same way you can access news stories that way. It is very annoying when trying to find an old thread and I can’t remember which section it’s in but I know that it just slipped off the main page recently.
With today’s wireless mice it might actually be easier to pull the switched mouse trick.
Then there is remote access via something like logmein which might work even better
goodbye:
I’m bothered by having only 5 “top” news stories, and then having to check through several different lists. I liked having everything in one long (big-worded) list.
onetimer:
…I would rather scroll down the long list and see what I want to click on! Please go back to old way!
Rose Valley:
I really don’t like the new layout. Dividing up the news into different sections makes it difficult to access all the headlines….can you possibly make an option to view ALL the news stories on one continuos page, as was the old layout?
The list of all news stories can be accessed by clicking the All News link at the bottom of the top 5 stories
I’m on Firefox, it’s just as slow
how many ppl do you know are so wealthy they say “enough already” how many frum ppl do you know that are really worth many millions? compared to the amount of yidden giving masser very few
Hashem says he will give “bracha ad bli dai”. You seem to think this means that the person giving the maaser will say “enough already”. I don’t know what your source is for that, but there is a concept of “sameach b’chelko”. Some people can be given millions and it still won’t be enough for them, does that mean that Hashem didn’t fulfill his promise or that the person himself is too absorbed in gashmiyus to recognize the bracha? Being worth millions does not mean wealthy and wealthy does not mean worth millions. Give maaser and Hashem will provide you with more than enough – whether you notice it or not. In today’s economy many people are only now realizing how wealthy they were a few years ago. A few years ago as their businesses were going up they just wanted “more and more” and never said “enough”, today they wish they could have what they had back then without the extra “more and more”
I don’t know if that promise applies to Maaser K’safim. It is written in the pasuk by giving Maaser of produce. Many peopel extend it to Maaser of money as well though.
Also, how do you know it doesn’t work? The promise doesn’t say that as soon as you give the Maaser, more money will magically appear in your bank account. It could be that it takes time. Have bitachon that Hashem will fulfill the promise and eventually he will.
I received this from a member:
The site is still very slow. It seems to freeze my browser for a minute while the page loads. I can’t get to the bottom of the thread to post a comment. It gets to the post by rivkylakewood about screen size and then stops loading. I tried it in 3 different browsers and tried doing hard-refresh and refresh a few times and never got past that post.
I like the new front page layout. You seem to have incorporated the Coffee Room into the nain site more which will hopefully get more people involved. I think you should put the number of comments at the end of the article on the main page with a link because sometimes people want to read stories with a lot of comments. I like the way each comment on the news stories has its own permalink, I don’t remember having that previously. Now I can email someone a link to a specific comment.
The YW logo at top-left is a little cut off (fixed this with shift-F5)
I would also like more than just 2 lines of text for the preview to stories, maybe a 3rd line would add something. For the stories other than the top 5, part of the title sometimes gets cut off also so partial title coupled with only 2 short lines of preview doesnt give much.
It is a nice idea but the question is, will the boy actually use the Shas or will he just use it for games, Internet, etc.
Will he be supervised to make sure he is using it properly and not abusing it.
Interesting, I just tried loading a thread from a non-mod login and not logged in at all and it took forever. For some reason when logged in as a mod it goes a little faster but still slow
from the main page last week:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=55597
NJ Public School Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking
April 28, 2010
The following article is from WCBSTV:
A controversial proposal has students horrified at a Bergen County middle school on Wednesday. The principal is asking parents to join a voluntary ban on social networking.
Anthony Orsini, the principal at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, sent out an e-mail Wednesday morning asking parents to help him get all of his students off social networks and keep careful track of their text messages.
Since the e-mail has gone out, the principal said the reaction has been generally positive. But the truth will come when individual negotiations take place between parent and child to get them off Facebook.
Dear BF Community,
In 2010 social networking sites have now become commonplace, and technology use by students is beyond prevalent.
It is time for every single member of the BF Community to take a stand!
There is absolutely no reason for any middle school student to be a part of a social networking site!
5 of the last 8 parents who we have informed that their child was posting inappropriate things on Facebook said their child did not have an account. Every single one of the students had an account.
3 Students yesterday told a guidance counselor that their parents told them to close their accounts when the parents learned they had an account. All three students told their parents it was closed. All three students still had an account after telling their parents it was closed.
Most students are part of more than one social networking site.
Please do the following: sit down with your child (and they are just children still) and tell them that they are not allowed to be a member of any social networking site. Today!
Let them know that you will at some point every week be checking their text messages online! You have the ability to do this through your cell phone provider.
Over 90% of all homework does not require the internet, or even a computer. Do not allow them to have a computer in their room, there is no need.
We as a school can offer guidance and try to build up any student who has been injured by the social networking scourge, but please insist the authorities get involved.
The threat to your son or daughter from online adult predators is insignificant compared to the damage that children at this age constantly and repeatedly do to one another through social networking sites or through text and picture messaging.
I will be more than happy to take the blame off you as a parent if it is too difficult to have the students close their accounts, but it is time they all get closed and the texts always get checked.
Some people advocate that the parents and the school should teach responsible social networking to students because these sites are part of the world in which we live.
I disagree, it is not worth the risk to your child to allow them the independence at this age to manage these sites on their own, not because they are not good kids or responsible, but because you cannot control the poor actions of anonymous others.
Please take action in your on home today.
Sincerely,
Anthony Orsini
Principal, BFMS
(Source: WCBSTV)
I think we need to bring this thread back for the new generation of CR posters (see the thread that can’t decide on a name for more details)
popa_bar_abba, is the Gaon’s goral a segula for doing the right thing?
No vort? They went straight to the wedding? Or was there a l’chaim?
Very deep philosophical questions: If I know Joseph, does that count as knowing 1 member or knowing a whole bunch? And what do you count as “knowing”, if I have met someone once or contacted them online outside the CR but never met them in person, does that count as knowing another CR member? What if I saw someone from a distance and someone pointed out to me “that is ploni from the CR”, what if someone told me that a certain poster is his brother?
SJSinNYC is a she
Does anyone know what happened with this story?
mochel lach
To tell you the truth, I didn’t realize that d a was referring to a specific moment of silence, I thought he was just asking in general so I made a joke out of it. There is definitely a concept of stopping to think about certain things (one of the yetzer hara’s biggest weapons is making us too busy to stop and think) but I don’t know whether or not a public moment of silence has any basis in Judaism which is probably what d a was asking.
ditto
Some people allow weddings before Rosh Chodesh and on Lag BaOmer. In these cases, Sheva Brachos can come out during sefira.
Shkoyach Reb Noach, now we have:
1 Hashem Is Everywhere
2 smartcookie
3 da
4 oomis
5 mybat
6 aimhabonim
7 FunnyBunny
8 sm29
9 haifagirl
10 estherh
11 volvie
12 BEST IMA
13 Bodek
14 ronrsr
15 speaktruth
16 aries2756
17 boredjewishguy
18 fan of pd
19 kollelboy123
20 goody613
21 WolfishMusings
22 asdfghjkl
23 Moderator-42
24 RoshYeshiva
25 boredstiff
26 BP Totty
27 RN2B
28 Moderator-99
29 nnnnnn
30 tomim tihye
31 not2bright
32 The Rabbi Rocks
33 amichai
34 hodulashem
35 kapusta
36 the.nurse
37 areivimzehlazeh
38 checkmate 27
39 Moderator-77
40 rdreyfuss
41 ishman
42 simchallthetime
43 h2
44 tums
45 shtarkbocher
46 vas1820
47 RaisedEyebrow
48 GARBAGE
49 mstrram
50 shtieging
51 Dovv
52 abbazabba123
53 lakewoodwife
54 mischiefmaker
55 YW Moderator-55
56 chofetzchaim
57 Chops
58 Noach
Joseph, how come you’re only in here once, or am I missing something?
In YCT, the Maharts usually wait until they are on the tram back to Boro Park before taking out the Gemara.
When there are a lot of little kids around, a moment of silence is welcome.
As we are now between Rosh Chodesh Iyar and Lag Ba’Omer (La’Omer ?), I think that everyone agrees that it is a period of mourning.
That said, there are those who allow listening to recorded music as long as it’s not live. That is probably a minority among the Yeshiva World crowd. I think that there are 3 levels:
1) those who listen to any recorded music
2) those who listen to Accapela
3) those who don’t listen to any music
There are some in between levels of people who listen to accapela provided that it is “Dveykus” type songs that are uplifting spiritually but do not lead to dancing or kallus rosh. Perhaps some of these people will even listen to regular recorded music if it is these type of songs.
There used to be a sticky thread like this. It might be better to keep this as a regular thread and hope that it will stay on the board by being used since people often ignore the stickys
What is it?
You can’t always “no” which mods are on. But if you are a very “Observant Jew” you might notice which ones are posting or who is responding to your posts at any particular time
Fivish is now in the home stretch of his auction campaign. Tonight is the 9th night of the Omer which means 24 days until Lag LaOmer. I think the auction is sometime around then.
bombmaniac, are you Fivish?
Tonight is Fivish of the Omer!
it aint over yet
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…and on the 8th day you Bruk
The Shmorg 2 is awesome! Great songs, great videos. Good job by Oorah as usual.
DIS-KVELLIFIED (v.) To drop out of law school, med. school or business school as seen through the eyes of parents, grandparents and Uncle Sid. In extreme cases, simply choosing to major in art history when Irv’s son David is majoring in biology is sufficient grounds for diskvellification.
CHUTZPAPA (n.) A father who wakes his wife at 4:00 a.m. so she can change the baby’s diaper.
RE-SHTETLEMENT (n.) Moving from Brooklyn to Miami and finding all your old neighbors live in the same condo as you.
DISORIYENTA (n.) When Aunt Linda gets lost in a department store and strikes up a conversation with everyone she passes.
GOYFER (n.) A Gentile messenger.
HEBORT (v.) To forget all the Hebrew one ever learned immediately after one’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah.
JEWDO (n.) A traditional form of self-defense based on talking one’s way out of a tight spot.
MEINSTEIN – slang. “My son, the genius!”
MISHPOCHADOTS (n.) The assorted lipstick and make-up stains found on one’s face and collar after kissing all one’s aunts and cousins at a reception.
YIDENTIFY (v.) To be able to determine Jewish origins of celebrities, even though their names might be St. John, Curtis, Davis or Taylor.
MINYASTICS (n.) Going to incredible lengths and troubles to find a tenth person to complete a minyan.
FEELAHWFUL (n.) Indigestion from eating Israeli street food, especially falafel.
IMPASTA (n.) A Jew who starts eating leavened foods before the end of Passover.
KINDERSHLEP (v.) To transport other kids besides yours in your car.
SHOFARSOGUT (n.) The relief you feel when, after many attempts, the shofar is finally blown at the end of Yom Kippur.
JEWBILATION (n.) Pride in finding out that one’s favorite Celebrity is Jewish.
TORAHFIED (n.) Inability to remember one’s lines when called to read from the Torah at one’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah.
Thanks. I was wondering what each kapital was and figured that others were as well so I added links to each one.
vas1820, Welcome to the Coffee Room. Please don’t use caps
It goes without saying that Torah is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Of course 42 is an extremely imortant and holy number. Mazel Tov simchaallthetime for being zoicheh to it. It is the gematria of ‘bam’ that we say everyday in Shema ‘vidibarta bam’ which of course refers to Torah so 42 is Torah.
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??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Some people have psychological issues that cause them to consistently email and IM the moderators for no apparent reason.
d a, you can always click http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/tags/ to see all the tags.
smartcookie wrote:
Mod 42- is that your mishloach manos list?
Yes, didn’t you get yours? you were my 2nd stop