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I forgot to take a number myself
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1 Hashem Is Everywhere
2 smartcookie
3 da
4 oomis
5 mybat
6 aimhabonim
7 FunnyBunny
8 sm29
9 haifagitl
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
WolfishMusings didn’t take a number so he can be 21
asdfghjkl can be 22
asdfghjkl, yes there are about 30,000 users on Yeshiva World but many are doubles such as asdfghjkl, Jax, OldCRGang.
And don’t forget all of Joseph’s personalities. He can probably fill up a thread like this on his own. go for it Joe…
This just in from a small town in England: A couple went to job placement agency to find a “domestic assistant” (aka maid). The placed and ad looking for a reliable person. The agency refused to run the ad because it discriminated against unreliable people.
During Adar I replace the coke with a bottle of Yaakov Daniels
A Rib-eye Steak with curly fries and a coke 🙂
What are the names of Pres. Abama’s sons? (now dont answer he doesnt have any!)
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Hmm, for some reason a lot of ronrsr’s posts are going to spam, I just unspammed a bunch of them. It looks like you got some of those answers before me
8-Hadassa. 10-Prince of Persia. 11-Mordecai
answer to number 5- Bigson
Welcome back Jax and mepal. Anyone up for a Dvar Torah?
Avraham Avinnu served tongue to his guests. He was the first Jew so we should all eat tongue 😛
My version of the rule doesn’t seem to work for seize, weird, and species (the last makes sense since it is a plural word ending in ‘ies’ even though there is no singular form of the word).
I always learned it as I before E when sounds like long E except after C
I’m trying to sell a toddler size peter pan costume
New
Can u put it in one of the purim threads to contact u if a/o interested
Email [email protected] if interested
Interesting, this is the same Governor Crist who put a note in the Kossel asking Hashem to spare Florida from Hurricanes.
http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/crists-wall-against-hurricanes-is-in-jerusalem/1029820
Oh boy, we are being PUNished bu Oomis again, maybe these should go in the Funny Shidduch Story thread as well
nathan21 said:
drinking is a mitzva on purim by the seuda! cant wait!
Is it the mitzvah that you can’t wait for or the drinking? That simple perspective can be the difference between a meaningful Purim and a regular drunken party
Just Smile, I said that he should be with responsible people. That means no drinking, smoking, etc.
Klal Gadol, if you will cause a Kiddush Hashem, go for it, if chas veshalom it will cause the opposite, then don’t.
As long as you know that he is with responsible people who won’t drink and drive and won’t cause a Chilul Hashem, why not?
By the way, it seems that choftezchaim and I are the only ones posting Divrei Torah. If anyone else can help out, please post your own.
SHULWEEK
DVAR TORAH: Yisro
“Remember the Shabbos day and keep it holy.”
The Chofetz Chaim writes that Shabbos is a sign for the Jewish people. When a store has a sign out front, you know it’s in business. When we have Shabbos, we are ‘in business.’
Faithful observance of Shabbos is part of what makes our people eternal, as the following true story submitted by Evi Reznck, Atlanta, GA, illustrates:
Back in the mid nineties a Jewish advertising executive in New York came up with an idea. What if the New York Times – considered the world’s most prestigious newspaper –
listed the weekly Shabbat candle lighting time each week. Sure someone would have to pay for the space. But imagine the Jewish awareness and pride that might result from
such a prominent mention of the Jewish Shabbat each week.
He got in touch with a Jewish philanthropist and sold him on the idea. It cost almost two thousand dollars a week. But he did it. And for the next five years, each Friday, Jews around
the world would see: ‘Jewish Women: Shabbat candle lighting time this Friday is ___’. Eventually the philanthropist had to cut back on a number of his projects. And in June 1999,
the little Shabbat notice and stopped appearing in the Friday Times. From that week on it never appeared again.
Except once. On January 1, 2000, the NY Times ran a Millennium edition. It was a special issue that featured three front pages.
One had the news from January 1, 1900. The second was the actual news of the day, January 1, 2000. And then they had a third front page.
Projecting future events of January 1, 2100. This fictional page included things like a welcome to the fifty-first state: Cuba . As well as a discussion as to whether robots should be
allowed to vote. And so on. And in addition to the fascinating articles, there was one more thing. Down on the bottom of the Year 2100 front page, was the candle lighting time in
New York for January 1, 2100. Nobody paid for it. It was just put in by the Times. The production manager of the New York Times – an Irish Catholic – was asked about it. His answer
was right on the mark. “We don’t know what will happen in the year 2100. It is impossible to predict the future. But of one thing you can be certain. That in the year 2100 Jewish
women will be lighting Shabbos candles.
This non-Jewish production manager sensed a profound truth. Thus is the power of Jewish ritual. Thus is the eternity of our people.
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“Honor thy father and thy mother.”
This commandment demands of us to be the type of parents that our children can honor and cherish. This takes much wisdom and thought, as the following words written by Rabbi
Yakov Horowitz, submitted by Getzal Segal, illustrate:
The GPS system in our automobiles, nonchalantly responds when we make a mistake or don’t follow its instructions. The same calm voice that directed us in the first place comes
back on, simply says, “Recalculating,” and helps get us back on track.
Now; imagine how we would feel and respond if the GPS was programmed to progressively inject a harsher tone of voice and raise the volume each time we missed a turn in
unfamiliar territory.
Would it help or hinder us if instead of “Recalculating,” we heard things like, “Would you PLEASE listen next time?” or “Don’t you know anything at all about driving?”
The affection that we all feel regarding our children is most certainly a positive component of our relationship with them. However, precisely because we love them so much, we
are often too passionate to calmly help them grow and learn from the inevitable mistakes they make.
Our chazal (sages) teach us that there are profound lessons to be learned from all new developments in our world. Perhaps we ought to take a page from the makers of GPS and
do our very best to gently, privately and constructively help our kids “Recalculate” the next time they take a wrong turn or two.
Dedicated by Dr. Scott A. Magnes in honor of his parents Dr. & Mrs. G. D. Magnes.
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Also comes with jokes and letters to editor, I only pasted the Dvar Torah – YW Moderator-42
Emmes! Yidden! Say what you think, not what you think people think you should think!
word of the wise wrote:
so the question if there is something wrong!
for some reason they made something called kosher phone without text. so i can imagine that all the rabbonim who endorsed it from chassisuh to litvish had a reason. in eretz yisroel most people have kosher phones.
and i didnt understand why if your in a dangerous area how does text help?
The problem is that boys can more easily get involved with girls with texting. Of course, it can happen to anyone even without cellphones but this makes it so much easier that the Rabbonim decided there was a need for a Kosher phone.
Of course, texting can also be a very useful thing. It is very good for places where there is a lot of noise or poor service since you can get your message across more easily. I often use texting in basements where regular calls wouldn’t last long enough to have a conversation. It is also good if you need to tell someone something and there are people sleeping in the room. It is also good for sending information such as addresses and phone numbers, or for giving someone the proper spelling of a word/name. It is a lot easier to type these things out than to have to say it over in a conversation.
I use it all the time to give people phone numbers, anyone can text me anytime asking for Ploni’s number and all I have to do is find Ploni in my contact list and insert his number into a text message. It’s a lot easier than having to browse the contact list while talking on the phone and having to give the number over one number at a time, make sure the person heard everything correctly etc. especially if I am in a place with poor service or where there is a lot of background noise.
As with any new technology, there are many good uses for it but it can also be used for bad. The question is can you trust a teenager to use it properly and not abuse it and if you can’t trust him then is there a way to give him the technology in a way that can be limited/monitored. This is the same question we have with Internet, etc. A lot of new technology allows people to do things more easily and with more privacy which makes it a lot easier to be nichshal.
If you give him a very limited texting plan than he won’t be able to abuse it too much without his parents noticing but he can still use it for “important” things. (btw, I just added the word “texting” to my Firefox spell-check dictionary)
I’ve heard of the name Chanuka
What ever happened to illini07 and his liberal friends, afraid to post now they realize Obama has been such a disaster?
Calling all old CR members, where are you?
haifagirl, I think I had this issue with my laptop once and I had to install a mouse driver for the touchpad mouse. A quick Google search turned up this forum which seems to describe your problem. If you post the exact type of laptop and mouse I might be able to research it more.
I don’t see why we need two threads asking pretty much the same question so let’s move this discussion over to http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/ideas-for-midwinter-vacation
I keep track in a spreadsheet. When I make money I enter how much I earned and how much of it should go to Maaser, I usually round up a bit to make it a little more than 10%. I then add all donations I give into the spreadsheet and it calculates how much I owe, how much I gave, and how much I have left to give. I can then look back next year to see how much I gave to each cause, etc.
I try to make it work with taxes, if the take taxes off a paycheck it’s easy because I juts have to enter how much I actually got. If I get a refund I will count that as money made, and if I have to actually pay taxes I will enter it as negative income so taht I will then owe less in maaser
The only thing I can find on Youtube is YW’s rehearsal video.
Is there a recording of the concert?
Loud music is a sakana. Young people don’t realize that after many years of listening to loud music their hearing will go. It bothers me when I see young people with ipods with the earbuds stuck in their ears and I can still hear the music from a few feet away. That means that it is much louder for the person with the earbuds. I don’t understand how they can enjoy it and they don’t understand that they will go prematurely deaf. I was once told that when wearing headphones, or certainly in-the-ear earbuds you should first hold it about a foot away from your ear and if you can still hear it then it is too loud.
I often try to wear earplugs at chasunas but they are uncomfortable and make it hard to speak to other people. It also makes me feel like I’m stuck in my own head in a different world which makes it hard to celebrate with the people around me. I would rather that the bands play softer so that we can dance normally without having to worry about earplugs.
I would like to cast my vote for the Y.W. Editor, with Pashuteh Yid coming in a close 2nd
Back on topic, in response to BP Totty’s post. There are halachos about when one is allowed to speak lashon hara. Many conditions have to be met including that there has to be a to’eles in saying it. The Chofetz Chaim says that even if nothing will be done about the avla, if speaking about it will calm a person’s worries then it might be considered li’toeles. Obviously you still need the other 6 conditions which are probably very hard to fulfill on an open blog.
sorry cherrybim, I couldn’t think of anything for you.
noitallmr – Yidden are supposed to be anovim, humble, naming yourself noitallmr goes against that, hence, not Yiddish
Yiddeshe Taam? I don’t think that the old names are any more Yiddish than the new ones. Let’s look at some old names:
Feivel – definitely yiddise taam
Prince Charming – all bnei yisroel are like princes so you can call it yiddish
anonymisss – sound English to me
xoxo – Chinese?
WolfishMusings – shouldn’t he have called himself Velvel?
shkoyach – Yiddishe taam
whatshaiches – yiddeshe taam
Doc – What’s up?
bugnot – speaking of bugs…
bugyes – again
mamashtakah – yiddeshe taam
rabbiofberlin – ah, the Rabbi of the yidden in Berlin where they speak Yiddish
illini07 – American
charlie brown – Good Grief! Not Yiddish
Curious – Englsih
beacon – English
Just Smile – English
Brooklyn19 – I guess Yiddish is spoken in Brooklyn
cokenotpepsi – English
ames – agent emes?
jphone – sounds Jewish
Mayan_Dvash – Hebrew
Bowzer – isn’t he the guy from Mario Bros? The guy with the nickname Bowzer is Jewish too according to Mr. Sandler’s Hannuka song but his nickname doesn’t sound too Yiddish
chofetzchaim – sounds Jewish
lgbg – could stand for something in Yiddish but who knows
NeveAliza – I guess that has Yiddishe taam
Shadow – English
Just Me – English
Feif Un – Yiddish
Areivimzehlazeh – Yiddishe taam
Jax – nickname for Yankev?
mepal – sounds like it could be a Hebrew word but who knows
kapusta – cabbage has a yiddishe taam
Goldieloxx – Yiddish version of an English story
JayMatt19 – Enlish version of a Jewish name?
mdlevine – A doctor and a Levy, definitly Jewish
Joseph – the yiddishe taam way to say this name is Yosef, Yossi, Yussele… Though he claims that ROB gave him this spelling and that the “J” is pronounced “Y”
Will Hill – Go Gators!
Hill of Beans – we call that cholent in Yiddish
THE BIG ONE – Jews are supposed to be anovim and not call themselves by such a name
Mezonos Maven – a yiddishe taam!
squeak – this reminds us that we are all small like mice, the opposite of the big one
noitallmr – anovim?
Wow, how many old timers are now mostly lurkers? and why?
Speaking of old days… Interesting topic, though it doesn’t mention the problem of getting people addicted to the Internet which can lead to other problems. There was recently a Kol Korei against frum web sites that would probably hold that the pros do noy outweigh the cons
noitallmr, I did not include you (or squeak) because you have posted recently. I was mentioning the old timers who are no longer around.
Some more names… Prince Charming, 000646, anonymisss, xoxo, WolfishMusings, shkoyach, whatshaiches, Doc, bugnot, bugyes, Bogen, mamashtakah, mosherose
Edit to add: OMG, I forgot…. Moish01
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane…
jent1150, rabbiofberlin, illini07, charlie brown, feivel, Curious, beacon, Just Smile, Brooklyn19, cokenotpepsi, ames, cherybim, jphone, Mayan_Dvash, Bowzer, lgbg, NeveAliza, Shadow, Just ME, Feif Un, Areivimzehlazeh, Jax, mepal, kapusta, Goldieloxx, JayMatt19, mdlevine, Joseph, Will Hill, Hill of Beans, ujm, THE BIG ONE, Mezonos Maven
I vote for squeak’s post
Google Translate is very good
Where is Joseph?
Haifagirl wrote (bottom of previous page):
I can’t imagine any parent allowing a child to use a chainsaw, a power drill, a car, or any other potentially dangerous item without supervision. So how do these children have access to Facebook without supervision?
The problem is we aren’t teaching children to use the tools available on the internet. We are teaching them to stay away. So when they don’t stay away, they have no idea how to use them responsibly.
So basically, we are assuming that the children will use these things eventually. Therefore the real issue is that we need to teach the parents about the dangers and how to properly supervise their children. If a parent knows that their child will definitely use a chainsaw, they will certainly find an expert to supervise them and teach them how to operate it safely. The parents themselves will probably pay attention to the experts as well so that they can supervise when the expert is not around.
Apparently, she was with some of them the other night and one of the other girls made a remark about Stranded’s “giving up” and “settling” for someone who is not “k’lei kodesh.”
I heard a story about a certain Rosh Yeshiva whose daughter was redt to a working boy. Her brothers tried to insist that, as the daughter of a Rosh Yeshiva, she should only go out with chosheve learning boys. The father said that as long as the boy will treat his daughter well and be a good ehrliche Jew who will build a Torah home, that is fine with him, he wasn’t interested in a boy for her just because he was known as the best learner in his Yeshiva.
btw, Stranded probably shouldn’t be talking about this with these friends at all. It’s fine, and probably even recommended, to talk about dating with a few friends but from this it sounds like all of her friends are gossiping about her dating life which isn’t right. Friends who make these type of comments are not the ones who she should be talking to about her dates.
Where is this secular book list on chinuch.org?