Hi!!


(Isn't this appropriate place for my 2,500th post?)

hey we're at a tie! now i also have 27 posts lol  ;D
whatever love every jew

it's not fair 
u have 28 now lol
soon we'll both have reached much more and no one's gonna have a musag what we're talkin' about
RAT
ROCK AND TRUCK

that smiley is cuz it's this post that upgraded me to "full member"
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I am so happy that I am an addict! If I wasn't addicted to shmutz, would I really know what being helpless means and realize that I am helpless in every area of life and that everything that I took for granted is really a gift from Hashem?
If I wasn't addicted, would I feel the pain I'm feeling now and realize that I must do Teshuva and change myself so much that I become unrecognizable to my old self? Would I have the inner urge and strength of will to strip my personality down and make an accounting of my strengths and weaknesses and fight to fix what I can in myself?
If I hadn't become addicted, I would probably feel content with my service of G-D and dance all the way to my grave, thinking that I have fulfilled my Tafkid to perfection, lying to myself about my belief in G-D and my trust in him, lying about my integrity as a human being, lying about imperfections.
Being so utterly and blatantly imperfect and being exposed is the biggest blessing I could get from Hashem. It is such a gift to receive this helping hand from Hashem. Throughout this whole experience, He has proven to me, in what I thought to be the darkest times, that He loves me. He was there always, just waiting behind the wall which I myself had erected, waiting for me to come to the other side.

Mazel tov Hero!

rumor has it that if you board a bus and hand the driver your metrocard and whisper that you are a hero member you can sit in any unoccupied seat you wish...

hatzlocha ubracha

who said anything about hataras nedarim?

Gevald! It ain't getting any better!

If you look at her now by mistake, tomorrow you'll look on purpose.
If you look tomorrow on purpose than Ibbermorgen [=the day after tomorrow] you'll search for it on the computer.
If you search for it on the computer, ultimately you'll masturbate, or search compulsively and waste time.
If you do any of the above, you'll miss seder.
If you miss seder, You'll feel like a jerk and won't be able to daven.
If you'll feel like a jerk you'll have trouble getting up the next morning.
If you laze around in bed like a jerk you might masturbate yet again and feel like a bigger jerk ^{[see Orach Chayim siman aleph] [also see Matisyahu, Light, On Nature- "Will you rise like a lion in the morning sun? Or will ya', just lay there bleedin'?"]}
Feeling like a jerk isn't very conducive to learning once you do make it to seder.
Going a day without learning for a yeshiva bachur creates depression.
Depression is bad.
Life is bad.
So?

A moiradige vort that I heard this afternoon (b'sheim HaRav Geldzahler I don't know if it's Shlit"a or Zatza"l):

The Gemara says "K'sheim shemishenichnas Av Mema'atin be'simcha, kach mishenichnas Adar Marbin Besimcha" (or something like that)

What would you do if you walked into a shteeble on the 3rd of Av and saw a group of chassidim sitting around a table eating meat, drinking wine, and listening to music?

Of course, you'd run over to them taken aback and say "Chevrah! Es past duch nisht! (This is inappropriate behavior) for the month of Av", and you'd show them the Shulchan Aruch where these laws are discussed.

If so, what are you supposed to do when you enter a shteeble/beis medrash/Jewish home on the 3rd of Adar and you see them walking around with the blues, shoulders down, nose drooping down to the floor etc. etc.

Obviously, you should be doing the same thing!


Of course, you'd run over to them taken aback and say "Chevrah! Es past duch nisht! (This is inappropriate behavior) for the month of Adar", and you'd show them the Shulchan Aruch where these laws are discussed, and maybe have a round or two of Mishe Mishe Mishe Nich Nas Adar...

Revving up our engines,

Love all of you,

E. ben Durdayah

very interesting, thank you for that vort.
i wonder how that would mesh with וירא אלקים כי טוב in Parshas Breishis

DID YOU EVER HEAR OF WOODFORD?

NOW IT'S NOT A NEW YESHIVA

ITS MASHKE SCNAPPD LCHAIM

HAVE ONE
ILL DRINK TOGETHER WITH YOU (virtually of course)

BAR-cichev

Why don't you come over and spend a few days with me...