I cant find post 5000. they all say 5003.

how is the baby soprano ben zekunim's father doing?

התעיף עיניך בו ואיננו

b'h soprano poppa is doing good, trucking along
thanks for asking
how is HM doing? are you practicing some nice shticklach for 'hineni heuni memass'?

heuni memass wrote on 26 Sep 2011 18:19:

It always shows the total number of posts for that person.  If you want to memorialize a certain number, you have to do it yourself in the body of the post.

bardichev wrote on 22 Sep 2011 20:39:

ZemirosShabbos wrote on 26 Sep 2011 18:37:


Dont need to prepare that one. The less prepared we are on that one, the more vulnerable we feel.

oh... it gives me chills every time i think of the bal tfillah of my youth saying .. Nirash ve'nifchad mepachad yoshev thilois yisroel.

heuni memass wrote on 26 Sep 2011 18:56:

very well said!

was thinking this morning that selichos and the r'h and y'k davening are somewhat like life. very long and at times feel like an ordeal to get through, i just want my honey-cake and brisket and this is just taking me away from them.

i remember keeping a mental countdown of the pages and the hours till it's over, especially as a child. as years go by i do that less, as the meaning and the relevance of the words become more apparent. still got quite a ways to go but it's a good lesson for me. our job is to find the meaning and the relevance in the words and they go from being a burden to being a joy

zemmy if u were in bardstown i would give u a flogging

although i can identify

but.........

please see me after class

just dont give me a 5k flogging

i want to hear what you have to say rebbe b

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ZemirosShabbos wrote on 26 Sep 2011 20:09:


I remember that on tisha be'av. But the high holidays - you need a better baal te'filah.

ok, so where can i go to hear you daven?

You can gladly come join me in my shul. I am not the baal tefillah.

ZemirosShabbos wrote on 26 Sep 2011 20:09:


I was originally going to post this on the chizzuk tefillah thread but it seemed timely here.  Also I wanted post 1144 to be on your thread.

This past shabbos I asked my family who knows what והחליצנו means? or  נערצך?  Going around the table including adult guests no one knew.  I then asked them imagine that a king asked them to carry out something and they returned to the king and told him "mutatis mutandis.  To which they responded "huh" and I said well actually the King said that same thing, what does that mean?  If you responded, "I don't know," what do you think the King's response would be?  Some agreed that "off with your head" where certainly within the range of possibilities, even though the response was a valid response to the King's question.  If you talk to the King and have no idea what you are saying, it's a problem.  Given that there are 3 meals per week that we say והחליצנו that's over 150 times we bentched and didn't know what we were saying.  Unfortunately, we have a lot more than that to do teshuva for, but if we don't want our davening to be a burden, probably one thing to do is to figure out what we are saying in the first place.

והחליצנו - "strengthen us"
נערצך - we will revere you
mutatis mutandis - "the necessary changes having been made; having substituted new terms"

gibbor120 wrote on 26 Sep 2011 18:38:


is that similar to quoting ones self?