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Re: Can I extinguish my gas burner on Yom Tov?

rafiG — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 01:35:55 -0000

Hi. I have been enjoying the podcast since I discovered it a few months ago. Always interesting topics and discussion.
one question, or comment, about this episode - when talking about moving one's feet, relative to motion of the body, I was sure you would include the topic of shukling during the amida. I was surprised it did not come up, especially as you did discuss the idea of possibly needing to stand ramrod straight like a soldier.

Re: 22: I am not Uncle Moishy | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky's Official Website

rafiG — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:52:42 -0000

my podcast player is giving me an error on this episode.. i can watch it in youtube, but my podcast player cant download it

Re: How to Optimize Your Apology (Ep. 353)

rafiG — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 04:19:42 -0000

another fabulous episode. thanks. I wanted to add a factoid that you might be interested in looking into. In a recent elections in Israel, just a few years ago, the Jewish Home (Habayit Hayehudi in Hebrew) party running for Knesset had a major campaign theme of "we will not apologize". You should look into it. Being that a campaign and an election has so many factors, I have no idea how to weigh whether this specific campaign theme helped and by how much, but perhaps you have a way to determine that.
To start your research, here is a link from The Times of Israel news website..
https://www.timesofisrael.c...

Re: How to Retrieve Deleted WhatsApp Data from Damaged Android

rafiG — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:26:28 -0000

Android Data Recovery. new phone is a Samsung Galaxy 6

Re: How to Retrieve Deleted WhatsApp Data from Damaged Android

rafiG — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:34:41 -0000

hi. once I recover the whatsapp messages to my computer, what then? how do I open them? or, how do I transfer them to my new phone? all I see are some files with an html file and that opens up to just a page that says #content .. what do I do next?

Re: DOVBEAR: Happiest day ever!

rafiG — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 23:49:39 -0000

1. internet is available on the smallest of devices that are easily kept hidden when the owner does not want them to be seen.
2. nowadays when you almost never pay for internet per mb, it doesnt cost anything to let people use your internet, except maybe it slows you down a bit in a way though you would never even notice. I regularly allow my neighbors to use my wifi signal, when they ask.

Re: DOVBEAR: Happiest day ever!

rafiG — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 16:14:20 -0000

agreed, but they won the war against tv well before there was internet and especially before there was television on the internet. they lost the war on the internet

Re: DOVBEAR: Happiest day ever!

rafiG — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:52:33 -0000

they lost the war on tv? most frum, or shall we say yeshivish, homes do not have a television. I'd say that is the one battle they won

Re: Emes Ve-Emunah: The Shidduch Catastrophe

rafiG — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:03:17 -0000

while Reb Shlomo Rechnitz wrote very passionately about the problem and really drew me in to identify with it, I am a bit disappointed. Rechnitz only offered a solution that is not new in any way, but is the classic solution that has been touted regularly over the past few years.
Perhaps people arent playing along. I dont know if the average age of marriage has gone down in the past 10 years or not, but this is the main solution touted in recent years.
A guy like Rechnitz should come up with a new solution. He is someone that thinks out of the box. He is creative. He is willing to do things differently. For him to just repeat the same solution everybody else is saying, a solution that obviously hasnt actually solved the problem (for whatever reason), is disappointing.

Re: Emes Ve-Emunah: Unwanted Physical Contact of a Sexual Nature

rafiG — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:25:23 -0000

"these three people do not normally cross paths"... not entirely true. Rabbis Cohen and Schwartz have sat next to each other in shul for probably about 30 years (give or take a few).. I would bet they collaborate on plenty of community issues as well... what might be true is that they probably dont cross paths much in the context of a beis din setting..

Re: DOVBEAR: We know the answer to the tuition crisis

rafiG — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:59:21 -0000

interesting Q. I think t is worth a follow-up.
we are 6 siblings. we all went to yeshiva high school and yeshiva in Israel. The girls went to Bais Yaakov high schools. out of the 6 of us, 2 are frum and 1 more is borderline.

Re: Korach D'var Torah: Whatever It Takes

rafiG — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:13:57 -0000

more of an issue than my previous comment is that it is a difficult assumption to make. How would this assumption deal with the statement in Pirkei Avot defining a machloket shelo lshem shamayim as being that of Korach and his group? if his motives were altruistic, I dont think his argument would qualify as the paradigm of shelo lshem shamayim

Re: Korach D'var Torah: Whatever It Takes

rafiG — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:13:41 -0000

This provides a strong opening for acceptance of the opinion of the Satmar Rebbe's on the formation of the State of Israel and its miraculous victory in 1967, against the majority opinion that the clear miracles show Yad Hashem. Perhaps God helped but only because the founders, the fighters, were being moser nefesh, even though maybe they were wrong...

Re: DOVBEAR: The most progressive OJ toy ever!!!

rafiG — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:19:43 -0000

I am sure it is a mistake. I looked around the website and in the other sets there are mitzvah kinder dolls of women. either way, this made me laugh

Re: The Science of Sport: Vibram shoes named in lawsuit: The danger of barefoot running

rafiG — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:51:32 -0000

thanks, Ross. fabulous article. I have been running in Vibram's for over 2 years now (including 4 full marathons in Vibrams). When I began I was very careful to start slowly and transition properly.

I know from my friends who have tried, some have succeeded, and they always heeded my advice about starting slowly. the ones who did not succeed and either ended up injured or just gave up quickly, were the ones who tried to do too much too soon, thinking that because they could easily run 25km in shoes so they could start off with distances of 15km in Vibrams.

From my experience that is what I have seen - the guys who fail at it, are the guys who arent willing to transition properly. That being said, I never push barefoot running. When people ask i tell them it has worked for me, but I am not an evangelist and don't know if it will work for them, but if they want to try i am happy to help them transition properly.

Re: Can Affiliate marketing be a part of MLM?

rafiG — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:52:10 -0000

this is something I am trying to figure out right now. a friend has a business operating in the MLM system, and came to me to ask me to help add an Affiliate Marketing dimension to it. I am having trouble figuring out how to connect the two, as the purchasing is not done through them but directly from the manufacturer. I need a way to make an ecommerce website for the affiliate that will then transfer the sales to the parent company ecommerce site for the actual processing of the sale.
does such a thing already exist?

Re: Mostly Kosher: Finding Sympathy For The Burqa Cult

rafiG — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:04:17 -0000

I get that part of it. but the clothes contradicts the rest of it.
by the way, they base their actions on the teachings and leadership of a certain Rav Sofer who wrote a book promoting the burqa wearing. He seems to be the originator of the cult. I dont know if he is their active posek - they probably decide much on their own, but it is based on him

Re: Mostly Kosher: Finding Sympathy For The Burqa Cult

rafiG — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:56:29 -0000

interesting analysis. I understand how it is feminist to reject the role of "going back to washing dishes", but I am just not sure I understand how it is feminist to add all those layers of clothing to one's wardrobe...

Re: Reform Girl Tries Out Orthodox Judaism For a Week

rafiG — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:41:46 -0000

does the same intellectual honesty behoove Orthodox jews to try out Reform Judaism for a week?

Re: Purim madness | Protekzia.com by Simon Synett

rafiG — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:02:53 -0000

to be dan l'kaf zchus that her priorities are in order, perhaps she had baby formula and other food at home, and was only buying for the future. When she saw she did not have enough money on her, she took that out, because she could wait until next week..

But I doubt it.

Re: 25 Random Facts About Me

rafiG — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:13:56 -0000

why would you go to get diagnosed when you were already 27? they usually do that for schoolkids....

Re: I Am A Zionist

rafiG — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:15:34 -0000

it was a good article

Re: Shir Ha-Felafel

rafiG — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:48:40 -0000

that is great!

Re: I go out where the celebs are ... lucky me.

rafiG — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:39:36 -0000

he looks small in all the pix I have seen of him....

Re: I Love Voting!

rafiG — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:36:16 -0000

wow. to be able to live elsewhere and still be an influence in jerusalem! Lucky you!