Comments on: Links and Chains

By: Yonah

Yonah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:26:07 +0000

Surprisingly, only a select few read the article beyond the first half.

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By: Yoelish

Yoelish — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:18:47 +0000

Yank, why yank my true self?

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By: Yank

Yank — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:53:27 +0000

Real Yoilishes dont spell “Esau”.

They would type Eisov or something like that.

Real Yoilishes wouldn’t champion anything.

Maybe u should choose a better handle……….

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By: cupid chussid

cupid chussid — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:24:46 +0000

Is the issur of whistling also ‘cus goyim do that, or the similar but lesser, s’nish balbatish? Lubavtchers of course have a totally different take on both the balbatish as well as the goyim issues. Hence their theology of whistling is a separate story, based on the pan-Chassidic dictum of “as the Rebbe does, so too shall all Chassidim do”. I was once told by frum know-it-al that the Zohar, somewhere or other, proscribes it. Though I’m quite conversant in the literature of Jewish mysticism, yet I went the extra bytes searching the digital version of the Zoharic texts; The Zohar, Zohar Corrections, New Zohar, New Zohar Corrections etc., to no avail. Still, while on the streets of BP I catch myself biting my tongue after whistling a few notes regardless of genre, be they; Classical, Klezmer, Country, Yomtov Erlich, Lennon or Shloimele…
A lesser known issur is interlocked fingers. Though in this case the aversion may be due to its similarity to the stance certain Christians maintain during prayer, yet, when I asked for a source I was referred to an unspecified page in an unspecified book of kabbalah. It seems to be another default (i)rationale frequently given.

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By: kafhakela

kafhakela — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:59:17 +0000

Prude:
As per Freud, all the important non-sexual points boil down to sexual points in the end. Or is it the other way around?

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By: froylein

froylein — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:08:46 +0000

Prude, there’s a rule-of-thumb: those that talk about sex the most get the least action…

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By: prude

prude — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:52:29 +0000

All this talk about masturbation, you guys forgot about the main point:
We are part of a beautiful chain. Father to son. Some call it links. Others call it shackles. Same difference.

But yeah, I agree, there is too much sex on this site, even though the sex always has some non-sexual point.

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By: froylein

froylein — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:33:24 +0000

The reason why secular parents tell their kids not to put their hands into their pockets is because your hands are there to protect your face if you trip and fall (it’s a natural reflex). Also, you naturally walk more “firmly” and safely if you swing your arms X-wise, i.e. when you put your right foot forward, your left arm should move forward, too.

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By: osvorf

osvorf — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:55:44 +0000

Years ago when i was still a believer in religion, i went to the sklene rebbe for a bruche – blessing. There was this tall litvish modern guy there at the time begging the rebbe to wish him to have parnuse, (a good solid income) as he was asking from the rebbe for the bruche he had his hands in his pocket. The rebbe looked at him, and told him. If you keep your hands in your pocket then it makes you poor… of course the guy took it out immedietly and said, but rebbe, please give me a bruche and the rebbe told him again about not keeping the hand in the pocket bs. I remember that look on the face from that guy, prety frustrated, i felt relly bad for him. I think in the end he got a bruche or something. Its funny how they believe that holding your hand in your pocket is so bad. On the other hand they say, if you put the wine from sat night in your piocket that helps to have a better income… i guess you have to put the wine in really fast so its not considered holding your hands in your pocket, or it will screw up your income even after adding the wine in the pocket… go figure…

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By: Yoelish

Yoelish — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:50:19 +0000

When I was around 11-years-old, the teacher, through the microphone in the lunchroom, asked me to remove my hands from my pockets. When I asked “why?,” he replied, “because that’s what Esau did.” I argued that it doesn’t necessarily make it a bad thing; Esau also championed kibud ov hueim.

The man’s facial reaction told me that had he been my teacher, he would’ve slapped me in the face with his thin, long fingers.

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