A world without Orthodox Jews, God as a comedia, and more, in this week's comments selection.
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Readers discuss eating on Yom Kippur and what is actually meant when someone answers a question with "It's complicated", in this week's selected comments.
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Readers ponder if the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence and question the difference between the bathwater and the baby, in this week's selected comments.
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Animal cruelty during kapporos, thoughts on the "wine barrel virginity test" and more, in this week's selected comments.
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Listening to Lipa Schmeltzer on Shabbos afternoon with a tummy full of cholent, Rashi's interpretive perversions, and more. In this week's selected comments.
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Frei, but still prudish alerts us to a juicy Super Kosher Sex and Dovid Levine wants to invest.
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Levi Keller reminds us of our perpertual audience when we have sex and Critic V's Rosh Yeshiva teaches him that it's OK to skip davening.
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Chay Nobody points out the internal contradiction of living for the World to Come and Kafhakela reminds us that halacha isn't for FFB Jews.
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Y. shares his fave bathroom reading material and Chaim explains the foolproof shmuck identification method.
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Breaking In explains what sex shops and Chasidic kvartlech have in common, and J has the audacity to wonder if sex abuse is more important than strawberry bugs.
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