Comments by "kristine Sharp" (@kristinesharp6286) on "Frieda Vizel" channel.

  1. The sidewalk is not their place of worship. The sidewalk is not a holy place.
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  2.  @robertblake9892  with that logic the Orthodox Jew and Muslim and Amish would have to run around half naked in San Fransisco. Streets are public places. The flashing everyone is unacceptable in any community.
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  3.  @rt8532  what point. It’s not a private compound it’s a few blocks of a NYC neighborhood with other people there as well. We are not a majority rules place but a country where the rights of the minority opinion protected. It’s not the FLDS compound in Texas. This is the U.S. it’s not some theocratic country with a 99% population of a single faith where there is a dress requirement.
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  4.  @robertblake9892  I’ve seen the Amish in a downtown Chicago intersection. America is a wonderful place.
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  5. The ‘flowery’ language is similar to Catholic girls high school. There will be a balance in the introduce between morality, character, Catholic perspective and additional words like leader and achievement and the future academics cause all are expected to do college or something after graduation. It is expected of any school that requires tuition.
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  6.  @esterherschkovich6499  I think divorce is encouraged after 10 years so each can find a partner which they can reproduce with. Maybe it’s the combination of the couple? The child in adoption goes through the conversion process. Or baby. If the bio mom is not Jewish or unable to know. Not all divorce. Sometimes God says no and the couple accept and remain childless or adopt.
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  7.  @rt8532  I think you are responding to the wrong person. I’d wear shorts in that neighborhood if weather called for it. You can’t expose yourself. She was a flasher. There are laws against that have nothing to do with religion. I was a children’s librarian public library. If she was inside the library with a trench and opened it to reveal herself naked I’d call the cops and expect them to arrest her. I’m saying people do not have to adhere to a community standard that the majority represents just cause they are on the same block. So I would not be covering myself. Nor exposing myself if in a warmer climate.
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  8. The Amish are allowed to be educated differently. But there is a basic for the younger grades I just don’t see applied here. The Amish also have a period where they are free to explore whether they will leave or stay.
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  9. It’s fine there is Hebrew and Religious Studies. The state has standards of learning. Those are meant to make sure at 16-18 a child could get a job or continue education. Other religions have religious studies in private schools and those kids have a working knowledge of math and the language. Even home schoolers have a standard.
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  10.  @karenfenter1139  NY is part of the U.S. and the only dress code is wearing a bathing suit at the beach and at least that much everywhere else. You don’t have to dress on the sidewalk any other way in any area. Those countries you speak of have clothing requirements.
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  11. I am very pro Israel. I’m shocked. But I understand in the decades after the war how scary some would feel about it. Israel has saved many Jews in various parts of the world. There were Jews there before the 1940’s and those descendants certainly safer. It seems almost survivalist. Don’t attract attention by wearing dark clothes. Make sure to spread out geographically and have a big family. There is a beauty in serving God generation to generation for over 5000 years with the same energy.
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  12.  @1BestCookie  there are many reasons people may be on a public sidewalk in that neighborhood. Decide to live in a populated area of a big U.S. city you see people dressed unlike yourself. This is not a gated community or private property.
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  13. It is good to see that technology is okay, it is just all content is not embraced.
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  14. He isn’t home. He is studying out of the house. Like the sons. Would it not be good if on Sunday fathers and sons could study at home and spend a few hours at a park?
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  15. Everything is nerve wracking as a parent. Whether introduced or not matches and marriages fall apart sometimes.
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  16. Mrs Pearl is sweet to share.
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  17. I actually get spending tons on a Seder plate with room for handmade matzah. I still do not under $250 for an orange like fruit that will last a short time. The silver can be used again and again even passed down and it has artistic value. It’s the nativity set or Christmas tree of pesach.
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  18. Catholic schools also pick specific color socks. And shoes.
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  19.  @deskset7436  see the problem is the woman not deciding herself, perhaps with input from her husband, as it’s not required or all sects would do it. Her hair is meant to be for her and him and not others. If there is no hair, other than person desire to not have hair, what is the point of the hair exclusive to the couple?
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  20. I would panic the first time I heard the tornado siren. That is what I would assume it is.
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  21. For generations women wanted choice. But when women chose home people out there are upset? What a choice if no one ever stays home and no one ever became a doctor? You have to see examples of both to prove there is a choice.
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  22. Saved by magnatiles.
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  23. We have been conditioned to think we need to find something to be unhappy about.
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  24.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  it’s like a uniform. A lot of micromanagement, if I were from there I might be mad at God over it. Cover this part or that part is fine but colors and how to cover is too much. What do sensory sensitive people do? Are there allowances for autism and such?
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  25.  @yubbadubbadubba  For situations. No one is complaining about the school uniform at school. It’s having that uniform at the park no matter the weather, on the street, etc.. that is the excess. We have a choice in where we work to an extent. The uniform is part of that decision. But it’s actually kinda of my point what you are saying about the secular world. My teen son has sensory stuff going on. From time to develops his own uniform and it’s not just that he needs repetition it’s an attachment to a particular shirt of a particular material and the color matters as well. And it changes every few years. In the secular world he can throw a button down over it for a few hours for a funeral. In this world he would have be in it all the time? Situation of distress much longer or stand out. Maybe he would be pitied for disability and allowed the deviation from the dress code, but why make a person with a mostly invisible disability look outwardly as if they have a disability?
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  26. Empty bags very clever.
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  27. Why say a prayer for rain in December?
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  28. I grew up in a bubble too. There are benefits. Safe feelings.
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  29. Why do you think people leave because of restrictions? Not everyone fits in a bubble. It doesn’t mean the bubble is bad or the person who doesn’t fit in the bubble is bad. I’m relieved to hear the shunning isn’t the reality what the movies and tv present to the world.
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  30.  @kyla593  the Lubavitcher Rebbe didn’t have kids. Is it sinful not to fulfill every commandment even though you try to?
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  31.  @onlooker4564  it’s tradition. They don’t all shave. Some just cut very short. It’s practical for wig or scarf wearing. It’s also appropriate for mikvah. The hair should not be tangled. Short hair or shaved head makes that easier. Nuns used to shave head or cut very short as well under the habit. She mentioned earlier video she didn’t get great hair in the first place. It’s an odd question to her cause growing up and present moms shave or cut really short their hair. How can you satisfy the curiosity of another when it’s something you never questioned. To the outside world we remember all those holocaust movies where they shave everyone’s head in the camps.
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  32. I can’t imagine having kitchen to only use one season a year.
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  33. True happiness from the Creator. I like the message he gave.
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  34. It’s not people outside complaining. It’s kids grown up now adults complaining.
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  35. Where are all the wives and daughters?
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  36. She is an elder in the community, she was asked. She answered.
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  37. I have seen that string thing but had no idea it had to do with a box of matzah.
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  38.  @sll3537  the age to pursue Higher Ed is the age they can OTD. The women could sit in a community college classroom and take a math or English class. May not be calculus but you can say the same for public school kids. The men could not. They would be language learning English for a time before taking a remedial English class. Or be in some sort of skills trade class. Which is fine an honest choice of study, but maybe not their choice of what to do. But even the Trade class will have to wait for the language learning English program to complete. The Amish would know how to build a structure, repair things, make furniture, milk a cow, birth livestock, plant, sew, etc…. They don’t lose their occupation if they leave and they have some marketable skill. I would rather they cover more in school.
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  39. Pearl is happy because she is content. Why don’t we just decide to be content? What would it hurt? Why is it so hard?
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  40. What law says pantyhose are required to cover legs? Did Sara wear them? I always imagined her wearing sandals without socks. Will they be lifting up skirts? I think they just want the problems to be about socks. It’s a pleasant world when the schools major concern is about socks. It is nice to be in a bubble. Especially when the rest of the world gone goofy and a bit scary. It reminds me of Mayor Giuliani who got rid of graffiti and panhandlers. Handle the small stuff and it takes care of the big stuff. I feel like a marionette puppet in pantyhose. I’m glad I could wear socks. Sounds a nightmare for people with sensory issues.
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  41. He certainly thought out of the box. Sad to hear the length of day. I would be bouncing all over the walls with a day that long.
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  42.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  everyone chooses where to put their money. The fancy plate retains its value. Does God really care if a person paid $30 or $250 for a piece of fruit? Is the sincerity in the price? I suppose God cares how much you spent for matzah. Hand versus machine. The plate is too ornate for me. I would pray it would not pass down to me. But imagine 20 or more people all benefiting from the decoration. Families gather. Is it really showing off when the same family member hosts year after year? The burden of fearing it stolen for value of parts would be a concern. Looked like some gold to it. I over think. At least the fruit doesn’t need to be stored all year like the plate.
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  43.  @1BestCookie  no. It’s America. It does not matter if you are a little league team or their parent coming in mass to use the park. It does not matter if on a tour. Of course a store can refuse service to anyone. I’m talking the sidewalk and public outdoor space. The signs put up saying to dress a certain way would be wrong. Period. A group of people from a commune or religion that just happen to live there in the majority on that block or blocks do not have some ability to decide what happens on the sidewalk. Others on sidewalk there by chance or in group do not have to adhere to some community expectation. This is not Iran. This is not Turkey. It does not mean birthday suit. Obvious swim suit parts covered. I don’t think you realize how it is elsewhere in the world.
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  44. You can have a private school, but you have to do the basics. It’s the same for the Catholic, Christian, secular private… One in a thousand passed a basic skills test? That is unacceptable. If that happened for a public school administration and even teachers would be shown the door and changes would be made.
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  45. Was it support or pressure? Is any couple equally zealous about religious practice their entire married life? Was it cause of the talk of the neighbors? Such a pity the marriage ended. Such a relief a get was given. There are cruel cases when the husband won’t give a get. Losing a child they each are the only ones to grieve the same way about it. To not grieve together seems wrong. It’s not a society that permits relationships in a casual way after the marriage ends like in the secular world.
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  46.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  I don’t mean get all wild I just mean they all know they can live another way. The point isn’t for everyone to change their life but the choice needs to be there.
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  47. I wish the salmon fillet could be embraced. Or Moroccan fish stew?
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  48. Doesn’t Torah have enough commandments?
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  49.  @desertpriere  the girls are fine it’s the boys education that is at issue.
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  50.  @moishegoldstein501  I thought there were weekly Torah portions. Not hourly Torah portions. Does God say you have to get spend x time on a page a day? You can’t add or take for Torah so how can it be lowered?
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  51.  @malkylowinger4194  that is my point. A 14 year old still needs math. Surely there is time for all. Reading more portions/pages you might get less out of it besides.
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  52.  @beans4853  learning must be done fruitfully. Must not waste time on useless means (English in the US is not useless). Yiddish not required to learn Torah. It is worthwhile. I am not saying exclude it. I am saying English is necessary. Did the Rebbe set a poor example by studying electrical stuff for two years? It is not ‘possible’ to spend time learning Yiddish at the expense of English. Some great scholar needs to spend more time on that portion and correct the current perception of it. Do you not think a person studying an hour at school of Torah and again an hour at home with Dad is less fruitful than a person spending several hours a day on it?
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  53.  @beans4853  yet all that stuff is covered when studying Torah and not enough for any of them to pass the test. Just statistics should have a few passing it. It’s not that 20% passed in comparison to 40% in the secular schools, all of them failed. What are they doing for 10 hours a day? The work day is 8 hours. The transportation means another hour or two on the bus since heaven forbid a kid go to the Jewish school three blocks away where their dad where hats on Shabbat and the mothers wear long wigs instead of short ones. What happens on the bus? An actual break, learning, secular learning? This is probably a uniquely American problem with the buses. When these things first considered people were busy feeding themselves, raising goats and all manner of jobs, time was the way people retained. But too much time can be fruitless and not fruitful. A hundred years most stopped secular education at 8th grade and got full time labor jobs. The discrepancy was not seen.
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  54. He got all the bags, just like the image on the decree.
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  55. But here is the problem in a place like Lakemore NJ , you don’t necessarily have all elementary kids of either gender in the same school, nor pick your school. How do you deal with the at home rules when all the kids have schools saying contradictory things to parents. Why do parents give a school authority over their own life? Isn’t Judaism heart of the home? Torah should not be this complicated. It’s like there being all JW, Mormons and Greek Orthodox kids in one neighborhood and none of the schools close enough to match. Although math is always math.
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  56. I think stuffed cabbage is sacred to anyone of Eastern European heritage. 🤭
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  57. For Halloween I have seen a few old people since the Up movie.
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  58. They are pop it’s. Tiny balls of paper that make a pop sound when it hits the ground. Sparklers are the long sticks you set fire to that spark and burn your hand and arms with. You can make words while moving them with lit in the air.
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  59. There is a hotline for skirt length?
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  60. I do not understand why there is us and them between the Jewish communities.
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  61. There is a part during the process of becoming a nun, it takes years and several stages, but the hair is cut and it’s very transformative it’s a very physical sign of the change that is happening and that is emotional. It’s the second stage when the novice habit is given and the hair completely covered anyway. It’s meant to be a sacrifice and somewhat practical. It will grow back but not instantly. It’s not a reversible change like a garment. So it’s a can’t really turn back easily moment of the process. Then the hair is kept very short or shaved. If the full habit. It is because it used to be a married woman covered her hair and a nun is married to Jesus. To signify her status as not single. And to avoid vanity. And to protect her from being married off by a male relative running off to the convent and cutting hair you could not really pass for a single woman eligible for marriage if they came to force you into a marriage. In many traditions of Christianity women cover their hair for prayer. Or all the time. Or in certain places. Or only if married. Or only over a certain age. Muslims also have a hair coverings and rules about them. Who knew so many people all over thinks God cares so much about hair? But all three religions are connected so not really surprising. If I covered my hair except for my husband and did everything else would I be considered OTD? Is it when breaking custom or breaking Halacha that makes you OTD? Who’s tradition and halacha do you need to break to be OTD? Is going from Chabad to modern orthodox going OTC? My one grandma had very thin and sporadic hair like Pearl. Could cutting it for 400 years generation after generation effect hair?
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  62. Glad to see local services present.
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  63. Mostly the women are the breadwinners.
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  64.  @csa6058  yet everyone needs to know the law. And by 12/13 the individual is responsible themselves. Talmud definitely should be studied. But that does not start until 8ish for males. An 8 year old will get something different out of it than 20. Then 32, then 44… The commandment is to study Torah. Ideally a father should teach his son. The Talmud elaborates on Torah. Why are minors not learning from their fathers? Why are they subcontracting this out to this community system all hours of day? The child and father have to spend time at home in order for a father to teach his son. This system is going against what is expected. If a father does not teach when he matures he is to find a scholar to teach him. Age 13. There is no age to end its study. To read through the Talmud it takes 8 years. Do you make male converts wait 8 years to convert to make sure they are following Halacha properly? Every male must learn daily but every male need not be a scholar. Why is the oral given more time and more importance than the written Torah? Torah never said males should not speak the local language.
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  65. It’s Black Friday. When stores start to make a profit. It is the same time of year.
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  66. The parents of the kids in these schools don’t want it like this. They just don’t say anything so they remain a good family who put their kids in the system that will guarantee them matches. The girls have half day math science English and they are still Jewish, observe a Jewish life, know enough Torah. And their school day shorter some years than the boys. A few generations ago the sages were not boys spending 1 hour a day learning secular subject and 7-9 hours learning Torah and other religious subjects. They likely learned some of the time at home as well with dad. They may have had a few hours for a hobby or skill. If a parent asks for change they will be shunned by the community and likely leave it just so they can be labeled as outside the community and their request for change not sincerely coming from the community. Further the class sizes are larger. That one hour a day is even less helpful. Why are parents spending thousands per kid for that? It’s coming to tens of thousands per year. The other complication is the school schedules for the boys and girls schools don’t line up. Leaving child care more a problem for the women making the money, bearing the kids, raising the kids. There is a circular economy to all this that is not sustainable. The tuitions are well above Catholic schools but in those the teachers are not religious single people anymore but lay people married with a working spouse or single many with kids. Anyone complaining is told it costs a lot to run a school. To cover those with learning fathers, others are charged more. Teachers paid a lot because they have several kids to put through the school, the buildings having to be excellent to make the price tag worth it and some don’t have working spouse. Parents enrolling no matter the cost cause their kids can’t marry decent if they are not in the system. Classrooms overstuffed. And because sect matters so much everyone needs to go to their own subset school instead of walking down the block to the your favorite of the 2 schools within 5 blocks of their house. That means busing, more hassle in the morning and afternoon, more money some of it from taxes. And a ridiculous number of schools to open, manage.. Yet everyone still has to be in walking distance of a shul. But a school can be far away or close just taking a long time to get there because of the traffic of thousands of school kids in vehicles instead of walking to and from school. And in some places like Lakewood parents are not even picking the school. The school is decided for them. Some families send to multiple girl elementary schools just cause some had a place and another didn’t. Israel can manage this a lot more cleanly. Where does the Torah say you have to hand over half your income so someone else can teach your kids to be Jewish? Why does the school decide how long the mom’s wig is? Why is that not between the woman her and her rabbi and you just teach the hair is to be covered and let the shul direct the details? Maybe every shul needs two classrooms and two teachers. One for all boys and one all girls and go back to one room schoolhouse days? It just seems set up to be complicated for the sake of being complicated. Some schools allow internet so those kids parents could get their kids in an online class to supplement but not all allow.
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  67.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  I can understand waiting. I can understand refraining. Self control is good and people who have it tend to be better off. All marriages including outside the community have a time with ‘closeness’ needing to be on the back burner due to health, recovery from childbirth, separate needing to care for a parent, travel for work, etc… But every hug does not lead to ‘closeness’. That is just in the movies. LOL. When my father was sick I needed to cry and be hugged from time to time. When I wasn’t pregnant and my cycle came I was sad and so was my husband, we could not hug in that moment? Does it really take 7 days sometimes plus for the 5 days worth of a period for all the lining to empty? It seems like a form of birth control that can backfire on a few people with short cycles and many days of flow. In a perfect world of 28 days the month ‘moon’ is the perfect time to conceive. The person with a 25 day cycle or with spotting is out of luck.
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  68.  @beans4853  I’m glad to hear you were verbally able to comfort and be comforted.
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  69. It sounds like a warning sound. If I moved there I would be nervous hearing it. I wonder could the sound be more pleasant. Scales on a xylophone? I would think terror attack or tornado.
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  70. No he starts out by saying yes it’s less than the secular world. That way he can avoid the issue of how little English math and sciences are covered. He addresses it as outsiders criticizing. Yet he pushes back on the parent with the kids in the system who sued for change. Yet he pushes back on the adult kids of this system describing it as inadequate. Inadequate is different than less than. These are not outsiders. What they did was tell outsiders. And he is trying to say it’s only outsiders cause it’s against jewish law, you can’t bash fellow Jews. Or perhaps he considers them outsiders cause they stirred the pot and no doubt some have been pushed out of the community. Homeschool, private schools need to give attention to similar subjects. Then there is the corporal punishment issue. A person through school in an English speaking country with no ability to speak and read English is a problem. What really worries me is the special need kids. What is boggling to me is Torah and Talmud are life long studies. Why can’t three hours a day in a 5 or more instruction hour school day cover math and English under the age of 17? If they have math and English then they can learn anything else should the need arise within or outside the community when they reach majority. Not everyone is a scholar. Even if they study a lot. Plenty of kids in secular schools have English and math as well as Spanish or French or Chinese. The criticism isn’t lack of music and art or addition of Hebrew and inclusion of Yiddish, it’s the lack of English and math.
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  71. What worries me is the first night. To go from nothing to everything through the act in such a short time I don’t know how it can feel anything other than a violation. And then again after all the counting days and “checking” process to make certain ritually pure. There a few other groups who go to such extremes. I think the thumbnail is scary. A woman with the face cloth and thousand of men in the room alone with her, yes I know others behind the partition. Does she feel included, excited, emotional or just a bit overwhelmed having lived life separate so long.
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  72. I agree. I love that this sort of thing is on YouTube. Strangers peeking into that world in person on their own could strike the community as something rude. Or even make the community feel a little unsafe.
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  73. Kind of him.
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  74. Non Hasidic communities are not immune to abuse. Divorce is permitted in Torah. It’s not in Catholicism. She can also only talk to her experience.
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  75.  @1BestCookie  no people go upstate to show off “status” and get out of the hellish city in the heat so the kids can have fun and breathe. I grew up in a Chicago neighborhood myself and we always went to Michigan for the summer and lived in a trailer on a campground when kids. Parents went on their days off. If you are touring San Fran you don’t have show respect wearing a tie dye rainbow t shirt and short shorts. Just come as you are.
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  76.  @1BestCookie  nope. Chose to live in a major city with sidewalks.
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  77.  @1BestCookie  it’s fine for others intentionally gracing the block with their presence to dress however they want.
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  78. Public Schools have a list of foods and junk food allowed and not allowed as well. To be fair.
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  79. Can’t it be a priority if they do it three hours a day? Everyone else can’t live off a few millionaires. Every boy was not studying 8 hours a day every day in 1920’s Europe and further back.
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  80.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  I would have liked to see the men cleaning the plate that broke. Can’t the women exist in a scene without the men present? A photo on the wall?
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  81. Do you light for grandkids?
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  82.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  thanks
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  83. What does graduation rates matter when 1% or less can’t pass the basic English or Math tests?  @cohenlabe1 
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  84. You have been lied to.
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  85. Someone is doing voodoo math to trick you. Most male Hasidic students of high school yeshivas will learn. No idea who all you are including in the total where the average income is 100K of male students having been through the Hasidic Yeshiva high schools. If the stipend is 80K sign my family up. If you are saying as a family they earn 100K then you are talking about the women working and that is where they have a working knowledge of English and most often university. If you are talking Yeshiva university graduates those enrolled had a secular program in a modern orthodox school. Further if you are talking Yeshivas you are limited to a handful of neighborhoods where people make 6 figures on average. Most parts of the country don’t make 6 figures. Comparing the average of someone in the few communities that have Yeshivas that happens to have a job and including someone outside Chicago and southern Mississippi is an uneven playing field. Cost of living and wages very different in both places. If you are saying NY Yeshiva graduates earn more than public school students in NY it would be closer except for the all the students from abroad going back and forth to their country or territory of origin meaning uneven schooling and not having the language or an abundant enough alternative language community or being unattended minors with all sorts of upheaval to their lives. So how many yeshiva graduates earn under 100K? That was not in your comment. It was written as a way to trick a person reading it. I’m sure you copied it. It’s called spin. 82% earning under 100K, if the 18% is earning high enough it also could average out to 100K a year when taking the entire 100% sample into account.  @sunshine6522 
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  86. Were the mock weddings encouraged and staged by the adults?
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  87. Around 2:29 a girl vanished.
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  88. Pearl says the meeting is arranged, not the marriage.
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  89. Technically in my religion you can’t use artificial forms of birth control to prevent pregnancy at all nor ever divorce. Yet people do anyway. There are rules and laws and expectations but everyone decides which rules they break for themselves with little public consequence. The lack of pregnancies would mean the birth control thing public knowledge. The unshaved head public because of the mikvah. Talk.. word would get out. I assume. In the 50’s a young priest went to my grandma with 2 or 3 daughters at the time and said she didn’t have enough. The third died and not sure if that happened before or after the harassment from the priest. She had 2 more sons after his visit. But she was so mad at that priest for another 50 years her great grandkids even heard the story. The community sounds like that. Even if the husband was personally fine with he would be under so much pressure from busybodies. Such a contrast to a wedding.
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  90. My ‘book’ and the Torah says God gave to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph…. Aaron and so on. Period. Before Christianity. Before Islam. It’s why Isa/Jesus born there. A Jew.
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  91.  @lovescent46  all the Jews in the world come from Judea. Israel should be larger to be historically accurate. And 1 million Muslims live in Israel outside of the Gaza and West Bank areas. 2 million Muslims target not only half of all Jews alive but also 1 million Muslims. Abraham was there, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph.. then they went to Epgyt. Then Aaron brought them back. Before Christ a number of occupiers some with dispersement and some without dispersement controlled the area. Did the Jews during the dispersement suddenly become Persian and Syrian and Babylonian and Greek? Christ didn’t become Syrian for some reason. He was never Palestinian. That is a made up word by the Pagan Roman Emperor during their occupation. You are saying cause some Jews went to Europe they are somehow not Jewish, all their ethnicity just ran away? Riddle me this. If a Muslim in England claims to be Palestinian in 2K years. Still Muslim. He stops being Western Asian and suddenly becomes European? What year? 400 years later? 1,000 years later? God said it goes to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Aaron and so on. He didn’t take it back in the New Testament. It is the oldest document on the matter. Before Christianity and before Islam. They are the indigenous to the area.
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  92. Good eye. I couldn’t get over the fact women exist in this one.
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  93.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  if they had less kids they would have assistance over a shorter period of time. A baby is a blessing. The schools insist on too big a bit out of the family budget, excessive amounts from those who manage to do well with a business. All they have offer those paying is the satisfaction and approval of those receiving the money. They are not getting their money’s worth. It almost seems like MLM. Instead of the pyramid scheme where you get people to sell the stuff and they get people to sell the stuff and you get a cut they have done this with reproduction. You send your 3 boys to that school and your 2 girls to that other school. They send their 10 boys and 15 daughters to that school, they send their 20 girls and 30 boys… Has anyone really looked at the money? Why is it homeschooling hasn’t taken off? There should not be an excessive cost to being Jewish or being anything else in particular. Have to live in a certain area, have to be in walking distance to shul, have to buy more expensive food, have to live below a certain floor to observe Shabbat and have to send to certain schools, have to live in walking distance to grocery store cause your sect doesn’t allow women to drive, have to wear a shorter wig cause the school that accepted your child doesn’t allow a long one. It is a wonder more don’t leave. It should not cost twice as much with half the earning potential to live this way. All these things on the surface are picky and nothing to do with character or God. It does sound beautiful and a lovely bubble if you fit in.
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  94. Can’t people share the 4 items?
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  95.  @anonymous-io6zg  then they should have their own.
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  96. Corporate media wants us all to think unhappiness is all around. Who knows why? It is a bit excessive. Or maybe it is whoever controls corporate media, whoever they are? Religion is bad. It’s even miserable to be born as a royal and wealthy. Even the physical earth is unhappy according to Netflix. That is what is good about YouTube. People tend to put good and bad, happiness and sadness out there. More balance. Assuming they are not cancelled that is. If a person born onto a respected and wealthy family is miserable. If a person being religious in a country where you can be religious or not or change religion is miserable. Why are they ignoring actual misery? And why are they not putting out joy? I feel like something is out there trying to make people second guess their current joy.
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  97.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  I was thinking more about religions like the Amish where they avoid as long as possible new technology for the sake of ignoring the advancement as if God suddenly was with humanity for thousands of years and said stop.. freeze this moment in time. It is good to see this is not the case here.
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  98.  @Tali5899  to legally homeschool in the US you show have to spent a certain number of hours a day on subjects that would be taught in a public school. That is what I mean by that comment. Whether a mosque or Catholic school or Jewish school you need to show you are spending a certain number of hours on English and math in the US. Which is the complaint of the current and former people within the community are saying in the article. Some should have passed the math and English. Math and English are really then only subjects that matter. They take years of study building up concept on each other. You can not just start math at 18. Most science work depends on it. All university work and most jobs require English or Spanish. That also takes years.
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  99.  @Tali5899  a kid could not get a job in a grocery store checking people out with the English skills they do not have. If every family of 10 kids had 1 kid go otd then 10% of the students in your system need English and Math. Basically they are kept from the skills so they do not leave cause they will not be able to find a job and will not be able to study for one. Got it.
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  100.  @Tali5899  no need for government funding then for grants or for transportation.
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  101.  @Tali5899  I get email notifications then the comment vanishes when I get here. No more funding. The entire point is to be employable in or out of the community. The entire point is the gov with funds says you need to comparable time to the basic subjects they would get im public education. Even homeschoolers are kept to this standard. As are all private parochial schools. 12 hours at age 12 at school! Plus transit. If I were reborn into this community I would pray I were born a girl. Why can’t the kids get out at 3 and learn a few hours at home with brothers and dad? The family is the core of everything. Community and faith. Someone did something to be extra pious a few generations ago and everyone followed.
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  102.  @Tali5899  if they gave them a break, maybe? I worked as a children’s librarian so know a bit about homeschooling, public school and parochial school. Yes homeschooling gets more done a day than at a brick and mortar classroom. Less time wasted on classroom management, taking more time to explain again for the kids who did not get it the first time, less busywork given you are teaching a crowd in a classroom. Different learning styles in a group. At home you use the one that works. And family is the focus.
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  103. Pledge loyalty? What does that mean?
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  104. A woman!
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  105.  @beans4853  men also have a commandment to support their families, produce offspring to more than replace them. Perhaps more science education will prove eating fish and meat at the same time is not poisonous so a woman and her kids do not have to wash extra plates needing separate ones and similarly further the study they are already doing. If men could do nothing else there would be no one to certified food is Kosher. You can spend time in the day and time the evening and do all the time sensitive prayers and do a science unit regularly. Let us be fair. Generations ago boys and men did not have this schedule. These things added on to impress to the point of breaking. Who is impressed at this point?
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  106.  @beans4853  I see.
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  107.  @ORITHESIGMA  they need time to learn it is not about motivation.
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  108.  @ORITHESIGMA  observance and history and language and scriptures are important. But so is English and Math. So is having a few hours for other things.
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  109. To be fair Reform and Conservative have their own opinions of the orthodox. Why should the orthodox have their opinion. But some of it’s relative. Different rabbi says just cover knee and elbows another saying you have to wear tights too. Both are modest.
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  110. Elitism. Rules for the sake of rules instead of rules written down and kept for thousands of years. There is everyone doing the same thing and there is micromanaging people. And the parents pay for their kids to attend. I think in the outside world parents are just more concerned with things being out of their hands in the hands of well meaning people. It does not affect me. Too many years being told what to wear I guess.  @beans4853 
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  111. But often the parents don’t pick the school. And often cause of sudden growth they have two girls around the same age in 2 different schools and not the parent’s first choice. One school requires parents and girls to not have shirt all the way down and the other school requires it. It could be maddening and cause to give up on the whole thing.  @beans4853 
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  112. The world view of Pearl is not everyone has to keep shabbos, etc… It is only 2% of the population that should be keeping shabbos. Because her mother and grandmother were Jewish. An atheist in USSR doesn’t think anyone should go to church, synagogue or mosque. Men in Iran thing a woman’s head must be covered in public. Plenty of people think you cut off family for how they voted in 2016 election or their view of abortion or energy. People think their way is right and everyone else’s way is wrong. Pearl has said the men who frequent the neighborhood do not need to cover up certain parts for respect. They are not Jewish and Jewish law does not put that on men. A narrow minded view is when that view extendeds to others outside their world.  @KR-wc2py 
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  113. Commenting while watching. Isn’t there a uniform? Why the focus on trends when there is a uniform? Aside from the jewelry, hair color, shirt length, shoe type, etc…
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  114. In her climate? Nope. It can’t be require of Torah if they were not invented yet. Some way to cover the body yes, but not cover it that way.  @lawrencemielnicki5643 
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  115. And then there is the hair on legs with tights issue. Or pantyhose where the hair goes through. And the fact they fall and with the control top lower down a person is constantly readjusting and feel like a marionette. Honestly make the rabbi wear it for day and then leggings and then long skirt with socks and they will have an entirely different perspective. And the moisture down there with a pad during the cycle. Not good.  @beans4853 
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  116. I don’t think they did. They usually cooked from scratch. We all know how much food doesn’t get eaten for thanksgiving. I wonder if people had less dishes and sides 120 years ago? OU has only been around a century. Maybe people just figured potato was just potato and did the best they could? Have people always used different pots and pans? Was that a later instruction with different materials being used to make pots and pans or a better understanding of what could contaminate?
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  117. Maybe cause they didn’t speak, no one really did and their faces covered by the donut? I was shocked. I saw that but not the tree.
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  118.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  okay just found a Seder tiered plate on sale 50% off for 10K. Maybe the $250 esrog IS the better choice to spend money in the long run? Can not take it with you. Very artistic though and serves a purpose. Doesn’t every one need a plate at the table? Or just one person and everyone makes that part of Seder off another plate?
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  119.  @AlpenTree  gold chalice. Because it contains the body blood soul and divinity of God/Jesus/Holy Spirit it IS technically supposed to be gold. It’s different from Protestant churches that use the plastic cups cause there is no real presence. Do not want to dispose in the trash any drops. There is a specific way it is cleaned to avoid any from going down the drain in front of the congregation. You can use any material for Seder plate. Good to know how everyone else eats of the Seder plate items. I wondered. Only see one plate on table in all photos. But knew everyone partakes. As for the chalice it used to be just the priests who took the wine/blood. Now anyone can. Am not sure if the cup is shared since COVID?
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  120.  @AlpenTree  I am just saying I would rather my husband buy $250 fruit for each than spend 20K on a Seder plate. There are already a lot of expenses around pesach. Plenty of places to put money than the Seder plate. Having something that costly and portable I would fear theft. Why worry? I would not look down on a host having it for the table.
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  121.  @mikeleahy837  I grew up and lived most my life in Chicago. Now I am outside Chicago. I can not imagine NOT locking my doors. Our local police encourage residents to not keep valuables in a car to lock up car and house the same time every night so its habit. My car is always locked in the garage and it is a Ford. As to the friends and family anyone is capable of anything. Let’s say I would not want to suspect one of them doing such a thing. You just try not make yourself a target by wearing expensive jewelry or carrying expensive bags. It is true no one should take something not theirs. But I would rather not tempt a person. The world is getting weird. I had to have a sales person at Walmart unlock ear buds they were charging $10 for them. People take anything.
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  122. Why does the 5th grade books add up to less than the total? Is there another figure?
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  123. Why are the schools taking Judaism out of the home?
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  124. If they are going to school early just to do more of the day’s portion of davening they are not doing so at home. Where is the portion of the day they learn at home among brothers and father?  @michellelansky4490 
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  125. They are at school until 7pm and Shabbos? That isn’t nearly enough time with family IMNSHO. It wasn’t that way 100 years ago and prior to that. Does dad go to the school and daven with them and learn late with them? The task has been put to others. I don’t know if that is a good or bad thing. It is a risky thing. Every observant Jew lives in walking distance to a shul. Why aren’t they doing it there? Why is the school not attached to it so everyone who lives near goes there? With separate classes of course, perhaps. Separate wings.  @beans4853 
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  126. I’m 51. I watched tv. Then I watched tv and listened to music and talked on phone while doing homework. Then I did homework and worked part time end of high school.
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  127. The boys don’t learn enough that they can go into the secular world if they chose as adults easily. It’s a mechanism to keep them in.
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  128. I hope your son got both of you and it was not a turbulent time sharing him in different worlds. There are some religions that marriages end over one person leaving the fold. It’s incredibly cult like though. Like Scientology cult. The Amish, LDS, JW… seems to be the same in certain branches of Judaism as well. Too much micromanagement. For years it’s comforting but then it’s intolerable. You seem to have left before being bitter about it all. So sad you lost a child. Pity you didn’t have each other forever after that. No one will grieve as much about that as the two of you. Least you got the get.
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  129. I do not care what the sign says. I will wear clothes. I will wear what I want on the street. But I will be wearing something and it will be more than a bathing suit.
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  130. Does someone leave in most families?
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  131. I’d ovulate after. I understand during. I would need a hug.
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  132.  @anonymousanonymous-qx7mv  I mean I would need a hug from my husband.
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  133.  @anonymous-io6zg  Hashem didn’t say in the Torah not to hug your wife on day 10. That is custom some extra stringency placed by human beings just doing the best they can. He said not to have intercourse during and for SOME days after to make sure the cycle stopped, and prohibited sharing some bedding items. Humans are not logs but they are not dogs in heat either. I thought all could learn Torah and that guys alone learned Talmud? And if life happens cause even the best efforts things still sometimes don’t go as intended and a husband passes the potatoes on the wrong day he is ritually impure. There is a manner for him to regain purity as well. If she can be ritualistically impure for 12 days why can’t he for 30 hours after the required time and a Mikva visit? They say women are exempted from the time commandments but all this counting days and checking for discharge seems related to time to me. But Pearl is right about two adults being able to self regulate themselves probably will be successful in marriage and in life. There have been studies. You put a kid alone in a room with a cookie and tell them not to eat it, they will get a second cookie when they come back if they don’t eat it. The kids who don’t eat it usually are better off than the kids who ate the cookie alone in the room. I don’t think that is taught so much as what is already the character of a person. Some are more impulsive. Some people are huggers. And some people can’t stand being hugged. So it won’t really matter to them. If I were to miscarry a baby that was told 40 days before conception it was about to be conceived it would be a loss not just for me but also my husband. Obviously can’t do ‘everything’ for medical reasons nor desire but the same skin contact that made the baby could help one another heal and increase the bond between spouses. Why would my female neighbor be the one I would hug and cry with and not my husband?
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  134. It’s not the loudness. Although I’m grateful we don’t have such a thing as my son has autism and is anxious over such decimals. The problem I have is the tune coming up sounds like a warning alarm for some imminent danger like a bomb is on the way. It doesn’t sound like chimes or notes on a xylophone, can’t it change and still be really loud. A gong sound? Drumming? A tune on the violin really loud? A few notes of course. There are many communities that don’t have it an manage to light on time.  @udhe4421 
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  135.  @BreslovStrummer  depending on the day of the month and how long since childbirth.
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  136. You know what I really don’t understand is these communities are high density and there are hundreds of schools. Why can’t the kids just walk to the nearest school? Then no traffic problems, no time wasted on buses, no conflict with the community like in Lakewood cause tons of money isn’t going for transportation to the private schools. I can see for high school for kids to need buses but for the 8th grade and under I just don’t understand. There can be separate classrooms for boys and girls. Heck there are so many schools they can separate schools by gender. There seems to be an elitism in the schools. The Catholic schools for the younger grades in these city neighbors most kids are able to walk it. And tuition costs a lot less even with the sister school model of making the middle class pay for the schools in the poorer areas. How do parents manage the drop off and pick ups are so many different schools in each family?
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  137.  @FriedaVizelBrooklyn  thanks.
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  138. It’s a sidewalk. Wear what you want. In no place can you not wear nothing though. I would think you would have to dress separate to show others you are living separate from the world unlike themselves. Is that not the point of how the community lives? To be set apart? So I think you are more respectful looking secular.
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  139. The money changers were not fair in changing pagan currency over to currency that could be used to buy things needed for temple. We have no idea if the money changers were actually Jewish. They probably were not. As you can see in the video most of the tables were not Jewish sellers of items. A Christmas tree can get plenty of expensive. Meat can get pricey during Easter and Christmas. Bible tracts and pamphlets can get pricey. Why not just notice that people are intentionally and sincerely putting aside cost to honor the custom or command to buy these things and shake them? As a Christian you are required to tithe 10%. Almost no one does. Some will pay a lot for a piece of fruit. Many won’t. Just be glad you won’t be tempted to spend $300 on a piece of fruit.
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  140.  @anonymous-io6zg  Jesus was eventually executed. The gospels made it clear that his apostles who travelled and learned from him rejected him, the people rejected him by having Pilate release a different prisoner, the leadership of the Jewish sects rejected him and the leader of the occupying Roman force rejected him. The regular people passed on the way to the execution site. Did not mention the merchants specifically. He really did not have money for the group he was traveling with to observe pesach. It was relied on by others. His burial place donated. Jesus would have done the mitzvah and bought the fruit, eaten in the Sukkus, slept there at the time required. Just like pesach was observed. Jesus who is not dead did not go OTD. He is still Jewish. His mother is a Jewish woman as was his grandmother. He was circumcised and read from and commentated on Torah in public. There are many mentions of his family raising him observant and his being observant. He can’t really be a “follower” of himself and he isn’t dead so he is still Jewish. Let Jewish people be.
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  141.  @lancelothogben1297  that is my point.
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  142.  @intorainbowzOG  as I said obviously swim suit covered. There are actually laws about covering private parts. A group can’t declare hair or knee a part to be covered. The collective can’t simply make up their own.
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  143. The tables were flipped because of the money changers. Not the price of items sold. The coinage could not be pagan so they needed to change the currency to buy the items needed for sacrifice. They were not being just in the exchange rate. Notice the venders in most cases not Jewish in the video. The obscene prices were coming from others. It’s expensive to be alive. Someone decided to honor by getting the best fruit they could even though it cost a lot. A person can pay a ridiculous amounts pamphlets or tracks, Christmas trees, an exorcism, Iftar… Why not admire their intentional sincerity?
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  144. Perhaps your perspective of right wing is off? There is a lot of antisemitism in the American Democratic Party. I am perfectly fine with 6 million Jewish people and 3 million Muslims, Christian’s, etc living in Israel. The squad wants it be Jordan again. Senator Schumer praised Trump for moving the embassy to Jerusalem. People in the same party can present publicly two opposite opinions. What news channel are you watching that you think conservative people want people exterminated? They are not the abortion party. It’s not a glob of tissue. Make the person no longer human and they let you do all sorts of horrible things. Exactly what the Nazi’s did. It’s why the Muslims could enslave the Christian’s, the English enslave the Africans, etc.. they declared them less than human and that is what they did with a child inside the womb it was a glob of tissue in the 60’s and 70’s. Ultrasound performed on typical pregnancies with no red flags with image presented to the mom regularly from 90’s..
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  145. Can’t be all the way to the ankle so everyone wears tights and they can tell.
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  146. Brainwashing. I supposed the rainbow clothes and toys are NOT brainwashing then? Just saying. People want to see themselves in dolls, movies, etc.. Saying toys are not necessary to represent the Jewish community is like saying dolls are not needed to represent all races.
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  147.  @thedislikebutton7389  you have been reading it wrong.
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  148. You should be arrested walking down any sidewalk naked intentionally.
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