I Need to Apologize Once Again

[onionsoupmix]

Dear Gedolim,

You were right and I was wrong. Please accept my apologies. Your followers should stay far away from the evil tumah that is the internet.

With Much Love, OSM.

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[hamaskil]

When I visit the bathroom, I, like all goyim, use paper r"l. That's a goyishe minchag and it should be stopped.

like all goyim, use paper r"l. That's a goyishe minchag and it should be stopped.

[stjust]

fear not, la qashia there,
you can switch to using kleenex not only on shabbes
und moadei yisroel, but all other week days as well

[tesyaa]

I read about the modern names a while ago. So Tzirel, Mirel, and Gnendel are fine, and Shira is trayf, right?

[tesyaa]

By the way, there are crazies on the regular blogs too. A commenter on Orthononics today suggested that a 42 year old kollel man who can't afford to make weddings for his kids solve his parnassah problem by divorcing his wife, getting a crummy job just to make himself marriageable, and marry a desperate young woman who has been earning money. Oh heck, here's the comment itself:

The shidduch crisis. With so many young women in desperate straits, unmarried, socially marooned and losng hope of having children of their own, one woman's desperation can be a an unemployed man's solution. The 42 year old man should take up some semblance of parnassah so as to make him marriagable. Once he has a minimal income, he divorces his wife. He finds a well to do shidduch victim who has been in a well paying profession and saving her money. As her dowery, she agrees to pay yeshiva tuition and marriage costs for his 4-5 or 6 children. She achieves social legitimacy, a sheitel, a life. He achieves a new house bought with her money, some comfort for

[onionsoupmix]

ok, that one was pretty good.

[bringing_peace]

is this for real??????
oh. my. God.

[tesyaa]

It seems obvious to me that the comment was intended as sarcasm

[anonymous]

Actually I can see the point about modern Hebrew names. I've heard modern Hebrew names that are the equivalents of (just to name a few that come to mind right away) My Light, Precious, and Sweetness. So I can see why the Rabbi might prefer names like Joe, Josh, Mike, Becky, Rachel, etc.

Ichabod Chrain

[anonymous]

> I've heard modern Hebrew names that are the equivalents of (just to name a few that come to mind right away) My Light, Precious, and Sweetness.

So are a lot of old Hebrew (and counted-as-Hebrew) names:

Shraga = Light
Malka = Queen
Sara = Princess

And it gets worse.

Mordechai = Marduk, chief god of the Persian pantheon
Esther = (among other possible origins) Ishtar, Persian/Babylonian goddess of love. And Ishtar was known in Canaan as Astarte, which is Ashera in Hebrew…
Moshe = Moshe and Aharon are Egyptian names, and Moshe was probably derived from the name of an Egyptian god, similar to the Pharaoh ThutMOSE.

Anyway, a name is just a noise we use to get people attention, because calling everyone, “hey you!” would get too confusing.

G*3

Who runs YWN?

[anonymous]

I looked on the site but didn't see the information. Who runs YWN, and what is their posting policy on the forums