tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post3894154594462060112..comments2023-10-30T08:40:59.016-04:00Comments on Wolfish Musings: What's In Rabbi Falk's Encyclopedia?BrooklynWolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994285019137108636noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-51626889518707688082008-08-19T10:30:00.000-04:002008-08-19T10:30:00.000-04:00Raul -1) Pranking 911 is stupid but it does not re...Raul -<BR/><BR/>1) Pranking 911 is stupid but it does not represent a "Youth At Risk" problem<BR/><BR/>2) The other story seems to be more about our "NaNach" problem than our youth problem:<BR/><BR/><B>from the Hamercaz article you reference:</B><BR/><I>The adult, who is a member of the "Na-Nach" style Breslovers, had been hanging out with the boys earlier at a "Kumzitz" at a local park where they had lit a bonfire and sang songs. The adult claimed that he had not supplied the boys with any sort of alcoholic beverage. However, the officers did not believe him, and he was taken into custody.</I><BR/><BR/>So I think you're getting a little carried awayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-88621682106864101092008-08-19T08:40:00.000-04:002008-08-19T08:40:00.000-04:00Teenage Boys From Orthodox Brooklyn Families Arres...Teenage Boys From Orthodox Brooklyn Families Arrested After Public Drinking, Partying<BR/> <BR/>http://hamercaz.com/hamercaz/site/news_main.php<BR/> <BR/>I have posted a few times about this issue. I am shocked how many people keep saying “Yeah this is nothing new – it’s been going on since forever”. Who are we kidding? This is the THIRD TIME in a week that Frum kids have been ARRESTED upstate. No, in my days in the mountains this did not happen. Maybe there used to be one story during an entire summer and it certainly would have been the talk of the town! <BR/> <BR/>Now it is happening on a daily basis! (Kudos to Hamercaz news for not sweeping it under the rug!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-29073863572633567952008-08-18T17:16:00.000-04:002008-08-18T17:16:00.000-04:00Childish musings - I totally disagree with you. If...Childish musings - I totally disagree with you. If a child is old enough to go through encyclopedias and understand a subject then he's old enough to learn about it. At this point you should have a close enough relationship with him that he would not hesitate to talk to you and then you can discuss it. That is a perfect time when parents can guide their children towards their own views. <BR/><BR/>Hiding a subject from a child will send only one message: "From now on I will research and learn everything on my own to find out exactly what my parents are afraid of" Your child will learn more diverse opinions on that subject and make up his own mind which could lead to making serious mistakes inlife, because there is lots of disinformation.<BR/><BR/>For example condoms are being sold to us as a magical tool that prevents all harms, and simultaniously lets one enjoy himself. It is not easy to find out that condoms are only 87% effective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-2510888588826229982008-08-17T19:38:00.000-04:002008-08-17T19:38:00.000-04:00You mean the world doesn't revolve around me?You mean the world doesn't revolve around me?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-6134848150278850242008-08-16T15:45:00.000-04:002008-08-16T15:45:00.000-04:00You have a point that its just too impossible. How...You have a point that its just too impossible. However, maybe they need to just have kosher publishing for frum encyclopedias. I'm not sure i want my kid being able to find out everything apikorsus and untznius in the encyclopedia before he's old enough to understand the explanations behind it...<BR/><BR/>check out my blog- http://childish-musings.blogspot.comPenniless Parentinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17671140279531925880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-43941540932400945432008-08-15T18:26:00.000-04:002008-08-15T18:26:00.000-04:00Someone should send Rabbi Falk one of the all time...Someone should send Rabbi Falk one of the all time best sellers for Orthodox kids and adults alike: Harry PotterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-17943422132612828312008-08-15T11:39:00.000-04:002008-08-15T11:39:00.000-04:00frayda:Oh no! that's awful. I use even treif recip...frayda:<BR/><BR/>Oh no! that's awful. I use even treif recipes to get ideas for foods to try out. <BR/><BR/>One of my fave recipes is "basar v'chalav." I use ground-beef style veggie burger to make great tacos.Leah Goodmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16546935038863589318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-2916385557894997392008-08-15T11:36:00.000-04:002008-08-15T11:36:00.000-04:00Wolf, Not without oversimplifying a little, so wha...Wolf, <BR/><BR/>Not without oversimplifying a little, so what follows in not technically precise, but here goes.<BR/><BR/>Consider a coordinate system fixed to the surface of the Earth. Let's use longitude, latitude, height and time as the coordinates. Now imagine a distant star. In our coordinate system the height and latitude remain (approximately) fixed, but the longitude changes by 15 degrees per hour. That corresponds to a coordinate velocity of: height* Cos[colatitude]*(15 degrees per hour) which can be much faster than the speed of light if height (the distance from the Earth) is large enough. But think about the light coming from the star to us--the height decreases at the speed of light, but the longitude still changes 15 degrees per hour. So in our coordinate system the light follows a spiral path to the Earth; one rotation per (sidereal) day, with the radius decreasing 1 light-day per rotation. The light is always going faster than the matter in its vicinity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-5582060737878005842008-08-15T11:11:00.000-04:002008-08-15T11:11:00.000-04:00"Cookbooks, unless produced under "kosher" auspice..."Cookbooks, unless produced under "kosher" auspices are out, because they mention treif items" - I know you are joking, but my mother ripped out all the recipes with ham and other pig products in them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-642750054917809022008-08-14T16:02:00.000-04:002008-08-14T16:02:00.000-04:00Mike,Can you please put that last comment in more ...Mike,<BR/><BR/>Can you please put that last comment in more layman's terms?<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/><BR/>The WolfBrooklynWolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994285019137108636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-69335676795254912942008-08-14T16:00:00.000-04:002008-08-14T16:00:00.000-04:00By the way, I am a physicist. It is possible to d...By the way, I am a physicist. It is possible to describe motion in any coordinate frame you like, including one where the Earth stays still. The fact that the time derivative of the coordinates of a distant star is faster than the speed of light is no problem because the velocity in that coordinate system is not that coordinate derivative. However, such a description is not a very useful one either for dynamic calculations or for understanding. It is certainly true that a frame fixed to the Earth's surface is not a "local inertial reference frame"; i.e. one in which an object not being acted on by a force goes in a straight line at constant speed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-86744449075284425572008-08-14T15:53:00.000-04:002008-08-14T15:53:00.000-04:00What would the Rabbi's definition of good literatu...What would the Rabbi's definition of good literature be? From his examples of what isn't, one would have to assume that his literature neither conveys information nor provokes thought. That being so, why would anyone want to read it? or have their kids waste time reading it (once they become fluent readers.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-22237224859179612382008-08-13T14:51:00.000-04:002008-08-13T14:51:00.000-04:00I believe there is a Hebrew encyclopedia published...I believe there is a Hebrew encyclopedia published for haredi children, that would probably meet most of Rabbi Falk's requirements.mother in israelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13715046177293916034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-62952023132748856502008-08-13T14:26:00.000-04:002008-08-13T14:26:00.000-04:00um, how about doctoring his own book so at least t...um, how about doctoring his own book so at least the English grammar is correct: "Ensuring That Plenty Good Literature Is Available"???Commenter Abbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07753256568022159103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-4226205146337965892008-08-13T10:29:00.000-04:002008-08-13T10:29:00.000-04:00I am personally shocked over a book that is being ...I am personally shocked over a book that is being taught in first and second grade in my kid's school. It contains positive references to unmarried men and women kissing in public as well as the marital act itself, descriptions of prostitution and a rape, descriptions of religions foreign to Judaism and human sacrifice, positive representations of wholesale slaughter of cities full of people, including children, positive descriptions of an incestuous marriage of brother and sister, and that is only in the first part. Fortunately, they won't learn the other four parts until they are older.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-48603274337182245562008-08-13T08:07:00.000-04:002008-08-13T08:07:00.000-04:00This is incredible and incredibly sad.This is incredible and incredibly sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-26258161121408610552008-08-13T01:52:00.000-04:002008-08-13T01:52:00.000-04:00This book is one of the most demented diatribes ev...This book is one of the most demented diatribes ever written. I recall that the book has an approbation from R. Moshe, z"l; however, the book was written AFTER R. Moshe was niftar! Go figure that one out.<BR/><BR/>It was pointed out in prior blogs that this book is frighteningly popular in many yeshivish circles. Many communities have study groups and courses based on this book and the "guidelines" R Falk sets forth. They even give bechinas on various topics as if you can another Semicha in Tzniuous topics. <BR/><BR/><BR/>This book has a good number of highly positive reviews on Amazon- I included my own, calling it "neurotic" among other things in order to keep the comments balanced. <BR/><BR/>Misery indeed loves company.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-89551791966819581262008-08-12T21:36:00.000-04:002008-08-12T21:36:00.000-04:00We must also be careful to say "faucet" instead of...We must also be careful to say "faucet" instead of "sPIGot," "beefock," instead of "HAMmock" and "Altamoydia" instead of "VIRGINia" (my fingers tremble as I write this).<BR/><BR/>"Baseball?" Scrap it--sounds too much like "Bais Baal." Anyway, having boys handle a "bat" is only okay if they never, ever, ever hear modern Hebrew pronunciation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-86560632010575377402008-08-12T12:13:00.000-04:002008-08-12T12:13:00.000-04:00m.d.,Once you start messing with scientific princi...m.d.,<BR/>Once you start messing with scientific principles then all of them become suspect. Those that believe in geocentrism would not accept that scientists are correct about the distance from the earth to the various stars, nor would they accept the accuracy of the speed of light. Accepting either of these would mean that geocentrism would be invalidated.ProfKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-87859410771325819992008-08-12T10:28:00.000-04:002008-08-12T10:28:00.000-04:00This is about the best argument I've seen for igno...This is about the best argument I've seen for ignoring rabbis and using your common sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-89456718524153117802008-08-12T00:41:00.000-04:002008-08-12T00:41:00.000-04:00LoZ: Regarding geocentricism, I used to think that...LoZ: Regarding geocentricism, I used to think that one could set up the system however one wanted, the only difference being that one was much simpler than the other. <BR/>Someone pointed out to me that you can't do that. If we are correct about the distance from the earth to various stars, they would be orbiting around the stationary earth at speeds much faster than the speed of light, which is impossible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-49136121210967152962008-08-11T23:50:00.000-04:002008-08-11T23:50:00.000-04:00AARON:"Read Meal Mart hot dog packages."LOLWOLF:"n...AARON:<BR/><BR/>"Read Meal Mart hot dog packages."<BR/><BR/>LOL<BR/><BR/>WOLF:<BR/><BR/>"no encyclopedia that I know of states that the geocentric model of the universe is the correct one, as the Rambam has it."<BR/><BR/>but it could, no? from what i understand (this goes back a while), a geocentric model could be represented, but we don't because of occam's razor prefers a heliocentric model.<BR/> <BR/>anyway, are you really surprised by this type of censorship?Lion of Zionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10342299133387602141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-57233607229718118612008-08-11T21:33:00.000-04:002008-08-11T21:33:00.000-04:00I read this wonderful book list. I suppose that if...I read this wonderful book list. I suppose that if you look hard enough at the lamp, you might see those two people kissing... therefore lamps should be assur.Leah Goodmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16546935038863589318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-23937264372654587772008-08-11T21:25:00.000-04:002008-08-11T21:25:00.000-04:00Unfortunately, there is so much in his sefer that ...Unfortunately, there is so much in his sefer that is laughable that it overshadows anything that he may have to say of value.<BR/><BR/>Falk is seriously disturbed; he reminds me of Bruriah Keren who also went way overboard with tznius (although I'm not, C' v'S, making any accusations...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-74349402395125112502008-08-11T20:48:00.000-04:002008-08-11T20:48:00.000-04:00Sorry...this is the right one :http://www.chinuch....Sorry...this is the right one :<BR/><BR/>http://www.chinuch.org/item_details.php?mid=4552DAGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475799835170867139noreply@blogger.com