"For the love of brisket", and other quoteable lines

black sheep

Thu, Apr 16 2015, 1:31 pm

imasoftov wrote:

It says in Berachot 45b that "A hundred women are like two men". But it only takes one man to be a rabbi, so in any thread with 50 different posters (the higher number of anon or non-anons, we can't count both together because we can't be sure someone hasn't posted both ways) in which there is a majority for one position, that's a valid psak.

is this referring to drinking beer? that it takes 100 women to drink the amount that 2 men can drink?

imasoftov

Fri, Apr 17 2015, 10:03 am

black sheep wrote:

is this referring to drinking beer? that it takes 100 women to drink the amount that 2 men can drink?

It's about doing zimun before birkat hamazon.

zaq

Fri, Apr 17 2015, 4:44 pm

imasoftov wrote:

It's about doing zimun before birkat hamazon.

ah, so if I hear it correctly, you can have mezuman with 100 women and one man. Which is a wonderful thing because those are the approximate proportions at many singles events.

imasinger

Sat, Apr 18 2015, 9:48 pm

We had a mezumenet for both meals this Shabbat. DH said he felt outnumbered. And so he was.

imasoftov

Sun, Apr 19 2015, 6:48 pm

zaq wrote:

ah, so if I hear it correctly, you can have mezuman with 100 women and one man. Which is a wonderful thing because those are the approximate proportions at many singles events.

That could lead to mixed dancing. But you could have any of those 100 women lead the zimun on the basis of two other women. And then everyone could look at the one man to see if he
1) answers
2) sits there like a golem
3) runs from the room in panic (but in a ladylike manner)
and draws conclusions from that

But what if he believes in mixed mezumans? And he insists on leading because he's a Cohen. In that case he can't watch all 100 women to see what they do but he can note who stays.

youngishbear

Sun, Apr 19 2015, 7:16 pm

At first this tangent reminded me of the 3/5ths compromise.

By now it's more like a complicated sugya in maseches yevumos.

Math is so not my thing...

imasoftov

Sun, Apr 19 2015, 8:09 pm

youngishbear wrote:

At first this tangent reminded me of the 3/5ths compromise.

We should be so lucky to count that much

youngishbear

Sun, Apr 19 2015, 8:15 pm

imasoftov wrote:

We should be so lucky to count that much

At least, shelo asani eved...

Aval... alas, sheasani kirtzono.

LOL

(Miriam Kosman's book has an interesting take on this...)

PinkFridge

Mon, Apr 20 2015, 8:23 am

youngishbear wrote:

At least, shelo asani eved...

Aval... alas, sheasani kirtzono.

LOL

(Miriam Kosman's book has an interesting take on this...)

Eh, I'm sure it's all apologetics. (Just had to beat everyone else to it. Personally, I'm sure it's not.)

MyTimeNow

Wed, Oct 07 2015, 6:23 pm

Cute thread Smile

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Bottom line, though, is we should really all strive to just love one amother... LOL

PinkFridge

Wed, Oct 07 2015, 7:23 pm

runningmom wrote:

Cute thread Smile

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Bottom line, though, is we should really all strive to just love one amother... LOL

Immediate reaction #1: Come on, people now Music

Immediate reaction #2: Which one?

youngishbear

Wed, Oct 07 2015, 7:27 pm

runningmom wrote:

Cute thread Smile

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Bottom line, though, is we should really all strive to just love one amother... LOL

Since PF asked which one, I need to remind you all that Yael frowns upon polularity contests.

PinkFridge

Wed, Oct 07 2015, 7:30 pm

youngishbear wrote:

Since PF asked which one, I need to remind you all that Yael frowns upon polularity contests.

Then clearly it's no. 1 and we all need to link hands and sing...Smile on your brother everybody get together!

enneamom

Wed, Oct 07 2015, 7:35 pm

runningmom wrote:

Cute thread Smile

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Bottom line, though, is we should really all strive to just love one amother... LOL

Now THAT'S quotable!

MyTimeNow

Thu, Oct 08 2015, 12:09 am

PinkFridge wrote:

Immediate reaction #1: Come on, people now Music

Immediate reaction #2: Which one?

"...smile on your brother, everybody get together..."

Umm, The Universal Amother. Lol we are one ☺️☺️☺️