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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #180 on: April 20, 2017, 08:42:01 PM »
read SLBO first to pop your eyes wide open as to what's happening on the street.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #181 on: April 20, 2017, 09:15:03 PM »
@Dan FWIW, this morning I was asked to read through the protocols of a certain factory. The documents weren't written nearly as well as the stories I wrote in 2nd grade.
(Yes, I went through English in grade school)
These protocols were written by an educated(?) man.
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #182 on: April 20, 2017, 09:17:43 PM »
There is no opportunity, just an opprotunity.
I didn't miss that, but is that typo any worse than what we see all over DDF?

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #183 on: April 20, 2017, 09:18:57 PM »
I didn't miss that, but is that typo any worse than what we see all over DDF?
Now would be a good time to collect all the spelling and grammar mistakes from ddms.
Eta: should that be grammatical?
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #184 on: April 20, 2017, 09:21:46 PM »
I didn't miss that, but is that typo any worse than what we see all over DDF?
Are you serious?
You're comparing something informally written using an ancient WAP layout to a paid ad image?
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #185 on: April 20, 2017, 09:55:15 PM »
Are you serious?
You're comparing something informally written using an ancient WAP layout to a paid ad image?
Are you making less money off your posts, than they are off their ads?
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #186 on: April 20, 2017, 10:00:05 PM »
Are you serious?
You're comparing something informally written using an ancient WAP layout to a paid ad image?
Are you seriously taking collive.com seriously?

FWIW that typo probably doesn't stem from ignorance, but rather from carelessness. You see it all over DDF from people who know how to spell. And for some reason Yehuda57 seems to be מחייב all of us with his quality of writing, despite the medium.
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #187 on: April 20, 2017, 11:00:51 PM »
Sorry for the ignorance, but what exactly is a mashpia? Is it the same thing as a mashgiach?
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #188 on: April 20, 2017, 11:03:06 PM »
Sorry for the ignorance, but what exactly is a mashpia? Is it the same thing as a mashgiach?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashpia

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #189 on: April 20, 2017, 11:11:51 PM »
Sorry for the ignorance, but what exactly is a mashpia? Is it the same thing as a mashgiach?

Not sure,  but I've gathered from the discussion on the last few pages that its a chosson teacher.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #190 on: April 20, 2017, 11:12:53 PM »
Not sure,  but I've gathered from the discussion on the last few pages that its a chosson teacher.
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #191 on: April 20, 2017, 11:16:45 PM »

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #192 on: April 20, 2017, 11:29:58 PM »
While we're at it, can someone explain the connotation of "farmer"? Google already explained gezhe for me
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #193 on: April 20, 2017, 11:42:51 PM »
While we're at it, can someone explain the connotation of "farmer"? Google already explained gezhe for me
"You're a farmer" is a familiar taunt given to someone who doesn't move out on Shlichus. source: http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=42099

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #194 on: April 20, 2017, 11:49:51 PM »
"You're a farmer" is a familiar taunt given to someone who doesn't move out on Shlichus. source: http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=42099
Why? Where does it come from?
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #195 on: April 20, 2017, 11:51:07 PM »
Why? Where does it come from?
I have no idea. I'm just a Googler.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #196 on: April 20, 2017, 11:58:30 PM »
SLBO?
SLBO ?

Are you seriously taking collive.com seriously?

FWIW that typo probably doesn't stem from ignorance, but rather from carelessness. You see it all over DDF from people who know how to spell. And for some reason Yehuda57 seems to be מחייב all of us with his quality of writing, despite the medium.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #197 on: April 21, 2017, 12:00:39 AM »
The term refers to Lubavitch history.

Back in Lubavitch, particularly in the times of the Tzemach Tzedek when there was a big growth in the numbers of Chabad, most chasidim were simple farmers who were just sort of "culturally" Chabad, as opposed to the more initiated chasidim who had a deeper ideological connection to the chasidus.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #198 on: April 21, 2017, 12:17:46 AM »
The term refers to Lubavitch history.

Back in Lubavitch, particularly in the times of the Tzemach Tzedek when there was a big growth in the numbers of Chabad, most chasidim were simple farmers who were just sort of "culturally" Chabad, as opposed to the more initiated chasidim who had a deeper ideological connection to the chasidus.

Isn't like the whole point of chassidus that you can be a simple farmer and still be a chossid and a tzaddik, unlike the loony litvaks where being a talmid chochom was only accessible to the elite?

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #199 on: April 21, 2017, 12:18:42 AM »
Yup, and going to a mesivta like PIT sets one up for failure. No appreciation for hashem, his torah, or the awareness that אין עוד מלבדו.
Because other mesivtas and Zal only have 100% unadulterated לימוד תורה.
In both this comment and my previous one I did not get into what are the actual appropriate levels of טהרת הקודש, neither for our mosdos nor for college education.
All I'm trying to explain here is that whatever aversion we have to a certain level of secular education, on any of the above stages (college, cheder/mesivta/zal) have nothing to do with shlichus in the practical sense and everything to do with what we as chassidim believe to be the proper חינוך to prepare one for a Jewish life of any kind.