Best of DDF

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A djork

[yelped]

It's been Yeshiva Month for years now.

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Mazel tov to @Suave for making it to Moldova safely!

[CountValentine]

Stop apologizing for murderers and dictators. Who's up next, Abbas and Haniyeh?

@yelped

[Yo ssi]

Before it gets lost in the sea of pages

For sale: gartel, good condition

My gartel ended up in a thrift shop in Alabama. Please help

[Yehuda57]

Before it gets lost in the sea of pages

You gotta include @Euclid's beautiful setup

[Yo ssi]

You gotta include @Euclid's beautiful setup

ETA'd

[CountValentine]

You gotta include @Euclid's beautiful setup

...and the back story.

[Yo ssi]

...and the back story.

Let me introduce to you to DDF

[ExGingi]

gezhe,

No singular. There is no "ich" in gezhe. My metzius is one with my ancestors, and hence always plural.

kelishke

Why would you ever need a singular form? Yidden don't drink alone.

kvort

Don't need singular. Can't use it without 2 handles.

[CountValentine]

Politics should be an enjoyment, and outlet. Please don't take Politics personally, there are far more important things in life 🙂

@VacationLover

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A month has passed since I heard the first explosions in Odessa. So many lives lost, so many yidden saved. So many hearts shattered, so many hearts healed. So many families torn apart, so many reunited. So many frozen bodies, so many warmed souls.

Time is a now a volatile currency with fluctuating exchange rates. Night comes before I even get the chance to greet the day gone. Stubborn weekdays only recently started making room for shabbos. My calendar is no longer a grid, just a persistently linear path of no return.

The days are not numbered by dates of the month, but by the wins & losses, missions accomplished and lives saved.

Every day I learn something new about myself, something great about my friends and this forum. The skills acquired and lessons learned in the past month can not even be taught in 10 academic years.

It's clear to me now that Hashem has prepared me for this unfathomable challenge my whole life. Somehow I've been preparing for this unforseen tragedy from the day I was born (At a prison in Soviet Russia no less).

I've traveled the world in search of adventure, I've traversed barren landscapes looking for purpose. I've lived out of my backpack for so many years, that I've forgotten how to iron my shirts.

Finally, after 20 years of life changing journeys, I settled in beautiful Odessa (after spending time here building the new dansdeals.com). Somehow in this faraway land of ancestral tribulations, I found the perfect place to plant my roots. I bought an apartment with all my life savings and started working on making it a home. My insatiable wanderlust was slowly being replaced by a sense of tranquility and belonging. Begrudgingly I'll admit that the universe has finally shown me where I can rest my tired feet.

BOOM! BOOM! The falling bombs shattered the silent night. Confusion & disbelief stormed into the pre-dawn serenity. No time to think, no time to cry. Grab what I can, stuff my well worn yet now dusty backpack. What now? Where do I run? Go home? But this is my home... My instincts tell me to run for safety but my heart suggests that this is bigger than me... Swim against the tide, fly into the eye of the storm, where others will flee to. Here I am, a full month later, a nomad again, back to the transient life. ויעקב הלך לדרכו

I still don't know where I'll be tomorrow, but I know I won't be alone. I have no idea if I'll ever see my home again, but I'm confident that fate will lead me to where I'm needed most. My destiny is now undeniably woven into the fabric of the Jewish nation.

The sounds of redemption are still masked by the cries of anguish. Millions of lives are still in danger, so many souls that still need saving.

I'm so grateful to have friends like you (including many DDF'rs who I've never met IRL). So many of you have come through in ways I never expected. I won't list each one, as the list is long - but know that I appreciate every single one of you regardless of the help you offered.

לשנה הבאה בירושלים!!

[Yehuda57]

 I miss the frank, open and sometimes life changing discussions that were had with individuals that I likely never would have met in my day to day life - a Ben Torah in Pittsburgh, a lawyer in Boston, a utility whiz / talmid chacham in Lakewood. Most of us didn't and don't know each other IRL, and therefore opinions are perforce general and not specific and definitely not judgmental, but a discussion could be had, and it came with the territory.

[aygart]

https://twitter.com/DansDeals/status/1532063589087199232

[Yehuda57]

Love these threads:

My Brother and his Kallah had a flight from LGA to DTW with AA this morning at 10:00. The flight got delayed to 10:30 And then they got bumped from the flight.

Anyone have any suggestions or could find a flight for them? I tried searching for nearby airports but I could not find anything
Anyone have any contacts at AA that can get him on the next flight?

Yeah I think they got it! Thank you!

Thank you!!

[Yehuda57]

My AA flight from ORD-LGA was just cancelled with a few hours notice. I have a 10:30pm flight on Ek from JFK. American told me to pound sand, no flights, no other airports, nothing. Anyone have any insight?

new option ua ord to hpn at 210 pm 3 seats open i can hold down space for you if you pm me

HUUUUUGE shout out to @yeshivabucher for working it out. I'm on a flight to HPN in a couple hours!

he made it

 recap after all options to lga/jfk failed i found at 1pm ord time a 210 flight to hpn  that was supposed to land at 530 more then enough time to make it to jfk for EK 206 tonight at 10:20pm  in F

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/SKW5507/history/20220807/1920Z/KORD/KHPN
as you can see it became 2+ hrs delayed and landed at 750pm. he upon landing  he jumped into a lyft and made it just after 9pm to jfk and was check in and still fasting last i heard from him

You said it right! Bh, happily resting in my hotel in Milan now. Took a drink about an hour after fast ended and properly ate maybe 2 hours after. AA 1:30 flight was supposed to leave me 6 hours from touchdown to takeoff in NY, and I ended up down to the second. I boarded 3 flights, was canceled once, delayed maybe 6 different times. What a day. Literally could not have done it without @yeshivabucher

ETA: Don't like this post, like @yeshivabucher's posts!

[jj1000]

Don't like this post

Liked, I hate it when people tell me what to do, I showed you

[YitzyS]

Liked, I hate it when people tell me what to do, I showed you

You may be willing to flout Yehuda57, but you wouldn't dare do it to me.

Don't you dare like this post!


(PS. I think he won't like it because he wants to show that he's classy and doesn't engage in solicited likes...)
(PPS. Reverse phycology works?)
(PPPS. No it doesn't)

[Dan]

ETA: Don't like this post, like @yeshivabucher's posts!

Nice, but add that to the reason I dislike master threads. That's not a thread I open very often.

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Typical moronic lottery winner, putting all their eggs in one basket…