were a 48-hour haze of farbrenging, learning chassidus, doing mivtzoim in the cold, and late-afternoon naps. And this year? We kicked off Yud-Tes Kislev with a nice hullyenish at the TRS-LE7 residence. 'Twas quite the fun.
Tonight there's another hullyenish, but we'll talk about that later.
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what the heck is a hullyenish?
ReplyDeleteexactly what I was wondering. please express it in layman's terms
ReplyDeleteIt was nice to meet you all. And I am grateful to TRS-LE7 team for the hospitality.
ReplyDeletehulyenish is when you get together and "hullyeh zich"
ReplyDeleteImy"h by dir!
ReplyDeleteQuite nice indeed.
ReplyDelete...except for some b*tch throwing water at me.
ReplyDeleteSorry, you're not old enough to be remeniscing about your youth. I had a wonderful yud tes kislev, sounds like your silly youth.
ReplyDeleteSome folk have no respect. Nope, none whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteI was at the farbrengen for flatbush anash and their handful of farchapteh. It was pretty good.
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ReplyDeleteCA: you only know a biased sample of my clan. And don't forget confidentiality. I'm afraid your comment will have to be deleted.
ReplyDeleteYeah, you’re right. I told you: your home place is like a G-rated version of the place here.
ReplyDeleteFor one thing, my father tries to be polite.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, that’s a big thing. But there is also a difference in not bothering about being polite and trying to be insulting on purpose.
ReplyDeleteActually, a friend of mine who knew both of them had your father as a teacher in school. The first time he came in, she expected him to scream at them. She told me she continued to be amazed how polite he was.
Modeh - Identify thyself!
ReplyDeletehttp://collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=6606
The guy in the beard. More than that you'll get by email.
ReplyDeleteNah, I'm not that paranoid. 6 pictures down lone blue shirted adult at maariv. Face mostly blocked by somebody's hat. Might be a better shot of me lower down but I've got no patience to go looking at the moment.
ReplyDeleteLucky you ...
ReplyDeleteI see at least one more blue-shirted sheigitz in one of the pictures ...
ReplyDeleteso modeh, how was YY's speech? Why is chassidus relevant to us today?
ReplyDeleteand if you remember some of his more heinous abuses of the English language, that would also be appreciated.
ReplyDeleteCA remembers, ask him...I counted 4 blue shirts. 2 had beards. Why sheigitz?
ReplyDeleteNemo: I am a bebearded blue-shirted sheigetz. I am the only blue shirt without a jacket in the maariv picture (6 down from the article) I looked last night and I am found seated and in full view in several pictures though non very close up. I have a lighter blue shirt than anyone else. TRS has seen me in the flesh. Ask him.
ReplyDeletee: He didn't actually get to that point though he gave a very nice speech
e^2: He wasn't that much worse than your average oholei torah alumn.
Mushkie: CA was there?
You meant to put the "2" as a subscript, not a superscript.
ReplyDeletehow do you know?
ReplyDeleteA superscript 2 would mean e*e. Why would you want to say that?
ReplyDeleteBecause I meant to respond to your 7.3890561th comment. Why else?
ReplyDeleteAnd when I annoy people and they write "e!" they mean Γ(e)?
ReplyDeleteno, they mean 3.35493228 (e factorial) of course. I don't know what that other symbol means.
ReplyDeleteThe gamma function is the factorial function extended to non-integers.
ReplyDeleteHow does that work? Gimme link!
ReplyDeleteWhat’s chakirah without chassidus? An asymptote.
ReplyDeleteModeh: I have no idea how it works. I read about it on wiki. How did you compute e!?
ReplyDeleteCA: Are you saying that the snags almost get it, ch"v?
They are growing infinitely in their attempt to get Hashem, never quite reaching him.
ReplyDeletebut are they getting as close as they please?
ReplyDeleteNe ponyal.
ReplyDeleteOchin prosta. You're saying that chakirah without chassidus is like an asymptote: it allows one to approach god but not to reach him.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised at the high opinion you have of chassidusless chakirah. A curve doesn't reach the line to which it is asymptotic, but it can get arbitrarily close to it.
When we say, "the limit as x runs to infinity of f(x) equals L" we mean that one can get as close to L as one pleases, merely by taking a sufficiently large value for x." So in the nimshal, snags can get as close as the please to god, merely by learning enough chakirah.
a rather surprising statement.
e:Arithmetically. I computed e * (e - 1) * (e-2) which would approximate a factorial but I just realized that I left out the last term.
ReplyDeleteCA: a greyse shkeyach.
Oh, and I like the image on top of your blog. One picture speaks a whole ten minute shtickl torah.
ReplyDeletee, G-d is not a madrega.
ReplyDeleteModeh: in general, is that how one calculates factorials for non-integers?
ReplyDeleteCA: hmmmm. I wonder if there's an analogous situation in math?
Dunno.
ReplyDeleteRegarding your earlier question, why not? Sure there were gedoilim amongst misnagdim who got to a high level according to their abilities. To a high level, ober nisht Eibeshter.
Surely*
ReplyDeletehey! thats my line!
ReplyDeleteCA:Well considering that the rambams definition of yemos hamoshiach is just that, that's pretty high praise. So is it on to Brisk after you graduate?
ReplyDeletee:No, I have no clue how to compute non integer factorials. I was just treating it like an integer and stopped when I couldn't take 1 away and keep it positive anymore. I can find out for you if you like though your the mathematician. As a CS guy I'm just a wannabe.
Dowy: good point. Thanks for the line.
ReplyDeleteModeh: yeah, I think that's what the gamma function is.
MBM: "They won’t ask me ‘Why weren’t you Avraham?’ They will ask me: ‘Why weren’t you Zushe?’" That would be a high praise for me or you. For them, it’s an insult. (Not that I am insulting gedoilim... even the ones who failed to achieve their full potential.)
ReplyDeletee, what happened to the highway?
ReplyDeleteContrary to what the Rebbe RaSHaB says in Etz HaChaim, there are litvishe gedeylim who are not baalei gaavah.
ReplyDeleteBeein a baal ga'avah has nothing to do with it. That's a very superficial look at what's wrong with non-Chabad Yiddishkeit according to Chabad.
ReplyDeleteIt has to do with inherent limitation of any derech that doesn't have Chabad Chassidus in it and to a member of which Etzem of Eibeshter is therefore not accessible (or less likely accessible).
Plus, in order to learn Torah you need to be a ba'al ga'avah, albeit of a holy variety. Even that will trip you up. As Ramak said...
Mushkie: I got bored of the name "The Highway back to Krenitz."
ReplyDeleteCA: etzem of the eibeshter is not accessible to anyone unless we mean two very different things.
ReplyDeleteI mean mamosh Etzem of Eibeshter. Not gilui. That's the chiddush of Chabad Chassidus. "Yadativ v'hayisiv."
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