Fallom posted:

This dude was a quarter inch away from becoming a vegetable

Powershift posted:

Did i just watch someone die?

Moist von Lipwig posted:

No it's the miracle of birth

https://my.mixtape.moe/modqku.mp4

Endman posted:

I was going to say - his head falls so drat close to that concrete-block planter

e: pagesnype content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB7909MkNU4

pseudorandom posted:

Awww, is this where baby shoes come from?

sneakyfrog posted:

i guess its just weird to me, but then i grew up as evangelical talking in tongues supposed to be a pastor one day kid, so i mean im not one to judge anyones flavor of deity

MightyJoe36 posted:

I grew up Catholic and I think we invented rules lawyering when it comes to religion.

MightyJoe36 posted:

I grew up Catholic and I think we invented rules lawyering when it comes to religion.

MightyJoe36 posted:

I grew up Catholic and I think we invented rules lawyering when it comes to religion.

Baronjutter posted:

-Go into a violent panic the moment anything startles, upsets, or confuses you.

MightyJoe36 posted:

I grew up Catholic and I think we invented rules lawyering when it comes to religion.

MightyJoe36 posted:

I grew up Catholic and I think we invented rules lawyering when it comes to religion.

sandoz posted:

PLEASE no more horse derails

zedprime posted:

Catholic rules lawyering is some cheeky obtuse interpretations of guidelines worded poorly by the clergy. Jewish rules lawyering is an effort by an entire class of priests to research ways to get one over on God without violating the Covenant.

repiv posted:

https://twitter.com/jwheels74/status/1096120197767983104?s=19

Truga posted:

Yeah, one of my favourite things ever is the manhattan eruv.

Powershift posted:

Mr. Apollo posted:

Toronto has one too (3 separate ones with specific crossover points between the lower two). They send alerts if the something happens the the eruv goes down. On the donations page they say it costs $40,000 a year to operate which seems like a lot but I have no idea what's actually involved.

https://www.torontoeruv.org/map/

Mr. Apollo posted:

Toronto has one too (3 separate ones with specific crossover points between the lower two). They send alerts if the something happens the the eruv goes down. On the donations page they say it costs $40,000 a year to operate which seems like a lot but I have no idea what's actually involved.

https://www.torontoeruv.org/map/

violent sex idiot posted:

it needs to be inspected every week and repaired promptly which is a lot of cost, and then also maintaining the infrastructure to let everyone know if there is a problem with it

quote:

Most come down to two questions:

- Why is it so expensive to run the eruv?
- Isn’t it blackmail and inappropriate to “threaten” to take down the eruv?

Here are a few basic answers:

Our annual budget runs at about $120,000 per year.
We have a crew of three rabbinical inspectors with drivers that check the eruv every week.
We also have a crew with our own dedicated lift truck that spend hours every Thursday night and often Friday making repairs.
Then we have insurance, special insurance for CalTrans, D&O liability insurance, auto insurance, etc..
We also spend several thousand dollars each year on truck maintenance and repairs to keep it safe and usable.

Setting a steel reinforcing frame in a post hole, The frame sits about 4 feet deep in the ground.
Because we are maintaining the largest eruv in the country if not the world, and because it is made up of miles of fences and walls rather than just fishing line our costs for materials, poles, fences, etc. is significant.

We ran about $30,000 short this year and had to borrow it from our emergency fund.

We also have 45-year-old lift truck that must be replaced sometime between tomorrow and next year. For a used 15-year-old truck it will cost $70,000.

So we are looking to raise: $120k + $30k + $70k for a total of $220,000.
...

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

Hand to G-d reading old Rabbinical debates will give anyone who played table-top role playing games in high school loving flashbacks. Pedantic nerds are unchanged since the dawn of scripture itself. I'm really glad someone posted the Oven story upthread because it's one of my favorite religious parables ever.

Bava Metsia 84 posted:

With regards to these Sages, the Gemara adds: When Rabbi Yishmael, son of Rabbi Yosei, and Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, would meet each other, it was possible for a pair of oxen to enter and fit between them, under their bellies, without touching them, due to their excessive obesity.

A certain Roman noblewoman once said to them: Your children are not really your own, as due to your obesity it is impossible that you engaged in intercourse with your wives. They said to her: Theirs, i.e., our wives' bellies, are larger than ours. She said to them: All the more so you could not have had intercourse. There are those who say that this is what they said to her: For as the man is, so is his strength, i.e., our sexual organs are proportionate to our bellies. There are those who say that this is what they said to her: Love compresses the flesh.

minato posted:

The LA eruv has a page dedicated to explaining why it costs them $120,000 / year to manage:

Mr. Apollo posted:

I thought the bit about "Isn’t it blackmail and inappropriate to “threaten” to take down the eruv?" was going to be about them having to pay off people who were threatening to take down the eruv but instead it's people complaining that having to pay a monthly/yearly fee to maintain the eruv or else it would be taken down was blackmail.

LifeSunDeath posted:

Chief Savage Man posted:

I can't figure out what is in the trash can, but I'm pretty sure it's some kind of flammable gas? Near an open flame? Is this guy out of his goddamn mind?

Chief Savage Man posted:

I can't figure out what is in the trash can, but I'm pretty sure it's some kind of flammable gas? Near an open flame? Is this guy out of his goddamn mind?

The Bloop posted:

Do you think he just freshly chopped a limb off that tree to make room for this project or he just stores his cutters outside in the weather like an animal

Tobermory posted:

quote:

An eruv techumin (Hebrew: עירוב תחומין, "mixed borders") for traveling enables Jews to travel on Shabbat or a Jewish holiday, without violating the prohibition of techum shabbat. They prepare food prior to Shabbat or the holiday on which they plan to travel farther than is normally allowed on such days. The only allowed method of transportation is walking.[1]

Normally, a person may walk anywhere in their city or town on such days, but only within that area and up to 2000 cubits past the city limits (the city limits are defined to extend so long as there are houses within 70 cubits of the each other;[2] see techum shabbat for details). If they need to travel farther than that, they can leave some food in a certain location prior to that holiday or Sabbath. This will temporarily establish their home as at the location of the food, allowing to travel 2000 cubits from the food.

LifeSunDeath posted:

Cythereal posted:

sandoz posted:

PLEASE no more horse derails

minato posted:

The LA eruv has a page dedicated to explaining why it costs them $120,000 / year to manage: