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We have already left Vaszar. It is time to get ready to get off quickly because the Győr-Graz express stops at Pápa for only a minute. We have arrived! So this is our home town about which we have so many cherished memories.
Come brother, let's wander the streets and read the names on the signboards. Come and see the creation of Jewish hands here, let us recall their memory.
Have a look: opposite the railway station you can see the textile factory of the Perutz brothers; it provided livelihood for several hundreds of workers. The founders of the factory came from Bohemia and became taxpayers of the Pápa Jewish community.
The First Mechanical Weaving Mill, founded by Ármin Leipnik is not far from there. It had 250 workers and produced high quality goods well-known all over the country.
The chemical works of Dr. Pál Breuer, a young engineer and the son of the highly respected community president Lázár Breuer, is also in the same neighbourhood. It provided chemical products for the whole of Transdanubia.
Let's walk into town. On one side of Eszterházy Road we go along the garden wall of the Count's castle, lined with ancient trees.
On the other side, there are cottages with beautiful gardens, including the villa of alcohol distributor and wholesaler Steiner from Gyömöre, which houses a temple and a beit hamidrash as well. Next to it you can find the tombstone yard and millstone factory of the company Albert Krausz and Son. This is one of the largest workshops in Transdanubia for engraving tombstones. The signature Krausz, Pápa, can be read on a great number of monuments dedicated to war heroes throughout the country, in addition to tombstones in Jewish and Christian cemeteries. The large business is managed by the owner József H. Krausz and his two sons. Despite the size of his enterprise, the owner found time for public affairs as well: he was the president of the school board for a long time, then worked in the Shiur Association as one of its leaders, and participated in the shiur in the evening as an outstanding scholar.
As we cross the bridge of Bakonyér, we pass the statue of Flórián: Retailer and Wholesaler Samu Grünbaum can be read on the sign of the grocery store. The shop has been kept closed on Shabbat since the doctor Sándor Buxbaum became his son-in-law. You see, brother, this is characteristic of Pápa: the father-in-law observes Shabbat at the request of his son-in-law, who is a doctor.
Just a few steps and we get to the salt-depository of Bodanszky. This business sells nothing but salt. Then we pass the leather shop of János Preisach. Don't be surprised at the name János; the man is a saintly Talmud scholar. Varga [cobbler] Street is nearby, and most of the customers are in the area: shoemakers and cobblers live in this neighbourhood. Leather trade and tanning were Jewish professions. Pelt dealers and tanners were Jewish. The only Jewish Tanners' Guild of the country used to be here once. In our childhood Uncle Grünbaum used to soak leather in the stream of the Cinca, and the Ungárs in Szent László Street worked in the tanners' trade. Kive Schreiber in Szent László Street was also a leather dealer; his shop was in his apartment. Leather dealer! In fact he was such a Talmudic scholar that the Jewish community of Krakow offered him the post of chief rabbi, which he refused. Koth in Corvin Street was also a leather dealer, and he used to be the chief gabbai of the community, which entitled him to be called a Temple father. The Hofmann firm had its shop in Kossuth Street, Árpád Steiner opened his leather store in another section of the town. They provided leather for a host of Pápa artisans: cobblers, slipper and shoemakers.
Let's go on. We won't stop at the Schwarcz bar to have a glass of light beer, for fear of memories making the well-chilled drink too bitter. Instead, we are going to pass the large beer and wine store of Goldschmied and the hardware store of Vilmos Rapoch, which was the largest and oldest hardware store. Then we shall walk by the grocery store of wholesaler Vilmos Korein. Carts come and go. Village groceries and country stores get their supplies from here. Although we are not tired yet, we should stop at the Hungária Hotel and Cafe. In front of it there are enough Jews standing around to fill a few minyanim.You would think they are a bunch of idle loafers, Luftmensch, so to say. In fact, they are hard-working agents, exporters, cattle dealers, exchanging their experiences about markets. Dealers without goods! However, there are no weekly markets or annual fairs without them. They travel from village to village by cart or buggy, buying calves and exporting them to Vienna. At the market, it is enough for them to take a look at the cattle for sale to know exactly how much it weighs. They know which estate needs what young cattle or ox and also which butcher wants what cattle for slaughter. It is also characteristic that none of the Pápa livestock dealers would trade in pigs, even though Jewish livestock dealers in the Great Hungarian Plain do that as well.
Next to the hotel there is a two-storey building, housing the haberdashery of wholesalers Günsberger and Goldberger. A similar store selling buttons, buckles and miscellaneous copperware, can be found in Corvin Street, owned by Zsigmond Steiner, and another one in Bástya Street, owned by wholesaler Zsigmond Beck. They provide goods for marketing retailers and also for Slovak traveling salesmen, loading their goods on small dog-drawn carts. The above-mentioned firms all stayed closed on Shabbat.
From the main square we turn into Corvin Street at Hoffmann's hardware store on the corner. In one of the stores a hard-working Jewish family the Engels - sells brushes of their own making. (In contrast to the saying he drinks like a brush-maker - they are most sober.) The products of their craftsmanship are well-known in the country.
The Lunczer bakery is only a few steps from here, next to the private bank of Lőwy and the Lőwenstein mansion. Adolf Lőwenstein lived there, a highly respected man who filled the position of community president for a long time. Later on, his son Jakab Lőwenstein, the first gabbai of the temple, took over the flour business. We had to go upstairs to the shop where you could buy flour from their own mill for 10 fillérs and finely ground semolina for 11 fillérs. They had many customers because in Jewish houses noodles and pasta were kneaded at home, bread and challah for Shabbat were also home-made, so that women could observe the sacred mitzva of taking challah
(Flour dealers ground the wheat, barley, rye and corn themselves. There were water-mills along the Tapolca there were no steam-mills in Pápa.) Only flour was sold by Benő Seelenfreund, the Lunczer bakery in Corvin Street, the family of community notary Simon Bőhm, Herman Deutsch in Bástya Street, Herczog in Haltér, and Jakab Guth in Főtér.
The storehouses of Pápa grain dealers were in the yard of the Lőwenstein mansion. Jakab Krausz, Adolf Drach and other contractors ordered the corn for the market to be brought here. The large wine-cellar of spirit dealer and wholesaler Steiner from Gyömöre was also in this street. On the other side of the street, customers were attracted by the shop windows of Dezső Apfel's fashion store, which was in the monument-like Lloyd building. (It was a two-storey building in Baroque style, with arcades in its courtyard, and beautiful wrought iron grating.) Lloyd! It was the casino for Pápa Jews. The upstairs room was reserved for members only. Here, old men played tarot, intellectuals read the papers and talked about politics, grain dealers conducted business; it was a miniature stock exchange. And of course, they drank, admittedly the best, coffee in town made by Náci Lang, later by Rosenfeld. The president is József Krausz, court councillor and a bachelor, the only bachelor who is called up to the Torah.
Let us continue our walk. On Fő Tér [Main Square], opposite the old church, you can find the largest provincial glass shop, owned by community president Mór Eisler. The storehouse is under the arcades of Ruszek Street. If you want to enjoy a multitude of colours, you can find it in a Jewish store as well. You should go to the paint shop of the Kardos brothers at the corner.
The office of the cement works owned by József Kohn is in the Elephant House, next to the Eislers. The factory is in Korona Street; they produce tiles, cement-plates, concrete pipes and tombstones there. Later on the management of the factory was taken over by his son M. Jenő Kohn. The textile store of Ignác Pfeiffer and the linen store of Náthán Rechnitzer is also on Fő Tér. Anyway, we should not waste much time here, let's turn into the gateway and we shall find a long series of textile stores in Kossuth Street, or as they say in Pápa dialect, rőfös-bótok (drapers). Rosenberg, Walenstein, Tornyos Krausz, Lázár Breuer, Manó Weltner, the Saudek Brothers (the Sas boys), the Willners and Jenő Balogh compete with one another to satisfy their customers ranging from villagers to townspeople with more refined needs.
On Shabbat and holidays you try in vain to buy textile goods. The closed shutters indicate that the owners are Jewish. Lo and behold, businessmen who are made fun of as money lovers leave the golden calf, put on their Shabbat clothes, top hat or bowler hat, and go to the temple for worship. They listen to the singing of the chazan Lázár Lőwy and to the reading of the Torah. The monotony of textile stores is broken here and there by a fashion shop (Süsz, Sebők, Simon Kiss, Ferenc Kiss) or a furrier (Gutstein-Laufer-Spielmann).
Ready-made clothes can also be found in this street, in the store owned by Bernáth Altmann. In the same street you can pick from the most fashionable footwear if you go to Neumann's shoe shop. Mrs. Neumann gives a hearty welcome to customers in their storehouse full of goods, at the corner of Deák Ferenc Street. In the narrow Kossuth Street, amid an infinite number of business houses, you can find the book and stationery store of Ármin Nobel, and also his printing house. The Pápai Közlöny is also printed here rumour has it that there is a certain column in it that readers look forwards to, feeling curious to find out who is singled out this time by the editor Frici Polacsek for his arrows dipped in irony.
We are not called the People of the Book for nothing: Pápai Lapok, a paper of a much higher quality, is also printed in a Jewish printing house, at Goldberger's.
The printing house of Ernő Stern on the Main Square is equipped with the most up-to-date machinery. Their products satisfy the highest requirements and the same can be said about the printing houses of Weisz and Drach.
We have not finished with the stores in Kossuth Street. There's the elegant tailor's shop of Miksa Braun and at the corner of Eötvös Street there's the wild game store of Schlesinger where you can get pheasants, guinea fowl and hare. On the other side, the (carpentry workshop of Samu Böhm maintains its good name; few can compete with the products of this old reputable firm. The glassware store of Lipót Breuer is next to the head post office. Opposite there is a two-storey building on the corner, which houses the Parisien Department Store since the owner is Jenő Steiner, it is kept closed on Shabbat. Turn at the corner and you will see the second-hand book store of Lajos Baum in Deák Ferenc Street. The personnel is made up of strictly observant girls whose knowledge of world literature can be envied by the educated as well.
If you feel like having something nice to drink while enjoying your book, you can stop by at the bar of Antal Singer for a shot of brandy.
When artisans belonged to guilds, Jews were not allowed to enter these professions. Emancipation opened up this opportunity for them, and in a short time the ridiculed Jews who used to wander around villages with their whistles, collecting rags, bottles or buying feathers, were transformed into hard-working, skilful artisans. In Pápa you could find tailors, shoemakers, woodturners, carpenters, tinmen, locksmiths, stocking-makers, furriers, hairdressers, wig makers, bakers, confectioners, glaziers, butchers and electricians who were Jewish. If you want clothes not made of shatnez, you should order them in the workshop of Adolf Schiffer in Bástya Street. The bearded, lean tailor works there together with his two sons until late at night. He stops his work only when the Chevra Kadisha calls him to conduct the ritual of tahara, for which he volunteers. He reads the Torah in the Tiferet Bachurim Association and on Shabbat also for the minyan at the Berger timber yard.
If you need a tailored suit, you should go to Móric Stern in Rákóczi Street, the always cheerful tailor and adept storyteller, who wanted to raise the spirits of those on the death transport with funny tales, even in Kassa, the last railway station in Hungary, when they were about to set out on their way to face almost certain death.
In addition to business and artisanship, the manufacturing industry also profited greatly from Jewish work and talent.
Workshops and factories smaller than the large factories of Perutz and Leipnik were the following:
the chemical plant of Dr. Pál Breuer
the cement factory of József Kohn
the brick factory of Ignác Wittmann in Kéttornyúlak
the brick factory of Steiner in Tapolcafő
the pipe factory of Boskowitz
the calico factory of Blum
the weaving mill of Jenő Balogh
the vinegar factory of József Schőnfeld
the soap factory of Horovitz
the locksmith's workshop of József Toch
the soda-water bottling plant of Rapaport
the soda-water bottling plant of Grosz in Kuruc Street
the saddlery and leathergoods workshop of the Ungárs in Viasz Street
and earlier, the majolica kitchenware factory of Móric Fischer, which was famous all over the country, <[> They were all founded by Pápa Jews.
We should not forget the timber yards:
The business of Bodanszky and Hirsch selling wood and hardwood is near the River Tapolca, Friebert's is next to the Jókai-house, Imre Grünwald's is in Árok Street, Berger's on Széna Square.
It is not enough to read names from the signs. Feather collectors did not have a sign at all. These Jews made the rounds of villages all week long, stooping under their bundles, rain or shine. Snow and storms did not deter them because they believed that their children would have a better life. They were right; their children became doctors, lawyers and teachers, and even if they had a degree, they were not ashamed that their fathers were hard-working, low-income Jews. We should not forget those who worked in healthcare either: even midwives in Pápa were Jewish. Mrs. Bernstein, Mrs. Blau, Mrs. Donáth and Auntie Singer attended not only to Jewish women in confinement; they were invited to help by most Christians as well.
Let's continue our trip. We turn into a typical Jewish street, named after the immortal poet, Sándor Petőfi, who lived in this street when he was a Pápa student. The sound of hammering in the first house should not disturb you; it is the most beautiful symphony of labour. Samu Mayersberg, the most widely-known plumber and tinman works here, together with his journeymen.
The steeple of the Catholic Church and its roof were re-done by a Jewish master as well. Samu Mayersberg got this job when abbé Kriszt forbade Jewish midwives to take Catholic babies for the christening. However, he did not raise objections to the employment of a Jewish tinman to do the dangerous task of re-doing in copper the roof of the temple.
Come on, let's go further. This street is a Jewish neighborhood, with Jews living in almost every house. Let us remember the great poet who defended Jews in 1848 when the Germans started with their antisemitic attacks. Petőfi, the High School student, lived here. However, the location of the bar owned by the Jew Frommer is wrapped in mystery: there the comet used to sing happily, joke around, make plans cheerfully, encircled by his friends. [the monograph of Gyula Illyés about Sándor Petőfi, p.74 ]
In a second, you will see the bakery of Salzer-Friedmann: in addition to keeping the cholent with stuffed goose-neck hot for Shabbat, they baked kosher pastry here for export as well. There were a lot of Jewish bakers: Lajos Buchsbaum, then József Buchsbaum in Rákóczi Street, Lázár the baker in Kuruc Street, who made excellent potato bread, Pollák and Lunczer in Corvin Street, the Turms in Jókai Street they saw to it that people in Pápa had fresh rolls and croissants for their coffee in the morning, and salted crescents and pretzels for their foaming beer.
The bar of former Talmud teacher Ore Weisz is next to the Salzer bakery, willingly frequented by the faithful to have a shot of plum brandy. This bar was not noisy except on Fridays when they had more customers: the kids who were sent to get wine for the Kiddush. The matzah-house was opposite the bar. Before the age of electricity, the machines were hand driven by peasant lads from Borsosgyőr. After Pesach, when the machines were quiet, yeshiva students took over the place. Already at dawn you could hear the sound of hai Abaye, hai Rove coming from here. Later on the yeshiva was housed in the Chevra Kadisha building where they had more space.
The matzah mill was in the home of Blau the sofer, next to the matzo-house. Matzo flour was ground here for the unforgettable matzo-ball soup of the seder dinner. The matzoball soup was called knédli-leves; knedle was a familiar term. Er meint nicht die Gode (Haggadah), nur die Knedle, as the saying goes. (He doesn't care for the Haggadah, only for the knedle.)
The left side of the street is lined by kosher butcher shops, under the inspection of Fürszt the powerful mashgiach in charge of kashrut.
On the upper floor of the Jewish community building, you can find the rabbi's apartment and the community office. Ritual poultry slaughter takes place in the yard. We are in the centre of Pápa Jews, at the temple. Let's sit on the marble steps for a while. It was so nice to play here with carob seeds and it is so good to sit on the cool steps and day-dream. Soft sounding chords reach us from the upstairs room of the house across the street. It is Elza playing, the young and talented piano teacher from the Neumann family, who stayed faithful to the religious traditions of their grandparents' home. She is playing the Moonlight Sonata beautifully. The melody rises through the air and comes to naught (Maybe at this hour in the capital of Argentina, thousands of kilometers from here, somebody will resonate to the sound of this melody )
The old song has been silenced .You can no longer hear any piano playing in the Jewish homes of Pápa. Let us return to the present and continue our trip.
The Bet Hamidrash (or as they say in Pápa, the Besemedresh), housing the Shiur Association, is opposite the temple. If you are late for the synagogue, you can always find here a mingy (that is, a minyan). After the minchah prayers, Talmudic scholars like Horovitz, Hoffmann, Rechnitzer, Krausz, Biedermann and others study here, conducting a lively discussion of the text.
We have not yet reached the end of Petőfi Street.
The kosher salami factory of Eisen is near the corner of Bástya Street. Their hot dogs are very popular; at the annual fair even non- Jewish artisans from the provinces eat them with pleasure.
We have arrived at Bástya Street, on account of its spaciousness it is a popular playground for Jewish children. Only Jews live there and nobody disturbs their games. The dry riverbed of the Cinca was the most suitable place for hide-and-seek. Second-hand dealers were selling repaired second-hand clothes to poor cottars, to the proletarians of the neighbourhood here. Also in this street you could buy giblets (stamps for sale is announced by a humble hand-written notice-board, not by neon lights or an advertising pillar).
Across the street, the liver dealer Haas bought fat goose-liver and then exported it to Vienna. In nearby Salétrom Street there was another large export firm owned by Mihály and Béla Ungár: in their spacious yard they collected and sorted feathers and hides.
There is a winding street leading down from Bástya Street called Büdös-köz (meaning Stinky-lane): hides are soaked and cleaned here by Jewish tanner apprentices and skin-dressers. In about 1850, there were already so many Jewish tanners and tailors in Pápa that they formed a guild, refuting in this way the antisemitic argument that Jews were reluctant to do hard physical labour.
A typical Jewish trade of Pápa should be remembered here: the copper engraving for pipes. In the Boskovitz pipe factory they engraved the copper pipe-bowl lid with great artistic talent.
Bástya Street leads into Kiss Street. You could find there the large-scale grocery store of S. L. Toch, the salt depot of Süss, the hardware store of Dávid Hoffmann and the machine depot of Antal Weber. The ceramics and porcelain factory of Fischer, whose products are popular all over the country, operated in the Sepauer House, near the Honvéd barracks.
We got tired, had enough of walking a cab could be ordered here: Ignácz Gold cab owner was nearby. If you needed transportation of goods, Jewish carriers would undertake it: Spiegel in Korvin Street, the Koritschoners in Jókai Street. For smaller cargoes Jakobovits in Petőfi Street was at your service.
We still run up the wooden steps to the Jewish elementary and higher elementary school, and take a short look at the two-storey building of the Chevra Kadisha and at Etz Chayim next to it.
We do not have much time; nevertheless, we shall pop into Korona Street to see the old people in the Jewish nursing home (Zsidó Ápolda).
From there, passing the winding Zrínyi Street, the Köves store and the Thurms bakery we get to the end of our pilgrimage: the Jewish cemetery of Pápa.
Brother, were you nostalgic about our home town? Well, I have shown it to you, taking you around to see every corner, all the streets and squares. We have been searching in vain along the old and new buildings. We have found only stones. There is not even one familiar face, there is nobody coming to greet us with a friendly sholem aleichem. To our question where the old friends have gone Jewish youths, girls, fathers, mothers, old people - only the echo of Red Bridge in Várkert echoes where, where?.
Let us turn back and say farewell forever to our home town, from where 2030 brothers and sisters were taken to be killed. Let us preserve and cherish the memory of our dear martyrs.
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The mutual influence of county episcopates founded by King Stephen I and the Benedictine Order hindered the formation of royal towns where Jews could have settled as chamber servants.
Count Antal Eszterházy was the first to permit Jewish settlement in Veszprém County in the first quarter of the 18th century.
The 1736 census mentions 11 Jewish families in Pápa.
In subsequent periods the number of Jews in Pápa was as follows:
In 1740, 73
In 1785-87, 445
In 1830-35, 2645
In 1880, 3550, 24 % of the population
In 1884-94, 3140, 22 % of the population
In 1910, 3076, 15.3 % of the population
In 1941, 2613, 11 % of the population.
The situation of villages surrounding the Pápa community was interesting but sad.
In the village of Tevel in 1830 there were 149 Jews earning their living. They had their own temple, mikva, rabbi and shochet. Their number gradually decreased to 55, then to 19, and in 1941 there were only 18 left. Most of them moved to Pápa.
In Pápateszér the first census mentions 39 Jews. No one was left.
In Homokbödög in 1880 there were 101. However, in 1941 they numbered only 14.
In Nagydém there was once a large community - the census mentioned 149 Jews at the time of the War of Independence [1848/49] which finally decreased to 11.
In the villages closer to Pápa things were not different in Tapolcafő, where once there had been 86 Jews, merely 13 were left in 1941.
In Marcaltő even in 1910 there were 37 Jews, while in 1941 only 15.
Statistics clearly prove that the reforms under the rule of Joseph II the hatted king [he was called the hatted king because he was never actually crowned as King of Hungary the translator] opened a new era in the life of Hungarian Jews as well. Jewish settlement was made possible by giving the right to change residence.
Taking into account the proportion of Jews in the country, one comes to the conclusion that Pápa was the largest Jewish settlement in Hungary after Pest and Buda in the beginning of the 19th century.
These are the figures from 1830:
Pest, 6031, 2.5 % of the population
Pápa, 2645, 25 % of the population
Vágújhely, 2495, 57 % of the population
Óbuda, 3130, 42.3 % of the population
Pozsony, 2602, 43.6 % of the population
Nagykároly, 1786, 15.8 % of the population
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There lived in Pápa a travelling optician of modest means, the pious Lazar Willner. He was well-known in the community, not so much as a scholar, rather as a widely respected, deeply pious man. He encouraged and persuaded coreligionists on the local train from Pápa to Csorna travelling to the weekly fair to participate in the minyan to be held on board the train. When his call 'yiden zu minyan in the fifth car' was heard, believers hurried not to miss services. They found it natural that the ticket-inspector allowed only Jews to enter that car and during services he did not even show up to check their tickets. Along the way, Willner kept an eye on people getting on and when he spotted a co-religionist, he immediately invited him to join the minyan.
The following story is told about him:
Collecting charity to marry off a poor orphan girl, he once called at the store on the Main Square, owned by Salamon, a wealthy jeweller and watchmaker.
'I won't give,' the rich man said coldly.
'Listen, Mr. Salamon, I am asking for your modest contribution to marry off a Jewish girl who is an orphan. Do you realize how great the mitzva of hachnosas kale is?!' The answer was negative again.
'Mr. Salamon, let me tell you a short story,' the modest, pious man made another attempt.
'As long as there is no customer, I can listen.'
'A faithless and miserly Jew suddenly died,' Willner started to recount. 'When his soul came to the Heavenly Tribunal, his actions on earth were put on scales. The scale of sins was full in no time, while the scale of good deeds remained empty. He was about to be pronounced doomed forever at the proposal of Satan the Accuser, when all of a sudden a talit descended from above on the scale of good deeds, tipping the scales in balance. The verdict was acquittal.
The talit has a story of its own. On one occasion a poor widow, living in a shack next door, knocked at the door of the miser, who had never given charity for any cause. In a whining voice she complained to him that her daughter was a bride without dowry, and the bridegroom wanted only a festive talit to enter the marriage canopy, but she did not have the money to buy it. She was asking for help in order to buy the talit.
The miser replied:
'I have never given charity; however, my beautiful wedding talit lies in the wardrobe. I have not worn it since my chuppa, I don't need it. You know what? You can have it '
So this is how he helped the poor woman to marry off her daughter and that same talit saved his soul from condemnation. That's the end of the story,' Willner finished his parable.
'It is indeed a beautiful story, Willner, but I am not moved at all. I am not going to give a penny for my share in the world to come. Moreover, I would sell it to the first customer for one forint. Ha-ha-ha!!'
Willner the Pious was shocked to hear this blasphemy. 'If you offer it for sale, I shall take it,' he said, reaching for his pocket. He took a forint out of his flat and shabby wallet, muttering 'here you are.'
'Gemacht,' said Salamon. 'I take it, it's a deal!'
'Wait a minute, I want a written statement about the deal.'
'If that's what you want, all right.' Salamon started to write at once:
I, undersigned Ferenc Salamon, have hereby sold my share in the world-to-come to Pápa resident Lazar Willner, for the sum of 1 forint, that is one forint, the value of which I have fully received.
At home, bursting with laughter, Salamon told his family about his great joke. However, the family considered it a crude one; friends and acquaintances were shaking their heads in disapproval hearing about this vile chilul Hashem. As a result, Salamon started to feel remorseful. He could not even sleep at night. Next day he sent for Willner and said to him:
'Listen, my friend, I have changed my mind. Give the paper back, here's your forint, if you want I can double it, on account of the cancelled business.'
'Oh no, Mr. Salamon. Business is business. I have purchased it, and I won't return it.' The case finally ended up at the rabbinical court, which decided that the statement should be returned for two hundred forints, which Salamon the jeweller had to give in order to marry off the bride.
This is the story of how Aranka R. became a happy bride!
Once Dr. Adolf Schwarcz, Rector of the Rabbinical Seminary in Vienna, came to visit his relatives in Pápa at Shavuot. Coming out of the temple he went up to Akiva Schreiber, who was admittedly the most outstanding Talmudic scholar, and greeted him in the traditional way:
- Güt Yontev Reb Kive!
-Ah, Guten Tag, Herr Direktor! was the friendly answer.
The rector was surprised by the way he was greeted and turned to Reb Kive attentively. This was R. Kive's reply:
-I have been reading recently about the visit of the German emperor Wilhelm to Vienna to see Franz Joseph. The German emperor put on the uniform of the general of the Hussars from Székesfehérvár, while His Majesty was wearing the full dress uniform of a German uhlan. I have learnt that this reciprocity is the highest expression of politeness. So when you greeted me the way that we traditional Jews greet one another Güt Yontev R. Kive I assumed your attire when in my reply I greeted you like a modern gentleman, Guten Tag, Herr Direktor.
When the Jewish higher elementary school was opened in Pápa, many students left the Talmud-Torah, the small Yeshiva, and enrolled in the new school.
The head of the Yeshiva, Leml R. Spitzer, who later became the rabbi of Szepesváralja, said the following to the deserting students:
Du gest ach in die Bargerschul wos lernste dort: Kőmives Kálmán, wieviel Agn Vak Béla hat gehat. Küm lern do bei mir Chümesh, Rashe, ünd Gemora! So you go to the higher elementary. What do you learn there? [Kőmives Kálmán, he mixed up king Könyves Kálmán with Kőmûves Kelemen, a bricklayer from a folk ballad the translator], how many eyes Vak (blind) Béla had [he was also a king, who was blinded vak meaning blind in Hungarian the translator]. Come and learn with me Torah, Rashi and Gemora!
Spirit dealer and wholesaler Gyula Fischer, owner of the firm A. Fischer was counted among the most distinguished members of the community. There is a story about him that once he ordered pastries for Pesach from Frankfurt, on the basis of an ad he saw in the Frankfurter orthodox paper. Although he knew that not far from his home in Petőfi Street, excellent and strictly kosher pastries are baked for Pesach in the Salzer bakery, he considered it beneath his dignity to buy cakes from a small Pápa bakery when he had an option to get delicacies from Frankfurt produced under the supervision of the European Orthodox Centre. He was greatly surprised when opening the packet, he found in it excellent pastries bearing the tag of Salzer from Pápa, the baker next door.
In those days in Pápa Tikun (meaning brandy and pastry) was not served on anniversaries of death (at Jahrzeit). Ashkenazi believers were keeping the minhag prescribed by the Shulchan Aruch instead, fasting being more appropriate to painful memories. Later on, chassidic customs spread in Pápa as well. When Gyula Fischer had a Jahrzeit, a chassidische believer of this kind asked him:
Nu, Herr Fischer, where is the Tikun? I will bring it tomorrow.
And he brought along the prayer-book that the pious pray from on the night of Shavuot entitled Tikun leyl Shavuot. Here is your Tikun!
Principal Henrik Blau was known for his witticisms. Once on a Shabbat morning walk he said to his friends:
Could you wait five minutes for me? I am going to my pupil to give him an hour lesson.
On another occasion, on a Shabbat afternoon after minchah he witnessed that one of his friends greeted ironmonger Rapoch with great respect. Now I can see why you pay so much respect. In Pirkei Avot it is written: Maire Raboh k'maire Shomaim. (Respect your teacher as you fear God.) Or with a slight modification: Maire Rapoch kmaire Shomaim.
The witty toast of teacher Károly Láng at the family celebration of Dr. Sándor Buxbaum was recalled several times. He said the following: And I wish our beloved host sickness! (That is, patients to visit his office.)
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Adar 13, Monday. Taanit Esther. Rumbling stomach all day long. At 8 o'clock in the evening comedy performance in the Jewish elementary, with superb attractions, first class hospitality, and cheap seats.
Adar 14, Tuesday. PURIM. Community party all day. Shlachmones on the way. Feasting on roasted turkey and kindli at noon. (Get your sodium bicarbonate ready.)
At 8 in the evening, the second show by Jewish youth. Tidbits of the Wahrmann Association at the café.
At 9.30 in the evening, a noch nicht dagevezene [unprecedented, literally unseen] fancy-dress party at the Griff, organized by the Girls' Association.
Wednesday: Polishing off the leftovers.
Thursday: wieder das schwere, bittere Leben, mit Lad und Tzores. Again this hard, bitter life with sorrow and trouble.
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The one party system at work….
The sounds of jaws dropping and hitting the floor across the country was never more audible than when the Republican party along with the talking potato heads at Faux News began promoting amnesty for 11 million immigrants who have entered the country illegally. The post election flip-flop was predictable. Rather than admit they canned a sure fire winner with Ron Paul in exchange for a corporate panderer that lacked any kind of personality but who would have continued the status quo without question, the GOP has decided that the problem must be those "Latino votes". None of this is even slightly surprising.
As a nation, we are about to be the recipients of one of the greatest screw jobs in the history of mankind. The federal corporation, the one that we refer to as the "federal government" is in the process of negotiation between the warring factions of the one party system over how much amnesty will be given versus how big a hit social security is about to take.
The Democrat faction will cave in on Social Security as a trade for Republicans throwing their support behind a big giant amnesty bill. The federal corporation wins and we, the public, will get screwed harder than a prostitute at Bohemian Grove.
While at least 67% of Americans oppose any form of amnesty or so-called [comprehensive immigration reform] those righteous jackasses in the District of Criminals continue on as if we were not out here. For all intents and purposes…we aren't. It is these same career politicians who have actively worked to prevent the border from being secured or the active deportation of illegal immigrants back to their home countries.
Deportation is sighted often as "cost-prohibitive" and yet not one of these pathological liars and thugs ever mentions the 2 billion + it costs the federal corporation (taxpayers) each year to support illegal immigrants. Not one mentions the costs to each individual state for social services benefits and free medical to illegal immigrants. California for instance, spends about 14.5 billion per year supporting its welfare population of illegal immigrants. I believe the federal and state combined billions would buy a lot of plane tickets with money to spare.
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The big behind the scenes trade-off is this: Republicans will support Comprehensive Immigration Reform (amnesty) and agree to leave the border open and unsecured so that the flood of immigrants continues unabated. In exchange, Democrats will support Republican efforts to cut Social Security.
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Quote from: Ashton on June 08, 2012, 01:24:35 AMI thought Tactics Ogre bombed in the U.S.?I THINK it did pretty well... for the kind of game it is. Given how it's supposed to have been a very low budget game I imagine the threshold for success was very small.Now, Lords of Arcana, pretty sure that was a straight up bomb. it'd explain why we didn't the update/sequel/whatever here for Vita ASAP despite being a launch title.EDIT: And it's hard to find any concrete info. I know it was the best selling PSP game in the month it came out, which doesn't say much but may be a positive sign that at least among PSP owners it was far from ignored.
Arcana might as well have bombed, it didn't have much/any competition the month it came out here. Lord of Apocalypse is the PSP/Vita sequel, which didn't do all that well in Japan if I recall. Pretty sure TO at LEAST did quite a bit better than Arcana here.
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Colored Object Tracking using the VEX Cortex and NXTCam
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Thanks to some really cool work by Xander, I2C sensors for the NXT can now be used on the Cortex as well (with a little bit of effort). As we've covered in some of our previous posts, ROBOTC and the VEX Cortex unlock a ton of cool robotic applications – controlling pneumatics, controlling high torque and high speed motors through relays, outputting to the LCD screen, ect. Being able to use the repository of I2C sensors available for the NXT on the Cortex unlocks many, many more.
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The fourth movie Bruce Brown made travels to Mexico, California and Florida, along with a trip to Australia and Hawaii with Phil Edwards. Features a fifteen-foot shark checking the line-up at Rincon and the first wave ever ridden at Pipeline.
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Sometimes I think I have the bilingual parenting thing down. We get into a groove and I'm speaking Spanish to my kids and they, more and more, are responding to me in Spanish – but it's inevitable that just when we've hit our stride and are on the road to fluency, we will have a setback.
One big problem for me is that I don't speak Spanish when I'm stressed or tired or very busy. The other day I woke up and realized, "My God, I've been stressed and tired and very busy the past few weeks! I've had so much on my mind and so many deadlines. I've barely spoken Spanish to my kids at all!"
This is when I kick myself in the nalgas and promise to start all over again.
Yesterday morning before my younger son left for school, I warned him not to run to the bus as he usually does, because a slick layer of frost covered the ground.
"Cuando venga el bus, no vayas corriendo, okay? El suelo está bien liso, entiendes?"
My son tilted his head not unlike a dog when you speak to it. I could almost see the words enter his ear, twist themselves inside his brain and translate one-by-one into English. He spoke aloud as he decoded the message.
"When the bus comes… don't run… because…the ground is slippery?"
He still understands me, but there is more lag time. Then when he speaks, he doesn't even realize he's mixing English and Spanish in ways I've never even heard before.
After school he asked me what day we're going to his grandmother's house for Thanksgiving.
"El viente dos," I said.
"Oh, el twenty dos," he answered.
There's no point in lamenting wasted time and stalled progress. I'm human, I was tired, I spent weeks speaking very little Spanish to my kids who I desperately want to be fully bilingual. It happens. Seguimos adelante.
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"All children are artists.
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Complementing Newsweek's cover story, "The Creativity Crisis," reporting on the growing signs of the dearth of creativity in our culture, Newsweek weighs in with a fascinating predictive test in the creativity arena, the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking.
What we like about this test is that measures (and values) exactly the opposite qualities that are generally most valued in schools, especially in middle and high schools, where compliance, conformity and rigid adherency to instruction, rules and "what is taught" are rewarded and highly valued, without distinguishing between intellectual risk-taking (being intellectually disruptive) and being disruptive in comportment. Our schools put creativity in the Art class box. Giving lower school students homework assignments like coloring pictures of historical figures does not constitute a creativeness exercise. How many times have we seen busy-work like this substitute for real challenges of creativity?
Like great chefs, an understanding of technique and ability to follow recipes is valuable, but the ones who break from rules create masterpieces and even whole new epicurean genres, or the scientists who do the same (whatever happened to Pluto as a planet?), or the historians who question and uncover "new facts" and revelations?
"Just as an IQ test tracks intelligence, the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking measures your CQ: how well you think creatively. Usually a 90-minute series of discrete tasks administered by a psychologist, the Torrance Test is not a perfect measure of creativity. But it has proven remarkably accurate in predicting creative accomplishments. We asked a group of ordinary children and adults to try their hands at several drawing tests: everyone was presented with incomplete line drawings and was given five minutes to turn them into pictures."
Two "well-known creativity scholars", James C. Kaufman, professor of psychology at California State University "who has published over 120 writings on creativity, including co-authoring Essentials of Creativity Assessment and co-editing The International Handbook of Creativity" and Kyung Hee Kim, a professor at the College of William & Mary, who has "authored numerous papers on the efficacy of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking", were judges:
"To score the Torrance drawing tasks, scholars aren't looking for the best artist. They are looking for ideas -- more ideas, original ideas, and elaboration on those ideas. Images also score higher if they tell a story, convey emotions, see things from a different angle, and have a sense of motion. Points get knocked off for responses that are very common. . . On the other hand, details, humor, sense of visual perspective are pluses."
What we found most intriguing and revealing were the comments by the judges regarding each slide. For example, comments from their favorite follow, yet how often does school value when a child side-tracks from anything representational (and this include science experiments, theories in history, etc., and not just fine art):
And, parents, listen up, too, since what we value at home sends a message to our children. In this case, Bill is the father, who put up the work on the left in one of the slides:"The use of shape is "totally new," and Fiona gets bonus points for a fantasy element. The robot's clear, genuine emotion suggests a story. Already, "it's everything we want an artist or writer to do in a story," so Kaufman predicts that Fiona's career will involve creative activity.
Check Out Full Newsweek Slide Show HERE - "How Creative Are You?"
"But it's not surprising," he says. "My guess is, looking at Bill's work, that he is open to experience, playful, allowing children to do different things. Being raised by parents who encourage openness, playfulness - that increases creativity."
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Related article, "The Creativity Crisis In Our Schools" HERE.
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Josh's Super Sour SFSD
I made this loaf using Josh's process which he outlined in my previous blog post on San Francisco style sourdough. (You will need to scroll down to about the halfway mark to view the post).
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- 20g refrigerated starter @100% hydration
- 100g water
- 15g light rye flour
- 85g all purpose
Allow to mature for 12 hours.
* Josh uses 60% levain in the build, 100% water and 100% flour of which 5% is rye. I can't use 60% starter in my levain build as it would ripen in three hours with our temperatures over here. If you plan on following this recipe, you would need to adjust the amount of starter in the levain build so that it matures in 12 hours. 20% starter works out perfectly for me at temperatures of 27C.
Main dough
- 300g water
- 500g bread flour @ 11.4% protein
- 11g salt
Refrigerate the dough immediately. Josh divides into pieces that aren't super thick and retards in lightly greased tubs. He retards at 40F.
Retard for 22 hours.
Remove dough and allow to come back to room temperature (one to two hours). Now shape and Josh advises to proof for 3 -5 hours but once again that was not possible for me to do because it would have been overproofed with our warm temperatures over here. I let it proof for 1 and a half hours. It was just starting to show signs of activity.
Retard for another 20 hours. I retarded for a full 24 just because I only got home late Sunday afternoon.
Bake loaves with steam for 15 minutes vented for 20+(200 deg internal). Josh didn't mention the oven temperature but he did say:
don't forget to bake it dark. Deep red and a hint of black. Yum.
This made for some of the tastiest all-white sourdough I have ever eaten. It really was worth the wait and despite taking almost 3 days to make it was quite effortless. There wasn't much to do except wait. Fortunately I have been extremely busy lately and had no time to camp outside the refrigerator waiting anxiously.
The crust is very chewy on the day after the bake. It had the kind of flavour in it that I would normally only associate with a loaf that had some whole grain in it. The crumb was light but consistent with the 11.4% protein flour that I used.
My only quibble is that it only had the tiniest hint of sour. I don't think this is a problem with the recipe, but rather with my flour. I know if I used this process with only 15% wholegrain, I would get a very pronounced sour flavour. It just seems very difficult for me to get a really sour all-white loaf with the flour I use. I know all flours are not created equally and could it be that my flour is lacking in something that will let it get really sour? The only time I have got a really sour all-white sourdough with this flour was when I added sugar eggs and butter. I could smell the sour while it was baking in the oven. Recently, I have been experimenting with adding maltose at a rate of 5% and getting very good results with that, too. Not as sharp a sour as I got with sucrose but a very mellow sour which lingers in the mouth long after it has been swallowed.
And a crumb shot.
So now I still not finished with this one, yet. It seems I still have some experimenting to do. If could marry the crust that I got with this to the sour I was getting with my previous recipe and then dial in a little more acetic acid flavour, I would be a happy camper and would file this recipe in the tried and tested tray. For the time being, it is back to the drawing board. Happily, though.:)


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Hello my friends! Hope your are having a delightful week! I apologize for my absence I have been creating quite a bit but it's been for submissions :> Not sure where May has gone but it's been a great one! Busy with two nights of soccer and one night of gymnastics! And spending any moment outside when it's not raining!
I wanted to stop by and share two wrap creations for Moxie Fab World's Gift Packaging challenge! I enjoy creating wrap! Well if I get to it early and not if I leave it to the last minute!
I wrapped the box with kraft wrapping paper, added a doilie, ribbon a prima flower and some lace that I sprayed pink with Tattered Angels Spray mist (It's so fun to do!) A very pretty gift box!
Than I made this more modern gift packaging:
Just tied a bow with bright pink ribbon around a white box, stamped a maya road tag with a Hero arts stamp in bright pink (too tired to remember or look) added a button and there you go! Best part the recipient slides the ribbon off the box later can reuse it, easy to slide back on!
Well that's it for me folks. Today tired me out! Taught how to make shamballa braclets in the inner city at lunch, the girls loved it! Quite easy you could do it too, youtube shamballa bracelet! Kinda fun making jewelery. My first try wasn't he greatest had to remind myself, hey when you started making cards you sucked! Than Chad and I went out for lunch, picked up the kids early from school to see a movie (only 20 minutes! Otherwise we wouldn't have made it) And we went to see Epic! We had a buy one get one free coupon plus movies are half price on Tuesdays (meaning they don't break your wallet!) It was a good movie but not for kids under 5 I think, heard a few kids crying from fear! Carter got a little scared and wanted to sit in my lap (love that!) Came home and made dinner while the kids played outside! So happy with our new neighbors, they have a little girl who is the same age as Ariel and they play so well! Really makes me happy!
Waiting for Chad to come home so we can watch Mad Men! After years of me asking him let's watch this show he finally gave in. And guess what he loves it too! We are already on season two! Only thing about watching a series of a show is stopping and not watching another episode let's go to bed! It's opened up all sorts of conversation between us! I took a history course in university on the 1960's in America so it's not as shocking for me! Until he gets home watching the series finale of Body of Proof, sad to see another show go!
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Guilty and Sad
Am i a bad person?
Old Boss
Can't stop thinking about her
Mistreated a classmate
I want to fight
Dork Love
stolen car
Why ????"
i feel so empty
I abused my housekeeper for 3+ years
About the baby
I Cheated On Him
He never spoke to me again, and my boyfriend dumped me. I know that I deserve it, even if my boyfriend didn't treat me good.
Best Friends
But I've had a crush on the guy ever since I met him, too. Except I made a move. She doesn't know that me and this guy had one amazing night together, and I never told anybody. We decided that we wouldn't continue it, but I didn't tell him why I didn't want a relationship with him. I feel so guilty, and I even once told my friend that I had a little crush on him. She got really mad at me, and stopped talking to me for a month, or so, before I told her I was just being silly and that I was joking.
I can't be honest with my feelings without hurting her, and scaring him away because of it all.
And it will always either end up that he is objectifying me, or he is using me, or I'm just a girl he's dating because he can't date his ex girlfriend again. And I'll always bring up his cheating, and the girl who still loves him.
I'll always bring up every little thing he's done in the past.
We had a big fight tonight because he told his friend something I asked him not to, and then it got around. I wasn't so mad at first, but when he apologised about it, I suddenly felt so angry that I refused to talk to him, I didn't answer his txt messages. But when he didn't call, I got even angrier, called him and asked why he didn't even bother to see if I was okay. He apologised, but I just hung up.
I'm really angry at him, but I know it's over nothing. We fight at least once a week, and he always apologises even though he did nothing wrong. Somebody called me a drama queen, and they said that I like the attention he gives me, but I don't think thats it.
I feel like because he has hurt me so much in the past, I don't want him to be happy at all.
I feel so guilty.
5 Weeks
November 19, 2007 - how long will they be silent?
I admit it
stingy mean
I'm selfish
Parking Lot Provocation
Now, I feel really terrible. Yes, perhaps they had been inconsiderate, but that doesn't excuse my reaction. Over the week, I've noticed other cars parked in similar fashion in that same stall. I guess the way the snow is piled up, the drivers don't think they can pull in straight (in reality they could, but they might have to back up and pull in several times, then step over about 6 inches of snow near their left rear bumper as they walked out of the stall). "
Pieces of me
Friends, Family, and Life.
It seems as the days go on, I'm unable to really enjoy my life anymore since I basically fear everything. I fear getting a job since most corporate jobs make you play these games with them in order to get this job you want. All the lies you're constantly being told "Oh we'll give you a call." mostly, which never happens. I call them, they're never there or they say once again "Oh we'll give you a call" to the point where I fear I'm just gonna piss them off if I keep calling them.
I can't drive because no one wants to teach me, except my Dad who lives 50 miles away from me and did a very poor job teaching me last time I went over there. My brother drives a stick which I refuse to learn due to, once again, fear of breaking the car by clutching wrong. Since I know that it kills the transmission if you grind. And I fear that me not being able to drive has been really getting in the way of things... Especially trying to get a job.
I haven't had a girlfriend in about 2 years, which was my only real serious girlfriend. I don't know why I can't find another one... I really would like to, but it just seems around here, no one really has anything in common with me, and whenever I try to find someone online, a good 90% of them just completely ignore me. Such as on Myspace, if you send them a message inviting a conversation, I get no reply with the message status left on "Read". I feel as if meeting girls online is my only way of meeting them, since I've always feared being rejected...
My friends though? I can't stand them. Usually hanging out with them is alright, but once it comes to talking to them online. All I hear is attitude and backtalking. For instance... we were suppose to go to the mall and pick up a game, and about at 4:00 PM, I get a message from her, telling me that she's at my other friends house, giving me some excuse as to why she stood me up. That friend in question also bugs me, cause he's spoiled rotten. He lives with his grandma who spoils him, buying him a 42 inch LCD TV, a computer worth well 1,200 dollars, just about any game he wants, his grandpa gave him his truck... It just pisses me off since my family has no money at all, yet they spend theirs frivolously.
But I can't get rid of these friends, because in the end... I'd have no one else to be with. I have very little self-respect. Most of the time when I think about these people I'd like to befriend, I think "Why would they wanna talk to some kid who can't even pass school, has no job..." because as I see it, this is the main reason as to why no one would respond to me.
I always feel like my attitude is the reason for all of this, I'm a very sarcastic person. I have a hard time being serious about anything in person because as I was raised, I was raised around people who taught me just to not care about anything. Shrug it off. Say "OK" to irrelevant things. Mock those who dwell on unimportant things or say silly things. And really... I can't see myself ever stopping doing that either. I saw a psych once and he said I'm perfectly OK, that I'm just a leader who doesn't quite know how to be a leader.
The only thing that really makes me feel better about myself is learning. Knowing more stuff than others, so that way I've something to cling onto for respect... Though half the time I can't even do that.
I've no idea what to do anymore... - sigh -
i don't wanna hear
Poop @ work
I hooked her up
I'm Better Then You
Yes I am an elitist. But last time I checked, the elitists ruled the world. Not the mindless masses. You buy things that are "in fashion" even when they look awful! And you claim to care about beauty, but don't put any thought into it....
And speaking of thought, what was the last deep thought you had?
And you! You little drama filled teenager!! You are so typical I could scream.
I'm going away. I'm going to college so I can find people who love to think, to read, to write, to be themselves, to dream. Not to be stuck in some little nothing town, thinking nothing thoughts.
And I'm not religious. I don't believe in God. And I don't pray. You're a hypocrite.
And it gets to the point where I can't stand sitting with you!! Or talking to you! Can I even speak with you?? What shall we speak of?? BAGS? SHOES?? HOW GOOD THIS TASTES???
I know I shouldn't but...
At school, there's this other guy. Someone who's extremely attractive, although not many other girls think so. I have a huge "crush" on him, and sometimes I -stalk- him. Literally. I follow him around, just to look at him. On the internet I try finding out as many things I can on him. I feel like such a bad person, and no matter how many times I try to detach my feelings from this guy, I just can't. I can't help but look for him after class, and see if he's wandering around, trying to catch his eye.
I feel so unfaithful to my online boyfriend though, and it feels like I love both, but that I might have more chance with this guy in my class. Even though, I don't ever talk to him. No matter how many times I try to break up with my boyfriend, he finds sweet things to bring me back. It's sad, and extremely frustrating. My friends tell me I should just never go online again. But I can't. I'm too attached, too dependant, and I hate myself for it.
The secrets of feelings returned
I'm sure i've never, ever felt this way about someone else before; and I think she likes me too - from what I've read. This is just so strangely fantastic.
i killed my love
self worth
I am currently in a relationship with a boy i have liked for more than a year now, he's broken inside, and as dumb as this sounds: i like it. not that he's emotionally broken, of course- but that maybe.. i can fix him, like an old house, i suppose. maybe there's something twisted inside of me that makes me love defects...
this boy.. sweet... nice.. loving.. and overall everything i could have sworn i wanted.. i find myself missing him within seconds of leaving his arms (departure hug, of course)... and.. need i tell that i used to have a little.. crush, if you will, on his best friend..
this boy.. completely different.. and.. i know i don't feel the same about him now as i used to, but when he told me one night- drunk off whiskey shots- that he really really likes me.. and has for months... and.. i count back..to every last time i saw him- and we always end up mildly physical (cuddling, etc) and i wonder why.. even though my now boyfriend.. was always there.. and always got upset with me (considering he's been broken from cheating more times than once)... that i let any of this happen am i starving for attention?
i constantly feel the need to be.. with someone, to be attracted to someone of the opposite sex. i'm sick of feeling worthless outside of being next to a guy. someone just tell me what the hell is my problem..
Testify? No, TestiLIE!
38, Male, Bulimic
I am so lazy......
I am so medded up...
It's a damn shame
Screwed up
What I wish I could say to him
I am incapable of love...
Never been kissed
There are 9 more days until my 18th birthday. I am a heterosexual female, freshman college student, who has never been kissed or had a boyfriend/male friend with benefits or anything else of the sort. No one's ever even tried to kiss me. I have been on dates though, so I'm not 100% inexperienced.
Don't get me wrong . . . I very much want to be kissed. I think about it quite often, in fact. No one knows but my greatest fear is that I will die a virgin, still never having been kissed. I know this is somewhat irrational, being as I don't know what the future holds, but if I were to die tomorrow, in a car accident or a bombing, I would die never knowing what it feels like.
Which of course brings this story to the "why?" factor. Why might this be? I am not unattractive; I'm 5'1, petite, not overweight, and I have been told I'm very attractive (not by males though). I frequently have crushes on guys I know, celebrities, and even random strangers I find attractive. I have a huge amount of lust simmering within that inevitably leads to immense frustration with this matter.
So why have I never been kissed? Well, for one reason, I was homeschooled, and I had no close same sex friends until the last few years. However, I did experience a very intense episode of unrequited love for a man 13 years older than me. I knew we could never have any sort of future together because of his marital status, but I nevertheless pined away for what I knew would always elude me. I still love him very much, even though we haven't seen each other for two years.
After he left my life, it took me a very long time to recover. I became extremely depressed and only this year have returned to a state of normal behavior. During this time period I think I went on 2 dates, both with different guys. I wasn't really interested in either one of them, in fact the very thought of their possible affection for me was a bit revolting. However, I needed to go out on those dates, because even though I felt absolutely nothing for those boys my need for acceptance and normality overcame my disgust.
This past semester in college I have had a crush on two different fellows. One has a girlfriend, the other does not, and neither of them seem to have even the slightest interest in pursuing even a platonic relationship with me.
But what can I do? I don't know if it's me or just everyone around me, but I'm not sure what to do about this problem and it does bother me intensely. Writing about it seems to help though, so maybe I'll be able to find some mental peace during this tumultuous holiday season.
My nose won't stop growing
So What About My Ex? (Two Confessions)
First, if I let myself think about him, I realize I am still in love with my ex. Yawn. It's not that I don't love the current victim of my affections, but the prior one put up with me for so long that he knows intimately the moods of my heart. I hate having to wait for the same to be true of my current boyfriend.
Second, I know a large part of the reason I rather unceremoniously dumped said ex had to do with the fact that, while I loved him and (wince with me) still do, I was not physically attracted to him. After years, to be so shallow about looks that won't last anyway is horrible. As much as I publically protest otherwise that looks should never matter, they do to me. Worse yet, I was even a little embarassed by the reactions we'd get: "Why are they together? Why is she dating him?" And it's not that I'm God's gift to men. Apparently we all date within our general level of attractiveness and if someone dates higher or lower, people talk. It's cruel, it's shallow, and everyone does it. Don't just denounce me--take a good, hard look in the mirror and then tell me you don't make dating decisions on some of the same criteria.
My Boyfriend
First Comes Love, Then Comes...


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How to Make the Creamiest Scrambled Eggs Recipe
These are the scrambled eggs dreams are made of, or would be made of if you dreamed about scrambled eggs, which would be weird.
The ideal scrambled eggs have the texture of the interior of a soufflé, fluffy and light yet creamy and rich. Their flavor is pure, unadulterated egg, both more delicate and more flavorful than standard egg preparations.
To achieve these results you need to cook the eggs very lightly, which entails slow cooking over low heat. Though some chefs use a double boiler to make scrambled eggs, the more practical option for home cooks is to cook the eggs in a skillet, moving them on and off the burner to extend the cooking time. If you cook eggs slowly while constantly stirring, they will be unable to form any lumps, and will develop a texture more similar to that of fresh ricotta or a thick, emulsified sauce than that of standard scrambled eggs.
Butter and crème fraîche help to accentuate the creaminess of the eggs, but these components are less important than low heat and constant stirring.
If you can't find crème fraîche, you can finish the eggs with a little cold butter instead. In this recipe I stir a little minced parsley into the eggs for color and balance (chives and chervil work just as well). For a more luxurious dish, you can stir in smoked salmon, caviar, or black truffle.
With a cooking time of 15 to 20 minutes, these scrambled eggs aren't as convenient as the usual preparation, but in luxury and flavor, they're on a different plane.
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- 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 large eggs
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 tablespoon crème fraîche
- A dash of minced parsley
- Coarse sea salt
Melt butter over low heat in a nonstick or cast iron skillet. Meanwhile, crack eggs into a bowl, season with a dash of kosher salt and a pinch of pepper, and beat very lightly, just enough to break up yolks.
Take the skillet off the heat and add eggs. The eggs will begin to coagulate as soon as they hit the pan, so scramble immediately to avoid lumps. When the pan has cooled enough that the eggs are no longer coagulating, return to heat, stirring gently but constantly.
When the eggs begin to coagulate, take them off the heat again and, constantly stirring, wait until the pan cools enough for the eggs to no longer coagulate to return them to the heat. Continue to alternate cooking on the heat and off the heat until the eggs are no longer runny or wet but still creamy and moist. They should resemble fresh ricotta or the interior of a soufflé.
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