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Oct 20, 2021

Tweet of the Day





Translation:
The Lieberman Decrees 5782:
In Yeshivat Ohr Yisrael they are preparing for the sharp increase in prices of disposables dishware and are pre-empting it with a solution. Today the first batch of 11 pallets of disposable dishware, enough for 6 months. In the coming days more will arrive.


There were some good/interesting/witty responses to this. the best was maybe Avigdor Lieberman's tweet, asking, have you never heard of a dishwasher? Even without a dishwasher, it is probably cheaper to hire a Sudanese worker to wash the dishes if a dishwasher isnt realistic for the amount of boys they have to feed. When I was in yeshiva they didnt use disposables. Maybe today is different.






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7 comments:

  1. Lieberman had nothing to do with this. I guess he's just their favorite object of hate.

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  2. Compared to the decrees of old, like the Tsars or the Romans, a tax on plastic plates seems, err, trivial.

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  3. The reason why Yeshivas started using plasticware is because of the realization that there were Too-many-times when the non-Jewish kitchen-workers mistakenly washed meat silverware together with dairy silverware - making everything Treif - which is nearly-impossible to stop in advance unless you hire a Mashgiach to check every single piece of silverware in advance - which is even-more expensive than using disposable utensils. (I still remember the "silverware crisis" which existed in the Yeshivas in Eretz Yisro'ail when I was a student there about 43 years ago - and I felt Tremendously Relieved when I went back to Eretz Yisro'ail (about 22 years later) and I discovered that this silverware-crisis had been solved by using plasticware.)

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    1. interesting. never heard this. thanks. what was the "silverware crisis"? I was in an Israeli yeshiva 30 years ago with about 120 students and they used the classic blue hard plastic plates and regular silverware. It was a religious Jew working in the kitchen at the time so no issue of the goy messing up. I suggested hiring a Sudanese because it seems that today that is what is common for menial work in yeshivas from the ones I have been in more recently

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    2. Kashering silverware is pretty simple, and it's almost impossible to make food treif by using the "wrong" silverware - so what was the crisis? I'm not suggesting that one shouldn't be careful, but it definitely sounds overblown.

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    3. So get two types of silverware. Like every family has.

      By the way, the country is called "Israel."

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