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| mimivan |
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 Posted: Sat, Oct 13 2007, 8:05 pm Post subject: re: "not bad" as a response to "how are you&q |
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| I actually feel a bit sad when people say "not bad." I think "What's going on?"
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| Ribbie Danzinger wrote: | | I learnt that it was the Ba'al Shem Tov, who initiated the Baruch Hashem reply in order to arouse people to remember Hashem in their day-to-day lives. |
See Yisro 18:10 where it looks like Yisro was the first to use it.
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| Posted: Sun, Oct 14 2007, 4:56 pm Post subject: re: "not bad" as a response to "how are you&a |
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My intention was that the Besht was the one who initiated habitually using it as a response to "How are you etc."
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| Posted: Sun, Oct 14 2007, 5:07 pm Post subject: Re: re: "not bad" as a response to "how are y |
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| mimivan wrote: | | I actually feel a bit sad when people say "not bad." I think "What's going on?" |
A lot of people "only fix things when they're broke". So to speak.
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