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Myfriend. For the 3rd time. You insisted again and again that there was an issue of Maris Ayin on my going to the restuarant where the wedding party was held. I ask one more time. WHERE or HOW was this Maris Ayin nothing more, nothing less.
thats hypocrisy but not calling people names and then accusing them of name calling.
grada in my case we were advised to have the ger to be on the second day of Y”T.
apashutayid: Rav Belsky spoke to what you did. It was wrong.
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i don’t capitalize much.
i hope my question with the dictionary wasn’t lost here
In my case, when I asked my Rav about a “giyores in progress”, my very chashuvah Rav z”tl told me, maybe you haven’t heard the story of Rus and Naomi. And that was for the Yomim Noraim, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
gavra – of course you can, cap or even bloizen kop, but wearing a yarmalke is like giving a hechsher to a treif environment.
Unless YOU are a POSEK, which I doubt since no POSEK would be here on the internet, and you have learned everything many times over. AND you can quote chapter and verse for ALL references to any given topic then YOU do not have the right to say 1,000% what is allowed and what is not allowed.
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Helpful, are you also Myfriend?
I will go back and reread what it is claimed Rav Belsky said to see if it is relevant to my situation.
Can I assume that this is the “Rav Belsky” that you refer to?
If it is, I will ask one more time. In MY situation, where was the Maris Ayin?
Maris Ayin is even “b’chadre chadarim”, you can be locked away where it is imposable for anyone to see or know who you are there; but Maris Ayin applies, as if someone did see you.
When someone sees me in a treif restaurant, they may say, “If that frum fellow with a yarmalke can eat there, then it’s ok to eat”. They don’t know that I’m only using the telephone or the bathroom. However, if someone sees me without a yarmalke in the treif restaurant, he will know something is not right and is not likely to be mistaken.
You know what the most popular hechsher is? It’s: Everyone Eats There.
That might be true but personally I don’t use that hechsher.
apashutayid, you are willfully blinded. Must Rav Belsky tell you it applies to Ruth’s Chris Steak House, otherwise you won’t accept it and claim he must be referring only to Morton’s Steakhouse?
Rav Belsky said even if your boss tells you there will be a business meeting or for you to meet a client in a non-kosher restaurant you cannot — unless you will lose your job otherwise. But you insist you can go to chazer fresseray in a treif place because your coworker is celebrating picking up his newest wife?
Wolf: You’re a great guy. I really have no idea why an intelligent and sincere person like you should have any problems with his self image.
cherrybim: If you enter a kosher/treif restaurant, but you don’t actually eat anything there, then it may not be maaris ayin, since the fellow outside has reason to assume that [since you have a yarmulka on your head] you had just entered in order to get a drink or use the restroom. This is what GAW seemed to be quoting from Igros Moshe.
For the last time. Where is the Maris Ayin in my case.
Wolf: You’re a great guy. I really have no idea why an intelligent and sincere person like you should have any problems with his self image.
cherrybim: If you enter a kosher/treif restaurant, but you don’t actually eat anything there, then it may not be maaris ayin, since the fellow outside has reason to assume that [since you have a yarmulka on your head] you had just entered in order to get a drink or use the restroom. This is what GAW seemed to be quoting from Igros Moshe.
LMA, I cited the Igros Moshe, and Rav Moshe said you *cannot* enter a treif restaurant. See Rav Belsky’s comment on the IM.
apy, You wrote you attended a party at a non-kosher restaurant. That itself is maris ayin.
That’s my last post addressing this point for the umpteenth time due to your willful blindness. Feel free to have the last word, or 10 posts, repeating yourself.
apushatayid, I realize you are playing along for the fun of it because you are smart enough to ask your own RAV or Posek for an answer to any sheilah you might have. Anyone can look something up and cut and paste an answer to back themselves up, but that doesn’t make them a RAV or a POSEK. You are a smartcookie and a friend to all, and more than a pushata yid in my book.
apushatayid,
Unfortunately your challenge is not quite a fair one, because very few details have been provided, other than “treif restaurant” and “non-Jewish party.” Obviously when you brought this to your Rov you provided him with far greater detail than you brought here.
I would like to bring to the table two thoughts that I have yet to see presented in this discussion:
1.) A Rov tells a person what to do based on how the halacha applies to the person’s specific situation, which is often very complex. Therefore, rather than bashing somebody’s Rov when his decision sounds surprising to us, we should realize that we do not have the full picture that the Rov was given. We might not even have the full picture of what the Rov said. For example, apushatayid stated that he was at the party for 45 minutes… no wedding party lasts 45 minutes, so obviously there are details in his case that we don’t know. That said, based on what was provided (which is noted to be incomplete), it sounds like a possible M”A issue to me because of the treif restaurant. How is it problematic even if no Jew sees? Imagine if one of the partiers is a boss at a company with Jewish employees. He later asks the Jewish employees to meet him at the same treif restaurant for an after hours social event, and when the Jewish employees say they can’t come, the boss says, “well just the other week at a party I saw an Orthodox Jew there…”
2.) When a Rov tells us what to do in a specific situation, we cannot take that decision and apply it to different situations ourselves. In other words, what a Rov might say regarding the non-Jewish parents of a ger who dropped in on Yom Tov cannot be applied to inviting non Jewish co-workers for a Yom Tov seuda. Taken to an extreme to make the point, if a Rov tells someone not to fast on the 10th of Teves because he has a serious infection, that person cannot say the following year, “my Rov said that I can eat on the 10th of Teves!”
Myfriend. Yes, I was at the party. Now please tell me, WHO saw me at this party and thought I was doing an aveira so that there was an issue of Maris Ayin. The answer is NOBODY. You assumed incorrectly, when you jumped in and said “not allowed because of Maris Ayin”. However, you were not aware of all the facts but opened your moputh anyway. Dont assume, because when you do you make an a## out of u and me (mostly out of you).
myfriend I have asked in the specific case you claim maris ayin and was told it was ok.
Wolf: You’re a great guy.
Thank you. But apparently there are those here who disagree with you.
The Wolf
Myfriend nailed it.
What do you say when invited to wedding, held in a swanky country club, on a Sunday, and they order you a sealed, airline style meal (so kashrus is assured)to the invitation? I can’t make it because….. ?
Sure, you could make an excuse once, twice, a second time, But after a while, they see thru it and you look anti-social.
Think that’s a sticky situation? Hows this: You get invited to a mixed marriage. Do you go, and in effect, give this union your seal of approval? OK, this may not women in such a bind. But I(to the goyish velt) look very much like a Rabbi. In fact, more so than the “Brooks Brothers” rabbi who just performed the ceremony.
How do I get out of that one? Best bet: leave work at work.
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In the first instance one goes to the affair, is grateful for the thoughtful gesture of the host in ordering a kosher meal, and makes sure to congratulate the celebrants. In the second instance, one demurs going, explaining that while s/he wishes the young couple much happiness in life, given the very sensitive nature of the intermarriage issue, and given current Orthodox sensibilities, it would be inappropriate to attend. One then asks the host to please understand that it isn’t personal nor is it a matter of being judgmental. It’s simply a matter of religious sensibilities. Assuming one has generally been a mentsch until that point, and not inconsistent in his/her religious conduct at work, no offense should reasonably be taken.
love the non-kosher restaurant thing
“You seem to love many non-kosher things”
Now that was just plain uncalled-for. Shame on you.
My interpretation of the comment “love the non-kosher restaurant thing” was that she just “loves” to hear someone rehash that old issue (rolled eyes). But even if I am mistaken, that was an appalling thing for you to say to someone.
apushata,
On another thread you mention you live in Brooklyn. If you work in commuting distance from there, what restaurant can you enter or leave without being seen by a Jew, with certainty? This is NY Metro.
Also, I’m wondering, even if you would not be seen, does Maris Eyin allow it? The distinction of Maris Eyin seems to make no difference even if it were to occur in Saudia Arabia with not a Jew within hundreds of miles, any more or less than on 13th Avenue in Boro Park. Cherrybim also made note of this point above.
At 17 I worked for HUD a Federal Government agency and worked for the Director. He was arranging a party and called me into his office. He asked me to be one of the hostesses who would be passing h’or dorves(?) around. I told him that I couldn’t do that since the food wasn’t kosher and that there would be Jews at the party. I told him that I couldn’t offer treif food to Jews. He was surprised because he didn’t know that but then he, a religious catholic apologized to me and asked if I could serve coffee or tea. I said that would be fine.
As far as what someone else might say because APY was at the party, for all YOU know they might say that a JEW was at the party and didn’t eat anything because the food wasn’t kosher but came to show his respects to the host. Which would be a kidush Hashem for anyone who spoke about it. So again before someone jumps to conclusions and paskens for someone else know that this is not the ASK the RABBI site and one should be very careful what they say and about whom they say it. Because a JEW is taught to be DAN L’KAF ZCHUS and not to keep looking for the bad and wrong in everyone. AND because each one of us has our own RAV and our own common sense to know right from wrong and who to go to for answers.
“When Eeees and I got married, some of the non-Jews who attended were *our* friends, and yes, it did contribute greatly to our simcha.”
Youre not alloued to be friends with a goy. Eisav sonei lyakov. Always keep that in mind. The person who you think is yur freind really hates you deep down. Why would you be freinds with someone who wants to kill you?
“the torah is a book of rules, we don’t pick and choose based on what makes us feel good, or because we think we’re doing the right thing, or it seems like the right thing to do.
many a good intention led to wars!”
Thats right. And people who try to convince us that aveiros are mitzvos have been shown to cause the most damag to the yiddishe people.
mosherose is back. and in his finest form.
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I doubt he ever left he probably posts under so many screen names that he has a rotation and today is mosheroses turn.
I never agree with mosherose but this time he has a point. One should always remember eisav sonei es yaakov.
MR, tell that to the righteous gentiles who saved many of our Jewish bretheren during the Holocaust.
Esav Sonei L’Yaakov is a GENERAL rule, not a specific one.
Eisev sonah l’yaakov
Like all our “very good” friends and neighbors that were always there for us and helped us and were so nice to us in Germany and the other countires.
But as soon as the Nazi’s came to town, all these great neighborly and friendly goyim that our children played with and grew up with all their lives, were the FIRST to turn over the Yidden next door to them for the Nazi’s to murder.
Eisev Sonah L’Yaakov indeed. Don’t think it can’t happen in America. Tommorow.
SJS:
Many Tannayim & Amorayim were friends with non-jews.
Abbaye and the graverobber being a specific example, but there are others (such as the obvious, Rebbe and Antoninus)
More so, how about Avraham and Aner, Eshkol & Mamre?
Don’t worry about it.
Helpful, its definitely a general rule. But have you heard of all the stories of righteous gentiles who saved many, many Jews at risk to their own personal lives?
That’s why its a general rule, not a specific one. Not every non-Jew hates Jews.
Chesedname, its a more common heter than you seem to realize.
And I really want a deli sandwich.
helpful
not only did they turn them over but as they walked to the deportation areas their friendly neighbors spit on them and beat them with wooden boards that had nails sticking out
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WHAT HAPPENED TO MY POST?
The same thing that happened to wolfs posts regarding this matter.
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who decides the conversation is closed? wolf? why?
shame on you, you know better.
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Sometimes I wonder if anyone reads my posts.
Sometimes I wonder if anyone reads my posts.
FWIW, I do.
The Wolf
If I may, I would just like to make the point that I did all that chesed asked. I asked a rav the shaila he asked, I conceded the point and will follow the psak given.
The Wolf
Fine, but now…….over and out.
Are CN and MR one in the same?
Where did we lose the original topic about inviting non-Jewish guests to our simchas?
And let’s leave the Holocaust out of this thread. Obviously, 90% of us realize that not every goy is standing with a knife behind their back, and we all know stories about righteous goyim who saved Jews. Ever hear of a book called “The Diary of Anne Frank” for starters? My aunt and uncle were hidden by goyish neighbors for the duration of the war, and lived to tell of it.
Re my comment, many pages ago about mosques, I realize I erred greatly by implying it was halacha. It was a mistaken assumption on my part based on our not entering churches or conservative or deformed “temples”. But it is a good example of how all these arguments started, we assume something is assur or muttar, but assumptions are dangerous. I stand corrected.
cantoresq got it right on the weddings.
“But it is a good example of how all these arguments started, we assume something is assur or muttar, but assumptions are dangerous.”
Correct. And in the case of entering churches or heterodox synagogues, there are indeed exceptions to the general prohibition. In my neighborhood the rabbis endorsed entering the Conservative synagogue for a blood drive where testing for bone marrow matches to save the life of a frum man was being done. It is a *mitzvah* for a recovering alcoholic to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a church basement. (Everyone I know who has asked a shilah on that has received the same answer: Attend any AA meeting held in a church UNLESS the AA meeting is being held in the main church sanctuary.) And four Orthodox rabbis attended the funeral mass of the Pope at the Vatican.
What about the so-called Rabbi who went into the chruch’s cathedral in Washington for Obama?
Yesterday I was listening to the news on WCBS and there was a story about a newly-published book “The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II” By Alex Kershaw which deals with the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg as well as his Swiss counterpart.
As the son of someone who was helped by one of them, I cannot begin to tell you how much it turns my stomach to read words such as:
Youre [sic] not alloued [sic] to be friends with a goy. Eisav sonei lyakov. Always keep that in mind. The person who you think is yur [sic] freind [sic] really hates you deep down. Why would you be freinds [sic] with someone who wants to kill you?
As my father, A”H used to say to some people:
“You have it too good.”
The sons of the Yidden in Germany, Ukraine, etc. where their goyish friends and neighbors turned them into the Nazi’s for extermination, were never born to relay to us what the goyim did to them.
“What about the so-called Rabbi who went into the chruch’s cathedral in Washington for Obama? “
He isn’t a “so-called” Rabbi, he is Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the senior rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in New York and the principal of one of the largest day schools in New York. And he was backed up by Dayan Michael Broyde who cited the Tzitz Eliezer.
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