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you guessed my day job correctly. In fact, I rely heavily on CR for the material. Midwestern goyim love this stuff.
CS, many people simply pretend to respect Torah leaders, while in reality simply respecting just the leaders who happen to conform to that person’s views. For example, YWN front page refers to brachot for tzahal by a respected Sephardi Rav. How many people will now consider such brachot acceptable? Not holding my breath.
A truly kosher store would have these products in a separate aisle, protected by a narrow hallway with a weight trap – you can only get in if you fit into the hallway and not fall in the trap. Will be good for business also as the customers will live and shop longer.
why dont we use a traditional definition of Chassidim from gemorah – people who are machmir on themselves, esp when dealing with other people. Most of them did not seem to have rebbes, sometimes even doing things against what their rebbe taught them, like the gentleman in Bava Kamma who struggled to walk in the middle of the road even when his teachers walked on other people’s properties.
> may want to think about visiting their kevarim
Dont know what LR would think of that, but my guess – r Soloveichik would not approve.. a more sure tikun would be to read seforim by these Rabonim and quote them here.
Avira> their novel ideologies.
We need to admit that new circumstances usually require new approaches, not necessarily ideologies. And people often do not know in advance what will work.
I re-re recenty in a row Chofetz Chaim and r Soloveichik letters. Comparison is a little unfair – former are from 1920-30s, latter – 40-50s, but Chofetz Chaim letters are a cry in the wilderness when things are getting worse every year in Poland, he repeats – dont send kids to anti-religious schools, have at least one kosher cheder in town … he is not even mentioning Bais Yaakov that he endorsed, while r Soloveichik proposes a very specific training system for rabbis, streamlined to mass-produce rabbis that could lead American Orthodox communities. We can argue whether his plan was implemented and to what success, but it was a well defined plan _novel _ to address a real problem.
> , don’t project the world’s ignorance on to chazal and rishonim.
So, you are saying Shmuel knew how to run a steam engine, but chose to watch yidden working with donkeys instead? I think it is total apikoirosus to claim that chazal were so insensitive to human condition.
> The rambam, as it happens, does mention not to eat fatty or sugary foods
That said, fat is only bad because we learned how to get too much of it. Most people in old times would benefit from extra fat. What would Rambam do in our days? I think he would be in medical school, after learning nuclear physics.what – davening without a jacket is also asur?
Avira > do you really want to risk all of your tefilos because you couldn’t bring yourself to spend 7 dollars?
This is actually a great way to look at thing. You are paraphrasing Pascal wager – finite v infinite risk. For example, would you risk cutting off another car, risking that the driver is say an orphan or a widow, or any women, and she gets upset, an her prayer against you will be answered immediately. Obviously, no yareh shamaim will take such risk, QED.
> do you really want to risk all of your tefilos because you couldn’t bring yourself to spend 7 dollars?
maybe I missed the answer to the question – can I just take the jacket off for davening?
> the center stage is the regular people’s by design.
> current or next rebbe. He said it is us, all Jews, the observant and the not-yet observant.
So turns out , most of us here were Chassidim to begin with. So it seems that L Rebbe decided that he educated his students enough to be self-responsible.
Gadol > have at least TWO living Rebbes
Even better, have three, and make them not related to each other so that it will be a proper beis din
> one who wears shatnez does not have his tefilos answered
technical question: wears during davening or in general? if the former, try davening in your shirt. If a suit is Yehareg V’al Ya’avor in your kahal, at least diversify and wear suits from different manufacturer on different days.
>> How many suits of yours have been found to have shatnez?
> As for how common it is, it’s happened to me personally a few times.examples from checkers are of course are not a statistics, even if they are most kosher. And we have here people from different places. Could you try to quantify how many of how many suits had it, was it vadai or sofek, and what was the source of the beged. Maybe we can see the picture better then.
I dont know what will be a cutoff for checking something, but products can vary a lot. For an easy to see problem, bug in salad – it depends what store you are buying it from, where and how it was grown, how it was processed, etc. So, some people may encounter them daily may not understand those who never saw them and vice versa
I like the appointment idea. In yerusha, every yid has someone to inherit him, going up the family tree. So, for L there should be a kapustin or some other cousin rebbe somewhere. He doesn’t need to do it full time, just resolve major machlokets
never mind that the yeshiva itself is a branding success. Is my local yeshiva similar to Volozhin or Pumbedita? Same as Pudonk state university is a university like Cambridge or Sorbonne.
> it was a glatt place,
how is it a glatt place if the service is not smooth? And it is relative – maybe it is not customers who are cheap, but the food that is expensive.
> violate the Board of Health rule
you got me here. Maybe do it under the table?
> he was no longer welcome there in spite of his protest that he was merely following the gemera.
well, your friend should not go to treifa places. If they do not follow gemora in this, what other halochos they might disregard !?
gadol, it is a free market choice how to structure payments. If owner is not paying anything at all to the waiter, then the waiter could tell the customer – pay me or serve yourself, and customer can decide either way.
bad communications between all sides is a separate issue not affecting the business model itself.
some of college numbers are complicated. Here is directly from 2021 census Educational Attainment in the United States: 2021
25 to 34 year old, both men/women
bachelor and higher 41%
at least 2 years of college 59%
high school or less 27%
high school or less for all ages: men are slightly behind 29% women 26%Census gov Table 2. Percent of the Population with a Bachelor’s Degree or Higher by Sex and Age, for the United States: 1940 to 2000
1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Male 25 to 29 years 6.9 9.6 14.4 19.5 23.6 21.7 24.7
Female 4.9 5.9 7.8 13.3 20.5 22.4 29.7also choose your area
Geographic area 1980 1990 2000
MALE ONLY all ages
..West Virginia 12.1 13.7 15.6
..Alabama 17.0 20.5 23.2..New York 24.6 29.8 33.9
..New Jersey 25.7 31.7 35.9
..Maryland 28.1 33.7 37.9DaMoshe > you ignored my last point – what about paying tuition?
tuition may be a problem in mixed areas where working families are forced to pay more. But in areas where everyone has same lifestyle, nobody is robbed, except possibly children. Even in mixed areas, many are forced to teach in lieu of tuition. Again, nobody loses except children and taxmen.
relying on welfare and other transfer payments, even single mother programs seems like a bigger problem. Of course, the more such programs become mainstream, the harder it is to figure out what is ok. “free” food, for example, became pretty popular.
PS I dont ask children to thank me for providing them with food and clothes, but when they mention about something they got at school for “free” via a gov program, I insist on a “thank you to me for that”. Some did not get it first why they need to thank the taxpayer.
seems that linen can be identified by burning and fiber structure under microscope
take known linen and study how it burns and looks, then compare w other fabricsFound a quote from r Belsky on torah org saying that modern customary tips are obligatory and one should even give to tochacha to others for creating hillul Hashem. He refers to gemora megilla about tipping innkeepers during regalim
Cs, where is your derech eretz, you don’t need to tell that, just leave a big chunk of your steak there.
> try doing that these days and you risk having the tip aka the bowl of soup thrown at your face.
Suddenly you are against the Gemora, sad …
> Bread salt and water. If you have that, you have parnasah. The Rambam writes that a typical Baal Habayis works 3 hours a day and learns 8 hours a day.
I absolutely agree here. We can live now reasonable comparing with previous generations and learn whole day with one change of clothes and no indoor plumbing.
A more realistic solution would be to follow Rambam is to work 3 hours a day professionally and learn the rest of the time including teaching your own kids.
DaMoshe, thx for the numbers. More precise would be to look at percentage in college by generation, not total population that includes previous generations. I think I posted these numbers here before. The fact that median US family now has two salaries makes it even harder for a traditional family where wife spends some time caring for the family. So, a man should earn twice over median income for the family to be median. Apply R Moshe’s approach and estimate the numbers.
> There are many jobs today that a person can make a nice livelihood without the need for going to college
this is less true now than in previous times. most college grads earn more than non-grads. Percentage of people going to college increased over time. Thus, you will be relatively in lower group without college. R Moshe wrote that one could live respectfully without college – at the time when only 5% of population went. So, it was easy to be in top 10% without college. Now, 50% go to college, so you’ll be below average.
I am not saying it is wrong to live humbly, as long you are ok with that, your wife and children are ok with that, and you are not a taker – welfare, subsidized medicine, tzedoka, reduced tuition, etc
Am I right that in gemora or earlier times, one was supposed to leave some food on a plate as a tip to the waiter? Forgot the source.
The situation seems similar to Jewish eastern european left-wing politicians in 1920s who pressed league of nations to improve minority rights in their small countries. it was in league’s charter. They were partnering w Germany and Soviet Russia who also were registered as minorities in their countries. I dont think they complained about treatment of Jews in USSR, but they tried when Jews were mistreated by Nazis. League replied that German Jews are not on their official list of minorities… same disappointment now …
She just published an aggressive oped, where she laments racist and right wing attacks – on her and her cherished ideology. In theory, a person can hold bad views or be incompetent. Doesnt have to be both at the same time, but she is. Says that she fell into a trap – but you got to be both to fall there. Three of them, three times in a row each. And she is boke on race – most of her papers are in a journal of … race and something else. This is like Summers not being able to answer whether he condemns inflation.
Do pro-putin posters here wish NY on Jan 13 to their julian contacts? as this is not tied to a current secular calendar , maybe a bigger avak of AZ
jack, most prominent scientist would not be able to plagiarize half of their papers – she did because she did not publish much. Compare her with say Larry Summers. Read her papers
yid, I bet there are online betting sites that track this chance. I bet he is checking that site often. Wondering how the odds changed today after another hamas guy was eliminated
SQRT, thank you for the meal last shabbos , it was wonderful, but of course you subsidized your own wife instead of using professional chef, food was not to my taste and the portions were small.
> Regardless of how goyim today view the new year,
seems that this is a difference of opinion on facts, not halocha. My reading is that most of Europe took on Jan 1 in 16th century and later to unify calendars – and taxes – with no religious significance. Maybe even opposite, as some places before used their holidays to start a year. I read French Edict of Roussillon of 1564 and it is not about religion. That some churches celebrate a bris day or other is not important unless you are talking to someone who is on the way to church to celebrate. Then wishing him happy holiday is a problem, but a new year is still not.
doom, cat, switch to counting years this way happened somewhere in 8-9th centuries unrelated to when the new year is. So, when say Eastern Roman Empire used Jan 1 counting from anti-xian emperor Diocletian – was it a problem then?
Menachem, your ref is interesting but most of the material appears to be not Alter Rebbe, but a self-described shochet, posek, and more. Story of Berdichiver and L Rebbe wishing Yidden new year is interesting, do you know more of their motivation?
I am not a slow thinker in this case, just a slow reader. Reading a book of R Soloveichiks letters… not finished yet.
coffee, T Ch pay taxes that are user fees for services they use. They also are known for following dina dmalhuta
pekak, if goyim abandon az, it has no significance. Jan 1 is not a religious holiday anymore as far as I know> USA military aid to Israel is NOT a free gift
these are not good arguments. Help, even conditional, is important and requires appropriate gratitude. You sound like a welfare recipient who says that the country is better off by giving him money because he is not breaking into stores or is a great lamdan.
Saw R Soloveichik rejecting joining C- rabbis in some organization in 1950s, bringing a hiluk – we as Eida, community of witnesses, can not cooperate or compromise with those who are not eidim of that tradition. On the other hand, all Jews are connecte thru our common history. In concentration camps, ashes of tzadikim were mixed up with ashes of atheists … Am has shoresh im – together. So, in all political issues we should stand together with other Jews and there should be no disunity in front of non-Jews as this will endanger some Jew somewhere.
> increase in meshulahim … lack of tourist
maybe many donors found worthy projects related to supporting wounded soldiers , so meshulahim go more to places where they do not say misheberach for chayalim
It is that you know current events in detail, while old events from brief descriptions in bad history books. Maybe go to a library and open papers from hundred or fifty years ago and you might see opinions even worse than current.
if you pay taxes according to goyishe calendar, you can say ”Happy New Year” You can be thankful for the country to keep a calendar in general that allows orderly business activity and elections. Especially for keeping a week in their calendar and even making shabbos a non-working day.
coffee, my father oh had an engineering degree. Transferred well between continents.
Menachem, exactly