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You shouldn’t say that you can’t succeed, as it says: if someone says I didn’t work and succeeded, don’t believe him. Extra competitive market establishes a baseline, so if you have an extra insight, coming more from wisdom than obvious daily numbers, try small or virtually without actual trades and see if your strategy works.

It is an observation errr that one needs maxwell equations to trade. Simply, at some point physics phds had no path to productive employment and wall street started exploring numerical simulations instead of classical formulae. So having Monte Carlo methods on your resume allowed these physicists to ruin economy by their ignorance of economy. You would be better off knowing a specific industry, statistics, machine learning, finance, psychology, sociology and how to daven.

At the end, this is a marginally productive activity, yes efficient markets help society, but there are many other jobs that will have positive impact on Hashem’s world 🌎

Gadol, this takes to the other thread about a proper balance between nigleh and nistar.

Did at least some of R Salanter’s students spend a lot of time on mussar rather than gemora? This illustrates a difference between mussar/middos that might precede learning and kabbala that should come later.

Frankly, in our times, nigleh gives us so much new material: interactions w/ colleges, science, psychology, medicine, medinas isroel, etc I can not see getting to nistar until I am 80, bli neder

This thread is closed for Yomin Naroim and will reopen when M[o|a]shiach comes, bemeheta b’yomenu.

But let me attempt to have the last vort: R Yaakov Kamenetsky when visiting EY, suggested that Moschiach will come from R Auerbach’s yeshiva because they had their top shiurim in Ivrit instead of usual Yiddish. This psak should clarify the issue.

Even more seriously, Mod, and thanks for a good question – I do have more problems with people dishonoring Torah (in some aspects) comparing with people who do not know ho to read or count. We already established here that this is not my chiddush but a straight-forward Rambam who is using stronger words than me hat you would probably not allow here. That later poskim are lenient about it does not change the inner truth of this position.

RebE > when I will be sixty and she will be thirty being now twice as old

in our days, AI algorithm in the shidduch system simply puts an appointment in the calendar for Sep 13, 2043 (because Sep 12 2043 is shabbat)

Doctors told Netziv to take a vacation on beautiful serene Litvishe lakes (that look similar to Lakewood lakes, but with more trees). He could not take idleness though and ran away back to Volozhin after several days.

Usual explanation for Naase Adam in Bereshis is that Hashem is consulting melachim. Another one – that is consulting Adam and Hashem & Adam TOGETHER are participating in creating Adam (you might say Adam 1.0 creates Adam 1.1, then Adam 2.0…). This perfectly answers the question.

I would add – as our next iteration will be surely better than the current one, why not let a better man do the mitzva? One would say – why not other way around and let a better man learn? This has 2 easy answers:
1) learning will ensure next version is better
2) from the tzad of bein adam l’makom, we should let kallah have a better version

Sact5, try to find a religious authority competent in these issues. get books by r Twersky, he writes about abuse and related topics.
One thing he says that if one spouse abuses children, and the other doesn’t protect them, then children might later have a grudge against the healthy person excusing the sick one

Thanks. I got scared I misunderstood the maggid. The moshal you might use is the one about someone who has answers and not questions…

Yankel, I agree, but if a specific community doesn’t follow a posek respected by others, we can’t force them without Sanhedrin or even a city beis din… in my area, beis din consists of excellent talmidei chachamim, but they are slightly personally moderni, not in halochos, but in outlook. As far as I know, black hat community, of which rabonim are a part of, do not use this beis din …

Dennis Prager suggests that we can partner on practice with peo6who believe that M already came before. When M comes. We’ll figure it out, but we can work for common goals before that.
Maybe the same principle can apply here?

Easy to prove that this levush is unbecoming for an Yiddishe meidele; gematria of yoga is the same as goya!

As r Zusya compared his piece of bread with a stone to Pharaoh’s, I feel how insignificant I am. If I were to establish a Yom tov for every time I was lectured by a Chabadnik who didn’t care for my opinion, I’ll be drunk the whole year!

Yankel, you mean YD 242:2? And then 244 says that a hoshuve rav is like your teacher. It seems to carve exceptions when not in front of him. Also, this chosid might not have felt that he is bound by R Moshe’s psakim, but rather by his chasidus, so then the logic of YD 244 does not apply.

See also Kesubos 85b for when Tuvia might or not include Rav Tuvia.

Again, I am with you in terms of being respectful to Rabonim one disagrees. I do not like especially when this happens b’davka, ie using multiple titles for rabbis from your side and mr or dr for those one disagrees with. But I don’t think occasionally omitting titles of well known Rabbis or those who have pen names is a bog deal. For example,we say Chofetz Chaim, not Rabbi Yisroel Kagan.

Follow, it is true that you lose various discounts on taxes and tuition at higher incomes, but you still get ahead. After Trump, we lost tax credits for children and this is most annoying when filling out taxes – as if we don’t deserve a break for the kids (at least a mental one). With schools, you don’t file pleading forms disclosing your taxes and vacations, but negotiate a discount directly. If you are used to business negotiations, you can survive that too.

Avira > given more schar in shomayim for supporting their family than for excelling un Torah

I think I found one view on this question: someone remarked to r Salanter that if a certain student of his spent all his time on Gemora instead of mussar, he would be a world 🌎 famous talmid chacham.. Rav answered that if you have two challos, you use the one that is more beautiful, not the one that is larger.
Obviously, not everyone agrees, so this disagreement is bigger than a view on foodstamps, so worth arguing

Yankel, we do say Hillel and Shammai, shem is greater than Rav… I think some people feel same way towards rav Moshe?also some people here omit rav in front of names they disagree with, please police them …

I also witnessed a Rav where he had to introduce himself and a reform clergy person. So, he said: HI, I am Yankel and she is Nancy…
PS what is sh’a say about capitalizing names of

A question what is more important: learn or have an ehrliche life is ridiculous. How often do you ask whether eating kosher or davening is more important?

Or maybe tell your wife that you are busy this month, so which out of 3 obligations she could drop?

Ctl, I didn’t suggest taking food stamps, did I!?
Get some professional knowledge whether through college or self learning or friends, work 4 hours a week for $100. That is 21 k per year to live as a poor ehrlihe talmid chacham

n0 > whole class that doesn’t wash,

Most Americans wash, FYI 🙂 But there are also opposite cases – people who were not enthusiastic in Jewish environment, then become more self-aware and assertive when in different environment

Avira > they’re not interested in remaining in learning even though they might have experienced some success in yeshiva.

When we discuss these issues, we sometimes look at the narrow swath of time – learning v. college. A better way is took at the “whole person”. I think it is Ner Isroel shitah that a college-educated person has a better environment for a life-long learning.

read R Twersky, he dealt with drug & alcohol problems in the “frum” communities. He highly recommends AA.

Yankelberl, thanks for the “Rav” suggestion. It would surely apply to first/last names like “Rav Avigdor Miller”, but not to pen names like “Chofetz Chaim”.

Chaim Volozhiner seems like an intermediate case, Volozhiner being sort of a nick name. I consulted reb Google, and it seems that appellation is more used than not, so your correction seem to be more correct than not. I also notice that he was also known as _Reb_ Chaim V… Maybe we can follow psak of R Gershon Kamenetsky who puts R for everyone and suggests to read it as Reb/Rav/Rebbe/Gaon Hatzaddik according to reader’s preferences.