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R Soloveichik developed an approach of interacting with the non-Jewish religions on the matters of the world – peace, etc, but no dialog on religious matters.
I do eat like chazal. Chazal were observing effects of different foods on health and ate accordingly. I am trying to do the same.
Re: Stalin. His death was a marker after which communism mellowed. Millions of people got released from prisons, some yidden who kept Polish citizenship were able to escape. Did any of the mentioned gedolim claimed thier share? I know of one Rav – R Yitzhok Zilber who claims some credit: he was in the Siberian labor camp and he writes that when he heard the rumor that Stalin was sick, he says “I dropped everything and starting saying tehilim so that the rasha dies, and did not stop until I was told that he did”.
Avira,
in my experience, most of baalei teshuva are from chabad (not necessarily staying Chabad). Maybe my crowd is skewed more towards academic community. There are several good-meaning and donor-funded organizations on campus now that do some classes and trips to Israel, not sure how successful they are. I do not know many (any?) people who walked up a Satmar, Litvishe, or MO shul and became interested. Do you?Zetruth, emes is Hashem’s signet, please don’t assign you to your favorite kook, just because Hashem and authorities dared to inconvenience your lifestyle
Yeridas hadoros, the old ones really knew how to party (Nazi or otherwise). Current one is stum a meshugane.
I would be careful claiming that Rebbe killed Stalin. Why didn’t here do it earlier before millions of people were killed?
> Why does the amount of times a word is used matter?
I just came up with a ridiculous argument, so you know how we feel sometimes.
NYC is a place apart. So, if you are interested in America and have $20, drive across the bridge from our island coungtry.
I once interviewed with Anderson Consulting O’H, and they asked me which of the 2 departments I am interested in – (1) NYC (2) the rest of the world – requirements are very different, you can’t go for both! I chose non-NYC and manners were appalling even there …
Good questions, all. I think there is a boundary somewhere between different minhagim within derech eretz and amhaartzuts. We have gemoras dealing with things like drinking a reviis (not one gulp and not three, Beitza ~ 25), someone should write same for driving. One good place to start is US gov highway survey, do not remember exact name, where they installed cameras in 1000s of cars and then analyzed what was causing accidents. One result: number of sharp stops is a good predictor of accidents.
Maybe, look at accident rates per county v. population density and see where safer drivers live. Obviously, the fact that you live a dangerous place is not an excuse but a reason to be even safer there.
I am not sure which way to argue, I see danger in both lack of protections and too many of them. Middle road is required
> this has already been the case since before the the Great Depression.
the solution was, unfortunately, majority of Yidden not keeping shabbos, so we do need some protections, but not entitlements.A private business should have a right to run the business the way they want. If managing someone with shabbos observance is a tircha for them, we should not demand being hired.
There is already alcohol scanner for the cars. I think it takes a court order. I wonder whether responsible people should install such in their own car, just in case.
Just heard an advertorial on a liberal radio about a company finally making fingerprint reader on the gun. This should solve a lot of problems.
And the lesson is – express yourself carefully – do not use Os for 0s and put parentheses in (2x)/(3y). Mathematicians know that. In Hardy/Littlewood book of math jokes, the professor (Hardy?) writes down an equation:
a x^4 + b x^3 + c x^2 + d x + e (similarly to ax + b, ax^2+bx+c, etc)
and then finds it necessary to add:
when e is any number, not necessarily the ln(1)
and then adds further
although it could take that value.That’s _precision_ of speech.
Indeed, if I remember correctly, gemora wonders how R Yohanan was able to look at them, but not other way around.
richashu, this might be true of “economic conservatives”, but not cultural ones. There are a lot of the latter ones both in goyishe and in Jewish world that are not wasting their time on making money.
At the same time, there are limits of “following local minhagim”. If you feel that you have to be a rude person because everyone around you are, you need to follow Rambam and Chazon Ish and move to the desert, even if your place overflow with learning. Derech Eretz kodma l’Torah. Makes no sense to try a harder class before you mastered the prerequisite.
Avram > Also, if you allow kol haolam kulo to merge in front of you, that’s fine for you, but who permitted you to sentence the driver behind you to a delay?
Exactly, and concur with your other considerations. There are lots of halochos and heshbonos here, and there is no time to look up Mishna Berurah.
And it does depend on local minhagim. In one suburban area, there is a long major road with multiple subdivisions opening up. Most people who turn into their subdivision first hold traffic, letting 1-2 of their neighbors to get out. Everyone is ok with that, because they all experience same wait time to get to the road. Try this in any other place, forget NYC, and you’ll indeed be honked. And people who you are letting go, feel like this is a trap and do not move anyway. So, I think we agree here both on desirability of being a mentch, but also of challenges. As long as you are trying, you’ll achieve something. I am also wondering whether there is an effect here – I tried estimating whether letting someone in, increases the chance that they’ll let someone in after that. I think there are papers and gemoras about good behavior being as contagious as the bad one.
maybe, it is not lack of watches, but too high taxes? How many watches/rings one can wear to pass through the customs? 2 hands? headband? Nose ring? two court-approved ankle bracelets?
Too much legal protection might have adverse effect. Same as exceeding protections for “birthing persons” and parents makes employers reluctant to hire family people, same strong Shabbat protection will make employers reluctant to hire shomer shabbos people.
Most chazal did not have snow to keep their meat most of the time.
Proof: meat is mentioned 2600 times in the Gemora, snow – only 94.
Some excited responses related to driving… I agree that part of the explanation is that crazy NY drivers continue doing the same in the “rest of the world” (AKA OOT). This is somewhat an excuse for bochurim on I-95 driving to Florida, but not to people who moved to a community for 1 or more years already. You are supposed to follow local minhagim, not to say about traffic laws and human courtesy.
The NYers somehow think that others do not “know how to drive”. I once drove to NYC from Midwest with a native NYer at the wheel. He was beeped at at the yellow light just based on our pathetic license plate (he told me this is going to happen).
Alos, it is interesting why frumer Yidden drive similar to other MY-ers but are less assimilated on how they dress, how they walk on the sidewalk or shoot their neighbors … Maybe cars look impersonal – you are not dealing with a fellow yid, or human being, but just a piece of metal. If you use your seichel to imagine the person in the other car, you would behave better. Try it.
One trick my kids and I are using is counting how much hesed you do during a trip, letting people inside the lane, make a hard turn, etc. If you remember about it, you can consistently do it at least 2-3 times per trip.
mb10 > In some places it will be more of a teaching job.
I saw such hevrusas in kollel, some are done better than others.
If you organize learning the right way, it should be good for both. A kollel student might be faster in reading tosafos, but his more mature hevrusah has life experience and can guide them to interesting questions.
If you make it simply into “teaching” then both are losing – the working guy is eating “unripe grapes and young wine”, while the kollel guy gets convinced that he is so knowledgeable already based on his academic experience.
n0 > The full time kollel student with a side job is responsible to his kollel above all else.
right, so, should any other Yid who is learning. A lot of “working” people change their schedules to learn properly.
An illustration unrelated to 👒: someone asked r Twersky that her husband declared a month into marriage that according to the Torah, he is the decider and she needs to always listen to his decisions. Other than that, he is a nice person and learn well [full time ?). Rav patiently writes back Torah arguments she could use to correct his misconception, but unfortunately he is not addressing her illusion that he is a good learner…
Avram, when someone in a black 👒 cuts me off on th street, I point it out to the kids that this is hopefully just an am Haaretz in a hat and they shouldn’t think that talmidei chachomim drive like that. I can’t though plant this thought into other drivers’ heads
My invitation did not have consort, but had basad. They are so much into etiquette and inclusion.
For the record. When L rebbe was not speaking already and meshugas started, one L rav called the secretariat and ask how he can be helpful
They told him to tell the velt that the meshugas was not coming from them, and he said that publiclyI think a lot of people get carried away by Ts style as if respectably speaking politicians are always honest. We discussed here before that Ts policies, taken separately from his words, are pretty solid within conservative approach. For those here who would disagree also with Reagan, Romney, Milton Friedman, just say so, but don’t get carried away by tabloids into the sewer.
Buy it now, prices are low post Yom tov and best investment during inflation is in real property
2nd amendment is a last-resort safety measure against tyranny, we should keep it while mitigating side effects, like making sure that people who buy them are sane, trained, and do not resell it outside of legal channels.
Do we need such a ridiculous safety measure? What is a chance that US can end up as a dictatorship Chinese style? Many democracies in history ended or had dictatorship periods – Romans, Germans …
Having such a safety measure is even stabilizing in normal conditions, as the country can be more tolerant towards differing opinions knowing that dictatorship is not likely.
There is an earlier trip recorded – 3 Arabs stopped by Avraham for Pesach and, thus, went to a Dead Sea resort for chol hamoed. The accommodation options were limited, but the locals were excited to see the guests, and the whole trip was reported a blast.
It was bigger than the desert trip – one new nation emerged from 40 years of travel, but two new nations were conceived in the two night of THAT chol hamoed.
Anonymous, Chofetz Chaim has a letter published around elections to Polish Seim, where he says how bad lashon hara about masses and groups are. I thought – maybe he is just complaining about other groups attacking Aguda ticket that he favored, but no he says that even when a tzadik is attacking a rasha, Hashem will favor and defend the attacked. so, anyone mindlessly attacking another group just ensures Divine support for them.
Why is shaliach tzibur reminding at maariv is not enough? Or are you the shaliach tzibur and afraid to skip it.
P, a great idea to have chatGPT support Torah learners, but I would not bet those winning numbers.
chatGPT so far showed great ability to converse like a human, but not a great ability to reason. A journalist asked it to write an essay why people like AI bots, and the essay was very persuasive including a reference to Pew research poll that confirmed how people like bots. The only problem was – the poll was made up, did not exist.
Modern, I agree that Biden in general responded to Russian aggression in the right direction. He is no Alger Hiss… one can argue about effectiveness of his specific policies. I think these are mostly to his advisors relying on their academic wisdom and not having enough real life exposure. It was easily seen in Afghanistan withdrawal. Nobody was dismissed and same chachamim continued. Their theory that they should gently warn Putin so that he knows if he continues, thete will be more responses- similarly failed as it was interpreted as bluff. Would puRussia stop if we have given Ukrainian Himars and planes in January 2022? I don’t know but it made sense to try
Modern, please try to separate facts from your biases to have a meaningful discussion. To claim that Trumps call to increase NATO funding was a plot to undermine is not even worthy to be published by pravda
It is sort of unappreciated that we all do the same count – chasidim, misnagdim, moderni teymani, Sephardi. Improvement comparing with the time of tzedukim
Polish seim issued health regulations for mikvaos in 1920s. Presumably they required soap but not red for commies or brown for nazis. Chofetz Chaim called to both lobby against the laws and also collect funds for mikva upgrades. So if Aguda did the upgrades, they would not use blue and white either. They tried black but old fashioned women didn’t associate it with tahora, so orange was the compromise and we can’t change the tradition since that.
Answer to my question above: Sweden
common, nobody has a tradition chasing cows of their goyishe neighbors for milking. for one, you will get arrested for trespassing and assault. At the same time, Pesach is supposed to be a yomtov when you eat yummy food and have seuda with others.
How was it going during BM? Was your Pesach with matza and maror completely dry? Did you ask people on their gebroks minhagim before registering on the same animal? None of that is mentioned in Gemora as far as I recall. So, if yo would need to cut yor neder when Moschiach come, why not prepare a week early!?
Ok, so main conclusion is that unless people unite in their reading of the formulas the world will come to an end. This is because a theorem that says if you can prove that 1 = 2, then you can prove any false statement using valid operations (i.e. 1+1 = 2 + 1, 1*4 = 2*4, etc).
What is the source of math? While people figured out counting and addition on their own (Noach – animals, Moshe – accounting for Mishkan), subtraction is already clearly min hashamayim – Avraham asks whether there will be 5 tzadikim less than 50, and Hashem teaches him that this is 45.
this case apparently includes claims that writing personal checks is business records; that overpaying taxes is an offense against the state; that federal elections are the state matter; that not letting people negative information before election is fraud; and maybe more.
this is a dangerous case for the Clintons. If this becomes settled law, Bill Clinton will be charged rent for using White House rooms as a motel; then for not declaring this income for tax purposes, and for lying to a federal investigation in order to preserve his political power and plan his wife’s federal election. Hillary will be charged for not paying damages for the lamp she threw into Bill as part of the concealment efforts, then for not reporting this to the news. Then, she will be charged with wiping her server with the cloth in order to win federal elections.
All government guys who asked social media for a delay of NY Post publication about Hunter’s business deals will be charged in NYC for same election interference and will sing as a chorus.
modern, When did Biden suggest enlarging NATO, I missed that, pls clarify.
On the other hand, Trump demanded from NATO members to increase their contributions (or else!) and for Germany to stop buying Russian gas. This is now achieved. I am sure your opinion is sincere based on the headlines you saw, without analyzing the articles. Maybe the dissonance between your opinion and the above-mentioned facts will help you clean up your information sources before Pesach.
mlbrklyn, Close but I don’t think so, as they are bordering other non-Nato countries (sitzerland – austria) and serbia some other yugoslavs.
Gadol > While the issue has not been litigated
Is it usual for the NYC DAs to pursue someone for “falsifying business records” while also testing issues that were not litigated? It looks like the Congress will be justified in arresting the prosecutor for “election interference” – trying to prosecute with unusual zeal of a candidate for federal election. Or, at least, this should be a good reason for a federal court to accept an appeal and the case to go to US Supreme Court?
common: > utilization, for people who dont eat gebroks matza has a much lower utilization use.
this should be a petach to cancel the gebrocht neder, as your ancestors might not have known that
another quiz: there is now a country that is surrounded from almost everywhere by NATO countries. Which one is that and what are they going to do about it !?
difference #1 teachers you being smart and honest is better the opposite:
you can earn a good living selling high-priced matzah for known shiur instead of selling cheap popcorn in large packages that really contain less of it.ok, I concede it was a theatrical phrase. Change from the “most acquitted” to the “most investigated” in a wider sense of this word. And it worked well for T – when he was in politics, he knew that everything could, and would, be used against him.
Do we have other presidents, whose phone calls with world leaders were leaked because some staffer listening on did not like the turn of a phrase? If they were, they would have been better presidents. I am more surprised that no significant dirt was found in his (and his father’s) previous real estate businesses before he became a politician. As an example, some people here compare allegations against T’s and B’s children. Whatever they are, T’s kids run legit businesses, where something might have been, theoretically, improper, while B’s kid got paid by shady companies from our adversaries without any business expertise.