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why do you want THIS job?
A more apropros question. todays talmidim of the gedolim of 60 years ago who he cites, what do they say about todays “zionists” or as they have now been rebranded “the man in the street”. Are thhey meshumadim? Are they following “the avoda zara of zionism”? What do these gedolim say one should do on yom hazikaron, while standing in a public place, during the siren? These are questions pertinent to those alive now. Not how to address a movement of 60 years ago that no longer exists.
the zionism of 60 years ago is dead. it does not exist any longer.
Lets see if I remember the french i learned fro reading the maddeline stories.
“T’es vraiment un Feuj?”
are you fuigitive?
where in panama do you live?
“Que penses-tu de BHL?”
Were you drafted by and play in the new BHL (british hockey league or is it bosnian hockey league)?
“Are you people nuts?? Zionist pro Torah ? Are you living in a cave?!?!”
The average secular israeli isnt a “zionist” (heck, the average israeli of any stripe isnt a zionist).
awkward for whom?
I always thought memorial day was about sales, afternoon baseball and a barbecue.
I think the salient question here is, not what did the gedolim say 30,40 or 50 years ago about the medina, zionism etc, but, what would those gedolim say regarding standing still during the moment of silence while in a public place.
REALLY want to honor those who gave their lives, stop maligning them and the communities they came from. It bothers you they dont (cant) learn mishnayos, then stop whining about it online and head out to their neighborhoods and reach out to them and teach them a mishna or two.
I think they should get the “effective communications” video and watch it together.
who is everyone?
my rebbe always told me to stay away from rock.
flying saucers are all too common in homes where shalom bayis is lacking. they are usually accompanied by flying plates and bowls.
I’m partial to my shiur. All are welcome to join.
The only thing we should discuss is torah. Kul hayom hi sichasi.
Wow, this has morphed into an argument that the radio station has rabbi belskys haskama to operate without a license.
“The likelihood that JRoot interferes with any radio station whatever is slim to none. Its signal is so weak that you can barely hear the station outside of Flatbush and Boro Park.”
So, your argument is that this is a case of zeh nehne vzeh lo chaser? I’m not sure this is in the FCC rule book.
“As for geneiva, I leave that to poskim, not to posters who seem to pull halacha out of their bellies, to match their political persuasions.”
Dina diMalchusa is not pulling halacha from ones belly.
“And I haven’t heard any poskim speak to the issue.”
Until you do, it might behoove you to stop accusing people of pulling halacha from their belly.
“Although the fact that several prominent poskim continue to appear on Jroot, probably should tell you something.”
Yes, that it likely never enetered their mind that their is such a thing called an FCC license.
Unfortunately, Rabbi Belsky doesnt make or enforce the FCC rules.
Just because it isnt theft, doesnt mean it isnt illegal. Or wrong. Certainly not “frum”.
“due to the fact that deep in their hearts the misnagdim know they weren’t really supposed to be putting on tefillin on Hol ha-Moed to begin with. :–)”
Interesting theory considering the RMA not only writes that one should wear tefillin on chol hamoed, but he says one should make a bracha on the tefillin (siman lamed alef sif beis).
which part of operating illegally without a license from the fcc is included in the words “frum programming”?
So, you are arguing it is a case of zeh nehne, vzeh lo chassur? Perhaps you would like to send a memo to the FCC explaining this?
I think the minhag originated with a hard of hearing bakery assistant. The boss said, lets bake a batch of schissel challa and he heard shlissel.
I am wearing glasses paid for by my health insurance provider. True, it does not cover the entire amount, but the annual allowance went a long way to covering my glasses, and with the supplemental coverage I purchased I can get quite an expensive pair of frames. Again, purchase a plan that comes with such coverage.
Numerous plans offer coverage for glasses. You purchased the wrong plan.
Ami magazine in general is very alarmist. If they could be persecuted and prosecuted because of their religion, all religious people should beware.
With that said, I think that Ami did an excellent job reporting on the one angle they were supposedly covering, the charges leveled against the group by the various government agencies. Those charges were shown to be based on very flimsy, if any, evidence and if one wishes to believe in Ami’s conclusion, it is because they are even for “Ultra Orthodox Jews” an anomaly, an easy target and the first in the process of going after all religious people.
You have a spare frequency to lend him?
The kitzur shulchan aruch mentions that some are nooheg not to drink the milk of cowss fed chametz on pesach. He doesn’t discuss the lomdus. Behind minhag but does write that chalila to be mevatel it.
At the risk of sounding like a kool aid drinking, kumbaya singing bleeding heart, my only contribution to this discussion will be, how well does anyone commenting about “MO”, “chabad”, “chassidim” or any other group, know those groups and its individual members that they use these really broad paint brushes to paint whole groups of people in a negative light. Moreover, I would suggest speaking to ones Rav about the permissibility of doing so without any legitimate attempt at righting percieved wrongs
Who needs a loophole when you arent gores it.
“Rabbi JB Soloveichik created Modern Orthodoxy to institutionalize compromise of the Torah seemingly based on what he felt”
This has got to rank as one of the single most slanderous, libelous, hate filled, vile opinions ever written on this site.
Of course not
Certainly. Oats must be certified GF if they will consumed by someone with Celiac. My question to twisted and Sam is simply, if it is true that gluten = chametz, than certified GF Oats would never be chametz since the gluten protein is naturally absent in Oats. It is only because Oats are grown in close proximity to other grains such as wheat that contain Gluten that the certification is necessary. In fact the FDA last summer standardized labeling in the US for manufacturers claims of GF.
From FDA website:
What does gluten cross-contact mean in the context of the final rule?
“(hametz dependent on gluten)”
So, Oats can not become chametz as long as it is certified Gluten Free(they do not contain the protein Gluten)?
“There was something called Heaven’s Bakery or Heavenly Bakery that makes oat Challah.”
There still is such a bakery. It is called Heaven Mills.
I think rabbi twerski is arguing that there is an element of shirking ones responsibility as an educator. Instead of allowing them to wear tefillin, he could have tried to understand where this is coming from and open a much deeper discussion and work with these girls on their quest for spirituality.
My question regarding extenuatinghad to do with the permission granted. And no, anytime one issues a ruling that is contrary to 500 years of accepted societal norm itt is not just another “chicken shayla”.
How extenuating are these circumstances?
Of all the “responses” to this discussion, I think Rav Berel Wein has written the best one. I’m sure it is available in any number of jewish media outlets, I happened to read it online in the current issue of the Flatbush Jewish Jornal.
“This is not an answer.”
It is called a rhetorical question for a reason. its answer is designed to start a thought process. Clearly the only thing you thought in response was that you got highly insulted because people dont take you seriously as a woman.
Everything else you wrote can be discussed with and addressed by someone who knows you well. I dont know you in the least bit, I dont know why
a)the things you currently do in your avodas hashem leave a void that needs to be filled. in fact
b)I dont know what you currently do or
c)how you currently do it or
d)why
these are things that you must discuss with someone who knows you. My rhetorical question was trying to point out the obvious. If someone truly believes in hashem, and wants to draw close to hashem and live his/her life according to the way hashem wants it and wants to have a real connection to hashem, then it is self understood that this person already understands that hashem is perfect and the path that he set out for people is perfect and if that is the case why are we looking to modify it in some way.
Torah Hashem Temimah, Meshivas Nafesh. You need someone to help you understand how to accomplish this in your life. It surely isnt me, and it likely isnt an anonymous person on this website either.
Psak is not a variety store where one goes shopping for shittos.
“but dont you guys want peace with people who arent like you.”
Who is “you guys”, doesnt sound very inclusive, or friendly.
“im not suggesting you shrug off when someone is doing something wrong. im saying watch how you speak about them.”
I didnt say anything differently. Like I said before, there are ways to disagree with someone, and when unsure how to proceed, consult a Rav.
“if your goig to end up wih negative views you will treat them negativly.”
What you are really saying is that one must learn how to separate a person from their actions. not every mechallel shabbos (i picked an example of a mitzvah, could have picked any other as well), does so because they are looking to throw off the yolk of hashem. It could be they simply dont know any better. There are ways to be (for lack of a better word) mikarev someone to mitzvos that dont include insults and hatred.
GAW: not sure that gemara refers to what I was saying.
“Suppose a woman really wants to put on tefillin in order to feel more connected to Hashem and feel more kedusha, is there something else that someone can suggest that would be equivalent to donning tefillin that doesn’t come along with such controversy?”
Why not follow the blueprint set out by hashem, instead of looking for alternate ways to connect to him?
It doesnt matter what the many, many other poskim say. To you, the only thing that should matter is what does YOUR posek say.
well, start with the chiddushei aggados of the maharsha. he explains this gemara and its lessons.
“shivim panim leTorah.”
unfortunately, none of those panim condone dressing in a way halacha forbids or viewing things halacha forbids. this entire discussion smacks of the very xtian concept “let he who is without sin cast the 1st stone”. I am not saying one should react violently, or throroughly embarrass or otherwise ridicule someone doing something that is against halacha, but to smile, shrug ones shoulders and say “shivim panim litorah” and “who am I to judge” is also a distortion of yiddishkeit. As in all things in life, when you encounter a situation and are unsure how to proceed, consult a rav/rebbe/madricha/rebbetzin or whatever it is you call this person.
“Saying that minhag trumps halachah is reducing Rabbinic Judaism to be a collection of customs.”
You said that, not me. I said the minhag is to follow a specific opinion and this decision unilaterally decided to uproot that custom and follow the other opinion instead.
You cite a psak of Rav Ovadia Z’l. So, I will ask again, are you equating these 2, to Rav Ovadia?
Did said high school principle ask HIS Rebbe for his opinion or did he feel that he is sufficiently great enough to issue a psak that goes against the established custom?
Lastly, can you point to a site that carries the psak of those who permit the girls to don tefillin? I would like to read it, especially their resosning, for myself.
It would be great to have a big love fest and sing kumbaya around the bonfire. But koheles tells us, “es lisno”. It would be foolish to look at every situation and say, lets all just agree to disagree and live happily ever after. Perhaps it works that way in the fairy tales, not in the real world.
while the sasson may have been a different person, the maharsha identifies both as heretics. on what basis are you changing the girsa in the gemara?
“If one chooses to do so, despite 500 years of mesorah not to, to me it says that either these people are so exceedingly knowledgeable in their torah knowledge that they feel comfortable discarding the last 500 years of practical halachic practice, or, they simply dont care.”
Perhaps I am not being fair by pigeonholing them into one of these 2 options. Perhaps there is another option and that is, that despite 500 or more years of mesora they ruled the way they did due to some very compelling reason and using that very compelling reason along with authorities who do permit the practice to begin with, ruled as they did. Did they share with us the compelling reason to rule as they did? Did they even share their opinion with their own Rebbe?
“2000 bucks” and “another 150 for accessories”???
Barely covers a sheitel and a styling these days 🙂