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“Can an acharon can ignore other acharonim?”
Anyone can ignore anything.
“If you can pasken halachah l’maaseh based on chazal and rishonim, you can get very different conclusions. The Vilna Gaon did just that, and to a great extent so did Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik z’tz’l and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef z’tz’l.”
So, you are equating those who permitted these girls to wear tefillin with The Gr’a, Rav Yosef Dov Halevi Soleveitchik and Rav Ovadia Yosef Zicronam livracha?
For starters they would never IGNORE earlier authorities, they might rule differently DESPITE the rulings of earlier authorities. That is quite different that IGNORING them.
“Given our strong idea that earlier authorities are greater than later authorities, it takes a lot to say that the Bavli, and a significant fraction, possibly even a majority, of the important rishonim, can’t be followed.”
Shammai and his talmidim were exceedingly greater in torah knowledge than we could ever imagine, however, the halacha does not follow them, and despite their greatness one can not decide to follow their opinions simply because they were such great people.
One can not simply take up the argument that, i am a rabbi, he is a rabbi, we are from the same time period, so, why not, let me find an opinion that disagrees with him and hang my opinion on that and run with it. 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. Interestingly enough, their own Rebbe believes they overstepped their bounds by this ruling.
“If it is minhag, it isn’t asur. There is a difference.”
so, “al titosh torah imecha” means nothing to you? the statement of chazal “minhag yisroel torah” means what, in your opinion?
I dont remember the entire Ramban offhand, (perhaps some seminary graduate here can cite it verbatim – now that I think about it, it might not be th Ramban either), but he focuses on the word “Lireacha”and the fact that it doesnt simply say Viahavta Es Reacha kamocha. The “li” implies someting active on your part. Do things for him, that you would do for yourself and dont do things to him that you wont want done to yourself. In your scenario it seems that reuven is just an egotistical maniac and is abusing the passuk to suit his needs. If you think about the next person and their needs you will do what suits them, not what you know works for you and therefore decide works for them.
Like the maharsha points out, when an apikores quotes the torah you can be sure he is only talking nonesense and has no idea what the torah means.
we used to stay away, but then decided it would be best if we went home.
It doesnt obviate hundreds of years of psak limaaseh and mesorah though. That is the crucial point.
“But does every bas ploni have a ploni?”
Unless you assume the bas kol skips over some bas plonis, I dont see why the answer to your questions isnt yes. If you do make that assumption, on what do you base it.
However he learns pshat in the gemara, is irrelevent until we know how he would pasken limaaseh.
bas ploni, liploni. nobody ever gets skipped.
the trick is matching up bas ploni with ploni with all the nonesense prevelant in todays shidduchim. nasi has pointed to one of many human obstacles to bringing that bas kol to fruition.
just be glad you dont have celiac, and have to buy certified gluten free shmura matza.
So, brush, and brush properly. Worried about your enamel, get a treatment of enamel once a year when you visit the dentist.
“(I don’t hold by the mass-produced stuff in Costco)”
Each matzah is lovingly produced by hand 🙂
Oh, and it isnt produced in Costco.
tell her to stay away from him like the plague. as soon as she changes in a way that is not to his liking (molding is the word you used) he will dump her like yesterdays trash. she should save herself the heartache and dump him now.
please make sure you have a supply handy with you at all times, at least when you come near me.
Is $15.99 so high a price? Just go into your local Costco and pick up all you want at this price.
he gave us noses, to detect the foul odor that would eminate from an unbrushed mouth. just tell me where you daven, so I can stay away, to avoid problems of saying brachos, shma and tefilla in a place with a foul odor.
As long as there is no restocking or recycling fee.
What if someone wantsto change screen name without announcing it to the world? Say for example someones anonymoys status is no longer and they wish to use a new screen name unknown to people. It is unlikely they will announce that change in the coffee room. I suppose one can simply create a new user name but then one runs into the multiple screen names from same email address concundrum and might even get labeled spammmer.
I must need new glasses. I read the title to this thread “women who dont recognize their infertility”!
they drink scotch in the hills of tennesee?
“You figured it out. I’m a confused BT MO trolling goy.”
We must be brothers.
so, in summation, what video is showing kids innacurate information (with or without rabbinoc approval)?
you havent seen it, but are against it. ok.
bother? im just curios what you find objectionable in this particular video since you are badmouthing it in a public forum.
i heard it was a shayla of pas akum.
So, syag, exactly WHAT in the video concerns you? We know it isnt the slippers or the bomb. Then what, please share it with us,
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“you might also no longer know what the morah in nursery told you is true.”
It’s a good thing purim comes around once a year. We get to learn the megilla all over again, hopefully on a level higher than the previous year.
Syag, I assume that for the sake of consistency you believe the same thing about the 613 Torah Ave series and pretty much everything R’ Shmuel Kunda Z’l ever released.
I wouldnt worry about a kid growing up thinking for the rest of his life that Vashti was killed by a bomb dropped by Haman any more than I would worry about a kid getting up at his Bar Mitzvah and talking about his poppa eating pasta or conversing with the lamp post on the corner. I guess you do in which case I guess you should make sure that those whose chinuch you are responsible for stay far away from this DVD.
by him crazy glue.
I seriously doubt children or adults of ANY age or intelligence will conclude that the “purim story” as portrayed in the video is based on anything other than the imagination of the videos creators. sure some ideas are based on midrashim, and actual pesukim as described in the megilla, that is to be expected. If anyone walks away from the video thinking that the reason achashverosh was awake at night was due to an upset stomache or that he wore fluffy bunny rabbit slippers or that mrs haman and vashti went to get their hair done at the mall I would worry about him/her. Of course it “distorts” the purim story, thats why it is a work of fiction. Is it any worse then “purim torah”?
“Today nobody has real smicha. So you can’t compare listening to today’s talmidei chachomim with Mordechai.”
I wonder if the leitzonei shushan said; who does mordechai think he is anyway moshe rabbeinu?
could we stick to the courts ruling for a second?
what does this mean “saying that he doesn’t have the right to bond with his child before it is born.”
does bonding = emotional attachment? I would think not since you can not legislate for or against an emotional attachment. bonding in this context probably means something else, what?
So, if I watched it and gave them a glowing report how it doesnt offend, belittle or in any way trample on chazal they would issue another statement?
No, he (insert gadol here) isnt perfect. Yes, hashem hides things even from a navi (yackov avinu didnt know yosef was alive) for whatever reason.
However, all doubts go away when you understand the concept of “daas torah”. As long as someone feels they are just as smart, or almost as smart, or have access to the same data/info and can make decisions too, then yes, they start questioning every time a Rav says something. When you recognize that there are those smarter than you, you listen to what they have to say. I believe it is the sfas emes (dont shoot me if I’, wrong) who explains that why was moshe “anav mikul adam” because he had the greatest recognition of HKB’H and had the greatest understanding that everything is because of him, the more one realizes that, the more humble they are. I think much of the questioning stems from peoples arrogance. If I offended anyone I apologize, despite the fact that it is your arrogance that takes affront to what I wrote.
of course she would dress up like a man. what heimishe crowd would have a woman perform for a bunch of men.
Just curious, how do they know what the video is about? surely they didnt watch it themselves (of this I have no doubt). so, someone either watched it and gave his opinion and they made that announcement, or…..
call me naive, but is it possible to “bond” with a fetus, even one developed to the point that it is ready for birth?
Maybe your parents understand your question to be specificly about dating and they don’t want you out social dating.
in my neighborhood, the neighbors send mishloach manos every night for supper, for at least 2 weeks after a family celebrates the birth of a baby.
The limos keep the drinking somewhat under control. you dont want to be the bachur who barfs all over the limo after hearing the limo drivers stern warning about not barfing all over the limo. You also dont want to be the parents who get the bill for cleaning the limo ($250 or more) if your son does barf all over the limo. Send them out in a friends car who knows what will happen. in a hired limo you know the driver didnt drink and there is the yiras hadriver factor that will hopefully keep the guys in check.
“I tell people again and again that I prefer to withhold this video from my house, but they persist in making their own decisions about what to do in their houses.”
since this comment is by someone who uses the name meshuggener, I will assume it was written in the spirit of adar.
so, what was twisted that so bothers you?
and if they are?
sounds like naaanaanaa, by the sha na na.
This is a good thing. It means more people have more reason to life life in reality more of the time than in this pseudo reality called cyberspace.
why is it strange that a company that supervises products manufactured in india, speaks hindi?
why is the fact that an agency is not on the holy crc list held against that agency by some on this site when the crc writes in the introduction to their “list”:
“The fact that a particular agency does not appear on this list does not imply that the cRc has determined it to be substandard.”
how do you define get along?
ask not what does israel do for us, but what can we do for israel.
it means what you want it to mean.
so, if bls = basic lift and shlep, als = advanced lift and shlep?