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DY, it depends on the kugel and the other woman.
DY, usually a ???? is ???? because of “???? ???? ???? ??????”. However, where the ???? is known to be willing to commit the crime or does not think that it is prohibited the ???? is ???? (Rema Choshen Mishpat 388:15). In any case, the inciter is certainly morally responsible and may even be executed by the secular authorities (Rambam, Hilchot Rotzeach 2,2-4). However, this obviously has nothing to do with some third person’s actions. For example, if a person testifies against a criminal and then a contract is put on him neither he nor the prosecutor is responsible.
Goq, what she does not know will not hurt him. Once Rav Moshe ate some kugel at some function. He said to the person with him “If the rebbetzin doesn’t ask you don’t have to tell her”.
Agutyar, obviously it depends on the society. If calling a person by his/her first name implies closeness it is a problem. However, today in most situations (an exception is if one is the boss and there it also applies between people of the same gender) it does not.
Regarding Rav Moshe’s pesak, Rav Eli Mansour says that “the halachic authorities” have ruled that there is no problem and then cites Rav Moshe’s opinion. You can ask him on-line what he means. In any case, even Rav Moshe is only machmir lechatchila. Certainly if it would cause ill feelings, she would be stranded, etc. he would be meikal.
Akuperma, “their territory is ruled by foreigners”. Are you saying that Hashem did not give us EY? Are you an Islamist troll? FYI, their miseries are caused, first and foremost, by their corrupt “leadership” that steals aid monies, denies basic human rights and keeps them in a fantasy world. In fact, George Deek, Israel’s vice-ambassador to Norway and an Arab from Yaffo made a speech calling for them to accept the fact of Israel’s existence and move on (the speech is available on-line). Most Arabs who hold Israeli citizenship apparently know deep down on which side their bread is buttered as polls show that hey would not exchange Israeli citizenship for Palestinian citizenship.
Flatbusher, when the first Gulf War broke out the chevruta of a friend of mine received a frantic call from his mother. After she calmed down she very matter-of-factly told him that his brother was robbed at gunpoint.
Charlie, what is the difference except to the police who have to have a motive before they can try to solve it, the ADA who has to decide whether or not to ask for a sentence a hate crime and the judge who has to decide whether or not to so sentence them? If c”v they had been injured they would have been just as injured as if they had been targeted as Jews.
MM,
1. If one holds that it is prohibited to walk on an part of HHB because of tumat met then walking there is not behaving like a Jew. In any case, IMHO before we can ask to go up on HHB we have to learn how to act in shul, the mikdash me’at.
2. I would shake hands with (male) goy who says “Am Yisrael Chai” even not on HHB.
Golfer, do you think that she will be in sem her whole life? BTW, did you hear about the firebomb attack on W. 37th St. near 9th Ave. BTW, when I was a new immigrant and told someone in my ulpan who was from France that I was from the Bronx she asked how I could live in such a dangerous place.
Joseph, you are over on the sin of the spies.
1. The question is in English not Yiddish.
2. If it is every day there might be a problem of becoming too friendly. of course, you can start include another woman. Then they will talk to each other the whole time.
3. Where is the halacha that men and women must address each other by their last names found (see Taanit 20b that Rav Ada bar Ahava ascribed his long life to not addressing people by their last names)? What did Jews do before the authorities required them to take last names? Did they say “Mrs. Golda” (cf. Rav Ovadia) or perhaps like the English “Mrs. Yossi”?
What about all the shootings in American schools?
DY, what he said and what he did were two different things. Considering the Nazi leaderships unhappiness with Vom Rath because of his extracurricular activities he might even have been assassinated by a Nazi who would escape and let them blame it on the Jews. This worked with the Reichstag fire. In any case, in real time a person has to make a decision. Inaction also has consequences. This is one of the lessons of the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza.
MW, I already answered you. The mitzva to conquer EY is on Am Yisrael not one an individual. Both Rav Shlomo Aviner and Rav Eliezer Melamed have made this clear. In fact, according to Rashi (Gittin 8b d”h kibush yachid) a personal conquest is not even considered a conquest.
Joseph, I thought that that was an answer. I am not only hoping that we gain those areas but confident that we will. I would prefer that it come through peaceful means.
DY, what about the Jewish partisans and the Warsaw ghetto rebels as well as rebels in other ghettos and concentration camps? Was Walter Rathenau was responsible for his own assassination by negotiating the Treaty of Rapallo? Are Jews who participate in civic life responsible for anti-Semitic charges of “taking over” and Jews who do not for accusations of “clannishness”?
You remind me of the story of two Jews who were going to be shot for “economic crimes” in the former Soviet Union. One said to the officer in charge “I have the right to a last cigarette”. His fellow said “Don’t make trouble”.
Joseph, I am certain that we will also get part of southern Turkey, Iraq and the Sinai. Perhaps one or more of the Ten Tribes will form a state or states and then be revealed.The origin of the Kurds is obscure (you can google “Jewish origin of Kurds”) and the Druze claim descent from Yitro. Both groups are friendly towards Israel.
MW,
1. Rav Avraham Shapira and Rav Shaul Yisraeli were alive until a few years ago. Is that “now” enough for you? How about Rav Dov Lior? He is still alive (until 120). Ditto Rav Shmuel Eliahu.
2. FYI, I live in a settlement in the Binyamin area.
3. The above mitzva is incumbent on Klal Yisrael not on any individual. As I am nichba bakeilim I am waiting for the IDF or the Shabach to demand my services.
MW13,
1. Ramban says it (Sefer HaMitzvot, Mitzvot that Rambam “forgot”). According to the Or HaChaim HaKadosh (Devarim 30,20) and the Avnei Nezer (Yoreh Deah 454,6)
Rambam actually agrees that it is a mitzva in our time but did not list it as one of the Taryag because of his technical rules for counting mitzvot. Rav Avraham Shapira and Rav Shaul Yisraeli thus ruled that it is prohibited to give land even for peace.
2. I do not think that they need any special provocation. Our existence is provocation. However, if they think that nothing will be gained they will abstain from action. This was proven in the years after the Six Day War when a Jew could walk alone and unarmed in any Arab city without being harmed. They knew what they would do if c”v they were on top and presumed that we would do the same (this inability to realize that not everyone thinks like oneself is, in fact, very common).
3. You copied it over so you bear responsibility unless you are totally deficient in Hebrew.
Mobico, the oaths do not imply any such thing. They are only a statement of the fact that there was a decree of galut. The fact of the matter is that every action and non-action is equally provocative. If we keep to ourselves we are clannish and if we try to participate in the general civic life we are trying to take over. We invented both capitalism (never mind that Adam Smith was a Scotsman) and communism (never mind that Marx had been baptized as a child and was anti-Semitic). The real reason was given by our greatest enemy in modern times who wrote that he hated us because we represent morality. In other words, violent anti-Semitism is simply Amalekiut and not dependent on what we do or do not do.
3. Here is Rav Neventzahl’s statement:
So you see,he says the exact opposite of what you say. It belongs to us. However, he rules that we do not have permission to go up at this time.
MW,
1. There is no halachic requirement to go without a smoke detector. There is a halachic requirement to assert our sovereignty over all parts of EY. Personally, I would be satisfied with a total ban which would also apply to Moslems and Xtian tourists. However, being that Moslems are allowed and some poskim allow and even encourage Jews to go up Jews should also be allowed
2. Those who blame the architects of Oslo for the second intifada are making the opposite argument. They are saying that appeasement always has the opposite effect. This is not only true regarding Jewish=gentile relations. Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time” is the classic example.
DY, we have an obligation to conquer EY (Rambam Sefer HaMitzvot, mitzvot that Rambam “forgot”). Pikuach nefesh does not push off an obligatory war. That is obvious. In any case, they do not need any actions of ours to be incited. What did the Jews of Chevron do in 5689? Nothing but sit and learn. For that matter, what did the Jews of Europe do (according to Rav Teichtal, it was they did not do – make aliya en masse)?
Mobico, if you are referring to the Three Oaths, that is a halachic non-starter.
1. They are not paskened in any of the codes.
2. Rav Chaim Vital says in his introduction to Sefer Etz Chaim that they were only for 1,000 years.
3. Rav Meir Simcha says that the San Remo Conference revoked them.
4. Rav Soloveichik says in “Kol Dodi Dofek” that Hashem has called as evidenced in the miracles of Israel’s creation and this is a revocation.
5. They broke their oath not to persecute us “too much” on several occasions- the Crusades, the Chmielnitzki massacres, the pogroms and, of course, the Holocaust – so the whole deal is off (see Sota 10a Rashi d”h huchal and Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 236:6).
DY, our very existence “provokes” terror. You have joined the ranks of our enemies by blaming us for anti-Semitism. As for your alley metaphor, baruch Hashem we are no longer in the ghetto. We just have to realize it. Rav Baruch Ashlag (son of the Sulam) says that bitachon also means that one must have faith in himself (as Hashem has, thus we say upon waking “rabba emunateicha”).
MW13, please post the exact quote in Hebrew where Rav Nevantzahl says that non-Jews “own” the site. During the Kotel controversy in 5690 Rav Kook and Rav Sonnenfeld refused to sign a document stating that the Arabs owned the Wall as it is the property of Am Yisrael. The same should be true of Har HaBayit, especially being that David HaMelech purchased it. It could be that we may not go up because for technical reasons but that does not obviate our ownership.
The root sin is sinat chinam. When that ends the Bet HaMikdash will be rebuilt, we will have a para aduma and everyone will go. Until then, each person has on whom to rely either way. As for being a place of avoda zara, when the Greeks and Romans defiled in was it assur to go to the Bet HaMikdash.
Segulot for parnassa work for those who sell them.
A man heard on the radio that Mashiach had come and was organizing one-way flights to EY. When he told his wife she said “The Jews made it through tough times before and we will make it through this”.
Seriously, we do not want trials. We might fail c”v. Gemar chatima tova.
Would a ventriloquist’s dummy count as an ov?
Jono, FYI the Rabbanut hechsher is accepted by the Religious Zionist public. In fact, I heard about someone who will not eat yivul nochri produce because it has the blood of terror victims in it.
Rav Kook wrote in his essay “March of the Camps” that these labels (In his time there were only two: Chareidi and Chofshi) prevent teshuva. Those who wear the former label think that that means that they are fine the way they are and those who wear the latter label think that a religious term has nothing to do with them.
Yehudayona, once Rav Moshe paskened that something was not considered chametz because a dog would not eat it. Someone threw a piece to his dog which proceeded to eat it. Rav Moshe said “Crazy dog”. Rav Soloveichik once was confronted by a similar situation and asked whom his interlocutor would believe, the dog or him.
However, it is obviously correct that the hechshers are given because they enhance competitiveness. Similarly, hechshers regarding treatment of employees are not generally given (although there is an organization in Israel that has tried this) as they do not enhance competitiveness.
Nishtdayngesheft, what self-respecting dog would eat laundry detergent? BTW, laundry detergent is not used to clean dishes. For that there are dish cleaning liquids. If you read the label you will see that they are definitely not for internal use (after they are used the dishes are washed and dried) so they should have the same din.
Akuperma, do they also eschew pigskin and alligator skin belts (not to mention footballs, which are evn called pigskins)) and alligator shoes?
It needs it because it encourages ammei aratzot to buy it rather than a competing brand. In the same vein, I once saw a bag of freezer bags that was labelled “glatt” (the bags were indeed smooth.
I’m davka surprised that they don’t all wear dark glasses just because Rav Ovadia did.
According to Rav Ari Marburger (http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/Arkaos%20V1.3.pdf) Maishiv Bhalachah 42 permits suing an insurance company.However, Rav Yitzchok Zilbershtein in Yeshurun 11 requires requires a Heter Arkaos.I was one a passenger in a car that was in an accident and I was allowed to file a claim through an attorney. The driver actually told me to do so so apparently one claim will not affect the premium (this was in Israel so it may be different than in other countries and rate policies might differ from company to company).
As for winning in a din Tora where a child caused the damage (@Health) a bet din can order the parent to pay as a peshara, or even din if the parent was negligent in supervising the child (Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, Teshuvot VeHanhagot 3,477) or gave the child the instrument of damage (Baba Kama 9b and Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 396,6).
The comedienne Portland Hoffa’s parents were their first three children after the cities in which they were born. Some Israelis name their children after when they were born )Stav, Sivan, etc.). In Tanachic times parents gave their meaningful names. Perhaps “pyrple” is because they consider their child to be royalty.
MS, whether it is a chiyuv karet is a machloket between Rambam and the Raavad. In any case, it only applies to the place where the Bet HaMikdash was and not all of Har HaBayit (Hilchot Biat HaMikdash 3:5-12).
There are poskim on both sides. Rav Mordechai Eliahu even wanted to build a bet knesset on the area which everyone agrees is permissible (Techumin v. 3 p. 324). In any case, the main function of the Temple Institute is to provide information about the Bet HaMikdash, create models of keilim and bigdei kahuna, etc.
1.Maybe she only sings for women and girls.
2. Shouldn’t it be “until she says Aleinu” (unfortunately, in some shuls this is tefillat haderech).
A halachic will is valid according to both Halacha and the secular law of the particular jurisdiction.
Somebody who talks during the chazarat haShatz, especially about secular matters, endangers the whole shul (Mishna Berura 124:27). If he disturbs otherpeople’s davening (and this goes for anything that is distracting, such as wild shuckling) is over on gezel tefilla. This is much worse than robbing someone of money as it is impossible to return the gezel.
Someone who does not wear a hat and jacket in a shul where EVERYONE does so is maybe (today people know that there are different modes of dress) acting improperly on his own private cheshbon (today many people do not wear hats or even jackets on weekdays, even in Chareidi communities – it usually depends on the type of work they do).
“Fatal Judgement” by Yisroel Meir Merkin published by Artscroll. Shai Agnon’s books are also very good although I do not know how many have been translated into English.
All are equal in the sense that each person’s individual job in this world is necessary to the advancement of Hashem’s plan. However, equality does not mean identity. This may be compared to a person’s body. A foot and a hand are both necessary but they are not the same and do not perform the same functions.
Zahavasdad, Catholic Charities in IL stopped arranging adoptions because of an “anti-discrimination” law that applied because they took state money.
Charlie, wait until the LGBT “equal-rights” demands start coming. Can you see such a club in a yeshiva or seminary?
All these programs only help bureaucrats. They come with some very serious strings.
This is actually good. As we know, Yaakov split his camp so that if c”v one were destroyed it would not be the end of Am Yisrael.
Nisht, the AG’s website does list HIR’s address as ULT’s but apparently they are now at 25 B’way. If you check their website you will se that Rabbi Ari Weiss is listed as former Executive Director and Rabbi Avi Weiss is only listed as a supporter (in addition to others whom you would no doubt deem charlatans but then they might think that of you).
Nisht, I wrote “apparently their accountant”. I did not write that he is their outside auditor. He might be (or have been) their comptroller or whatever the title is. In any case, apparently he is Rabbi Ari Weiss not Rabbi Avi Weiss. Such inattention to details! Tsk. Tsk.
Andrew Weiss is apparently their accountant as his address is listed as 25 Broadway on tax papers. There is also a Rabbi Ari Weiss who from his picture is obviously not him. Weiss is not an uncommon name.
DY, Rambam says “permitted” (regarding gentiles). The context of the issur regarding Jewish women does imply that it is improper but that might only be for a Jew, who has a higher level of responsibility.