a. that this is your first reaction is really, really sad

b. he’s not even up for reelection, so who cares

question: does anybody actually think the country would last for more than a few weeks with charedim in the drivers seat? i mean if all the knesset and high political positions were filled by the most qualified (lol, just lol) charedim.

i’ve heard the crazy train intro for people who have never heard of, let alone listen to, ozzie osborne. also, that lady gaga bad romance chasidish band video had me on the floor. i believe the operative word here is “pumping.”

also, i never got why yeshiva guys who start listening to goyish music always listen to the most inane types – usually teen pop or terrible rap. there’s gotta be some plausible theory.

okay, i’ll be helpful. sometimes guys from random yeshivas join groups from big yeshivas that are going. if you have friends in chofetz chaim/ner or the like, contact them and see what’s up. or just email the director, zev dunner, at edited (it’s publicly listed on chinuch.org, mods). enjoy.

if you don’t see the difference between aspergers and cancer…you probably have aspergers.

sorry to hear that, grandpa

starting small business: high startup costs; ENORMOUS timesink when first starting, no learning; greatest possibility of making it big, but far greater possibility of going bust (so high risk).

joining small business: zero startup, steady salary an hours but little possibility of making the big bucks. definitely the safest option. probably good amount of time to learn.

med/engie: huge startup costs (med school is 200k+); depending on your level of education, you may need to do undergrad first; high salary and good hours, but first there is residency during which you’ll be lucky to learn for 15 minutes a day.

rabbi: low salary, huge competition (i.e. all of lakewood etc.), no jobs. nuff said.

and yeah, it usually isn’t kiruv. it’s often to be counselors or just chill, learn with baal habatim, and show communities that bochurim aren’t all aspie dorks.

lol @ “the climb”

you must be joking.

gotta find the guy in your yeshiva who runs it. certain yeshivas have certain cities that they send to (hint: most good cities are taken by those)

DAT sugarloaf. sounds chill bro. how many brews?

just to preempt the argument: no, you can’t simply redefine anything they sign that ends up being wrong as “their gabbaim’s fault” or “they were misled” and then say “everything they REALLY sign is legit”. they knew exactly what the situation here was (see articles from 2010) and they toed the party line one time too many.

food for thought: what would the outcome of the case have been had they actually gone to a beis din to start with?

our entire beis din system is broken and needs to be reconstructed from scratch. the system was created for a society in which people took integrity seriously and judges were free to fact-find, but has been infested with agenda’ed rabbanim, so-called “to’eins,” and other imports from the adversarial american system, thereby deeming it ineffective.

the rabbonim involved should not only admit their mistake, but promise never to sign another letter/kol korei. not that it matters, because at this point their signature isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

shhh, popa, critical thinking is not allowed here.

Colorado school of mines. wut.

“just reporting a fact”

complete baloney

smh…smh…

lol @ the matzeiva article. charedim would do themselves a huge service by not attempting to put their “thoughts” down on paper.

serious q: r u high rite now?

Special indeed.

I’m not sure why this is considered an accomplishment unless you aspire to be an idiot savant.

you ruined it with “to their credit.” until then you were doing fine.

Your response was far more aggressive than my simple question. Although belittling and spouting ad hominem attacks at those who sincerely inquire seems to be the go-to responses on these forums, the fact is that neither of those methods actually answer the question. I’m still waiting for a source: if you’ve “given this shiur to every MO,” then it shouldn’t be difficult for you to copy and paste your sources or pull them from memory.

“Minhag yisrael torah” cannot be used to mask lack of actual knowledge and sources – that kind of intellectual laziness leads to the deterioration of actual reasoning/sourcing, with the inevitable conclusion that our glorious religion becomes deteriorated to mere rote. If you don’t know why you do something, say so, and be willing to engage in honest discussion. If you want to continue doing something even after you realize that you don’t know why you do it, that’s fine, but don’t act like you do.

Honestly, I’m surprised that what I’m saying is shocking to some. Don’t your actions ring hollow if you have no idea what they mean and why you are doing them? If you are truly satisfied with “for all I know the source might be kabbalah,” I’m not sure what to tell you.

1. I didn’t say pointing – that would actually make sense. I said pointing with the pinky. As for the standing thing, literally everyone I know does it. Are you sephardic?

2. I have no idea, as a male it wasn’t ever nogeia. Tell me, is it halachic? If yes, please source.

3. And what do you mean by a self-created safek l’kula? You mean if I’m not sure why i’m doing something, I take the time to look it up?