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we cannot compare the greatness of different mitzvos
“Talmud Torah Kneged Kulam”
“However, it cannot be the “minhag” that EVERYONE follows…”
It isn’t.
Supporting the boy allows him to continue learning Torah HaKedosha full-time. That is a major accomplishment and zechus.
What’s your point about polygamy? (The Yemenite Torah community still has a minhug to do so, as did many sefardim until the last few decades.)
If it is ones minhug, there is nothing wrong. For Ashkenazim there is a gezeira against.
I’m not commenting if it is good or not. I am saying it has been practiced for many many hundreds of years by shidduchim. This is merely one of the modern day versions of it. (Another example is the girls side often pays for the wedding hall.)
Its kind of like a dowry. And dowries have been provided by the kallah’s family to the choson throughout Jewish history.
arc – nowhere did he say “only”. He said they are fine yiddish maidlach without the Israeli seminary attendance. And what he stated is factually correct.
No, they should not be explicit in what they teach.
Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv said the RCA prenup a solution is totally at variance with halachah, and has a similar, if not the same effect as a get me`useh, which will lead to instances of mamzerus.
Boys (depending on the child) can benefit from the Torah of Eretz Yisroel. There is no reason girls can’t go to a local seminary.
Buy off-brands, don’t go to restaurants, and wear second-hand clothing. I’m sure others will add some more ideas.
yechezkel89: Israel gave the Sinai to Egypt, and despite the continuing “cold war” with them, no lives have been lost in wars with Egypt ever since.
They never should have taken the land in ’48. That already cost thousands of Jewish lives ever since. Now that they already did, we see giving land can save lives.
The day before Yom Tov you can get it for $25.
Your rabbi is a kahanist, so obviously he doesn’t agree with them. But mainstream rabbonim put pikuach nefesh ahead of land. (Of course the religious zionist always argue giving up land is pikuach nefesh, but the mainstream rabbonim unaffiliated with zionism acknowledge that giving land can save lives.)
How does a higher price make it more chashuv? (If so, the guy in your shul should of doubled the price even if there was no competition at that price level.)
mbachur, your point was brought up in the teshuvas of the mattirim on this issue.
You can get it on the cheap at a small minyan.
That may all be true and all, but yushka was a rusha merusha himself. What is the reason you are using that screen name?
This blog deals with that question a little differently:
http://kosherwater.blogspot.com/
See from the sentence “How can the Almighty allow righteous people to unknowingly sin?” and further.
squeak, the question you asked regarding the Tannaim, you can ask regarding Rav Moshe – who lived in NYC where we know the water supply has these creatures. I believe Rav Dovid said that question is a non-issue.
squeak, What is your response to the question you pose to me?
squeak, you continue to make unfounded assumptions in this thread. Additionally, I am not forced to choose from your multiple choice questionnaire.
Would you care to respond whether you disagree or question the basis of the factual point I made — specifically, regarding the prevalence of copepods?
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EDIT: That’s the second time you edited an old post after I responded.
In any event, I don’t see us disagreeing on any points now that you withdrew from your first posts implication regarding the prevalence of copepods.
squeak, why am I anymore forced to choose those options than are you? Are you disputing, or questioning, the two factual points I made?
charliehall, do you agree with my above comments regarding the prevalence of copepods (in almost all bodies of water), and that they will appear in Boston’s tap water — as well as the other few municipal tap water systems that are still authorized by the EPA to remain unfiltered?
Also, not to necessarily dispute the assertion, but how are we aware they have been in all the same bodies of water since Noach?
One is a matter of nature — whether they are present in various bodies of water, and the other is a religious matter — whether they render the water unkosher. The first issue I answered above. It is a simple observable fact. The second issue is a religious dispute, with the majority of Chareidi authorities ruling it unkosher, and others saying the water is kosher.
You are conflating the two issues by insisting that since the majority of those authorities render it unkosher, the first observable fact can’t be accepted. I don’t follow your logic on that.
As far as the historical nature of the water, all we know for a fact is they exist in the bodies of water today. Perhaps we can speculate they arrived at a later time than the Tannaim, etc. But whether that is the case or not, I don’t see how it effects the first two facts.
I never addressed that point. Rav Belsky says they’re muttir. Other Gedolim disagree. But you first comment implicating they are not so widespread was wrong.
Hi squeak. Sorry you got edited. I’ll ask a mod if you had any super vital info that didn’t make it.
From http://www.tafi.org.au/zooplankton/imagekey/copepoda/index.html
“Copepods are probably the most common and abundant holoplanktonic organisms worldwide, occurring in all oceans, seas, estuaries, rivers and lakes.”
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copepod (first sentence)
“Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat.”
mbachur, the answer I gave to your question (1), was yes there are copepods in the Boston tap water.
New York, Boston, Seattle, Tacoma, and San Francisco have unfiltered tap water (unlike almost every other city in the country.) Any unfiltered water system will have copepods.
I guess the OP never found another internet connection since starting this thread, to read all the replies with suggestions.
A Happy 12th Birthday card from Hallmark.
Does Shoveh Lechol Nefesh Change?
[Shulchan Shlomo 511:footnote 3]. Parenthetically a five minute shower uses about 15-25 gallons of water) or are the rules set down by Chazal regarding shoveh lechol nefesh unchangeable.
Cold Shower
(From http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/torah_archives.php “Showering on Yom Tov”, Rav Moishe Dovid Lebovits/Rav Benzion Schiffenbauer Shlita/Piskei Horav Yisroel Belsky Shlita Reviewed by Horav Yisroel Belsky Shlita)
mamash: Kulos are far far more abused than chumros by a long-shot.
BP Totty: Chasidim eschew restaurants? I find that highly laudable.
Never quite understood why some people like sushi so much.
What is the least cost method or place to purchase Luvs diapers on a regular basis (i.e. aside from limited time sales/coupons)?
LMA: According to your theory, of the older male singles a majority are picky, and the minority which is not picky have issues. Yet the older single girls are peachy keen?
housewife2: Sounds like you can’t afford it, but the school is making you pay to keep your child in. How are you paying it right now?
Pashuteh Yid:
Paula Young still sells wigs in that price range or not too much more. It is well worth it. Even if it lasts 1/4 as long.
AZ, are you maintaining that there is NOT a significant population of older never married guys? Is your position that the “shidduch crisis” is a female-only issue?
I’m not sure how you can miss the significant population of never married older guys. Unless I’m not understanding your position correctly.
Pulled into what? Playing sports? That’s good. Following professional sports? Not so good.