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Trying to escape physical laws is almost symmetric with trying to escape moral laws.
What is it with Indium Tin Oxide and Light?
The Israelites were homeless for 40 years!
Could I pitch a tent there and walk to a yeshiva and study?
Or is the fact that a convert’s father fathered his child with a non-jewish woman create a lack of zchus avos for 3-4 generations?
Does a ger who was ben Esav lose Zchus Avos when he converts or do only ben Dovid and the Kohanim have this Zchus Avos?
What is a convert supposed to be sincere about?
In my arrogant opinion, the natural inclination for a Jew is rachmanus and chesed. That is why Jews typically fail certain mitzvot which require the suppression of this natural inclination.
Did Jews die in the shooting?
I think this goes by the name of “John Birch” society.
I heard that it was forbidden for a goy to study Torah and goyyim should be encouraged to get jobs not to study Torah which belongs to Jews only.
Hello abc12345, I was once a prospective ger, I studied intensely for about 5 years and continued to be rejected by Orthodox rabbis. Now I understand that conversion may be appropriate for some people, but it was not appropriate for me. Its good that you recognize that other religions which proselytize are false and wrong; but this recognition does imply that you are required to convert to Judaism.
Before you will be accepted into a charitable Yeshiva, I think you basically have to have converted already. If you can pay tuition, the options are better for you.
Are you male or female?
Why do you want to convert?
Where do you live now?
What sort of skills do you have to earn a living?
Yeah, keep all the mitsvot! Good luck with that.
Adams: go ahead crush the skull of an adulterer with a big rock. Its a mitzvah and will bring you closer to haShem, who will judge you with the same degree of judgment you met on the adulterer.
I think the idea is this:
So [Mitt] told all the words of the [Republicans] to the people who were asking for a [bigger government] from [for the people] [big government] who will reign over you: [it] will take your sons and appoint them to [foreign war]. 12 And [it will corrupt] for [itself] commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to [serve itself]. 13 [Your daughter will serve the government bureaucrats] 14 [It will increases taxes on] the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to [government] servants. 15 [It] will take the [40%] of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to [the officers of war] and to [government bureaucrats]. 16 [It] will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your [capital], and put them to [its own] work. 17 [It] will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be [its] slaves. 18 And in that day you will cry out because of your [bigger government]
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Ice Cream.
According to wikipedia; The highest concentration of Cohen Modal Haplotype outside of Jewish Kohanim is amongst Yemenites. There is no reported data on Saudi Arabia ( I e-mailed a Saudi University about this a few months ago but did not get a reply.) Assuming Jewish Kohanim have authentic tradition, all descendants of Abraham will have a Cohen Modal Haplotype; as do the Samaritan Israelites. However, 95% of (non-Cohen) Jews do not have the CMH and are thus children of Converts.
I think it is highly unlikely that a blood descendant of Abraham would totally accept Judaism without receiving it through patrilineal sources.
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.” – Marbury v. Madison. So there is no conflict for a frum Judge because as a judge he can decide the case however he sees fit. (Subject of course political ramifications that might follow.) On the other hand, enforcing a court order decided by a gentile judge might create a conflict for a frum Officer. At least that is how I see it.
If you willfully try to nullify one of the 613 commandments, e.g. continuously pray to a false god about rebuilding a city defiled by idolatry within the last yovel period, then you might be a rasha.
measure for measure. -Shakespeare
This question presumes it is somehow “not a problem” for the Kohen who has never been married; but regardless, something about reality always makes the woman you can’t marry so very interesting.
Am I the only person who thinks it would be cooler if 2711 different groups were formed, maybe even 2711 tables in Jerusalem whereby the entire Shas could be studied every day. While this may betray some concept of Jewish unity in specifics; it would reinforce the unity and connection of principles and if you were so interested you might want to speak with someone who had just studied a particular page that your page brought to mind and you could look them up through the table(group).
Chabad, Breslov, or Church = being nice and happy and whatever.
On one hand I’m tempted to condemn the psychiatric profession in the harshest possible way. On the other hand, I’m tempted to take psychiatric medicine to help me deal with this world. I’ve studied this so much; even a formal medical school class; that I’m tempted to think I know something. And that something is that not even the best doctors know anything abut what they are doing. The brain is too complex to fathom. I think there are a lot of parallels with incense on the altar of gold in the synthesis, metabolic processing, and monetary reward of these drugs.
Psychology is a false religion.
Thanks for the clarification, though the answer is beyond my expertise.
Why are you working with Non Jews?
Jothar,
I keep the Avraham Greenbaum “sweetest hour” book at my beside and it directs that Tikkun Rochel is “only recited on days when Tachanun is said.” Sometimes I wake up spontaneously during the midnight watch and figure I have nothing better to do than to recite the Tikkun, but this practice is irregular and an infrequent occurrence and not a habit.
If there is no Minyan peer pressure it may be more difficult to be consistent. I woke up for Tikkun Chatzot today but then went back to sleep and ending up late for a dilligent Shacharis at sunrise.