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If it looks shady it isn’t halachically okay. We are supposed to distance ourselves from even the appearance of sin.
Chazal would say 19.
“Is it halachically ok”
There are many great rabbis who are vegetarians so you have sources on which to rely. In any case there is never any Torah obligation to eat meat other than in Jerusalem on the festivals.
I have not eaten meat or poultry in almost eight years, but I do eat dairy, fish, and (rarely) eggs. My wife is vegan. Being vegan can be much, much healthier.
“Since when is the wife or her parents responsible to support HIM?”
They aren’t. Every Askenazic Ketubah for the past millenium has stated otherwise.
And since we are quoting Rambam it should be noted what else Rambam wrote, about being supported in learning by the community:
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“why can’t the ‘guest wife’ help in the kitchen? “
Why can’t the husbands help in the kitchen?
“Transjordan didn’t exist until 1921. It was a consolation prize by the British when the Hashemites lozt to the Saudis for control of the Arabian peninsula”
Wrong. The Hashemites did conquer what would become Trans-Jordan in 1921 but the Saudis did not expel them from the Arabian Peninsula until 1925.
Regarding TWA vs. Hardison, it was the two most liberal justices — Brennan and Marshall — who dissented. If you want it reversed, you need to get liberal justices appointed which means voting Clinton.
Nothing wrong with meeting at the date site, particularly for a first date. Wear something that makes you comfortable. Just be yourself and enjoy it — remember that he may be just as nervous as you are! And ALWAYS be honest in dating.
“i think that j witness girl was an anti semite because she asked what the holocaust was. plus they think we killed their god.”
The J Witnesses were persecuted by the Nazis almost as badly as Jews were. They do not believe that their Messiah was God and they do not believe in the Trinity.
“Pointing out that the SCOTUS decision regarding abortion was based on PC and not science or religion is a Kiddush Hashem!!!”
While there is plenty to criticize the reasoning in that decision, the definition of the beginning of life is something on which religions differ and also something for which science does not have a clear answer.
“My point was that the courts aren’t doing what they’re supposed to do!”
Care to mention an example?
“Stop pushing the liberal agenda! Stop twisting his words!”
Nobody is twisting his words other than his supporters who are trying to explain away over a year of offensive remarks that betray a total lack of understanding of any and all public issues.
“Name one area of jobs – where it’s Not required to work Friday afternoon!”
Mine.
“There is no doubt that Obama seriously damaged America (moral affairs, health care, etc.) and seriously damaged the international stage (Syria, Iraq, etc.)”
There is no doubt that the above is a completely false statement.
Trump supporters follow Midot Goebbels. Trump himself just installed the head for the most slanderous untruthful internet site around, Breitbart.com, as his campaign manager. Expect more of the same for the rest of the campaign.
And it was just revealed today that one of his few foreign policy advisors is a vile anti-Semite who prided himself on firing Jews while he was in government.
It is a chilul HaShem that Jews support Trump.
“It claims human and apes share a common descent. Does that sound like anything less than kefira to you?”
It is only kefira if you deny that HaShem was in charge of the process.
“Adam was the common ancestor of the animals the Torah specifically says were created before Adam?”
Jews have never insisted on literal interpretations of Torah or Rabbinic narratives. That is a Christian thing. To insist on such is asur because of chukat hagoyim.
First cousin marriage is permitted in Judaism, in Islam, and under New York State law. Not sure what the issue is.
I know that there are a lot of folks who comment here who hate Israel, but for those of us who don’t, the notorious Israelhater Stephen Walt just published a piece in Foreign Policy where he claims that Trump’s foreign policy ideas are his own ideas. So if you hate Israel you should vote for Trump.
” simply more or less the same garb Jews wore 200 and more years ago”
Only in one part of the world.
“Jews have always dressed differently than non-Jews. “
The Israel Museum in Jerusalem has an ethnography exhibit that proves that that is not true. For most of history we have dressed pretty similarly to non-Jews in the same geographic area. (One of my favorite examples, that I have often mentioned, is the adoption by Jews for the Fedora hat!) In recent times, frum Jews have consciously dressed more modestly than non-Jews but that wasn’t really necessary until the 20th century.
” it is also important to know how to make cake”
Neither I nor my wife has ever made cake.
“Um, no it’s not.”
Bingo.
“Is raw milk dangerous for adults with healthy immune systems? “
Yes.
Some raw milk junk science promoting legislators in West Virginia celebrated the legalization of raw milk in that state by drinking some. They got sick.
“How did folks drink milk for thousands of years if not raw? “
Milk was rarely drunk. References in the Talmud to dairy products are mainly to cheese and yogurt.
“I REFUSE TO LIVE UNDER THE ZIONIST KEFIRAH REGIME”
At its WORST what you call the “ZIONIST KEFIRAH REGIME” is as good for Judaism as any secular government anywhere, even that of the US.
Taliban Judaism.
‘the Halacha is quite clear that one who supports “ovrei aveira” is in the same boat as ovrei aveira.’
I guess all the commenters here who were promoting a polytheist for President four years ago should be treated as though they themselves were polytheists.
“I certainly support overturning Lawrence v. Texas and reinstating the laws outlawing it.”
Big Government at its worst.
“Hillary is a liar. She says whatever works in the moment”
All the fact-checking sites show that she is as credible as any politician today.
Trump and his supporters, OTOH, spout lies at a rate not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It may be pathological. Their latest motzi shem ra target is Ghazala Khan; they are claiming he works for the Muslim Brotherhood. There is no evidence for that.
Do not think that Jews will not be next on his list if he will gain from them. Trump is everything Jews are taught not to be. The shocking thing is that allegedly frum Jews defend Trump, his behavior, his history, and his policies. It is a Chilul HaShem.
“Imagine if Hitler came to power while whe was president.”
There is no Hitler today. But there is a Putin. And Trump has already intervened to force the Republican Platform to conform to Putin’s demands and announced that he will break US law and refuse to defend US allies threatened by Putin. Note that he did not exclude Israel from those he no longer would feel obligated to defend.
“OTOH, it was Hillary’s responsibility to protect the embassy in Libya!”
No, it wasn’t. The SoS has no military assets are all. Your yeshiva did not teach a course in American Government.
” i hope you heard the plan with education that clinton has and how that will destroy jewish schools”
There is no plan to destroy Jewish schools.
“?? ????? ?? ??? ?????! And thats a Gemara! “
ROTF!!! It isn’t a Gemara it is a pasuk in Tehillim. And it is clearly referring to a non-Jewish woman.
“Rambam rules, and Shulchan Aruch paskens as such l’halacha, that a woman shouldn’t go outside muc”
They also both rule that a woman can read Megillat Esther for a man. Should I have my wife read it for me next Purim — at home?
” it would be unlikely to affect Antarctica”
But you will be stuck needing to subsist only on non-kosher meat from seals, penguins, etc. (Mutar because you would otherwise starve to death.)
All Jews are allowed to study gemara. If you start out learning Torah for the wrong reason you will eventually come to study it for the right reason. Just remember that it is not merely an intellectual exercise but the writing of our holiest sages who were trying to determine how to follow HaShem’s Will.
“the alternative is a rotzaiach a shakrin a ganev and someone who should be in jail”
You are guilty of motzi shem ra. Clinton has murdered nobody. Every fact-checker confirms that she is about as truthful as any politician today while Trump’s lying is at an unprecendented level. Clinton is not a thief and Trump is a robber — he has a decades long history of taking money under false and coercive pretenses. And Clinton has committed no crime so only a dictatorship like the one run by Trump’s buddy Putin would put her in jail.
“do we really have a choice?”
You could vote for Clinton. She is better than Trump in every thing we value as Jews. (Business fraud is described in the Torah as toeiva and Trump is a first class fraudster.)
Or you could vote for Johnson. He is a good person who is merely wrong on policy, although not as catastrophically wrong as Trump. (Johnson won’t tank the economy with his trade and tax policies and he won’t hand over US allies to Putin even though he is a foreign policy isolationist. And Johnson doesn’t incite racists, nativists, and anti-Semites.)
“Can you say “benghazi”?”
Yes, Clinton was exonerated by multiple Republican led congressional investigations. They spent millions and could not find anything to pin on her.
And the investigations were a waste of time and money (from the allegedly fiscally conservative party). They concluded that there was no possible military intervention that could have saved the four Americans. I had actually proven that myself shortly after the attack from publicly available sources regarding the location of US bases and military assets in the region. The closest US Army units were seven hours away by helicopter. Multiple in-flight refuelings would have been required. Our servicemen would have had to land undetected in a country whose language they did not speak and whose alphabet they do not read and find their way to the location of the Consulate (known) and the CIA compound (which they probably did not know existed and would not have been permitted to have been told about) while dodging hostile forces from all sides (pro- and anti- Libyan government). Then, they would have had to fight their way out back to a safe place for helicopters to land and take them to safety. It would have likely been a suicide mission and far more than four Americans would have died — and the rescue would have been too late. It took me less than an hour to map all this out. So yes, I can say Benghazi and Clinton did nothing wrong. The only way to have insured that there will never be an incident like this is to close every US diplomatic facility in the world that is not on a US military base.
The 12th Amendment provides that if no candidate receives the majority of Electoral Votes, the House of Representatives, with each state having one vote, has to pick the President from the top three recipients of Electoral Votes. The Senate picks the Vice President from the top two. So we could have a Trump Presidency with a Kaine Vice Presidency. This procedure was used once for President, in 1824, and once for Vice President, in 1836.
“each party picked their absolutely worst candidate”
No, the Democratic Party was right to reject Sanders because of his poorly thought out policies, his calls for what amounts to class warfare, and his cluelessness regarding Israel.
“are you mo”
I do accept that characterization of MO although the distinction between me and a charedi orthodox Jew has to do with my acceptance of science, history and secular culture rather than any differences in mitzvot observance. I have not personally identified as OO even though I agree with a few things that are done in that name (like semicha for women).
“i thought yeshivish girls dont learn gemara?”
I think you are correct and today that may be the distinction between the two. It should be pointed out though that Rav Soloveitchik z’tz’l was at one point a member of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America.
“Should religious girls learn halachot and mussar “
Shouldn’t ALL Jews learn halachot and mussar on a regular basis?
Akuperma is correct. The Finnish General Mannerheim (later President of Finland) defied Hitler and lived to tell the tale. Nazis had to put up with fighting alongside Finnish Jews who even had a tent synagogue on the front lines — you can find a famous photograph of that synagogue on the internet. Mannerheim also refused to allow the Finnish Army to commit war crimes by attacking Russian civilian targets during the war.
There is a Jewish school of some sort in Helsinki; I read in the Jerusalem Post a few years ago that it had over a hundred students and a lot were from families who had recently moved there from Russia or were Israeli expats.
Good luck! May you help the community in Finland to thrive.
“all the guys i know think that its totally okay to learn gemara and my rabbi also does. “
Rav Soloveitchik z’tz’l said that it was a chiyuv on the community to teach gemara to girls and his position has been accepted as the normative halachah in most if not all modern orthodox communities.
My wife has learned three tractates.
Not to mention that there has never been a businessman run for President who had such a long record of stiffing customers, suppliers, creditors, business partners, and even bribing officials to stop investigations of his work.
I would like to know what the supposedly frum Jews are thinking when they publicly support him. There have been Presidents who have had more licentious lifestyles (Harding and Kennedy) but none who boasted about it. (The Republican National Committee actually paid hush money to one of Harding’s mistresses, one who was not the one with whom he had a child out of wedlock. They had some shame in 1920.)
And there has never been a major party Presidential nominee who has openly incited racists and anti-Semites like Trump has. (George Wallace did this, but he was a third party candidate.)
And there has never been a major party Presidential nominee whose foreign policy is designed to support the interests of one of America’s biggest adversaries at the expense of America’s allies. (Henry Wallace had such a policy, but he was a third party candidate. And he later admitted that he was wrong; Trump has never admitted he was wrong on anything.)
And there has never been a candidate as offensive to women, or as insulting to those who serve our country.
Nor ever a candidate, not even a third or fourth or fifth party candidate, who lies as brazenly and repeatedly and unapologetically. Even his wife — a model of non-tzniut dress — lied about her degree and there is no apology.
Trump is a model of everything Orthodox Jews are supposed to avoid.
“they think its a weird idea”
Maybe you are dating the wrong women for you.
“They are supposed to know what is relevant to them”
Which is almost everything. There are only about a dozen or so mitzvot in our times that are incumbent on men but not on women and women can and do take on most of them. And even in the Temple women could participate in the Avodah by shechting her own korban. (And some apparently did — there was a separate women’s entrance to the Courtyard of the Priests.
“Tznius is the essence of who she is”
But that is not an excuse to be ignorant. Or not fulfill mitzvot. And they can go together — a great example is the separate women’s entrance to the Courtyard of the Priests! Another great example today are the Women’s Tefillah Groups in some modern orthodox synagogues — no men allowed.
“as has been pointed out by the FBI that stated that there were emails marked classified at the time”
Actually only three were — and none of the three were marked properly. They only had a (c) before the classified line; red stamps “CONFIDENTIAL” at the top and bottom were also required. And at least two of the three had already been declassified at the time she sent them; the State Department indicated that it is possible that the third one was as well but they have not been able to confirm it.
Meanwhile, while nobody knew about Clinton’s server, the official secure servers at the State Department lost two hundred fifty two thousand, two hundred eighty two messages to Wikileaks. Nothing from Clinton’s server appeared on Wikileaks. And given that the link between Wikileaks and Russians has now been proven, it is likely that her emails would have ended up there had it been successfully hacked.
“women who also have a profession outside the immediate frum neighborhood are not going to walk around with a rag on their heads”
My wife does.
Many countries have had Jewish heads of government or heads of state, and in most cases there were no issues. Leon Blum may have been an exception; he was a Jewish socialist and the anti-Semites of the political Right preferred Nazi rule to the Blum’s Popular Front. But Blum was not religious.
It is totally safe; Ireland has no real history of anti-Semitism.
But it is not the local custom. Jews in Ireland wear wool hats, not yarmulkes. You will stick out like a sore thumb. I wore mine and I did. It advertised me as a tourist.
And you will want the wool hat! It rains every day in Ireland in the summer. It is such a light misty rain that typically you don’t need an umbrella. My trip to Ireland was the only time I have ever missed Kiddush Levanah.
The government is anti-Israel but the people are warm and friendly. I had a Catholic cab driver who could not stop talking about how he was so happy with the Jewish school he sent his daughter to. (Not enough Jewish kids so the one Jewish school takes non Jews as well. It is well-funded by the government.)
No eruv anywhere in Ireland. Not enough Sabbath-observant Jews to justify one. No real kosher restaurants but there was a kosher caterer in Dublin who would send food anywhere in Ireland.
Enjoy!
“the first thing that is sacrificed, is Korbanos.”
Love it!
Sorry, but Israel is safer than New York. Even in the territories.
And the idea that Jews can’t live in some suburban WASP enclave ought to offend us; kal v’chomer a place that is part of your Holy Land.
“Your facts and hearsay are exactly opposite!”
Wrong. I could document every single one of the things I wrote with a link except that YWN does not allow outside links. And Clinton has not done any of the things I pointed out.
Clinton has not cheated on two husbands.
Clinton has not cheated her business partners and suppliers.
Clinton has not abused bankruptcy and eminent domain laws.
Clinton has not illegally created a fraudulent university and has not bribed two state Attorneys-General.
Clinton has not run either beauty pageants or casinos.
And Clinton has never accused any political opponents of having been involved in assassinations.
Her policies are correct, too.
She will not create a police state to round up illegal immigrants.
Her tax plan is sensible.
She won’t start a worldwide trade war. (Republicans from Eisenhower to Romney understood that free trade was good for America and for the world. Now they have retrogressed to Herbert Hoover beliefs.)
She will keep America’s agreements with its allies. Even when the opponent is Putin.
She wants both Assad and Islamic State out of Syria.
She is with scientists on the importance of vaccines.
Now, what was it that was the opposite of what I said?
“didn’t the FBI find that other secretaries of state, including Colin Powell, did similar things?”
Yes, they used unsecure email. So did Jeb Bush when as Governor of Florida he used unsecure email to discuss classified matters relating to National Guard deployments.
Interestingly, though, the major data breach from the State Department was from the Department’s *classified* systems used for diplomatic cables. Hundreds of thousands of those messages ended up on Wikileaks. But none of them were Clinton’s emails — the people who broke into the State Department’s servers didn’t know that Clinton’s system existed, so they couldn’t find it. Her server ended up being more secure than the official ones.