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“You have not been so generous in your acceptance of R Pruzansky’s statements in the past.”
Correct. He is the Donald Trump of the frum world and makes as much sense.
“There is no question that Avi Weis is now a ???? ?????? and no longer deserves the title Rabbi.”
There is no question that you are now a baal motzi shem ra.
“Jews arent even the majority in brooklyn anymore”
Jews never were the majority in Brooklyn. Jews were almost a majority in the Bronx, though.
“The non jewish world has no morals.”
We should clean up our own act before whining about others. Or are bribery, influence peddling, kickbacks, and covering up child abuse moral?
“not privatize all of the pools and beaches? “
You can privatize all the pools, although it isn’t clear how private agencies could afford to run them. The beaches, however, are federal property up to the mean high tide level and many of the beaches in the NY area are federal National Recreation Area or National Seashore property.
It might be possible to have separate sex areas, though. There are some areas that are set aside for public nudity in the federal beaches, with warning signs for those who might object.
“Give the liberal Nazis a little more time. They aren’t yet aware of the Y’s policy.”
Neither liberals nor Nazis have been complaining about the separate sex swimming hours at the two Bronx JCCs.
“another excuse for the Aino Yehudim to say we Yidden get away with things by cozying up to politicians”
But we DO get away with things by cozying up to politicians and we are proud of it!
“His prompt response [in Yiddish] was separate the males and females at the beaches.”
I wonder what Walker’s quid pro quo was. He was one of the most corrupt mayors in American history and was removed from office in mid 1932 by Franklin Roosevelt as a result.
“push back against the immediate blame-the-police mentality of these protesters”
Well I push back against the immediate blame-the-victim mentality of people like you!
(FWIW I have publicly called out some of their leaders of the BlackLivesMatter movement over their praise for a convicted cop killer who is now a fugitive in Cuba. But that doesn’t doesn’t mean the problems they are complain about aren’t real. And you are an example of the problem.)
“you completed the investigation to conclude that the guy wasn’t a criminal”
You completed the investigation, served as a grand jury to indict him for a death penalty offense, served as a trial jury to try him and convict him, and approved a death penalty.
Had he been a frum Jew rather than an African American the entire Jewish community in America would be up in arms.
‘according to Rashi, R”T tefillin are not kosher, and vice versa’
Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall on those family gatherings, except that I think that Rabbeinu Tam may have been a child when his grandfather died.
‘By government are you referring to the network of frum institutions that dominate communal life, or the clowns in the city halls and capitol buildings?’
It is those clowns who fund the frum institutions with tax money from non-Jews.
“obligatory minahim can spring up from the people”
Precisely. And they should be kept unless there is good reason not to keep them. Including kitniyot, bicycles and umbrellas. Just don’t pretend that this is something that it isn’t.
” Mr. Weiss just ignores halacha”
He is *Rabbi* Weiss.
And the person who ignores halachah is you. (Motzi shem ra.) Even Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, a huge opponent of Rabbi Weiss, agreed that Rabbi Weiss is a fully observant Jew.
It is not a crime to fail to put money in the parking meter.
But you may end up paying a lot more in fines. In my neighborhood the chances of getting caught approach 100%.
I am told that cheeseburgers taste good. I would not know personally as I have never eaten one myself.
‘Clear examples of “Stealing” from the government would be taking benefits where one is not eligible (e.g. due to money earned off the books).’
Back when I served on a federal grand jury we indicted someone for doing that. If convicted that person was going to have an extended period of free room and board.
“does Mr. Weiss from HIR create new halachas?”
No.
“Acharonim don’t count?”
No. They can’t create new halachah post-Shulchan Aruch/Rema.
When you forbid the permitted eventually the forbidden will be permitted.
‘What do you mean, “explicit”?’
No specific source in Chazal or Rishonim that would make them asur.
“you also found out what the earliest time you could be yotzei is”
No, all he did was read me the riot act — he never answered the shilah!
I once asked a Rosh Yeshiva whether we had recited the shema late enough at maariv that night. He read me the riot act, saying that in the time that it would take for me to ask the shilah and get a response, I could have recited the shema!
Wouldn’t this really be a question about women’s obligation in shema rather than women and maariv?
The truth is that there is no explicit issur, even derabbanan, for either umbrellas or bicycles if you are in an eruv (or if it is Yom Tov). I challenge anyone to prove otherwise, stating which deoraita or derabbanan is violated. It is just that in most communities we don’t use either. That isn’t a problem, either; we just should be honest about things.
“Coffee is Muttar (according to most, not all) “
Not according to Chazal. 😉
“May Hashem give your family the strength to survive this horrible loss.”
Amen.
“They will not have to worry about bailing out poor countries like Greece”
The UK contribution to the EU budget last year was approximately 13 billion pounds. The UK GDP is approximately 2.8 trillion dollars. It dropped in a single day by 10% because of the crash of the pound. So to save 13 billion pounds the voters decided to penalize themselves by 280 billion pounds.
“committing crimes”
Violent crime in the UK is FAR lower than in the US. For example, last year NYC had 352 homicides. London, with the same population, had 118.
“This is what happens when a country goes to the far left!”
There hasn’t been a British Prime Minister who can even be remotely called “far left” since Harold Wilson, who left office in 1976.
“The UK overtook France in GDP terms in 2014. “
And that was reversed nine days ago.
“the reason is because Europe has let in all these Muslims.”
That has absolutely nothing to do with the EU. The EU-caused immigration is from places like Portugal and Poland.
“Which is a new anti-Zionist movement.
The Kollel in todays meaning, is a Post world war invention. “
Further evidence for the novelty of the charedi movements.
Regarding Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, it is worth reviewing what he wrote about secular education (from Collected Works, Vol. VII):
“Now if the Judaism for which we are educating our young need not
shrink from contact with the intellectual elements of any other true
Hardly charedi, at least by most definitions.
“I think the Hareidi movement began in the 1880/90s witht the advent of the fedora,”
As I have often pointed out, the fedora was exclusively a woman’s hat until about 1920 or so.
yutorah dot org has over a hundred thousand shiurim, including pretty much every class taught by any of its rabbis for decades. I have listened, for example, to the very same halachah classes that their rabbinical students take. It also has a nice search engine. Good luck!
“Abarbanel’s problem with monarchy is that he saw it as always degenerating into tyranny.”
And it always did until the idea of a monarch with no real power finally evolved in the 19th century.
“That is only if the people want such a system.”
That is a heretical statement that the decrees of Chazal are optional, chas v’shalom!
“IT WAS assuredly for all eras and climes or it’s nothing at all”
Was polygamy for all eras and climes?
“In the ideal system, which Rambam says will be in place in Mashiach’s time, all these taxes will be paid voluntarily. No need for audits, fines or imprisonment.”
He makes no such statement in Hilchot Matanot Leevyanim where he writes that anyone not making the required contributions to the community charity fund get flogged and has their property confiscated by beit din. Not exactly anarcho-capitalism.
” this is not Halacha but Geometry.”
Yes, arguing with Rishonim on math or science is quite different from arguing on halachah.
“It was the WJC’s fight with him in 1920 that turned him that way”
Wrong. He was publicly expressing anti-Semitic views at least as early as 1919.
Why would you defend such a rasha?
I left a long comment on the article at the cross currents site; feel free to respond there.
Would Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch or Rabbi Leo Jung be considered charedi?
‘ laziness (“please can I eat kitniyous and wait only one hour after meat”)’
The deviation among Ashkenazi Jews is in those who insist on waiting more than an hour. I hope nobody here thinks the Rema was lazy!
“the Ran (Sanhedrin 61b) holds that any religion other than Judaism is a”z.”
Prof. Marc Shapiro has proven that that Ran was not by the Ran. Which leaves us with no Rishon who thought that Islam is a”z.
“Allah” is simply the Arabic word for God. Arabic-speaking Christians use that word as well.
“only person that can save America”
Save America like Brexit “saved” the UK. The currency has crashed, its securities markets have crashed, Scotland is preparing to Leave so there won’t be a UK any more, and those left will be facing economic problems in the short, medium, and long term, not to mention a rise in xenophobia and bigotry including anti-Semitism.
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“Reminds me of some lady and her husband.”
Wrong again. They charge ridiculous prices to speak to people who can afford to pay them. Soros and Trump make money off the poor and innocent.
“The question for the R’s is, what are you going to do about it.”
The polls all indicate — and the comment threads here support them — that the Rs will be voting in huge numbers for the guy who incites nativists, racists, and anti-Semites.
“That is incorrect. Horribly so.”
Wrong. Joseph is right on this one. In fact, Chabad of Parkchester, in the Bronx, holds its services in a mosque. (The two synagogues in the neighborhood both closed and were sold.)
It is clearly true that bad people can make good art. Richard Wagner was the leading anti-Semite of his generation. D. W. Griffith made racist films and Leni Riefenstahl made propaganda films for Hitler. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was a membr of the Nazi Party. Bertolt Brecht defected to East Germany. Picasso was a member of the French Communist Party and Pete Seeger was (for a while) a member of the Communist Party USA. I am sure that others can come up with other examples.
“Trump’s principle is What Is Good For Trump.”
As the result of the Brexit vote, two trillion dollars of wealth in the world disappeared overnight as securities markets crashed. The collapse in the UK’s currency immediately made France, and not the UK, the second largest economy in Europe.
But Trump was ecstatic that his golf course in Scotland might finally make money.
Media reports are that George Soros also made money through the right hedges on Brexit.
So Trump is just like Soros, putting his own interests first and making money off the misery of millions.
France is now a wealthier country than the UK.
And the UK won’t exist at all in a few years. Scotland will certainly leave the UK and Northern Ireland probably will, too. England will become an economically depressed country with high unemployment and no outlet for its products, services, or people. This is a massive self-inflicted economic wound.
Among those who opposed UK membership in the EU in the 1970s were Enoch Powell, Tony Benn, and Ian Paisley.
There is nothing new under the sun.