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“According to the Mishna B’rurah’s calculation, there is a slight majority who hold that 600k is necessary for a r’shus harabbim. “
Rav Ovadia Yosef did a similar calculation:
http://erub.org/hakham%20ovadia.htm
If 600K daily *on a single street* is necessary there are no public domains today. I’ve seen the traffic counts.
Mod-80,
I’ll take our cats to the need to put out dangerous rat poison or traps that can endanger the lives of children.
I don’t understand why nobody else is promoting my suggestion of getting a cat. Cats have proven successful in eliminating small rodents for thousands of years and are used even today by many bodegas in New York. They don’t often eat mice; the mice are smart enough that they just avoid buildings with cats like the plague! Cats are very clean animals and can be very affectionate and entertaining. Furthermore, animal shelters have thousands of cats that will be killed if nobody adopts them, and they will provide it pre-spayed or pre-neutered so you don’t have to worry about that shilah. The only reason not to have a cat is if one is allergic.
There is really no reason to take large doses of vitamins unless you are specifically deficient from diet or disease; most are metabolized by your system and excreted in your urine.
Get a cat.
(I’m not kidding.)
Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Brahms, Schoenberg, Stravinsky.
B.
There are resolutions for every apparent conflict between science and torah, we just may not know them right now.
And it is VERY dangerous to say that science “supports” torah because you are then implying that it is possible for science to oppose torah, chas v’shalom.
A lot of standard Ashkenazic Jewish food is identical to the stuff eaten by non-Jews in Eastern Europe.
God is my employer.
And God arranged it so that my paychecks come through working as a Biostatistics Professor at a medical school.
“That’s fine, I can understand that that was disrespectful towards the people who do and I apologize for that.”
Apology accepted.
” Zionism though, it didn’t start by the frum.”
Not true. The first aliyah predated Herzl. And observant Jews had been making aliyah from Europe since Ramban.
We have a lot of them in Riverdale. Unfortunately, some have turned out to have rabies.
We also have a skunk that lives partly in our backyard. It is a beautiful animal but we steer clear of it.
And Baruch HaShem we have lots of feral cats so we have no rats in the neighborhood.
Yes. I used to have a security clearance, and I did not sell or give away any secrets.
Popa,
No, there were over a hundred built over a period of several centuries. The largest ones were clearly massive construction projects involving tens of thousands of (probably slave) laborers. The largest one was the tallest building in the world until the construction of some European cathedrals in the middle ages, and the first man-made structure to be significantly taller was the Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889.
“a sefer that is only 98% kosher. “
98% kosher is 0% kosher. Either Rav Kook was an Orthodox rabbi or he was not. Either his followers are Orthodox or they are not.
Enough of this bashing of hashkafot that disagree slightly with out own! Enough of dividing the Torah world!!!
And give credit to those who helped to create the favorable environment for Torah in Eretz Yisrael. Rav Kook was the single person most able to bridge the gap between observant and non-observant Jews there, and to make the large non-observant majority look favorably on the Torah world. He was admired even by the gedolim with whom he disagreed.
Cute, but the pyramids were there many centuries before Avraham Avinu. He may have visited them on his descent into Mitzrayim.
“Charlie, you post like a clean-shaven man. “
How so?
“because……….? “
Why is it a shilah?
We have a committed group of learners here!
“They were always here, but not readily visible to the naked eye.”
They’ve been in the New York City water since at least the opening of the Old Croton Aqueduct in 1842. All the gedolim drank the water, presumably with the copepods.
I don’t shave. Ever.
“I mean those hashkafos that are neged the ones that I learn from
my Rebbeim”
Ok, thanks for the clarification. “Krum” has such a negative connotation that I avoid using it for anyone who isn’t obviously non-orthodox.
“R’ Reines”
Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines was a rosh yeshiva in Lithuania who was a pioneer in two things: First, he added secular studies to his yeshiva almost a half century before Yeshiva College was founded in America as an adjunct to the RIETS yeshiva, and he was the first leader of the “Mizrachi” religious Zionist movement.
“Rav Yoshe Ber was not someone whom the Gedolim distanced themselves from”
Correct. In particular, he was very close to Rav Hutner (with whom he had attended the University of Berlin), the Lubavicher Rebbe, Rav Kotler, and his cousin Rav Moshe Feinstein, even though they disagreed with him on a lot of things. And The Rav was so respected by the charedi community that they made him a member of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah of Aguath Israel of America while still in his 30s.
“Do you give cash/coins to the people on the subway?”
Never.
It is illegal even for established charities to solicit on the subway.
jewishness,
Either the report was incorrect, or you misunderstood: The law that was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor sanctioned same sex civil unions, not marriages. And it doesn’t take effect for another four months.
“I don’t think I should be learning Rav Kook yet since I don’t feel confident that I will be able to filter out the krum parts”
While I am not a talmid of Rav Kook — I identify more with the Religious Zionism of Rav Reines and Rav Soloveitchik — I would never call the writings of an acknowledged gedol of Rav Kook “krum”. That even applies to something that has been unanimously rejected by klal Yisrael such as his position on women voting. (We follow Rav Uziel who disputed Rav Kook on that.)
I’ve also been told by Rav Kook’s talmidim that his writings do not translate well into English, which makes them less accessible to those for whom our first language is English.
I’m learning Zevachim in daf yomi but I’m two days behind.
I also attend a regular shiur that is learning Makot.
“I’m happy the IDF united Jerusalem in 1967”
I recite Hallel on Yom Yerushalayim every year as a reminder of who was really responsible for that miracle.
I thought I had indeed commented on the crisis in Egypt. I’m not sure what happened.
“where do you think its heading? “
I have no idea — I’m not a Navi.
But I agree with the editor’s assessment that this is a very dangerous time.
“Que sera, sera.” is Spanish for “What will be, will be.” It was the title of a popular song in the 1950s, written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans and sung by Doris Day. (My Spanish is rusty but I think it would be more correct to say “Lo que sera, sera.”)
To anyone with a gambling or other addiction problem, and to anyone with a family member with such a problem: Here is a resource for the Jewish community:
Good luck!
Academic freedom has bounds. A history professor is not permitted to say that the holocaust did not happen. A microbiology professor is not permitted to say that HIV does not cause AIDS. An astrophysicist is not permitted to say that the universe is 6000 years old. An atmospheric scientist is not permitted to say that there has been no global warming in the past 130 years. To hold such positions puts you beyond the pale of your discipline.
You would not want a Reform rabbi coming into your yeshiva to teach that the Oral Torah is a scam, would you?
“TWA vs. Harding”
You mean Trans World Airlines vs. Hardison?
As I pointed out, New York State law offers greater protection than does federal law.
I don’t watch TV so I had forgotten that 90210 was a television show.
The City of New York recently settled a discrimination case with an Orthodox Jewish nurse who refused to work on Shabat. However, this was under New York law which only protects New York residents. If you live anywhere else, you may be out of luck. Unless they are singling out Jews, there may be no discrimination.
I live in New York City but people think I’m “out of town” because I live in the Bronx and not Brooklyn.
I know a number of frum people who have been able to kick their gambling addiction through Gamblers Anonymous. It is totally consistent with Judaism. Good luck!
HaLeiVi,
Thanks!
In 1992, all three Presidential candidates were lefties: Bush, Clinton, and Perot.
In 2008, both Obama and McCain were lefties.
Presidents Hoover and Ford were lefties. Truman was ambidextrous. Reagan may have been a natural lefty but back then, children were often forced to act right handed. Bob Dole may have originally been right handed but he lost the use of his right arm in WW2 and had to learn how to do everything with this left hand.
Most importantly, my father o”h was a leftie.
Clearly, there is nothing wrong with being left-handed.
Nurses have to deal with a LOT of non-tzniut stuff. (Doctors, PAs, paramedics, too — I’ve personally had to teach future doctors about sexually transmitted diseases.) Medical careers are not for people who can’t deal with suffering, sickness, or bodily fluids. Or with some of the seamy side of human activity, which causes some of the things medical professionals have to deal with. Nursing is not for the prissy. And the work is very hard, often under very difficult conditions.
But the reward can be tremendous. You would be helping to save lives which is one of the greatest of all mitzvot.
Good luck!
“I’ll readily grant that she was anti-Torah; I was just saying that people who use her name as a dirty word are generally not so fond of “multi-million dollar profit-making businesses.” “
I don’t think she is a dirty word. She was just a proponent of an anti-Torah philosophy that has snared many Jews for several generations now. It needs to be fought.
And as far as multi-million dollar profit-making businesses, I can’t understand why a frum Jew would oppose them as long as they operate within the bounds of secular law and halachah.
“Mom won’t let???”
She is an adult, she can date whomever she wants.
If she is so unable to act independently of her parents, maybe she shouldn’t be married?
crdle,
You are always welcome to come back home! We’ll squeeze in an extra seat in our overcrowded synagogues.
Specifically, the hoshanah for the third day of Chol HaMoed in Nusach Ashkenaz.
“arba shevuot” are mentioned in the hoshanah for Chol HaMoed Sukkot. Anyone have an explanation?
“I don’t care what most frum people were doing 100 years ago”
You said otherwise in your earlier comment.
“The GRO disputed the shulchan aruch in his Psakim and other Poskin disputed the REMO at times. An acharon cannot dispute a rishon”
Rabbi, those two sentences are incompatible. The author of the S”A was a rishon. I presume you mean that usually an acharon does not dispute a rishon unless he has other rishonim to hang his hat on?
Yet there are even exceptions to that. What rishon ruled that women do not have to pray the shemoneh esrei, as the Magen Avraham rules? What rishon objected to the Radvaz’s paskening that the Ethiopian Jews were fully Jews with the status of Karaites? And I’m unaware of any support from anyone, rishon or acharon, for Rav Soloveitchik’s teaching gemara to women.
And Chas v’shalom we call the Magen Avraham or The Rov “fools”!
‘”Yitia” -there are plenty of posters who appreciate your contribution and logic. I am privileged to be one those who read your words.’
As am I. Thank you.
When one side in an argument is presenting logical, well sourced expositions, and the other side is engaging in name calling, I know which side is most likely to be correct.
“I really don’t care whether something is d’oraisah or d’rabanan, or whether a strict reading of the Rambam allows or prohibits it.”
The more I read this the more stunned I am. We DO care whether something is d’oraita or d’rabanan, and we DO care what Rambam says about just about everything.
“How she covers it is her choice.”
There *are* opinions that say she can’t use a wig.
“I care about what frum jews, particularly my personal rebbeim and their rebbeim, have been doing last year, the year before, and the hundreds of years before.
I am far more convinced by pointing to a posek from 100 years ago, than 1000 years ago. “
Well if you really want to go there, a century ago frum women in much of the world were NOT covering their hair. And there are three poskim within the past 100 years who said that was mutar.
“That is not how we do it. We follow our mesorah, as it has developed. We don’t do new things.”
No, it IS how we do it. Sometimes we DO do new things. Jewish women had not worn wigs for a thousand years when they started doing it again in early modern times. Most poskim said it was ok. And there are a lot of innovations in other areas with no precedent.