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Non Political:
CS did not say that that wasn’t the purpose of man’s creation,
only that it isn’t meant to be his motivation, which is correct.Chabadshlucha:
Meaning, (if I guess the context correctly)
All the OP had quoted was “the purpose of this world is to earn reward in the next world.” Your guess about the context seems to me to be a strange assumption to make (although the Mesillas Yeshorim does discuss next-worldly reward as a motivation and lishma/shelo lishma elsewhere in the sefer).From reading about it, it seems it was more about having his entire means of
parnassah taken from him than the treatment he received, although that may
of course have been a contributing factor. (What he shouted just before the
act was “How do you expect me to make a living?” Whether the municipal
inspector slapped him seems subject to debate, but it is claimed that he
was also beaten up by assisting male personnel.)Those who support neither of those solutions might want the Palestinians to be absorbed by Arab countries.
(Mamzeirus due to eishes ish would certainly not be detectable through genetics.)
I heard or saw somewhere that “Noach lo la’adam shelo nivra” refers to reincarnating,
not to a person’s initial descent into this world.All I can see in RebYidd’s OP is an ad (although I can’t actually see
the ad either, thanks to the filter on the computer I’m using.)Follow the money. Who benefits from not allowing boys to call girls directly, and properly demonstrate that they’re capable of taking care of the girl as a wife and building a nest to raise a family. Who benefits from the insanity of the regulation upon regulation that now has “competent adults” making all of the (not only introductions, but) arranging the specific details of each DATE for the lovely incompetent couple?! Follow the money.
Shadchonim did not create the idea that boys and girls should not be in direct contact;
insistence on the use of shadchonim is not due to shadchonim lobbying our legislature.
(As far as I know, shadchonim don’t arrange the details of dates.)Its quite ironic that these boys who are complaining about girls who wont give a smoker a chance but will never consider a shidduch with out first going through dor yesharim. Hypocrisy at its best!
Yep, smoking and risking children with Tay-Sachs are totally equivalent.
(That was sarcastic, in case anyone couldn’t tell.)(By the way, Happy, I think that Gemara’s talking about how women feel, not giving us advice.)
Do you have the right to post on the CR if you are not a mentch?
You can often determine the order of publication of a series by checking the copyright dates.
If we were doing something first, I don’t think it can “become derech hagoyim.”
(Mr. Lotito’s been deceased since 2007.)
The failures of lottery winners don’t mean that winning the lottery is bad.
It’s just that lottery winners are pre-selected to be bad with money.
Before they won, they wasted what little they had on lottery tickets.
-RebYidd23By “true murderer,” do you mean an abuser or that someone had literally murdered them?
The “ba” is not part of the root, but part of the Yiddish conjugation (I hope
that’s the word) of the verb. To “bashmutz” someone is to besmirch them;
to “badek” someone is to cover them.What did the wine say when it get stepped on?
Nothing, but it did let out a little wine.I think “wine” in the first line is supposed to be “raisin” (or maybe “grape”).
When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized that
G-d doesn’t work that way – so I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me!So I’m at the Wailing Wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon…
There was an issue (and therefore an update to the rental list) this week,
but there will not be one next week.You can also download the most recent rental list from their web site (masaumatan).
That’s a rule for how we relate to them, not how great they are.
Wikipedia has a page called “Category:Positions within the British Royal Household.”
It’s not a joke, but it might amuse you.Why not assur everything that could remotely be used, directly or indirectly,
in committing aveiros.
Because that would be as silly as that argument is.Those who mindlessly speak about assuring automobiles, electric-powered devices,
and other forms of modern technology…
Really? Have any rabbonim ever spoken of forbidding electricity?We have seen too many videos of chashuve rabbonim and even gadolei h’dor flying on
private jets, being treated in hospitals that rely on the internet for medical knowledge and
information sharing etc. to accept these recycled arguments against using modern technology.
Surely you’re joking, Shirley.To call something “reductio ad absurdum” is merely to classify it;
it’s a type of argument, not a logical fallacy.The rav whom I heard speak between minchah and maariv on Tish’ah b’Av
expressed similar sentiments about the lack of comparable gedolim today
to those of yesteryear (specifically mentioning Reb Moshe and Rav Elyashiv).It’s a small pamphlet that’s delivered to all homes in Lakewood on most Wednesdays.
There will not be one this week, IIRC.Avi, when a frum Jew says “Yid,” he’s saying it in Yiddish.
That’s not the intended use of a phone booth.
Lev Tahor died
To be precise, their leader died. The group still exists (they’re currently in Guatemala).
The topic of the thread seems to be not removing beards, regardless of method.
If you mean “Why don’t charedim in Israel try to draw chilonim to Judaism?,”
the answer is that they do.I’m pretty sure that grafting is prohibited for them as well.
It’s not one of the 7 mitzvos b’nei Noach…
(Some posts seem to have been deleted.)
5) Specifically, read it and only then add it it to the pile (I usually get 1 card a year).
Those two statements are not the same.
The best way would probably be to get in touch with a Sanzer community.
(In case people don’t know, Mr. Chabon recently gave a speech to graduating Reform rabbis
in which (among other topics) he spoke out against the idea of marrying other Jews.)Besalel, halacha, not someone’s actions or beliefs, determines whether they are Jewish.
A: There are also shailohs since many hold that their marriages were valid, but their divorces weren’t, and children of remarriages are mamzerim.
B: again can’t that be the case with anyone? Who knows what happened down the line?Although it is possible for there to be an unknown issue with someone’s yichus,
we assume everything was done properly because those involved were part of
the observant community which usually handles these matters properly.
The same cannot be assumed when the people in question were known
not to have been observant.(As I suspected, it didn’t make it.)
It depends on your son. I’d suggest you call them and discuss whether the
yeshiva would be a good fit for him. (If you don’t want to call them, maybe
discuss it with Rabbi Chaim Abadi of Lakewood.)Dina d’malchusa dina applies to all laws that don’t force one to transgress halacha.
I heard in a shiur from Rabbi Yisrael Reisman that this is not
the case, although I don’t remember exactly what it applies to.There’s simplification, and there’s lack of nuance; I think IiTfT meant the latter.
(I don’t think a song people sing about themselves would be derogatory.)
I’ve read that the point is to be entirely subservient to the Rebbe.I can’t be bothered to read through this, but it’s reminding me of two things.
One is something I read recently about people thinking that the length of a
second has changed, as they can’t seem to count seconds accurately by
chanting “one-Mississippi, two-Mississippi, etc” any more.
(The other will be in a separate post.)I don’t think the question is specific enough for a yes-or–no answer.
Eating live people (partially) is also cannibalism.