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@AAQ, that story sounds par for the course at the @AAQ household, you do what you feel is best without asking a Rav and if you ask a Rav and if you dont like the psak you do what you want anyway.
April 22, 2021 10:27 pm at 10:27 pm in reply to: Seeking recommendations for sleepover camp for 10th-grade boy #1967255commonsaychelParticipantskip camp, take him out to see the wonderful world hashem created or send him on one of those traveling camp and he would say mo rahbu mesecha hashem with vigor
April 22, 2021 10:27 pm at 10:27 pm in reply to: According to the Torah, was Chauvin Allowed to Kill Floyd? #1967250commonsaychelParticipantlakwhut, Torah does not apply here, its american lw
commonsaychelParticipant@gadol as someone who works in the insurance industry most travel insurance policies anti worth the paper its printed on, they exclude the heck out of the policies.
PS if your going to cyprus they have some really good deals on cruises to Israel, if you go to Malta let me know that is was like.commonsaychelParticipantin my minyan we daven to Hashem we dont daven to AZ such a cross, a Budda or a piece of cloth covering body. I just dropped of my son at JFK and the flight was packed with frum people I then davened in the Five Towns and there was a full indoor minyan of about 50 people of that maybe 5 wore masks, BH I see even in the epicenter of maskers people are getting over the phobia.
PS come down to Costa Rica they said its one of the niecest places in the world, the mashka after davening is on me and i will grill you some lamb chops to that there is no hard feelings,commonsaychelParticipant@AAQ, I was planning to travel Afghanistan and Pakistan but I could not find space on the flights so my second choice was Sudan and Yemen, but I ended up buying tickets to Costa Rica check on godaven if you want to join me, last summer was amazing I davened with a minyan in the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Lake Powell [60 people] and Zion National Park [ im a tziony].
PS if you join me my minyan does not require masks but I provide leckach and pronfent after daveningcommonsaychelParticipant@Avi K, the chazal also say its the cheyuv of the father to teach his son torah so when you are sending him to yeshiva you and not in compliance with chazal, anyway we are getting into a whole other subjet.
BTW do you speak a fluent Ladino? do you speak it to your children?commonsaychelParticipantNew example of Covid hypocacy:
Blocking off middle seats on airplanes can significantly reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At this point, however, nearly all major domestic airlines have stopped blocking middle seats
We’ve all known for a while now that wearing masks and social distancing are two of the best ways to prevent COVID from spreading. Turns out the same is true on airlines. “Distancing can have a significant protective effect,” said James Bennett, a research engineer at the CDC who worked on the study.
Bennett explained just how much a difference it makes when airlines block middle seats varies.
“At the low end, we were looking at a 23% reduction in exposure, just from the fact of not being seated right next to another passenger if they happen to be infectious,” he said. At the high end, it’s a 57% reduction in exposure.
Airlines response:
“Multiple scientific studies confirm that the layers of protection significantly reduce risk, and research continues to demonstrate that the risk of transmission onboard aircraft is very low,” a spokesperson for Airlines for America told Insider, indicating no changes would be recommended to airlines.
In other words we are very carefull till it effects our bottom line so we won’t block the middle seatscommonsaychelParticipantWell your next door still has tent minyanim and indoor minyan and it has nothing to do with covid, its because there are 7 minyanim going on at the same time, the vast majority dont wear masks and the place is bh packed, whatever floats your boat/ minyan
commonsaychelParticipant@CtLawyer, you can always pass it on to one of your law school classmates and get a referal fee, this looks like a slam dunk case of ADA non compliance
commonsaychelParticipant“Some of the Chassidishe yeshivas intentionally keep their students functionally illiterate in order to deter them from going off the derech”
I hope what you are saying is incorrect, but if true, keeping students functionally illiterate is no guarantee they won’t go OTD… More likely , it will guarantee they will be unable to earn a parnassah or find a kallah who has any aspirations for a normal life”
That is total bunk of both parts, some of the most successful people in the frum olam today have attended Chasidisher Yeshivas and the highest level of assimilation is coming from the MO community.
Back in history the area with the highest level of assimilation was the highly educated Germans and the lowest level was from the uneducated people of the Middle East and North Africa.commonsaychelParticipantyou never answered my question about Antwerp
commonsaychelParticipant@AAQ, my question was both a general and a specific, if there is a confict betweeen two secular laws ie rights under ADA vs Covid compliance does the concept of maris aryin come into play.
The answer is a clear NO, Maris ayin only comes into play in regards to halacha not secular law.I once told you the story about a vistor who walk down the street in Antwerp on shabbos wearing a tallis not knowing there was a community moray to not wear a tallis in public, a car drove up to him and he rolled down the window and yelled Yungerman Chillul Hashem, now who was making the chillul hashem, the guy wearing the tallis or the guy driving a car on shabbos?
commonsaychelParticipant@avi k, yes Millons and growing, even in israel, I had no issue using yiddish in Jerusalem, Bnai Brak, Elad, Beitar or Ashdod, in fact most meshulochim from Israel only communicate yiddish when they are in chutz. I have heard yiddish being used in London, Antwep, Melbourne and Sao Paulo.
commonsaychelParticipant@AAQ, nothing personal but I can’t figure out what you are trying to say in your rambling response, you asked if a Rav will pasken that there is no issue with maris ain if one utilizes right given that one is gicen under secular law and I was told there is no issue, unlike you I dont tailor a psak to fit my agenda if I was told there was I would have accepted it.
What has came to light since then about this particular episode is that the flight crew was told at the gate and upon boarding the aircraft that the son suffers from ASD and attends a special ed school and wont be wearing a mask, the flight crew ignored them, violations of ADA results in a $75,000 fine for the first violation and $150,000 each additional violation, it does not look good for Spirit in spite of me being a shareholder, if I was a Spirit manager I would be contacting @CTLawyer and try to hustle a settlement
commonsaychelParticipant@Anonymous Jew, “the large majority of the descendants of those 12 million yiddish speakers who left the Pale no longer speak Yiddish ”
for that matter sadly most are not Jewish the vast majority intermarried and are not longer Jews.
Yiddish is alive and well and fourth most spoken language in Brooklyn and has about 3 million speakers worldwide.
Almost all Yiddish speakers are bilingual quite a number a triligual, most yiddish speakers in Montreal, Buenos Aires and Antwerp speak four languages some even fivecommonsaychelParticipant@avi k, at its peak the total of Ladino speaker numbered about 1 millon speakers, today there are less then 60 K speakers compeared to 12 million Yiddish speakers that crossed from the Pale in Russia to the East End of London to America to Israel until 1948, it was and is the lingua franca for the vast majority of frum Jewery, it is the fourth most spoken lanaguge in Brooklyn and have over 3 million speakers. It maybe dead as a secular culture but it is still spoken by secular Jews daily in Antwerp.
I am a native yiddish speaker and rose to upper managment in corporate America, my children and grandchildren are fluent in both Yiddish and EnglishcommonsaychelParticipantI was at a Aeroflot check in check a few years back and in those day Aeroflot allowed 2 checked luggages per passenger of 50 pound apiece.
A litivisher yungerman was trying to check two suitcases one weigh in at 60 pounds the other at 35, the desk agent told him to take out some thing from one bag and put it in the other, the yungerman said lemayser geret why cant this one [pointing to suitcase] be koneh the zechus of that one, the russian airline employee looked at him with puzzled look and said vot u saidApril 15, 2021 11:03 am at 11:03 am in reply to: Making a Barocho on a Blossoming Tree in Nissan #1965052commonsaychelParticipant@huju, then he asks a Open Orthodox rabbi and he say responds, its a svek svaka one side its named after a animal, one the other hand Tata Motors did some enviormental damage and driving a car causes global warming therefore make a brocha without using the shem
commonsaychelParticipantIn the Litvishe yeshivos I am familiar with, the English spoken by secular studies teachers, and even rebbeim, is adequate. most speak yeshivish raid not English. I once heard a yeshiva man tell a Asian- American bank manager Hay nach anamy
commonsaychelParticipant@yt, lets see the topic you started,
Why is the app so glitched
Cutting my Payos off
is it ok to buy lottery tickets
Fralychin Purim
how ppl use the coffee room
Yup all signs point to a bored buchercommonsaychelParticipant@ Reb E, I heard it being used as to discripe people who are something along the lines of a counrty bumkin
commonsaychelParticipant@Reb E, is being called a fifty sixer an insult? I know some who say it is others say its not
commonsaychelParticipant@ Sam Klein, “The person needs to get a life and a job so he stops wasting his time doing nothing but trolling”, if you noticed this type of activity peaks during bain hazmanim mostly by bored bucherim who cant get a date
commonsaychelParticipantI think troll is one of the ingredients used to make an overnight kugel
commonsaychelParticipant@coffee addict, its just a temporary thing new zman starts next week and all the bucherim will be gone then
commonsaychelParticipantwhy dignify this with a response
commonsaychelParticipantNo clue
commonsaychelParticipant@AAQ, I too reguarly discuss game plans with Lawyers and CPAs but do I disscus what case law the lawyer should cite? not at $300-500 an hour, I keep the conversations brief and to the topic.
I did ask two Rabbonim about the isssue of maris ayin and I was told unequivocally that if two secular laws confict [ie ADA and CDC guidlines] the halacha of maris ayin does not apply, I didnt get into a whole give and take with them because I imagined they were charging me $500 an hour.“So, be considerate to other people on a plane, that’s all I am saying.” 100% agree be considerate and respectful to everyone not just on a plane, but in the parking lot, supermarket, shul, restaurant etc. including those who chose not to enforce the mask rules in shuls stores etc.
commonsaychelParticipantwhat came first the bored bucher or trool?
commonsaychelParticipant@AAQ, “I’ll be interested to learn about ranges of halakha here.” when I ask a halacha lmayisha issue to a Rav I dont get into a give and take with him nor do I ask my lawyer for case law back up when I retain him for a legal opinion or a CPA for the IRS rulings I have something called trust for a expert.
Our history is littered with people who viewed torah as something to be use to fit the agenda they were pushing, from the Erev Rav and Korech to Shabbati Tzvi to Haskala to Kapos in WW II.ADA is a right afforded to all people in the US regardless of who they are, same as any other law, there were a few people who were horrified that frum people sued various villages for discrimination and they had no business exercising their rights.
I would pay for a tee shirt that reads: NO I AM NOT WEARING A MASK AND ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHY NOTcommonsaychelParticipantStarbuck Grande ice coffee with almond milk and one sweet and low
commonsaychelParticipant@AAQ and lets say the answer does not fit into your agenda? then disregard it? Anyway its a moot point because we are talking about exercising one rights afforded under US law.
April 11, 2021 9:41 am at 9:41 am in reply to: Making a Barocho on a Blossoming Tree in Nissan #1964016commonsaychelParticipant@not a Toyota but if its a Sussita or a Rom Carmel then you can
commonsaychelParticipantIt is the height of Am Ratzius to say that we need to worry about maris arin when utilizing our right under US law, sorry pal but it is obvious that you have no clue about the rules in regards to ADA.
Maris ain does not even apply to the use of an eruv, it is safely assumes that if a frum person is pushing a stroller on shabbos there is a eruv. In fact the eruv and US law is a good analogy there were several cases of municipalities that were sued under Rluipa [Westhampton, Tenafly, Mahwah etal] for not allowing a eruv to be built, were we worried about maris ain when the eruv was built or our rights under US law.
Under normal circumstances I would have advised seeking out your LOR for guidance but I forgot you only advocate that if the answer would fit the agenda you are pushing otherwise you disregard it.commonsaychelParticipantlite with no sugar, soy if cholov yisroel is not around
commonsaychelParticipant@AAQ, when it come to rules we follow the rules, for example if the speed limit is 55 you don’t need to drive at 45 or if your sitting in first class and they announce first class is boarding you don’t need to wait and board with coach.
I have to deal on my job with ADA compliance and for example if the person had a certified service dog we were not allowed to ask the nature of the disablity because it is in vilolation of ADA.
Maris ayin applies when for example one got to a traif restaurant, utilizing your rights under ADA is not Maris ayinApril 8, 2021 8:08 pm at 8:08 pm in reply to: How can I get my sefer into the hands of yeshiva bochurim #1963563commonsaychelParticipant@fellowyid12234567890
Welcome to the CR, hope to see your comments with some deeper thoughtscommonsaychelParticipant@TGI, a huge chunk of New Rochelle sends the kids to SAR located in the Bronx [one of the five boros], anyway we are talking about the brand new frum communities that sprang up in the past few years not in town vs out of town
commonsaychelParticipantWhat’s Choosid
commonsaychelParticipant@ujm, it was in the Peasch issue of Ami or Mishpocha, Klausenburg is in Union City thats in Hudson County near the Lincoln Tunnel, Union NJ is in the area of the Garden State Parkway exit 140, it was started by one of the Bobovs if I am not mistaken. Does Staten Island qualify as a new yishuv? not sure there has been a frum presence there for years but it grew by leaps and bounds in the past 5 years
commonsaychelParticipantThere are a bunch of aliens who are day laborers and just jumped into a pick up truck, my cleaning help are aliens who are paying off the smugglers who got them across the Rio Grande
April 8, 2021 8:23 am at 8:23 am in reply to: How can I get my sefer into the hands of yeshiva bochurim #1963315commonsaychelParticipantserious posts gets serrious replies
commonsaychelParticipantyup the amout of aliens swamping the the us increasing on a daily basis
commonsaychelParticipantSo long as you are in compliance with the airlines policies its none of anyone business, show the documentation to the flight crew and if anyone makes a comment, be polite and tell them its none of your business, fly wherever and whenever your heart desires, its none of anyones business, if AAQ offer to pay for your upgrade to first class I would certainly take him up on his offer.
PS Maris ayin is only appicable in conficts in halachacommonsaychelParticipantWhats a overnight kugel?
commonsaychelParticipant@AAQ, “One striking example, he praises Hong Kong v. Israel, saying similar sized countries and see how better Hong Kong done w/ pure capitalism … With more time passed, we see that Hong Kong was gobbled by PRC and Israel produced some free enterprise …”
Hong Kong was not gobbled up by the PRC, it reverted back to China after the lease by the UK was over and they had to give certain assurances to them. Israel was dragged kicking into the free market during Bibi’s first term and the socialist were fighting him every step of the way.
Please dont reinvent history. BTW Friedman was 1000% right the GNP of Hong Kong was and is still greater then Israel.
If you told the CEO of Spirit, Ryanair or Wizz air that they are doing tzodoka they would laugh in your face and tell you to get a check up from your neck upcommonsaychelParticipant@Catch Yourself, “We also paid for four checked bags ($41 each, which is higher than it used to be).
Total cost: $286 one way, or $572 round trip, for 6 passengers.”
Love it, that plus the lowest paid employees in the airline industry caused my Spirt stock to soar.commonsaychelParticipantAnother day another family kicked off of Sprirt, thanks for reminding not flying them
commonsaychelParticipant@YWfakeN, sock puppet
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