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Which “military” victory? We had a “military” in Shushan?
The Megilla states clearly that the date of Purim corresponds not to the day of the triumph but to the day the Jews rested from battle.
Do you date older women?
She wanted to know if you were kidnapped.
Perhaps it recently switched from Kof-K to OU, hence the results you had on their respective websites.
WOI: Do you always use letzanus to knock the Torah?
Another possibility is that they recently switched hechsheirim, and you got one package made under the old and one package made under the new.
Absolutely, correct. I would add even Jews in EY shouldn’t in any way celebrate Yom Haatzshmut.
I have the flag flying in my room all year round.
DY: You missed the point entirely. You implied that KVH is unreliable on its own, by saying that some say Kellogg’s has been checked independently of the KVH. Yet, if it is unreliable and needs independent checking, what good is relying on purported independent checking, if you aren’t even certain that it is in fact independently checked!
Purim does not celebrate a military victory.
It’s less an aveira to say it on the American Independence Day than the Zionist Independence Day.
yichusdik: Don’t be foolish. Perhaps murder isn’t so bad, since the death penalty is rarely applied due to a lack of two witnesses who gave advance warning and the perpertarator committed it in front of them post-warning. Right.
Mishkav zochor is in the same category as murder. Both are death penalty crimes.
If there were a Murderers Day Pride March or a Adulterers Day Pride March, apparently you’d support it the same as you support the feigelech. After all, you never witnessed the murder or adultery.
Some say Kellogg’s has been checked independently of the KVH.
What good is “some say”? If you aren’t certain of its reliability, then it cannot be consumed.
The Chazon Ish pronounced that if drafting women was included, that we should resist even if it meant death:
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They left no doubt as to the cause for their opposition – the army in Israel is a place where moral standards are relaxed, to say the least, and it was just not the proper environment for a Jewish daughter. Against their will, the girls would be affected by the atmosphere and the environment to which they would be exposed, a milieu which would replace the positive reinforcement they would have gotten at home from parents and family.
Rabbis Isser Zalman Meltzer and Tzvi Pesach Frank also issued pronouncements that a person must choose death rather than accede to the government decree, as did the Steipler Rav and Rav Shach. When another rabbi suggested that perhaps it would not be so terrible if the girls served under carefully supervised conditions, the Chazon Ish retorted that the rabbi’s opinion was totally worthless and, had he had any children, he would not have been able to say something like that The Chazon Ish actually ruled that the Sabbath should be desecrated to avoid compliance with a draft order and urged parents and teachers to inculcate young women with the laws of dying “al kiddush Hashem;’ in sanctification of the Name.
The reasoning of B&H to disallow purchasing on Shabbos, is tangentially related to the OP’s question.
What gives you the right to limit your backpack to under an arbitrary 20 lbs., at the cost of not bringing sufficient water to wash with?
B&H Photo disables purchasing on their website during Shabbos.
You must use your water to wash for the bread. Otherwise, you cannot eat the bread.
It used to always be that if you were logged into one, then you were logged into both. After they did some kind of site maintenance update, it broke it, and it doesn’t allow you be logged into both simultaneously.
Iow, there is no standard. Do whatever you like.
Halachicly, if someone was pressured by the telemarketers persistence, and refusal to take no for an answer, to pledge an amount he didn’t want to, is obligated to fulfil it?
Them?
Feif: By definition, Kollel yungerleit are far more educated than almost everyone else.
You refuse to judge Levi Aron until you reach his place?
RABBAIM makes a very good point.
Also, even if we don’t judge a person based on their frei siblings, we surely judge the sibling himself who discarded the Torah for their terrible actions.
I was there. From beginning to end. In person. (And I saw the replay.) K’mat every single speaker said filters.
And just for the record, At the asifa, they did NOT promote filters they promoted banning.
Absolutely wrong. Every fifth word at the asifa was “filters, filters, fiters”. From almost every speaker, the Litvish and the Chasidish.
In either case, asking a shaila isn’t sufficient. The one who wishes to be compensated needs to bring the other party to Beis Din. Otherwise he can’t be forced to pay based upon a shaila alone.
This is why one shouldn’t go to treif eating relatives (or anyone.) And especially with children.
That’s why all this talk about those able to learn all day being an “exception to the rule” misses the point.
Not everyone will become Moshe Rabbeinu, to be sure, but everyone should try to come as close as they can. And everyone admits that being Moshe Rabbeinu is something to look up to, strive for, and admire. Even if most of us don’t ever make it there.
So too even if many people will not learn all day, we all must recognize that it is certainly a higher level, it is a prize and privilege and merit that we should all try to attain, since it provides us with a higher spiritual level, and reaching the highest level possible in this world is our goal.
Today, thank G-d we live in a society where many, many people can learn all day. They recognize, BH, that learning Torah is better for your soul than practicing law. Or accounting. Or writing software. No question about it.
The point is the values, not the behavior. Behavior represents Jews; the values represent Judaism. To say that not everyone will reach the high level of learning all day is acceptable. But to say that isn’t a higher level, is changing the Torah’s values. Talmud Torah Kneged Kulam. And that includes every second of learning.
The workplace, even frum workplaces, is not a place for a good Jewish boy. We have to be there, granted; we have to make a living for our families – which is a Mitzvah in itself – but we need to realize the price we pay for those necessities.
There is a story in the mussar seforim, about a man who had a premonition that next year’s crops would be poisoned, so that whoever would eat it would become insane. He didn’t; know what to do — if he would eat the crops he’d become insane, but if he does not eat the crops, the whole world will be insane except him, and being the only normal one in an insane world is just as bad as being insane. Warning people about the crops is useless because nobody would believe him anyway. So he went ot the village wise man who told him, “You have to eat the crops. You’re right – that being the only normal person in an insane world is as bad as being insane. Plus it will drive you crazy anyway. But here’s what you do:
“Tie a string around your finger to remind yourself constantly that you have eaten from the crops and you are insane. Being insane is bad, but in this case you have no choice. However, for the rest of the world, much worse than being insane is the fact that they will think they’re normal. Being insane is bad, but being insane thinking you’re normal is much worse. So tie a string around your finger which will always remind you that you are insane. You’ll be insane, but at least you’ll know you’re insane. Everyone else will think they’re normal, so you’ll be much much better off than the rest.”
The nimshal is, there’s nothing wrong with going to work, and often it may even be a necessity. But to spend the gift of life that Hashem gives us for such a short time in this world selling cars or programming computers or whatever we need to do to make a living, is insane. It may be necessary, but it’s still insane. We have so little to live in this world (we should all live to 120 years, but compared to eternity in the afterlife, 120 years is nothing), and its our only chance to collect Torah and Mitzvos — how crazy is it to busy ourselves with other things??
But we have to? OK, we have to. At the very least, let us realize that we do so out of necessity and that making a living necessitates our leading a life which, when you consider what we’re on this world for and the opportunities that exist ONLY while we are here, is insane. Let’s at least realize that.
For those who learn all day, they may not need to tie strings around their fingers, but, unfortunately, in the materialistic and confused world that we live in, they need posts such as this one, to constantly remind them that their lives are very, very normal, sane, and healthy.
The hardships of Kolel are nothing compared to the pleasures. Like Rav Aharon ZT’L said – that those who support learning might get Olam Habah like those who learn, but they surely don’t get Olam Hazeh like them. Money isn’t everything – even in Olam Hazeh.
The Sultan didn’t need to see his doctor for multiple hours every day.
Sitting and learning all day is the ideal. “Talmud Torah Kneged Kulam.” Chazal say, one word of Torah is higher than an entire lifetime of doing these Mitzvos. Chazal often mention that Toroso Umnoso is the ideal, that we do nothing all day but learn. Nowadays poskim say that we cannot reach that level, but clearly the closer the better. Also, Shulchan Aruch Hilchos Talmud Torah, in the Shach, says that nowadays learning all day is the ideal, and that if someone has the ability to do it, he should. The Shach adds that regarding learning all day in general, nowadays we cannot reach our potential in learning the way the Rambam etc. did, since we are not on that level. Therefore, we should learn all day if we can.
The Rambam writes that a “working person” is someone who learns 8 hours a day and works 3. Not works 9am to 5pm.
Heheh. The problem with approving them not in chronological order is that readers often make a mental bookmark of where they are holding on a thread by the last post they read. So if you approve an earlier post later (or make a mod post without first approving the other, earlier, pending posts), people will often miss the older comments that were approved later since they thought they already read everything up to the last post they saw.
The mods sometimes approve posts not in chronological order.
Also, mod 42 has a nasty habit of putting through his own posts without approving regular posters comments who posted earlier. 😉
A get is chayiv misa for any aveira?? Where’d you get that from, phrum? You must’ve meant a gentile is chayiv misa for any aveira (from the 7 he is obligated to.)
Sam: Why would you assume such a gentile receives olam habah?
Then again, historically people were converted before they even knew what most of the mitzvot were.
That may be, but they always had to have the full intention of accepting the yoke of following all 613 post-conversion, as they became familiarized with them. They could not decide pre-conversion that even one of the 613 was too hard and would not maintain it; otherwise the conversion would never have been effective (even with their going into the mikva and verbalizing any statements that they never intended to follow in practice.)
And a gentile is obligated to fully maintain all 7 noachide laws (at penalty of death.) Failure to keep even one of them (i.e. immorality, petty theft, idolatry, etc.) constitutes them forfeiting an afterlife.
An interesting question is whether a Gentile who routinely violated a Noachide Law, or even mistakenly violated such a law on one occasion, can repent from that sin and how he would have to go about repenting.
If a Ger reverts to stop practicing Judaism, it is probably a very good indication that he indeed regretted starting with Judaism.
Goq: What is wrong with getting gelilah?
yitzy: What you mentioned proves our Chachomim knew science better than the scientists.
Umbrellas.
It is not okay.
Most mikvas are big enough that multiple people are in them simultaneously.
(The Ari’s mikvah in Tzfas isn’t, though.)
Wouldn’t the 30 day return policy protect you if you make a purchase with them?