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Practically if the will isn’t there
Therein is a problem. Muster up the will. It may be hard, but it is achievable.
Nowhere had mdd suggested advising the parents a reason. He simply explained to *us* the reason, as explained in Rashi.
Why should a Shabbos meal be less b’kovodik than a chasuna meal? People leave it on for kavod Shabbos.
It’s rude to take your hat off among Yidden. Do you see people taking their hat off at a chasana, after the chupa, when they sit down to eat their meal? People leave it on.
The Shomer Emunim ztvk’l explained the meaning of the story.
It has to do with tznius.
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How does today’s deal compare to the last two deals you posted above?
You don’t have to say anything when visiting the parents for shiva. Just sit with them. (And if they start talking to you, simply follow wherever they lead the conversation.) The main thing is to sit with them.
Time to throw in the towel.
You can count the years in the Torah.
Anyone have a light?
I understood ICOT to mean that he thinks public opinion would be the determining factor. I disputed that. If I misunderstood ICOT, then I apologize.
zsdad: How much did thee Droid Siddur App cosat (I assume it wasn’t free)? Is it available on Amazon Appstore (if so, what’s the name of it)?
Good morning. The Israeli State has been built on kefira from Day 1.
That’s not correct, it will be decided by law not opinion. The public will have an opinion (actually many divergent opinions), but we are a nation of laws and ultimately the law determines the result.
uneeq: Where do you come to actually argue on the Debreciner!?!
Based on the just released UJA 2012 Jewish population study, the forward reports that “Among the Orthodox, ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews are the largest group, at 16% of the Jewish population of the eight counties counted in the survey. They outnumber both Modern Orthodox Jews, at 10% of the total Jewish population, and non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jews, at 6% of the population.”
That means that within Orthodoxy the Chareidim make up 69% of the population (the Chasidim alone are 50% of the overall Orthodox and the Litvish/non-Chasidish are 19% of the overall Orthodox) while the Modern Orthodox represent 31% of the Orthodox. So the OP was pretty much on the button.
Also, according to the UJA 2012 report, half of the non-Orthodox marriages between 2006 and 2011 was to a non-Jew.
And while Jews make up a slightly smaller proportion of the population in New York than they did a decade ago, they are way up in Brooklyn. Now, 22% of Brooklynites are Jewish, compared to 18% a decade ago. So while Brooklyn is becoming more Jewish, the other four boroughs of NYC are becoming less Jewish.
Moving anywhere doesn’t help. The U.S. Military has video cameras on satellites in the sky that can record anyone anywhere in the world, even showing small details like individual faces.
If you’ll be upstate for the summer, there is a barn near Monticello where they manufacture them on-site from locally breeded ponies.
He never published it. He gave a copy to a few confident’s that he trusted wouldn’t distribute it.
And he discontinued sale of the original books upon instructions of the gedolim (he said so himself), not public opinion.
Sam: So if the government (and some private enterprises) are able to monitor a live satellite feed, on a screen, of anywhere in the world, how can anyone ever go outside on Shabbos (as HaLeiVi asked earlier) anywhere?
Sam: There is no point in arguing about it. Even the author agreed to withdraw it and he opposes it being distributed, per the Gedolim’s instructions. If he listens to the Gedolim when it directly affects his own writings, surely perspective readers should honor the instructions of both the Gedolim and the author in this matter.
(Btw, the second book “The Making of a Ban” he never published.)
hello99: What did you post?
Does it make a difference if in addition to saving the movie to a hard drive there is also a live monitor displaying the movements?
And is there any difference between a conventional security video camera and a video camera on a satellite in orbit recording live movements on Earth?
The gedolim shlit”a advised the author to withdraw the book from the market. He listened to the gedolim and withdrew it. I’m not sure why anyone would want to read something the gedolim don’t allow; but in any event it is unavailable.
Adults should get their piece of herring before children get their piece.
There are very many cream of the crop bochorim. But where are the good girls??
Yekke: There are cameras rolling in the streets all over London. (For years already.) That city is abuzz with cameras.
If there are insufficient seats for everyone, the children should allow the adults to sit instead of them taking seats.
I’m still not understanding. They only “advise” to go to BD first; but if going to BD “isn’t feasible” they’ll start protesting against the spouse without a BD first ruling a divorce is required under halacha?
They represent anyone stuck in a marriage they don’t want
What on earth does that mean? Just because someone “doesn’t want” a marriage, does not entitle them to leave it. That is why Rabbeinu Gershom made a cherem to prevent men from divorcing their wife without consent. (Women were always prohibited from simply leaving a marriage because they didn’t “want” it anymore; they need a good halachic justification for a beis din to mandate a divorce.)
Okay, hopefully this’ll pass muster. My own summary; no quoting from the article.
It says there are 1.1 million Jews in New York City (which has the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel and the city represents a third of all American Jewry), and of those 493,000 are Orthodox and another 220,000 are Russian Jews.
In 2012, 40% of all Jews in NYC are Orthodox (up from 33% in 2002), but 74 percent of all Jewish children in the city are Orthodox.
It also notes that while the Orthodox community is growing and becoming more religious (and isolated), the non-Orthodox are shrinking, becoming less religious and more and more don’t even identify themselves with any stream of Judaism.
(Mods: I shortened it this time.) From tomorrow’s NY Times:
I deleted it because it is most probably a copyright violation.
Mod, as long as it isn’t the full article (i.e. less than 50%), it isn’t a copyright violation. It falls under “fair use”. Websites post partial articles from mainstream news sites all the time, including the main page of YWN.
Can I repost?
I’m not a lawyer. no.
Reading tidbits, it seems Rav Chaim is saying it is only permissible to use the internet with a filter. Without a filter it is assur to use the internet. Rav Wosner seems to be going a little further and saying it is assur to use the internet for personal use at all (i.e. having internet at home), even with a filter. But for business use, it is permissible with a filter. Both say that to use the internet at all, even with a filter, one must first ask their Rov a shaila about their personal need for the internet, and obtain a heter, if permissible, for them to use the internet (with a filter).
AZ, is that a good understanding of the psak din of the gedolei haposkim?
Sure you will. Then you will come up with some other pretext to disregard the gedolim.
Where is TAG and how do you get their help with filters?
According to a University of Manchester study, not only will the Ultra-Orthodox be a majority of Orthodoxy but will be a majority of all Jewry:
‘Majority of Jews will be Ultra-Orthodox by 2050’
23 Jul 2007
Ultra-orthodox British and American Jews are set to outnumber their more secular counterparts by the second half of this century according to research by a University of Manchester academic. Historian Dr Yaakov Wise says the increase in religious British Jewry – recognisable by their traditional dress – is now outstripping the decline in the overall Jewish population which has been shrinking by one to two per cent each year since the 1950s. European ultra-orthodox Jewry is expanding more rapidly than at any time since before World War Two. Almost three out of every four British Jewish births, he says are ultra- orthodox who now account for 45,500 out of a total UK Jewish population of around 275,000 or 17 per cent. According to Dr Wise and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Professor Sergio Della Pergola, Israel is experiencing similar changes. Dr Wise said: “If current trends continue there is going to be a profound cultural and political change among British and American Jews – and it’s already well on the way. “This is in spite of demographic studies which show that the non-Ultra Orthodox Jewish population is flat or falling. “And you can see evidence for this in communities across the UK: in Greater Manchester for example the Ultra-orthodox number 8,500 which is almost a third of the 28,000 Jews in the region. “This is up from around one quarter only ten years ago. “Approximately half of all the Jewish under fives in Greater Manchester are Ultra-orthodox. “And in Greater London the Ultra-orthodox now account for 18 per cent of the Jewish population, up from less than 10 per cent in the early 1990s.” He added: “My work and that of Professor Sergio Della Pergola reveal a similar picture in Israel. “By the year 2020, the Ultra-orthodox population of Israel will double to one million and make up 17 per cent of the total population. “A recent Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics report also found that a third of all Jewish pupils will be studying at haredi schools by 2012, prompting emergency meetings at the Education Ministry. “In America too, where the Jewish population is stable or declining, Ultra-Orthodox Jewish numbers are growing rapidly. “Professor Joshua Comenetz from The University of Florida says the Ultra-orthodox population doubles every 20 years, which he says may make the Jewish community not only more religiously observant but more politically conservative. “Comenetz estimated the Ultra-orthodox population in 2000 was about 360,000, 7.2 per cent of the approximately 5 million Jews in the U.S. “But in 2006, demographers now estimate the number had grown to 468,000 or 9.4 per cent.” NOTES FOR EDITORS The UK figures were based on census data plus the regular monitoring of Jewish births by academics in Manchester and Leeds.
AZ:
Can you please clarify your point? How was Rav Wosner shlita and Rav Chaim shlita’s psak different?
How can Google differentiate between two people with the same name?
Stop looking for excuses.
The story in the OP is a bubbe maisa.
Story isn’t accurate or correct.