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Vochindim, you can’t compare frum Yiddish speakers to chiloni Hebrew speakers. That’s ridiculous. Obviously someone who doesn’t care to learn Torah will not magically know Torah. Also, there are many “higher level shiurim” that are NOT given in Yiddish. Many are switching to English and Hebrew, which is the appropriate thing to do because that’s what the next generation of talmidim understand.
You’re definitely right about the global population in that the Ashkenazim are the more numerous, but I keep seeing conflicting data about Israel. But this is all besides the point anyway. The point is that there is a huge chunk of klal Yisrael that doesn’t understand Yiddish. There is a reason sforim are almost always published in Hebrew – because that’s what Jews understand. Writing a sefer in Yiddish would severely limit the number of Jewish readers who can read it. It’s undeniable that anybody studying Torah has a tremendous advantage if they are raised to be fluent in Hebrew as opposed to Yiddish.
Actually, the census says data I saw says 51% of Jews in Israel are non-Ashkenaz.
Vochindik, the Ashkenazic gedolim speak Yiddish. That’s because they grew up in Europe. It will likely be completely obsolete by the time next generation’s gedolim are here. It’s impractical to give a shiur or try to communicate with a nation that doesn’t understand what you are saying. Try not to forget that slightly over half of klal Yisrael isn’t Ashkenazic.
Health – there’s no need to turn every single discussion into an anti-Zionist crusade. It’s really getting old. Nonetheless your logic is severely flawed. According to what you are saying all of the Sfardi communities are also wrong in their pronounciations, and are incapable of understanding Torah. Your “hunch” is not just childish and baseless, it’s apikorsus. You can take your psak that speaking Hebrew is ossur, and go get a haskamah from all non-Ashkenazic Rabbonim. If they give you their signature, I’ll be more than happy to follow your psak.
Okay iced. You can keep trying to convince me that my fluent Hebrew didn’t help me in Yeshiva at all, but that won’t change the reality that all the American kids in the beis midrash always came to me to translate the hard words for them. You obviously don’t know Hebrew well enough to discuss it with any credibility.
Also, just because people understand Yiddish doesn’t mean that that’s the only language they understand. There are not many people who speak ONLY Yiddish, and the ones who do usually live in insulated communities, as I said. Usually, even those people will understand some Hebrew, if you speak slowly enough for them.
Umm… guys, it’s probably better not to be making a list for Israel’s ????? right before Rosh Hashanah… just saying
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If you want to learn Torah, learn Hebrew. If you want to learn to communicate with old Europeans, or isolated Chassidish communities, learn Yiddish. Regardless of whether modern day Hebrew has holiness to it or not, it’s the most useful language to know for learning Torah.
If we can all put our emotions aside for a second, and look at this from the view-point of halacha… I would like to understand halacha’s take on this.
So, there’s no concept of “age of consent” in halacha, that I know of. Please correct me if I’m wrong because I’m only posting this to dissect the halacha and understand it better. Assuming the perpetrator is a male, the only question is, is the victim a male or female, and did they resist the violator. If the victim is also a male, there is no death penalty unless the perpetrator actually commits ????? ??? and there are witnesses. If the victim is female then there is only monetary reparation, and that’s only if the victim makes an effort to resist by screaming out or looking for assistance. If they go along with it then it’s just plain “????”. It’s still a disgusting act, but what does halacha say?
In terms of the ‘Law of the Land’, do we really really call someone a “pedophile”, if he or she was a “pedo” (child) at the time of committing the crime? Obviously, the age difference in this case is significant; 15 vs 6 (or was it 9?), but at what point do we make the cutoff? What if it was two 6 year olds? or a 9 year old and a 6 year old? Where do we draw the lines?
RebRy – I say “closest” because there are innovations. They didn’t have a word for ‘refrigerator’ back then because it didn’t exist. Nonetheless, even the Mishna – which I assume we can all agree is lashon hakodesh – at times takes words from Greek, Roman, and Arabic. Often, modern Hebrew takes from Aramaic to speak of new innovations. One example that comes to mind is “?????” – “ice cream” is the word “frost” in Aramaic, that is used in Onkelus to describe the ‘manna’ (??) in ???? ?’ ??.
Chazal say the sole reason that Hebrew is considered Kadosh is because it has no words that are inherently vulgar. Modern day Hebrew dialect has to borrow from Arabic, Yiddish, and English to create dirty words. The language is still holy, because the words used by Israelis are just part of the evolving colloquial dialect (read: slang), not part of the actual (non-slang) language.
The laws of dikduk, grammar, and conjugation are almost entirely similar. This is why an “Ivrit” speaking individual has a very easy time reading Mishna and Psukim.
There is no question that Yiddish is not a holy language. Aramaic is unique b/c the malachim don’t understand it, but it’s not holy. No language other than Hebrew is holy.
They actually have helicopters that can fly upside down.
Scholarly Ivrit (not slang) is the closest thing to lashon hakodesh that people still use today. Just because you hate Israel, that doesn’t make it not so.
People who have no humor. And people that stand waaaay too close to your behind when you’re waiting in line at the airport.
How do u write superscripted tm?
Instead of “Like” it should say “Maskim”, because let’s face it, you more often click “Like” b/c you approve something, not b/c you developed an emotional attachment to it.
1)Ashkenaz-Sfardi racism/sinas chinom
2)see number 1.
An awful lot of schools preach to their kids about how sinas chinom destroyed the beis hamikdash.. All the while, the Sfardi kids have to learn about it at home because they weren’t accepted into the schools for being too dark.
I hate yahoo… they charge money for email forwarding (POP3). Everyone else does it for free!
“???? ?’ ?? ????”
The pasuk says Hashem will “rebuke” the Satan. It’s hard to understand why Hashem would rebuke an entity with no free will, or one that does precisely what Hashem commands.
Klal Yisroel is suffering!!.. why can’t the Pillsbury Doughboy go through geirus and bring us yeshuah?!?!
I WANT SOME DARN TOASTER STRUDELS!!!!
Lol… Whoever is gullible enough to actually think I’m serious should not be on the internet anyway, lest some long lost uncle from Nigeria scam them of their life savings.
Just because someone doesn’t want millions of Jews to die in the hands of the Muslims, that doesn’t make one a Zionist.
A big element of Judaism is to keep things in proper perspective. Our purpose in this life is to do God’s will. While God’s will may be different for different individuals, we should still keep that goal in mind no matter what we are doing – “What does Hashem want me to do now?”
Once we realize this, we can better understand the place of pets in Jewish life. Pets provide company, help children learn responsibility, and can be emotionally supportive of their owners, even though they don’t talk. Some pets also aid the handicapped or provide security. These things are all important and help a person lead a happy life. On the other hand, pets are often costly, may cause halachic problems (problems relating to Jewish law), and can be very time consuming responsibilities.
The question is, are there alternate methods you can derive the benefits that pets provide, without having to sacrifice with the negative aspects of owning a pet? It might very well be that there DO exist better alternatives, but detaching from a pet is too emotionally straining to make it worth it. That’s fine.
Once you recognise that the true purpose of a pet is to provide you with various things to help you better serve Hashem, you should no longer feel a need to pray for your pet – you can just pray for the satisfaction, joy or other good that your pet provides for you. Instead of praying for Cleocatra to live a long life, pray that you should live a long life that is free of sorrow and pain. Hashem is all-powerful and can make you genuinely happy with or without your pet. A pet is just a means to an end.
In general, the Torah’s philosophy is to not allow ourselves to become too attached to anything physical in this temporary life. I hope this helps.
This is NOT a traditional custom, to the best of my knowledge. There is a lot of misinformation online. Be really careful which websites you rely on for facts on Orthodox Judaism.
It’s like talking to a brick…
I said I wouldn’t argue anymore, but this is just ludicrous! What makes you think the Arabs would treat the Jews living in Israel any better if there were no Jews in the Knesset? You’re talking as if Arabs were our best friends before 1948. If you want to say your Rebbe is the Satmar Rebbe and you do what he says purely because of Halacha/Mesorah reasons that’s fine, but if you want to convince anyone that his opinion has any shiychus to reality today you’ve lost your dadgum marbles! His opinion is outdated, irrelevant, and totally not applicable to the scenario we have today in the Middle East. You are living in some sort of Chassidish fantasy bubble and you are completely ignorant or apathetic of reality, not sure which. You should really try to understand your enemy and their motives better before trying to cook up solutions to a situation that you obviously misunderstand.
It’s also easier for those of us who don’t know where all the psukim are sourced from to differentiate between which paragraphs are related and which are not. For example, “Aleinu” and “Al ken nekaveh” are two different tfillas written by two different people and they are often written in different sizes. This also holds true for the Psukei d’zimrah.
shmoel, to the best of my knowledge, most J4J people are missionaries posing as quazi-Jews to help better their chances of converting us. J4J is a X-tian run movement whose sole purpose is to convert Jews. Also, many “Jews” who join them are only Jewish from the father’s side.
Puhlease, I can’t understand why some people here are talking this way to you. I guess in our day and age people are so insecure that they need to tear others down to build make them feel good about themselves. I wish you to recognise that there is a God, whether you choose to be frum or not, and I wish for you to be happy above all. Even though I am not within my representational jurisdiction to do so, I apologize for the condescending remarks that have been thrown at you by those misled and miserable people here who chose to talk that way.
As a guy, I can’t identify myself as neither quiet nor talkative. Sometimes I’m in a talking mood, and sometimes I’m not. I often would rather not be in the center of group conversations, and I prefer to listen as opposed to talk, unless it’s a topic I feel very strongly about. Nonetheless, if nobody is talking I like to break the ice. Sometimes people like myself get labeled as “quiet”, just because we don’t always want to partake in conversations and aren’t consistently verbal in all situations. That’s not a fair or honest label.
Besides, “quiet” is a misleading adjective. I would want to find myself a girl who isn’t loud – in the plain sense of the word – but does have a pleasant and playful personality and a developed sense of humor. I want someone who loves to laugh as much as I do, even if she isn’t always the life of every single party. Just because someone is quiet doesn’t mean they should be boring. Quietness is a personality trait, but being boring is a dilemma. People who are dating should develop their own personality, even if they don’t necessarily stop being “quiet.” Nobody wants to be married to a boring person, and that goes both ways. “Chemistry” does play a role in who finds whom boring/fun, but there needs to be something there for the chemistry to build off of.
I used to be super-shy when I was a kid, but I overcame that, and I find that it’s helped me in countless ways. Someone is allowed to be quiet, but that doesn’t mean they should be overly shy and impossible to hold a conversation with or have fun with.
Why is it so taboo to just use a little seichel? There should really not be 4 whole pages worth of debate on this issue. Forget the shidduch-crisis, there’s an emergency common-sense-crisis.
Health – did you just correct tahini’s post from “Kotel” to “Kosel”??!
If you said this as a joke, you are probably 12, and if you were serious then that’s just plain gayvadik and ignorant of you. Even Ashkenazim who know dikduk admit that there is no letter “saf” in the original Hebrew. If anything, it’s “kothel”. You are being extremely obnoxious, and I don’t know why anyone is still paying you any attention. You certainly don’t deserve it, the way you talk to people.
Lesschumras – there is no such metzityus as “Rabbi” nowadays, except one who teaches Torah. Boteach is the antithesis of Torah and doesn’t deserve the title. He makes a chilul Hashem on TV on a regular basis. Do you call reform and conservative “rabbis”, “rabbi”? I should hope not.
A basic principle of the Torah is to do what the Torah says regardless of consequences (barring places where the Torah specifically says to mind the consequences). The world is in Hashem’s hands, and we do what he says without selling out and using the ends to justify our means, even if the ends are just and will help out many Jews. They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Boteach is a sell out. He sold out to fame, money, and recognition. This is the opposite of the Torah’s instruction, and even if his ends are good and even if he has pure intentions it doesn’t make it any better.
We should all have an escape plan to go live in the wilderness hundreds of miles from civilization…
How much is 9 kavim in contemporary units of volume?
You’re right, but some people suggested it’s a good idea even if they aren’t real. So I was saying not so b/c….
Btw, they will try to convince you to send it in to them so they can charge you double or triple what the part alone costs.
Yes, if your computer runs alright and you can see it functions when its turned on that means your internal components are working, its just the screen that needs replacing. Just make sure you order the right screen. The back of the screen should have a sticker with the model and part #s. Call your manufacturer to be sure.
That’s an interesting story. I have a tow hitch on my truck so if i bump anyone in reverse I leave a baseball-sized hole in their bumper. It’s good bumping protection; keeps my chrome rear bumper spotless. We don’t bump in these parts though, loads of parking spaces available everywhere.
ABP/Ad Block Plus. Let’s you permanently block specific ads, and it blocks popups.
My friend in J-lem said its real. He said he hasn’t seen them in person though so I don’t know how he knows its real. Either way, they’re terrible for your health and safety.
If you know how to use a screwdriver you can fix a laptop screen. If you’re really unsure about it, check your laptop model online for how-to videos on YouTube or similar. I had an incident very similar to iyhbyu, so before I ordered a screen I found a how-to video online with the exact model laptop I have, that way I was sure I could fix it before spending money. You can usually order parts directly from the manufacturer. Unless you have two left hands (and are right handed), it’s really easy.
Ya’ll need to stop being so uptight. If you think saying GS to a particular someone passing you on the street will cause you to be nichshal then don’t do it. The rest of us will keep acting like normal people.
Bc it’s weird!
Okay fine so visine is a bit distasteful… How about cutting the brakelines on somebody’s car? Haha! Oh man… That’s a hilarious one. It gets them every time!!
Shopping613 – are you kiddin? These Chassidish kids light cat-infested dumpsters on fire for sport! As soon as they saw it jump out they started screaming, “SCHMIRN DEM KAZ!!!” It’s all their fault I hit the poor thing.
ICOT that’s a creative solution! The original riddle is with a king who is watching over this scenario. He executes you if you walk through the wrong door, and it’s not some sort of mechanical or natural death that is physically connected by the door. Thus, your answer wouldn’t really work because the man you threw through the door wouldn’t be executed. Also, the question you are asking him doesn’t really guarantee anything, and he just kind of serves as a guinnea pig of sorts. Good effort, but try again!
I understand Gedolim advise a ben Torah to dress like a ben Torah, but why do bnei Torah not dress like the gedolim did when they were the bnei Torah’s age? (Ie: in line with respectable, middle-of-the-road, modern society.)
Proud Hungarian, why do you say mizrachis break with the dress of the learned in their generation? The frum mizrachis in Israel that dress in black, white and Fedora are the ones breaking from tradition. The learned Mizrachis of Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, and Syria didn’t have felt yarmulkas and black suit jackets. The frum mizrachis who moved to Israel only adopted the style 60+ years ago from Western culture and the Ashkenazis in eretz Yisrael… About the same time that coloreful knitted yarmalkas were introduced. Saying that they are breaking from tradition because they don’t dress like Hungarians is wrong. Otherwise, you should encourage them to dress in a jalabiya and Fez. Throughout time in galus Jews adopted more or less the style of dress of the places they lived in, not of their grandfathers’ clothes from last century’s fashion. It happens to be that today black, white, and wide brim is not society’s dress, it’s the frum crowd’s way of separating from society. If anything, the should dress business casual with colored shirts, no ties, and narrow brims. That is the way the MKs and businessmen dress in Israeli society. The Chareidim of today abandoned Jewish tradition of dressing like chashuv members of society.
Oh no… This hotzaas diba is exactly why I left Vos Iz Neias… I didn’t kill that darned cat! It was a split second decision, okay!? It jumped in front of my car from behind a hatzolah van that was ILLEGALLY parked on the wrong side of the street! It was either that dumb suicidal cat, or the nerdy Catholic missionary who was soliciting some Yeshiva guys in the opposite lane!! If I woulda hit him instead, everyone would be screaming, “Curiosity killed the Catholic!! Curiosity killed the Catholic! Waa!! Waaa!!” Everyone thinks it’s soooo easy drifting a 15-seater packed with 25 screaming Chassidish kids through the eye of a needle!! Why don’t you try it and see how easy it is?!?!?