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I don’t know why YO feels the need to denigrate Ashkenazi minhagim.
Although I could probably take a guess…
When goyim see that yiddin beat thier own , what do u expect ?
That’s quite an anti-Semitic comment there.
AJ, only people like Joseph? Any mainstream frum Yid. However, not accepting their religious outlook doesn’t mean we do things to make them unsafe, yet that is what this board is apparently doing.
There is a different hechsher on schach which is not kosher l’chatchilah unless you put put it up in a very specific way.
The Eidah doesn’t go for such things, so yes, you’re better off looking for the Eidah hechsher even on schach.
Your anti-Ashkenazi bias is clouding your ability to think sensibly.
Matza ball – Hashem gave us b’chirat chofsheet. So an individual can make any decision they want. Though you can make the argument that any decision you make has been preordained.
No, you can’t make the argument that our choices are preordained, since we have bechirah.
Satmar vs. Lubavitch. Bobov vs. Bobov. Mitnagdim vs. Hasidim. Etc. Etc. It’s funny we never see this among Sephardim. Why is that?
Because most Satmar, Lubavitch, Bobov, Litvish, and Chassidim aren’t Sephardic.
Similar to the way you won’t find Mashadi vs. Tehrani among Ashkenazim.
I have no idea what goes into planning an event like this
Neither does anyone else here, but that doesn’t stop anyone from commenting.
Which leads to the question: are we supposed to love the people included in the brocha of V’lamalshinim?
Some of their clientele don’t have internet and I wouldn’t be surprised that this is the bulk of people that take the carriages
What is that supposed to mean?
Why, do you need to work at a yeshiva to have GroupMe?
GroupMe
Amazon prime is accelerating for anytime, so you are not mechaven for shabbos, and we have amira deamira from erev shabbos. the goy does it for his own benefit payed a fixed amount ahead of time should be mutar.
It’s muttar if the request can be fulfilled without doing melacha on Shabbos; normally assur if the request cannot be fulfilled without doing melacha on Shabbos (except in extenuating circumstances).
So for example, if you order something late Friday afternoon in the summer, so in order to deliver it by the 8 or 9pm promised delivery time, some melacha needs to be done on Shabbos, it would normally be prohibited.
DY, and a summer order on Friday where Amazon Prime guarantees next day delivery (or any time of the year when Shabbos ends after UPS/FedEx’s guaranteed delivery time)?
If it’s ordered late enough so that it can’t be delivered by the promised time without driving (or any melacha) ocurring on Shabbos, it would be assur barring an extenuating circumstance.
My point is that their compliance is far from 100%, so I wonder if that could be a mitigating factor.
Not really. The point is that you’re not allowed to ask them to do work for you on Shabbos. The fact that they won’t always listen to you doesn’t make it okay.
Even it is guaranteed, the person who brings the package to you is not the one you talked to, so this is an amira deamira before shabbos and by paying extra reflects a great need
If there isn’t actually a great need, paying extra doesn’t make it muttar. The Minchas Yitzchak said that not as a heter going forward, but rather as a limud z’chus for those who were sending packages for Shabbos delivery.
But if you order from Amazon on Friday with Amazon guaranteeing overnight delivery (or guaranteeing two-day delivery for a Thursday order), you know in advance that they are guaranteeing delivery on Shabbos.
If you order on Thursday for Saturday, they usually technically could deliver it before Shabbos, so their delivering it on Shabbos is “ada’ta d’nafsgei” so not a problem.
The same idea could be true in the winter even if ordering on Friday. They could start the process before Shabbos,band deliver it after Shabbos, and get the package to you on Motzaei Shabbos without having done any melacha on Shabbos. The fact that they might actually do melacha on Shabbos isn’t your concern in that case as well.
DY, you yourself said above that there is no garantee from the Post Office.
Right. The reason it’s muttar to mail an ordinary letter on erev Shabbos, even without there being a great need, is because you’re not asking for it to be delivered on Shabbos; not because it’s amirah l’amirah, which is only muttar in case of great need.
Also, the חת”ס isn’t mattir outright; he says אין ראיה לאסור כולי האי. It should also be noted that the case he was talking about was indeed one of great need.
R’ Eliezer, see מנחת יצחק ח’ ו’ סי’ י”ח for a discussion of this issue, with many poskim mentioned (including the חו”י and מה’ גרשון mentioned by חת”ס), and his conclusion that guaranteed Shabbos delivery would only be muttar in case of great need.
It is not an issue. Amirah LeAmirah is allowed.
This is not true. In certain instances of great necessity, we can consider it a sh’vus d’shvus. Even a full fledged sh’vus d’shvus is only muttar under certain circumstances.
To say a blanket statement that amira l’amira is muttar is very misleading.
How do you explain that people don’t send mail on Erev Shabbos?
Perhaps am ha’aratzus, perhaps as a chumra because they’re concerned there might be a Yid who will be involved in the delivery.
When you mail an ordinary letter on erev Shabbos, you are not telling them to deliver it on Shabbos. The United States Post Office makes no guarantees on regular first class mail.
You can’t request an online purchase be delivered on Shabbos because of amira l’akum, but Amazon doesn’t have a “Shabbos” option, they sometimes give you a Saturday option. That means it might be delivered up to 8pm or even 9pm, which, at this time of year, is several hours after Shabbos is over.
Although he’s probably pretending that he didn’t.
Joseph and huju are obviously talking about two different things.
I think huju knows exactly what Joseph meant. All he needs to do is read the thread (it’s not that long).
I have read about a number of cases where people nonchalantly wrote compositions for Beit Yaakov girls. How do they justify this?
Have you ever read it about anybody else?
I wish it were the case that nobody in the coffee room is intolerant of someone being more religious than them.
I don’t think anyone here is offended by the request to switch, even if it is for religious reasons.
I wish you were right.
Is Arlington National Cemetery in South Africa?
That’s an absurd comparison.
Many of the Jews buried there died while protecting other Jews from attacks by Arabs. Therefore they died al kiddush Hashem. South Africa has no shaychus.
Just remember a minhag brocht a din
No it doesn’t.
Please don’t make up fake quotes in the name of Chazal, even though you’re just trying to be funny.
I don’t know much about the Triangle K hecher
Obviously.
but we should avoid implying that R’ Ralbag is deliberately choteh u’machti harabim with his hashgahca.
We should yell it from the rooftops.
TRIANGLE K IS NOT RELIABLE TRIANGLE K IS NOT RELIABLE TRIANGLE K IS NOT RELIABLE TRIANGLE K IS NOT RELIABLE
So therefore you’re allowed to have someone’s car ticketed??!!
Are you people so far from the concept of kedushah that you can’t imagine that there are people who do care?
Why the need to mock?
Joseph, too many frum yidden have used mesirah as a shield to commit all kinds of bad acts. You block my driveway, I will be more than happy to call the cops.
If it’s just because you’re angry and/or want to teach a lesson, it’s assur. It’s only permitted if the only way to get the car out of the driveway.
As far as the mesira aspect, it’s clear in the רמ”א in שפ”ח י”ב that it wouldn’t be an issue here (again, specifically where he’s blocking access and caling the police and the tow truck will get his car out ire quickly).
The value of his car is surely more than the ticket and towing fees, so if you’re allowed al pi halacha to smash his car if there’s no other way, you’re certainly allowed to cause him a smaller loss.
Joseph, שו”ע חו”מ תי”ב ב.
Yes, I have gotten a psak that it could apply here, but specifically in a case where there’s no other way to get the car out of the way, and it’s actually blocking your access to your driveway, not merely making it more difficult to get in or out.. If the response time of the police and tow truck company is too slow to be of any help in getting the car away faster (because the owner will most likely move his car before it’s towed away), and you’re calling the police just because you’re angry and/or want to teach the guy a lesson, it would indeed be assur.
Practically speaking, that means unless you live in area where the response time is extremely quick, the only time it would be muttar would be if it’s a long term situation, such as if the guy parked blocking the driveway and went away for the weekend.
Abba: No tow truck will tow a car blocking a driveway unless it was first ticketed. And reporting it to the government to issue it a ticket cannot be done due to mesira.
So if someone blocks my driveway, I need for wait for bais din’s tow truck?
It might be sour
Move it up or back so I could park.
Because sometimes the op is dumb, although the title isn’t.
Many of us have found really great quality products (including kids’ clothing) at very reasonable prices at CostCo.
They actually have very decent dress shirts for less than $19.99.
Avoid the temptation to pruchase 2 years worth of toilet paper (because its such a “great buy” and only sold in pallets of 640 rolls).
Toilet paper doesn’t spoil
Which raises the question of how Yidden can rely on *any* hechsher on a non-Jewish food product considering that even inadvertently placing a kosher symbol on non-kosher food products can and do occur.
Things can always go wrong, no matter who owns the company, but halacha allows us to rely on rov, chazaka, mirsus, etc.
You’re fooling yourself if you think the heimishe hechsherim only certify food which comes from Jewish owned factories. That’s not to say that some heimishe hechsherim aren’t better in some ways than the national hechsherim (some hechsherim with Hebrew letters OTOH are horrible), but it’s only a matter of degree. If you buy any processed foods, you’re relying on an assumption that nothing went wrong.
“Ban technology” מאן דכר שמיה?
regarding trusting the answers we receive, well i guess theres no guarantee there
It’s not a matter of guarantees, it’s a question of halachic ne’emanus, which there generally isn’t.
Is “pretty sure” good enough? Do we really know that they’re actually baked with a reliable hashgacha? Even if some DD locations get muffins from a facility which has a good hashgacha, do we know all do? Even if we can somehow ascertain that a specific DD gets their fully baked muffins from a kosher facility, how do we know that they won’t use a different source if they run out?
Or the issur being a davar charif.
There’s also a possibility of it being heated at the same time as a non kosher liquid (e.g. soup) which would even be assur b’dieved.