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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.
I’m not good with the actual sources, but it would be good to see them here, if anyone can show them.
See Pri Megadim (Eshel Avraham) in O.C. 451:30, towards the end, where it’s clear that ordinary use of an oven doesn’t burn out the issur.
However, the bigger problem here anyhow is the potential for the (supposedly – we haven’t established this) kosher muffin being in the oven simultaneously with non kosher food. Even if they didn’t touch, see Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 108 (R’ma) that l’chatchilah you shouldn’t buy it.
Plus, here, we have no way of knowing if it did or didn’t touch any non kosher food (or non kosher tray or rack).
It has more than a 10% chance, depending on location.
As previously discussed, there’s straight up Halacha that says burnt substances of any food are no longer considered food. When we’re talking about an oven, that’s the “flavor” you would be getting.
False. You get regular, assur, ta’am.
No shaychus to the gelatin issue.
similarly, in an oven, food that was previously heated inside of it — anything that is left of it, is no longer food. this can therefore be understood in the same manner
That’s simply not true. Normal use of an oven doesn’t automatically kasher it.
The comparison to gelatin is also totally inapt.
Joseph, surely they rinse the scoop between flavors.
I was just having this discussion with a friend, who said he has gotten vanilla in his chocolate ice cream.
Last I checked, all baked goods are made in a central location and sent to the store.
When was the last time you checked, and with whom did you check?
It’s a machlokes.
:בכורות ז
why did the Brooklyn institution and the summer camp protect that molester for 25 years?
Maybe they believed him innocent. And maybe he was.
I just switched to the 9/11 commemorative plates last month.
Are they going to force you to switch to the new ones?
He clearly said it’s a connected question. It’s true that Joseph lives rent free in his head, but he reiterated it in a general context.
Phil, the two are separate cases, and even if in one the parties are wrong, that doesn’t justify other situations.
Syag, then he should have said that.
Phil, I don’t know why you think calling people names will make people take you seriously (or why the mods allow it).
Also, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t criticize others for going to arkaos while defending it here.
Philosopher, FWIW, I think it was quite obvious that you were stating an opinion, not making up statistics.
However, what I think was bothering most of the women, throughout reading this thread, is not that chazal, at times, may or may not have negative things to say about women. In my opinion, the thing that was really upsetting was the implication that chazal, and therefore Judaism, was denigrating to women as a general rule.
Perhaps, but the proper response (other than ignoring) would be to point out that Chazal weren’t ch”v denigrating women, rather pointing out a truism because of the practical ramifications.
However, the response we got from some seemed to border on apikorsus, or at least distortion of Chazal, and others unintentionally were mechazek that.
Philosopher, how is Nashim Daatan Kalos not halachic?
I don’t get the point of bringing the cases of exceptional women in klal Yisroel’s history.
Are you trying to undermine Chazal’s general statement? Chazal didn’t say there aren’t exceptions. The rule is still true, and the halachos that result are still true regardless of the exceptions.
It’s crucial to the intellectual honestly of this discussion to point out that Joseph had not, in fact, actually been familiar with the source material
You weren’t either.