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How is relying on the lenient opinions regarding electricity a bizayon haTorah?
The two issues are unrelated, I don’t understand why you think there’s a contradiction.
NCB, I shouldn’t have said the word “precisely”, which was imprecise. As I recall, I was generally using the Yad Moshe (then posting hebrewbooks links).
Not sure anyone literally says that medinah money is assur b’hana’ah, it’s just a (pretty understandable) shittah not to take it.
Could it be that your seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of the Igros Moshe can be explained away by being tech savvy to know how to search for stuff on Hebrewbooks?
Precisely
Why should money from the Zionists be assur when usually issurei hanaah doesn’t transfer to money (with the exception of avodah zara)?
The more serious answer is that those who forbade taking money from the government wanted to distance themselves from the Zionists.
It’s hard to argue that they were wrong, as nowadays we see such a large portion of ostensibly Chareidi Yidden who are now quasi Zionists.
Basically, I think Hashem runs the world
A lot of unpleasant things have happened to humanity, as part of Hashem’s plan.
When there’s an imminent threat, we are scared (and we daven to Him for a yeshua); we don’t dismiss it.
That being said, I don’t know if AI is an imminent threat.
this is a ridiculous take
It is. The other approach, saying the 3 Shavuos for some reason aren’t binding, is the more common answer (which I don’t get either, since it definitely bugs the goyim)
Also, how does Zionism not violate the core MO halacha of “thou shalt not do anything that bugs the goyim?”
Waiting for an answer
Why should money from the Zionists be assur when usually issurei hanaah doesn’t transfer to money (with the exception of avodah zara)?
Seems like you answered your own question.
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Aveirah, the S”A doesn’t mention it. What else do you want?
He wants you to recognize that the fact that the Shu”a doesn’t mention it doesn’t mean it’s not assur to listen to music during sefirah.
@Meno, מחבר ספר שו”ת יח”ת?
Of course I remember you. And you’re posts are memorable because you’re one of the people that actually knows how to do the real quotey thing that requires HTML markup.
Also because his posts are intelligent and well written and always courteous.
You used to regularly come into halacha discussion threads with a bunch of sources backing up what you said
That’s true, but does not mean I have encyclopedic knowledge of the Igros Moshe.
Neville,
Thank you for the compliments (although extremely overdone, and especially the Igros Moshe part which is simply untrue).
(I still do some occasional lurking and even an occasional post here and there. I happened to see your name here so opened the thread.)Nice to “see” you.
Coffee Addict,
“Agnes Treuren, an officer in the Dutch Consulate in New York, insisted that both pronunciations were emphatically wrong. “It is ‘Fon Weig,’ with the last syllable pronounced like leg or beg,” she said”
From an old NYT article
Of course not
I heard it’s $1500 per side now.
Ooooh, if we’re just gonna make stuff up about other Jews, can I join too
Yes.
I’m anxiously awaiting
He seems pretty bitter. Nebach
It’s fun to blame whatever hashkafa we already don’t like, but I think it fails us when trying to understand the root causes.
Hit the nail on the head.
Examples in this thread of anti-Torah bias:
Blaming the community approach in a community which doesn’t have a higher prevalence
The ludicrous assumption that the troubled kids who haven’t connected with Torah would have connected with secular studies
The lack of recognition that there are definitely programs inside and outside of Lakewood which deal with boys who haven’t connected with Torah
Avirah, you are conflating teaching a woman Torah shebaal peh with her learning it on her own.
Bottom line is that if she’s learning it properly, it’s a mitzvah, but not a chiyuv.
@daas-yochid Getting a job or education is called “twiddling thumbs” now? Are bachurim sitting in the freezer or Eretz Yisroel just being mevatel Torah until they get married?
Of course not. Hence my question to Ari.
Ari, are you implying that girls are sitting around twiddling their thumbs until they get married?
Daas, that’s only chumash, and it’s bedieved; the rambam says it’s better not to do it, but if she does, she gets schar. For anything else, the rambam doesn’t say that she gets schar at all in the context of limud hatorah, and it’s in fact assur to teach Torah shrle baal peh.
If she gets schar, it’s obviously a mitzvah. She’s eina metzuvah v’osah, but regardless, it’s a mitzvah (like mitzvah aseh shehazman grama). The Ranbam is not mechalel between Torah shvaal peh and Torah shebichsav in this regard.
The fact that we shouldn’t be teaching them is a separate point which doesn’t negate the first point. The chiluk between Torah shebichsav and Torah shbaal peh is said regarding this din of teaching her.
Chananya Weissman is an extremist. Not just on shidduchim, but in many other topics as well.
The OP is too outlandish to bother responding to.
Avirah, there is a mitzvah, just not a chiyuv (except for learning practical halacha).
Apparently the most important issue of 2022 is why people like to discuss certain topics on the CR.
Saying something negative about someone for the sole purpose of not keeping everything pent up may be muttar if all of the conditions of lashon hora l’toeles are present.
Of course there’s room to exist and be human, but part of being human is controlling yourself and not “expressing yourself freely” when the purpose is to put someone else down.
Again, though, if the purpose is really for emotional health, speak to a rav about the circumstances and conditions undir which it is permitted (and proper) to say what you need to say.
My point was that you unfairly jumped on someone because you misunderstood his point.
You wrote, “I stand corrected”. You should have left it at that.
The Chazal he brought actually did support his point.
It just doesn’t support your exaggerated version of his point.
Syag, no bitterness.
You certainly come across as bitter.
Which siman in S”A talks about kosher vs. unkosher water?
יו”ד פ”ד
He’s making a simple point that we shouldn’t raise expectations unnecessarily. Not sure what you are reading into his statements that is bothering you so much.
I’m opposed to shidduch pictures because, although someone needs to find their spouse attractive, I think putting pictures on the resume puts the focus on the wrong thing.
He didn’t say the guy would be shattered. He said his expectations would be shattered.
Just because someone wouldn’t or didn’t take the high road doesn’t mean we shouldn’t.
@Dr. Pepper
I do remember your taking “early retirement”, although I don’t remember the cause (I have a vague recollection of your mentioning that your wife only allowed the annual cameo appearance).
Please be דן לכף זכות that he realized his mistake and did תשובה.
Who, jackk, or Rabbi Reisman?
Also, I didn’t realize it was April 1st.
Of course he was. From his hentalach to his feesalach. It’s a b’eirushe sing.
Bump (for nostalgia’ sake)
Not my type?
Its really not a serious question. Without having minimal language, math and science skills, young men and women coming out of yeshivos and BY’s will be functionally illiterate, unable to perform basic functions of paying bills, booking travel arrangements, communicating with medical and service providers, etc. You cannot keep the next generation in a cave forever.
That’s your theory coming from your very closeminded view that education has to take the form you are accustomed to.
But it’s demonstrably untrue, as chassidim who receive a very poor secular education (which I’m not agreeing with, but it’s none of mine or anybody else’s business) make more money than the average, and are able to communicate just fine, even if their grammar isn’t perfect.
Clearly, Dr. Berman’s statement is not merely supporting individuals who are struggling with their yitzrei hora. It is supporting the LGBTQ agenda, just saying they don’t want to be forced to do so.
It’s sickening.
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Can we use non-Jewish public assistance in general.
You made up the issue. It’s not really one.
Even as Lakewood Vaad tries to use Rambam.
Strawman. I didn’t ch”v say we never pasken like the Ramba”m. But, the halacha from the Ramba”m you keep citing in your anti kollel diatribes is one we don’t pasken like. Happens to be that it’s an apparrent stirah in the Ramba”m anyhow.
BTW, Avirah, in NYS they are trying l”a to destroy the yeshivos.
I can’t figure out why AAQ keeps pretending that we pasken like that Rambam.
Plain and simple, we don’t. See all meforshim, and I’ll just repeat one more time that R’ Moshe writes that one who can learn but doesn’t because he wants to be “machmir” like the Rambam is following the advice of the yetzer hora.Bravo, Syag, for your valiant attempts to get AAQ to see his hypocrisy and blatant bias, but I’m afraid (just as this post) that it won’t make a dent.
BD”E
MY point is that unless able to earn a living a couple has no business getting married.
תורה מה תהא עליה
There you go again, taking the Rambam out of context, and even more so out of historical and halachic context.
AAQ, it’s not Syag who lost the respect of other posters, it’s ujm.