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  • in reply to: Ger Disowns Pre-Conversion Family #833059
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    so is pacman joseph? mods can you spill the beans pls!

    The mods are the ones who give subtitles.

    in reply to: What is the Halacha? #774044
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    Why was it a problem?

    Read BSD and m in Israel’s posts.

    in reply to: What is the Halacha? #774035
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    aries,

    Who were you addressing?

    in reply to: Talking about dates #774290
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    I think it’s unhealthy to talk about who you’re dating, as well as being somewhat coarse and immodest.

    in reply to: Proper Etiquette or Against Halacha? #773674
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    Could you please clarify; these statements seem to be contradictory.

    The first statement is assuming that the halacha is this way, or at least that this particular individual sees it that way.

    I personally don’t know.

    in reply to: What is the Halacha? #774032
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    the halacha is work on your own failings and not worry about what other people are doing wrong

    Definitely, we should work on our own failings, but kol Yisrael areivim zeh lazeh.

    in reply to: IS IT OK TOO?? #774241
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    chocandpatience, Mother in Israel, bpt,

    Thanks, I did mean what you understood, but I haven’t had much time to post.

    MiI,

    Made sense to me.

    in reply to: Ger Disowns Pre-Conversion Family #833043
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    a Ger disowns his pre-conversion family

    AFAIK, not true (actually, it sounds ludicrous to me), although halachically, mid’oraisa they are not related.

    As far as honoring parents, IIRC, they should be honored because of darchei shalom and chillul Hashem.

    Concerning as marrying them, IIRC, prohibited mid’rabonon (which is still mei’ikor hadin).

    Regarding physical contact/yichud, I believe Rav Leff’s reasoning would be that there is no concern of it leading to an aveirah. This is the reasoning that a person is allowed to have yichud with a parent, although the parent is most definitely an ervah. (This issue is also relevant to an adopted child, although I seem to recall that the issue there is more complex.)

    in reply to: 9 new threads per month #773426
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    Approximately 0.

    in reply to: CR or news? #773067
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    So what will we do in the kiddush club?…

    I’m getting hungry already…..

    CHOLENT!

    It seems that you fellows don’t know what the main course is at a kiddush club. 😉

    in reply to: Stam vs Akum #772983
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    look in chazon ish Y”D siman 41

    I’m familiar with it; I always wondered about the application halacha l’meisa, since the accepted practice was always like the Chasam Sofer to be machmir.

    This makes sense now; the Chazon Ish personally held like the Pri Chodosh, (as written in the sefer) but because of the commonly accepted practice, would only rely on his opinion b’sha’as had’chak (with the tziruf of avkas cholov).

    in reply to: Stam vs Akum #772982
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    Yes, but L’chatchila doesn’t change the actual halachic status of the chefetz.

    Whe it comes to halacha l’meisa, I’m not concerned with the status of the cheftza, I want to know what the gavra should do. 😉

    in reply to: IS IT OK TOO?? #774219
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    Basically you are saying that the only level on which you can connect with a female is physical . Intellectual level? Na. Wit? Who needs it. Hashkafa? Not important.

    No, I’m not saying that.

    in reply to: Proper Etiquette or Against Halacha? #773649
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    aries,

    You didn’t address my points.

    I’ll make one more. Let’s say a certain bochur does not normally follow this halacha. Should he then do an aveirah on a date as well?

    SilentOne,

    I haven’t researched this halachah well enough know the exact parameters. If you read my posts carefully, I never said it’s definitively assur, I only addressed whether it should be disregarded, if it would be assur, because of society’s rules.

    cherrybim,

    My point was that since it’s obvious that not all of that halacha in the Ramba”m is applicable to dating, your assumption that there is automatically some type of “chinuch” practice involved is flawed.

    in reply to: Thank You Hashem! #834481
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    This past Rosh Hashanah, in addition to all the regular tefillos, I specifically asked Hashem for something else this year. I did not receive it.

    Thank you Hashem, for not granting me what I asked for, since it was obviously not the bet thing for me!

    in reply to: IS IT OK TOO?? #774213
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Um, ok.

    Care to elaborate?

    in reply to: IS IT OK TOO?? #774190
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    You can find an excuse for anything I suppose.

    Like being on the internet?

    in reply to: Proper Etiquette or Against Halacha? #773643
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    It is not inherently rude to not hold open the door, it just has to do with societal expectations.

    in reply to: IS IT OK TOO?? #774187
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    This has been discussed before, with various opinions.

    In my opinion, it’s okay because not only don’t you see the person, but you don’t even know what they look like.

    Nevertheless, the tone and content should be more reserved when addressing someone on “the other side of the mechitzah”

    in reply to: CR or news? #773049
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    They have news on this site? Where?

    in reply to: Stam vs Akum #772979
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    (for those who are willing to go B’dieved)

    L’chatchila, you’re not supposed to go b’dieved.

    in reply to: Proper Etiquette or Against Halacha? #773637
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    that training should start even before actual marriage

    Is that true for the ?????? ????? part as well?

    in reply to: Proper Etiquette or Against Halacha? #773635
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    aries,

    I posted a link to the entire post because I am aware that it might be read differently in context, which is also why I wrote that you probably didn’t mean it that way (if you had read my entire post you would have seen that ?).

    I don’t know why you assume that someone who is makpid on this halacha would only be makpid while on a date. Even there was such a case, I still fail to see why the assumption should be made that he’s doing it specifically to be rude. I would think that if someone is makpid on something while on a date which he is not careful about otherwise, it’s because he wants to put his best foot forward, which is fine. That doesn’t justify not being careful always, but neither does it qualify the fellow as a jerk.

    I wonder what was edited – I hope it wasn’t too nasty. ?

    in reply to: Would you become religious/Jewish? #773785
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    Tell me what mitzvah -making people frum falls under.

    Hocheiach Tochiach Es Amisecha

    in reply to: Stam vs Akum #772975
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    basically that’s something only the Chazon Ish could say

    The author says that a talmid chochom related to him that the Chazon Ish was only matir powdered milk for children, at a time that milk was scarce, at the beginning of Israel’s statehood.

    in reply to: Who are the top 2 people you'd like to meet #773890
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    I’ll give it a try and hope I don’t insult anyone.

    If at first you don’t succeed…

    in reply to: Who are the top 2 people you'd like to meet #773882
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    Don’t I run the risk of insulting anyone I leave out?

    in reply to: Proper Etiquette or Against Halacha? #773623
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    PBA, why would you think that was directed at you?

    Because of this phrase from this post?

    “So yes you are a jerk”

    Proper Etiquette or Against Halacha?

    It sure sounded like you were calling him one;

    you probably didn’t mean it, so you should explain that.

    in reply to: Avoiding Even The Appearance of Impropriety… #777615
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    On the contrary, I usually portray myself in the other direction.

    Usually? 😉

    in reply to: Fan vs. Air Conditioner #772989
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    so far the fan is fine

    The Cubs fan or the Mets fan?

    in reply to: Fan vs. Air Conditioner #772987
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    DY – A fan that exhausts air out of the room, can make the room cooler.

    Only if the air that replaces it is cooler.

    Welcome back.

    in reply to: Cholov Akum #772807
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    How can cy milk spoil faster if the only thing different about it is that it’s watched by a Jew??

    It wouldn’t spoil as fast if it was in the refrigerator when he watches it.

    in reply to: Proper Etiquette or Against Halacha? #773620
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    There was a bochur on a date that was so frum he … called his date bat-kuh

    If he was really so frum, he would have called her bas-kuh. ?

    in reply to: Stam vs Akum #772973
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    It is interesting to note that the Chazon Ish is very much ‘mashma’ that he paskens like the pri chodosh, and therefore it is possible that the chazon ish would also allow the drinking of what we call cholov stam.

    In the sefer I just mentioned, on page 310, footnote 14, the author contends that the Chazon Ish would not be matir today.

    in reply to: Stam vs Akum #772972
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    IMHO the term is a denigration of R” Moshe ZT”L. It makes it seem as if he ?”? fabricated something which did not exist.

    In Rav Binyomin Forst’s “The Kosher Kitchen” (page 311), the author points out that the term “chalav stam” is used. He makes no mention of it being in any way degrading to R’ Moshe ZT”L.

    in reply to: Fan vs. Air Conditioner #772984
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    An a/c can actually lower the temperature; a fan merely circulates the air.

    in reply to: Avoiding Even The Appearance of Impropriety… #777613
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    the attempt of someone who is far to the left side in hashkofo and in bein odom lemakoim to show off what a “tzaddik” he is in bein odom lechavyro

    That may be your suspicion, but it’s not based on anything. I think it’s unfair to assume, and certainly to post.

    Fear of chillul Hashem is, or at least should be, universal across the entire spectrum of frum society, and there’s no reason to assume lack of sincerity regardless of other hashkafos.

    in reply to: Stam vs Akum #772969
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    What is the exact translation of chalav Akum

    and what is the translation of chalav stam?

    If you want literal translations, that would be milk of one who worships stars and constellations, and plain milk.

    If you’d like an explanation, here goes:

    Milk from a non kosher species of animal is forbidden. If a non-Jew sells milk as cow milk (or goat milk, etc.) one should be able to rely on it, but chaza”l made a gezeira to prohibit such milk unless a Jew was present at the milking, lest the non-Jew mix in milk from a non kosher species. Milk prohibited under this gezeira is referred to as chalav aku”m, although the non-Jew’s worship habits are not a factor.

    Milk at which a Jew was present at the milking is referred to as chalav Yisrael.

    Milk at which a Jew was not present at the milking may still be permitted according to some authorities (most notably, Rav Moshe Feistein) under certain conditions, which apply to mass produced milk in the U.S. This milk is commonly referred to as chalav stam.

    in reply to: Do you Celebrate American Holidays? #1114320
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    Rav Fuerst in Far Rockaway

    There’s a Rav Forst in Far Rockaway, and a Rav Fuerst in Chicago, but I don’t think there’s a Rav Fuerst in Far Rockaway.

    in reply to: Proper Etiquette or Against Halacha? #773590
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    I don’t know what is the halachah here, but a boy who is always rude to women he dates is not going to be getting married, so the community of Jews who follow those rulings will die out in a generation.

    If the girls learn the same halacha, they won’t consider it rude.

    in reply to: What are brains for?? #772218
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    (p.s. *applause* 80, can wiki)

    He did put quotation marks, you know.

    in reply to: What are brains for?? #772213
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    DY could be both

    When you go to a restaurant and order sweetbreads, or go to a Simcha and are served sweetbreads you are getting the Thymus Gland

    I hadn’t known that, thanks.

    in reply to: What are brains for?? #772198
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    Sweetbreads are the Thymus Gland.

    I always thought it was the pancreas.

    in reply to: AZ's scheme revealed #774892
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    although i do have an issue with the exhorbitant amounts they charge, but that’s a diff issue

    That’s exactly where you missed the point; shadchanim do not get paid sufficiently for the amount of time they put in.

    You think this plan is ridiculous because they should basically do it for the mitzvah.

    You probably also think that rebbeim, moros, rabbonim, shochtim, mashgichim, sofrim, etc. should work for below living wage.

    I’m being too strong; I know – you probably don’t really think that way. But it’s really the same; the reality is that people do better work when they’re properly compensated.

    in reply to: Cars That Go Off The Derech #772913
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    Somehow I don’t find this thread amusing!

    I don’t think anyone’s taking the tragedy of someone c”v stopping to be shomer Torah umitzvos lightly.

    But I see your point.

    in reply to: AZ's scheme revealed #774880
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    Hmm..I know plenty of Chicago girls over 20, and plenty of single guys. Looks like I have found a way to pay for my college tuition.

    So it looks like it can work.

    in reply to: Cars That Go Off The Derech #772911
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    Rabbi Mechanic has a great program that will answer all of your car’s questions.

    *like*

    in reply to: AZ's scheme revealed #774875
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    “Fine, I’ll throw in a six pack.”

    “I take that back, I don’t want to mess with Vinny.”

    in reply to: AZ's scheme revealed #774874
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    Vinny down the block has a 26 for $170.

    “Fine, I’ll throw in a six pack.”

    in reply to: AZ's scheme revealed #774871
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    and we’re back to drinking while on a date 🙂

    Oh, I thought we were putting dates in the beer.

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