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Got it, r-b, thanks for the help.

That someone was me.

That’s why I added the (someone accused by the mods of being), but I wasn’t sure if you were ruff ruff or ruph ruph or both.

SJS,

I think you or I could more easily manage without meat and leather than a chossid could without a streimel.

And BW, the heilige PETA would love to ban shechita, and complained that an animal was used in an attempt to kill Jews (about the animal). I think we’re in agreement on this.

gavra,

I think your point is that this was not a protest, just removal of a michshol. I think it might have been both, or even just “fun”; I don’t know the perpetrators and can only guess at their true motives.

My point is merely that the same tactics used by two ideologies cannot be compared if one’s ideology is correct and one’s is not.

Pba earlier made reference to Amalek. Any other context would make the idea abhorrent, but it’s a mitzvah, and is correct. I do not want to elaborate here for obvious reasons.

No, someone can change their sn by their self.

How (other than opening a new account, which is what I just did)?

I have been blocked before.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/tefillah-1#post-182804

That’s cute, because (someone accused by the mods of being) Joseph defended you.

he cant access the cr at all from his computer.

I assume you mean from his normal IP address?

in addition, we send out agents to monitor his attempts to access the cr from other computers, and deal with the culprit accordingly.

So that disheveled, confused looking person, banging at my door, yelling “LET ME IN, I NEED THE CR!”, I shouldn’t let him in?

CharlieHall; You agree with, and love the definiton of “Modern Orthodox” as either Chassidus or the Mussar movement.

I did not take Charlie’s “I love it” as agreeing to MO being used commonly that way, but rather, as I did, appreciate the humor in using the literal sense of modern in a way opposite it’s use in the vernacular.

However, there is no halachic need for a mink to die for a chassid to wear a streimel.

So you’re against streimels? Are you also a vegetarian? Do you wear leather shoes?

Maybe there is a parallel thread on the PETA boards discussing this very news item, with some PETA dude saying “but if we spray painted a furry hat, we would be right! We are saving animals!”

Yes, and one on a neo-nazi site encouraging painting swastikas on shuls!

The islamic “extremists” think they’re going to straight to heaven when they commit a “suicide” bombing. The reason what they do is wrong is because it’s wrong.

What is the Steiplers sefer, kehilas Yaakov abt?

Gemara in depth.

And whats an overview abt the steipler? like how cud i describe who he was, in short? How did he contribute to us?

It’s impossible for me to do him any kind of justice in the CR; in one line, he was a true eved Hashem. Read the biography on him for a more complete picture.

Ill believe Chazal and the meforshim over any “facts” anyday.

So would I, but could you kindly cite for us the source in Chaza’l and meforshim that it’s impossible for a human being to live past 120?

According to those who consider it impossible for someone to live past 120, I suppose that the proper thig to say when in the presence of someone about to turn 120 is “KOIHANIM AROIS!”

tro11,

I can’t tell you whether or not it’s a bracha l’vatala to say a bracha which you don’t mean. I can tell you with certainty that saying a bracha which chaza’l did not institute IS a bracha l’vatala.

I can only advise you to work on yourself so that you can accept chaza’l as wiser than yourself and say the proper bracha with the proper intent.

I appreciate the compliment, but if it’s cute, that’s incidental. More importantly, it’s true.

metrodriver,

I don’t understand the point you were trying to make (I’m not disagreeing, just trying to figure it out).

SJS,

I’m not defending their actions, I didn’t see the sign, and I have no idea if it was done l’sheim shomayim or not. Your analogies, however, are way off. You can’t compare right with wrong, just because it’s someone’s opinion! You can’t compare my lack of sympathy to someone who puts up an inappropriate picture to sympathy for a shul on which a swastika was painted; it’s a ridiculous comparison, unless you don’t believe that anything is inherently wrong.

I actually tried posting a different site, but my post wasn’t approved so I posted the internal link to YWN which always gets approved. I personally only use computers with Hebrew installed and stickers affixed, so I have no opinion on which is better,

I, for one, think that anything that advocates breaking the law of the land, whether it’s “halachically permissible” or not, should be taken down and/or blocked.

So any mention of doing a bris milah in Communist Russia or R’ Akiva being moser nefesh to teach Torah should be banned from Yeshiva World?

Or, you can do like popa:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/%D7%93%D7%99-%D7%90%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A2-%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98-%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C/page/4#post-213102

We can’t expect non-Jews to live by OUR ideals.

We CAN expect them not to offend our sensibilities in our neighborhoods. Yes, I know, we don’t own the neighborhood, but it’s downright obnoxious to put up such signs in a neighborhood with a high concentration of religious Jews.

They deserve absolutely no sympathy.

And let’s face it, they know it’s immoral as well. Only a few years ago, these types of signs were unacceptable even for non-Jews. The unfortunate decay in societal morals does not change the intrinsic immorality.

I once said to a stranger, “hi or good morning” and he just kind of looked at me funny.

real-brisker,

I thought you had left; I didn’t nominate you because there’s a residency requirement.

Rabbi Yaakov Emden didn’t accept it. And as I pointed out, many other codifications of the Rema have not been accepted. And the Rema never codified that massive expansion of the definition of kitniyot we’ve seen in the past generations.

I know that there is some debate about how far the issue of kitniyos extends; my point remains that one can’t disregard his own p’sak just to be able to eat in someone else’s home (unless his p’sak allows for that, as pba mentioned earlier).

The example of the dishwasher was, in my opinion, one in which even one who follows a p’sak not to rely on a certain heter might do so because of the halachos of blios. Pba’s example would also be valid; a situation in which one held that meikar hadin something is muttar.

However, in a situation that involves a clear issur according to one’s rov (or a talmid chacham’s own p’sak), there is no room for such a compromise. I naively assumed that kitniyos for an Ashkenazi in a Sefardi home would be an example that everyone could agree to.

Second of all- maybe a lot don’t demand it after they are married, but a lot demand XY&Z before they get married; sometimes this includes a house amongst the Nadin!

In which case, the parents could have refused then and turned down the shidduch. If they chose to go ahead with it, they shouldn’t complain now. (And I don’t think this is common either.)

Charlie,

What has been accepted IS the Rema’s codification!

I’m not sure why you and Gavra At Work feel that a dishwasher’s relative low cost compared to a house is reason to disregard Feif Un’s rov’s p’sak that he doesn’t need a new one. For one thing, it’s his rov’s p’sak! (To quote someone who I consider to be wise, “And anyone who says you should do anything other than what your rav says isn’t orthodox.”

Also, some people I know stretch themselves quite thin (financially) when they buy a house, and that’s a time when they specifically need to pinch pennies.

GAW,

An additional factor is that it’s also costly to have the dishwasher installed.