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To answer the OP, it’s become common to use the term rebbtzin in a nonliteral way, e.g. “I am inviting you and your rebitzen to sheva brochos” (CS objected to that, but it doesn’t bother me, since the term rebbetzin doesn’t really have that much importance to me).
Using the term for a public speaker whose husband isn’t a rabbi sort of expands that.
i would add that i probably disagree with your statement as there seems to be a lack of understanding of roles that can lead to the false belief that it is the same role but differently labled.
I think a rabbi in a chareidi community has a different role than a rabbi in a modern community. So if a “rebbetzin” in a chareidi community plays a similar role as a rabbi in a modern community (public speaking/chizuk), does that make her a MO rabbi?
The above proves somewhat that she can be a Rebbetzin before getting married as Vashti argued that she was a queen before marrying Achashverus.
Inapt comparison. The classic definition of a rebbetzin is a rav’s wife, but a queen does not have to be a king’s wife.
Huju, please elaborate. Which points do you disagree with, and why?
We are drowning in milk, I was giving a theoretical scenario where we weren’t.
Never heard of a crooked grin?
What would I do if they weren’t? Probably give it to them and kick myself. 🙂
Ok. I can tell you that I would give it to them and not kick myself.
I also know that if i don’t, someone else will.
Not likely in my scenario.
I thought he was asking if the food was being given to those who would otherwise get it in school.
If you must know it was iced cappacino made with almond milk and a box of cholov yisroel ice cream bars:)
Yes, I was having a hard time sleeping without that info
so i agree with coffee addict that it is similar. While it may not affect the “ruling “in this case, i am careful not to offer free things to people who can purchase them without hardship.
Ignore the source of the food for a moment.
What would you do if your neighbor asked you to pick up some milk, and let’s say you had some extra around (e.g. overbought and would spoli if not used soon). You wouldn’t just give them a container regardless of ability to buy it in the store?
Is this COVID emergency
It started that way, but it seems that the Covid emergency has been used as an excuse for more and more federal giveaways. We are moving towards socialism.
Maybe this is OK and a substitute for “school lunches”
Sort of, but actually (in my locale at least) you’re not eligible if the school your kid attends offers federally funded meals
You are telling me that government gives away food to everyone in private schools?
Not to everyone, but it’s not based on finances.
Yes, I have heard that story, and I don’t understand it at all.
“How can anyone demand that people should drive the speed limit to protect others? How can anyone demand that people should stay inside when the have the flu to protect others? How can anyone demand that people should put fences around construction to protect others?”
Um, it doesn’t say that in that post. Is that your way of twisting his words as you’ve been doing to others’?
Syag, any reaction to the responses here?
can anyone actually answer the question?
Apparently not.
The responses to the OP have been ad hominem, whataboutism, and appeal to authority.
Nobody has actually refuted his point though.
OP, are you referring to a learning camp or a sports (etc.) camp?
I don’t know enough about the shooting in this story
There’s a video.
I vaguely recall an incident more than 5 years ago
I believe you are referring to Gideon Busch a”h, and the incident took place over 20 years ago, and I don’t think YWN existed then.
Was there another case of a mentally ill frum man carrying a hammer who was shot by a NYPD cop? I don’t think so.
If a frum boy in the heart of BP was attacking someone with a knife and a cop shot him, I don’t know if I would be singing a different tune, but I’m sure the leftists would.
There wasn’t time to “deescalate the situation”. She had a knife raised and was about to stab the other girl.
The Rambam says that women aren’t obligated in Pesach Sheni.
Someone says there’s one Gd and you challenge them??!!
I have some extra lefty mugs if you want
1. There’s a mitzvah regardless. The chiyuv, according to some, is when it’s less than ⅙ more.
As I mentioned, it’s not actual gezel. Pretty sure the OP didn’t mean it literally either. The point was taking away a potential sale, which would be relevant to someone who is בכלל עמיתך.
2. I’m saying it’s not even a shaila.
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I believe a couple more mazel tovs are due…
Avi K: (re: responses to UJM)
1) We are not talking about actual gezeilah. We are talking about taking away a sale from the store owner. There is a mitzvah to buy from a Jew.
2) Nah, nobody is koneh until they pay (or add it to their bill).
True story (although it doesn’t fit Yserbius’ agenda so he’ll probably call me a liar again):
A guy I know was in the hospital with his wife who was having a baby. He noticed her o2 saturation was sitting at 91. He told the nurse to let her remove her mask, and within a minute or two it jumped up to 98.
I agree with Joseph.
There is a halacha to daven in a shul. What was a necessary b’dieved has become l’chatchilah for some for convenience.
So where someone asks if anyone is going to the store can they get them X and someone pipes up that they have it and the person can come in get it
It’s still not in the store.
But anyways in my original case why isn’t that taking away business from the grocery store because eventually they need milk and I’m delaying that eventuality
Understood, but it’s worse in the store right before a purchase, at least in hilchos l”h.
I can also understand the “abusive” person who hasn’t learned how to use their words when they were a kid and now has to learn how to use their words to express themselves instead of their hands and if they want to learn now that’s great for them
Not great for the kallah for her to be the one he learns on.
If he is physically abusive during sheva brachos, that is grounds for an immediate get.
Unless you’re saying you have extra from food distribution and are giving things to other people that you don’t use (like we get red milk and we don’t use it so we give it away to someone in the building who would)
I don’t think your case is so comparable. She was shopping and found someone in the store who was ready to make a purchase. You are giving it away in your building.
I understand no one wants to advertise divorce, yet I feel there is benefit in people knowing.
I would reword that.
I understand there is benefit in people knowing , but no one wants to advertise divorce.
As in many areas in life, there’s a conflict between the advantages and disadvantages of a particular action.
I don’t think a website advertising divorces will happen, nor should it, despite the fact that there would be some benefit to it.
I agree with Reb Eliezer.
I don’t have an answer to the OP. You’re right, it’s a halacha shaila, so I don’t want to give my “conversational” opinion only to find out it’s against halacha. I know there’s a halacha in hilchos lashon hora that if someone is in a store about to buy something, you can’t tell them “It’s cheaper in the other store” (assuming the price difference isn’t אונאה). I don’t know how that applies to this case though, where you’re offering it for free.
Fascinating question.
So anyone who’s not vaccinated automatically has the virus and will make everyone sick? Especially if they have antibodies?
That’s called a straw man argument, because nobody said everyone who is unvaccinated has the virus and will spread it.
It’s no different then if I would mischaracterize you argument as being that anyone who takes the vaccine will definitely get sick from it.
I don’t disagree with your argument about antibodies. I think businesses which don’t want potential virus carriers to enter their premises should accept a confirmed positive antibodies test
as well as proof of vaccination. But that’s also their choice.I agree with Ubiquitin that Yiddish is not the new English.
In the Litvishe yeshivos I am familiar with, the English spoken by secular studies teachers, and even rebbeim, is adequate. I suspect that’s not the case in some Chassidishe yeshivos, but I think that’s a conscious decision they’ve made.
-whoever it will be makes no difference
Of course it does, because the same way you feel nobody should force you to take a vaccine, you should agree that no business should be forced to allow unvaccinated people onto their premises.
Are the governments going to ban people from using these facilities, or is it the owners of the facilities who are going to ban unvaccinated people from using them?
Last I checked they are introducing vaccine passports which will only allow vaccinated people to be part of society. So what were you saying about choice?
Where did you check? Who’s “they”? What specific restrictions are “they” implementing that will not allow you to be part of society?
whats your proof that they developed it from the vaccine. Maybe it was just a coincidence that they developed it after getting the shot
Control group
shhh
I don’t get it. I pointed out that your whole tayna on the storeowners is based on a fallacious halacha you made up (or believed) and your response is to ignore the correct halacha and insist that they are knowingly breaking (or evading) the “rules” – which don’t actually exist??
Vaccinated people develop a measurable immune response/antibodies against the virus.
This is true. Also, the studies have compared vaccinated to unvaccinated, and the vaccinated have had much lower rates of infection from Covid. They have not, to the best of my knowledge, has a higher rate of death from other causes (although there have been some allergic reactions). Rightwriter would need evidence of that, not some random questionable anecdotes.
Lefty, are the old records being rereleased, or are they recording something new?
“I am told” that “kosher” stores start immediate after-Pesach discounts so that you could shop even during sefirah based on a permission not to miss the discount.
You were told incorrect information. There’s no need for a loophole. It is permissable to buy clothing during sefirah.
You need to reassess from whom you accept information.
What makes you so certain that it wasn’t linked to the vaccine
Did I say I was certain it wasn’t connected? No, I said there’s no evidence. The fact that a man in his mid 80’s died a couple of weeks after a certain event took place (in this case, getting vaccinated) is not in any way indicative of a causal relationship.
Millions of people are vaccinated daily. Of course there will be people who die on the same day they are vaccinated. That doesn’t prove any correlation. You don’t prove causation unless you study two otherwise similar groups and find that the vaccinated group has more deaths than the unvaccinated group. That has not happened.
The very nature of conspiracy theories is that they can’t be “disproven” because whatever evidence there is is dismissed as a lie and cover up. So I can’t “disprove” your nonsense, but I can point out that there is no real evidence of the vaccines being dangerous, just worthless anecdotes.
On the other hand, there is evidence of how lethal Covid can be, and that the vaccine is effective at preventing it.