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Joseph, I suggest you follow your post from yesterday. Don’t mix into arguments between, say, Satmar and R’ Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik zt”l. It’s fire. You’ll get burned.
Avi, I think you’re mixing up Ivana and Ivanka.
Great thread DY!
I think that Dveykus 4 could have been the best of the bunch, except the quality of the music went way down on it. Instead of actual instruments, the whole album sounds like it was played on a keyboard.Some of my other favorite albums:
Tzlil V’Zemer 2
Regesh 3
The Rabbis Sons – Halelu
MBD – I’d Rather Pray and SingI tried posting proof of their misconduct. The mods didn’t allow it through.
Neville,
Please don’t slander MO by saying “I think there’s a tendency…” If you don’t know, don’t even speculate. It’s pure lashon harah.
I can tell you that recently, I asked my Rav about this issue, because I had to attend a business dinner at a non-kosher restaurant. I was told I could bring my own food, but they didn’t want me to eat it out of a pan, as they are a high-class restaurant, and they wanted to serve it on their own plates.
My Rav told me that if I get cold food, I could ask them to cover the bottom of the plate with some Romaine lettuce leaves (big ones, not chopped) that were rinsed, and I could put the food on top of it. If I had hot food, it was not an option. Thankfully, after speaking further with the restaurant, they allowed me to use some nice plastic plates which I purchased.
You also said 90% of MO women don’t cover their hair. Again, a total falsehood. Where do you get your information from? I’d say that 90% of married women in my shul DO cover their hair.Joseph, a lack of additional funding only hurts the public school kids and not the private schools kids because of the corruption of the school board in East Ramapo.
You said earlier that secular education is not mandated, based on a Supreme Court ruling. Let’s assume that’s true. Funding can only be used for non-religious education. If secular subjects aren’t taught, only religious subjects, then why have busing? Busing is so that the kids can be educated. If they aren’t being educated (as defined by the laws, meaning secular subjects), then why should they have busing paid for?The East Ramapo school district has been a huge chillul Hashem for years.
In 2015, RAS resigned from the Moetzes because it was getting involved in a dispute in Israel. He felt strongly that Agudas Yisroel of America shouldn’t be involved in Israeli matters. It was only after a compromise was reached that he withdrew his resignation.
I guess he changed his mind about getting involved in Israeli matters.
besimchah: There are also “successful” neo-Nazi marches. A large crowd doesn’t mean the cause is good.
So besides the Satmar chassidim that made up 98% of the crowd, we have a rasha from Neturei Karta, and a person who continues to show disrespect to the undisputed Gadol HaDor of the previous generation, R’ Moshe Feinstein zt”l, on a daily basis.
Definitely a great crowd!MO is traditional Judaism in its purist form.
The Chazon Ish said after WW2 that a change was needed due to the large number of Rabbonim that were killed by the Nazis, and that was the start of the modern-day yeshiva/kollel system. MO kept the traditional path.Many Jews aren’t chassidim because they actually follow the mesorah they got from their parents. Chassidus was a radical change from the Jewish tradition, which was part of the reason why so many opposed it. Chassidus is not traditional Judaism – make sure you remember that!
Unfortunately, people forge piskei halachah from Rabbonim all the time. Just look at the walls in Bnei Brak, Yerushalayim, etc.
My Rav likes to tell over how he once went to ask R’ Elyashiv zt”l a shailah. There had been a sign on the wall regarding the issue, which paskened that it was not allowed. My Rav asked the shailah, and R’ Elyashiv told him it was permissible. My Rav asked if he was sure, as there were signs up saying that R’ Elyashiv held the opposite. R’ Elyashiv responded, “You pasken from a wall?!?!”There was a letter going around that was signed by the 4 Roshei Yeshiva of BMG stating that everyone should try to attend the asifa. It was now announced that the letter was falsified, and the Roshei Yeshiva never said/wrote any such thing.
Yet another chillul Hashem from those supporting this gathering.Rabbi Bender shlita once told me that pants aren’t considered beged ish anymore. He said the first women to wear them violated the issur, but once it became the norm for women to wear pants, it wasn’t an issue anymore. He said it’s due to tznius, and if there were pants that were tznius, there would be no problem with a woman wearing them.
Joseph is correct. The Ponovezher Rav zt”l didn’t say tachnun, and set that as the rule in the yeshiva. R’ Shach zt”l was poresh from the entire yeshiva, and he sat down as said tachnun. When he became the Rosh Yeshiva, I believe he changed the minhag there to say tachnun.
I don’t know. Ask R’ Hershel Schachter. He’s the one who holds that no matter what day of the week it falls out on, it should be celebrated on the 5th of Iyar.
I remember years ago there was a tornado in the Far Rockaway area. I was in yeshiva at the time, in Darchei Torah. I remember that I was walking to the dormitory, and it was very windy. I looked up and saw a cloud that was spinning quickly, although there was no funnel coming down from it. I thought that it looked like it could spawn a tornado, and the wind was so powerful that things from the ground that were a bit bulky (although not overly so) were beginning to be blown around, and hitting me! I ran into the dorm – I didn’t want to stay outdoors. A few hours later, I heard that there had been a tornado in the area.
HaLeiVi, the secular Israelis celebrate it as a secular event. Religious Zionists celebrate it as a recognition of Divine intervention.
So you think the Ohr Sameach was wrong?
Mods, I never said that R’ Ovadia zt”l said to say Hallel with a bracha. It was noted earlier in the thread that he said it WITHOUT a bracha. Just to note, Sefardim don’t make a bracha on Rosh Chodesh, or the second days of Pesach (they don’t make a bracha anytime the full Hallel isn’t said). I also never claimed that R’ Ovadia claimed it could be a chag because of aschalta d’geulah – I wrote that R’ Schachter says that.
My point was that to call it a “silly” holiday is wrong, as there are plenty of Rabbonim who take it very seriously.Did you just hear it by reading the old posts in this thread? It was written almost 6 years ago.
You say it’s a silly holiday, yet many Rabbonim celebrate it. R’ Ovadia Yosef zt”l said Hallel on it. R’ Schachter shlita gives a psaht as to why it can be considered a Yom Tov, similar to Purim.
Mods, do you allow links to YUTorah? If so, here’s a link to a great article that examines this question from both sides (it includes the views of the Satmar Rebbe in it as well as those supporting a Jewish State.)
http://www.yutorah.org/togo/haatzmaut/articles/Yom_Haatzmaut_To-Go_-_5770_Rabbi_Ozerowski.pdfPLEASE DON’T CONCOCT THINGS IN THE NAME OF POSKIM. RAV OVADIA SAID TO RECITE HALLEL WITHOUT A BRACHA – WHICH IS SIMPLY RECITING PRAKIM OF TEHILLIM. THAT IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE. Rav Ovadia Yosef (Teshuvos Yabia Omer 6:O.C. 41)
AND WHY NOT QUOTE FROM THE LINK THAT YOU YOURSELF POSTED INSTEAD OF YOUR OWN THOUGHTS? HERE IT IS:
R. Ovadia Yosef (ad loc.) argues that even an atchalta d’geulah is not sufficient to warrant reciting Hallel with a berachah on Yom Haatzmaut, since there are still numerous challenges and troubles in Israel. Although it is possible R.Ovadia would distinguish between Hallel and the other characteristics of establishing a Yom Tov, it is clear that he feels this type of atchalta d’geulah is not strong enough at least regarding certain aspects of such a chag. He bases this on the Yerushalmi (Pesachim 10:6) that says although one should indeed recite praises (“shirah”) to Hashem when He does miracles for you, this does not apply to “techilat geulatan,” such as the night they left Egypt (as opposed to after crossing the sea).37 Also, it is worthwhile to note (as does R. Goren in passing) that we don’t have records of a specific day of Yom Tov for the return of Jews to Israel in the time of Ezra, so too here one could argue that atchalta d’geulah alone would not warrant a designation of Yom Tov.
Joseph, the Ohr Sameach wrote straight out that the 3 Oaths are no longer in effect.
I remember when Hurricane Irene hit us. It started on Shabbos afternoon, and went into Motzei Shabbos.
An email was sent out before Shabbos to the shul membership urging everyone to stay home on Shabbos afternoon if conditions were bad. The Rabbi repeated it after davening Friday night and Shabbos morning.
Sure enough, on Shabbos afternoon, it got bad. I stayed home from shul, and davened Mincha and Maariv at home. I don’t remember what the Rabbi did, I just remember him saying that your safety is more important.What if the guy turned out to be Satmar?
This thread is horrible. You want to pick on some Zionist things, go ahead. But the Holocaust? REALLY? What is wrong with you?!?!?
As for saving people – I don’t know what happened with Zionists. I do know of one person who told his followers NOT to accept the offer to help them escape from the Nazis, because the people who offered to help were Zionists. A short time after that, he abandoned his followers, and accepted help from a Zionist to save his own life. Most of his followers were killed.
I remember there being an empty lot, with a faded sign advertising a daycare.
The Profile pages seem to work from a Mobile browser, but not a desktop browser. I used an extension to switch my browser to a Mobile profile, and the page loaded. When I switched it back to Desktop, the page stopped working.
R’ Shteinman told a Rebbe a few years ago that times have changed, and we can’t hit children anymore.
There is a kosher Chinese Restaurant not far from there, called Tokyo Hibachi. It’s located in Springfield. I don’t know if they’ll deliver, but it’s only about a 20 minute drive from Basking Ridge.
There’s also a place called Lin’s Kosher Kitchen, in Manville. Again, they probably won’t deliver, but not too far of a drive.Joseph, damaging one’s body IS destroying their Olam Habah, as there is a mitzvah to take proper care of your body.
LU: R’ Ovadia zt”l held very strongly that Jews in EY should follow the rulings of the Bet Yosef – he held that the Mechaber was the authoritative posek for EY. He also paskened that although one is supposed to hear Parshas Zachor read in the style they use (so a litvak may not be yotzeh if he hears someone read it with chassidish pronunciation), anyone could hear it with a Sefardic pronunciation, as that is the “proper” way to read it.
As for switching to Ashkenaz, I did that a while ago. There were a few reasons for it. Mainly, as R’ Moshe zt”l wrote, there is no explanation for why the chassidim changed the text of davening, and it was a change to the text that had been used for centuries. Why would I want to use it?
I agree with iacisrmma, your tefillin don’t impact how you daven.
That said, R’ Moshe zt”l paskened that if you daven Ashkenaz, you’re not allowed to switch to Sefard. I assume that includes Ari.
I heard from R’ Mendel Kaplan’s grandson that R’ Mendel worked for a short time as a mashgiach in a slaughterhouse. The Mafia was involved there, and he was pressured to declare things as kosher when they weren’t. He refused to give in, and they didn’t press the issue. One day, a new thug was in the plant, and R’ Mendel declared a cow to be a treifah. The guy insisted that he declare it kosher, and R’ Mendel refused. A minute or two later, R’ Mendel went to use the restroom. When he returned, the carcass of the cow was gone. He asked where it was, and the thug told him not to worry about it. R’ Mendel quit the job, and announced that the slaughterhouse couldn’t be relied upon for kosher meat.
Alizgit, in that thread, it says R’ Reuven was hit by a car, and eventually succumbed to his injuries. He actually had a stroke 6 years before he passed, and was never fully functional (physically) after suffering it.
Technically, it probably could be. “State of the Union” is just a name. The Constitution says, “He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” It doesn’t need to be the huge deal they make it out to be. The president can send an email out to Congress, and it would probably meet the requirement. It actually was done via letters for a long time – from Thomas Jefferson in 1801 until 1913, when Wilson gave a speech in front of Congress. Carter was the last president to give the update in writing, in 1981.
Mod 29, why did you respond to me? I didn’t post anything here.
Thanks, read it wrong.
rebshidduch: Why are you so hung up on this guy? Do you really like him that much and want to date him?
rebshidduch:
You wrote that you recently just became more frum, and want someone learning full time. But this guy apparently “convinced” you to put on non-Jewish music, and you looked at his tattoo. That means you already did spend some time with him.
Quite frankly, I don’t think you’re ready to get married, and you probably shouldn’t be dating. It sounds like you’re still figuring out where you are and want to be in life. You need to have that completely figured out before marriage.
Oh, and don’t say someone “isn’t good enough for you.” He may be good enough, but he’s just not what you’re looking for. It’s better to say “he’s not right for you.”
I think that “modern” accepted definition of chareidi is not a response to haskalah, it’s a response to the Holocaust. As was noted, the Chazon Ish was the one who really started the Kollel system as it exists today, in response to the loss of so many leaders. I think that the kollel system is the defining characteristic of the modern chareidi movement.
Chassidus has also had a huge impact on the charedi world, with many chumros that chassidim followed being adopted by the chareidi world.
My Rav likes to say that chareidim are those who follow the Torah, and that’s it. He also says that “Modern Orthodox” means those who figure out how to view the modern world through the prism of the Torah. Therefore, he said, the biggest Modern Orthodox rabbonim were R’ Moshe Feinstein, R’ SZ Auerbach, R’ Elyashiv, Chacham Ovadia Yosef, etc. who took the new modern things we have, whether it’s electricity, medical advances, or anything else, and figured out how the halachos we have apply to them.
ZD: If you’re just eating the fish, without rice, then it isn’t sushi. “Sushi” actually refers to a type of vinegared rice, served with additional ingredients. If you’re having just the fish, without the rice, it’s usually called sashimi.
My 12th grade Rebbe actually told me this too! We used to make a cholent in the dorm for Friday night every week, and weren’t sure about doing it on Rosh Hashanah. We asked him, and he told us this, and said the malach needed to do his job, so we should make a cholent.
I still read some threads, I just don’t see much that is really worth writing about.
I’m also really busy at work. I think I mentioned a while back that I got a new job, and it keeps me busy!