Derech HaMelech

Maybe its just like Haleivi said, so you can tell if the light is on and someone is inside.

I do not believe that Hashem wants us to not use these advances in our lives.

Is it within the realm of possibility that He created these advances in science as a way of testing us- much the same way as Adam was tested with the Tree of Knowledge that G-d created?

So therefore, G-d gives me the right to live in today’s society and use todays media and scientific advances.

But why do you use the word “right” instead of “option”?

That is horrible and funny at the same time.

Which just makes it more difficult to learn.

I think the “lo sischkach” is going back on the “timcheh”. Meaning remember to wipe them out, not remember Amalek.

On the other hand the previous posuk says “z’chor al tishcah eis asher asah l’cha amalek”.

It was probably just a cheaper door. Was it an older apartment? Most doors nowadays are hollow wood painted reddish.

I never learned it either. I have a bunch of vocabulary that I taught myself in 8th grade. So I can mostly understand what’s going on. But that’s it.

Just a few days ago I was trying to get my grandparents to explain to me what “kayn” means as in:

“Kayn mool nisht”

“foorin kayn America”

I thought kayn means “none”, but that doesn’t work in the second one. In that case “kayn” looks like it means “to”. But apparently, even though “tzi” means “to” you can’t say “foorin tzi America”.

Then you have:

gikimmin

tzigikimmin

ungikimmin

oisgikimmin

arangikimmin

idontknowwhatelsegikkimin

I still don’t know which is the correct one:

mir gait arois

gait min arois

mir vellen arois gain

mir vellen aroisgegangen

So I just gave up.

Why are we fasting today?

Because tomorrow isn’t shiva a’sar b’Tamuz.

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So you are saying that no group can try as a whole to strive for greater levels of tzniyus than you?

Those that strive for greater levels of tzniyus than you are fanatics and those that don’t strive as much as you are secular?

it’s not delineated at all and the Torah’s reference to it ensures that it can never be fulfilled.

Maybe that’s the point. That is where deiyezooger’s “pshetel” comes in. As long as we are in Galus, there will always be some mitziyus of Amalek that we will have to fulfill. Today we don’t know who they are to kill the people and animals. But we have their kefira to some extent that we need to destroy. When we strengthen our emunah maybe we are also being mekayem timcheh.

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I don’t know. Misas beis din is meant to be a kapara. We can’t just kill people without a trial in beis din. I think that it is better that he be locked up tight in a cell by himself so that he can’t harm anyone ever again and let Hashem deal with him the way He wants.

I don’t say this out of mercy. I’m just not sure that we can kill someone or even put him in a position that he would be harmed without a beis din.

I don’t know. Whenever I see your name I always think of it in Hebrew.

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I’m not talking about pas b’salo. I’m talking about someone keeping an eye on you and vice versa

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After reading your megillos, the only conclusion one could draw is that the meraglim could learn a thing or two from you.

I don’t know if you were praising him or telling him off. But it sounded funny so I laughed.

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The meforshim explain that the mitzvah of erasing the memory of Amalek is to kill anything related to them.

Ibn Ezra explains that this posuk is the klal and Shmuel A 15:3 is the prat. That posuk says to kill every man, women, child and animal.

They dont have to. By excluding families (from schools for example) that do not dress this way and labeling them “untznius” is more than enough.

That is not called pushing chumros on other people. If a community wants to accept on its self a certain standard of tznius it has that right. No one is being held at gunpoint to send their children to these Yeshivos/Beis Yakovs. If you are not comfortable dressing your children according to the tznius requirements of a certain school, send your children elsewhere.

Rabbeinu Tam tefillin is also for ballei madrega, would you say someone who doesnt wear these tefillin are not following halacha?

Do you think that a community that accepts on itself a certain level of tznius has to accept on itself all practices of ba’alei madreigah.

Tosafos in tznius is something that all chareidi communities accepted on themselves. Rabbeinu Tam teffilin is not.

I have not seen anyone label dressing a certain way “madreigadik”, just tsniusdik.

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There are also chumros — they are for those who want to be ba’alei madreiga.

The thing is that in Eretz Yisroel, the Chareidim are into pushing chumros on everyone. In England, it is also so when it comes to tsnius.

Pushing chumros onto everyone?

Did someone come to your house and tell you that your women must dress a certain way or suffer consequences?

Or do you mean that the guilt you feel from not wanting to be a ba’al madreigah compels you to dress in a certain level of tznius that you feel is above you?

Perhaps it shows just how rabbonim kowtow to every “askan”, dont teach halacha, teach what we want to be the standard as halacha.

So what you are saying is, kavod haTorah doesn’t apply to you because you believe that the Rabbonim are not da’as Torah, they are fools that are swayed by every “askan” with an agenda.

Maybe this is a sign that you should stop taking your hashkafa from Catholic co-workers.

Well that’s what the posuk says

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And I’m not the only one, most American Roshei yeshivos & Rabbonim will agree.

Maybe that just shows how depraved America has gotten, that the Rabbonim in America have to teach lower levels of tznius then the rest of the world can handle.

This sefer can be found on virtually every Chareidi bookshelf in E”Y and from what I understand, it is found more often than not in the frum communities of England as well.

Theaters and circuses in ancient times were completely different from theaters and circuses today.

In what way were they different and how is that relevant? The point is that we went their houses of entertainment. Whatever that entertainment happened to be. That is the first step to assimilation. First we break bread with them then we follow their ways. Then R”L.

True. But it needs to be pointed out that many of our rabbis do not see movies or theater as asur.

That is true. Many of your rabbis don’t. But that is not the point I was making. A rabbi is qualified to determine such a view. A person who has little knowledge of Torah is not.