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Can you prove that the picture is not idolatrous?
“I think objectively unambiguously offensive speech should be outlawed.”
Is it possible to define “objectively unambiguously offensive speech”?
“Do you think a country, as a whole, is better and safer with widespread legal gun ownership?”
Do you think a country, as a whole, would be a better place to live if speech that offends or disturbs anyone were outlawed?
Many topics in the Torah and Talmud are “politically incorrect”. I wonder if discussing those topics in Yiddush, rather than English, helps keep them out of the public eye.
“I’ve used both and have always gone back to bamboo poles. They seem to hold up better and, believe it or not, are easier to put up.”
Do you do anything to secure the bamboo poles? I.e., to keep them from getting blown off by a strong wind?
For a bamboo mat, I place a couple of plain wooden boards (2″x3″x8′) on top of the mat, and secure the ends of the boards to the frame with lulav leaves.I suppose that would work with bamboo poles too.
“Why would you pick comfort over better tefila?? A bigger minyan means you’re tefilos are more likely to be accepted.”
What if the crowded, uncomfortable conditions reduce the kavanah of the attendees? Doesn’t that mean that the tefilos are less likely to be accepted?
Maybe the neighbor is afraid that someone is trying to poison her?
“When did attempts at poisoning people become less popular?”
How do you know that poisoning has become less popular? The White House, for example, does not permit arbitrary food to be brought in from the outside; security checks are required.
Personally, if I needed a piece of furniture, I would choose one based on functionality, and possibly appearance. Who cares what the manufacturer or retailer names it?
A somewhat interesting explanation of the name’s origin, from Wikipedia:
“Originally in Italian the name meant belief (etymologically connected to the English word “credence”). In the 16th century the act of credenza was the tasting of food and drinks by a servant for a lord or other important person (such as the pope or a cardinal) in order to test for poison. The name may have passed then to the room where the act took place, then to the furniture.”
[posted from my Attilla the Hun desk chair]
“A loaded weapon in the home is a danger to innocents. More people die from accidental gun deaths than intruders killed by lawful gun owners.”
Accidental gun deaths are fully avoidable by proper education, storage and usage.
We don’t ban cars because they kill more lives than they save.
“One thing is for sure, …: You shouldn’t have a loaded weapon in your home.”
An unloaded weapon isn’t very useful against a sudden attack.
This sounds analogous to referring to a secular book as the “bible” for a particular area of knowledge. E.g., if you’re manufacturing widgets, “So-and-so’s book on making widgets is the bible.”
What if she’s a sorceress?
To atone for your sin, you should spend an hour a day for the next month studying the laws of blessings. 😉
There a related article in the dafdigest DOT org issue for yesterday’s daf, Sanhedrin 79: Stories Off the Daf – “The value of consistency”.
What’s the basis for decorating the sukkah? Hiddur mitzvah?
Sam2: No, it’s a perfect example. Every round the shooter fired would have created a bright flash of light visible for a long distance. Apparently, he fired hundreds of rounds in a short period of time. A person in the crowd with a rifle, who is competant at using the weapon, should easily been able to fire back at the shooter. A few such people firing at him would have stopped him.
“in countires with stricter gun laws and no death penalty these shootings dont happen”
You mean places such as England, France, Spain and Israel?
If a few people in the targeted crowd had been armed with automatic rifles, the shooter might have been stopped much more quickly.
1. Why would there be an issue with someone assisting you in constructing a sukkah?
2. While a 10-tefachim-high sukkah is technically valid, is it really useable? Someone of average height could sit on the ground, but you couldn’t do most of the normal activities associated with “leisheiv basuccah” (dwelling in the sukkah), unless you’re accustomed to living in a house with a 10-tefachim-high ceiling.
“… They have eyes, but cannot see; they have ears, but cannot hear!”
Jeremiah 5:21“It’s just an anti-perspirant and deodorant.”
What about “Right Guard”? I’m surprised the liberals haven’t demanded a boycott of this product, for reasons that should be obvious.
“Is unabashedly publicly vomiting tznius?”
From Artscroll’s Eruvin 100b commentary for “tz’nius meichasul” (modesty from a cat):
“A cat does not defecate in the presence of people, and it covers its excrement (Rashi).”He’s running for U.S. Senator, not king. Regardless of his goals, he’s not going to change any laws unless a lot of other Senators and Representatives agree with him.
A simple solution to this is for shuls to provide dating facilities. A place to meet, volunteer chaperones, cheap prepackaged meals (e.g. $5/person), a bookcase with board games.
“What I am saying is you have to love our COUNTRY (which is what our FLAG represents)”
I don’t believe that you have to “love” our country, but if you live here, you need to respect the government, including the court system and the police.
“Please explain… thank you”
nachas seems to be pointing out some interesting aspects of the Rosh Hashanah prayers. I remembered this post, and noticed these same things in the Machzor.
What exactly would you like explained? Would you like the Hebrew translated?
The irony of these protests is that they support violent criminals who get stopped by law enforcement officers.
5. prayer 🙂
And from today’s Daf Yomi:
“Rav Chanina and Rav Oshaya would sit [together every] eve of the Sabbath and delve into the Book of Creation. A calf which was at one-third of its maturity would be created for them and they would eat it.”
Sanhedrin 65bIs “lab-grown meat” really meat (in a halachic sense)?
Would “lab-grown parchment” be acceptable for mezuzos and tefillin?
I just noticed this in the original post: “helping children learn to become more confident readers by reading to my dog”.
Does that really make sense? I can’t decide.
“I think it talks about learning tznius from the cat and industriousness from ants…”
“R’Yochanan said: ‘Had the Torah not been given, we would have learned modesty from a cat, [not to commit] theft from an ant, [not to commit] adultery from a dove, [and] the proper manner of conduct [for marital relations] from a rooster, which [first] appeases [its mate] and then has relations [with it].'”
Eruvin 100bWhat would happen if you ignored the letter?
And again the forecast shows Jose going in a circle. If the boy wants to be famous, he needs to choose a target and attack. As George-Jacques Danton said, “de l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace.”
iacisrmma:
Ok. But why couldn’t the local kosher butchers do whatever was necessary to ensure that their products were glatt? Low volume of business? Politics?
@ctlawyer
I’m just about convinced to start doing my own meat grinding.Re: #3
Why couldn’t the locals learn how to make their products Glatt?CTL: Thanks for the detailed explanation. But now I’m going to think about smelly, spoiled meat whenever I buy ground meat. 🙂
I wonder if the national grocery chains have higher standards for their ground meat.
“Was it after Noah that Hashem said that you can eat animals? Or after Adam and Chavah were expelled from Gan Eden?”
I think it was Noah (Bereishis 9:3).
However, the commentary in the Artscroll Talmud Bavli (Sanhedrin 56b) states: “Tosafos write that the Gemara below means that Adam was prohibited against slaughtering an animal to eat, but if an animal died on its own he could partake of it.”
“People ate raw meat for thousands of years before cooking was invented.”
When exactly was cooking invented? It seems to go back at least as far as Noah.
I assume that bacteria were created along with the other species in the first days of Creation, before Adam showed up?
CTL: Do you do anything special to avoid the presence of harmful bacteria in the uncooked meat?
From the web site of the United States Department of Agriculture (usda DOT gov):
“Is it dangerous to eat raw or undercooked ground beef?
Yes. Raw and undercooked meat may contain harmful bacteria. USDA recommends not eating or tasting raw or undercooked ground beef. To be sure all bacteria are destroyed, cook meat loaf, meatballs, and hamburgers to a safe minimum internal temperature of 160 °F (71.1 °C). Use a food thermometer to check that they have reached a safe internal temperature.”We’ll be posting in Neo-yiddish instead of English.
“If the only way people will be frum is to make them speak a language nobody else understands and not let people speak the language of the country, then there is something wrong with your yiddishkeite.”
Speaking Yiddush is one tool, not the whole toolbox.
Does the practice of speaking Yiddush have value as an anti-assimilation tool?
Now Jose is going in circles again. He’s not going to get in the headlines that way.