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I think I read he relied on a get, which is erroneous, since a beis din woud give a get l’chumrah without doing any verification of the kesubah.
In terms of birur yahadus, there are many difficulties.
If a guy comes into a shul wearing a yarmulke, let’s say, there’s no reason to not count them in a minyan or give them an aliyah. If they want to get married, we have to investigate. The problem is, in an era of Reform and Conservative changing the halacha of Jewish status, geirus, intermarriage, mamzerus, etc., how do we really know? How many people can furnish a picture of their maternal grandmother’s matzeivah or kesuba? How many people have a conversion certificate, especially from years ago, when any 3 rabbis did conversions and those rabbis died and their shuls closed down? It takes big shoulders to deal with these issues.
In the case of Elk, the ball was dropped. How did he manage to learn Hebrew well enough to learn safrus and milah, get semicha, and somehow learn in a mekubalishe yeshiva?
Being an akeres habayis has nothing to do with whether the mother puts tefillin, goes to minyanim, learns rashi and tosfos, etc.
A woman doesn’t have to do any of that because of her innate kedusha. Mothers ignite the sparks that are waiting to be kindled within the hearts of the next generation. Mothers nurture the soul of each child teaching them the meaning of endless love. Mothers carry life, give life and shed tears as they pray that each child lives a purposeful and good life.
That is the role of the yiddishe mame.
The tateh is the one who learns and davens.
Ripping a baby out of the womb is an atrocity.
Biden is a wicked man and so is his entire party.A woman’s Judaism is being a baalebuste. Caring for the kids. Lighting shabbos candles. Keeping taharas hamishpacha. Being mafrish challah. Cooking.
The idea that women need to be men and do what men do to be good Jews is what’s wrong with klal yisroel and is how we got open orthodoxy.
Biden is a bad Catholic and a bad human being.
He is devoid of any true morality. He supports the most evil and ugly moral infractions, including abortion on demand. It is of no surprise he wants nothing to do with G-d; G-d wants nothing to do with him. He is an illegitimate president and a fake Catholic.There’s no shortage in our area of Jewish-owned chapels which do things al pi halacha.
There’s Yereim, Shomrei Hadas, Shomrei Hachomos, the Sons of Israel chapel in Lakewood, Bais Yisroel in New Square, Kehila Chapels, Jewish Memorial Chapel (Clifton), Plaza in Manhattan.
In every case, these chapels are much cheaper than an SCI chapel.
SCI chapels charge 350 dollars for tachrichim, 700 dollars to “use” tahara room (ie. sheets and water, and a 3 dollar packet of afar from Har haZeisim), and a total of 8000-9000 dollars for a basic levaya, minus grave opening charges.In Plaza, for instance, they charge 5000 dollars for everything minus the grave opening.
Shomrei Hadas and Shomrei Hachomos are also very cheap.Women wanting to learn torah like men is a major problem which has led to disasters for klal yisroel, chief among them, the rise of the open orthodox, which takes this unholy desire to its logical conclusion. Once you have women learning torah like men, they’re going to want to be rabbis like men. Even Rav Willig, shlita, from YU has admitted that allowing women to learn gemara is a mistake.
I don’t know. Ignorance of halacha and metzius, I’m guessing.
@Common Saychel,
It amazes me why in so many Jewish areas, they choose to go to SCI chapels, rather than utilize Jewish owned and operated chapels.
When it comes to funerals, the rabbonim don’t care that the halacha is to patronize Jewish businesses. The SCI chapels are 30-40% MORE expensive than Jewish-owned funeral homes.
In 5 towns, the Vaad goes to Riverside in Hewlett, in Teaneck, to Gutterman Musicant, in Livingston, to Bernheim Apter Kreitzman (where the goy missionary is “Shomer”). All of these places are expensive, with a graveside funeral and plain pine box costing 9000 or so, without the grave opening fees. The removals (hotzaas hameis) is done al ydei akum, not al pi halacha. The goyim handle the meisim to check for ID Tags all throughout the process, and after the tahara, they set the features (sewing the mouth closed with string, or with a wire injector). Meanwhile, the staff is almost all goyim, and the profits go to SCI, a publicly traded company which owns over 2000 funeral homes and crematories.
Frum-owned places like Kehila Chapels, Shomrei haDas, Shomrei Hachomos are much, much cheaper, everything is done al ydei Yehudi, and al pi halacha. Plaza Jewish Community Chapel (owned by the UJA federation) in Manhattan has an Orthodox rav on the staff, and they charge 4000 dollars less than Riverside down the block.I have semicha and my wife is not learned. She wasn’t raised frum, didn’t go to a seminary, but instead works with children and is a tzadeikes and eishes chayil. For that matter, how many of our grandmothers and alter bubbes went to seminaries and were pseudo-rabbis? Like my wife, they knew how to keep a kosher home. They taught the kids to be mentschen and to have good middos, and they were balabustes. They said tehillim, learned a Tzenah u’Renah, went to shul occasionally and that was about it. In many countries such as Morocco, they didn’t even read Hebrew. My wife wouldn’t be the best choice to give classes, and she wouldn’t want to. When I looked for a shidduch, I didn’t care about the ability to learn parshanim and whatnot. Who cares if a woman learns Ramban and Rashi? We all know the famous story with the 2 seminarians who went to see the Steipler, and he asked them if they knew hwo to make kugel. I think the emphasis on women learning has led to troubles and tzaros. The Satmar are right about this.
Reb Moshe and the Lubavitcher Rebbe wrote haskamos for Steinsaltz.
The objection of other gedolim had to do with Steinsaltz’s hashkafos, which are/were very problematic.There is a missionary working as a “shomer” in a funeral home in New Jersey. His father is Jewish, his mother is an Italian Roman Catholic. Because of him, actual frum Jews, including rabbonim, lost their parnassa.
Does anybody think a person would list a reference who would be fully honest and not just be mechanef the one requesting the reference? If I know someone isn’t going to sing my praises, why would I list them as a reference?
I bought both on Amazon a few weeks ago..
I read your sefer. On a very high level indeed. I believe you should keep writing more and more. If we knew how to contact you, we’d be able to financially support.
Artscroll is cetainly sold everywhere. I think the notion that Artscroll is somehow an inferior product or not lucrative has been debunked. It sells like hotcakes.
The target audience for what is being described is not people who are looking to be at the top of Rav Avrohom Yehoshua’s shiur in Brisk. It’s for baal habatim, BT’s, gerim, working yeshivish people, people who want a geshmak, and as described, those bochurim who are struggling.
Religious people tend to be socially conservative and fiscally altruistic, in that they support programs that help people.
As a matter of morality and halacha, there is just no basis to support the sexual and moral degenracy that the left is promoting. None at all.
HaRav HaGaon Avigdor Miller, zt”l
Q:
If the temptation for immorality is uncontrollable, how can we blame society for its descent into wickedness?A:
I have to say that it’s not uncontrollable; the fact is that up till recently, and even today, most people are controlling it. The fact is that what’s depicted in the newspapers and in the other media is not a picture of life; it’s a perverted and crippled picture of what’s in the minds of the writers. Actually many people are living normally; as you walk down blocks and blocks of Irish houses and Italian houses, they’re living more or less normally. They’re living married lives, and they are controlling themselves; otherwise there’d be mayhem, there’d be murder on all sides. Human beings are controlling themselves. Does it mean every Irish man is perfectly perfect all his life? This I wouldn’t say. But in general people are controlling themselves because that is the only way for civilized people to live.And therefore, we can’t say that the world has lost its control. Of course the liberals are doing their best to break down everything. But despite them, human nature abhors disorder; human nature likes a certain amount of decency, and therefore it will continue no matter what they do.
Of course we have to try to stop the torrent of wickedness; we have to attempt to abolish pornography and so on, but that doesn’t mean that we’re losing the fight. We’ll never lose that fight; it’s inherent in human nature. There’s no society that ever abolished morality entirely; impossible. The Roman society, even the Greek society, even though they had certain perversions, but they had certain principles; you have to know a society that’s going to break down all the restrictions is going to decay and fall apart.
And if America won’t stop this headlong flight into perversion, who knows what’s going to happen. Let’s hope the Italians and the Irish will win out against the Jewish liberals. Jewish liberals are doing the best to ruin America. I say the Jewish liberals – the truth is that the Orthodox Jews should help a little more than they’re doing; the Jewish Orthodox should identify with American scene and they should all join in the fight against pornography, against gays, and against women’s rights which really means immorality; women’s rights mean mixed dormitories in the colleges, mixed barracks in the military. The United States military has already yielded long before the ERA was passed – right now military barracks are mixed.
And so, it’s up to us to speak up and write letters; we must write to congressmen and protest constantly. And not to vote for liberals! Don’t vote for a liberal! Reagan is running now; it’s an opportunity. He’s a decent man. Of course I’m not going to put an OK on him and say a kosher l’mehadrin min hamehadrin, but as far as goyishe candidates go, everybody should work for Reagan. Forget about being a Democrat, forget about your party affiliation, forget about the private deals. Some institutions make private deals with the politicians and they sell their vote or the votes of the Jews; don’t listen to them! Make it your business that the Jewish people should vote for Reagan – he’s more conservative and more decent than the others – because we have to fight for decency. It’s our big job today.
TAPE # 308 (March 1980)
The gemara was transmitted in Aramaic, the language of the masses, so that it would be accessible to all. After all, the goal of study is to understand what has been learned so that it can be incorporated into our lives.
Later, during the Islamic conquests, Aramaic was overtaken by Arabic as the common language of the Middle East. That’s why some of the greatest Jewish works, like those of Rabbi Saadiah Gaon and Maimonides, were written in Arabic.
And so, when the sages wrote their works in Aramaic or Arabic, they weren’t just being practical; they were fulfilling the mitzvah of writing Torah. For after all, the mitzvah is to write Torah in a way that people can learn and understand. If most Jews spoke or understood Aramaic or Arabic, then that was the language to be used to fulfill the mitzvah of writing a Torah (see the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Sichot Kodesh, Kedoshim 5741. See also Likkutei Sichot, vol. 23, pp. 24–25.).
There are many people who never developed the linguistic skills to learn inside on their own. There are people who are megayer and who are chozer b’teshuva. There are also many people who go through the yeshiva system and struggle with learning disabilities, dyslexia, etc. Should these people never get to experience the mesikus and amkus hatorah? Should they just remain spectators on the sidelines of Torah Judaism their whole lives?
It’s far preferable that iyun and lomdus be made accessible to these yidden than for them to not learn and watch tv and movies. There’s only so much Kitzur Shulchan Aruch and Parsha and Daf Yomi people can learn; they need deeper works in order to remain interested in learning.
Lomdus on the Parsha by Rabbi Flohr is the type of sefer that should’ve been produced years ago.
I advocate Artscroll-type seforim which take the most commonly learned yeshiva limudim (Shnayim Ochazin, Hameivi Get, Chezkas haBatim, Ohr Le’arba’a Asar, Lulav haGazul, Eilu Metzios, etc.) and present an English translation and discussion of the commonly learned rishonim and achronim on the daf, with discussions culled from the works of the roshei yeshiva. In other words, imagine a yeshiva shiur explained in English for those without the background, broken down appropriately. This need not even be a huge production; the editors can get shiur notes from yeshiva shiurim, with permission of the magid shiur, and present it in English, interspersed with the appropriate translations of sources. Perhaps even YU roshei yeshiva would be maskim to such a project. It would greatly help yeshiva bochurim, as well as fathers of boys in yeshiva who never got to go themselves.
I agree that a good approach would be to market this as a sefer on each of the yeshiva masechtos, and people will put up pashkevilin, as suggested above.
This would sell like hotcakes, especially among bts, gerim, and people with learning disabilities. There are also lots of working people who don’t have hours to learn who would like a geshmake vort to say over.
This is a remarkable sefer. I bought both recently. I would encourage you to keep producing more and more of this.
I would say that you need to reach out to Eichlers, Z Berman, and the like. I would also suggest getting copies to people like R’ Yair Hoffman, Ben Rothke, and using facebook to promote it. I’d also consider an ad in the Yated or Hamodia.
Lastly, if you set up a fundraising page, it would help and I would donate.
Faster than I thought. We all said throughout the election that Biden would be beating the war drums, and that he’d go to war, thus continuing the neoliberal foreign policy of Obama, Clinton, Bush.
We ought to give credit where credit is due.
R’ Avi Weiss of 30 years ago was great. He stood up for Jewish interests and spoke against antisemitism. Something happened where he felt he had to reform Judaism to suit fads and feminist, leftist ideologies. I wish he had stayed normal instead of going off the deep end. It’s never too late for teshuva. I believe he is wholly non-Orthodox and so are his congregants and followers. The only ones who consider them Orthodox are themselves, the Reform and Conservative.The problem is that House Democrats have not denounced other antisemites.
There was no censure or reprimand of Hank Johnson, who called Jews living in Yesha “termites.”
They continue to associate with Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton.
Why did the Democrats not disavow Trayon White, the DC Councilman who claimed the Rothschilds control the weather, the World Bank and US government?
Why did they elect a minister who accused Israel of apartheid to the Senate in GA?The Torah is fundamentally incompatible with liberal ideology and “morals.”
No. We need a president who will get us out of galus faster.
I fear a leftist administration with too many Jews. The problem is that the goyim brush us all with one stroke. So if people like Schumer and Yellin destroy America, the goyim will take it out on frum Jews, and not confine their blame to the secularists and fake chiloni “Joos” who vote Democrat.
I hope in 2022, Republicans get the House and vote to impeach. Even better if we get the Senate.
We need to start evaluating which converts we let in better. AFAIC, one cannot be a ger and subscribe to liberalism. Nor can one be a ger and subscribe to nonorthodox movements, such as Open orthodoxy, conservative, reform, etc.
Everything I wrote is true.
Mysteriously, there’s an ISIS bombing in Baghdad for the first time since 2018? Come on.
We’re heading for war. Energy independence was killed in the name of environmentalism. And the transgender Executive Order allows any man into girls’ sports, thus killing that opportunity for young women, basically.
You are not “gadolhadorah.” You are a misguided
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You choose nice words and 60 cookies from Professor Jill for 25,000 troops and turn a blind eye to:
The erasure of girl’s sports by executive order
Pending war in Syria (2 days in and they’re already beating the war drums)
The loss of 71,000 jobs and energy independence by Executive Order
An Executive Order alowing the Chinese Communist Party to be involved in the US power grid
National guardsmen left out in the cold (Trump hotel did take them in)
And whatever goodies he’ll throw our way.This is the same guy that walks past the Marines and says “salute the Marines,” as he was told b his earpiece, without actually saluting the Marines.
We’re doomed.
Biden took out the bust of Winston Churchill.
I think a bust of the Ayatollah would be more appropriate. Certainly Neville Chamberlain
I would. Anything to prevent the onslaught of feminism, BLM, critical race theory, and the crackdown on the 1st and 2nd amendments which is now taking down the country. My only regret is that there wasn’t a well-organized revolution. 1776 was a moment for our freedom; we need another 1776 moment, with people who love this country willing to do what it takes. In a 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson used the phrase “tree of liberty”: “The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
I live in Rose’s district. We’re very happy to see him go. He was useless for us.
Dinonline.org
The Maharil haKodesh says that these are MiSinai tunes. They’re so kadosh that it’s as if they go back to Har Sinai. One should not change these tunes. The most important are the tunes for the barchu for Maariv and Shachris, the tune for the Half Kaddish of Musaf, Avos, Kedusha, Neilah nusach, and the Avodah shel Yom Kippur. The chatimah of each bracha is also MiSinai.
The well known tunes for Areshet Sefateinu, Yimloch, Zochreinu, Kevakaras, etc. are written by great chazzanim of the past 100 or so years (Kwartin, Goldfarb, Zivlin, Rosenblatt, etc.)
You need to be a graduate of a school like RIETS and you need to have college to take CPE to become a chaplain. A kollel guy cannot become a chaplain under most circumstances, unless he has the academic requirements to become board certified.
Sons of Israel in Manalapan
As a New Yorker, my experience is that these skinheads are probably marginal. I don’t see them attacking Jews or causing violence on a daily basis. I do see blacks and Latinos doing this, though. I quote from the Washington Post: ADL surveys show that “approximately 12 percent of Americans hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views.” However, over 30% of African Americans and Latinos hold such views. Given that they are almost 30% of the population, this suggests that of the 12% of Americans who hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views, 9% or so are African Americans or Latinos. This means, in turn, of the 70% or so of the population that is not African American or Latino, only 3% hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views. Put another way, less than 5% of whites, Asians, and “others” (including Native Americans) combined hold deeply entrenched anti-Semitic views, compared to over 30% of African Americans and Latinos–or at least that’s the difference in percentages of those willing to express anti-Semitic attitudes to pollsters. Regardless, it seems odd given these numbers that Jews seem especially concerned about mostly phantom anti-Semitism emanating from white evangelical Christians, while being less concerned about anti-Semitism in core Democratic constituencies.
Jews who live in areas like Crown Heights, Williamsburg, some areas of Flatbush, etc. deal with abuse on a daily basis from blacks, and we can’t forget that Black Lives Matter is anti Israel and pro-BDS, and that civil rights activists including Stokely Carmichael and Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Thomas Lopez Pierre, Nation of Islam, National Action Network, Leonard Jeffries, etc. all hate us deeply.
Not that I’m discounting the danger of these Nazis, but the other side hates us as much.
The concentration camps and the gulags both sought to kill us, and we won.
Tobacco is not a moral evil. People may get sick from smoking, but people get sick from eating and from lots of other things.
I think society was better in those days. The 60s ruined this country. The only good I see coming out of the civil rights movement was provisions for religious observance in hiring.
There’s a deep attitude in society that’s entering our communities that men are incompetent, men are stupid, men are disposable. It’s ok to degrade men in ways that society would never tolerate with the treatment of women. There was an advertisement for a kosher frozen fish that showed the husband as an incompetent fool incapable of making supper. Of course, the wife comes in to save the day. This is not acceptable, and it is not ok. Men are being decimated by this society, and we can thank women’s lib.
I’m fond of Satmar chasidim for one reason. The men there are men, the women women. They’re stuck in the 50s, and that’s a great thing. It’s expected that almost all men go to work. They learn to the point and don’t waste their time with mental gymnastics in the kollelim. The ladies raise the kids, go shopping, deliver meals to hospitals. Nobody seems to complain there. Everyone has their role, and there’s shalom bayis.
People go on about how smoking is assur, how it’s this, how it’s that. I can tell you that tobacco never caused immorality or social ills to befall society (alcohol and drugs do have detrimental moral and social consequences). Nobody ever cheated on a spouse or did anything bad because of cigarettes.
People do things that aren’t the best for them. Our food isn’t the best for us, yet we enjoy fressing. The way society demonizes smokers is ridiculous, especially when we give potheads a free pass. I’ve seen marijuana destroy lives and families.
It’s like most other things in life. Men get the short end of the stick. I agree with your premise completely. The girl sits there, orders food and doesn’t pay, and generally could care less about the guy; she cares about his looks, his status or parnassa, etc.
OU allows frozen strawberries without checking.
cRc says frozen strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries are acceptable without a hashgacha, as long as they do not contain any added kosher sensitive ingredients. See their bug checking guide, available online.
Frozen broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, brussels sprouts, spinach, etc. require a reliable hashgacha.
Bannon Defenders:
Shmuley Boteach
Joel Pollak
Ben Shapiro (absolved him of any charges of anti-semitism)
Alan Dershowitz
Zionist Organization of America
Algemeiner Journal
There are some Jews involved with the alt-right, notably Rabbi Mayer Schiller of New Square
Actually, there are reports of Clinton witchcraft. WikiLeaks connects Clinton campaign head John Podesta to top occultist Marina Abramovic.