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Are you talking about a drive-thru Sukkah?
How can a Jew attend a Christian church service? Especially the church sanctuary. For an avodah zora service. It is strictly prohibited to enter. According to all poskim from the mishna and gemorah Avoda Zora to S”A (and Rambam, Ritba, Rosh, Rashba, etc.) to contemporary poskim (Rav Moshe, Tzitz Eliezer, Rav Ovadia Yosef, etc.)
The Rashba says even for pikuach nefesh you can’t enter.
Fully refundable tickets — i.e. full fare tickets non-discounted — are typically fully refundable, as Nechomah indicated. They typically are purchased by business fliers who may need to cancel a flight at the last minute.
Keen: are you saying the airline will refuse to allow a non-Israeli to board the flight on a one-way ticket? If so, why did they sell him the ticket in the first place?
It seems the intellectual threads get a good number of deleted posts because someone or another is offended (as you said.)
Jothar: How do you indent your comments on your post above?
yossi: America has a West Coast too.
Considering that this thread first posted after Yom Tov (and even after Shabbos — as in EY Friday was already after YT), it’s obvious the CR is dead without the East Coasters.
Health: No arayos is one of the 7 mitzvos for goyim.
yossi: I’m perplexed. I thought I saw another thread you said you are a Bostoner, not Lubavitcher.
You saw the harsh words Reb Elchonon had for YU. Reb Aaron Kilter was even harsher. And he refused to ever set foot in it — even for a levaya.
HaLeiVi: So where does the idea of “s’feika d’yoma” come from?
It’s not a summary. It is a word-by-word verbatim translation of the entire letter. Google “rabbi elchonon wasserman yeshiva university” (without the quotes) and you will find a photocopy of the original letter in Loshon Kodesh written in Reb Elchonon’s own handwriting on his Yeshiva’s stationary with his signature. Feel free to read it yourself.
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The point was he shouldn’t celebrate the death, not that he should mourn the death. That isn’t mere semantics.
Hopefully everyone has, or soon will, giklapte hoishanes.
That’s a reason not to celebrate. It isn’t a reason to mourn.
Yes. Here is the a translation of a letter Rav Wasserman wrote (an actual photocopy of the original letter in Loshon Kodesh can be found online — ironically coming from YU’s archives) before being murdered by the Nazi’s ym”s:
Baruch Hashem, Erev Shabbos Kodesh Naso
I received his letters but I have no ability to do anything with this, thus I did not respond.
The yeshivos in America which are able to bring over students are the yeshivas of Dr. Revel (named Yeshiva University) in New York and Beis Midrash L’Torah in Chicago and they both are places of danger in terms of spirituality because they conduct themselves in a spirit of freedom. And what benefit is there to flee from a physical danger to a spiritual danger. But I sent his letter to the revered Gaon, Rabbi Moshe Heiman, Dean of Mesivtha Torah V’Daas in Brooklyn and I suggested that he request of the revered Dean of the Mirrer Yeshiva that he should also write to Brooklyn to the address below:
Rabbi Shlomo Heiman
92 Martin Street
America
Blessing him with life and peace and all good things forever,
Elchanan Bunim Wasserman
R. Sacks went to a Christian church for a religious service for William’s marriage.
Rav Elchonon Wasserman ZT”L said it is preferable to be physically murdered by the Nazi’s ym”s than to be “saved” by Yeshiva University and face the spiritual destruction there.
Why do you need others opinions? To entertain yourself?
Sounds like a downwards nose.
less, Those that don’t respect the gedolim, never did. They didn’t have anything to lose. The gedolims judgement in issuing the bans are a lot better than ours who think the bans are unjustified.
Say Tehilim.
How can you expect to chat a little with all 75 nephews and nieces all year?
It’s related. See the related context of arwsf’s comment by following the thread.
Reform women wear a talis and tefilin.
Why not 99%? The slogan on the streets these days are “We are the 99%!”
Okay, so tell us how many boxes of Chaunkah candles were needed. Or, alternatively, if it is closer to 20 or 70. 😉
Jothar: Who said he meant to say it. It very well was likely a misspoken mistake.
The goyim will kick their Succah down in anger, when Moshiach comes, due to their tzar of going there in inclimate weather.
Jothar: I don’t believe the ban was ever retracted.
How many blows till you got them all out?
I don’t understand. Why don’t the stars come out over New York?
Jothar: He likely intended to say that Hashem runs the world, but misspoke saying the Rebbe. If he by mistake said Moshe Rabbeinu runs the world, instead of saying Hashem, I don’t believe you would be saying all this. That he gave a shmooze in a beis medrash is all that was. That someone videotaped and published it wasn’t his doing. What silence? He must take out an ad in the NY Times saying he misspoke? Speak to HIM rather than others. That three guys on the street gave a knee-jerk defense of it has nothing to do with R. Cunin. They aren’t his spokesmen.
How many candles on the cake?
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??? ????? ?? ???”? ?????, ????? ????? ?? ???? ???? ??????, ?? ??? ??? ?????????, ??? ?????? “??? ?? ?????? ????? ???????? ???? ??? ????? ??????. ?? ?? ?? ?????? ??? ???? ????????? ???????”, ???? ???? ???? ???????.
A woman looking to marry money might be characterized as looking for trophies.
Jothar: I would have to think that he misspoke and no one caught it at the moment. I’m sure he said he misspoke to anyone that asked him. He wasn’t making a public speech and there isn’t a need for him to issue a press release saying he misspoke.
akuperma: Recent contact with them doesn’t prove much. And in any event, even R. Yosef said they need to convert to be Jewish. No one said otherwise. And other gedolim said they are totally non-Jewish.
Not to sound cavalier c”v, but its part of life.
akuperma: The Ethiopians were practicing Christians, and certainly not Jewish.
ayc: Are you married? What age children?
If your father’s name is Abba, you can call him Abba?
Lakewood doesn’t have any serious dirty laundry.
Mom.
Thank you for the psak, cinderella.
Call him Tatti.
What do you make of all the various pseudo-claims by goyim claiming to descend from various “tribes” (i.e. Dan). Goyim in India, Ehtiopia, China, etc.