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While I am horrified by what happened, we have to look clearly, without our emotions clouding things.
This guy is a Jew. A sick one, but still a Jew. While a secular court is halachicly allowed to impose a death penalty, I don’t know how it applies when the criminal is a Jew. I believe halacha should take precedence.
Even if this man met all the requirements to be sentenced to death by a beis din (which our botei dinim now can’t do), remember that a beis din which carried out such a sentence more than once in 7 (or 70) years was considered bloodthirsty. Let’s not be bloodthirsty and call for his death.
oomis: I asked, and was told I didn’t have to.
It really varied. It depends on the type of accident (was it a BI claim? Property? Comp? Collision?) and also on your prior driving history. Location also plays a huge factor in it.
If I had a secretary with grammar like yours, I’d have fired her within the first two weeks!
I used to work for an insurance company. I can tell you that if we did not pay out the claim, we didn’t count it towards the rate.
So the Agudah admits it’s for the money. How things have changed! Everyone knows that R’ Gifter zt”l bashed YU in a famous speech, but how many people know exactly what he said? He bemoaned the fact that YU allowed a certain club in one of their graduate schools so they wouldn’t lose funding. R’ Gifter asked, what’s more important? Our values, or money? How dare we sell out our values for a few dollars from the government?!?!
Now, it’s openly said that the Agudah is doing exactly that. They honor these perverts just to get some funding. R’ Gifter, up in Shamayim now, must be horrified.
He is not referring to what is considered C”Y by most people who use the term.
We would call that ice cream “chalav stam”.
Good to know that you know better than R’ Moshe zt”l. I’ll come to you with my shailos from now on.
No, he himself doesn’t drink it. He does not tell others not to do so.
R’ Belsky did a study on the surgery in the cows and found that it does not make them treifos.
DaasYochid: If R’ Moshe said it’s Chalav Yisrael, that’s good enough for me.
There are cases where it says a society was destroyed because they allowed marriages within the same gender. The USA has been very good for frum Jews. Let’s hope that Hashem, in the merit of all the mitzvos being done in the USA, does not destroy the country!
Cold Stone Creamery
yacr85, I’d agree with you except for one thing – the Torah says straight out that it is disgusting.
Derech HaMelech: Legalizing marriage is wrong because it makes a statement that these relationships are ok to have. Do they happen anyway? Yes, but we need to realize that while we can’t stop them, we can make sure people know they’re wrong. Legalizing marriage for them says it’s not wrong.
I switched from velvet to knit because knit is more comfortable.
I was told by a mohel that halachicly, a mohel is not allowed to charge money for doing the bris. They can charge for following up on the baby after, when they check to be sure it’s healing properly.
When I made the bris for my son, I asked the mohel how much I owed him, and he said nothing. I asked him if there was a specific tzedakah he’d like me to make a donation to, and he told me that he has his tzedakahs that he gives to, and I have mine – I should give to one of mine. I told him that as it’s a bris, I feel it fitting to give it to Bonei Olam, to help those who are waiting to perform this mitzvah. He said if that’s what I want, it’s fine – he didn’t want to influence my choice at all.
estherhamalka, I wonder if we had the same mohel that you used.
I once actually planned this out once, when there was one of the big jackpots – I think it was close to $300 million
I said that let’s say, after taxes, you have $100 million left. $10 million is maaser, so you’re left with $90 million. I’d just stick it into a high interest account. For that much, you can probably get 3% or 4%. I’d open a kollel funded with the interest. It would be an exclusive, invitation-only kollel. I’d build a large house, with lots of bedrooms. I always have guests, but don’t have enough room for them to sleep. If I had lots of rooms, I wouldn’t have that problem.
With the rest? Who knows.
wat am i impliing? nuthing @ al! RedNails19s’ speling iz flawles! sheez a lagit speler!
RedNails19, I hope you’re not a proof-reader!
I think Mod-80 has more names.
Joseph, did you ever ask the Shailah to your “Rabbi”, Yisroel Dovid Weiss?
always here: I was told that a major posek once quoted that reason to someone who lost her husband in a car accident while driving to the hotel from their wedding. She was told she didn’t have to cover her hair.
I once heard a shiur about hair covering. Many people have asked why hair changes after marriage. One reason is that it’s mentioned somewhere that the koach that hair has (which isn’t easily explainable) changes when the woman is no longer a besulah. After it changes, it needs to be covered. We assume that after marriage, this is the case. However, at the wedding itself, we don’t assume that, and she doesn’t have to cover her hair until the next morning.
I would, if only because Joseph wouldn’t. Jospeh is usually wrong, so I just do the opposite of what he does.
Decorative kesubos are kosher. However, it is more likely to have a mistake on a decorative kesubah than the standard ones. Decorative ones are often hand-written, and a mistake might not be caught. The standard ones were checked multiple times, and the same one is printed off each time.
I was told that I should use a standard printed one for the wedding, and if I wanted a fancy one, I could get one to hang up – but it wouldn’t be my “official” kesubah.
I know mine.
If you’re going to leave the oven or stove on, just leave a kitchen window open. If you have a ceiling fan, leave that on as well. I once had my CO alarm go off on Yom Tov, and was told to do that. Once I started with that, it never went off again. Just note, if you leave a burner on with an open window (or fan), check it to be sure a breeze doesn’t blow out a burner set on the lowest setting. Then you’d have the gas running without a flame, and that can cause a huge fire.
No, it’s not overruled. Sorry, Joseph, you’re not the judge here.
Joseph, if you had a question if something was kosher or not, would you eat it until you found out the answer?
Rabbi Yaakov Bender said in a shmuz once that a Jew should learn from kashrus. In kashrus, there are two signs for an animal to be kosher – the hooves are external, and chewing the cud is internal. An animal needs both. One without the other is nothing.
He said that a Jew needs to appear as a Jew externally, but that’s not enough. You need to live your life correctly also, internally, where others don’t see what’s going on. He said straight out, many people wear hats and jackets and it’s like a pig – it sticks out its feet to show the hooves. I remember listening to the recording of R’ Bender – he yelled, “LOOK AT ME! I’M KOSHER! DON’T YOU SEE MY BLACK HAT, WHITE SHIRT, AND JACKET? I’M KOSHER!.” But, he continued, it’s no better than a pig – they show the outside, but internally, they’re not good Jews.
The outside doesn’t need to be a hat and jacket. It’s anything to show that we are Jewish, and shows it in a good light. R’ Gifter used to make sure his students wore nice clothing, with their shirts tucked in properly. Wearing a beat-up black hat and a stained jacket is not the outside part a Jew should be showing. It’s better to go without a hat than to wear one that is beat-up.
Unfortunately, there are stories coming out all the time about people who wear their hats and jackets, but don’t have the internal kashrus a Jew needs. Yes, people associate the hat with hypocrisy at times. Let’s hope that this changes, and that everyone has both the internal and external kashrus!
R’ Wosner holds the following (copied and pasted from another site):
Sorry, I mixed up my Rabbonim in my post. R’ Matisyahu told me there’s no pidyon shevuyim if the person committed the crime. I believe it was R’ Wosner who said there’s no mesirah in such a case. He wrote a teshuva on it when the whole Deal raid occurred.
I was told by R’ Matisyahu Salomon that if a person really did do something wrong, there is no halachah of mesirah. Therefore, if you really did something wrong and want to turn yourself in, it would seem there is no mesirah involved.
There’s something written on this, I believe in the Living the Parshah series. I don’t remember what parshah it’s from. It gives an example of a man who is shopping, and the express checkout line for 10 items or less was empty. The cashier offered to check him out. While he was doing so, another person came with just a few items, and had to wait.
The funny thing was, I had the same thing just a few days later. When someone else came behind me, I turned, apologized, and explained what happened. I avoided even the appearance of doing something wrong.
Torah V’Daas has many Roshei Yeshiva. R’ Belsky and R’ Reisman are two that immediately come to mind.
I’m not sure who is considered the “top” Rosh Yeshiva in the Mir now.
A yeshiva can have more than one “top” Rosh Yeshiva. Usually the one giving the highest shiur is considered the “top” RY. However, in some yeshivos, there may not be one shiur that is considered the highest. There may be 2 or 3 shiurim that are just in different topics or different styles that are all considered the highest shiurim.
The price when I filled up this morning dropped 8 cents from yesterday’s prices.
binahyeseira: I wrote about the real story. I know Shaya and his family personally. Shaya does not have Down’s Syndrome, he has a different issue.
Honestly, this story gets re-posted every few month. Mods, can you just sticky the original one, rename it “The Shaya Story”, and leave it at that?
The whole part about the class losing and making a comeback was made up. Shaya walked by and said he’d like a chance. They stopped the game for a moment and allowed him to hit the ball. They threw the ball away each time to give him a “home run”. They didn’t lift him onto their shoulders as a hero, they just cheered for him a bit.
The story was made popular by R’ Peysach Krohn. He embellished the story when he published it in one of his books.
I believe it’s in the Living the Parsha series, Rabbi Yaakov Bender relates a story from when he was in the Mir yeshiva. A bachur got into gambling, and not only was he gambling, he was drawing others in as well. R’ Shmuel Berenbaum zt”l refused to expel him from the yeshiva! A group of bachurim pleaded with him to kick the boy out, but he refused. Instead, he met with the bachur, and worked 1-on-1 with him to solve his problems.
This is how the big Rabbonim deal with these things.
bpy: Brisk is not Chassidic. R’ Chaim Volozhin was a student of the Vilna Gaon, who strongly opposed Chassidus.
I don’t have any favorite with regard to hashkaha. For music, a friend got me into the Modzitz stuff.
shlepper, you know what they say about chassidishe maisos: if you believe all of them you’re gullible, but if you believe none of them you’re an apikores.
It was beautiful! Rabbi Bender is an amazing person who does amazing work. May he continue to have much hatzlacha!
The Jews were given a day to mourn all of our tragedies. That is Tisha B’Av. Also, setting it in the month of Nissan probably wasn’t a good idea, as we’re not supposed to mourn during Nissan.
While I don’t observe Yom HaShoah, I think it’s completely disrespectful of the people in Israel who ignore things like the siren. Everyone else is standing still. The country comes to a halt for 2 minutes. Is it so hard for you to do that also? Even if you don’t agree, don’t openly ignore it. You live in a country that made this a day of remembrance. At least don’t openly go against it.
The Gra made havdalah on beer after Pesach to show that it was now permissible. Obviously there is something to eating chometz on Motzei Pesach.
The Gemara in Pesachim talks about soaking Matzah in water, and had no issue with it. Rashi in Brachos (38b) also had no problems with it.
I believe the Shulchan Aruch HaRav mentions the chumrah of not eating gebrochts. It began mainly among chassidim.
R’ Moshe Feinstein held it was not a problem. The Vilna Gaon held that not eating gebrochts took away from simchas Yom Tov, and held that people should not follow the chumrah.
Nobody cares about me :..(
The tune to Yofyafisa is taken from a Kelly Clarkson song.
I think Christie would be a great President, but he’s said many times that he’s not interested in running. I would go with whoever the polls say has the best chance of beating Obama, regardless of what I think of him/her.