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Daas Yochid: That was not a teshuvah for the general public, it was one specific case involving a yeshiva.
For powdered milk, I was told by R’ Scheinerman (he heads Kehillah Kashrus) that the reason is not because it ccan’t be made from other milks. He told me the reason is that the takanah on milk was never made on powdered milk, therefore you don’t have to be machmir on it. He went so far as to tell me “If Entenmann’s doughnuts weren’t so fattening, I’d eat them all the time!”
hereorthere: My Rav doesn’t have anything to do with hashgachos. Yes, if I have a question of bassar v’cholov in the kitchen, I’ll call him, but he doesn’t certify kashrus on anything. Most Rabbonim don’t – they rely on the major hashgachos. Going by R’ Belsky is not “Rabbi shopping”, it’s simply following the main posek of the largest kashrus agency in the world.
hereorthere: I’ve never seen a teshuvah written on the subject other than R’ Belsky’s. I’m not saying they’re not out there, just that I haven’t seen them. R’ Belsky is probably one of the most knowledgeable people in the world when it comes to kashrus, and there’s nothing wrong with relying on a psak from him.
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hereorthere,that might be so, but how could he then eat anything that the OU certifies as kosher?R’ Belsky is the main posek for the kashrus division of the OU. Most kashrus agencies rely on the OU for many things.
Mazal77: R’ Belsky has a teshuvah about the procedure done to the cows. I believe the issue is that some cows get gas trapped in their stomachs. The procedure releases the gas. I might be wrong about the details of the procedure, but I know for sure what R’ Belsky said about how it affects the kashrus.
The concern is that the surgery renders the cows a treifah. R’ Belsky observed the animals, and he disagrees. A treifah is an animal that will die within a year due to a disease or other issue. The best-known example of this is a cow with a hole in its lung. We assume the cow will die soon, so if a slaughtered cow is found to have such a hole, it’s a treifah, and can’t be eaten.
R’ Belsky observed many animals that had undergone the surgery. He saw that the vast majority of them lived more than a year (obviously some died, as there are many other things which can cause a cow to die other than the surgery.) Therefore, he paskened that the cows are not considered treifos.
Tmb, my Rosh Yeshiva is a well-known, respected Rosh Yeshiva. Believe me, he knows very well what R’ Moshe said.
Tmb: he paskened that they had a din of a lo tzayis dina, and lost many rights in a beis din. Additionally, he ruled that until the matter was resolved, the Rav in question was not allowed to do certain things which were the main point of the summons. The psak was ignored.
My Rosh Yeshiva once told me that this thought is becoming a big problem nowadays. Gedolim used to know when to comment, and when to stay out of politics. That was why we needed to listen to them. They didn’t get involved often, so when they did, it was for a good reason.
Nowadays, the younger generation of Rabbis thinks it’s part of the job of being a Rabbi to get involved in such things. They don’t know enough about the issues to really make judgment calls, but they feel they have to.
How about davening somewhere where the Rav was summoned to Beis Din by a huge Gadol, but chose to ignore it? Then, when the gadol issued a psak based on the fact that the Rav ignored the summons, the psak was also ignored by the Rav? What would you say about such a place?
Why not? Have you read R’ Moshe’s teshuva on mechitzos? I believe he holds it just has to show a separation between the two sides. It doesn’t have to be high enough to completely hide one side from the other.
anonymous555, there were 7 volumes of the Igros Moshe put out by R’ Moshe himself. An 8th volume was put out after he passed away that was not prepared by him. Many people hold that the teshuvos written there need to be taken with a grain of salt, as they weren’t selected by R’ Moshe himself for publication.
In the shul where my parents daven, the only Yad Moshe they have is an English version. Yes, I do know how to use it. I don’t even know if there’s a Hebrew version (I assume there is), but I did know how to use the one the shul had, which was in English.
hereorthere, I don’t think anyone tries to compare R’ Moshe zt”l’s sons with him. However, they do know more detail about his teshuvos than most Rabbonim, and the reasoning he had behind them. Therefore, they are relied upon when explanation of one of his teshuvos is necessary.
The original advertisement for the film was a disgrace, taking advantage of a horrible tragedy to try and drum up ticket sales. I refuse to pay to see such a film.
volvie, that letter was meant for a yeshiva that had only been using cholov yisrael milk for years, and was thinking of switching to cholov stam. R’ Moshe’s letter to them said only b’shas hadchak. That is clearly not the everyday case that applies to everyone. Additionally, it’s been said by many poskim in E”Y now that a psak should only be followed by the general public when it’s written down as a teshuva, and a psak directed at a specific person or group applies only to that person/group. Therefore, R’ Moshe’s letter does not apply to the general public, it only applied to that yeshiva.
The OU also has an article about this. R’ Belsky gives a psak that allows cholov stam for a different reason than R’ Moshe did. You can read it on the OU website: http://www.oukosher.org/index.php/common/article/1377721
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There are 2 more teshuvos. I’ll try to post them. This one says clearly that it’s completely muttar.
Volvie, R’ Moshe never wrote a universal teshuva where he said it’s only b’shas hadchak. That wording was in a letter to a yeshiva, which was one specific case. It does not apply to the general public. In the Igros Moshe, it says nothing about only b’shas hadchak.
Hashem Is Everywhere, the letter where R’ Moshe zt”l said that was for one specific case (a yeshiva which had always served only cholov Yisrael was thinking of switching), not for everyone. In his teshuva in the Igros Moshe, he says clearly that it is muttar for everyone. R’ Belsky said the same thing now, for a different reason than R’ Moshe said then.
Who says that none of the songs are preserved? I’ve heard that the tune which is sung during Birchas Kohanim goes back to the Beis Hamikdash.
Do we know who wrote the tunes which are used for tefillos? The tune for Neillah on Yom Kippur is the same almost everywhere. Who wrote that?
One year I got some fake blood capsules. I stuck one in my mouth, and right after class, went up to the teacher’s desk. Our teacher was an older man, who was kind of slow – I don’t know how he managed to do anything. Anyway, I walked up behind him, and tapped him. When he turned, I leaned so that his arm knocked into my jaw area (not too hard), then bit on the blood capsule. He turned around and saw bright red “blood” streaming out of my mouth. He almost had a heart attack! (Seriously, he turned white, began shaking, and fell back into his chair.)
I don’t want to be a macher. I have one cell phone, and that’s it’ I don’t need flashing lights on my car, and I don’t need 3 cell phones, 2 beepers, or a scanner to listen to Hatzalah calls.
That’s what a macher is. What does it have to do with playing pranks in school?
Wait, I didn’t want to vote for the name “members”. I was only pointing out that the CR is not a blog. If I get a vote, I vote for the term “Leitzanim”, as anyone posting here (myself included) is clearly just wasting their time.
I don’t think the CR counts as a blog. It’s more of a message board.
d a, I know what you mean. Originally, it was only the choir singing, and it was called “Yerachmiel Begun’s Miami Boys Choir”. As they released more albums, he began singing more and more, and he renamed it “Yerachmiel Begun and the Miami Boys Choir”.
He needs to realize that people want to hear the kids sing, not him.
Rabbi Aharon Soloveitchik held to say Hallel without a bracha. As far as I know, R’ Ovadia Yosef holds the same way.
someonesbored, R’ Belsky would tell you to stop. See my post on page 3 with his letter:
“There are other forms of a cappella which sound very similar to regular music, although no digital modification is done to the voices. These types of a cappella should also not be listened to during Sefirah and The Three Weeks”
hello99, the Lakewood Rabbonim released a letter that it isn’t a problem to fill out the census form.
It’s in my above post, in the second to last paragraph.
Yanky, I assume you’re thinking of Nachem, which is said only by Mincha of Tisha B’Av. I was once told it’s not a different bracha, but rather an extended version of the standard bracha of V’leYerushalayim.
SJS, I agree – it isn’t always true.
My family does not eat gebrokts, and my wife’s family does. I was informed that my father-in-law is makpid to eat gebrokts, because the Gra held if you didn’t, you were missing on simchas yom tov. I asked a Rav what to do, as I was going to them for Pesach the year after I got married. He told me no problem, you just switch your minhag, and that’s it. So, I took my wife’s minhag on myself.
snapplegrl, we say the brachah on shofar twice, unless one day of Rosh Hashanah falls out on Shabbos.
I assume that if the children come to visit the parents, they’d avoid kitniyos for the time they spend there. In their own home, they could do what they want.
There have been a few threads about this already.
Here’s a link to one:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/sefira-music
Where is it located? There’s no address on their site.
SJSinNYC, Beis Yaakovs today are taught most chumros as halachos, and aren’t taught anything to negate it. Their learning inside doesn’t help it. If they learned halachah inside, instead of memorizing Tanach, maybe it would help.
Brucklyn Jewess, you say that, yet Chareidi Jews refuse to accept most changes. They encourage women to learn, and force it in the Beis Yaakov system, yet when Avi Weiss makes a woman into a Rabbah, they all go crazy. If a woman can’t be a posek (and I don’t think they should be!), why make them memorize Tanach? Let them learn the skills that they need in life. They have no mitzvah of talmud Torah, and they won’t need it after graduating, so why teach it to them? Why not teach halacha, hashkafah, and other things that will do them some good over the rest of their lives?
Mod-80, shindy didn’t say a car door, just a door. It could be a door to a store.
As for the story with reflectors, I don’t get it. That issue can really be pikuach nefesh. I’d think it’s more of a reason to help than the stroller situation.
Years ago, I was walking home from yeshiva and an old woman asked me to help her cross the street, by holding her arm. I was a 14 year old 9th grader at the time. I told her that I’d be happy to walk alongside her, but couldn’t hold onto her. She said thanks anyway, and asked someone else. I was later told by a Rebbe that there was no problem with me holding onto her arm to help her across.
Gatorade is very good if you have a child who gets sick. Children can dehydrate very easily, and the doctors will often recommend they drink Gatorade to keep hydrated. Obviously, if it’s needed for medical reasons, it’s allowed, but now you don’t have to wait and ask if it’s really needed, you can just give it without asking!
The reason of the Rema with regard to hot food on Shabbos has a specific reason – the Tzedukim, who didn’t hold of TSBP, only ate cold food on Shabbos, because of the posuk Lo tevaaru aish bechol moshvoseichem. To show that we disagree with them, we have a minhag to eat hot food on Shabbos. That’s why someone who is machmir on it is close to apikursis – because he is doing like the Tzedukim. There os no such comparison with the fish issue, so I have to disagree with Hashem is Everywhere on that point.
I have a haskamah from the Feifeh Rav to post here! If anyone else wants a heter, just ask!
tomim tihye, I was taught that differently. I was told that there are ways to indulge your tayvos without transgressing anything, and they’re there for a reason – to help you avoid the things that do go against the Torah. For example, if someone has a craving for a cheeseburger, they can go use soy cheese instead of eating treif. We have kosher restaurants to help us avoid the temptations of all the non-kosher restaurants we see around us.
First off, why do you think that people living in E”Y are not in galus? We are all in galus until Mashiach comes, whether living in E”Y or not.
I do think the government is appointed by Hashem, as are all world governments. I don’t think they’re holy, at least not more so than any Jew is holy (which is pretty holy!) Most of them probably fall into the category of tinok shenishba.
Mod-80, I was told by R’ Matisyohu Salomon that if a person is guilty of the crime, there is absolutely no mitzvah of pidyon shevuyim. This definitely applied in this case, so there was no such mitzvah here.
aries2756, one of the sheva mitzvos bnei Noach is to set up a court system. It doesn’t say that a non-Jewish court can’t use the death penalty. It’s up to them how they want to assign their punishments, and we must respect it. Only Jewish people are bound by the majority of halachah.
ishman, if you’re getting mixed messages from different people in the yeshiva, ask for a meeting with both the rebbe and the mashgiach.
There’s a great cookbook for traditional Sefardic recipes called Aromas of Aleppo. I bought it for my wife, and we love it (we’re not Sefardic, but I love the food!)
It has recipes for lahmagine, Kubba, hummus, techina, and lots of other great stuff. Every recipe we tried from it has turned out amazing.
Woops, sorry, I meant Ateres Shlomo
oomis, you’re probably thinking of Ateres Yakov. It’s on New Utrecht (under the tracks, hence the confusion with McDonald).
I believe V’Yoel Moshe is pretty cheap. Also, if you’re willing to travel a bit for a really nice hall, there’s a place called Anthony’s Pier 9, in New Windsor, NY. It’s a gorgeous hall, and it’s relatively cheap, as they’re trying to get Jewish people to use their facilities.
myshadow, here is what it says on their web site:
In February 2008, the Touro MSW program was granted Candidacy Status by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Students initially admitted or readmitted during or subsequent to the 2007-2008 academic year will be considered as having graduated from a CSWE-accredited program at such time as the MSW program is granted Initial Accreditation by CSWE.