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Her email is on the challah connection website.
I also wrote to Reisman’s as per the suggestion above
My reply; “Even though the Torah that you pretend to accept calls this behavior an “abomination” punishable by death.
I guess when Torah values conflict with liberal politically correct values we know which side you choose.”
Reply to my email:
“if that’s the case so be it. we stand firm in the Jewish values that implore upon us to show compassion and kindness to all beings. Thank you, Jane Moritz”
Email removed.
Oh for heaven’s sake – there is nothing “telling” about this.
In every setting, no matter how open, loving and accepting, there will be those that are more comfortable asking some questions privately.
Would you accept her statement that “questions are encouraged” more readily if they DIDN’T provide an additional means of asking questions for those that are more comfortable with that?
I also know a very fine and bright baal tshuva.
Lived a life fulfilling this and other taivas openly.
Hashem fanned the flame of his Neshama haEmes.
Married a wonderful frum woman. Had many children. Learned many years in Eretz Yisroel where they now live.
I assume this is your friend and you want to deal with him as such. And that you don’t want the money to cause animosity between you.
If I’m right then your main consideration is how to do that. You can probably get the money now by forcibly insisting on your rights, and you would be “in the right” to do so.
I would suggest deciding if you are willing to risk possibly losing the money for the sake of friendship and helping a fellow Yid. If so then forget about the money for now. Consider it gone. Talk to him. Tell him you really need the money but you see he needs it even more. So keep the money for now but please return it as soon as you can.
This is not the bottom of the slope. It just looks like the bottom. It looks like going any further would certainly be immoral. That’s what makes it slippery. To say we can go here but here we will stop……until we get quite used to it. How about making euthanasia mandatory for those with autism. How about mandatory euthanasia for the elderly. how about for those adults who utilize more public resources than they contribute?
Also, I believe that Gemora doesn’t mean that “lower level” poskim only poskin according to their own understanding and ignore the psakim of the Gedolim of this and earlier generations that they don’t understand. It is referring to the process of determining Halacha by the Amoroim from the Tannaim. A very different inyan. I think the proposed conclusion in your second paragraph therefore is not correct. I think
Atypical: I suspect that closing ones eyes is merely a siman, not the cause. I don’t believe he implied that it was a foolproof siman or that it was the only one. It’s just an indication. The thrust of that vort, it seemed to me, was that where ones heart is tied to will have a resultant impact on the transition to Olam Ha Boh.
I’ve seen that before. There are two (Gemoras I believe). In one the transition is described as pulling a burr from wool. In the other it is described as removing a hair from milk. The resolution has to do with where the Neshama is clinging to.
I personally don’t see any fluffy clouds here. Just a simple point. But I find that point to be beautiful.
Is that Gemora talking about what a person sees after death?
That was most delightful mik5
Potato Onions taste just like any other onion, but do not look or taste anything like potatoes. The common name simply reflects their similarity to potatoes in the way they are planted and grown, and how they multiply. Potato onions and shallots are almost never multiplied by seeds, but must be multiplied by planting a bulb in the ground, much the same way you would plant a potato to obtain more potatoes.
That’s why.
Anyone remember what happened during the few days that the software switch-over allowed posts to go through without prior approval?
“since the way of ingesting it is through vaping it is considered derech achila and is therefore assur”
With the little I know, still that seems to make no sense. Breathing something into your lungs is how one eats?
Catch.
I don’t know if you were joking but that’s actual fascinating!
And I agree with ubiquitin’s last post 100%!
0% sarcasm intended.
Ok the esteemed moderators were not maskim to my suggestion.
How about the non-esteemed mods?
woops, that would be me. Let me find the lever….
It’s true that I didn’t formulate my words in the rigorous manner of a philosophical treatise, thus leaving some room to misinterpret my intent. Rather it was said in somewhat of a poetic fashion, intending to stir the Yid in the hearts of those of the Olam here who have that sensitivity. I hope it did do that. The Ribono Shel Olam’s world is a place for the battle between good and evil both inside each Yid and in the forces of the world. It’s important to recognize that truth.
Now may I suggest to the esteemed moderators that you allow ubiquitin a last post to summarize his points then close this thread.
Well then you have skillfully and successfully refuted my contention that wanting to alleviate suffering is evil, and that believing that limited resources are better spent in one way than another is evil. I didn’t realize that was my contention but I’m glad to see it was refuted anyway.
Yes Avram thank you for also explaining what I said, as I myself and syag and daas and others have so far futilely explained.
Cracking ribs is an unfortunate unintended potential side effect of a life saving procedure. Vacuuming out a helpless baby’s brain is intended to murder the child, R’L.
But I guess as you say that’s not relevant to the question of the moral status of “modern” society. .
Until it was eventually banned by the (supreme?)court a few years ago they would pull a 6 or 7 month old baby out of its mother except for his head. Then they would cut a hole in his head and suction out his brains as he kicked his legs and flailed his arms. This was done not only for reasons such as cleft palate or Down’s syndrome but also simply at the “mother’s” request. Called “intact dilation and extraction”. It was of course performed in a sterile hospital room by doctors and nurses in white gowns.
“The criticism was leveled by Feivel was against the “medical establishment”
If you will look at my first post with a bit of depth and think about what I said, especially in the context of my further attempts of clarification, you will see my remarks were made in regards to the current secular “humanistic” society, in which the subset of the medical establishment is subsumed.
I only chose the medical establishment to address my remarks to because that was the subject being discussed.
But clearly (I would hope) I was talking about the source of the influence which is the general and rapidly increasing moral decay of modern society and culture.
I am a member of said medical establishment and have seen the almost miraculous decay from the inside along with all areas of society.
I have nothing to say about blood and ropes. This was never the subject of my personal interest.
If you could do me a favor. I really mean it as a simple favor, with no sarcasm meant. Please drop your interest in me in this thread And stick to addressing the remarks of syag dy or anyone else. If you can. Thank you everyone.
a Gutten Shabbos
Syag you understood what I inadequately tried to say. I feel better. Thank you
ps. don’t be pained by the Chinuch system.
I was raised by the “real world” until I was 39.
Rabbi Lawrence keleman
We are never alone.
You won’t be able to shut it off until the end
It’s a story (a true one) not “divrei Torah” so to speak. But a story of an incredible chain of Hashgacha Pratis.
Made visible as Hashem sometimes does so we should realize that EVERYTHING is Hashchacha Pratis.
“I chose my words with great care.
Not their conscious motivation.
The PLACE this
ULTIMATELY…..
DERIVES FROM….”
The scholars and others here are too smart and tenacious for me. They are filled with logical sevorahs. I don’t intend to engage in debate with them. I certainly will not prevail.
I already said what I needed to say.
Thank you
I chose my words with great care.
Not their conscious motivation.
The PLACE this
ULTIMATELY…..
DERIVES FROM….
My interest is not particularly to accuse
My interest is to try to make visible that which is hidden
The truth can only be seen from the perspective of the entire history of the world and of the Jewish People and of the Nations that have always opposed them and Hashem. The story told in the Torah, by Hashems Neveim, in the Kesuvim, and ever since. It can only be seen by working to free your vision from the immediacy of the time and goyish values in which we all have become steeped. In this time of overpowering darkness before the Moshiach. This truth is hard to find. It can’t be found outside the Bais Medresh. It can only be found by filling your heart and mind with the Torah leaving room for NOTHING ELSE.
“while they may be wrong it is not generally coming from a bad place”
It is in fact coming from a hideous place of darkness and evil.
While you may to some extent be don l caf zchus and partially view the hospital consciousness as being a mere field of wheat being blown by the winds of the environment and the political correctness accepted as the current avodah zara, still the place this ultimately derives from is the same place that all evil, all isms, all avoda zara has ever come from. From turning ones back to Hashem, to be free to indulge in whatever you wish, to satisfy any lust. All disguised of course behind the license of a statue or of humanism or whatever you call it. Then there is no Ribono Shel Olam CvS, no sanctity of life. Every decision being made only by what feels good and will still leave me in the respect of my local and wider society.
It bothers them to see someone that is much like themselves suffering, so let them die instead. Then we don’t have to worry about our own suffering. Works well. Conscience is clear. Problem solved. Why not? There is no Ribono Shel Olam, CvS.
Maybe this is not always in their conscious thoughts, but It is their true motivation, and certainly the underlying rationale of this degenerate, basically atheistic, pseudo-love society.
But Rabbi Miller, zt”l, has many times told the story of the Rabbi walking down Rav Millers street talking loudly in learning. He said he might be a Talmid Chochom but he isn’t a mensch. He is guilty of gazaila (sleep of others) which cannot be returned in this world. Ha Rav Miller was a big proponent of being wild with excitement over Hashem, but not when damaging others. He emphasized that this is how to learn Seder Nezikin, it’s not only about cows and pits.
the purpose of the Mussar Seforim is not to scare you. it is to tell you what The Ribono Shel Olam wants a Yid to be. what he expects of YOU. and how to accomplish this.
when you realize and ponder how you have failed to even begin on this road, how you have failed your Father, your King, and how you WILL stand before The Judge of eternal life and eternal death, of Gehinom and Gan Eden you WILL be scared. and shamed. and if you are not, it is only because the Yetzer HaRa has his dark hands tightly over your eyes and around your heart. then you should be doubly scared.
You do.
I saw your advice to little froggie.
No psychology.
You just felt what his daughter was feeling and you knew clear as day what she needed.
It’s a gift from the Ribono Shel Olam.
No. Syag must be a woman.
Someone with such a strong empathy with and such a deep and clear understanding of the needs of a child…
someone who so dearly sheds tears for the pain of a child, must be a woman.
Or a Godol b Yisroel if a man
Thank you ca!
Actually I was demodded much more than a year ago I think.
The memory is still painful.
My therapist is very careful not to use the words “delete” or “edit” in our sessions.
He once said; “topic closed” causing me a week in the hospital psych ward.
They are rshoyim virulent anti-semites, though a large percentage are Jews. The Jews among them hate that they are Jews. They are embarrassed to be Jews for the whole world is disgusted by the Jewish People.
However since “they love all peoples” they disguise their hatred of Judaism as an intolerance of the wicked state of Israel. And any enemy of Israel is their friend.
If you want to come back with something of substance, not just memories, devote as much time as you are able, learning. you and Hashem together in Eretz Yisroel.
I told you why.
“I’m curious though, in your view (and Joseph’s) Do you believe all four poskim were mechaven to the same nusach and coincidentally sent it to the printer at the same time, and then he decided to save paper and put all four signatures on the same sign?”
I don’t have a view. I have no interest in the process with which a Kol Koreh comes to be. My only interest is in what the Poskim are telling me to do. And incidentally to defend the Gedolim against those that judge their motives, abilities, and Gadlus. Whether openly or with thinly veiled cunning.
“I hear that Rabbi Weiss the Chief Rabbi of Montreal (head of the MK) who is very knowledgeable in technology came out very strongly this past Shabbos against the switch.”
Apparently the extremely powerful campaign organizer (who has so far managed to elude discovery) has gotten to him also.