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its a matter of honoring the Ribono Shel Olam, when you Daven, know before Whom you are standing.
it’s a matter as well of protocol, and convention. someone surely will say that Hashem doesnt care about externals, only ones heart. but Chazal have taught us that clothing deeply affects ones heart. take a bum off the street, clean him up and put him in a policemans uniform with a badge, and minimal training, and generally he will uphold the law with pride (at least until he becomes corrupted). just tell him that he is obligated to uphold the law and it will be a different story.
you cant stand before the Ribbono Shel Olam in bluejeans, sandals, a t-shirt and baseball cap the same way you stand before him in a dark suit white shirt tie, and formal hat, especially as it conforms to the conventions of the local Yeshiva community {because of how YOU feel}, the Yiddin who understand the need to set ourselves apart from the nations, externally as well as internally, as is expressed throughout Tanach and Oral Law.
someone maybe isnt on that madrega, fine, but dont say that is not the madrega we should all aspire to.
i can speak for Telshe in chicago
if a guest comes in to Daven without a hat, they would not even HINT to him that he should wear one. as far as the rules for the Bachrim, im not certain but they most likely have a rule about Davening with a hat and jacket. i would think that if a boy did so more than once the Mashgiach would have a talk with him.
joseph
i forgot it at home
last Mincha of the day
the conversations, humor and injokes are lots of fun for the regulars
but can make certain occasional visitors feel uncomfortable.
dont see any reason to stop it though,
a forum like this is a living organism with its own changing personality,
see no pressing need to make it more robotic
good question
ive been confronted by this more than once
i didnt ask a shaila (should have)
i davened with a minyan without the hat but was very uncomfortable.
dangerously so
read “Garden of Emunah”
i use norton antivirus 2007
my subscription to virus definitions is expiring soon
another year of subscription is $40.
so i purchased another copy of norton antivirus 2007 for $7 including shipping and got a year subscription with it
i could have updated to norton antivirus 2009 for $18 as well, but i wanted to stick with 2007
SJ
absolutely
areiv
there is a fish called a “pike minnow” which will make googling the answer very difficult, the pike minnow googles will be a “red herring”.
its a lumdish answer
four facts will help you divine the answer:
1. there are large pike and small pike.
2. large pike will eat small pike.
3. large pike swallow minnows whole.
4. small pike generally damage minnows before they are able to eat them.
if a minnow is attacked by a pike fish and its skin is broken, why does it emit a chemical that attracts more pike to it?
i retract my question
i was going somewhere with this, that pb fur is fiberoptic directing sunlight to their black skin which absorbs it.
this is an old idea which has been proven to be false, i discovered on googling it.
their skin is black though, under the fur
random question:
what color is a polar bear’s skin?
clean up after yourself, and do the dishes often, without being asked.
NEVER be critical of your wife, in matters small or large.
learn Mussar every day
“dovid_yehuda,
I doubt it was your intention, but you actually stengthened my point. “
no gawker your point is that we SHOULD assimilate (use the tools and ways of the nations) but we should control it and use it in a higher way. you didnt understand Dovids point at all.
new rule to be instituted by the moderators:
no more statements of CYLOR
(consult your local orthodox Rabbi)
everyone knows one should consult their LOR, it is stated repeatedly on EVERY single thread that mentions a Halachic issue, over and over, every time, again and again, consult your LOR. we know that, please stop repeating it (addressed to no one in particular).
one can ask for a discussion about a Halachic issue or even a personal situation. it is a DISCUSSON. it is fine. it is good. did you not ever enter into a Halachic discussion or ask a friend for his opinion on a personal Halachic isssue? it doesnt mean a friend’s opinion will be taken as a Psak. and if one foolishly is going to take a CR discussion as a Psak, thats his business, certainly saying: “consult your LOR” will not cause him to do so. he already knows that
im sure one can defend the ad nauseum CYLOR statements, but it is very tiring.
i may be wrong about this; but it is certainly annoying.
and this should be sticky! (after being rewritten in a more civil and intelligent manner)
<U hear where you are coming from. But before I institute it, I will have to CMLOR.
–YW Moderator-99
in other words, gawker, like anything else, it can be used for the good or for the bad, and we have to be careful and use it in a safe and proper way, i think that is basically your point, yes.
i find that to be a very logical and reasonable approach.
however you and i are fools, and the Yetzer has us almost completely in the dark. what do the Gedolim, those who see and understand, the ones who see the maze from up above, what do they say about this matter?
“let’s……..say that they’re crazy”
thats what i said
intelligent
the Jewish People
believer
unfortunately many Jews are like goyim
“ why is the world so against israel? “
they , want to be against Clal Yisrael.
we represent Hashem
we represent the Torah
we represent morality and the nagging reminder that you cant just do what your “heart” tells you to do
they dont want to be reminded that there is a Boss.
this is nothing new of course.
and its all according to Plan.
” why didnt they see that rockets were being thrown at israel for the longest time???? “
they see what they want to see.
“(is the author by any chance a man???)”
no its a woman, Ruchoma Shain
who understands the lifestyle of a family devoted to Hashem (the “Boss”)
“the oldest children help raise the others. I’ve seen this many times and its always unfair to the older children”
ive seen it many times as well
how beautiful it is.
how healthy it is.
how it strengthens the “parents at 9 years old” to be strong caring sensitive parents of their own children.
you might like to read “all for the boss”
was he a mamzer?
his father was unknown, he cant be poskined as a mamzer.
probably a shtuki
at the very worst a safek mamzer.
updates
heres an update
do you think that an active underground terrorist cell tells every working arab in a city exactly what and when they are planning?
you know the answer.
what is your point or question really?
thank you Joseph
just by the way:
“No hold bars”
*no holds barred*
it means in a wrestling match, no holds are disallowed ;-]
“Rabbosai, yossiea is rasha merusha who is mevazeh Gedolim berabim, in multiple threads on this site.”
i have been trying in vain for the moderators to put a stop to this wickedness.
either they feel these posts are of no serious harm, or they are just too busy to take notice
“i once called my rav up late at night do discuss something that was bothering me. i started out feeling guilty and i said “you’re busy?’ he answered “if i am that’s my problem. you don’t have to worry about that – if i ever can’t speak i’ll let you know.””
sounds like you are very lucky to have this Rav
“we’re jewish people and we live by the Torah and we need Gedolim to guide us. as brilliant as we may be, we can not rely on our own thoughts and ideas.”
beautiful words
ps may i suggest you capatalize “Torah” certainly, and i think “Gedolim” also would be
appropriate, feivel
in reference to a kol signed by many Gedolim, yossiea writes:
“Every single person who signed that is guilty of perpetuating a Chillul Hashem”
this ugly wickedness is tolerated by YWN?
“Can someone please explain to me exactly what is “not kosher” about sports”
its not “not kosher”
its simply a lowly derech, a goyish derech.
if it fits well into your mahalch, it is not “not kosher”
“Yissachar is NOT better than Zevulun”
no
but it is better to BE Yissachar than Zevulun.
they both have an equal OlamHaBoh
but Yissachar has a better OlamHaZeh.
i dont recall who said this but it was an Adam Godol.
“Do some research as to what model you want, then go to pricegrabber.com They will show the prices from a bunch of stores, and yo can find the cheapest price.”
beware of pricegrabber
they will show stores that are scams and give very poor service if any, those are usually the cheapest prices
stick with B&H
also beach camera and profeel
wearing a ring l’shaym shmayim, for shmira, to prevent an aveira, a ploy in the face of the Yatzer,
is an entirely different matter than
a man wearing a ring because that is simply the goyish tradition that has seeped into our corroded Minhagim, and accepted by us without a thought.
Hashem should, please, bring Moshiach soon.
sports (im primarily talking about professional sports here) is an extremely interesting inyin
if you look at it closely, analyze what it is, objectively, it is clearly nothing, pure hevel, nothing at all. im not going to do such analysis here, but it is very easy.
and yet
people live for it,
it can be the focus of their entire lives.
and for others it can be extremely important or at least hold all their attention and interest for a long time.
many billions of dollars are spent on it.
yet it is pure meaninglessness
it is, in my opinion, the ultimate mashul for the Yetzer Horah.
i dont mean to say sports is “evil”
i mean its mode of action is (actually more than a mashul) a clear glimpse into the workings of the Yetzer HaRah. gives us a much better understanding of how earlier generations worshipped Avodah Zarah. it seems incomprehensible and ridiculous to us, but we are doing something very similar (at least in its mechanism and ridiculousness)
<s> test </s>
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“Jewish men have been wearing rings for centuries. Mordechai quickly comes to mind.
Rings weren’t just for decoration, they served a purpose as well.”
the issue being discussed in this thread is “wedding bands”
not rings of authority worn as symbols of leadership or kingship.
you know this.
you also know as well as i that Jewish men never wore wedding bands (and other rings only in exceptional rare specific circumstances) until the cancerous “enlightenment” movement, which began 2 centuries ago, brought the acceptability of worshiping and emulating the Goyim to the Jewish people.
done
1) Bitachon without hishtadlus is pointless. The Chazon Ish wrote that.
perhaps ill advised, maybe even assur, but pointless? is that really what he said?
2) Men have been wearing rings for centuries.
Jewish men?
“He makes no mention of it being assur”
complex problem whether or not it is assur (in the narrow sense)
it is certainly a goyish custom
the problem is, since so many of us Yidden have become estranged from our roots, from our fathers, from Yiddishkeit, from Hashem, and even though some observe technical Halachah, we have adopted many customs and mannerisms from our goyish environment.
do those customs become somehow then absorbed into the lowly world of Yiddishkeit today, as it is practiced by so many?
or do the embers of Har Sinai, still alive in every Yid, holy, pure and untainted by the Nations, define what is a Yiddish way of behavior?
for the Holy Poskim to determine.
wait
i think i got it
eureka
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