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I guess it was too much to ask for a 10 day moratorium on bashing other yidden for their beliefs and hashkafah.
Philosopher: Perhaps we can have a moratorium for the rest of chodesh Elul on what some might consider as Chabad-bashing, even those “questions” you believe are intellectually sound.
Given what we’ve seen this week regarding what can be hidden in a pager, who knows what might have been put inside an egg. You need to find a good chassideshe hashgacha with the requisite expertise in hun hoyzen and avionics.
It was an incredible operation combining technological and intelligence skills but wouldn’t it have been even more effective if it was followed immediately by a major ground operation pushing Hezbolah back from the border and creating a buffer zone in the North so that over 100,000 Israelis can return home? Its hard to understand the timing here but perhaps we will know more in the coming days.
If Joe Biden offered a package deal pardoning both Trump and Hunter, I think he would gladly step back into well-deserved ob
If Joe Biden offered a package deal pardoning both Trump and Hunter, I think he would gladly step back into well-deserved oblivion.
Seems like some are preoccupied with rationalizing hatred and speaking lashon harah with respect to those they regard as “reshaim and kofrim” than building achdus within klal yisroel. I guess its important to have an enemies list so you know whom not to treat with respect.
Is Ukraine asking non-Jews not to come to Ukraine, too? Or only Jews?
For at least the past 15 months, when the Russian missile and drone attacks have proliferated and fatalities increased, Ukraine has discouraged ALL travel into the country. However, as others have noted, the Breslov seem to ignore these travel guidelines, both from the U.S. and Ukraine.
“Should we laud and applaud potential achdus between the Orthodox and Conservatives (and/or Reforms), too?”
Yes, when it comes to existential matters and physical security of yidden in EY and throughout the world. There are times where speaking with a single voice is crucial. That doesn’t negate the reality of real and substantive disagreements on matters of hashkafah.
It is sad that such a wonderful show of respect and admiration for the niftar by a rav with an entirely different hashkafah is itself newsworthy but in a time when we desperately need achdus within klal yisroel it certainly warrants recognition.
This “letter” makes no sense and is borderline incoherent. Any Bais Yaakov school has the right to set its own rules and admission criteria, presumably with guidance from the local daas torah supervising its operations. If the school rejects several of your kids, its presumably for reasons that relate to the hashkafah of the parents and the home. If they don’t want your kids, for whatever reasons, take you business elsewhere.
AAQ: BY’H, there will be more of these hostage rescues based on on-the-ground intelligence gathering. However, its unclear whether there will be sufficient time to rescue all the 100+ remaining alive if they are being held in different locations absent some negotiated exchange.
All politicians wield some degree of “power” in terms of influencing public opinion, and consequentially, the decisions of elected officials.
Right now, the Dems are actually aligned with a large segment of the Israeli electorate that believes Netanyahu is slow-walking the negotiations to bring the remaining hostages home and agree to some cease fire to do so. I am doubtful any cease fire will be lasting, but its the only way to bring home at least a few of the living hostages. Between now and November, there will be almost unanimous agreement among the Dems to both express support for Israel to defend itself while increasingly expressing support for a cease fire.
AAQ: As a privately-owned business with fiduciary obligations to some of the minority investors, El Al does a reasonably good job of accommodating the needs of torah-observant passengers without disrupting/offending the travel experience of the very large number of non-observant yidden and goyim who provide the largest percentage of their revenues. After decades of state-ownership and mismanagement under prior investors, the airline is now earning a profit (low by standards of other airlines) and is building up a cash reserve to finance a massive investment program to replace its entire fleet of Boeing aircraft. Having said that, there still must be some balancing of needs for reasonably priced travel options when as now, they are operating as a monopoly service provider on most routes.
One can be critical of the dire circumstances that too many Americans find themselves in today, especially the income disparities and lack of access to basic human needs such as housing and medical care, without hating America. Some have adopted the rhetoric and hyperbole of “they hate America’ for everyone who disagrees with their policies but as they may discover in America, that game has gotten really old, really fast.
It will be an interesting 2 months until November.“Who is the current posek in Israel who gets shailohs about how one can price a service when competition is weak and demand is high?”
R’ Yael Schanin, shlita, Chief Counsel and Head of Enforcement at the Israel Competition Authority.
“You don’t need a posek involved. Simply train AI using his teshuvos and test on other ones so you know the quality…”
So in less than a decade, the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah will consist of a dozen advanced chatbots looped in series so that each teshuvah and psak works off those of the others and incorporates the consensus views of “real” gadolim over hundreds of years.
On a serious note, is there some inyan of bal tashchit if it is NOT a fruit tree and the purpose of trimming or removing the tree is to provide for safe observance of a mitzvah?
The details of U.S. Arms shipments to EY are readily available on the DOD website as well as in the routine notices of shipments to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. The “number” of shipments is a totally mindless and irrelevant metric since their value and contents is what counts. A single delivery of an F-18 is valued considerably more than a dozen shipments of artillery shells.
As of June 30th, there were only 3 shipments being withheld or delayed. Two were because of supply chain/logistic issues issues and the other being the frequently cited shipment of 2,000 lb bombs. The value of arms shipped since October 7th is over $7 billion.1. “Young adults should be ready for marriage at 18”
Biologically, they are “ready” at 13-14 YO. Emotionally, they may not be ready until 10 years later.2. “Husbands should work, wives should stay at home”.
Unless, as is frequently the case, the wife is smarter than the husband and can earn 2x or 3x as much so he can stay home, take care of the kids and learn.3. Young ladies who go to seminary after high school should do so close to home
It depends where “home” is.4. Don’t dump Zaidy or Bubby into a nursing home.
Agreed. Drop them off with love and dignity and call them once a week.Go to Home Depot, buy a chainsaw and use the $1,000 you save to buy a Calabrian esrog. bbbb
“all democrats are in Chicago this week, I heard, so can I enjoy the rest of the USA….”
AAQ: Not really. There are only about 33,000 Dems attending the DNC convention in Chicago this week plus the approximately 4.5 million Illinois residents registered as Democrats. That means there are still over 77 million Democrats in the other 49 states to make your life miserable this week. Sorry to rain on your parade.
Square Root: What about a button to object to anonymous and chronic button pushing by other CR posters along with a button to seek appellate review of the Mods decision to edit or delete a post (sort of like the NFL rules which allow a team to object to a call by an official on the field).
AAQ. Thanks for sharing. Wonderful story.
“I was reading about elections in Latvia in 1920s-30s, and there were trains of Jewish voters from several parties going from one district to another to maximize their chances against each other. I am not sure that was legal though…”
AAQ: Move to Chicago where the city’s motto is “Vote Early, Vote Often” and you don’t have to be Litvish to register you cat to vote.
A gutten shabbos
Obviously, a “true” statement can also be lashoh harah but there are also exceptions where factual statements are permitted. The Mods seem to be able to make those distinctions w/o adding a link on each posting so that all the armchair CR poskim can demand the removal of another posting that offends them.
“If doctors say smoking is detrimental to your health we cannot forbid smoking lehalacha because the proof of the danger of smoking cannot finally be decided….. I saw Tzadikim who were smoking and maybe this is an explanation for their doing so”””
Unless you are engaged in really bad trolling, your comments about the “dangers of smoking cannot be decided” are bizarre. Any surgeon who does lung surgery would be more than happy to show you the tissue of a niftar where the residue of years of cigarette smoking are not subject to question. While there are certain areas of mortality/morbidity where causality is arguably still an open issue, smoking is NOT one of them and there is absolute certainty about its dangers. I can only assume that the so-called “tzadikim you saw smoking were sadly addicted and unable to control themselves OR have not seen a doctor in several decades and don’t read any newspaper or expose themselves to any media and are oblivious to the fact they are slowly killing themselves (and potentially those around them if they smoke at home).
Most poskim hold that suicide is assur year-round, including on a taanis….perhaps R’ Belsky was unaware of the health risks.
One person’s truth is another person’s lashon harah. The editors would need to a whole bunch of full time “mashgichim” to assist the Mods in evaluating what qualifies as lashon harah versus plain old hate speech (e.g. “all yiden who either vote for Dems or believe the Rebbe is Mashiach are mamash menuvalim, apikorsim, etc.”, )
Its whatever has kept Moishiach from coming and delayed the z’man of the geulah. The various definitions, inyanim, darashos etc. and the multiple meanings that can be brought down from Chazal help inform but do not provide a definitive solution that will find acceptance among all segments of the tzibur.
“How does that make Donald Trump any different than the average American?”
The last time I checked, neither Schumer, Pelosi, Harris etc, nor the “average American” doesn’t have anywhere the degree of narcissism as Trump which makes EVERYTHING about him. If he is not the biggest, the greatest, etc. he goes into a frantic counter-attack mode that even Republicans acknowledge is scary at times.. Most important to the original question (aka “how is he different”) the answer is that he has the nuclear codes and as we have seen repeatedly, is prone to act impulsively. In his last term, there were adults in the room to buffer his crazy impulses. The next time around, there may not be any adults in the situation room and he will be surrounded by Steven Bannons, Peter Navarros, etc.
The degree of nitpicking here is awesome. People have their own way of feeling and expressing the pain, sorrow and sense of availus associated with Tish B’av and the overall sense of despair given the trauma confronting yidden in EY and the world in general. Giving musar over the seating options chosen by some while they listen to eicha is pathetic and says a lot about the “baal musar”. .
Square Root:: There are a number of old yiddish jokes whose punchline is some variation of “my gan eden is his geihinom” .
For American Yidden who don’t see Trump as the big Ohev Yisroel as he claims (and you seem to agree), and also don’t see Harris as a rabid, anti-semitic Israel hater, the your political gan eden is our geihinom.
Sorry, but some of us are having a hard time tonight davening that the Ebeshter will grant a bigger chelek in olam haboh for Haniyeh, Shukr, Sinwar, etc.
If Trump would just shut up and stop with his daily obsessions with personal grievances and personal attacks on both Democrats and Republicans who he feels slighted him, he would be ahead in the polls by 5-10 points. Fortunately, however, he can’t help himself and has energized the Dems and made the election a toss-up as of now.
Keep it up Donald.No one is going to convince anyone here about which Presidential candidate to vote for, or whether to vote at all. As some of us have been saying for a while, its tragic that a country of 380 million people has such terrible choices to make in November.
Either the OP is biggest troll of the week or the biggest dummy of the week. Either way, yasher koach on being No. 1.
“Hey… This is beginning to look fun!!! All old timers coming back?? ”
A virtual techiyas h’mesim,…just like z’man moishiach
” For that matter, would it matter if the Yeshiva World existed?”
CommonSaychel: Of course it would since in all likelihood, YWN will be the first to report his arrival and provide continuing coverage of all the breaking news we need to know (e.g. turns out that R’ Yosef was not one of the lamud vov tzadikim after all)
AAQ: Interesting points. I would have been mortified if my parents even suggested showing up at my first job interviews out of grad school but some of these millennials and first wave of Gen Zs seem totally comfortable with making an interview a family participation event
Its just a question of time until there are artificial intelligence Apps that will provide a psak on any shaylah one may have. No more having to establish a relationship with a local rav or posek to ponder your complex questions of halacha. Just log in to www. LRP-AI.yid, type in your shaylah and within seconds you will have a psak din that avoids all those pesky chumrahs.
“If you let them out of the womb, you have to let them into the world….”
So true, yet so many parents remain in denial. We have seen on multiple occasions, parents showing up with their kinderlach for job interviews at our firm. A recent news story sadly indicated that our experience is not all that unusual and other law firms and investment banks have seen similar episodes. These “helicopter” parents cannot let go. In Italy, young men continue to live in their parents’ basements well into their 30s and momma is totally happy with this arrangement, do the laundry and provide endless plates of pasta and chulent.
Summer camp may at least be helpful in pushing the kids a bit further out the door, making them a bit more self-reliant and hopefully prepare them to function independently in whatever derech they choose.
“Who is this legend I keep hearing references to…”
It is said that he is the yiddishe version of Sasquatch who hides in plain sight as the mashgiach in a chulent joint in Willy
“Where did you get smicha from”
Harvard Divinity School with a specialization in Yetzer Horah Studies
When a wasp lands on your nose while dining on your patio, I’m sure you immediately call your LRP and frame a shaylah with respect to the appropriate way of “neutralizing it” w/o any inyan of t’zar balei chayim or even worse, having the niftar drop off your nose on to your brisket sandwich.
CA: Go to WaPo archives and you will literally find multiple Fact-checking columns awarding both Biden and Harris multiple “Pinocchio” for misstatements, exaggerations, or straight out lies . Similar fact-checking efforts by WSJ and other media. Both OAN and NewsMax also do real time fact-checking of Biden when they even bother to cover him at all.
Its just that Trump does it so brazenly and talks over the interviewer when they attempt to follow up and clarify that its more obvious in real-time.“I guess a spontaneous reaction is all of a sudden מותר”
Who said it is “mutar”. The point was that except for highly disciplined individuals such as David Hamelech and Coffee Addict, a spontaneous reaction is one that typically doesn’t involve prior thought and halachic analysis. On hearing news of the destruction of someone who has caused incredible death and destruction, its a normal human reaction to show joy and even c’v a few dance steps before pausing to consider the appropriate response protocols.
Reb E: 37 instances of either direct lies or misstatements to be precise. At the Black Journalists meeting in Chicago this week, he complained about the “delay” related to the sound system (which was resolved in a few minutes) In reality, he himself had refused to go on stage if there was real-time “fact-checking” on the organization’s website. After about 45 minutes, he finally relented and came on stage.
Given his tendency to engage in personal insults, demeaning comments etc. (especially when challenged by female and minority reporters), go off on rants and refuse to directly answer questions even after follow ups by the reporter, some effort at fact-checking would seem essential.I generally take a photo of the stub on my phone (which also date stamps the photo). There is no way I’ll ever find the paper stub even a day or two later, much less several months.
Dovid: Chat/AI apps are sometimes helpful but frequently provide totally meshugah rants. In the current situation, I’m not sure having someone who is not a good writer to begin with, use an AI generated template for his request for reconsideration.
The same women/children only options are available to some extent in Singapore, Manila, several cities in Japan, Thailand and other cities I’ve been to (and there are probably others). As repeated noted, the practice is driven entirely by levels of crowding and the extent there are high levels of inappropriate groping, assault etc.