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Marxist: You are correct and I could add several other groups opposed but the vast majority of lobbying groups are supportive, there are health studies showing lower cardiac and other illnesses during DST, etc. More importantly, the politics of this issue have changed substantially since the 1970s and this legislation is likely to become law within the next several months and take effect in 2023.
Using airhorns or superloud groggers is mamash a “physical assault” on those around you, especially for the elderly and those with tinnitus.
Ugyanígy neked és a családodnak!!
The Agudah press release cites several long-standing arguments that have been invoked for decades against year-round DST, some of which have been shown to be incorrect and others simply viewed as “collateral damage” offset by the projected benefits. As Moshe from Midwood noted, Congress is unlikely to legislate around the inconveniences incurred by a minority of yidden just as they no longer are captive to the views on this subject held by a few thousand Dairy Farmers whose cows don’t hold by DST.
Akuperma: Totally agree that its unpatriotic (or worse) never underestimate the willingness of a small cadre of bankers to find ways of profiting off the most tragic events of human suffering. I can’t post the link but google “Russian War Bonds Never Die” for a fascinating story of the huge profits realized in a final settlement several years ago on Russian War Bonds from the Czarist era that were repudiated by the newly installed government after the 1917 Revolution.
Reb E: Jól vagyok. Köszönöm kérdését. Hogy vagy?
The CR Chief Rav has issued a press release (not for attribution) totally denying this story and affirming that his ONLY compensation (at least in olam hazeh) is trying to dispassionately redirect all the OTD posters back towards a Torah-based perspective supported by objective facts and citations to T’nach (and an occasional Ungarishe vert).
There was a secret meeting between the radical Vasikim lobbyists and key members of Congress to rush this legislation through the Senate before normal yidden even had a chance to express their opposition. Rumor has it that unless amended, it would add a least 1 hour to the fast on yom kippur, upset the lactation cycle of cows providing chalav yisroel and totally screw up the website of the White Shul. There is a Million Macher March planned for Washington D.C. as soon as the Trucker protest leaves.
But how many of these (relatively) BIG tzadikim are ganz meshugah Big tzadikim (as in the lead story just posted on the YWN news page) and have the mesiras nefesh and courage to assist another yid at the risk of his/her life.
Huju: On further consideration, it should have been clear that your family’s shmurah mitzvah and prune minhag does not involve two distinct mitzvahs and thus not subject to the inyan of . ain osim mitzvos chavilos chavilos. While eating the prunes may have collateral benefits to your enjoyment of the yom tov, they are not strictly de’oraisa.
Since its all relative, I was considering changing my screen name to MegaTzadik but out of consideration for those who might be visually impaired and read it as MagaTzadik, I’ll keep the status quo.
I would have thought that some of the more agressive “vulture funds” might start buying up the “distressed” debt of publicly traded Russian corporations and even some of the state-owned enterprises that are trading for pennies on the dollar. However, the U.S. and UK sanction language is so broad that it could be interpreted as prohibiting trading even in the secondary market so I’ve not seen any indication of anyone willing to take the risk.
Great advice. Good news is that with a huge backlog of unprocessed returns from 2 years of Covid and fewer agents, there will be fewer routine (random) tax audits for most middle income taxpayers. You would probably have to be a really big baal tzadakah for the IRS audit software to flag your return for review based on unusually high charitable deductions.
Huju: Do you have a special family minhag for Matzoh/Prune sandwiches along the lines of Hillel’s matzoh/marror along with a heter for the combo? I recall that the gemorah (Berachos 49a) admonishes us not to perform mitzvos “bundled together” ( aka chavilos chavilos) so as not to give the impression that mitzvos are an unwanted burden to be rushed.
If all yidden are “big tzadikim” why do we even focus on the lamud vuv tzadikim?? Are they “bigger” than the rest of us??
I understand its part of their shtick to to make the most outrageous comments that can pass muster with the mods but would some of these tzadikim encouraging yungerleit to get “stone drunk” on Purim be happy to read a story about some teen falling off a balcony and seriously injuring himself or c’v driving the wrong lane on the highway and killing several people?? You can troll about women learning talmud but I simply don’t get the insanity of wrapping yourself in halacha and mindlessly promoting intoxication even one night a year.
UJM: Many thanks for the geography lesson. I’ll forego the acronym and just use “Israel”. In any event, there was apparently another telephone conference several hours ago between Bennett and Putin, although no details have yet been released.
“Frankly, given that Biden is still somewhat sane, he should do the right thing and hire Trump as chief of staff and let him deal with Ptutin…”
AAQ: No argument at this end. If Trump could do anything to stop the carnage and bloodshed w/o starting a nuclear war, I would support making him King, renaming the Blue Plains Facility as the Trump Facility and putting his likeness on Mt. Rushmore
EY is desparately trying to thread the needle between the Russian and Western positions on Ukraine w/o triggering any reaction from Putin which would hurt EY in both Syria as well as the situation of Yidden in Russia. So far, they’ve been reasonably successful but their efforts may be styled as a dangerous geopolitical version of an old idiom warning that מיט איין פּאָר פֿיס קען מען ניט טאַנצן אויף צוויי חתונות
Avram in MD: My family in Baltimore tells me the reliable “hand shmurah is going from a low end of $35/lb at Chabad to upwards of $40+ at some of the hameshe markets, some of which are already sold out. One of the local outlets is reselling hand shumrah from Brooklyn’s Kehilath Yakov (Pupa) & Zehlem Matzo Bakery for “only” $45/lb.
As usual, common saychel is right on point. Implicitly, he also captures the absence of common saychel on the part of our Troller-in-Chief who perversely believes in his usual “the most distorted interpretation of halacha always trumps (excuse the pun) common sense” mantra that teenagers should get totally inebriated without a figleaf of a caveat regarding pikuach nefesh.
No public reports of status but if you have good reason to inquire, you might contact Rav Yehuda Meislik in Modiin who was referenced in the Israeli media as “a close associate” of the choson and was present at the time of the accident.
AAQ: Sorry but too tired and too late to litigate the balancing of “public service” represented by the points you cite in comparison to what some of us consider the incredible disservice that was done (and continues to be done) to our democracy and social fabric. Much of what he “accomplished” was self-serving with collateral damage far-outweighing the benefits.
Perhaps you articulate a view (such as expressed today by former AG Bill Barr on the Sunday talk shows) that in a world of binary choices, you would prefer Trump and all his baggage to what you perceive as the alternative. I’m naive enough to believe there is an alternative that might provide most of the benefits you cite w/o leaving a trail of chaos and destruction. We have builders who have provided 5x to 10x more homes that are also affordable, educators who provided opportunities for hundreds of thousands to gain knowledge of the business world w/o being sued for fraud (and agreeing to pay millions in a settlement), etc. etc.
AAQ:….and perhaps we might extrapolate from this wonderful story on the imperative of kavod hatorah on something as seemingly insignificant as kneidlach that there might not always be a sachar for being the smartest (or frummest) guy in the room.
Was there ever an inyan about the higher level of kavanah among the guys doing each step of the hand-made shmurah versus the guy pushing the buttons on the machine-made stuff??
So much less stressful to be debating gebrokts versus mask and vaccine mandates. As if its not already hard enough to make sedorim for a large extended family, having to prepare separate gebrokts/non-gebrokts meals for guests seems a bit over the top and warrants consideration of just adhering to the minhag of the hosts.
Its not just Trump. No one in his family, kids included have ever acknowledged serving in the U.S. armed forces, peace corps, or any other form of public service that might have put them at risk or personal financial sacrifice. The family DNA is to make someone else pay the bill for their protection even to the point of having the taxpayers pay millions for extended secret service protection for his adult “children” after he was thrown out of office.
AAQ’s observation makes the most sense. While it may happen in rare cases, I very much doubt R’ Belsky’s assertion that the large percentage of hand-mad shmurah matzos are baked by widows and the poor. And in those rare cases where that might be the case, it would make more sense to provide direct tzadakah that one knows will go directly to those in need rather than assuming it will trickle down to them by purchasing such shmurah from the owners of the market or bakery and relying upon their paying good wages to the widows and poor they’ve hired.
As to cleaning the machines, if the bakery has a good hashgacha that your rely upon year- around and for pesach otherwise, than there is no reason not to rely upon the rav hamachshir to supervise the cleaning. Ultimately, it depends on your hashkafah and budget. If you can afford it, go with hand-shmruah for ganz yom tov; if your are like many of us, save the hand-shmurah for the sedorim and use machine shmurah for the rest of pesach.Do you think any of this is just coincidence or just an accident that happened? Did you see this message in any sefer in the world or hear it from a Gadol Hador speaking? It’s not from me a coffee room member but actually a direct shocking message from Hashem.
Sammy: This is Gadolhadorah speaking. Your nevius and musar are entertaining up to a point. The natural events you cite above, while certainly significant and resulting in great suffering, were in fact not that unusual when considered over a reasonably long historic time interval. Yes, we all look forward to z’man moishiach but your seemingly constant attribution of natural and geopolitical events as a wake up call for Tshvuah etc. etc. confirm the hypothesis that a broken watch is generally “right” twice a day.
By now, one would think we had exhausted both the substantive and emotional sugyot derived from “hilchos vaccination”. However, in the immortal words of Abba Eban, Z’l, (which was originally framed back in 1973 in the context of Arab/Israeli relations but seem to apply equally well here) “there are always some who will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity”.
” he is not including REGULAR shomer shabbos Jews…”
I’m always nervous when someone uses the term “regular” to define some type of norm. On the political right, they seemingly always use the term “regular” or “real” American to carve out their stereotype of the east and west coast “liberal elites”. Here in the CR, parsing between are their “regular frum yidden”, “charedi frum yidden”, etc? To be frum within the context of this wordsoup, do you need to check all 613 boxes on your “Shomer Torah Umitzvos Survey Form”? Does drinking chalav stam, holding by eruvim and skiing in Northface gear make you “irregular” from a hashkafah perspective, just “chareidi frum” or is the latter an oxymoron?
” he is not including REGULAR shomer shabbos Jews…”
I’m always nervous when someone uses the term “regular” to define some type of norm. On the political right, they seemingly always use the term “regular” or “real” American to carve out their stereotype of the east and west coast “liberal elites”. Here in the CR, parsing between are their “regular frum yidden”, “charedi frum yidden”, etc? To be frum within the context of this wordsoup, do you need to check all 613 boxes on your “Shomer Torah Umitzvos Survey Form”? Does drinking chalav stam, holding by eruvim and skiing in Northface gear make you “irregular” from a hashkafah perspective?
Huju speaks to the reality that we don’t know enough to question the judgement of the intelligence and defense experts who appear fairly certain that the marginal benefits of providing these planes to the Ukrainians (who actually have aircraft of their own they’ve kept grounded) is more than offset by the risk of expanding the conflict to Poland and other Eastern European states providing the MIG 29s. Candidly, I’m amazed that Putin has shown a degree of “restraint” thusfar in the face of incredible resistance from the Ukrainians and substantial losses of Russian life. What I don’t like, however, is the apparent lack of coordination on this issue across the Administration and with our allies.
From a geopolitical perspective, EY and the U.S. need to deal with what is in their strategic interests NOW and forego policy decisions rooted in historical/emotional links. Not always easy to do but when you are dealing with the risks of expanding conflicts with a nuclear power and existential issues, you don’t have the luxury of morality-based decisionmaking tied to prior events.
AV: I’ll forego the usual hyperbole with regard to your disgusting comments dismissing the ongoing bloodshed in Ukraine as simply goyim engaged in legitimate butchering of one another in their quest for power and the collateral damage to non-combatants as the “way of the world” and unfortunate. Hopefully, you will never be a victim of the “way of the world” and when something like this c’v happens to yidden, the goyim will show more compassion than you are capable of .
“Goyim are allowed to conquer other nations to increase their borders…….the idea itself of one nation conquering another is not evil or forbidden….”
AVD: You have a warped sense of “evil”. Watching the bloody photographs this AM of pregnant women and babies at the hospital who were butchered by Russian aircraft and missiles IS evil. Watching the mass burial of dead non-combatant civilians in unmarked graves in the Southern parts of Ukraine IS evil.“You can’t just sit back and say Hashem already made my entire schedule for the year on rosh Hashana so now I could just sit around and do nothing….”
So NOW, 6 months later, you tell me……..
“I think you’re running wild with the conspiracy theories if you think the moderators on Yeshiva World sell NYC tap water…”
I actually am quite intrigued by this conspiracy theory in comparison with some of the mamash “tin hat” Qanon stuff we increasingly encounter here these days. Rumor has it that Mod 29 drives around town in a Rolls Royce provided by the NYC Water Board with vanity plates “Vasser1”.
1. You are definitely numero uno in terms of your ability to cram more misstatements into a single post than just about any other poster. I won’t bother with them all but as an example, your rant included the following tidbit:
“He [Biden]made people lose jobs over his vaccine mandates now boasts how jobs have gone up… because he eliminated them first…”Sorry, but most of the mask mandates at the FEDERAL level never became effective due to court stays or injunctive action. Most of those who lost their jobs were from vaccination requirements imposed by companies in the private sector who decided that it was good business practice for THEM and their customers. For example, United Airlines decided early on that most passengers would feel a bit safer if flight crews were vaccinated and they achieved roughly 98% vaccination rate.
Some state and local governments also imposed vaccination requirements for certain public sector jobs like first responders and health care workers. If you bothered to google, you will see the attrition rate at hospitals attributed to vaccination mandates was about 2-3% of total employees. In NYC, the number of first responders who lost their jobs because of vaccination requirements was about 1.2%
The highest national estimate of individuals terminated as a result of failure to adhere to vaccination requirements was about 180,000 jobs compared with 6.34 million new jobs created during 2021, Biden’s first year in office. That really high job loss estimate has been criticized for including some who used the vaccination requirement as an excuse to claim unemployment in several red states that offered the option to anti-vax employees or for other reasons.
Sorry, facts are inconvenient but occasionally do matter.So far Biden seems to be doing fine, although he has a political tin ear and really slow on optics. He should have made the point that for NOW and the short-term, it will have to be “drill baby drill” until we get through the immediate Russian induced price shock, while in the longer term continue the steady market-driven transition to renewables. He could win more votes now by telling those on the left fringes on his party to “stuff it” for now and focus on getting oil/ga to Europe from wherever we can. Any increased domestic supplies will take at least 6-9 months to come on line so increasing supplies from Venezuela et. al makes sense to help the Germans et. al. forego purchases from Russia
RW: First, relax, have a loooonnnggg drink of NYC’s finest tap water and share with us your preferences as between vaser mit gas/no-gas versus bugs/no-bugs (regardless of species).
Its an interesting topic, if you could avoid the diversion into pseudo-halacha. New York city tap water is legendary (at least in the minds of most New Yorkers who go OOT). Much of the so called “bottled water” sold is large (industrial scale) commercially purified water, NOT some pristine spring water from a bubbling brook (although the latter can have its own contamination issues).
“the BY is as good as any other Hashgaha…”
I’m not sure that is a ringing endorsement of Beit Yosef and can be read to mean that none of them is especially reliable or all are of roughly the same reliability. Do most chassidim rely on their rebbe’s hashgacha??Lostspark: I wish you were correct regarding Fuentes being an FBI informant or some type of “harmless” clown, but I doubt it very much. Several quite reliable monitoring groups who have investigated him and his group have affirmed he is the real thing.
Outside of government, collective bargaining agreements and certain “key personnel” working under a contract, virtually all other professional employment these days is “at will” . That means your employer can terminate you without having to provide any reason unless you are a member of a “protected class” . You may feel “loyalty” to your employer and provide some advance notice but you are NOT legally obligated to do so. A headhunter contacting you is within his/her rights to explore your interest in pursuing a new opportunity at higher pay, subject to whatever non-compete agreement you may have entered into.
RM: U.S. is not currently “reliant on Russian oil”, nor are we likely to be in the forseeable future. We currently do not import a single barrel of Russian oil and the last Russian LNG tanker left the Boston harbor terminal 19 months ago. Instead of calling other posters “idiots”, please review the EIA data for the past several years. U.S. oil/gas production (primarily Marcellus shale) declined sharply beginning in mid-2020 as a result of declining demand from Covid-related shutdowns. Prior over-investment had pushed down prices to a point where the major E&P companies were not willing to invest in new production until prices increased. With declining cap-X costs, their profits the past two years have hit all-time highs and they are not anxious to revert to pre-Covid margins. Deptartment of Interior data (on their website) show that the E&P companies are sitting on litterally tens of millions of acres of leases where they could start drilling tomorrow if they wished. The Keystone pipeline would have imported crude from the Alberta tar sands NOT U.S. production. The global market in petroleum and refined products is fungible. Even if we stopped buying Russian oil, which we currently don’t, someone else would and we would simply displace those purchases with other supplies from the North Sea and Middle East.
Sam Klein: You are increasingly sounding like a really bad virtual version of the goyishe preachers downtown standing at the street corners screaming at passersby “Repent!! The world is ending
I’m not sure that anyone here in the CR needs, or is interested in, your visions of the the apocalypse and your constant stream of self-styled nevius linked to global events and and the petirah of various geriatric rabbonim. More importantly, perhaps do some self-reflective musar and tshvuah before lecturing others. Otherwise, you’ll have the same credibility as a yiddeshe version of Elmer Gantry
Biden cannot acknowledge being a 1-term president that would enable him to blow off the progressive wingl of the party, at least not yet, since doing so would create a lame duck situation where he would get marginalized from both sides. He is trying, thusfar with limited success, to search for what I believe is an incredibly small centrist consensus on domestic issues, while gaining some traction on the short term quasi unity on Ukraine.
In fairness, the Dems have mindlessly stoked the “globalist” fears of a large segment of the traditional Republican base through their seemingly endless efforts to insert U.S. dollars and programs into every problem afflicting every corner of the world while simultaneously ignoring some pressing needs at home. With most Americans having little, if any understanding of the geopolitical issues at stake, the basic stuff at home (Covid, empty shelves, inflation, immigration etc.) will dominate their short-term political focus and allow the isolationists to expand their influence.
“Paul Gosar is Nobody”
Without doubt….he just voted against a House resolution supporting the Ukrainian people..Rosendale and Massie were the other two isolationist idiots who said we “shouldn’t be taking sides”.