Gadolhadorah

“Will there be any meaningful differences between “frum” and “Conservative”?

Seems like the “frum” are already bending themselves into pretzels in relying on “technology” to enjoy all the benefits of a “conservative” lifestyle while claiming they are still living strictly in accordance with halacha.

“How does chometz “revitalize” itself?”

It is said that every year in the weeks before Pesach, Satan and all the Yetzer Horahs come together to conduct an Asifah for Chometz of all types from around the world to provide chizuk and explore new ways to mislead yidden into violating hilchos Pesach. They hold panel discussions on “New Places to Hide”, “When Gebrokts is Nisht Gebrokts” and similar topics that will guide and revitalize the assembled chometz attendees over the coming yom tov.

Thanks for the explanation.

On a related topic, are the prices for hand-shmurah coming down this year. Last year I recall $30-$40 was not unusual.

“The four years that he [Trump] worked tirelessly for every single citizen to make the world a better place…..”

Absolutely tirelessly. When he wasn’t golfing in Florida or Bedminster, he was golfing at his club across the Potomac River in Virginia. He was up at 6 AM tweeting his heart out and then spent mornings in the residence watching Fox News and calling into Fox and Friends. שווערע ארבעטער

“Several times people have thanked me for helping them change their perspective of the issue being discussed”

Myself included. I’m referring to when your trolls go off the rails.

“GH arguing with a Gemara…..I’m not surprised”

Neither am I when there is no context for a proclamation that a solar eclipse, which is a known geophysical phenomena, somehow portends bad outcomes for some demographic. Is there the same bleak outlook for a lunar eclipse, a meteor shower etc? It was sometime in the 1540s that Nicolaus Copernicus first explained what was happening in a solar eclipese as part of a radical theory of the Universe, in which the Earth, along with the other planets, rotated around the Sun. His theory took more than another century to become widely accepted. My recollection is the the gemorah you cited was written just a bit earlier,

A solar eclipse is a predictable event (like a new moon, etc.) with known timing so it cannot be a “bad omen” that comes at regular intervals.

One of the objectives of the 2020 legislation was to try and level the playing field as between families whose kids’ ages were clustered together (and likely to have several kids in college simultaneously) and those whose kids’ ages were spread out. The details of this change and all the other were left to the bureaucrats at DoEd who have totally screwed up the new simplified electronic application which is months late and creating a nightmare for high school seniors who have no idea whether they will get financial aid and how much.

Nisht: I actually turned down the Harvard gig….I’m rumored to be on the short list of candidates for the President of the University of Chelm.

Lakewhut: You have your Purim spiels confused. If the Dems “do it to Israel in every cycle” as you claim, there would be at least several “Palestinian States” surrounding EY. I just checked Google Maps and they say it ain’t so and as you know, the internet is never wrong.

UJM: “A child is obligated to follow his father’s minhagim…”

So if we watch a closed circuit video feed of the pre-K, the little bochur pulling the hair of the little meydlach and screaming at them to go back to the varbeshe section of the playground is named Yosef Jr??

“He can’t throw Israel under the bus because Biden already did it.,,”

So Biden has sent EY billions of dollars since October 7th (above the billions we already were sending in foreign aid, military assistance etc) and has also been supportive of the IDF’s military operations and opposing cease fire demands at the UN and domestically to the point of risking his reelection chances but he has “thrown Israel under the bus”??? What parallel universe do you live in??
Yes, he has pushed back against some of the extreme rhetoric on the Israeli right and tried to expand humanitarian relief but many of those same demands are now being voiced by both Republicans and Democrats.
Go on Gab or Truth Social and read some of the vile anti-Israel posts from some of Trumps’ America First MAGA supporters who don’t want the U.S. to keep sending money to Israel.

Under the Alabama Court decision, IVF would be financially prohibitive if a woman had to pay for “perpetual storage” for any embryos that were not successfully implanted since destruction of a frozen embryo could be deemed as homicide. Likewise, a lab tech who accidentally dropped the container holding the embryo or who shut off the power supply to the cryogenic storage chamber would also be subject to an involuntary manslaughter charge.

A new market entrant that forced some of the incumbents to reduce their profit margins would benefit everyone (except the incumbents). If it meant that the least efficient operators could not survive, thats really the way markets work. There would still be multiple options for shoppers and the overall price levels would be lower than current levels. While there are many products that are readily available in goiyeshe markets like Costco and Shoprite, the majority of shoppers still need to make most of their fresh meat, fish and some produce purchases at market-owned by yidden with hashgacha.

A great reminder of how fortunate we are to live in the U.S. where all of our political candidates are such ehrliche menschen and we can’t go wrong no matter who we vote for.

In 2022, the United States had a maternal mortality rate of approximately 24 deaths per 100,000 live births That same year, Alabama had a maternal mortality rate of approximately 37 deaths per 100,000 live births ….more than 50% higher than the national average. These vile excuses for legislators and judges who enact and adjudicate these laws obviously have a higher regard for protecting some frozen embryos than real women whose health care ranks 48 out of the 50 on just about all relevant metrics.

For those of you who think its funny trolling about spousal abuse, perhaps grow up and stop demonstrating your ignorance and immaturity.

Over 20 years, that adds-up to $5 BILLION DOLLARS!!!! Think about that for just half-a-minute…

Think of how many billions of dollars yidden have spent each year running off to Uman for Rosh Hashanah. For those who have the money, its a decision they can make without the need for prior approval from the CR nudniks.

Get-r-dun

With all respect, you are not an especially good troll. The CR is privileged to have a world class misogynist in Reb Yosef (aka UJM). Perhaps study his technique and style and try again after you have refined your skills.

And what is YOUR long-term strategy for governing Gaza w/o engaging in some fantasy about expelling 2+ million Gazans to Arab countries that won’t take them or requiring tens of thousands of IDF troops to become a permanent occupation army? I’m sure Bibi would greatly appreciate your advice as to what he should do in several months from now.

Kuvalt: You forgot to consider have the mug shot of R’ Yosef put on $2 bills which have traditionally been synonymous with integrity and traditional values. What greater kovod could a CR poster be endowed with than to have his admirers proudly say that he has a much credibility as a $2 bill”.

Our masorah over thousands of years clearly leans towards men taking a more lead role in both family and public affairs. However, that has evolved over times in accordance with daas torah such that today, women are pursuing roles in medicine, science, technology, law and even politics. Some of the gadolim of our time have been treated by medical teams that include both men and women when their lives were at risk. The MKs from the religious parties sit in the Knesset with women aligned in their coalition . All of this is done with recognition of tzinius and common sense. Even in the most conservative segments of the Chareidi tzibur, women no long feel a need to obtain permission form their husbands to “leave the house”. While daas torah is timeless, its also fair to say that the “times have changed’.

“How is this relevant at all and what purpose does it have here other than to breed negativity for your entertainment?”

Thats the point. Its been a while since R’ Yosef had a legitimate opportunity to display his core misogynistic beliefs wrapped around some bizarre invocation of daas torah so give him some latitude to make a fool of himself.

“I watched a dolphin show and they prefer raw herring…”

Only partially true in relation to Atlantic dolphins. Pacific dolphins universally prefer Matjes w/o onionsl

What if a tree falls in the forest and nobody’s there to hear it? Well, we all know the tree will make a “sound”, even if nobody heard it, simply because it COULD have been heard.

Likewise, all the silly, solemn, scholarly and occasional scintillating messages you shared with us over a decade were not “lost” because at the moment in time you posted we could have read them, as many of us did, and they had an affect on us, most of the time for the better (in between the occasional “500 Internal Server Error”)