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Sometimes its hard to see the forest through the trees….I’ll go back to my original comments weeks ago, focus on your own Rav or posek and don’t worry about ranking others. Your metrics will be different from mine or any other CR poster. Contemporary psaks have grown very subject-matter focused and complex and the “gadol-hador’ you would consult on kashruth . is very different from who you would consult on gittin or on end-of-life questions.
Physical assault of another person so as to inflict pain as a “motivational” or “behavioral” outcome is still assault and likely to put you in jail or risk having your children taken away from you in certain jurisdictions. Its not clear where the line between a mild spanking and assault is crossed but why take the risk when most pediatric psychologists (frum or otherwise) say it rarely if ever has the desired outcome and is more likely to cause long-term dysfunctional behavior.
The Dems, as usual, never miss an opportunity to allow the Republicans to set up a strawman and answer their own question. Did the Republican bill repealing the ACA contain language requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. Well, yes. Did the bill include a requirement for community ratings so that such individuals would not be charged 10X or 20X times the premiums for others of the same gender or age bracket? No. The insurance companies would have to “offercoverage” which gave the Republicans a political escape route during the campaign but most Dems never challenged them on the cost issue and how meaningless the Republican “protection” was in reality.
If you are a lifelong Ashkenaz and happened to find yourself in a Sehphardeshe shul for davening, there are certain words added in the kadish (already in Aramaic) that are real tounge-twisters that never seem to come out sounding the same way
Any urban planner/land use professional or transportation engineer would know that allowing high-density development to have direct access to roads such as Rt 9 that were originally designed as limited access arteries is a certain formula for the insane traffic conditions and congestion several posters have noted. If as Joseph says, the local voters elected some political hacks to over-rule the professionals then they deserve the chaos. In densely populated frum areas with large families, its simply not possible to accommodate every Moishe, Yankel or Suralah who insists on getting married and living close to their parents and machatunim. Lakewood is in denial of reality but no one in a position of political authority wants to put up the “no vacancy” sign. Perhaps if the BMG leadership announced they ae establishing a new branch in the more rural part of the state and would offer discounted tuition for the first several years, that would provide some incentive to relocate and serve as the catalyst for Lakewood West, If the Satmar could do it….why not a Litveshe westward migration.
Just seems like the imagery of paying off the “debt collector” at very short-term intervals is like something out of the GodFather where he offers “a deal you cannot refuse” along with a Tony Soprano chassid showing up at your doorstep to demand payment. The implication is more goiyeshe where the assumption is you will be a regular sinner and have a regularly scheduled “confession” except is comes on erur rosh chodesh rather than Sunday AM
Chosen by whom and for what/??? By hashem, to serve hashem, YES. To imply global superiority with divine rights to subordinate or oppress others, NO.
Some healing could begin with both sides in the political debate stepping back from their increasingly strident and hateful rhetoric in real time and social media postings. Wondering how long that would last and whether it would provide for a measurable change in the macro environment?
Laskern: Great idea….do tshuvah and beg for mechilla from the Ebeshter on erev Rosh Chodesh for all your aveiros during mar Cheshvan so you can begin with a clean slate for Kislev and Chanukah. Yasher koach for such a brilliant lifestyle strategy
Joseph….pave over the parks, build high-rise buildings on Rt. 9 and stuff in as many “yiddeshe kinder” as the building codes will safely allow and if there is still isn’t enough room, fire the building commissioner, change the safety codes so you can stuff even 8, 10 or 13 “yiddeshe kinder” into a 3 BR apartment. Obviously, you are not that great a fool as to not realize that just like Lakewood and Monsey took the overflow from NYC, its possible start new frum communities far from the congestion and density of overcrowded areas. Or maybe I’m wrong and giving you too much credit….
When driving in the Lakewood area, I don’t recall much room to build new highways or even add new lanes to existing roads without encroaching on homes and businesses. Many crowded suburban communities have had some success with discouraging auto traffic by offering free local minbus service circulating through the residential and shopping areas, introducing bike-sharing and even scooter sharing (which may be better for the younger boys and girls). Using more Uber and Lfyt for short-trips to the market, shul or mikvah might also help. There is no single “fix” and building more highways rarely solves the problem, even if could be done. Some of the other posters noted an unopular but ultimately necessary long-term fix that would simply tell yidden looking for housing “Sorry, but Lakewood is full, move elsewhere” and enforce that reality by denying new building permits at higher density.i
As long as we try to demonize entire groups of people and legitimize our hatred and venom in the guise of religious beliefs or racist notions of racial/ethnic superiority of certain groups over others, we are only endorsing the disgusting rhetoric coming from segments of our political leadership (on both sides of the aisle).
Minhag Yisroel din hoo….Minhag Avram (MD or otherwise), not so much
Not even Chanukah yet so your Purim spiel is a bit early….even calling it a “minhag shtus: is a bit too heilege since my golden retriever has a similiar minhag. However, since he came from a Sephardeshe breeder, he carefully waits until the shaliach tzibur has already started the kaddish after the chazaras hashatz gets to to the “V’yatzmach purkanei v’korev moishichei…” At that point he barks twice and starts chasing his tail..
Not sure how you ever define how wide the circle may be outside the home in relation to any so called “schar” in olam haboh or even olam hazeh. I would imagine the Ebeshter looks holistically (excuse the “new age” terminology) at the entitreky of how you live your life as compared to how many credits you may have taken in an online or resident college, how you relate to others, your level of observance of taryag mitzvos (or at least those that may apply), your level of emunah in times of stress or peril etc. Such subjective terms as “innocence’, “purity” etc. are increasingly less relevant as we find ways to conduct a balanced life of torah and secular activities. As we see more frum men and women take leadership roles in both the public and private sector and working hard to make life better for ALL, its difficult to draw a bright line for Yeshivish or other members of the tzibur.
.Neville: …”Millions of people are a lot poorer now thanks to the ACA and your party seems to have no concern or plan to fix it.”
Source….daf XXX, amud YY???
Neither HHS nor the CBO has been able to demonstrate any direct correlation between enactment of the ACA and various measures of income or wealth either among directly affected rating groups (i.e. those entitled to ACA subsidies based on income, those ineligible or the larger pool of insureds who purchase in the regular group, individual insurance or COBRA markets). Heritage Foundation actually did some really good emperical work but the income effects were so small, they never published it widely although I think its still available on their website (data is stale from 2015).To all the fools and anti-vaxers who have posted here about the paranoia in the frum community related to the risks of not getting vaccinated, please read the kol koreh from several of the biggest gadolim and poskim in EY just posted on the breaking stories page here on YWN where they make the same point several of us have repeatedly noted on this and other threads…….you are mamah murderers by not vaccinating your kids. Specifically, they state as follows: ” Whoever isn’t vaccinated is a murderer” חסורי מחסירנן והכי גרסינן
Neville….I agree entirely if it was just “coarseness” but you confuse “coarseness” with lies, vulgarity and personal deprecation . Even in the times of Chazal, we knew that different rabbonim had their own literary style and some would make a mashol on a very high and stately level and others would bring down a more “earthy’ analogy to make their point but I don’t recall ever reading words of deprecation about physical characteristics, racial/ethnic attributes etc. Same throughout our history. I doubt many poishete (aka blue collar) yidden are confused with respect to the moral differences between simply using “coarse language” versus vulgarity, acknowledged adultery, multiple allegations of abusive behavior towards women, rationalizing the behavior of white nationalists etc. If moving the Embassy from Tel Aviv to Yerushalayim is all that matters, than Neville is 100 percent correct.
To Know Little…if you regard this President as the paradigm of the “moral values” you hold near and dear (I’ll spare the details on a family-oriented website) than we have to truly wonder what moral compass you are operating from. Even the most pro-Trumpkopf Christian Evangelical leaders have been honest about having to hold their noses, put their moral values on hold and support the President simply because they value his judicial appointments more than anything else. In their view, and perhaps yours, the ends justify the means.
Joey’s analysis is generally correct although I’d say there was definitely a pushback against the Trumpkpof’s policies. What it really highlighted is the growing cultural divide in the country between urban/suburban and rural districts which are more polarized than ever. If the Trumpkopf follows course, as I expect he will do in his news conference this AM, he will use rhetoric designed to further inflame the divide and talk only to his chassidim living in the red districts and demonize everyone else.
Two Eyes…..I suspect you also have two ears which suggests you may have have heard that most Jewish and Goyeshe religious organizations (especially the Evangelicals) have routinely found ways to communicate their political views while the IRS (courtesy of the Republicans and certain partisan Democrat yiddeshe woman at the IRS during ) has simply stopped enforcing the rules on political advocacy by tax-exempt organizaitons. No, I’m not advocating either side breaking the law, simply stating a fact…..
As a purely legal matter, I think several of the above posters are correct. As a practical matter, not-for-profit organizations on BOTH the left and the right routinely find ways to circumvent the rules and indirectly endorse candidates, sometimes through issue advocacy. Also, the IRS no longer seems to actively monitor such violations by tax-exempt organizations as a result of the Lois Lerner episode.
Without speaking directly to the Lakewood situation but in general, wherever yidden as a block mindlessly vote for a candidate for public office simply because some rabbonim or askanim said to do so, there will be no political competition. Sure, take what “the Rav” may say into consideration as one factor among many but do your OWN analysis of the candidates and their positions and make your own decision whom to vote for.
As has been pointed out to you before, doing things because your rabbeim said to do so is not mindless, it is called following Daas Torah. Your habit of selecting when and where your rabbonim should to be heeded is inappropriate
I don’t think these blog discussions change any minds regarding vaccinations. Some people just have made up their mind against the overwhelming views of publicly health professionals and want to deliberately put their own children at risk. That is their right but don’t ask the rest of us to incur any higher risk by being around them and their kids. Keep them at home or start your own schools for anti-vaxers but don’t you dare bring them into a public venue.
Before nominating anyone, it would help to have a common definition of what we mean by a kanoi. A kanoi in my mind is someone who is ready, at any moment, and nothwithdstanding the cost to him/her self to perform ratzon Hashem. Specifically, I think in terms of someone who is a kanoi for ddas torah and dvar Hashem. a kanoi in ahavas haTorah. a kanoi in ahavas Hashem. and perhaps most importantly, a kanoi in achdus and ahavas Yisrael. When you think about the cumulative attributes of a true kanoi, the list gets considerably shorter as you check off each box.
In real terms, the only “gadol” that matters is your local rav o posek who guides you in your everday life and perhaps any more “senior” rav who your on rav relies upon from time to time for especially difficult matters. Beyond that, the guidance we have under daas torah is “aseh l’cha RAV” not “aseh l’cha Gadol”.
Such a simple question with an obvious answer.
Why do some feel compelled to attached labels to the kadoshim who were niftar shabbos morning before they were even in the ground?? They were yidden who died al kidush hashem. Period. End of story. Full stop.
When yidden were being pushed on to the trains to the Camps, the Nazis didn’t sort them by their frumkeit, which shuls they went to or their observance of taryag mitzvos any more than the butcher in Pittsburgh decided to shoot specific individuals because they were davening in a “conservative” synagogue. The past 3 days have seen dozens of posts by yidden fixated on these distinctions which won’t matter a bit when the anti-semitim come gunning for them and their families. Once and for all, “achaeinu KOL beis yisroel”
GadolHadorah, are you in Canada taking advantage of the new law? Your last post is incoherent ..”
Stewart W: The concept of a “circular firing squad” is well established and first associated with the Third Armored Brigade of the Chelm Defense Force.
“Circular Firing Squad: A military formation among those ostensibly allied against a common enemy or opponent but whose internal disagreements and attacks end up doing more damage to each other than to their target”
P.S. The Canadian stuff is actually quite good and there is at least one dispensary with hashgacha from the Kashruth Council of Canada. No Badatz weed yet.
For those of you who are machmir on the Second Amendment and love your Glocks, consider forming a circle with your chevrusah after davening and improve your shooting skills while simultaneously reducing the threat to the rest of us from introducing even more weapons into the public space.
On a list of “My 10 Favorite Bitul Torah Activities”, learning how to defend oneself/family would not even register….posting stupid threads in the CR would certainly be no. 6 or 7….
The FBI Director yesterday afternoon said these devices were real and could kill. He also dismissed the lunatic conspiracy theories and refused to comment about the Trumpkopf’s use of quotation marks in his tweet when referring to the “bombs”. Even Geraldo Rivera today apologized for suggesting a false flag scenario. To those idiots like Limbaugh, Savage etc,, I’d just wish one of these “toys” shows up in their mailbox so we can wish whats left of them a refuah shelamah.
Funny that our resident troll shares a simplistic vision of American family and social life at its zenith in the 1950s crica Leave it to Beaver world where women stayed at home, men labored in factories making “hard stuff” like steel , where virtually all your neighbors were white and gays were still hiding in the closet. In those “good ole days” the boys would all come to the girls’ house for a parental exorcism before being allowed out of the house with the parent’s daughter. As the theme song of Archie Bunker TV show went. Those were the days when “men were men”….those were the days.
Just to be clear, while R’ Lichtenstein gave an elegant shmooz in “fluent yiddish”, he speaks English considerably better than most of us here. He is an extraordinary speaker and charismatic leader who is highly respected across all segments of the frum tzibur.
Joey’s awareness of dating protocols seem to be on par with his rather limited social skills on other matters. Having the boy pick up the girl is NOT a goiyeshe custom but quite common historically across all ethnic groups. In many cases the guy was older than the girl and her parents wanted to meet him. Also, in high schools, the boy typically gets his driver’s license sooner so it makes sense. Finally, and probably most antithetical to Joey is the notion of the guy being a “gentleman”….a thoroughly goiyeshe concept.
In reality, it increasingly works BOTH ways in EY and here in the U.S., espeically as more frum young women join the workforce. sometimes pick=up and sometimes just meet after work at some mutually convenient location.
Agreed. More accurate to characterize him as a “Sick Animal Dressed in Charedi Lvush”.
To No. 1…..yes we are more concerned about a murderer than debating alternative lifestyles in EY. If it was your daughter who happened to be the victim, I doubt if you would be giving musar to the tzibur about Toevah lifestyles.
The gross ignorance here of the bail and pre-trial detention rules is beyond belief. A few posters have tried to make clear what the limits of the Judge’s discretion were but apparently emotion governs. Many states are eliminating bail entirely for lower-level offenses where the person charged claims poverty. The Judge had zero obligation to take account of a “hate crime” not charged where the victim just happened to be a yid and she correctly called it as the rules require.
Hey Meno…..Are you serious. that the inyan of good and bad ” karma” is rooted in avodah zarah.. Gee, I never would have known. Perhaps you might be surprised to know that so are many of the rather bizarre practices that are sometimes floated here as providing for a segulah for just about everything you may wish for. If you would lighten up occasionally you would have immediately realized that I used the term in its colloquial sense as a “bad sign” or “bad luck” but maybe not. Just my own preference that if I wanted to buy sifrei kodesh, I wouldn’t want to buy them from some Moishe or Yankel who wants to unload them quickly on the cheap.
Over a year ago, we heard from the Trumpkopf that his middle east team (lead by his son-in-law and real estate lawyer) would be putting forward his secret middle east peace plan “soon”. Sadly, every action he has taken has set back the likelihood of any plan being adopted in the foreseeable future. But who cares, like everything else Trump, don’t believe what you see or hear him say. Don’t trust your lying eyes…
The younger generation (aka anyone younger then me) doesn’t want to “talk” on a phone. My kids and grandkids get upset when I “call” them and much prefer I text them. The smartphone option keeps them busy during carpools, shopping trips and the dreaded drive to NY to visit mishpacha. That’s why thee are only these few niche suppliers selling old fashioned cell phone with no web access
Not good karma buying sefrei kodesh from someone who simply wants to unload them on the cheap.
When we read in the media that presumably responsible adult rabbonim and askanim have themselves come down with communicable diseases that most likely could have been prevented by vaccination, you have to wonder what occupies the space between their ears!!! Its not just kids but many adults as well. They cannot be that ignorant of the risk they pose to others.
Rachelk: In EY, approximately 25 percent of police and first responders are women and they continue to score on average materially higher then the men on peformance tests. There are women serving in the highest levels of command in the police and fire units. Not sure what planet you live on but here on Earth, women have shown themselves to be the equal or better in matters where pikuach nefesh is a daily challenge. As for “hands off”, would you suggest the women first responders use a stun gun rather than a simple headlock to restrain some ehrliche yidden who decide to run into the street and behave like animals? I’m fine with that and I suspect so would be the women police officers and first responders.
Try wearing a red riibbon on our big toe on rosh chodesh. I’ve heard/read dozens of such “segulas” offered for various outcomes ranging from the obvious to absurd. If you watch TV at 2AM you will switch channels offering vegematics, ginzu knives and televangelists offering magical oil and amulets from the “Holy Land” . We have advertisements for mekubals arriving each week from EY whose offer “guaranteed results” for shidduchimn, cures for all sorts of ailments, etc. Obviously anyone can believe what they want on these matters but my Rav told me a long-time ago there is nothing more effective than direct teffilah from the heart to the Ebeshter. He doesn’t need/want intermediaries or mystical accessories…just your teffilos with kavanah.
Why is “what” done? I think with few exceptions, we all agree that gun ownership for self-protection and sports/hunting (for the goyim hopefully) is both common sense and protected under the Second Amendment. Where the consensus quickly breaks down is on what are “reasonable” limitations on types of weapons (aka semi-automatic), numbers of weapons (who needs more than 1 AK-47) magazine rounds (do you really need a clip with more than 10 rounds), screening criteria and timing (is 48 hours enough time given the chaotic state of mental health and court records) etc.
Hey Joey….so women should not be police, fire or emergency responders…..Hopefully, they will remember that thought when one of them passes by while you are lying in the street with cardiac arrest and they’ll wish you a refuah shelamah and explain that a MALE first responder should be coming “shortly”.
Its sometimes hard to tell the difference between trolling and mamash gross stupidity. Its beyond doubt that smoking regularly (one pack a week or multiple packs a week) will more likely than not shorten your life and make the final years of your life miserable and painful for both you and your loved ones. Any idiot who is in denial about this with all the information available today and still questions why a bochur would not consider a girl who is a smoker (or vice versa) notwithstanding other midos she/he may have is clearly posting for the sake of eliciting responses. Its not funny having personally seen the horrible deaths resulting from smoking/ung cancer.