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I see variations of this debate year after year. Is it really that difficult to forego kitniyos for another day or two after yom tov??
They also marry their first cousins at the age of 14 and 15 in Kentucky and West Virginia….I guess Joe finds that a positive attribute. There are risks of higher incidence of birth defects or genetic disorders although the risk is now considered much lower than it used to be. As we have learned in relation to our resident troll: just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you should do something, whether marrying children in their early teens or engaging in Polygamy…
If you are going to sit behind a shtender shteiging 24×7, except for sleeping and and periodic asher yatzar moments, than its certainly possible to wear tefillin all day, every day (other than shabbos/yom tovim). However, for 90 percent of the tzibur who in the real world have to go out and work fo a parnassah, whether a farmer working the fields, a skilled worker in construction or a professional working in a laboratory or computer faciliy, you are fortunate to have an 30-45 minutes in the AM to put on teffiilin during shachris.
Anytthing is better than a slab of starch flavored wih salt and onions. I’m not certain as to the nutritional value but if you are short on carbs and sodium, definitely go for it. Otherwise, tofu is the way to go.i
Just like the conservative Trumpkopfs are insisting that every new law or regulation should have a “sunset provision” that means it disappears in 5-10 years if not affirmatively reconsidered and renewed by Congress,, perhaps we should consider imposing a sunset provision on all minhagim so they terminate every 100 years unless renewed by the gadolim of the current generation based on whether it is still “relevant”.
iacisrmma
Chazal bring down that having a Yom Tov Sheini is a reasonable compromise between having only one day of yom tov and three days of yom tov, nothwithstanding uncertainty on solar/lunar calendar dates. They also note the upheaval in the heimeshe community if we were to reduce moed by one day from four to three to make up for the additional day of yom tov
We have a custom to not observe obsolete minhagim whose origin is no longer relevant due to changed circumstances.
There was a lengthy thread on the identical question about 2 or 3 years ago….unless some of these seforim are rare or high value items, using any commercial shipper via cargo ship is the lowest cost option, especially if you are able to find a shipper looking for smaller items fill a container. If you are concerned about reliability and timely delivery than a shipper like DHL can provide “as available” air cargo shipment at a higher cost but with real time tracking and more certainty. Really depends on the value of these seforim to you and how difficult they would be to replace if lost or damaged.
Respectfully disagree…..many minhagim ARE attributable to the practice of a rav in a particular community. I was a guest a shul for a family simcha and at one point in the davening , all the regular mispallalim started hocking on their sthenders and backs of the benches in front of them at a certain point in the davening in a way I’ve never experienced or seen done elsewhere. it was explained to me that this was the minhag of the shul’s prior rav that was continued after he was niftar and a new rav was hired. Sure, there are many minhagim that are family-specific especially those related to what is eaten at sedudos on certian yom tovim but many are practices of a Rav that all his chassidim or followers adopt.
I don’t like to use analogies to the Shoah or other such tragic events but over the course of history, some of the world’s greatest tyrants and Rashaim ranging from those who grabbed power in developing nations and engaged in genocide of their opponents to a Putin in Russia who is more selective in his targeted assasinations have won the popular vote or majority vote (in some cases with 99%). Here the Trumpkopf won legally against a flawed candidate but even then couldn’t win even a plurality or majority of the vote. His behavior since taking office for many of us is an obscenity but he is still President.
Just personal perspective but I have found some of the small chassideshe hashgachos to be more rigorous and focused than the larger commercial hashgachos….you are correct, its a personal judgement and to some, a Badazt or niche Yekeshe hashgacha might be the same “gold standard” to others. R’ Kuber’s point here is that whatever hashgacha you rely upon, its only reliable up to the point they transfer the food to the ultimate serving entity or customer…anything you eat that is not directly from a sealed container is at your own risk unless you can trace the “chain of custody” to equally reliable hashgacha to the one that supervised the preparation of the food.
R’ Kuber is the rav of a shul in the town of Telz Stone outside of Yerushalayim but more important for purposes of this article, he is one of the top kashruth experts in EY who worked for many years at the OU. His biggest complaint over many years has been the chronic screw-ups associated with the widespread practice of a catering firm with otherwise top of the line chassideshe hashgacha (the gold standard) delivering food for an event held at some shul or simcha hall where there is no onsite mashgiach to supervise the preparation and serving of that food to the attendees. He has argued that in most cases, the caterer should simply refuse to do business with parties who have not provided for real time hashgacha of the food service. He has noted that in the issue is almost always a desire to save the cost of paying a mashgiach to monitor the simcha, sometimes using the excuse that there will be chashuve rabbonim and knowledgeable askanim attending and thus “nothing bad can happen”
The only “surprise” is that there are some who are still “surprised” by the Trumpkopf’s ongoing downward spiral and the ugliness surrounding his presidency. It was funny at one time…no longer. There is a difference between being “politically incorrect” or “non-traditional” than the vulgarity, crudeness and hate we are watching in real time.
To “Little I Know”
Your litany of “crimes” (aka murderer etc.) committed by HRC confirms your name….I’m sure you will find a sympathetic ear on Brietbart or Alex Jones’ website but notwithstanding substantive and passionate policy differences, most readers here generally retain a high level of objectivity.All the sarcasm of the prior postings aside, just be yourself and talk with him about the issues that excite you, about recent places you’ve been to, about a person you’ve recently met who you found especially interesting, about your plans for continuing your education (if that is part of your gameplan). Remember that he is probably as anxious as you are about “discussion topics” so approach it as an equal and forego all the “dos” and “don’ts” you’ve been given by well-meaning friends.
Again, this was totally inappropriate unless you are some inexperienced intern in the Trump reelection campaign trying to score points with the Trumkolpfs. Remember when he mocked the handicapped NYTimes reporter.. 99 percent of the time YWN gets it right….this time, not even close.
To Neville Chamberlin….its not just teffilin on Moed which obviously has wider context but more narrowly the sheer number of special mihgaim which I think there are more related to pesach than succos.
Or as a last minue purim sugyah, what do the araba minim of succos have in common with the arba koses shel peseach and the arban banim of the hagadah? Winner gets a gift-certificate to the new “all you can eat” non-gebrokts chulent place on 13th Avenue.Where do chazal bring down that during yetzias mitzrayim and the subsequent time of dor ha’midbar yidden ate only shmurah matzoh?
In the late 1990s when the price of shmurah matzoh dropped below $20/lb….
So the consensus is that one should put on Teffilin during chol hamoed but should only do so when sitting in the area where one normally has built a sukkah and must follow the davening by eating a pas gebrokts. Whats clear is there are more minhagim than there are gadolim and other chashuve rabboniom who can be cited as the source of the minhag. I cannot think of any other yom tov or chag where there seems to be so many variations of what was once a fairly prescribed routine.
Sadly, with the sinas chinam exhibited almost daily in comments here by certain posters, hard to imagine we will be reading sightings of moishiach ridiing a white donkey heading down Eastern Parkway, or for that matter, anywhere else. As to who has the “potential” to be moishiach, I’m not sure chazal bring down that the decision is like some voting on American Idol, where yidden get to vote fo their favorite rebbe .
We can debate obama policies on lots of issues (where many of us diagree with some of his positions)
However, simply on a personal level, Obama was a mensch and great husband and father. He and Michele were grat role models as compared to the current immoral and depraved resident of the WH who brags about sexually assaulting women, praises Nazi groups and tyrants around the world, and lies almost non-stop with his own “alternative facts”.
Do I want to bring back Obama,…NO….Do I wish we had a mensch in the WH…YESKitov:
We heard about the defective Federal Pacific panels during the insurance investigation of our fire. In our case, the fire resulting from a defective circuit breaker on the heat pump circuit within a different brand of panel. The smoke alarm went off, the fire department arrived within a few minutes but the house was a total loss (mix of fire and smoke damage). The fire investigator indicated that a sprinkler system might not have put out the fire entirely but would have slowed its progression considerably until the fire department arrived and also would have minimized smoke damage which as many of you know, is generally more destructive than structural damage. Obviously, all those who say that good smoke detectors are better than nothing is true along with other common sense fire safety measures to escape the fire. However, from a property damage perspective, sprinkler systems are great investments (especially where you can also afford to install a backup generator like we did to protect against frozen pipes in the event of a power loss).
P.S. Servpro handles both smoke damage from a fire and water damage from burst sprinkler system pipes.Umein V’Umein. We lost our home in a fire several years ago to an electric panel fire which the fire departmnt and insurance adjuster said would have been extinguished by a sprinkler system. Fortunately no one was hurt, just lost a lot of stuff. When we rebuilt, we discovered the cost of th sprinkler system was relatively minimal compred to the overall reconstruction cost. That was because we had gutted the house. These costs are much higher for retrofit into existing structures, especially older, multi-family housing. Without government subsidies, I doubt it would be affordable to most owners or renters (who would have to pay the landlord’s costs).
No need to consult the Igros Moshe…just give a call to the Rav’s son-in-law, Rav Tendler, shlita, and you will get the answer you want.
MAGA baseball hat in red color….good and cheap knockoffs made in china can be found on the internet at much lower price than than the $39 charged on the Trumpkopfl’s website. Very Nitvish look
“It would be wonderful to have Donald Trump as President for life”…
Sorry typo…Little Joey meant to say that “It would be wonderful to have Donald Trump sentenced for life…” Sadly, probably won’t happen since the dummy would try to pardon himself if indicted and the judge would likely find him unable to assist in his own defense at trial for reasons becoming increasingly obvious. Fortunately, we have the 25th Amendment.
If the owner of a website has obtained copyright protection for IP, whether you agree or not that such IP content warrants copyright protection, it should be honored until you either gain approval or the protection is withdrawn. Not clear if the owner of the website is claiming copyright protection or simply has invoked some other basis for wanting Joseph to stop stealing their material. Is it A or B?
Any IP attorney will tell you that compilation, transcription and presentation of the work of a third party in a particular format should not be reprinted without attribution for fair use, and then only in limited format. Joe can squirm around and seek to explain his ganavah of the website’s IP rights but g’navah is g’navah. Simply apologize, request fair use approval going forward from the website and move on if they approve, If not, find another source for quoting Rav Miller to the extent you believe his views are important.
If the leadership of the website requests you STOP appropriating their materials, than have the derecho eretz to follow their request. If you have recordings or other sources, than use those sources but don’t use their material w/o permission.
While there is no legal concept such as “copyright” explicitly referenced in tanach there is a considerably more basic concept called “ganavah” which generally is frowned upon…like any other intellectual property, the writings of a talmid chacham on matters of torah are no less worthy of protection than the writings of a scientist or business person on issues of importance to the tzibur. A rav who has expertise in certain matters of halacaha is frequently compensated for sharing his expertise in various forums. You can repeat in your own words what you thought he said but you cannot violate any copyright protections against a recording or printed rendition of his comments, if he claimed such protection.
Anything that might rid us of a portion of Joe’s tolling of FAKE MUSAR would be in the public interest. This Pinchas Wolhendler complaint is valid since it is burdensome for him to obtain R. Miller’s views on some of the postings made in response to Joe’s “Miller Q&As” since not all yidden have the ability to communicate on a timely basis with chashuve rabbonim resident in olam habah. A copyrighted d’var torah by R. Miller (or from some pintele yid in Minsk for that matter) has the same legally protected status any other copyrighted material.
“Torah is Hefker…”
Seems like a somewhat novel legal concept….If I write a sefer, “Gadolhadorah”s Torah Insights” and get it copyrighted, I would very much disagree that my brilliant insights and analysis are “hefker”
JJ2020 “copying the goyim is really creative”…
Actually, it is really the goyim copying the yidden….we are living at a time when the really frum Christians (especially the charedii brand of Evangelicals) seem to find great joy in cloning everything we do….over the weekend, I noticed a sign at a local reform shul advertising a joint Purim carnival with a local church, just like they’ve previously held joint sedorim/last suppers. Even the muslims have gotten in on the act with a proliferation of “challal” fast food joints which are almost indistinguishable from dozens of kosher pizza/felaffel places with the adder of “all you can eat Schrama on Thursday nights (in lieu of chulent). Mi kamocha yisroel
If this minhag becomes prevalent, how will the guests at the chassanah be able to recognize who is the chassan and who is Lipa Shmeltzer??
No American court would ever grant a request from a frum yid who wanted a “real judge” (aka not a woman) to preside over his trial. Even in EY, you cannot get a change in judge because you don’t like the gender or the lvush of the judge assigned to your case.
Wear a Trumpkopf “MAGA” baseball hat under your Borsolino or Shtreimlach.. Thus, when you take off your hat, you will have something more substantial to be embarrassed about.
There have been advertisements on frum websites for concerts (men only performers) but where they offer mixed gender (aka “family”) seating along with men only/women only seating. None of these sites would knowingly or deliberately post ads for activities that are explicitly “assur” by the majority of frum rabbonim. We have always acknowledged here that one person’s chumrah may be another’s kulah. Obviously, just being here on YWN means that we are violating the directives of many gadolei hador (as manifest in a gazillion asifahs) that the internet and social media are assur m’doraisah. Rav Miller’s position 25 years ago is what it is and some will choose to follow the general inyan that Jews don’t come together just to enjoy music. I suspect many YWN participants don’t hold by Rav Miller but no reason they have to.
A very feminine (and tziniusdik) Achasverrosh
What do you mean by a “frock”?? A kitel, a bekeshe ???
To JJ2020
“Things have gotten a lot worse since 1993..”
Many of us believe the music has gotten a lot better since 1993. As evidence by the many concerts promoted here on YWN, we are fortunate to have a proliferation of great frum artists with incredible musical talent and creativity. Concerts are conducted so that they are either exclusively for men or that separate seating is available for those that wish to be machmir. The quality of the audio, lighting and other production values are substantially better than they were in 1993. Most importantly, there are even concerts by women performers that are exclusively for women. Sorry you have such a negative view of today’s musical scene.
“….if we were to truly see …how many Jewish lives are being extinguished thanks to assimilation and intermarriage, we would be even more horrified”
I would much rather my children go on and live their lives with whatever yiddeeshkeit they might get through attending after school “Hebrew school”, attending jewish-themed youth activities, attending services in a non-orthodox shul, etc. than having their lives literally extinguished with multiple wounds from an AR15 shot at close range. Your use of the term “extinguished” in a spiritual context is a poor choice in the near-term although I understand your intent
If a frum woman from KJ or NS (where driving by women is generally discouraged) is flying from NY to visit family or friends in Cleveland or LA,, she obviously needs to rent a car and drive herself or take a taxi or Uber from the airport (and risk driving with a man). Either way, minhag hamokem becomes irrelevant when it cannot be observed in practice outside the “makom”.
We crossed this bridge generations ago when some creative baal abusta in the alte heim adopted a old ungareshe recipe for boiled sugar with pork and beans and called it Chulent.
As frum yidden, parents and grandparents, we should first be incredibly proud of the many self-identiifed Jewish students and their heroic teacher who was niftar during the attack while saving the lives of many students, jews and goyim. The Jewish students who appeared on TV were articulate, passionate and unafraid to demand changes from our elected leadership. Several have spoken openly of how thier Jewish faith has been integral in getting through the past few days. The Chabad rav who has been counseling the families has been incredible. Would it be better for klal yisroel if more of these beautiful children were studying in yeshivos, of course. But when I compare these kids to some of their brothers in EY who we’ve also read about in the past fewdays behave like animals and attack other jewish women and chayalim (admittedly an unfair comparison), I’d take kids from a public school in Florida anytime.
Perhaps just back uff the musar fo a few days while the families bury their children and the survivors deal with their grief and loss of friends. There is a time for everything, but you’d never know it based on some of the postings. who knows if this event might bring one or two families closer to yiddeshkeit. The Chabad Rav in Coral Springs has been on CNN and the other networks several times since the shooting and has done a real kiddush hashem in his demeanor, avoidance of politicization (nothwithstanding several efforts by newscasters to get him to criticize Trump’s position on gun control etc.) This kind of outreach will be more effective at attracting parents to yiddeshkeit and possible enrolling their kids in yeshivos than implicit criticism on a frum website of their decisions not to have done so previously.