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edit- GAW- if you really had the proper haarachah of a good cookie, youd understand.
🙂 Its a question of Mekomo V’Shayto. Perhaps this sale is taking place at the Siyum Hashas.
musser zoger: Calm down and don’t feed the (rather small) troll…..
if the price on a cookie is five dollars and i tell the guy to pay me for it and he agrees, thats perfectly valid.
Except that it would be Onn’ah and an Issur D’Oraysa. Nothing to do with the point in question, and more of an FYI.
moeisrael = Chrysoprase on slab.
This is not even worth discussing, and I request the mods remove it.
GAW – As long as you’re not using the ginger beer trick on the guy at the same time…
ginger beer -> Ploughman’s pie? Not sure of the connection. Besides, I would trust the baker to have enough self-respect not to ruin the pie, to the point where I would accept food from such members of the public without a food taster.
True, that’s an exaggeration, but I have little doudt that had DaMoshe stayed in yeshiva at least a bit longer, his hashkafos would have been better.
What you then meant to have said:
R’ Altusky was wrong. However, he does have a point that those who remain in Yeshiva longer many times come out with more right-wing Hashkafos, which is “better” in R’ Altusky’s (and IMH) opinion.
Hizaharu B’Divreichem!
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You can get anyone to like you by feeding them a Ploughman’s Pie. Certainly a good idea in this age of the shidduch crisis. Just make sure to use the onion trick to keep them crisp. Otherwise the pie will get ruined.
DaMoshe, R’ Altusky was right.
Obviously, because “there’s no way for someone to go to college and stay frum.”
When I went to R’ Bender and told him what R’ Altusky said, he told me, “Don’t listen to him. He obviously doesn’t know you well, and he just wants everyone to sit and learn whether it’s the thing for them or not. You should go to college so you could earn a parnassah – just make sure you’re in yeshiva at least part of the day while you’re in school!”
The difference between a “Rosh Yeshiva” and a “Rosh HaYeshiva”, or someone who can learn and a master educator in Rabbi Bender. None of what you brought surprised me in the least.
Good story, and thank you for sharing.
The vast majority of women whose husbands are in kollel now do not “forgive’ their husbands the obligation to feed the family. To say that a woman with 5-6 kids (and more) is “mochel” her husband his obligation to feed his family is sophistry.
You are leveling a viscous, unsubstantiated charge, that the women aren’t willing partners in their husbands’ learning.
I’ll agree with DY. I know many women who work full time and are happy to support their (rather large) families. Whether that is due to Sem influence (read: Brainwashing) or not is truthfully irrelevant.
The bigger problem Halachicly is when such families get breaks from the Klal (read: Tuition) and are not on the level where they should be taking Tzedaka to continue learning. I will admit that in Lakewood (I believe) no one gets a break, so if you are learning there, go for it. It is a serious Gezailah Shaila if one can force others to support them via such tuition breaks, and certainly actual collecting of funds (Rabbi Hoffman had an article about this recently). Some should be allowed, others not, but certainly a Shailah must be asked.
I have a pet yennork too (canine, obviously)…
Goes well with a Barking Dog.
Do you enter your yennork in shows?
GAW – That was different. A) It wasn’t because of the magical field but because she was mistakenly identified as the 7th son of a 7th son and the handing over of the staff is irreversible. B) It was a quasi-sociological issue, not an anatomical or biological one. Same reason there is the occasional male witch…
FYI, it was the eighth son of the eighth son. Even so, “Unless it is the male of Chelys galactica that gives birth” is a large Caveat (as is the species).
At times, I puzzle about R”chaim’s piskei halocho.
They are not “his”. Rav Chaim (I believe) doesn’t “Pasken”, but rather quotes the P’sak of others.
In this case, in Beni Brak it may very well be Assur to wear a watch, as only women wore them. This would be similar to any culture in which certain items are worn specifically by one gender (such as skirts in the US (vs. Scotland), or moss on a troll).
I have a Gonne… Does that count?
As much as a piecemaker.
GAW – No need for a space-ship (although Da Quirm made a very handy one), Great A’Tuin is clearly female. Unless it is the male of Chelys galactica that gives birth – she/he/it had 8 baby Great Star Turtles at one point.
You never know, such a heavy magical field may “change” standard gender practices. Like making a female wizard (against the lore!) due to the giving over of a staff, for example.
This is possibly the most important research out there. Who knows waht may be found that can help mankind? Zero point energy, fusion, and faster space travel are only a few of the possibilities.
Besides, it is much better than spending money on useless items such as advertising cotton in India, biofuel standards or sending out a spaceship to figure out the turtle’s gender.
GAW – Archdeacon Vorbis reliably informs me that the world is a sphere, and, after much persuasion, I have admitted to this. The truth in this case really did hurt…
P.S. The Turtle Moves!
Until the turtle smashes someone in the head. Then everyone sees the truth, and the entire edifice falls apart.
The Archdeacon has no clothes.
The traditionalists would never agree to that. They do have issues with following halacha sometimes, but they never want to break tradition .
How about having the ceremony on a pitched roof with a fiddler balancing on top?
Equality (or claims of such) will trump tradition in their minds.
I didn’t see it then, but I completely disagree with the OP and agree with JustHavingFun.
But sure, there are plenty of sources I can point to with guidelines. There is plenty of guidance on what the qualities of an appointed rav should be.
As said before, the position of “chief Rabbi” is mostly political, with all of the patronage that goes along with it. Appointing a Rov of a city is an entirely different scenario.
What planet do you live on?
The Disc, on top of four elephants carried by the great A’tuin. Where the sun revolves around the Earth, as Da’as Torah has declared, and so it was.
🙂
(you ask a question like that, this is the answer you get).
gavra- it’s a lot easier to have a halachik marriage by mistake, than it is to have a halachik divorce.
And? Change the law so that mistakes don’t happen. A simple solution would be to require a double ring ceremony.
We should allow them to produce mamzerim (whose grandchildren might marry mine and yours)?
And the easiest way to avoid that is to make sure that they never get halachicly married.
IMHO, it’s actually very much a root of the issue.
The way you view it.
I don’t think anyone would disagree that someone like Doeg would have been better off not learning. The question as you pose it is where does someone who “does these things” fall?
As I said earlier, I think both sides are posturing in the time-tested Israeli manner, and what they say reflects on absolutely nothing. IMHO that is wrong, but it is what it is.
So- are you brave enough to let this through: why must I respect as a gadol someone who calls another Jew evil? Is it solely because he is called a gadol?
Rav Ovadyah says evil like the Satmer Rov said Apikores. The level of hatred has become so bad in Israeli politics (and not just Charaidi/non charaidi, but even more so Charaidi/Charaidi) that I am happy that I don’t live there.
Isn’t that sad?
You think that it is ok for 3 rabbis who are elected to run the RCA to say things like that about one of the gedolei hador? This is insane. Insane.
I would 100% agree with you if Rav Yosef heard first hand from Rabbi Stav. However, from the Statement of Rav Yosef, he “accepted Eidus” regarding Rav Stav. We have recently seen (specificly with Rabbi Lipman & Rav Feldman, but others as well) how “eidus” is in many cases not true in the end.
Now, I agree that it doesn’t justify the language used by the RCA, but it seems that such language is the norm when involving any disagreement in EY (unfortunately).
Call it a “Limud Zechus”.
Dr. Hall:
Even if you would like to claim that the original intention of WoW was acceptable, they are currently well beyond the pale.
For example, their “Halachic article” by Rabbi Monique Susskind Goldberg of the Shechter Institute. Anat Hoffman (chairwoman) is the executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center, the legal and advocacy arm of the Reform Movement in Israel. (as per the WoW website). Every member of the board is conservative or reform.
What compromise would you accept? You already stated that there is a problem with them davening in the woman’s section.
The wimmin could try praying on the mountain. It will make the charaidim look like a picnic in comparison.
maybe a kiruv school would be a good idea because they are usually known for better secular education and get a disproportionate amount of donor dollars for resources so they probably get more money for these things (otherwise not supportive parents would want their kids to stay in public school), also have lower tuition rates…
This. Otherwise I would suggest Rochester. In no way would I suggest Darchei, and I doubt (just an opinion) that the school would accept such a child from outside the community who wouldn’t pay in full.
From the WOW website (I couldn’t make this stuff up myself):
Why Nashot Hakotel?
For other ROTFLOL and Kefirah-like statements, see the WOW website.