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Lilmod,
Have you read Rabbi Ginzburg’s article? Someone told me this week, that because of that article, he is writing a letter to his ex after hating her for so long. This is from the most eidel and sweet man I know, who I would never imagine hating anyone.
There is an excellent article by Rav Arye Zeev Ginzburg in last week’s Mishpacha magazine on the subject of mechila. He has also set up a new initiative to help childless couples and older singles. It’s a must read!
Can British people vote?
You don’t say tachanun.
See the mishna end of taanis. There is an excellent article called Dancing in the Streets on the Aish website by Rabbi Ari Kahn, The mystical roots of Tu B’Av — one of the most important days of the Jewish year.
Ravening
noun
1. A large bird (Corvus corax) of the Northern Hemisphere, having black plumage and a croaking cry.
2. Any of several similar birds of the genus Corvus, found in Africa, Australia, and southwestern North America.
adj.
Black and shiny: raven tresses.
The Chareidi Modern Orthodox, not sure what this has to do with korbanos, but…
Yes. This is the old minhag.
As far as I understand and I’m not sure how long ago this was, only the Rov used to wear his tallis over his head. The tzibur all wore hats for davening, (like bochurim do now, on top of their tfilin) and talisos just from the neck down. Gradually, from the litvishe yeshivos, it spread that all married men wear their talisos over their heads. I greatly respect people who keep the old minhag (although I don’t), and you don’t see many of them any more, at least around where I live. Firstly, because the ‘more frum’ have taken on the ‘litvishe’ way, and others have stopped wearing hats in the weekday for davening.
I think it depends why.
We gave our kids English names on their birth certificates, simply to make it simple for non-Jewish people who we and they will come into contact with. But they are always called by their Yiddishe names.
What gets to me is the parents who are very idealistic about only giving Jewish names, and then when they get to the office, Yankel becomes Jack, Eli becomes Alan, etc. For some reason you don’t find Mohammed calling himself Mike at work!?
I have looked up the yekkish Siddur Sfas Emes (Roedelheim), and it has parshas hakiyor, parshas hatomid and parshas ketores in regular print. The braaisos of ketores are printed without nekudos, and it’s back to normal for Hashem tzevokos etc.
So, I have no answer for the OP from this particular source.
I heard in a shiur over tisha B’av (possibly R’ Fischel Schachter) that Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky got his first white hair when he was 50. He said, Nu, 1 white hair every 50 years isn’t geferlach. The problem was when the second one appeared 2 weeks later.
#justsaying
A nony mouse,
What a beautiful story. MI KEAMCHA YISROEL!!
May I submit it to a chizuk/hashgocho protis newsletter that comes out weekly in London? It will be A nony mouse ly, or in the name of YWNCR.
Thank you, I had the same question.
I seem to remember that in the Siddur Sfas Emes (The Roedelheim – classic yekkish siddur) the parshiyos, except for the tomid, are printed in smaller print or without nekudos, indicating that it is a relatively new minhag, as opposed to eizehu mekomon which is an old minhag. (When you say relatively new regarding yekkish minhogim, it means after the Mahari”l, so very early acharonim.)
I will bl”n check it up and post again.
Caerphilly in South Wales.
Vacation is like holidays, right?
Is it a skunk?
Oh? Would you elaborate, please?
Thank you IMS
Thank you Joseph.
I think the point is that the modern erev rav is people who actively discourage shemiras hamitzvos. What we need to do is encourage these people and bring them back INTO the fold.
I don’t think erev rav needs to be genetically related to the original Egyptian erev rav.
I asked this shaaloh to a Rov here in Manchester. The answer is, even this year, shvua shechal bo is only the day of the fast (10 Av) because it depends on the day we fast, not on the calendar date.
The R”T about tefilin is a tosafos in menochos. I learned it many years ago and as far as I can remember, the halocho is like Rashi. R”T’s shita is accepted as halocho b’Toras hanistar (whatever that means). Therefore people who are more ‘into’ kabalah, i.e. Chassidim and Sefardim, will wear R”T tefilin in addition to Rashi tefilin. Similarly, R”T wearers will not wear tefilin on chol hamoed, when the toras hanistar psak is that one is chayav misa for wearing tfilin.
Many non-chasidish, non-sefardi people have taken on wearing R”T as an added hiddur.
One more point, one who wears Rashi and R”T will also be yoitze the other two shitos, as wearing the parshiyos in reverse order is also yoitze. That’s why a righty who wears lefty tefillin is yoitze.
Rabbi Wallerstein’s reasoning, if I’ve got this right, is because they encourage people to leave yiddishkeit.
His shiur last week (heard on Torah Anytime) dealt with the signs of Moshiach’s arrival from the gemora at the end of Sotah. He said that the Footsteps people didn’t realise that Ikvesah d’Meshicha is translated as Footsteps of Moshiach.
Polar bears don’t eat penguins! Polarbears are in the North Pole and penguins are in the South Pole!!
Ka’eyleh Update:
Firstly, we had a barmitzvah in our shul this Shabbos, so the tzibur went easy on the boy and the ka’eyleh was rather tame.
Secondly, and this will be interesting for the dikduk people out there. My previous post got the wrong Oo. The correct posuk is ????????????????? ?????????? ????? ?????????. Apparently, ?????????? is the only instance of a dagesh alef in the Torah, and therefore it is stressed. Does anyone know anywhere else where they do that?
CopyMachine, I don’t know if you’re familiar with mad cow disease. But one of the theories as to how it started was when they fed cows feed that contained bits of beef or something that is not natural for them to eat.
I don’t see why a frum Jew couldn’t be President in the 21st century. You will remember that 16 years ago we were a few bits of chad in Florida away from a frum US Vice-President. How did Joe Lieberman manage to campaign with keeping Shabbos and kashrus etc?
Baby goats (goatlings/goatlets?) do drink their mother’s milk, which is goat milk. However chickens do not eat chicken eggs.
Regular frum Yid: You. Everyone imagines themselves as centre of the spectrum, and everyone else is left or right of him.
Thanks Charlie, and Takah.
If one comes late to shachris, the first thing that is sacrificed, is Korbanos.
Reb KJ, with all due respect you may be right theoretically. But the enemy we face today will not be happy until the whole of Eretz Yisroel is Judenrein Chas v’sholom. Remember the PLO existed and swore to destroy Israel before 1967, when there were no ‘occupied’ territories.
Sharon gave them Gaza, did that make them happy? No, they just saw it as a weakness and used and continue to use that land as a launchpad to attack Yiedden.
Please stop turning on other Yiedden and let us use these days of bein hametzorim to build achdus among us, so we can merit the geula shleima bimheira. Omein!
Didn’t know there was a branch of NK in Crawley.
No
Think of the man’s name Cyril, then just add the T.
(Just a warning, I’m English, advice for the US may be different)
Regarding the first one, I don’t know who is reading out the ‘Kol Korei’, but the Rebbes are; To the left, The Alexander Rebbe, then on the right, The Rachmastrivka Rebbe of Eretz Yisroel, The Vizhnitzer Rebbe Reb Yisroel, of Bnei Brak, (I can’t see who it is with his head down), The Machnofke Rebbe.
ZD, he IS the LOR.
For the uneducated (in UK geography at least), Crawley is a town in Sussex about halfway between London and Brighton, and very near Gatwick airport. It hardly registers as a speck on the Jewish map.
Golfer,
It seems I thought it was more well known. In very short, it’s a song called Ani Ba’yaar holachti. And the version I know, was sung by Rav Yaacov Salzer Zt”l in Johannesburg. The story is about someone walking in the forest and heard a peasant calling his/her daughter, Katerina, young lady,come here. In that language it’s “Katerina, maleditza, podusodoy” or something like that. So the song is understanding those words to mean that Hashem will come and redeem His people and we will all sing together.
Kat is a group
Rina is song
Male is full
Ditza is joy
Poide is redeem
Sodoy is the shem Shin, dalet and yud.
I’m sure it’s available on the popular search engines…
There’s plenty of meises about taking the words of simple people and ascribing higher meaning to them. Two examples spring to mind.
“Vi lang der lechtele brent, kennen mir farichten”
“Katerina, maleditza, pode suder”
And besides, I won’t hear a bad word spoken about R’ Avremel, ever since he was my camp counsellor in Gan Yisroel, Johannesburg in 1981.
South Africans should ‘Saleave’ the African Union. Rejoin Europe like before 94.
Hoe gaan ‘it, bokkie?
This message is going around today. I stress it is un-verified.
Re the EU Referendum:
Reb Avrohom Gurwicz ????”? is voting Leave.
Reb Leib Gurwicz ??”? voted against joining even the European Common Market in 1975.
Reb Osher Westheim ????”? paskened during several shiurim that everyone MUST go out and vote to Leave.
SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
We were better off without Germany & Co in the last century and believe me things haven’t changed.
Follow ??? ???? and vote to LEAVE the EU. We can do it!
No one has mentioned Gibraltar where many Jews live.
Imagine if they had to cross a non-EU border everytime they went into Spain, among other issues. I’m sure they want to remain.
1) I buy muffins, especially chocolate chip ones
2) Scotland should stay in the UK, because that’s how they voted
3) The UK should leave the EU, because it’s evil.
Why did you start a new thread what was wrong with this one? http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/ywn-uk-euro-referendum-poll
Why did you start a new thread what was wrong with this one? http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/ywn-uk-euro-referendum-poll
I don’t understand the question. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance, and considered to be a leading democracy. Why is the assumption that these don’t go together?
By monarchy, do you mean an Absolute Monarchy like Swaziland?
fairlyintrigued, some advice from across the pond.
Look for a Rebbe who can have a personal connection with, like a weekly private study session. That is, I believe, the original idea of the ‘Tzaddik’ in chassidus. Unfortunately, I can’t direct you from here in NW England, but I know that the NY area will have plenty of choice for you.
I’d love a sub-title like ‘Angel of the North’, the iconic sculpture at the entrance to Geordieland…
DaasYochid,
I’ve got so many good responses to that…
I heard from Rabbi Shea Chaitovsky, that Rav Scheinberg used to suggest that you sneeze covering your mouth with that hand. No one will expect you to then shake hands. Another suggestion I’ve been given is to wear a bandage on the right hand whenever ‘necessary’.