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Didn’t the thousands of students of Bais Shamai follow Bais Shamai? These were Tannoim, Tzaddikim, like malochim! Where they wrong? R’ Tarfon lied down to say kriyas shema like Bais Shamai. If it was wrong, why did such a great Taana do so?

(BTW – would R’ Tarfon need to say over kriyas shema since he did not do it in the manner of Bais Hillel which is the halacha? In other words, did lying down “passel” his shema, like eating matza without heseiba, one must eat again the matza in the proper manner?)

Milhouse , dos is der kurkavun, der heiliger kurkavon!

Neville – “In this case, RGP is not wrong.”

RGP is never wrong!

There are just different levels of right. Sometimes I am right l’chol ha’deyos. Sometimes I am right according to a certain shitah that holds like me.

Even when I am not right, I am not wrong. Believe me , I can print a sefer and be my own source (and post an ad for it on YWN.)

Tomim – I know that is the pirush al pi drush of Rema MiPanu, but that is not the approach of the Sifsei Chaochomim on Rashi. Certainly not “pshuto shel mikra” of that Rashi.

kluger – “It’s all a game”

Moydeh, I am playing you. You are my toy. But c”v to toy with halacha!

I am always mochel on my own kovod, but never mochel on kovod shamayim.

When people bash other frum Yidden, and usually these same people trample on S.A. and rely on more kulos than the MO (because they are “lomdim”), I am mochiach and mocheh.

Chumras is the standard of todays frum yidden. We keep Glat-Kosher and are NOT meikil to eat meatthat is simply kosher. We are machmir in our levush – to dress frum looking. Yet behind closed doors, the frumkeit is water down to the point of issurim according to some shitos!

The only ones that are insulted and maligned are those that pretend to be frum and are exposed to be kal she’b’kalim (or as I call “frum-b’di’eved”).

knaidelich – “the מן started coming down yesterday ט”ז אייר.” While the manna stopped Adar 7 (Moshe’s petira), the yidden kept eating it till Nissan 17, The annual date from start of manna till end of manna falls short by a month! That’s odd (and the 40 years of eating manna is imprecise).

laskern,
you said it is muttar,
then you brought the Ramo:
ויש מחמירין
ונהגו להחמיר
מיהו במקום צורך יש לסמוך אסברא ראשונה.

That means the Ramo holds it IS ossur and that is the custom of frum Yidden (to prohibit it), except when there is necessity one can be lenient (meikil) to allow it.

coffee addict – ” Tefillin is an Aramaic word the Hebrew word would be totafos”

1. The word “totafos” in the Torah is also not a Hebrew word (see Rashi – ‎טט in Coptic meaning two, and פת in Afriki (Phrygian) meaning two (Men. 34b)). I will shortly return to this point!
2. “Totafos” refers only to the tefilah shel Rosh, not the shel yad. I will shortly return to this point too.

We refer to “tefillin” by that name because that was the name it was called in the Mishna (e.g. Eruvin 10:1, Megillah 4:8, Mo`ed Katan 3:4. N’darim 2:2, M’nachot 3:7 and 4:1, Yadayim 3:3) and in Targum (Yonoson and Unkelus), which referred to it by the name Teffillin because that was the name Yidden always called it before the time of Mishna.

Getting back to point #1 above, Rashi brings a SECOND explanation to the word טוֹטָפֹת from his teacher Menachem:

Menachem classified it [טוֹטָפֹת] with “Speak (הַטֵף) to the south” (Ezek. 21:2) and “Preach not (אַל-תּטִּיפוּ)” (Micah 2:6), an expression of speech, like “and as a remembrance” (Exod. 13:9), for whoever sees them [the tefillin] bound between the eyes will recall the miracle [of the Exodus] and speak about it.

This pshat associates טוֹטָפֹת with speech. It is likely why Yidden called them Teffilin, a word associated with Tefilah (Prayer/speech).

Returning to point #2, although I listed numerous Mishna that call them teffillin, we DO find the name totofos also used in Mishna: Shabbos 6:1 and 6:5.

It is interesting to point out that when these Mishna use the word totofos, the Mishna specifically refers to wearing the shel rosh on the head.

Syag, you are correct, laskern had posted a suggestion that encourages chilul shabbos r”l.

Syag, you are right!

Finally a voice supporting frum adherence to halacha! While Chabad reaches out to rechokim, I reach within to “rechokim” who consider themselves shomer shabbos but aren’t. Too many “frum” yidden are not keeping shabbos or kosher properly. It is appalling! The tragic-comedy is that THEY are the ones that point to thousands of really frum yidden and claim those frum yidden (who have poskim, rabbonim, lomdim) don’t keep proper halacha (because they don’t sleep in a sukka or eat cake before davening). Yes, kol haposel – b’mumo possel.

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I use a true “kedeira hafucha” on the blech, by placing an upside down 9×13 baking pan on the blech or an upside down pot (depending on how strong the flame is). I find that it warms (“mafig tzina”) but does not reach yad soldes – of the higher temperatures for y.s.. I also find that it won’t melt the sturdier plastic containers (the cheaper plastics may warp a bit). Experiment a bit what works for you.

I am very machmir about warming chicken or kugel that has moisture – I consider it bishul if it reaches y.s.

I am also very machmir on melting congealed liquids (as common on chicken or meats) – which I consider 100% ossur even if it does not reach y.s.

I know that many yidden are meikil on this, it creates a problem when my husband and I are invited to someone’s seuda and the food served was nisbashel on shabbos (according to chumra). People don’t even think about this halacha and simply wimp out on a real chashash chilul shabbos.

“he can’t possibly believe everything he claims to believe”, because you are “kofer” that a person can be “chored lidvar Hashem”, and REALLY seek to fulfill rotzon haBoreh, including the mandate and chiyuv min haTorah of קדש עצמך במותר לך, to refrain even from things that are technically muttar (aka chumros and seyogim).

You think everyone is like you, living in a self created frummie bubble filled with hot air of self rightouesness. Therefore you get bent out of shape whenever someone points out that you are breaching halacha according to some or even many shitos.

That pinprick bursts your bubble and the only way to restore your complacency in kiyum mitzvos is by making false claims and pointing that there are others that have shortcomings. You falsely claim to be more frum than they.

Your standard of frumkeit is: I am frum “enough” because others are less frum than me, look, they don’t do xyz and I-am-holier-than-they, Anochi, the great me.

You pat yourself on the beichel because you keep a few token chumros.

Meanwhile, justifying the worst aveiros of loshon hara, mitzi shem rah and rechilus (and machlokes and sinas chinom) by saying, “those guys do it on their blogs, so it’s a mitzva of nekama for me to do so” – even if it is a pure sheker, as confirmed. THERE ARE NO SUCH BLOGS!

The game is up. Korech also reached an end for his machlokes.

The mods didn’t allow my reply. It wasn’t defensive enough. (Which made it offensive – as in unpleasant or disagreeable vs attack or aggressive ).