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The bigger problem is that some claim the percentage of treif milk cows is over 50%. Considering that calves are slaughtered for beef only a couple of months old and average 40% treifos, it is completely reasonable to suspect that 15 year old milk cows are much more problematic.
I’ve been to many kiddushim and simchos where certain rude people grabbed half the food in the first 5 minutes and ran home with it leavng many of the guests hungry. It can be mamash gezel to take home food from a simcha etc.
first of all DA is “displaced abomasum” and not “abdomen”. Secondly, shishim is relevant for a certain ta’aroves, here we do not know that any specific cow in this heard has undergone the procedure, we are discussing a stastical probability, a ruba d’lesa kaman. So we follow the rule of kol d’parish m’ruba parish miD’Oraisa, and miDrabannan miut ha’matzui.
Can anyone define a baal nefesh which R’ Moshe says is machmir?
I think anyone posting on a blog probably does NOT qualify!!!
apy: rennet is batel b’rov miDeoraisa, ma’amad is only dRabannan.
sz: you claim might be reasonable if CY was to avoid intermarriage, as Reb Moshe writes a similar idea for bishul akum. However, CY is a gezeira because of milk from a non-Kosher animal, so the identity of the farmer is irrelevant.
DY: Your right that TKI is only aino mino, and in some circumstances we may be able to use as a tziruf the Poskim who rule like Rashi that even aino mino is d’Rabanan. Especially since the Rashba who is the source of the Shulchan Aruch’s psak bases his ruling on the fact that it is an issue of an issur d’Oraisa and safek d’Oraisa l’hachmir. Beis Yosef follows him for the same reason, so there are grounds to say that TKI is a safek not vadai. However, Shulchan Aruch in YD 98:2 paskens safek TKI is assur b/c safek d’Oraisa, and is not a sfek sfeka. See Pri Megadim in 98, hakdama to Taaruvos and hakdama to Basar bChalav and hanhagas shoel v’nishal where he seems to contradict himself if this psak of Shulchan Aruch makes TKI a vadai d’Oraisa or just not a safek ha’shakul that doesn’t count for a sfek sfeika.
oomis: actually the chlorophyll in the leaves and stem of the tomato plant is poison.
DY: Shulchan Aruch paskens that ta’am k’ikar is deoraisa. YD 98:2
carefull, AZ will deny their existance.
stop dating after the l’chaim.
AC:one person does not a minhag make
Rav Saadia Gaon writes that there was only one J and that he lived in the time of Rav Yehoshua ben Prachya, the C forged the history books to make him appear to have lived much later to be able to tie the Churban to our rejection of him.
Halacha – thilim at night
Submitted by anonymous Answered by Rav Peretz Moncharsh
Question: we now that ein koirin mikre bleile, e”p Kabbala its forbidden to say thilim at night so my question: I want that my kid to study ivre at night if its different. Tanks.
Answer:
The main issue of learning mikra at night is studying Chumash, and many Poskim permit reciting Tehillim because it is supplications. In this case it is not clear since you are studying it might not have the leniency of Tehillim, on the other hand if the intention is only to learn the language it might not be considered learning Torah at all.
goodbye: Nitei Gavriel quotes Rav Ovadia Yosef in Yabia Omer as writing that the Sfardim “never saw nor heard”of the minhag not to learn Nittel. He also quotes the Chazon ISh and others that the minhag in Litta was to learn Nittel.
Halacha – Mikra at night
Submitted by anonymous Answered by Rav Peretz Moncharsh
Question: I was told not to read the actual parsha at night. Exceptions include Friday night and maybe Thursday night. In winter, it is difficult to get shnaim mikra v’echad targum if we do not read parsha at night. Concerning this halacha, what is considered ‘night’? How early in the morning, for example, could I read it? Thank you
Answer: Thursday night is also fine. The Mishna Berura deduces from the Pri Megadim that it is only a preference to refrain from mikra at night but not an obligation, however the mekuballim are very strict on this issue based on the Arizal. While there are some opinions that permit chumash after chatzos, the predominant and accepted opinion is not until alos hashachar. If you learn Rashi together with the pesukim, it is permitted.
What happened to this weeks issue? I heard it was recalled from the newsstands
goodbye: I refuse to reply in kind to your rude and obnoxious tone. I am surprised that the mods let your post through, which only goes to debunk the complaints of over moderation.
My Roshei Yeshiva were from Slabodka, Brisk and the Mir and all said the minhag was to learn on “nittel”. Same goes for my grandfather from Kovno. I don’t have access to Chok uZman, but I know it was written by a Belzer chossid, I trust those who grew up in Lita to know minhagei Lita more.
goodbye: first of all, as I said it was never the minhag except by Chassidim, don’t care which seforim mention the concept. Secondly, the inyan brought in the seforim not not learning but refraining from something else.
goodbye: In most of the world there is NO minhag of nittel. The sfardim don’t have it and neither do the Livtvishe or the Yekkes.
The pasuk in Bereshis is NOT the source! It does not refer to human lifespan, rather to the impending mabul 120 years away.
I’m all in favor of competition, it is great for the customers. However the market is VERY tight now. Keep in mind that in the past year we have seen Shavua Tov, Nachas and Horizons close, and Jewish Observer not long before.
Anyone see it this week? I still can’t find it anywhere here in EY!
You should make a bracha achrona on the cup of water immediately.
In Dibros Moshe, Rav Moshe Feinstein writes that it applies to any psak given by a Rav who is higia l’horaah, and must be followed by the one who received the psak unless he himself is higia l’horaah.
anyone there?
I think the bottom line is that the OU in the States is a fine, quality hechsher, though they have certain kulos they rely on. In the articles linked above it is clear that a year and a half ago there were serious concerns that the OU Israel was not up to the policies of Israeli Mehadrin hechsherim, or of their own exacting US standards. After that scandal the OU enacted certain changes to improve the level of their EY operations.
The question remaining is have those measures succeeded in bringing OU Israel up to standard or not? I personally do not know. I would like to hear from Yechiel Spira who raised the initial concerns to do a recheck and see if they have been addressed.
yechezkel89: The OU is certainly NOT identical to RAV Rubin or the Eida, though they may be good enough. For example, Fleish chickens under OU Israel do not check tzomes hagidim at all, where Rav Rubin does and the Eida to a certain degree.
aries: calm down, no one is bashing anybody. But if you had a problem with the transmission on your car would you call a mechanic or the executive vice president of Ford???
OU and OU Kashrus are separate organizations and Rabbi Weinreb, despite the wonderful resume you posted, has nothing to do with the Kashrus department. I have spent hundreds of hours in the OU Kashrus offices and DO know what I am talking about.
Rabbi Weinreb is not involed in Kashrus.
As mentined on the other similar thread, superficial cleaning is not enough
ROB: If you are referring to Igros Moshe YD 1:40 you will see that Rav Moshe himself was quite skeptical if zeia exists in a conventional oven. However in a microwave zeia certainly IS an issue.
ROB: zeia is mentioned in siman 92. While practically the dry heat of a conventional oven will not produce zeia only reicha, as you mentioned, the nature of a microwave is to excite specifically the water molecules and create a very significant cloud of steam. This is certainly zeia with all the resultant Halachos that will be difficult to overcome.
yitayningwut: nice, but. First of all we do not pasken the Rashba. Secondly, since the waves are constantly heating the particles in transit, it is constantly on the fire and tata’ah gavar does not apply. Additionally, if heating very moist items, the walls of the microwave can get very hot. Finally, you have NOT solved my problem that the water vapors can contact mamashus in the vent and return to the food.
ItcheSrulik: cleaning thoroughly will not help for particles trapped inside the vent and fan , unless you completely disassemble your microwave.
While the methods mentioned may be satisfactory to kasher the bliyos of zeias issur, there is a serious practical problem (maybe what frumladygit meant) that particles of food can be trapped in difficult to reach places or even inside the vent and fan. No form of hagala can kasher mamashus issur.
oomis:”An agunah is any woman who is prevented from remarrying, whether because her husband disappeared deliberately or againt his will, or if he refuses to give her a Get”
Such a case is certainly a tragedy, but in the language of Shulchan Aruch is NOT an “aguna”.
The owner said it would arrive this past week, but no sign of it.
Yom Tov Ehrlich
PY: That may be the natural way people become inspired, but in the dozens of seforim I learned regarding Hilchos Geirus not one would even consider such inspiration to replace kabbalas ol mitzvos.
Has anyone seen this week’s Ami? It doesn’t seem to be in any stores.
Did they close already???
Technically, an aguna is a woman who’s husband disappeared, NOT one refused a get.
BTW: I have learned Hilchos Geirus extensively and there are no grounds in Halacha for what goes on in the Special Conversion Courts under R’ Druckman and certainly the IDF Conversion Courts that will gladly convert someone even if they know they have absolutely no intention of fulfilling any Mitzvos based solely on living in Israel and serving in the army. The only qualification for wanting to be part of the Jewish people in maintaining Halacha!
PY: I think there would be much less acrimony over the subject if people felt that R’ Amsalem was voicing his sincerely held opinions in hope of truly improving society l’shem Shamaim. If this would have been his true intentions there are better ways of accomplishing these goals then giving inflammatory interviews to the non/anti religious press. The impression created is that he is stabbing the community he is supposedly part of in the back to promote his own personal interests and to get attention.
I hope this is not true and he is simply being indiscrete rather then malicious. However I certainly understand why it rankles many people in the extreme, though I think calling him “Amalek” is out of line.
In the introduction to Igros Moshe vol 8 it says that Rav Moshe never refused a request to give a haskama on a sefer, with the sole exception of Hadras Pnei Zaken, the sefer forbidding shaving!!!
2-3 kezaisim is NOT the shiur of kevias seuda
The Derech HaChaim a.k.a. Maaseh Nissim writes that there is no machlokes and Rav S.Z. Auerbach zatal paskened this way. The Biur Halacha brings a similar concept from the Maamar Mordechai.
pba No. Wafers are the vaflatkes etc discussed in the Poskim.
Matza has tzuras hapas, wraps not necesarily. That answers pba as well, it is similar to a crepe or wafer.