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There is a much, much bigger problem.
15% of milk-giving cows in the US have stapled stomachs which make the milk they give Chalav Treifa an Issur D-Oraisa.
Since all milk is mixed together in huge tanks, you can not rely on Kol Dporush. It is safe to assume that unsupervised milk coming from the USA is one-sixth ossur min hatorah (much worse than chalav akum). It is not bottul.
This would even render powdered milk also prohibited.
Chalav Yisroel companies are very careful that the farms they supervise do not use cows that have had this procedure.
So this problem is not only for Israel
I know a lady (married) who engages in stream-of-conscioussness non-stop talking. She doesn’t care if you are listening or not. She just talks and talks and talks.
Such a type would be perfect for him. He will learn to interject a “Yes, dear” every five or ten minutes and they will live happily ever after.
Eat ginger
ngo3 wrote:”If it’s cholov Yisroel, how can it be Greek?”
It’s a result of the evil Misyavnim.
Reply to:”The Gemara in Shabbos (75a) says that according to Rabbi Yehuda, one who extracts the dye from the chilazon on shabbos is chayev for Dosh. Now the minimum shiur to be chayev for Dosh is a Grogeres. The amount of dye taken from a Murex Trunculus is less than a Grogeres.”
Acc> to the Raavad it’s talui in the chashivus not the volume which makes disha of a chilazon a chiyuv chatos.
The Rabam shtims with the shita of Rabeinu Avrohom ben HaRambam that petzia is the sepraration of the chilazon from the shell thus involving a kigrogeres in volume as well.
To: Twisted
They didn’t have scuba diving gear in ancient times.
The snails are carried mainly by currents.
Large nets were tied and spread out to sink to the ocean floor weighed down by stones.
Ropes attached to floating twigs are attached to all sides of the net.
In a few days, or even hours, you return and lift up the nets which are populated, by then, with Chilazon.
That’s the way it was done and is still done in primitive places where people eat them.
BTW what do you think the word Chilazon means in Farsi? That’s right – snail.
The Raavia says that Chilazon in Greek is Purfura. What do you think purfura means in Greek? That’s right – snail.
Kla Ilan or Indigo is a plant.
Plants are constantly bred to improve qualities. Wheat and rice have much larger yields today than they did 200 years ago because of improved genetive selection. The same is true of apples and even esrogim. The are far better quality today than ever.
Why should Indigo be different?
The colorfastness of this plant is probably a dramatic improvement over what it was in the time of ChaZaL.
The most powerful argument for Murex is that if this is not the true chilazon, then – since the dye is extremely similar to tchelless – Chazzal should have warned us about this fraudulent tchelless. Since they didn’t, it is clearly the real thing.
There is another problem.
Heat resistant glass is a recent innovation and wasn’t around historically.
A flame covered by a glass may not be considered a “Halachically Visible” flame. See sugya of “Erva BeAshashith”.
So as the flame sinks into the glass and can only be seen through the glass it may not be considered even “visible”.
Tseruya, David’s sister (Yoav’s mother)is the most often mentioned woman.
Yes you should.
Smoking boys try to hide their habit.
Most girls I know will not consider a boy that smokes and must know about this Chissaron.
My grandfather was six years younger than my grandmother.
They had a beautiful happy life together,
The word is spelled wrong.
It’s “Invitations”.
You invite someone. You never “invate” him.
See Gemara Avoda Zara 10b: Antoninus tells the Tanna Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi: “I know that even the smallest of you can make the dead live”.
So it is clear that this gentile nobleman understood as a simple matter of fact that even the smallest Tanna can perform Tchiyas HaMeisim.
I need dough !
This is one very powerful essay.
This is MUCH bigger than our coffee room.
Bombmaniac I don’t know who you are but you have articulated many feelings I had over the years.
This essay of yours should be required reading by anyone and everyone giving advise and guidance to our people (of any age).
My granddaughter is called “Yenta”. And that is what we call her.
Let me tell you something my dear readers.
My Yentelle is so sweet and charming that if you ever meet her, you will all want to name your children Yenta.
(And I am really and truly unbiased.)
The people that usually wear ties but don’t wear ties for Mincha on Shabbos are men that shave.
You wonder why?
A basic question: Why were men created to grow beards?
The answer: To protect their ties from getting dirty eating Cholent.
Those that shave usually have stained ties by the time Mincha comes around. And, if they daven Rabbenu Tam Zman, the bedroom is too dark to find another tie. (Some men in the country brought along only one tie anyway.)
Would you work all day in a hot bakery in the middle of the summer with 110 degree temperatures if you were told that your pay in the end of that day is two-hundred million dollars?
Do you have any idea of the tremendous Schar you get in Olam Haba for doing even the smallest of our heilige mitsvos?
Especially when the Mitzva is a difficult one?
Any amount of money or pleasure you can imagine pales in insignicance.
Think about it.
What is Likui Levana?
Most crops receive their energy to grow and be bountiful from the sun’s energy. In Dvarim 33:14 ????? ??? ?????”from the sweetest grains of the moons”, we, therefore, see that there are some plants that achieve quality with help of the moon’s energy, as well.
Likui Chamma or Levana refers to an interference in these energies perhaps through dust or clouds in Earth’s atmosphere when this energy is needed the most in a plat’s life. (Or, perhaps, solar flares and sunspots either during the day or during a moonlit night.)
It has nothing to do with eclipses which were predictable events even in ancient times.
There is no Bracha made for either a solar or lunar eclipse.
There is only kidush levana once a month for the moon and Oseh Maaseh Breishis for the sun (and visible planets) once every 28 years.
The notion that a lunar eclipse is a bad omen is a mistake. It stems from the mistaken interpetation of Likui Levana as meaning a lunar eclipse.
Maybe this is a bit off topic.
I vehemently protest the negative use of the name ‘YENTA”.
My daughter’s name is Yenta. We call her Yentelle.
She is very careful never to speak Lashon Hara about anyone.
She is named after her great-grandmother who was a real Tzadekess.
I hereby announce my protest for this bad connotion given to a Jewish name.
You did the right thing.
My brother had a classmate who would be alive today if he would have worn a helmet when he rode a bike in Brooklyn almost fifty years ago.
His family still cries.
There is a funny story I once heard from Rav Mansour.
This lady was circling around the block for an hour looking for a space to park. She was utterly frustrated.
Finally she looks up and says: HaShem please, please, please help me find a parking spot”.
As soon as she finishes saying those words, a car pulls out of a space right in front of her car.
So she says: “Never mind HaShem, I already found a parking space.”
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Red is Tamei?
The Heiligge Ohel Moed had the skins of rams dyed red covering it.
Red thread of the Tolaas Shani was used extensively.
It was actually his Yahrzeit two days ago.
What a great warm person.
What a great teacher.
What a great Possek.
One of his Mechutonim told me that in the middle of his child’s Vort and Chasssuna he was getting calls from Mashgichim and Mikvas from all over and calmly answered all the Shailos without making the caller know that he was interrupting.
Shlomo HaMelech in Shir HaShirim in describing a beautiful woman declares: “Your nose is like the tower of Levanon from which one can see all the way to Damesek.”
Now, THAT is a nose.
Only Jews have a word for Mechutonim. (I speak 5 languages but correct me if I am wrong.)
The rest of the world doesn’t see mechutonim as any relationship whatsoever.
It is said in the name of the Baal Shem Tov that in Yenne Velt you sit not with your children or your ancestors but davka with your Mechutonim.
(For some, this is Gan Eden.
For others, this is Gehennom.)
All Eastern European married women shaved all their hair until around 1840 when the Russian government declared it illegal. Most Chassidim were Moser Nefesh to maintain this minhag and Litvishe abandoned it. (My wife doesn’t do it even though we are Chassidish.)
Although we don’t know the origin exactly (there are various theories), it probably has to do with Chatzitza since it is only for married women.
This minhag is mentioned in the Takkanos of the Vaad Arba Arotzos (an umbrella group of every kehilla in Poland, Lithuania and parts of Ukraine and Belarus) almost four hundred years ago.
A historical correction.
If a Tanna, Amora, Gaon, even Rashi or a Baal Tosafos were to come alive today, he would have no idea what Chalav “Akum” means.
If you look at all the Kisvei Yad of the Gemoro from Vatican, Alliance Francais, Munich etc. the term is always Goi. “Chalav ShCholvoi *Goi* V’Ein Yisroel Roeoi”
The Christian censors were offended by this and substituted Aveid Cochavim VeMazolos (AKU”M) every time it says Goi in our printed versions.
That is why I get so upset when someone today says that this was only in the old times when the Goyim worshipped stars and constellations but today you can drink the milk.
What an Am Haaratzus this is!
How foolish this is!
Chazal said “Goy” and Chaza”l really meant “Goy”, even one wearing a tie and having proper manners.
You want to say that government inspection alleviates the problem? Then invoke Rav Feinstein Z”l but please don’t say that Cholov Akum was only in ancient times.
My father was 20 years older than my mother and his father was 7 years younger than his mother. Both, were spectacular marriages.
Sacrilege
Frangelico
If you see a line of cars patiently waiting in the right lane (change right to left if you are in Great Britain) to get onto an exit ramp and you go on the left lane and suddenly pull right in front of the line so you wouldn’t have to wait like everyone else, please, please first hide your peyos and take off your kapl BECAUSE IT’S AN AWFUL CHILLUL HASHEM.
It is also probably gezel and gneiva – ask any posek.
This is a true story.
My daughter was formally redt a shidduch. The boy came to our home met us and took our daughter out. The boy wanted to continue, my daughter and us did not. But she and my wife thought that a friend’s daughter would be perfect for him. We waited a few days and my wife just picked up the phone and called the boy’s mother (whom she never met) and introduced herself as the mother of xxx. “Having met your son in our home, I know a girl who would be more suitable for your son’s special qualities”. The boy’s mother was shocked, speechless and flabbergasted.
You can guess the end, they are happily married today with five children. My wife was the shadchan. She could’ve had the phone slammed down on her but she took the chance anyway. She succeeded in helping the Ribono Shel Olam build a bayis ne’eman byisroel.
1 877 kars 4 kids k-a-r-s 4 kids.
How can I get this song out of my head?
The unforgettable Rebbetzin Braunstein A”H once asked this question to a large audience.
Everyone answered more or less along the lines of these posts.
She then said “As someone who deals with all sorts of issues after marriage, I can definitely tell you that the most important thing to look for and ask about in any shidduch – boy or girl – is: “Is this person a happy person? Is the family a happy, optimistic one?”
What great advice!
In the sefer Oleyhu Lo Yibol it is said that Reb Shlomo Zalman Oirbach showered before and after the Mikvah,
When asked why he said.
“I shower before the Mikva because of the Mitzva of VeOhavto LeReyacha Komocho.
I shower after the mikva because of others that are not carefull in the mitzva of VeOhavto LeReyacha Komocho.”
Rav Elyashiv was asked five years ago and that is exactly what he said. He wont go into the issue and he can’t tell people to wear tchelles. Rav Zalman Nechemiah who did study it when asked is today wearing it.
The Radziner thought the cuttlefish was the chilazon. I won’t go into it, but it was proven that that he was fooled by chemists. Since then, Many rabbonim simply don’t want to get involved in the topic because they are afraid to be proven wrong later.
I am not a Rov but I know how to learn a little. A number of years ago someone from E.Y. spoke in our shul about trunculus. I decided to write a maamar disproving him. After studying the topic in depth instead of writing the maamar, I started wearing it myself.
There are many many powerful proofs for this being the real tchelles. This is not the venue for going into all of them. I will share with you the strongest one.
There are ancient dyeing factories in northern E.Y. and Lebanon with ditches full of – not millions – but hundreds of millions of empty trunculus shells. There is no question by anyone that truclulus extract was used as an ancient dye.
The gemara says that Indigo (Kla Ilan) is so similar to Tcheles that the Ribono Shel Olam will punish someone that substitutes Kla Ilan for Tcheles from chilazon. (kla ilan – originally grown only in India – is much cheaper than trunculus extract – which is why trunculus fell into disuse eventually.)
Now, indigo dyed wool and trunculus dyed wool is so very similar that it is impossible for anything other than spectrographic analysis to tell them apart.
So if it is true – as some want to say – that trunculus is not the real tchelles, there must be another marine species that has an extract also similar to Indigo and trunculus. In that case, why didn’t Chazal warn us also about this other imposter – trunculus – which was very well known as a dye in ancient times and whose extract is also exactly the same color as tchelles?
You want to know why they didn’t? Because trunculus IS DEFINITELY tcheles. That’s why.
I am not even going into the numerous other proofs.
BTW every year more and more rabbonim, some very choshuve and well-known, are starting to wear this tcheles. Some open, some btsin’a . If you ask anyone of them that doesn’t, you will find that, for the most part, they simply don’t want to deal with the whole issue.