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shmerel: murder of Vince Foster, BenGhazi, Fast and Furious, deleted e-mails, just to name a few. The fact that they weren’t indicted is not that they weren’t guilty but were protected by those in power.
shmerel: you would rather have a communist like Sanders?
RabbiofBerlin: which Supreme Court rulings state that illegal aliens have rights?
Shmura Matza
GH: And what about Barack and Hilary sentenced for every illegal activity they did?
I double park two family cars next to his car.
Leave off the 972 which is a country code when calling EY from another country.
Goldilocks: Even 1 drink can have an affect you. Better to be safe and hand your key to someone else.
joseph: I was talking about on Shabbos. I mean if the kos says “Im eshkochech…”.
BTW, some of us say Al Nahoros Bavel on any weekday that we say tachnun, not just during the three weeks.
wolf: If copying a treif recipe and substituting kosher ingredients is problematic, half the kosher cookbooks sold in the past 5 years would have to be banned.
Wolf: You will find plenty of “Pulled Brisket” Recipes in the kosher cook books.
Joseph: you wanted to know why I thought adults shouldn’t dress up. please see the RAMAH (695:2)
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49628&st=&pgnum=320
The RAMAH (695:2) states “YEISH OMRIM D’EIN TZARICH L’HISHTAKER KOL KACH, ELAH YISHTEH YOSER MILIMUDAI V’YISHAN U’MITOCH SHEHYISHAN EINO YODEA BEIN ARRUR HAMAN L’VARUCH MORDECHAI.
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49628&st=&pgnum=320
SL: Even if “yesh kone” is applicable it may not elevate the person to the level of a “tzaddik” to say “zt’l”.
By a personal breathalyzer tester. OR DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE even if your BAL is below the legal maximum.
ZD: While we mourn the loss of this individual who certainly did a heroic act, I don’t know if it is appropriate to say “ZTL” which stands for Zecher Tzaddik Livrocho. Even the Home page of YWN only states Z”L (Zecher Livrocha).
And if the student was not wearing the backpack when the person started shooting?
I am seeing the news titles.
LB: you answered the wrong question. The OP wasn’t asking why they are not on Google News.
CTRebbe: I don’t like the fact that you keep comparing bein hazmanim to a vacation. But let me play your game. You work for a frum person. He shuts his business from Yom Kippur until Rosh Chodesh Marcheshvan. He shuts his business for the entire month of Nissan. He then shuts his business from Tisha B’av until Rosh Chodesh Elul. Is that considered a vacation for the workers? Would you be working from home those days? Yet, this what the yeshivos do and their “workers” still go to work on those days, whether it’s learning in a bein hazmanim kolel or with chavrusahs.
A Rosh Yeshiva (in EY) has 300 bochurim/yungerleit in the yeshiva. Many have to travel back to their parents in the US, Canada, England, Australia…..what should he do? Have different dates for bein hazmanim depending on which country his talmidim are flying back to? Is Bein Hazmanim only for the bochrim or for the hanhallah of the yeshiva, too?
Yes, I know that R’ Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg TZATZAL also wanted to do away with bein hazmanim. Parents whose sons and son-in-laws are shteiging in EY have a right to see them at least once a year.
Years ago phone booths were available.
Have you seen the latest Oorahthon ad?
CTRebbe: You wrote “So iacisrmma- if your son was working would expect him to take a vacation 3 months out of the year so that you could spend some time with him and your grandson/granddaughter? ” What did I write that would give you this crazy idea? Did I say he should take time off from learning to come to the USA to visit us? He left with his wife for Eretz Yisroel on Chaf Gimmel Nissan 5777 and we knew that we wouldn’t be seeing them until after Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5778. We also knew that he would want to be back in EY for the beginning of the summer zman on Rosh Chodesh Iyar, thereby leaving just about 4 weeks to enjoy him and his family (with two of those weeks belonging to our mechutanim). So yes, we lament that we will only have 2 weeks to see him and his family and enjoy their company. BTW, his bein hazmanim is not time off, he normally has his chavrusahs here in the US set up before he leaves EY.
My parents taught us not to tell anyone, including them, until the end of the first trimester.
NC: You asked what circumstances changed? Part of the zizul shabbos issue is the noise made by the appliance. Back in the 1970,s not every house had air conditioners and if they did, it was not in every room. It was still a luxury and not as today we deem it a necessity. In addition, the units themselves are much quieter today then in the 1970’s. These are the “circumstances” that have changed. Would or should it have an effect on the psak? I don’t know but it was Rabbi Reisman who told me that it is possible.
DY: Agreed, anybody who follows R’ Moshe’s psak should not change what they do. However, it was not widely accepted and many people do set their air conditioners with timers.
DY: That is what I was saying since my first post on this issue. We really don’t know if R’ Moshe (who wrote his psak about shabbos clocks in 1977 (not specifically for air conditioners) would still say it is a “zilzul shasbbos” issue. As we know, this psak of R Moshe was not accepted as some of his psakim since the Chazon Ish paskened earlier about shabbos clocks on appliances other then lights.
DY: I asked a private shailoh to Rabbi Reisman in 2004 and his psak was based on a psak of R Moshe from the 1970’s. He told me that based on current circumstances R’ Moshe might reach different conclusions then when he wrote his tshuva.
My wife and I lament the other way….only 2 weeks to see our son, DIL and einikel. The other two weeks they will be by my DIL’s parents.
Avi K: I think your quote is slightly off. I think it is “פיו ולשונו לא לדבר בעית התפילה”
meno: so have I. However, this was how my Rosh Yeshiva explained it to me.
DY: I heard this from Rabbi Reisman regarding another psak of R’ Moshe. I also know that Rabbi Perl A”H stated many times that he followed R’ Moshe’s timer psak.
DY: It is also possible that now, since air conditioning is more prevalent and is considered (by most) as a necessity, R’ Moshe may come to a different conclusion.
and it also says not with the KOVEA KOTON SHEHTACHAS HOKOVEA. it seems that the Mishna Berurah understands that the there a two coverings, a small one under the big one and both were worn at the same time.
Neville: Ok, I have gone back and reread your posts and apologize as I was totally misreading what you were writing. It is sometimes difficult to figure out who is responding to who.
I believe we may be on the “same page”. I don’t believe that anyone should be judged by their preferences in shirt color.
NC: So then why are you so outraged over a yeshiva wanting it’s students to wear white shirts if it is not a halachic issue? The yeshivos are not saying it is a halachic issue. People who don’t like there decision are trying to impute a halachic reason. It might be a hashkafic issue (and I agree that a white shirt really doesn’t prove anything). My only point is that if the yeshiva has a policy and you don’t like that policy you have every right not to enroll your child in that yeshiva. Some of my son’s attended yeshiva in Brooklyn; some not. If the yeshivos had a white shirt policy we adhered to it. I did not look for a yeshiva that only allowed white shirts. Nor is it a question that I ask shadchanim about potential sons-in-law.
BTW, I never made any comment on the term “leftern” so I have no idea what you are talking about.
GH: Either night or morning why would you need Uber? One is fasting for the megilah at night; you can’t eat before shachris in the morning.
laskern: It is also easier on the parents to shop.
I hate to use this analogy but just wondering if you were offered a job paying $200,000/year and where you were only allowed to wear solid black/blue/grey suits and white shirts, would you turn down the offer?
DY: I agree that it is not a minhag. At the same time it may be a mishegas. But a yeshiva is allowed to set a policy even if one disagrees with it. You have a right not to send to that yeshiva. My oldest switched to the main Chafetz Chaim branch for his sophomore year; not because of the colored shirts but it was the yeshiva we thought he would find hatzlacha in his learning. We thank HKBH for instilling us with the insight to make that decision as it has turned out to be a good decision.
As to YTY switching policy, I do not recall that any other Brooklyn yeshiva putting pressure on them to change. They decided on their own what to do.
What’s a jewish bankroll? It depends, 100 singles wrapped by a Hundred to make people think they are all hundreds or 100 hundreds wrapped by a single to make it look like all singles?
Personally, I am not impressed by either a sleek credit card or cash. Either way, you don’t really know if the person can or cannot afford it. The person may only have enough cash for this purpose; can be heavily in debt and still use credit cards.T22T: My sons wear colored shirts out side of yeshiva and they have never been asked about it or spoken to by their RY. As for girls schools, I know the Mrs. Press from Prospect Park does call in girls and speak to them about what they are wearing outside of school even though they are not required to wear their uniforms off hours.
A question for all the men……did you ever consider what color your kittel is and what color your tachrichim are going to be?
I grew up in a Young Israel where the Rav was a musmach of CC and he only wore white shirts. You don’t like the Brooklyn/Lakewood mishegas….fine. Nobody is telling you to like it. I am not turning away potential shidduchim over colored shirts. The key to this discussion is that if a yeshiva has a rule then you follow the rule. For those of us who live in Brooklyn we know the policies and we accept them. I just wonder if the hanhallah in the areas outside of Brooklyn wear colored shirts. If not, why not?
Yossii: your last sentence is utter nonsense. Non-jewish store owners only know Chalov Yisroel as the “Kosher” milk, not the only milk that is kosher. They think they have to separate it. They do not know the difference between Chalov stam and Chalov Yisroel.
I do not like the way the small brim hat looks on me so I do wear a wider brim. I think each person has to decide what’s best for him.
Neville: On a whole, people do not look down on those who don’t wear white shirts. Most children who attend these yeshivos with the white shirt only policy have fathers who wear colored shirts (including me). When not in school my son’s had their choice. If they wanted colored shirts, fine, white shirts fine. Once a school has a white-shirt only policy then that is what you have to wear to school. If a parent feels that this rule is not good for their son, then by all means please send your son to a yeshiva where he can wear colored shirts.
At least one mesivta (in the 1990’s) that I know of changed because the bochurim asked the hanhallah if they can change to a white shirt policy. 40 years ago when I attended mesivta, we were allowed to wear any colored button down collared shirt. The rabbeim only wore white shirts.
You and “shopping” may think that it is shallow thinking to have this policy……and you may be right. The yeshiva though has every right to set their own rules and policies.TLIK: Koheles 9:8 בְּכָל־עֵ֕ת יִֽהְי֥וּ בְגָדֶ֖יךָ לְבָנִ֑ים
I should have stated that my son does not live in the NYC area.
Neville: Most Mesivtas in Brooklyn (over the last 20 years) have adopted a white-shirt only policy. With the exception of YTY, the branches in the Chafetz Chaim Network still allow the bachurim to wear colored shirts (blue, grey..). Is it a Brooklyn/Lakewood mishegas? Probably, but it certainly makes it easier on my wife to shop for my son’s. One of my son’s did attend Mesivta at the main branch in Queens. Today he is in chinuch and only wears white shirts, even on his days off.
1. I don’t know the other considerations. This is the one I was told about.
2. The opinion of the two leading members of the YTY Hanhallah were split with one wanting to stay with the “colored shirts” and the other wanting the change. That’s why they went to Rabbi Harris.
3. Ask Rabbi Harris. He made the decision.The Chofetz Chaim branch in Brooklyn is called Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel. The change to white shirts was only after long discussions within the hanhallah of the yeshiva as there was a huge disagreement. They went to the Rosh Hayeshiva, Rabbi Dovis Harris who decided that they may change to white shirts only for 8th grade and above. One of the considerations was that enrollment might suffer if they didn’t change to the white shirt only as most of the other mesivtas (in Brooklyn) already have that policy.