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Since a Ger (generally) has his/her named changed at the time of the geirus, I would think that they wouldn’t put themselves in a position of naming a child with a non-jewish name.

mik5: Based on your latest post that your first question was answered by Rabbi Forst directly, I would suggest that you should not ask someone else (even if the English sefer would tell you that you can).

Since your second question was answered by “someone on the hotline”, I would think that you can ask that question to someone else.

My grandmother was born in the US and attended public school (girls yeshivos were virtually unheard of at the time). She davened what she was able to in hebrew and said everything else in english.

WTP: I understand your feelings but sometimes you have no choice but to accept and use the technology. In the 1930’s and 1940’s not everyone had a telephone and eventually it became standard that every home had a telephone. Today it is smartphones. I use WhatsApp for one purpose…to set up my morning learning session.

My wife usually drives as she is the better driver.

Since muslims throw down a carpet and pray anywhere so can we especially for short Brochos that you are referring to.

CTLAWYER: there is a known story of R’ M. M. Mandel tzatzal the Menahel of Yeshiva of Brooklyn that someone (either the janitor or the mailman) saw him pouring milk for his coffee from a small bottle he had in his pocket. When asked why he did that he replied that he couldn’t use the yeshivas milk as it was paid for by government grants meant to feed the students, not the staff.

Which day of Shavuos are you asking about? On the first day, those who daven “netz” generally do not have what I would call a “leibidik” davening. “Second minyanim” would be what you are looking for. Many of my friends stay up to learn but go home and sleep from around 4:30 AM – 8:30 AM and then daven.

LU: Have you heard the expression “zis a shad oif yiddisheh gelt”? Am I not allowed to tell someone that store “x” sells item “a” cheaper then store “y”? or what if I say that I went to the Borsalino Hat Store on Rt. 9 and was extremely satisfied with their service, does that constitute loshon harah on the other stores (which I did not visit)?

R’ Moshe held that a potato peeler is a fancy knife. Do you consider forks, spoons, and knives as technology?00

From what article are you asking this question from?

R’ Avigdorr Miller tzatzal said that Gan Eiden and Gehinom are the same. Shiur is going on and Lunchtime is 1:00 and the clock stops at 12:55. To some people it is Gan Riden; to others it is Gehinom

147: I don’t know where you live but in my neighborhood the barbers are opened on Sundays and on Memorial day so the lines on Erev Yom Tov will not be so long.

YWM -29: based on the title and the fact that this week we have the passuk of Hochayach Tochiach I thought it was a ” real thread. After reading it and since it was in UPPERCASE IMHO it should not have been approved as is.

My two cents on the subject.

I appreciate the feedback. I was a bit surprised by your tone but at least now I understand where you are coming from.

I read it thinking it was going to be real mussar; I wouldn’t ha be wasted the time had I known what it really was…..a waste of time.

Can a YWN moderator explain why this rant was allowed to be posted?

ZD: As I said….she was the Chief Judge of the NYS Court of Appeals, not the NYS Supreme Court which is the lowest court in NYS. The Court of Appeals is the highest court in NYS.

“Judith Ann Kaye (née Smith; August 4, 1938 – January 7, 2016) was an American lawyer, jurist and the longtime Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals”

ZD: While it may have gone in front of Justice Kaye, you stated in your post “New York State Supreme court and the chief Justice”. There is no “Chief Justice of the NYS Supreme Court”.

Reading the decision, the “Rabbi” disclosed information to the husband and “other third parties” (not just the divorce case). So there is privilege and since it was disclosed to other third parties, it was a violation of that privilege.

ZD: I believe that you are incorrect. The in NYS the Clergy privilege does not depend on religion. See below for the NY Law.

First, NY Supreme Court is the lowest court in NY State and it does not have a “chief justice”.

Second, CPLR 4505 states ” § 4505. Confidential communication to clergy privileged. Unless the person confessing or confiding waives the privilege, a clergyman, or other minister of any religion or duly accredited Christian Science practitioner, shall not be allowed disclose a confession or confidence made to him in his professional character as spiritual advisor.”

Third, the case you are referring to was a “custody hearing” and was written up in “Jewish Law and Contemporary Issues” (Printed in 2015) and while it is not an “official rule” as there is no case-law on the subject, “NY Courts have repeatedly held that physician-patient, attorney-client, and psychotherapist-patient privileges cannot be invoked in such proceedings”. (Page 331 Footnote 9)

I know someone who came home bein hazmanim from Eretz Yisroel…..and made a siyum on a mesechta that he learnt bein hazmanim.

ubi: I am not sure why you think Tisha B’av is an incorrect date to commemorate the shoah. After all, the Bobover Rebbe TZATZAL and Reb Schwab TZATZAL each wrote a kinah for it.

About 35 years ago I attended a Yom Hashoah talk given by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis A”H and YBLCH her brother Rabbi Jungreis. I don’t know if Chaf Zayin Nissan is the appropriate. All I know is that it was an hour that I have never forgotten.

Avi K: I am not sure if WTP meant “telecommuting” in working USA hours from EY or actually commuting back and forth from EY to US and back every other week (as I know people who do both).

I know the famous Meshech Chochmah that you quoted and I don’t think the comparison of what was happening in Berlin in those years are the same as today. Nobody is saying that anyplace in the US is replacing Yerushalayim. I don’t know if you are an oleh or not, but reality is that not everyone is going to EY at this time, just as it was in the time of Ezra and Nechemiah.

I also disagree with your comment “in Norfolk there will be constant pressure to accept Yushki. In the Rust Belt there will be constant pressure to accept secular liberalism.” Please provide proof of what you claim. The Rust Belt is different today then it was years ago.

The OU’s gathering next Sunday devotes (I believe) 1/2 their space for Nefesh B’Nefesh to discuss moving to EY and not just the US communities.

How about buying or borrowing the ArtScroll biography of Rabbi Scheinberg? This way the CR contributors don’t have to repeat what has already been published.

Editing could be as simple as removing a hyperlink.

MODS: You have permission to edit my posts and to use the word “EDITED”.

LU: The Mechaber states it is a preference to stand when possible (See Mishna Berurah Siman Kuf Yud Sif Daled):

http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49623&st=&pgnum=270

http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=49623&st=&pgnum=271

As for travelling to the airport, it depends where one lives. Most people in NYC / 5 Towns do not recite tefillas haderech going to JFK or LGA.

And even if someone does say tefillas haderech to the airport, their is a special tfila printed in some siddurim/tehillim specifically for SEFINAS HA’AVIR (airplanes).

LF: Do you stand to say tefilas haderech on an airplane? Rabbi Belsky TZATZAL paskened that the proper time to say tefilas haderech on an airplane is when it is taxiing down the runway for takeoff. At that time passengers are seated. So Why should a flying car be different?