Yes and no. The Merchant of Venice was antisemitic but nowhere near as bad as other things from the same time period. My own theory is that since he didn’t know any Jews he had no problem using the standard stereotype to sell a play.

I think that “chassidish” is a culture, a philosophical school and a movement and the three different kinds of chassidim are distinct groups that don’t have as much overlap as people think which is what lead to the confusion in this thread.

Culture- the “international” chassidim you see in BP and sometimes elsewhere. They enjoy the heimishe atmosphere, they like the fact that everyone around them is fully observant and medakdek bemitzvos but they don’t necessarily learn chassidish seforim and are more likely to have a rov (even if they call him a “roof”) than a rebbe.

school of thought- someone who learns chassidish seforim and tries to follow some of their teachings in his avodas Hashem. You don’t have to be culturally chassidish to do this. I learn chassidish seforim. I’m about as far from chassidish as you are likely to meet.

movement – He follows his Rebbe. Period. Zehu.

Nat: Actually most of them are the Beis Yisroel’s takkanos.

Some are gerrer chasidim don’t call their wives by her first name even in private. There are other chumros that can’t be posted here.

Toi: Go eat S’A. You’re not allowed to be stuffed before that either.

I did not attempt to log in after purim. If I did I don’t think I could have gotten my password in.

dash: I thought it was abolished along with the holy roman empire?

Zeeskite: ??????? was more than 2000 years ago.

Wikipedia has a list of the Christian ones starting in the first crusade. There were a few short lived autonomous Jewish provinces in Eretz Yisroel over the past 2000 years but I don’t think any of them had Yerushalayim.

Shrek: I hope so too. What I meant was that like most clever satire, yours might very well become real. (Your comment about the kid being considered at risk for saying dear)

A non-Jewish printer in Venice named Daniel Bomberg printed the first shas with the pagination we use today. We don’t use a different layout because so much Torah is written citing gemoros by page in that edition that if there was more than one layout it would be very hard to look anything up.

popa: As it happens, I always use wine anyway, because:

And there you come to the reasons why I would continue to drink wine even if I were thoroughly convinced that whiskey was just as good for the mitzva

popa: Thanks.

Mechaber — He is your strongest rayah since he quotes straight from the gemara (rif) rather than Rambam who does say wine.

Rema — True, he doesn’t mention wine, but he does mention a heter that was apparently not niskabel by bnei Torah. ????? ??????? ??? ??????? 😉

M”B — Brings Rema’s heter

Chayei Adam — By saying so he strongly implies the ikkar mitzva is with wine. Wine always means grape wine unless otherwise specified.

No time to look up the rest, I don’t have a bar Ilan. Though I know a guy named Ilan who works near a bar…

Thank you again for your kanaus on behalf of this most important mitzva 😛

popa:

1- Not grape alchohol. It’s the same ethanol in both (we hope), but wine contains sulfites which make some people sick. </pedantry>

2- When you say that using wine is not a dominant opinion, do you mean that it is not widely practiced today (indisputably true) or that it is not dominant in poskim? If the latter, could you provide a list on both sides? I’m genuinely curious since I use wine and I sometimes think the whiskey before the seuda is “cheating.”

popa: daf please? I never learned nazir, I only have this from Rambam. I was responding to your statement that “If he would have just said “Grapes are assur to me b’toras neder, in the same way that nezirim cannot eat them” he would not be a nazir. “

shticky guy: I didn’t even notice that. 🙂

popa: No he isn’t. The word nazir means “I am warned off” as we see later in the same halacha where the guy “nazirs” himself from dried figs. If he said “hareini nazir lchartzanim bilvad” you would have a point. (Not my own diyyuk. Comes from a rov who learns in MTJ).

HaLeivi: We don’t shecht on a roof (with exceptions) because things that look like idolatrous sacrifices become assur. This isn’t idolatrous, though it probably is sacrilegious 😛

Someone just donated tapes of parsha shiurim he gave every motzaei shabbos over the course of several years.

There is a rule of trolling that trolls don’t care about the rules of trolling.

I think we pasken that ???? ???? ????? ?? ????? ?? ??? ???? which would mean that your bama is makdish, there is just no din of piggul and your funky nedarim are masneh al mah shekasuv b’torah.

All I know about it is that it’s a Belzer mossad.

gavra: yes, they are made of hard leather and cover the entire head.

The flatter the yarmulke the less it will curl. If you buy the four section type they last longer than the other. My yarmulke is knitted so it actually flattens out and gets bigger when it gets wet.

Logician: I don’t think that argument would have worked in the historical even the Kuzari was based on because relatively close to Khazar country, there were people who had a 9-day week.

Haleivi: So let more real talmidei chachamim write for these websites and give TV interviews. The biggest talmid chacham I know of who does (did? I think he stopped recently) anything similar is Rabbi Sacks and his programs were not geared towards kiruv. They were general Torah-based morality for the general public who was not necessarily Jewish or even religious at all.

twisted: That’s because kaleh ha’ilan (where we get the blue for blue jeans) is fake techeles. The techeles thread is for halachic discussion and the jeans thread is for letzonus. (Or it should be that way. Some people seem not to know the rules 😉 )

If women could not vote and hold office then Anastasia Michaeli would not have been able to throw that glass of water in Ghaleb Majadele’s face. Thus it was all kedai.