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Since we’re talking about peoples’ morning religious practices, here’s a rundown.
Matisyahu went to shul and mikvah but also shaved.
Aryeh Leib went to shul and mikvah this morning but also shaved.
Avromi went to neither shul or mikvah this morning and didn’t shave.
Yossi went to shul this morning but did go to mikvah, and did shave.
Dovid went to shul, no mikvah, no shave.
Mordechai went to shul, mikvah and no shave.
A different Yossi did shul, mikvah, shave.
Reuven went to shul, mikvah and didn’t shave.
Zecharya went to shul, no mikvah and did shave.
I went to shul, but no mikvah, and and no shave.
I know I’m being a bit facetious here but I could never bring myself to care much about celebrities even when I like their work, and in this case I’m not much of a fan.
What, can’t you tell by the color of the students’ shirts?
DH: That doesn’t address my point and you know it.
Bump.
Wolf, I think you’d be interested in seeing the points Sam2, InaSukkah and I raised.
One word for the shadchan: “no” if that doesn’t work, two words “go away”
Haleivi: Tell me. In which charedi community can you “voice opinions” that don’t toe the line? I know that among my MO friends I can quote V’yoel Moshe, Rav Shach, and all sorts of other charedi rabbanim and rebbes on anything from Torah to the most controversial political issues but among my yeshivish friends I can’t quote a pshat Rav Aharon Lichtenstein said on a Ro”Sh in gittin.
popa: In other words, your objection is not that it’s an innovation but that you don’t like it. Fair enough. I have nothing to say to that. In your own words “now we’re just spouting boych svaros and I like my boych.” 🙂
Heimish mom: Even though several people have mentioned this, I wil repeat. This is an old minhag. I own several siddurim from different traditions that have the ceremony in it.
In the 50’s and 60’s you would go out and buy a hamburg right after your smicha farher, at least if you went to YU. I don’t know what you did with it if you failed.
I would never wear a denim skirt on any date. In fact, I would never wear one period, even to take out the garbage. They are assur d’oraisa!
DH: Don’t own a copy. Interestingly, I was at a sheva brachos two weeks ago (feels like longer) where someone whose father was close with the Bobover zy”a told me some very interesting things about levush.
Re wearing all white, according to the original source in the mishnah, the problem was that it was derech haminim. The early Christians did it, and IIRC the Karaites did too, which would explain why they were makpid on it in countries that had Karaites.
1- Granted.
2- Not quite. One who does melacha on shabbos publicly is a shabbos desecrator.
3- Repeat, not quite. See ???? ????? compiled mostly from psakim of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. The custom is to count anyone without asking questions about ideological purity. (Otherwise you couldn’t find a minyan anywhere because in our time you can’t get 10 frum Jews to admit that the other nine aren’t heretics.)
4&5 – Not at all. People excluded from the community lack ??????, that is no one else can trust them that the food is kosher. Stam yenam and bishul yisrael are a penalty imposed on the sinner to exclude them from the community. None of these penalties were ever meant to apply to the individual himself, who knows the food is kosher. An example of this can be found in ?????? ?????? 8:8.
DH: The sefer probably should have been called “minhag chasidei Hungaria Torah” just to be precise, but that’s just a minor quibble. I know the reason given for black is it’s a modest color that is supposed to increase yiras shamayim, but why white?
K’shmo ken hu, it means “knowing Torah.”
twisted: Thank you. It is very important to remember that.
How many Ohr Someach characters does it take to change a lightbulb?
Three. One to buy a new CFL bulb from the store, a second to change the lightbulb and a third to tell everyone that Jews have always used CFLs since matan Torah.
How many RIETS guys does it take to change a lightbulb?
One two change it and one to change it and one to argue with him about what this and that obscure rishon would say.
How many Lubavitchers does it take to change a lightbulb?
The lightbulb never died.
How many Hungarians does it take to change a lightbulb?
349, one each for every bulb in the chandelier.
popa: Actually, there was a reason. The union uniforms were blue because that was the united states army uniform of the time. The confederate uniforms were gray because gray dye was cheap.
Happens that there are certain times and places where it is a mitzva to wear colored shirts.
Some siddurs have a chart in the back listing which responses are permitted when. Most editions have the chart in Hebrew but the Koren has it in English.
I’m currently writing Unix shell scripts in my internship. Bash is the best shell because a) It’s the most popular b) it’s the most portable i.e. things written for bash are much more likely to work in most other shells than things written in, for example ksh.
DH: GNOME 3 and Unity are desktop interfaces, not UNIX shells.
The only one of the above I own is a kindle. I like it a lot, but Amazon’s mobi format uses DRM which could cause a problem if you ever want to put your books on multiple devices (of course you can use it to read books in other formats too). I don’t know anything about the nook but the iPad’s screen is not good for reading ebooks (or anything else) because it’s glossy and the glare makes it hard to read anything outside or in a well-lit area. It’s more of a tablet for websurfing and watching videos.
Everyone talking about stirring coffee with their glasses is making me feel left out. In my yeshiva we always poured it from one cup to another instead. Guess the yeshiva had a different minhag.
When you run out of white shirts over a three day yomtov and have to dig out the grey coffee-stained ones you wore in yeshiva.
When you develop taste in coffee instead of on top of an addiction.
When you learn about something called kitchen safety.
When you finally agree that Tosafos knew what they were talking about.
When you start referring to tosafos in plural. (Then you’re just pedantic :))
Bezalel: Worse, because artscroll layout was designed and edited by talmidei chachamim. Bomburg was not Jewish.
jewish source: And in your day you walked to school 3 miles uphill both ways on dirt roads and learned only from the tzuras hadaf. We get it. That’s why you think Daniel Bomburg was an amora.
on the ball: Why do you assume that “laasok b’divrei sorah” refers to making things harder than necessary? If that were the case, why would RI”F have abridged shas? Why would Rashi write a phrase by phrase commentary simplifying the gemara so much?
Ragatchover: Just saying the issue is still around.
When I was in yeshiva both the variety (only a handful of perakim from the yeshivish mesechtos) and pace of learning (only moshiach takes longer) were so annoying that my chavrusos and I gave up and did our own thing. That turned out to lead to us covering a lot more than we would have otherwise, even if we learned Shabbos so maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing after all.
yytz: there are two kinds of prayer, ritual and personal. Ritual prayer was instituted by the anshei knesses hagedola — shmona esrei brachos al haseder. Personal prayer is everything else, whether you wrote them yourself or not. I don’t daven from likutei tefillos, but I do use Yehuda Haleivi’s poems among others. But those are just my way of enhancing my personal prayer as likutei tefillos does for you. We don’t write prayers for other people and say “you should daven like this.”
chnyock.
Rogatchover’s assistant: I’m in Brooklyn, and my professors told me the same thing. Of course they’re teaching C++ with objects late for the same reason…
Sam: yes. He explains it very clearly. As Toi said, they would make a form out of wood and fill it with whole stones. Then they would pour the cement in around it. The reason it says “a box on top of a box” is because it is physically imposible for the cement to fill all the cracks if you stack the rocks too high. So they probably poured the yesod in one shot, then worked their way up from there. And yes, zevachim will be much easier when we see it done.
sam: I don’t own it so I don’t know but according to someone who does, it covers everything. (It should, it’s two fat volumes). I learned it in rambam, so I might be able to explain it to you? Are you familiar with pouring concrete?
I have two very good friends who are utterly obsessed with them.
popa:
1- If you’re married
2- I disagree, because there is a chinuch element. Adults talk about human waste and various body parts too, when relevant. There are words for them for a reason and there are appropriate times and places for the various words. It’s part of teaching manners.
While preparing this week’s kria, I just noticed that the order of the conquests in the war in revii seems to be the same order that Moshe conquered ever hayarden in the end of sefer bamidbar.
I laughed at your examples. I learn Chabad and Izhbitz (and some others) but I have no desire to daven late, at least not due to chasidus — maybe due to when I go to sleep.
Haleivi: Not exclusively. It’s also used by non-chasidim who see chassidus as another miktzoa in Torah. I learn Gemara. I learn Machshava. I learn chassidus.
There is a very comprehensive one put out by mechon hamikdash. It’s available from their online store and their hebrew site.
The sikrikim are a sect that has abandoned all pretenses of religious zeal and “kannaus l’shem shamayim.” They are a group who’s shita is to physically attack Jews aka antisemites.
Reason #376 that I refuse to deal with this kind of shadchanus.
My yeshiva was in session on chol hamoed, and yomtov too!
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Slightly off topic, but I’m wondering why grape juice has to be mevushal. Isn’t it yayin m’gito?
josh: It’s in brachos too. Rashi says that it’s referring to someone who is always scared of forgetting his Torah and reviews constantly.
Popa: ??????
/pedantry
Why do some people insist on complaining every time the CR sees a good halacha discussion?
The Chayei Adam says that any mitzva that would not be done casually if it weren’t a mitzva (e.g. tefillin) has implicit kavanna even if the person doing the mitzva isn’t thinking anything in particular b’shaas mayseh.
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Josh: He did, however, have a Jewish friend who wrote something similar. And there’s always the Reishis Chochmah.
Is that why we didn’t say tachanun?
Everyone knows the secret Zionist conspiracy controls the weather!