AYC: Because it is possible (bava basara 118b).

Question

This week’s parsha teaches the issur of shaatnez (the second time). It is known that techeiles may be put in a linen begged because of asei docheh lo saaseh (though we don’t do it today because we treat our techeles as safek), in fact the gemara uses this as a raayah to the din of aseh docheh lo saaseh. I ask, how is it a raayah to aseh docheh lo saaseh if the tcheles thread is only shaatnez d’rabannan?

The answer usually given is that the double knot renders it ???? ???? ??? because it’s fixed there permanently. I claim the question still remains because the tying methods of Rabbeinu Amram Gaon and the RaMBaM (the two with the longest mesorah, the RaMBaM’s being a variation on RAG’s) do not have knots and can be pulled out easily.

AYC: Already happening. The geula shlemah is coming closer and closer.

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Abelleh: True, on all points except that one historical detail. It was a generation more modern than you thought.

Stamper: Even in the heart of the frummest neighborhoods, you don’t find new people moving in every week.

Disgusting, yes. Surprising, no.

Sam2: There is a reason to attack someone who flat out tells you that you are a bad person for supporting him while he learns.

Abelleh: You do have an interesting collection of minhagim.

1)Why? (Not doubting you, just curious)

2-3) I do those too. To be meikel seems like a bit of a “drei.”

4) R’ Chaim didn’t fast, but AFAIK his own sons did.

5) That is most definitely not the minhag of any bnei ashkenaz. If these are all family minhagim as opposed to personal you have pretty interesting yichus.

6) See 1

7) What?! You do that too?! 😛

8) Chabad has a variation of that. The men don’t use any eruvin, including ones they admit are kosher, but allow their wives and kids to use the kosher ones.

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We keep it going because it was a good idea. Now take your turn. 🙂

Those who don’t use the Borough Park eruv (if you do)

Those who use the Borough Park eruv (if you don’t)

🙂

1- I don’t know what about my post made you think I was offended. I wished you much hatzlacha.

2- IOW, you are telling me “you’re right but it doesn’t matter.” To “usurp” a yeshivish phrase, shkoyich.

deiyezooger: So basically it was galitzianers from parts of the country not near rivers.

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Everyone has been too busy quibbling over the word “retarded” to correct popa’s most serious error. Poppa, you fail to understand that Yiddish (Judeo-German) is much, much, much holier than lehavdil Judeo-Arabic and that to insinuate that the Ben Ish Chai spoke anything other than Yiddish would be lashon harah and bizui talmidei chachamim.

Are we Mechuyav to tear down our Mechitzos because Reb Moshe Paskened that 10 Tefachim is technically OK?

No, but we are mechuyav not to give tochacha to people who use 10 tefach mechitzos.

You’re 100% right. I was being “a bit over the top.” 🙂

Though in my opinion, there is a lot to be gained by talking about Torah, including philosophy/theology (deios in Hebrew) in English.

Is God a dirty word that we need to censor His name?

Everyone’s laughing but what if someone with a sheine hadras panim said it at a kiddush or shalosh seudos instead of in a text? Most otherwise intelligent people have certain blindspots where they’re very gullible.

My college has a lot of professors like that so I have plenty of experience.

It is probably well before the drop date at your school. Switch sections if possible. If not, put the course as a pass fail and be ready to appeal your grade if he flunks you. Then start researching so that you are actually prepared to argue instead of quoting midrashim which he won’t acknowledge anyway. Most likely you are taking an English class required of all students. (I can’t think of any other reason for someone offended by this kind of material to be in a course where it’s being taught.) The best thing to argue with him about is our connection to Eretz Yisrael because it plays straight into contemporary ideas about self-determination.

BTW, may I ask which school you’re in?

charlie: Since your a professor and I’m an annoying, opinionated undergrad (at least in my humanities classes) we’re going to be on opposite sides of this one.

A- There is a serious machlokes about how literally we take 6-day creationism and those of us who do not admit modern science to the discussion can count a lot more rishonim than those of us who do.

B- The Catholic Church can make infallible proclamations about their own theology by papal bull but not ours. (They couldn’t even do that till the late 19th century.)

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Wear colored shirts.

popa: This morning I came across a gemara relating to maris ayin that is completely irrelevant today (it was maris ayin of belonging to a sect that no longer exists). I asked about it and was told that there are no hard and fast rules as to what is a gezerah with a lo plug and what is circumstantial and that one must check the poskim on a case by case basis. Now: Where can we find an analogous case in the poskim?

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There is a tefilla for these situations to say during birchas kohanim btzibbur. There is also a ritual called hatavas chalom in the back of the siddur. Of course, since you’re a kohen you can ask one of your children to bless you which is the oldest “segula” in the Jewish tradition.