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(and that pun really made me groan 🙂 )
An animal is chayav skila when three people who should know better decide that it’s a reincarnated lawyer.
AFAIK it doesn’t mean to be actively thinking about Hashem every waking and sleeping moment. It means not to be “mesiach daas” like tefillin. You’re concentrating on davening, or learning, or waiting for the mohel to show up, but in the periphery you know you’re wearing tefillin. It’s the same thing with all the 6 mitzvos temidios. In the periphery you know Hashem is the only God, but you’re still free to think about other things. That in itself is a high madrega that takes a lifetime of effort but nowhere near as impossible as the OP’s understanding.
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C’mon, bpt. That one is old. I was expecting new material. 🙂
Joe: It’s much more appealing to use kulos for yourself, but some people take real pleasure in finding chumros for other people. (HEM, exhibit A) Rav Yisroel Salanter once said “yenem’s gashmiyus is meiner ruchniyus” Some people take it the other way around and seem to get real pleasure from harassing others about meaningless frumkeitten.
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Two chicken backs and necks (from the shabbos chicken)
two carrots
1 large onion
3 stalks celery
a few cloves of garlic, chopped.
Spice to taste.
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bpt: Keep it up. The CR should appoint an official straight man for your jokes, they’re great. 🙂
I will follow all American customs. I will eat burnt meat and drink inferior beer. Then I will debate with my friends whether or not we should go to Manhattan for the fireworks (we always decide not to), eat more burnt meat, drink some less inferior beer, and go to maariv.
MDG: How unrelated is unrelated? For example, consistently davening maariv ten minutes before shkia but working down to the wire on Friday. On the surface it looks like two completely unrelated matters.
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No film can be treif because it is not raui l’achilas kelev. It cannot treif your dishes because it is nosen ta’am lifgam.
Any other questions?
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When is the shloshim?
The lashon of the rambam (and the gemara he’s quoting) seems to be that the issur is for Jews to appoint any of the people on the list to a Jewish office. Here we’re missing both.
The only reason I’ve never voted for a woman is because there were none I wanted to vote for since I was old enough to vote. (I did vote for a woman if you count McCain Palin.)
popa: Tsk tsk, talking dangerously. 😉
This is all from an acharon I looked up when I was in 10th grade. I’ve long since forgotten the source, but he was ashkenazi. Maybe one of our more learned members can help out. During Hagba’ah we look for a letter from our name in the text and point at it. We use our pinkies because pointing with the index finger is coarse and not kavod hatorah. He (the acharon) said he doesn’t know why we kiss the finger afterwards.
Coffee: Hilni was a- a giyores, b- not put in place by the Jews themselves, c- rich. Only b has anything to do with halacha, but a and c (particularly c) may explain why the masses were so accepting.
KeenObserver: Most likely a misunderstanding of the Rambam’s Hilchos Melachei Yisrael uMilchamosehem 1:6.
There are plenty of large collections, both public and private, of illuminated Judaica including kesubos. I guess any concerns about double claims are irrelevant when everyone concerned is safely dead. Some of the older examples are very interesting. The AMNH (don’t ask me why it’s there instead of an art museum) has a kesuba of a kohen from the era of the geonim where the nusach actually enumerates all the chiyuvim in both directions instead of just saying ????? ????? ???????
Derech: Mechon mamre’s Hebrew is from the most authoritative versions of everything. (Keter for tanach where we have it, Kapach for Rambam etc.) As for the JPS, they use the 1917 edition, which while it wasn’t taken from the KJV, it was an imitation and not usually considered a very good one. The 1962 version is widely acknowledged as the good translation. Besides, JPS isn’t exactly conservative, only close enough that it’s hard to tell the difference sometimes.
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For even more confusion, some of Rav Soloveichik’s talmidim refer to him as “Reb Yoshe Ber.” In the rest of the olam hatorah “Reb Yoshe Ber” is The Rav’s great-grandfather the Beis Haleivi.
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Joseph: If someone who is known to be a ????”? says something is the halacha and provides no source and it doesn’t sound reasonable at all, I would be inclined to do the opposite in public to make a point. Or I would if I was of the stature that my doing something would make a point.
Mazal tov!
Most Americans refer to R’ Velvel as “the Brisker rov” (well, most americans refer to R’ Velvel as “who?” but we’re both talking about a particular segment of American Jewry) so it doesn’t really breed much confusion here.
Wolf: Whether you are a rasha or not (and the evidence clearly points to not) your protesting that you are is entirely meaningless in terms of this discussion because “ain adam mesim atzmo rasha”
Joseph: Bechoros 1:7.
gavra: Are you saying that we accept abba shaul’s svara or only that we pasken this din according to him for other reasons? I’m asking because it seems somewhat strange. Where else does lack of kavanna passul a child? Following that logic, all kohanim would be at the very least safek chalal.
popa: While I would agree with you about everyone who advocates it today, it was done in by some amoraim, no?
popa: Calling everyone who advocates hafka’as kiddushin a rasha is a slippery slope. Saul Lieberman wasn’t the only one.
RSRH: Given the state of the success rate of American batei din in that area, what is the halacha if both the yavam and yevama want it and he opts for yibum? Do ashkenazi poskim consider it chal at all?
nishtdayn: If you think that every bais yaakov girl learns their halachos from the shulchan oruch (leaving the rest of the acharonim out of it) you’re in dream land. If you think that yeshiva bochurim know halacha as well as a bais yaakov girl of the same age, you’re beyond dream land and I’d like some of what you used to get there.
MDG: There is a heter given in the mishnah berurah hilchos nesias kapayim. Without it most kohanim I’ve heard would not be allowed to duchan.
So Joseph, do you differentiate between a ches and a khaf? What about an ayin? Do you prounounce it at all?
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First of all, no matter what talking points people give you, you should not say anything at all that isn’t what you feel. Teling your father why other people think they should wear a hat is just wasting both of your times. As for why I made the switch, it was basically for the same reason you want to put on a hat — to enhance your avoda. I won’t say any more because I don’t want to offend our hosts here or any other posters.
Happy birthday. L’chaim, unless you want to save it for shavuos. 😉
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Bracha v’hatzlacha ad meah v’esrim, or as one of my rebbeim says “130, with inflation!”
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Joseph: Please go away until the adults (including bochur1818) are finished talking. Come back when you have something worthwhile to say.
bochur1818: As someone who switched from black hat to kipa sruga, let me offer the following advice. If your father thinks it’s “silly,” not “wrong,” he probably objects to the fact that the hat is basically superficial and serves as a symbol for a particular group. If that’s the case, then he’ll probably come around if you explain why you want to wear it and what it means to you. (There’s also the money issue. Hats are expensive.)
It was nice. There was a hold up in the middle for a suspicious package but it turned out to be nothing and we moved on.
The words “female circumcision” do not constitute a graphic description of anything.
I’ll be marching, but that’s not what I was talking about.
Personally, I find it annoying.
Sock puppetry?
That’s the second kushya on the whole din. I suspect that this was one of those that never ended up happening like the ihr hanidachas.
I know this thread is satire, but in the shul I leined at this morning the shliach actually announced the shavuos night program at his house as “a chance to hear all kinds of Torah and say a few l’chaims.”
Doesn’t Machon L’tzedek b’mishpat offer their services for free?
Pac Man: Do you fast? There are people who honestly believe that, and they fast. Others spout the line because of their hatred for their fellow Jews.
I hope so. I ike to think that I would recognize the truth and not be scared off by the people but I don’t know.