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bpt: They aren’t J for J’s they’re just normal, garden variety “for J’s.” That’s the shabbos before my college begins finals, so the big joke on campus is “are you gonna bother studying.”
Mod-80: A lot of Rav Schachter’s talmidim put on a tie for davening.
eman: gut gezogt!
Pac-Man: Yes, he shlugged up his rov, and quite well too. Now can we move on?
Normally, wearing jeans is a non issue. I wear them, my mother wears them, and so does my sister. My father doesn’t, he just doesn’t like them. However, under some circumstances wearing jeans could be considered a mitzva, perhaps even d’oraisa.
Name one gadol who advocated land for peace after we gave them Aza.
ChanieE: As everyone from Bill Clinton to our own friend AinOhd pointed out, land for peace only works with a clearly defined plan. Let us say that Jordan gives up all claim to the occupied East Bank in exchange for Israel not bombing them.
Ari: Yes, Sinai worked, and b’ezras Hashem it won’t break down with the new Egyptian government. Jordan was not a territorial concession because the 47 plan didnt give Jews any land over there, that was the 21 declaration.
BP girl: “Those matza baked with closed supervision by God-fearing whole?” Mine said something like that.
coffe: tachat-under,omed-stand.
Background, default.
Ring tone. When my phone rings it sounds like a phone ringing. SHOIN!
How else will we have the temidim, musafim, korbanos yachid etc?
Popa: Good idea. I think I’ll say that to the next person who tries to set me up.
If you explain it politely and don’t mention the shadchan’s lapses at all, I can almost gaurantee she won’t be offended. After all, the shadchante is human and you’re talking about faults. It probably won’t even occur to her that she has the same issue.
The box our hand matzas came in this year was full of good “bad translator” stories. Too bad it’s gone now.
As far as yichus goes, outside of her close family who you have to deal with after marriage, I can only care about two levels of yichus: Kosher and Pasul.
A sheep. We are promised there will be no land shortage in Israel when mashiach comes. We have no such promise about korbanos.
I don’t know about Magen David, but Flatbush’s security guards are retired cops. They are not the military grade security Ain ohd is talking about.
I met a guy in college who had a system to avoid having to use his awful Hebrew while in Israel. Whenever someone spoke to him in Hebrew he would say “??? ?? ???? ????? ” and when the Israeli inevitably said “midaber” he would reply “??? ?? ???? ????? ???? “
If this happened the way it was described, the menahel will give din vcheshbon with everyone else who has deliberately tried to drive Jewish children away from their God. I’m not saying I believe the story, but knowing the system I can see it happening.
Please post the name of the yeshiva. It’s the best thing to do to get the kid back in.
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shlishi: Not that part, what he said about daas torah v. 2.0.
The number of syllables in many Hawaiian words would make it hard to read no matter how few letters there are.
Also, my friend tells me that until you get to kanji, Japanese is also very easy to read.
Rav Chaim Amsalem has the right idea and Shas’s response to him is proof.
Do I win?
Haleivi: If you look in Nosei Keilim (I forget which ones) you will see that they ask on the RaMBaM from that gemara, implying that they understood him to be forbidding icons of people that represent the sun.
Ofcourse: I’m sorry but you’ve taken exactly the wrong lesson from this. Reb Shlomo’s lesson from this was to bring people closer to God. Yours was to go pray to men.
When I asked about this I was told that the issur refers to pictures of the figures that were supposed to represent the sun, moon and planets in mythology e.g. an old fisherman for neptune, a young woman for the moon etc.
avi e: Yes we are! 😉
Read them every single pasuk in 24 sifrei tanach that directly mentions tznius. (There are about 10.)
Rav Shlomo Zalmen used to say that when he wanted to go to kivrei tzadikim he would visit Mt. Herzl. Let’s remember the ones who fell and appreciate the ones still alive.
Izhbitz/Radzin for the sefarim. Chabad for the kiruv. Satmar for the chesed.
If you do it, you should be aware that there are halachic problems with feeding animals that aren’t dependent on you for survival on shabbos. Most rabbonim hold that birds are in that category because they generally live off of what they find elsewhere.
When my father had to do one, his rav told him that originally we just visited the cemetery and making a ceremony out of it came from secular sources so we could say whichever tehillim we want. If I recall correctly we said 23, 49, 91.
Emunah is knowing God can.
Bitachon is believing God will.
It’s very bad when people who are supposed to represent yiddishkeit to their students can’t answer questions about emunah. Basically the student views the rebbi/teacher as the one who is supposed to tell them about God and how to become closer to him. Then they find out that the teacher doesn’t even know what God is let alone actually have a kesher.
I was thinking in terms of a locally hosted program in something like C++ or Java.
Zach: Wouldn’t HaLeivi’s second method be faster? In the second method, he only calls the function if this.thirsty returns true. In the first one, he calls it every time which means it will often return null.
A programmer wouldn’t leave two glasses. He would write pseudocode for a PDP-8 assembler subroutine:
098 load full
099 store glass
100 load thirsty //there aren’t any types in PDP-8 so we improvise.
101 skip cond 800 //if thirsty is greater than 0 i.e. true
102 clear glass //drink
103 jump 098
I’m taking a class where we have to code in PDP-8 assembler for some reason even though nobody including the professor has ever used one, so I had to get some fun out of it ;). Anyone spot the logical error?
I’m currently learning kesuvos with a rabbi who has had shimush in the topic. He said that the wording in the kesuba changes slightly but the common practice is to give a kesuba for the full amount and the husband has in mind to be mochel.
It doesn’t actually say that we don’t compose new prayers after the anshe knesses hagedola, but it’s a matter of logic. Prayer is a personal conversation with God. Rav Soloveichik called it a “du siach” from the yiddish familiar word for you. The anshe knesses hagedola included prophets. That was the only reason they were able to write a shmoneh esrei. A prophet knows how to talk to God, we don’t. You mention piyutim. THey are another story. The paytanim did not write something and then walk into shul, give a klop and say “we’re saying this now.” They wrote for themselves and for kirvas elokim. Then people slowly started using their compositions in davening — sometimes after they died. Even then, there were thousands of piyutim written by great people — including paytanim like Yehuda HaLevi and Elazar HaKalir — that never made it into the machzor. How many of you have ever heard “Kah Shimcha” by Yehudah Halevi?
12 months in a shana pshuta.
12 loaves of lechem hapanim.
My first reaction was “where did you get the ridiculous idea that a Jew can’t pray to his or her God?!” It borders on avoda zara. But that really isn’t what you’re saying. Yes, you are supposed to pray on your own in your own words with heartfelt tears, but personal prayer is just that — personal. Today we don’t compose new prayers for the tzibbur or even just for other idividuals, what we say to Hashem stays between us and Hashem.
I was just so happy all the hype is finally over so I don’t have to hear about it anymore.
TikkunHatzot: You’re arguing in circles. You say that we should commemorate the Holocaust on 10 tevet because it’s a day for commemorating all our tragedies. Then when I ask which other tragedies we commemorate you tell me that chabad (who I happen to know in their own shuls — chabad houses notwithstanding– don’t) commemorates the Holocaust.
I’ll ask next time I see him.
Rav Reichman of YU said (jokingly) that any music you’re allowed to listen to the rest of the year is muttar during sfira and that that would be enough of a restriction for most people.
While we’re on the subject, I have a couple related questions.
1-Why do some (percentage? I don’t have statistics, just know it’s quite a few) shuls not say kinnos for the Holocaust on tisha b’av?
2-Why do we no longer fast on 20 sivan?
deiyezooger: Who still says slichos on 20 sivan? I want to go this year.
TikkunHazot: Which tragedies do we mourn on 10 tevet that didn’t happen around that time?
Most forums don’t allow sock puppets. The puppets are banned permanently and the original account is warned. Repeat offenders get permanent bans. Wish we would do that for Joseph. (Sorry Reb Creedmoorer, Yossele)
You’re right, we should never forget about kodshim. But how thick were the rikikin?
They started during the rishonim. They were not used exclusively until much later, correct. BTW, yemenite matzos often are thicker than one finger. The sefardi matzos are about 1 cm thick (at least the ones we used this year.)
charliehall: As a matter of fact, Rav Herzog started his doctoral research trying to corroborate the Radzyner techeles. He only came to the conclusion that the chilazon was the Murex later when his research uncovered the fact that the Radzyner was cheated by the chemist he worked with.
Patur aval assur: Those who wear techeles for the most part (Rav Schachter is an exception) hold that they are doing it to be yotze a safek. So, since “???? ???? ???? ?? ???? ” he can be yotze the safek without worrying about bal tigra on the other pairs.
BTW, anyone who claims to know why Rav Scheinberg wears so many pairs of tzitzis is just speculating. Two of his grandchildren have told me personally that he has never told anyone why.
shlishi: Minhag avoseinu b’yadeinu. Many people want it “like it always was.” Of course, based on that logic you could ask that given that the practice of baking thin, hard matzos only started in the times of the early rishonim, why do some people insist on using hard matzos instead of soft? The answer is that they feel that thin matzos are better for technical reasons (no chsash of unbaked dough, for example.) Similarly, yekkes feel that machine matzos are better because they are easier to control so we know exactly how much heat, and how evenly distributed etc.
Machine matzos also raise the question of Lishma. Rav Henkin, Rav Kook, Rav Breuer and Rav Aharon Soloveichik (he better have, he was the rav hamachshir of Streit’s bakery for many years) held that kavana had by the machine operator was enough. Others held differently.
He didn’t release it until now because he’s a smart politician. As long as the birthers were giving him a hard time he had an easy way to discredit the republican party. Not he can shut them up just in time to campaign on having discredited his oponents.
I didn’t eat chometz till one pm today. At night I was changing the kitchen back and in the morning I ate leftover pesach food. I guess I’m not enough of a zariz ;).
It’s supposed to help you acheive simchas hachaim.
Any time from chatzos halaylah till alos hashachar. The correct way to do it is to do as it says in Shulchan Aruch (Orach CHaim 1) i.e. to get up at chatzos and stay up the rest of the night. (The tikkun isn’t mentioned there, only getting up)
If you listen to every hat and their idiocies, you’ll be agitated all the time. When you hear something like that, just consider the source.