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My mother keeps a drawer of socks that come through the laundry unmatched so when the same thing happens to an identical pair, we still have a full pair left.
There’s another issue that follows from the OP; the relation between where the lines are for oneself and for someone else. Some people are much more machmir on others than themselves, others do the opposite and often the same person does both depending on the situation.
For example, how many men reading this have “shushed” someone during davening in the past year? I’d say most, including me. How many people have talked during davening (including the technically permitted-by-loophole parts) in the same period? Same answer.
I’m guessing that the equivalent for women would be seeing someone’s makeup and thinking that it really isn’t tznius.
I like the hashkafa ones.
I also like the random inquiry ones. It’s fun to find out peoples’ areas of expertise and they often lead to interesting discussions.
mosherose: I repeat. No (sober) posek, mimitzrayim v’ad henah has ever said that there was a mitzvah to drink to the point that you risk permanent physical harm.
Shticky guy: Who said tehillos was gender neutral? I said the aramaic “tillin” might be.
Any passuk in Tehillim 125 or 126. Another verse that I find very moving is Yeshayahu 51:3.
No. Interesting thought, isn’t it?
Daas: You mean like it says in Shulchan aruch?
It’s a very rude practice. It’s also unethical because the donor doesn’t really want to give the money and in some sense you are taking what he doesn’t want to give you (the same logic that forbids gambling).
That’s my point. No matter how many irrelevant terms you chuck around, you have just admitted that it is possible to be moved in a positive way by non-Jewish music.
QED.
mdd: chas veshalom.
????? ???? ???? ??? ???? when I read hamelech to the tune of Rosh Hashana shacharis.
Would you say that the German band Moskau’s song Genghis Khan is treif? How about even without the words? How about when it’s played at a chassidishe wedding with yiddish words dubbed over by MBD (who by the way is a great baal chesed)
The whole “issur” is ridiculous. We should avoid anything that is damaging to our avodas Hashem regardless of where it comes from.
Off the top of my head I would guess that tehillos was contracted to the gender-neutral (daykanim, check me on that?) tillin and then retranslated to the incorrect Hebrew “tehillim”.
I find that it helps a lot to help other people. Make yourself the go-to guy (or girl) for anyone that needs help with anything. There’s no greater feeling in the world than that slightly crazed high that comes when a ridiculously difficult task is finally done, and knowing that you’ve done something good for someone else is a real booster.
There is no posek anywhere, at any time mimitzrayim v’ad henah who says that there is a chiyuv for anyone, at any age, to drink to the point that they cause themselves permanent physical harm. People do this to themselves regularly on purim and simchas Torah. There is a mitzvah to drink and to get drunk, but no mitzvah to be a danger to yourself and others. I personally don’t start the very heavy drinking until after mincha when I’m home for the seuda already so that I’m no more than mildly buzzed and in full control before then.
Drunks. Grill. No thanks.
Jewish theological. 😉
Really? I thought you were definitely ItcheSrulik. 😉
It’s annoying when people use yeshivish phrases in conversation with people who don’t understand the language. Other than that, I doubt anybody minds.
It’s better than phrenology. With phrenology you’re right in front of the guy when he finds out you’re a fraud. A graphologist can be on the other side of the country.
daas: Point taken. I was going “l’shitasam” since everyone else was treating yichud as it’s own issur.
frum not crum: 37? That sounds somewhat far fetched to me given that the reason for yichud is what daas already alluded to. Do you have a source?
Why not? As the mishnah says ?? ?? ??? ???? ??? I find myself saying that a lot lately.
disclaimer: explained to me by a low level BOE official who may or may not have been competent.
Under New York State election law, the requirement is primary residency. That phrase includes homeless, but excludes people with seasonal residences. Nobody knows what it would mean for Emmanuel, considering that the decision was political anyway and who knows whether he could have swung it in NY.
RSRH: I think you’re making a mistake when you treat “oiver” and “liable” as interchangable terms. You are not liable until you complete a 3-minute period (thought it was 8 but that’s a separate discussion) but in general we would consider even one minute to fall under the rubric of chatzi shiur assur min hatorah. So if you’re already going to try and play God’s accountant by adding up all the issurim, then you can theoretically count every planck unit as a separate lav, but I doubt it makes any real difference.
gavra: Are you sure that the machlokes RaMBaM and Rabbeinu Yonah is even a machlokes at all? Could be they both agree but from a perspective of tikkun hamiddos and sur merah it would be more useful to look at it the way that Rabbeinu Yonah says, while when it comes to halacha l’ma’aseh even he would pasken like the RaMBaM.
If you’ve ever had chicken pox shingles is a serious risk. They’re beginning to recommend the yearly flu shot for more and more people too.
Yeah, I don’t know why I thought that a professor from the medical school would be doing the undergrad open house anyway.
I could be wrong, but I may have met you several years ago (late 2007) at the YU open house when I was looking at colleges. Do you do the bio department tour? I remember a guy who looked vaguely like you. (Yeah, I know. A guy with a beard at YU, like that narrows anything down.)
wolf: It has nothing to do with anything. Unfortunately, Herr Mendelssohn has become yet another corollary to Godwin’s law. Sad, considering he was an ehrliche shomer shabbos albeit an am ha’aretz (his “biur” was commissioned by him, not written AFAIK) and a “mah yofis-nik.”
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If it came from the kind of newspaper canine reads, then 4 and 5.
“observant”teen: Let’s take your post piece by piece.
Sheigetz:
Thank you.
S-O-R-R-Y etc.
OK. Now it’s my turn to rant.
<div id=”rant”>Correct me if I’m wrong, but your attitude seems to indicate that you don’t think the errors were a big deal. Compared to the error of thinking that, you’re right, they weren’t. In non-reconstructionist Judaism (even reform believes this to a degree), we believe in something called the Halacha. That is, a body of law and custom derived from the Chumash interpreted and added to over the centuries by the rabbis collectively known as “Chazal” or “Rabboseinu za”l”. This halacha is considered the word of God to the point that the gemara can take a takana d’rabanan and introduce it by saying “Rachamana Amar,” The all-Merciful(Hashem) says. That means, halacha is what God says, not what we say. The fact that somebody somewhere thinks that x is more appropriate than y or that y contradicts a particular Torah value does not mean that y is assur. Even if it’s with a noble intention, you cannot wave a magic wand and say that it’s halacha. I won’t get into the slippery slope argument by listing others who have tried to do the same thing. You don’t want to do it, gay gezunteheit. You want to make others stop, open a shulchan aruch and find where the problem is.
Mazal tov on the wedding.
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Oh, and please don’t quote a MO Rabbi as your Mekor
Why, you’re afraid he knows something?
Yoreh Deah 246 implies that family takes precedence.
moshe: Only melacha is chayav misah. To quote the gemara, zil kari bey rav.
observantteen: Before making blanket statements of that sort you should check out a couple things.
1-learn what the word “d’oraisa” means.
2-actually read the passuk in yeshaya. He does not say that was why the beis hamikdash was destroyed. What he does say is strong enough.
chayav: an NK mispelled. Also, a member of the knesset.
mosherose: what happened to minding your own business?
1- The bach says it’s not really a chova anymore
2- Rav Shlomo Ganzfried (kitzur) says “harbeh mekilin”
I know many yeshivish guys who only wash mayim acharonim on shabbos. Does anyone know why?
mosherose: I said something similar to you once before. I hope it stays up this time (please mods, it needs to be said). The fact that you are frum enough to consider yourself the elect of God to the exclusion of all other Jews does not:
1- make that the case
2- even if it did, absolve you of the obligations of mentchlichkeit.
Yeah, I heard about it a while ago but I only did it about three weeks ago when I first got a set of techeles. The packet the strings come in recommends it. After you spend that kind of money on strings, you really don’t want them to unravel.
Yes, I occasionally wear nail polish…
on my tztzis. Clear nail polish keeps the ends from fraying.
Wolf: The other alternative is “zero brain” 😉
All I know about it is that it’s a topic physical therapists study. It’s basically understanding which movements do what to the body, which activities place stress on which joints, etc. The name literally means “the study of movement.” Anyone who calls it anything else or claims that it’s a branch of medicine is most likely a scammer.
I never went because I don’t like watching other people play ball. If I’m spending the time on recreation anyway, I’d rather either play myself or watch a good movie. (Or waste time in the CR)
zahavasdad: I’m not so sure about your last point. In my experience hashgochos generally limit themselves to the food and not the venue. My father once called a heimish hashgocha in Flatbush (won’t say which for obvious reasons) to complain about the dress and behavior of the waitresses (can’t get into details, this is yehsivaworld) at a local cafe, they said that they can’t do anything about any issues but the food.
Does refraining from getting angry count?
I didn’t yell at a guy who almost hit me on his bike.
Canine: when did the accepted way that American Yidden wore their hats change? Here is a list of the changes made by the yeshivishe olam. (I’m not going to speak about chassidim because they simply switched back to the European styles.)
1-When did the olam stop wearing straw hats in the summer. A number of older people have told me that it used to be that “goyim wore straw from memorial day to labor day, yidden went from shavuos to rosh hashana”
2-When did the brims get so wide?
3-When did the olam stop wearing feathers?
4-When did the olam stop wearing gray or navy blue hats?
PS I just bought a new hat today. It’s the first “normal yeshivish black hat” I’ve bought since 9th grade. The last one lasted me through high school after which I barely ever wore it.
When I wear a knitted yarmulke you bet I am making a statement. I am stating that I reject your shtick. Live with it.
When I wear a kipah sruga, it is a statement. The statement is very simple. “I reject your shtick.” This post probably won’t go up, because any time I mention frum shtick my posts get deleted.
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. It’s a Jewish novel, written by a frum author and it’s part of the canon of great 20th century American literature.
The halacha of v’kidashto is basically interpreted as placing the kohen “on a pedestal.” Though I haven’t seen it inside as an example, why can’t one be m’kayem the mitzvah by standing up for a kohen?
Yes, and the rest of the months as well.
popa: why? Are women patur? (rhetorical question)
I lein at home for my grandmother every year. Last year a couple of local women whose children were too young to behave in shul came too. It was a small enough group that I could simply stop every time a child started disrupting and continued when their mothers calmed them down.