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Why did they post your response, which was almost identical to my censored one? Do they actually respect a phd and tenure here despite all the protestations to the contrary?
Thanks, it’s almost my real name.
Question: Why was my commment censored? It was polite, contained no profanity and nothing even mosherose could consider kfira!
popa: Some people may not be familiar with how it has been practiced in different societies over the millenia. It would be very confusing for someone who clasps palms as we do today to try to shake hands with a Saxon from pre-conquest England, who shook hands by clasping wrists.
Ess Past Nisht has got to be one of the most inappropriate phrases in the Yiddish language. When somebody says it about a third party, they’re butting into other peoples’ business — inappropriate. When they say it about themselves i.e. “ess past nisht for me to…” that’s gaavah — even worse!
Daas Yochid: Among others, Rabbi Belsky (Torah Vodaath). That’s probably one reason. Another would be because it’s pretty hard to come up with a case where the pot treifs the food by accident, especially with milchigs.
mdd: Anything I say about the state of halacha l’maisa education in certain yeshivos will be summarily deleted, v’hamavin yavin.
Plleeeeease God, let that woman get off her cellphone, the bus, or both.
Plleeeeeeeease God, let me get across avenue J without getting run over. I’m not asking for miracles here! I’m talking about a GREEN LIGHT!!
Pleeeease God, let that cop not see that I pulled my bike onto the sidewalk because it’s rush hour and I almost got killed.
frumladygit: It was meant tongue in cheek. I was referring to a mishna in shvi’is that says that a tool that may be used for both permitted and forbidden activities is permitted. I can quote the original if you like, though for the life of me I can’t think of a single si’if in shulchan aruch that implies facebook is assur unless Cedarhurst is counting all the forbidden things you can do with it.
Daas Yochid: There are many poskim who are lenient about blios of Cholov “stam” because the etzem food is a machlokes.
popa: Don’t tosfos say to make it walk up a ramp?
mikehall: whose head?
More shameful than Otisville in some circles — YU!
Cedarhurst: First of all, that’s a machlokes. Second, in many cases you can because they would serve you on plastic or only serve cold things like ice cream, etc.
It’s pretty simple, and I’ve actually had this conversation when we were receiving meals while someone was very ill at home.
Considerate baalabusta: Do you eat xyz’s shechita?
Me: yes.
CB: wonderful. Do you eat such and such hashgocha?
Me: No.
CB: what about abc hashgocha
Me: Yes.
CB: Ok, I’ll be by around 2, k?
Me: That would be great, thank you very much.
If both people are basically polite and curteous and the giver does keep kosher, you can avoid any kashrus problems just like that in under five minutes. I’ll admit, if the giver does not keep kosher, a lot more tact is required.
Yeah, and this mishna implies that it’s muttar.
I once wrote a philosophy paper in Yeshivish.
Believe it or not, there is a mishna that indirectly addresses things like facebook.
If they keep kosher, it is very easy to simply ask about your family standards. I eat chalav stam and pas palter. If we bring food over to someone, we ask about those two, any shechita preferences and other kashrus concerns. It’s the same as asking about possible food allergies.
pumper — wouldn’t that be for a gas station attendant?
I’d put one for my screen name but I can’t think of a good one at the moment.
It is something called the Mesorah. Originally Mesorah as a proper noun referred specifically to the pronunciation of words in the Torah, the taamim, and the layout of the columns (psuchot and stumot). Mesorah only began to refer to minhagim about things like levush and and accent much later.
Aishes Chayil: both are lav davka.
Not on a pesach, on a regular shlamim.
When talking about the hishtadlus vs. eibeshter vet helfen approaches to parnassa, people often quote the phrase kochi v’otzem yadi. They neglect the next pasuk.
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That is, you do hishtadlus. You exercise koach. You have a yad atzum. And you remember exactly Who gave you all that.
Heimish: illiterate
I’m renovating: I’m going to show off the money that I don’t have to the whole neighborhood.
I would ask: NU?!
(Before everyone jumps down my throat, kim’at every single chassidishe rebbe of the first two or three generations said the same thing.)
Being related to various gabbaim helps. If all else fails, you know Rabbi B. Franklin.
A23: Six questions, three of which are irrelevant.
“If you think it is overpriced, start manufacturing your own version and sell it for less.” –charlie
How capitalist of you. 😉
Mine is one of the earlier models with a lighter base so it moves all the time. My solution is to lift the cover out of the lamp, turn it around and put it back.
What you mean is dihydrogen monoxide, otherwise known as water.
TMB: Specifically, he says that a person who davens nussach sfard (a cholent of several chasidish versions of nussach HaAri) can switch back to ashkenaz without hataras nedarim because that is what he should have been davening anyway.
My mother usually doesn’t serve gefilte fish on shabbos.
PS Not everything people do is a minhag.
All I’m saying is that people should have the consideration to write something that everyone else can read without too much difficulty, such as your last post.
What’s a “geelong?”
TMB: Agree. An opportunity I regret missing every day.
When Ben Yehudah adapted modern Hebrew, he had to worry about the fact that all the zionists spoke with several different ashkenazi accents (litvish, polish, etc.), so instead of picking one ashkenazi accent and offending speakers of all the others, he invented his own modified sefardit.
I put a link in with the tag but it seems to have vanished from my post as it appears in the moderation queue.
Fair enough.
Busybody: Yochie was quoting a mishna that proves that if the kohen taking the bikurim cannot hear the farmer read the parsha, the farmer is not yotze. Some people also darshen from this (though it is *NOT* the source for any halacha, just a nice vort) that it is preferable to say all the responses in the service such as amen out loud.
Ibn Ezra’s pshat in Raamses is one of several. This question was discussed on the leining list serve. I can check the archives if you like.
Re teven/taven: same as above. There are some extremely knowledgable daykanim in the group and some of the posts need to be learned like tshuvos rather than just read. There was some kind of obscure rule cited in RaDaK’s michlol that explained why teven didn’t change.
TMB: What’s the problem? Is literacy also a bad hashkafa?
Actually, sefardim aren’t exactly correct either. Temanim are closer than anyone. Also, it is possible to speak ashkenazus correctly, though you may be laughed at by people who don’t know any better.
The forvetz was never the most anti-religious paper in NYC. That “honor” goes to the freiheitz which was worse. Ladino is not a holy language because sefardim have thankfully not succumbed to that particular fallacy.
The Chofetz Chaim had non-Jewish grandchildren. So did R’ Akiva Eiger. Yichus is really nowhere near as important as people make it out to be.
Interestingly enough, the earlier the rishon the less they have to say about those words.
It’s mentioned in the sixth perek of bava kamma too.
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I wanted a dog growing up but my father is allergic to animal fur, so that’s that. Now why is it a hashkafic problem to take the animal into consideration when deciding how to use your time?
BTW, I know a rov whose wife has 3 outside cats.
TMB: Once again, these are psukim. One is punished for 3-4 generations for sins of the ancestors and rewarded for thousands for their mitzvos (it’s the aseres hadibros.)
Regarding yichus, the Satmar rov once said “the only place we find that yichus helps is for dogs.”
Kind of late for this but send yeshiva bochurim around to shovel for people who can’t or won’t do it themselves. For those who can’t, the guys will shovel normally. For those who won’t they’ll leave all the snow at the entrances to the house.
After Rav Gifter decided that Yale wasn’t l’toeles, he went to YU. Rav Avigdor Miller had a bachelor’s in history from the same institution, and it shows in his seforim.
What are some of the hashkafic problems with having pets and which pets do they apply to?