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mommamia22: It depends. If someone really wants to keep the machlokes going all he has to do is say the other side is not legitimate Torah which just makes things even worse. BTW, I like the flatbush eruv example because I don’t use most eruvin in most places (I learned 16 amos v’zehu) but today someone who does use it came to my house to borrow a book.
Yes, that is what the pasuk says. There is a whole Torah out there. You have to do both. Isn’t that kind of basic?
The most minimal interpretation, as seen on Gittin 6b (I think), is that opinions we don’t follow are considered Torah and can be studied with a bracha.
Pba: He was controversial, but when you read any biographical article in the Encyclopedia Judaica, you have to consider the source. It was written by Humanities professors i.e. people who shoot their mouths off for a living. (Don’t worry, I know you’re having a lot of fun with this thread.)
pba: I was pretty sure. It’s practically unheard of to have a sale like that right before a high traffic season.
Naftush: Israel has plenty of translators. Most of them are out of work, not because there is no need but because so many Israelis think they are fluent in whatever their grandparents spoke.
RA: If only I could make a living writing sifrei Torah during the week and reading them on Shabbos.
Shlishi: As a frum IT professional, I can say that you will find relatively few frum CTO’s because at a certain level of seniority the company will demand that you be on call on shabbos.
Feif: Great idea! I will donate to American Friends of the IDF.
B’ezrat Hashem we’ll finish this time.
We’re talking about Judaism. I’m asking if you want Jews who keep halacha to convert to whatever it is you practice. I’m not sure what it’s called.
Health is a different style. I think we have two sets of sock puppets here; the Josephs asher shartzu l’minehem and Csar/choppy/ohr chodesh. The Joseph set consistently knows more Torah than the choppy set.
Shopping613: I actually agree with one of those. I’m a guy and I refuse to wear tshirts with large company logos. It’s just crass.
choppy: What if they are keeping halacha. Do we have to convert them to your religion too?
yytz: And why are there bigger tznius concerns on Rosh Hashana? Because of the way people act.
The ralbag wrote books on astronomy and music theory as well. He has a crater on the moon named after him.
yichusdik: Did the Tosfos Yom Tov hold any academic positions as a mathematician? Several early acharonim held academic appointments in math and sciences.
42: A- Avoid taking advantage of the third party for its mistake. B- You can bet the two companies will have to fight tooth and nail over each ticket.
Not just that pasuk. His chevreh don’t like the rest of Tanach either.
Sam2: I found out since I googled it right after posting. Oh well.
Mazal tov. What’s Israel’s medal count, by the way? I haven’t been following the Olympics.
As many rabbanim have pointed out, Avraham Avinu was more important than Rebbe Nachman.
Besides, every living rebbe has an Ezras Noshim in his shul. Why can’t there be accommodations for women in Uman? Oh, right. No husband wants his wife to see how people act there.
AFAIK they are honoring it. Regardless of din, the menschlich thing for them is to honor the tickets and the menschlich thing for the purchasers is to return them for a refund. It’s just a matter of who has more vatranut.
Rav Schechter once said “the minhag is not like the Rema” and quoted a rishon (I forget who) who said had a very broad interpretation of lo saguru mipnei ish.
Sam2: I think you fell into the troll’s trap because most people here know who said the Kaddish.
Sam2: Of course. Every time a soldier on either side took a step the “kedushas America” was nifka from under their feet just like VaYoel Moshe says about kedushas eretz yisrael. 🙂
bp27: Why did they use the Slavita print? Was that the standard for Yerushalmi before the Vilna? If so, how did the Vilna take over? And why did it take so much longer for the Vilna to become the standard Yerushalmi than for the Bavli?
The booklet they gave out at the siyum said that the first few siyumim used a different edition of Shekalim which was nine pages shorter.
Feif: The more recent poster was asking about the elementary school. Don’t think that’s such an issue there.
Curiosity: Exactly. It’s a matter of respect, not the actual act of putting something on top of the sefer. In my example, it would not be very bakavod for a parsha of tefillin or a megillah to have to go to geniza because it rolled shut and the ksav got ruined.
Curiosity: I’ve seen 80/20 cotton polyester and I’ve heard rabbanim express doubt about even those. Where can you find polyester tzitzis?
yytz: A lot of reform tallessim have the bracha too. At least the orthodox ones usually have the bracha without shemos.
Sales pitch. They’re pitching something worth doing, but as a zionist I am mocheh on the poor taste in advertising.
I often use the aruch hashulchan’s heter when using the less holy book (as a tashmish) for the more holy one for example:
I will often put a sefer that is not kisvei kodesh down on top of a stack of papers with pesukim to keep them from blowing away. I also use large secular books to hold yerios open while I write. I still don’t get why some people think this is wrong. If the halacha was to avoid ever putting anything on top of kisvei kodesh, how could we ever cover a sefer torah between aliyos?
Basically, if “garment” needs to be put in quotes it isn’t a garment.
Curiosity: Forget about that. If it’s plastic it isn’t chayav in tzitzis even if woven.
Curiosity: Lol I don’t mean that. I meant that chasimat hatalmud was in the late fifth century CE which was circa 1500 years ago.
There are only three kinds of mamzerim (Hilchos issurei beiah perek 16 IIRC)
Mamzer d’oraisa
Mamzer d’rabbanan
That cop who pulled you over when you were running late for work.
Football game in the rain. Hoods vs. hats. 🙂
Curiosity: I suppose you can say that, though I think you’re stretching the word “circa” a bit.
Sam2: Do you mean Yosiphon as quoted by Rashi and others or the Hebrew sefer Yosiphon that people like to dig out around Chanuka? I ask because the title page of the latter says it’s a modern Hebrew translation of Whiston’s English translation of Josephus.
Brachos 35b.
Try youtube. It would be a good idea to do one if there aren’t any already. CRowdsourcing, anyone?
Isn’t there a chizkuni that vatehi l’nitziv melach goes on the cities, not Lot’s wife? It’s shver grammatically but that’s neither here nor there.
Sam2: Birchas chassanim is 7b-8a. What happened to “off by ten blatt like clockwork”? 🙂
If I was a football fan I’d wear a hat, jacket and Giants jersey. Unfortunately I don’t own a Giants jersey so I’ll have to wear my normal button-down and pants.
Toi: And a tosfos in sukkah too, so what? The gemara and the tosfos there make it very clear that these are approximations. In fact, they use much rougher approximations than most mathematicians do.
Health, choppy, et al: Why do you pretend that the charedim are “doing more for the state” by learning? They are not learning as a zechus for the state. They are not davening as a zechus for the state. Health, you in particular have called for the murder of all Jews outside your little collection of sects multiple times on this forum.
choppy: I know exactly one OTD MO guy personally. I know of one more through a friend of a friend. I can name over sixty OTD individuals whom I know from backgrounds Yeshivish and to the right including practically an entire class from my yeshiva. One of the guys from the last group is an illui of the sort that books get written about. My evidence is anecdotal, just like everyone else’s, but human beings can only judge by what they know.
Big deal. I know one OTD guy whose father is a dentist. You are being absurd.
How do they check?
What is it worth if you already know you finished shas anyway?
I was taught that eilu v’eilu is an actual halakhic status. Even in a machlokes in metzius where one is wrong, eilu v’eilu means that you are yotze limud haTorah by learning that opinion.
Sam2: An indeterminable historical fact counts as eilu v’eilu, not because it’s a machlokes in metzius, but because there is no hachra’a so there is no reason to say that one is right and one is wrong anyway. Where there is sufficient evidence to make a serious case for both sides, IMHO it would be a machlokes in metziyus even if neither side has incontrovertible proof.
Then there are all the secular Israelis named Nimrod.
hello99: You are quoting a piece from this week’s American Yated. That piece is inaccurate and even internally inconsistent.
PBA: The problem with letzonus is that none of mine would get through moderation, and most of it justifiably so. Otherwise I’d help out.
Feif: I went the same way you did, though thanks to some very exceptional people I managed to minimze the “off” part.