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If it comes in a can it isn’t cholent.
Some Christians name for Tirtzah but they do it because of the passuk in Shir Hashirim not in our parsha.
Sam2: The kind of Judaism that is probably apikorsus according to the Rambam. 🙂
pcoz: You are clearly familiar with the yesodos hadat (finally, someone who is) so I think you’re aware of the question “what do our prayers confer upon God?” or couched differently “why do we say baruch ata” or yet differently “what does God want from our korbanos”. The concept of “shechinta b’galusa” has an explanation similar to the sefer charedim’s answer to the prayer question: It is proper for us to relate to God as if He is in Galus and by working towards Geula we kevayachol bring Him back.
Sam2:
much of Chassidish thought is probably Apikorsus according to the Rambam (mostly from Yesodei Hatorah, certainly if you read the Moreh). Which is fine.
Which is not fine. The rebbe of a very large segment of observant Jewry founded his movement on teachings that a rishon considered apikorsus, minus and kefira respectively (hilchos teshuva 3:18). Just so happens that this same rishon is the one who defined the “creed” of what Jews have to believe in, albeit in the middle of nowhere in perush hamishnayos. That creed was accepted universally and if you read the 13 ikkarim, you will find several things apparently contradicted by chassidus. It’s been an elephant in the room for centuries and it is at least as important to “farenfer” as any shverer Rashi in Hamocher es hasfina.
Go, enjoy. Post your experiences.
When the baal koreh wears a suit and a tallit, not overalls and a 2×4.
Brony: Don’t stomp on my punchlines!
pba: All is solved with a well placed comma.
Dear Popa bar Abby,
Google XKCD 386.
As for my question, it’s about etiquette. There is this guy who likes dropping his credentials in every conversation whether they are relevant or not. So far I haven’t said anything because his credentials aren’t heavy enough to cause any damage, but what do I do if he ever writes a book?
pcoz: LOL
ohr chodesh: You mean like the Damon Knight story?
What if all the Israeli and American military veterans walked out of the siyum?
pcoz: That question could be asked about prayer and korbanos too. The same answer applies.
mz: Mashiach will look exactly like you. 😉
Kibbutz galuyos
Beis Hamikdash
Kol hamatmanin metzuyim k’afar.
Those are the things everyone agrees will happen when Mashiach comes. I think that’s plenty without conflating it with techiyas hamesim or ignoring Shmuel.
Josh31: At that time anti-zionism was not as much of an iron-clad rule in the Litvish world as it is now. It is quite possible.
Tech support, safrus and some programming.
OP: Of the two you mentioned by name, more Gerrer chasidim serve than other chasidim, but not most. The late Vizhnitzer Rebbe zt”l served but his chassidim don’t.
mdd: I know. The only question is how much of traditional Judaism they’ll sell out for their shita.
Firefox has many more extensions available than chrome. Adblock is just the beginning.
Firefox.
Haleivi: It is a picture of a man with a beard. What’s wrong?
choppy: I said Hebrew. And even modern Hebrew with it’s Yiddish grammar and English loan words is closer to the language of the Torah than either Yiddish or English.
The Aramaic of the Bavli is an amazing language from a strictly functional standpoint. It was never spoken as an everyday language; it developed for the sole purpose of learning Torah and is still the best language for that purpose.
Nechomah: Point taken. To be more precise, for political reasons they don’t know it well enough to speak it conversationally. This problem exists across all streams of Jewry — people don’t know our ancestral language well enough to use it. Even moder Hebrew speakers have this problem to some extent because the grammar of modern Hebrew is more like Yiddish than like the Hebrew of Tanach or even that of the Rishonim.
choppy: Hebrew is more unifying because it is the language of the Torah. Yiddish is only the language of the ashkenazim.
zichmich: The Reb Ahrelech don’t speak lashon hakodesh any more than they speak modern Hebrew. They never learned how for political reasons.
A penguin holding his breath.
A newspaper.
A (very rare Amazonian) frog in a blender.
PBA when he sees the owner of the bench in shul.
I text my rebbi fairly frequently.
Chassidishe Gatesheader: Doesn’t work, the Divrei Yoel wasn’t a major figure until well after Rav Kook passed away.
FeifUn: Rav Soloveichik and Rav Dr. Revel
R’ Yaakov and Rav Shorr
Is weed bad?
— I can’t tell weeds from flowers. My mother thinks I’m faking.
Is it a drug like known bad drugs or is it a good/healthy drug?
— Yes.
Is weed bad for yidishkeit?
— You should not daven, pasken, or shecht while under its influence.
Is it kosher?
— Yes
Does it need a hechsher?
— No
Why did hashem create this plant?
— Why did Hashem create toadstools?
Does it have a place in Jewish history?
— There are Jews who smoke(d) it.
Do u know someone that uses it?
— You probably do, you just don’t know it.
Is ther a point when the person has to much/overdose?
— There is never a point when someone has to overdose.
Is it being seen more in our frum world?
— I’m not seen in your frum world myself so I can’t answer that
Etc… So basically what do u think/do about it?
WHAT?! YOU DON’T KNOW ALREADY??!!! 😉
mod 42: Which plant in the ketores do you think was cannabis?
nitpicker: Editorial policy, v’ain l’harher acharov because it’s quite obvious.
Sorry, that was only funny once.
People skipped the “minor” fast days before the shulchan aruch. Some continued the tradition. The Chayei adam is very mekel about shiva asar b’tammuz and on shabbos someone mentioned to me b’shem his father that in Europe many people would eat because without it they couldn’t work (and if they didn’t work they wouldn’t eat the next day and so on)
pcoz: Ihre Judische Schriebung is stark beeinflusst von heutig hochdeutsch.
(Vi zogt men orthography af goyish?)
PBA: I get “don’t beat yourself up over it” and I meant to put that in but what does it matter if other people have kavanna or not? Besides, Kavanna and dveikus are not exactly the same thing.
Feinshmecker 😉
It’s hard to give advice without knowing what you’re doing already and exactly what you find uninteresting or difficult about tefillah, but here are some general things.
1- Talk to God throughout the day. For example, when something goes well, thank Hashem then and there. When something goes wrong ask the ribbono shel olam for help.
2- Look forward to davening. For example, when something comes up that you’re worried about, remind yourself to daven for it “ok, I have to ask for hatzlacha with x at mincha”
3- Know what you’re saying, especially the long parts that people read to themselves. Rav Soloveichik used to describe different parts of tefilla as music with the different aspects of a Jew’s relationship with God as harmonies. Rav Yaakov Kaminecki used to say that pesukei d’zimra was all the mussar seder he needed for the day. Those last two thoughts in particular should help.
Csar doesn’t read megilas Esther. It’s in Tanach.
Sam2: I heard it b’shem Rav Elyashiv too.
2scents: Because it is your country. As for charedim being “hated”, even though there is resentment for various reasons charedim are treated as equal citizens despite the fact that many are against fulfilling any civic duties including voting. You should celebrate yom ha’atzma’ut because Israel is a Jewish country and you are Jewish.
You were right; it was 10b but I don’t think it’s mashma like you said. BTW, am I correct to assume you’ve finished shas? Most people I know save kodshim for last.
Sam2: Isn’t 10b about vesset and losing count during shiva nekyim? Whatever, I’ll look it up tonight.
Happy birthday to your grandmother, ad meah v’esrim.
I’d recommend calling the Kof K and the OU. Sounds like a packaging mistake.
sushee: Move there, please.
WOI: +1. You can come to my BBQ.
Poster: It’s more of a Memorial Day thing because that’s the first day off when the weather is right.
Poor guy. Dinei Torah cost money.
Today, 13 Tammuz, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe got out of jail.
The best part of going through shadchanim is that it takes away the social/emotional difficulty of refusing someone to their face. As for the shadchan trying to pressure you, I’m with popa.
I don’t watch the show. I heard that there was a Jew on it but I didn’t know he was observant.
dd: That would obviously be the ideal, where everyone contributes both b’ruchni uv’gashmi. Just curious though; what does your nephew do on miluim that he has that much time to learn, or do you mean he makes a siyum on what he learns on miluim over a year?