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zichmich: I am aware of that. I am also aware of valid reasons why ashkenazim do not have tanakh as the primary limmud for adults (there’s a Rashi in Horiyos about it). You are telling me that your chevreh don’t learn tanakh because other Jews do. In other words, you will gladly drop what is supposed to be the holy book of your religion in exchange for a shtickle shtoltz. Some Judaism.
When the guys I went to yeshiva with know tanach as well as the secular sochnut fellow on my college campus I will stop sniggering at that comment. Though you’re right, every Jew in Israel should learn more Torah.
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Josh31: One should make the following declaration before beginning the holy work of making a black hat or any other clothing accessory by which Jews make an honest parnassa.
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If any Quebecois language police read this, they are hereby informed that they are the laughingstock of the English speaking world and of the real French language police who wonder why anyone bothers with francophone patois anyway.
Disclaimer: I don’t actually speak French.
yentingyenta: Mazal Tov! And ignore Health. It’s hard to project “tone” online and he probably doesn’t mean to be rude, since he always acts surprised when people respond to his insensitivity in kind.
And Mercury was called “quick silver” in just practically every other language that had a word for it for the same reason.
Yes, 8 wipes makes a reviis according to the smallest shita (not, R’ Chaim Na’ah)
PBA: I’ll look into it. It probably exists. Another heter I’ve seen is moist wipes. Supposedly some guy who liked camping worked out that if you use the smallest possible shiur of revi’is you can “wash” with 4 of them per hand. I don’t know how he did the math or whether he even took into account that the other chemicals might pasul the water in the wipes.
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Boich svara time.
The general klal with d’rabbanans is that you can ignore them b’kum v’aseh for a choleh she’en bo sakana and kal v’chomer b’shev v’al ta’aseh. Dehydration is considered a choleh she’en bo sakana for the rabbinic fast days, so why not for netilas yadayim as well?
All I know is the rabbanut’s published policies for restaurants which demand alei katif lettuce and demand that it be checked anyway and many other chumros. The only reason to have a problem with regular rabbanut hashgacha is if you eat glatt or bet yosef and even then you will get it from rabbanut mehadrin.
yitay: I’m surprised that they haven’t too, but the couple times I’ve used it they’ve either never heard the pasuk and I had to show it to them or they retreated to the idea that once their Messiah was born (or declared himself, or whatever) everything in the “Old Testament” is optional because his existence “fulfills” something or other.
yitayningwut: Lehafer brisi itam. Even they think “sinai” when they hear “covenant.” If you like it any better take IShmuel 15:29. We only read it once a year but still.
musserzoger: It’s part of selichos. We say it on Yom Kippur as well as all the other selichos days. I was just trying to express how familiar the passuk is.
I’ve noticed sefardim and even ashkenazi baalei teshuva are usually less afraid of dogs than ashkenazim. I think it’s a cultural thing because of the the way Jews were hunted with dogs in Europe which those ashkenazi Jews who kept European Jewish culture passed on to their kids.
Anyone who ever learned chumash rashi — or even chumash without rashi — can debunk Christian replacement theology while standing on one foot. In fact, you don’t even need to know much chumash, even once-a-year shul attendance on yom kippur is enough. Vayikra 26:44.
pcoz: Take it up with the Rambam. He apparently didn’t hold of applying Thermodynamics to Ruchniyus, after all he considers Merkava and Bereshis separate limudim.
I am not jealous of anyone who learns Torah full time and can’t read ivra. It must be gehinnom hatachton.
lesschumras: This son of baalei teshuva is with you on that.
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The main reason is because people weren’t in Europe where it was practically impossible.
But if you’re yeshivish i.e. you have the look you are by definition not a shaigetz no matter what you do.
zdad: He was religious, just not charedi. He isn’t talked about because he was a secular-type academic not because he was a secular Jew.
Csar: This is far from true, even regarding many Torah subjects.
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Before you fall asleep is about as simple as it gets.
I thought you said you were yeshivish.
pcoz: Kares means that the neshama ceases to exist after the body dies. See RaMBaM hilchos teshuva.
popa: lo ra’isa eno rayah.
A lubavitcher Maggid shiur once told me that if you wake up and realize you forgot krias shema you should close the shades and pretend it’s still night time.
zdad: Yeah, I know though it’s not quite that close, I’ve read some of the studies. Though I know that it’s not closer than third cousin because I know who all my relatives are that far out and none of them are frum.
yitay: I’m a yeshiva educated shaigitz.
golfer: You imply that Rashi is the pasuk. He is not. The gemara darshens the pasuk using the word “zona” k’mashma’o when talking about the power of teshuva. I believe Rashi gets it from targum but I’d have to check.
That’s one of the things that irked me about yeshiva. They focus on “learning” without the goal of acquiring knowledge. In one year at three hours a day working to acquire knowledge you can learn more than you would in two years at the standard pace.
In general when you go somewhere where you are expected to shut up and behave, it is sufficient to follow the rules for the first three events e.g. shabbos morning shacharis, leining, mussaf. You should stand for both national anthems, and the tehillim. Shmooze during the speeches. You aren’t listening anyway.
Lol. That applies to almost every comment on this thread but mostly popa’s.
Loyal Jew: Thank God I’m not related to you.
yitay: fohrt means “still” not “at least”
pcoz: A chicken is uhlul to get spoiled. If we’re still arguing from avney sakiney u’masao spoilage is definitely a ruach metzuya. If you call the chatzer a pikadon, which dachtzich mir it should be, you are chayav for ruining it. M’manafshach.
I think you can actually shoehorn the chicken into all 4 of the avos.
shlishi: A Jew is a Jew? So happy to hear you admit it. What if “a Jew” walks into your shtibl one day?
And here comes the shidduch blackmail again. I was wondering when that would pop up.
pcoz: Yes, that was what I meant. Now that I think of it, though, you can also make him chayav for abusing the terms of the pikadon because by leaving his stuff there beyond the time he has reshus for, he is being ???? ?? ????? ????.
I’m holding in Yoma so this is entirely off the top of my head.
I would say that he has an achrayus to get his stuff out of the chatzer by the agreed upon time and by leaving them there he is a ???? and is therefore chayav just like avno sakino umas’a’o. (the dikduk nazi in me cringes every time I talk yeshivish but who cares)
Next time ask your relatives to serve only kosher food to avoid the mistake. My father’s non-Jewish friends used to do that for us.
I tried to say some leitzonus about the story of ??? ?? ??? in Tanchuma but I couldn’t think of anything better than what the medrash already says about him.
Your protest is duly noted. Back to our regularly scheduled leitzonus.
eehhhhhh ech omrim “pedanti” b’anglit? 😉
And if we put enough grease in the food we can get Michelle Obama interested in BMG as part of her obesity crusade.
popa: I know you don’t agree with me. We’ve been through this one a few times. Do you want to run through the argument one last time before I go off to yeshiva in elul and won’t have time for flamewars?
yitayningwut: I see a market …
Yes, Mr. Mod, pyrex. It’s the company that makes glassware for chemistry labs. They’re allegedly unbreakable but were clearly never tested on a college lab bench.