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“The little I know” seems a little inaccurate as a screen name, no?
I have a couple comments about what you said:
1- You call R’ Heidenheim “the first one to publish the Ashkenaz siddur with any attention to true nusach.” He was the first one to publish one with attention to reconstructing a true nusach. All siddurim try to be accurate. Also, he was anything but a talmid of Rav Nosson Adler later in his life.
2- Which nussach sfard do you mean when you say the “popular” one? Some of them are chassidishe Nuschaos, others, like artscroll are based on R’ Hadenheim
3- Why do you say it is necessary to use nuschaos that are based on kaballa?
Haleivi: That is speculation which cannot be proven one way or the other. We know that the maggid made changes and considered them chiddushim.
Feif Un: The Gra issued his cherem after the Besh”t passed away, but the people he banned were still known as followers of the Besh”t.
147: What’s sephardi? Do you mean S&P, Aram Soba, Shami-Yemenite, or something else? And while we’re talking about autheniticty, why not abolish most of korbanos and b’rikh sh’mei as do the Frankfurt-yekkes (true ashkenaz)? What about suggesting that all of mizrachi Jewry follow the baladi rite? After all they are the closest things we have to the untouched originals of their respective traditions. The fact is minhagim change over time for various reasons, sometimes legitimate, other times less so.
Avhaben: Do you have a halachic argument? Or at least a point?
writer34: Sorry, I forgot to ask.
gavra: Is this the infamous “teilung”? If so, I don’t know much detail but I’ve heard of it.
lakewhut: He didn’t. Contrary to popular belief, it was his talmid the Maggid who began to change the Nusach. Your question still stands though. Rav Henkin (who wrote the Ezras Torah luach, I think at the behest of the Chofetz Chaim who should know minhagim) wrote about the halachos of keeping minhagim and changing them and at the end added “except for the chassidim who follow there rebbeim.”
Naysberg: The only people I hear bashing modern Hebrew as much as you do are secular scholars and anti-zionists. At least one group has some understanding of the differences.
dash: I meant the Olympic flame. I was afraid some olympic size nudnik (thanks CTRL ALT Del) would jump on me with a misapplication of lo yishm’un al picha.
I will be speaking to someone who was there today. I’ll ask if I remember. Please try to find some way to remind me.
Never heard that one.
I don’t think an Issur T’reifah is Chal on an Issur Basar Min Hachai.
–Sam2
Obviously one issur isn’t chal on the other, but is the issur Basar Min Hachai chal in the first place if it’s a trefah? After all, the animal is considered practically dead.
popa: You can have a ???? ????? but not a ???? ??? because the noun is lashon n’kevah. If we conflate the two holy minhogei CR of ignoring grammar and being over the top about anything involving women, you can say ???? ??? .
Can’t go. I’ll be learning.
apy: Not basketball, the torch relay. Of course even that is stretching the definition of the issur as none of the people involved actually believe in it.
Come on. You weren’t happy once over yomtov?
Dear Popa bar Abby,
No, not that case. The one that the gemara says is pshita.
Sincerely,
Shimon (or Reuven)
opendns.org. They are free for home networks and are open source. Anyone who knows anything about DNS and takes internet safety seriously might want to consider contributing to the project.
Dear Popa bar Abby,
1.500 years ago someone sat on a bench in my garden and broke it. He never even apologized, let alone offered to pay for the bench. Can I take him to court?
Sincerely,
Reuven (or maybe Shimon)
Reb yankel: Everyone knows mitzvos hat’luyos ba’aretz aren’t really mitzvos. After all, no one did them in the “Heim”.
/sarcasm
147: Are you a yekke by any chance?
Leider: I would say you have historical precedent. Bayit sheni had the muchni. It also had mikvaos with pumps, which were not yet invented in Bayis Rishon. They also used iron knives which were not common in Mishkan Shilo. Both archeology and the gemara showed they used arches, which were not used in Sh’lomo’s time. I would guess that we — by which I mean all of us here with our own hands — will use whatever we can to build it l’kavod ul’tifares.
Recycling is a matter of good middos, not wasting things etc. Popa doesn’t believe in middos 😉 (he’s said so) so he doesn’t think there’s any point in recycling. The rest of us should even though recycling centers are a major cause of local pollution.
147: I recall reading about a piyyut to be sung right before dawn al pi chasidei ashkenaz. Do you have any idea what it is or if anyone still keeps it?
yitayningwut: Gotcha. I was responding to you as if you asked on the Rambam, which you didn’t
yekke2: If you rephrase your question and separate the gemaras from the pesukim it will be easier to answer.
yitayningwut: ???”? would classify all of those midrashim as either mashal or as post-resurrection, which he holds is an event completely independent of Mashiach.
voldemort: Some people think that he implied it by certain statements in the Moreh but I am far from convinced.
You could configure your router not allow VPN by blacklisting ports. That is obviously not an option for IT people.
cheftze: Rambam paskens like Sh’muel.
Sam2: Someone offered me a tarot reading yesterday and I thought of your line. Didn’t take it though.
Whitelisting is stricter. Use blacklists if you need broader access. Server side filtering is the only way to go if you are worried about your kids getting around the filter. I beg everyone not to use K9 as it is not a torahdik filter. It is utterly useless and hatorah chassa al m’monam shel yisrael.
Hat when I feel like it. Not during davening, hats inside a building is rude. Jacket, usually for davening. White shirt sometimes. Other shirts, anything but tshirts with graphics. Pants, depends what I’m doing that day. Yarmulke, large knitted (bigger than my velvet ones from yeshiva). No tallis, I’m single. Techeiles, on shabbos Rosh Chodesh, etc. (I only have one pair). Haircut, yes. Glasses, yes.
You missed a few.
What kind of beard?
How long are your peyos?
Tzitzis?
My answers are: Trimmed beard, short peyos, tzitzis usually out.
Optimus: I just read some of his other posts and you’re probably right. It’s pretty ironic that I stood up for him since he probably wouldn’t count me in a minyan.
As someone with IT experience I recommend openDNS.
brech: Were you a talmid of Rav Yaakov or Rav Schorr or of the yeshiva after their time?
I see we’re still up, even after the asifa. 😉
Brech: The issue with entering a store and asking for help when you have no intention of buying is both onaas d’varim and ona’as mamon. The former because you get his hopes up and the latter because you are potentially taking him away from a customer who would buy. With that background in place, we can answer your questions. I’m going to take them in reverse order.
1-If there is an issur, if you do click it are you liable to repay the advertiser for his PPC cost incurred?
No. Even if there were an issur we rule (no source yet. mechon mamre doesn’t have shulchan aruch :/) that you are not chayav for this kind of onah. Which brings us back to your first question.
2-Is it halachicly permissible to click on an advertisement on a webpage, if you know (with certainty) in advance that you will not purchase the product being advertised for sale?
Yes. The ads go up with the understanding that they are just that — advertisements. The pay-per-click is an advertising fee, not a sales commission. The advertiser knows that not every click will generate a sale. He pays because each click has a chance of being a sale. In off line terms, the ppc fee is for getting you into the store, not for talking to you about merchandise.
PS Please don’t knock brech. People here are very understanding of someone who has far-fetched shailos in Orach Chayyim or Yoreh Deah. He’s going the extra mile to be ethical in Choshen Mishpat; let’s help him out. (Especially those who have learned more of it. This means you Popa, yitayningwut, Sam2, 147, DY and anyone else qualified.)
shein: No adequate response to you would get by moderation
rabbiofberlin: I have not succumbed either, nor will I be going. The time would be put to much better use watching 3 stooges clips on youtube.
only 3?
I agree with you on that point. “When they came for ploni I did not speak out…”. OTOH the coffeeroom is not the place for reasoned debate. It is the chazon ish shiur of moshav letzim and many shittos are mocked, though obviously not those of our gracious hosts. Enjoy the letzonus and if we ever meet in person I’ll tell you some equally good letzonus my (homburg-wearing) rebbi zt”l said about yeshivishism.
berliner rov: What you say about YCT is true, but not complete. The issue (at least my issue and my rabbi’s issue) with YCT is that their psakim are not informed by any kind of standard halakhic process as historically practiced by poskim. To be fair, this issue is present in many other camps, but YCT is more egregious than most because they loudly proclaim “b’shita” that extra-halakhic considerations justify the way they “push the envelope” and that those considerations in fact trump normative halakha (while at the same time carefully staying within the bounds of muttar — barely).
dd: My response to you didn’t go through before. I was probably a little to cynical. No, you don’t have to be a habitual motzi shem ra to be yeshivish. It’s just something that some yeshivish people do. Lot’s of other people do it too.
So these people deliberately oversell the tickets. They brag about it in the papers. And they are supposed to teach us about ehrlichkeit and morality? The loan shark on my block has better business ethics.
teeare: I love how your first teshuva to permit treif was based entirely on the concept of daas torah.
Sam2: Tarot cards are assur d’oraisa on at least two counts that I can think of off the top of my head. In Arizal’s day there were playing cards though they were very similar to the tarot deck and would be assur as having idolatrous icons. See the wiki page for more information. I don’t think it complies with the link policy here.
147: forgot the sarcasm tags. sorry
Punctuality is goyish (am I doing this right?)
Just.me: That is exactly who certain people consider the gutteh yiddin.
Yet he was still reportedly capable of reading Hebrew which most non-baalei kriah in “real yeshivos” can’t do until they’re 20+.
What’s the matziv with learning?
I’m wearing a pair right now.
OOM: I was going to say that!
This reminds me of the joke about the conservative Committee on Jewish Laws and Standards (the one that has to have cantors as auxillary members because they at least know how to read the luach). They wanted (so the joke goes) to remove the verse ?????? ???? ???? because there are no slaves anymore. Then they decided to put it back in because without it they wouldn’t have a springboard text for the Shabbos sermon.
Just looking at who posts them here and who tells them in real life, I can see who the jokes are appropriate for. Children who have not yet outgrown toilet humor in real life, and self-appointed defenders of the faith on the internet.
Sam2: Oh, I read that as ???? (yeh-huh-reg). After years of reading idiosyncratic hebrew transliteration and bad internet spelling my mind kind of fills in what I think the poster means.