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Baruch Dayan Emes. 🙁
Levaya tomorrow 10 am at the Young Israel of Staten Island.
kj chusid, do you have a private email address that you use for just such a purpose? I’d rather not post personal info here. Thank you.
In the cell where you want the total,
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You can also call 718-744-4084 to make an appointment.
Also, while Person A is davening Shmoneh Esray,
Person B is not allowed to pass in front of Person A’s Daled Amos,
because the Shechinah is in front of Person A
while he davens Shmoneh Esray.
Shikron:
Have you actually used Lyca Mobile and had a good experience with them?
Jolt Mobile.
It’s an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) that uses AT&T’s network.
Its service only works with an unlocked tri-band/quad-band
GSM 900/1800/1900 frequency phone.
The phone uses a SIM card, which Jolt Mobile sends to you.
If the phone’s service carrier is Cingular or AT&T,
then you may use a locked GSM phone.
If the phone’s service carrier is any other,
then you must use an unlocked GSM phone.
zdad –
So the Orthodox lifestyle that Hashem gave us at Sinai was abnormal?
What was done to the Jews by the non-Jews was abnormal,
NOT the Jews’ lifestyle.
B”H the Jews have survived by the Torah and are going strong –
even without wearing a WoW Talit.
The Torah was given in the year 2448 after Hashem created the world.
The Reform “religion” was invented approximately in the 19th Century CE, which would correspond approximately to the year 5560 after Hashem created the world.
So, my fellow Orthodox Jews –
Until the year 5560, for about 3112 years:
All of our Jewish ancestors were living an abnormal life (as defined by Anat Hoffman in her interview with the BBC), by following the Orthodox lifestyle as defined by the Torah, which Hashem gave to us. They had no other lifestyles to choose from.
How they must have suffered, living such an abnormal life.
How did they survive it?
From Megilas Esther, Chapter 4:
Mordechai told him (Hasach) of all that had happened to him, and all about the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay to the royal treasuries for the annihilation of the Jews. He also gave him a copy of the text of the decree which was distributed in Shushan for their destruction – so that he might show it to Esther and inform her, bidding her to go to the King, to appeal to him, and to plead with him for her people.
Hasach came and told Esther what Mordchai had said.
Then Esther told Hasach to return to Mordechai with this message:
“All the King’s servants and the people of the King’s provinces are well aware that if anyone, man or woman, approaches the King in the inner court without being summoned, there is but one law for him – that he be put to death – except for the person to whom the King shall extend the gold scepter, so that he may live. Now I have not been summoned to come to the King for the past 30 days.”
They related Esther’s words to Mordechai.
Then Mordechai said to reply to Esther:
“Do not imagine that you will be able to escape in the King’s palace any more than the rest of the Jews. For if you persist in keeping silent at a time like this, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from some other place, while you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether it was just for such a time as this that you attained the royal position!”
Mordechai who?
Since I can’t post a link,
check out on YouTube, the Video of the BBC Interview:
“Anat Hoffman, Rabbis Jeremy Gordon & Moshe Freedman debate Women of the Wall and who owns Judaism”
Feb 12, 2013 – 8 minutes long.
At 1:30, Anat – “We shouldn’t mix Normalcy and Orthodoxy. They both end with a “Y,” but they’re not the same concept.”
At 2:25, Anat, wearing a WoW Talit – “This is Normalcy.”
News flash! Orthodoxy, as defined by the Torah, and which has existed for the last 3,325 years since the Torah was given, and whose Mesora has been passed down through the Jewish generations and has been practiced by the Jews until today, is not normal.
Great. She’s going to define for the Orthodox, what is normal.
At 3:18, Interviewer – “So your aims are broader than simply what happens at the Western Wall.”
At 6:40, Anat – “We’re going to be there on the 25th of February for Purim. We’ll be reading Megila, the book of Esther, a book where a woman is the leader, a woman who wasn’t hesitant to speak out.”
The leader was a Femail? What happened to Mordechai?
Did he disappear?
Oh, I forgot. He was a man. Or was he a “myn” ?
Anyway, he wasn’t important.
Quotes from “A Call to Action” by Anat Hoffman:
“Yes, we want to be seen and heard.”
“If you join us, you will see that despite the difficult circumstances, we pray as best as we can at the Western Wall, where our mothers and grandmothers prayed, and we will not be segregated or intimidated.”
Our mothers and grandmothers stood separately from the men and did NOT pray at the Kosel with Talis, Tefilin, and Kol Isha.
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Quote from Reform Judaism Magazine, Winter 2008,
Article: “Rebel with a Cause”
“We say that the law should recognize as a Jew anyone born of a Jewish mother OR father (so long as she or he has not converted to another religion), any person who has converted to Judaism by any ordained rabbi, or anyone who has been persecuted because of anti-Semitism.”
Wonderful. Now let’s change the Torah’s definition of who is a born Jew, and who is a Kosher convert.
So all Anat Hoffman wants to do is to pray at the Kosel.
Yeah, right.
Quote from Article in Yated Ne’eman, 6/12/13:
That’s Hoffman’s true agenda, laid out in a BBC interview.
No publicity, correct?
Orthodox Jews follow the Mesora from Sinai. Others do not.
Great. Let’s have Conservative and Reform “Marriage,” so Jews can marry out of the faith and even someone of the same gender, C”V, if they want to.
Let’s have Conservative and Reform “Divorce,” so we can create a new generation of Aishes Ish who marry a 2nd man while still being married to the 1st man, and a new generation of Mamzerim.
If the Kosel is just a wall, why do WoW need to pray there?
They want to observe Rosh Chodesh at the Kotel, the site beloved to all Jews, which by the way was built well before such distinctions as “Orthodox” existed in the world.
That’s because before the 19th century CE, ALL Jews were Orthodox and followed the Mesora from Sinai. There was no Reform or Conservative “religion,” until Jews who went off the Derech invented them.
Women of the Wall observed Rosh Chodesh at the Kotel for twenty years in peace and quiet.
Peace and quiet? Then why did they keep getting arrested for breaking the law?
From 1967 to 1989 (the inception of WoW), no one else had a problem with the way Tefila was conducted at the Kosel.
There is NO issue of kol isha and NO reason why women must pray silently at the Kotel while they are surrounded by noise.
Their Kol Isha can be heard quite clearly, which is why they’re being objected to.
Please see:
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Anat Hoffman: “Yes, we want to be seen and heard.”
Is the lashon hara really l’toeles? Can we criticize others for breaches of tznius while we waste our time with slander and hatred for the purpose of making ourselves feel superior?
Protesting a public violation of the Torah, by people who want to make it look Kosher, is not Lashon Hara. The postings here by people who object to what they’re doing are not to make themselves feel superior. They are protesting the public violation of the Torah.
BTW I happened to have a conversation recently with one of the co-founders of Women of the Wall. She is a very frum and very learned woman whose late husband was a big talmid chacham.
Which of these women (or is it wimmin) had a big talmid chacham husband who condoned Kol Isha singing in front of men?
If not one of these women, then who was the woman? What’s her name and the name of her late husband?
http://womenofthewall.org.il/about/board-and-staff/
BTW, if this group uses “Nashot” instead of “Nishei” or “Nashim” in their name for the reason posted on their web site,
they ought to call themselves “Wimmin of the Wall” in English, to be consistent.
I respectfully disagree, regarding the issue of Tznius:
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“And your camp shall be holy, and He (Hashem) will not see among you Immodesty and turn away from you.”
This is from the Torah, not my judgement of anyone, irrespective of whether anyone does Aveiros or not.
Vilna Gaon:
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“The Yetzer Hora is neutralized, in the case of men being engrossed in Torah study, and in the case of women by adhering to Tznius.”
Gaon Chassid MiVilna, Chapter 15, Note 21
Taking down the Mechitza and having the men and women pray in a mixed group is Reform.
What is the connection between the tradition being holy and being varied? The tradition is the Mesora from Sinai.
From Sun Sentinel, 04/19/13:
Hoffman, who was arrested last year as she led a women’s prayer service at the wall, offered her own compromise:
Allow men-only prayers from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., then take down the partition that separates men and women and offer access to everyone for six hours each day as “an open national monument.”
From the WoW web site:
“Why Nashot Hakotel?
Maybe someone should let these wimmin know that the 1st woman was derived from the rib of a man.
I’m surprised that they didn’t re-spell female as femail.
Hillel and Shammai were ultra-Orthodox Rabbis who debated for the sake of Heaven. None of their debates were about whether women should wear Talis and Tefilin and should sing in front of men.
If WoW is citing what ultra-Orthodox Rabbis did, why are they against Orthodox rules at the Kosel?
The Orthodox Rabbis have passed the Mesora from generation to generation from Sinai, where Moshe Rabbeinu received it from G-d. The rules governing “our life cycle from birth and conversion to death” come from G-d. They do not change in a democracy.
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WoW also wants to sing their prayers by the Kosel (Kol Isha) and read from a Torah scroll and say Kaddish and count women in a Minyan.
Their agenda is “women’s equality” in Judaism.
Is his name
Dov Nechemiah HaKohein ben Rochel Chaya Sorah
or
Dov Nechemiah HaKohein ben Chaya Sorah ?
If her father is not Jewish, she cannot marry a Kohen.
I found out the son’s name:
Amiad Nissim ben Sara Fruma
Please daven and say Tehillim for all of them. R”L they are in critical condition.
Do you have a name for Tehillim for the 27-year-old son of the couple who were R”L killed?
I believe that he was also injured and taken to the hospital.
“For religious reasons,
I don’t shake hands with members of the opposite sex.”
The practice of Mishkav Zochor is worse than murder.
Murder kills the body, but the soul lives on.
The practice of Mishkav Zochor murders the souls that come with the man’s seed.
Jews are supposed to be a “Goy Kodosh U’Mamleches Cohanim,
a holy nation and a kingdom of priests.”
A Jew appearing on America’s Got Talent in front on non-Jews, singing non-Jewish songs, competing to go into non-Jewish show business, is not part of a Torah-dik Jewish lifestyle.
A Jew does not sanctify G-d’s Name by appearing on a show where he has no business being, in the first place.
Kabbalah is part of the Torah.
“Magic tricks” are from the forces of Tumah.
Currently in Flatbush,
unfortunately, there are missionaries leaving booklets and CD’s in front of people’s doors, from a Meshumad, Tom Cantor,
about “how a Jew came to know and put his trust in Yoshka,”
and “A Message of Hope and Gladness for Jewish People.”
I was taught that it would have been better had he not converted;
because now he is a sinning Jew,
whereas before he was a non-sinning Goy.
That’s why Judaism makes it difficult for someone to convert.
A potential convert has to know that there’s no turning back.
Unfortunately, not every man gives the Kesubah the respect it deserves.
I’m not saying that it’s true in every case of divorce;
but there are many Agunas whose husband won’t give them a divorce.
From the RCA website, prenup.org:
“In some cases, spouses have purposely withheld a Get even where their marriages have functionally ended. Some spouses have refused to participate in the Get process in order to extract concessions in divorce negotiations, in order to extort money, or simply out of spite.
Traditionally, rabbinical courts (Batei Din) have been charged with the responsibility of overseeing the process of Jewish divorce, and ensuring that Get is not improperly withheld. However, in modern society, Batei Din frequently lack the authority to do so. The Prenup is a document entered into by a man and woman prior to their marriage. It provides that in the unfortunate event of divorce, the Beit Din will have the proper authority to ensure that the Get is not used as a bargaining chip.”
I NEVER said that an attack on the article is an attack on those Gidolim.
I wrote that speaking out against those who publicly advocate beliefs and practices which are against the Torah is neither Loshon Hora nor Motzee Shem Rah.
I cited the article as an example of what YCT is saying, writing, and doing. All of this information is public and mainstream.
I was then asked, “Who decided that it is against Halacha?”
I then cited those names of the Gidolim ZT”L who issued the Psak Din in 1956 against the same type of Pluralism that YCT endorses today.
Also from the article:
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Although the pre-eminent Modern Orthodox Torah sage, Rav Yosef B. Soloveitchik, permitted collaboration in issues NOT relevant to religion, such as social services, and advocacy on behalf of the State of Israel,
he unequivocally opposed any religious, spiritual, or theological dialogue.
He wrote an article in the newspaper, The Morgen Journal, outlining his opinion on this vitally important matter:
It is impossible for me to comprehend, for example, how Orthodox Rabbis, who spend their best years in Yeshivos and absorbed the spirit of the Oral Law and its tradition, for which Rabbi Akiba, Maimonides, Reb Moshe Iserlis, the Gaon of Vilna, Reb Chaim Brisker, and other Jewish sages are the pillars upon which their spiritual world rests, can join with spiritual leaders for whom all this is worthless. A rabbinical organization is not a professional fraternity, which fights for the economic interests of the rabbi. It is an ideological entity where members work for one purpose and for one ideal. The fundamental difference in ideology and in observance makes such a unity impossible. From the point of view of the Torah, we find the difference between Orthodoxy and Reform Judaism much greater than that which separated the Pharisees from the Sadducees in the days of the Second Commonwealth, and between the Karaites and traditionalists in the Gaonic era.
Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion.
In my opinion, the article is fine.
They issued a Psak Din against the same type of Pluralism that YCT believes in today.
Rav Avrohom Joffen, Rav Avrohom Kalmanowitz, Rav Aharon Kotler, Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Gedaliah Schorr, Rav Chaim Mordechai Katz, Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky, Rav Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, Rav Yitzchok Hutner, Rav Menachem Yosef Zaks, and Rav Dovid Lipschitz were not light on Mekoros and were not slanderers.
Please thoroughly read the article in the link that I posted.
Speaking out against those who publicly advocate beliefs and practices which are against the Torah is neither Loshon Hora nor Motzee Shem Rah.
Please see:
baruchderrin: I think you meant, “i am appalled.”
Also, if you Google “chai rotel,”
there is more than one website displayed.
Which website should be used to purchase the Chai Rotel?
Thank you.
To The Best Bubby:
Never mind. I just read your response. Thank you.
To The Best Bubby:
Did you receive my fax?
To The Best Bubby:
I already sent the fax, last night,
to the same phone number as Blinky and Oomis1105 sent their faxes.
There was a cover sheet (with the name JaneDoe18 on it),
and 2 additional pages,
for a total of 3 pages.
Weren’t these pages given to you?
Best Bubby,
I received an email that my fax to +44 208 808 9789,
the fax number you quoted above,
was sent to
Snowcrest Kosher Foods, London, UK;
and that the recipient is NOT “The Best Bubby.”
I double-checked the fax number.
What happened?
Best Bubby,
I just sent the fax.
Would you please send an email to the email address
written on the Cover Sheet
that you received the fax, safely.
Thank you very much, again, for your Chesed.
I believe that 011 is the International Direct Dial Code for
phone calls originating in the United States and Canada.
If you are faxing to The Best Bubby’s fax machine
from any other country,
please check as to which is the correct
International Direct Dial Code for your specific country.
International Direct Dialing from North America is:
011 44 208 808 9789
This will directly dial to the fax machine.
011 is the International Direct Dial Code.
44 is the country code for the United Kingdom.
208 is one of the London city codes.
808 9789 is the local phone number.
Dial the entire number as 011442088089789
HOWEVER, before dialing the number,
check with your long distance company
as to what your international dialing rates are,
so you’ll know what the call will cost you.
You can fax this from your home fax machine.
Best Bubby:
Thank you for your kindness and your thoughtfulness in having the welfare of other Jews in mind.
May Hashem give you a great reward for your Chesed.
IY”H B”N I will fax the names to you ASAP.
Tizkee L’Mitzvos.
Thank you so much.
The Goodreads description of Deborah Feldman:
“Deborah Feldman was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York. Her memoir, UNORTHODOX: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, is being published by Simon and Schuster on February 14, 2012. She is currently working on the first novel in a series about crime in the Hasidic community that is based on real-life characters and events, and is due out from Soho Press in Autumn 2012. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City with her son.”
So now after, “Unorthodox,” she’s “working on the first novel in a series about crime in the Hasidic community, that is based on real-life characters and events, and is due out from Soho Press in Autumn 2012.”
Not only did she leave Yiddishkeit;
she committed a Chilul Hashem against Yiddishkeit.
She’s after money and publicity; and now, it sounds, to me, like she’s really going after the Hasidic community, with a vengeance.
I agree with ZeesKite, on this issue.
Best Bubby: Did you receive the names, via email, from YWN?