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Listen, kids out there, please don’t smoke, cigs and e-cigs! Regular cigarettes are dangerous and E- cigs have chemicals that are dangerous and are also addictive. Scientists don’t yet know the long term effect of e-cigs.

Please, I beg you, don’t make the mistake and smoke! Please, Hashem loves you and gave you a beautiful body. Don’t ruin it by smoking, chas vesholom. Have you ever seen a lung cancer ward? If you ever see one, you can see the terrible effets of smoking.

Barech Hashem, the number of smokers have significaly decreased.

What do you mean? I always thought that chalav yisrael is not required for cheese and butter.

UMBUMP

Butter and Cheese

DY- I think you need to understand teenager physocology. A teenage kid wants to smoke e-cigs, but he doesn’t know if it is dangerous or mutar. He visits the CR and see people talking about hechsherim on it. Most do not mention the health problems, or the halachik issues. Boom, chas vesholom the kid could end up smoking if given the chance.

Do you want to be the cause of more kids smoking? Does anybody?

Sam2:

That story is false. R’ Ovadiah knew what she looked like and still listened. He obviously considered it Muttar anyway.

To reiterate Avi K’s question:

How do you know that, and it contradicts his psak in Yabia Omer 1:6(13)?

The Frumteens Moderator has a lot on Zionism and the binding nature of the oaths.

PAA, why don’t you debate him directly on Frumteens? You seem very knowledgeable yourself.

Old joke:

Q: What’s the penalty for bigamy?

A: Two mothers-in-law.

The Wolf

RebYid- I can’t believe you used Wolf’s signature, he can sue you, you know 🙂

I think Rav Frank tz”l was saying (I never really looked into it, so correct me if I am wrong) that since there is no gezeirah on powdered milk, you don’t need a Jew to watch it. But you still need to make sure it is kosher, so government regulations (or maybe even in a country where there are basically no non-kosher animals) we can assume it is from a cow. Rav Moshe tz”l held that government regulation in America is strong enough to actually make it like a Jew watched it. (Anan Sahadi) So it seems that Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank tz”l argued on Rav Moshe’s blanket heter since he only allows one to rely on regulation when one can reasonably assume it is kosher and does not need Chazal’s takannha ie. the gezeirah is not in affect.

So, yes, it seems that in a country where one cannot even assume it is from a cow, it is assur.

Well, why don’t you eat chalav stam, is it bec. you consider yourself a baal nefesh or you hold like Rav Yakkov Breisch that the heter of chalav stam is:

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RebYidd23-Do you like apple pie?

I agree with you. You can still be anti-zionist and hold that the shavous are not binding.

Just to finish off the qoute from Rav Moshe tz”l:

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Happy Mother’s Day 2015

Joseph-I knew you would be pro the story, since you are such an Anti-Chalav Stamist yourself.

And as always contact your own Rav (From me, not mods)

I take that back, I don’t want to give mussar to people in certain areas.

DaasYochid- Why is this not a case of tzarich iyun?

The Gemara means it comes from goyim, not that a Jew who is not shomer torah umitzvos and lives like a goy (which Dennis Prager does not, by the way). Your explanation is forced.

DaasYochid-It is not nice to make fun of someone else’s hard work.

Maybe in hashkafah/aggadatah. But in halacha, it seems they were quite lenient. Ever heard of the heter of in front of 3? Just from the Gemara, it is very lenient but the medieval commentators limit its application and the Chofetz Chaim takes a pretty stringent shittah in explaining that Gemara which basically renders the leniency basically, practically, inapplicable.

RebYidd23-It is a random thread.