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Many people have friendly relationships with Arabs, especially in Israel.
Everyone is an individual.
I have heard of this as well.
Murex trunculus as a chumra would be below wool tzitzis, Chalav yisroel, pas yisroel, yoshon, zman mogen avraham for krias shema, etc. Those have reliable psakim to back them up. There are serious questions on this, as Rav Shmuel miller pointed out. And how can the Jews have lost a process that their neighbors next door were still using?
Finally, the latest archaeological evidence shows a darker techeiles color than what is being use.
The dye from murex trunculus changes color depending on exposure to sun. It can have many shades.
Mesivta Torah Vodaas, aka MTV.
Love the initials!
Zvei dinim, I asked a talmid of Rabbi Belsky. My info is different from your info.
hello99, my rav agrees with you. So we wait 24 hours and self-clean. Our toaster oven is on the fritz, so we have been self-cleaning more than usual of late.
Lifelines article about a kolle guy and his inetrnet addiction. YWN made a prominent appearance. He then stopped going on the internet and it make a big difference.
I once knew someone who refused to date girls who didn’t have brothers, as they would have these lofty ideas of men from their rabbeim and seforim which would clash with the reality. Maybe that’s what he meant.
menachem melamed, I hear. Tizku lemitzvos. I guess I misunderstood you.
Zahavasdad, I think lakewood has an anonymous halacha line where you can call up and receive an anonymous answer.
my posts are sarcastic. I hate smoking.
mods, please let link thru- this case is clearly permitted:
http://www.kof-k.org/articles/040108110431W-28%20Lo%20Sichaneim.pdf
Menachem Melamed, saying “research in seforim isn’t the same as shimmush talmidei chachamim” is not a taanah to uproot the halacha as stated by the mishna brurah,the aruch hashulchan, and every other mainstream poseik. Which “qualified rabbeim and gedolim” of yours argued on the halachos I stated? I can’t find any.
She either disliked smoking or disliked B.O., and the guy was offended.
Or she didn’t have a mustache.
Yes. What’s the controversy?
and now we’re in mishpacha!
As soon as I read the article I will start a thread about it. Not yet available on mishpacha website.
Chaim Berlin HS, Torah Temimah
Doesn’t like smoking.
Keshetigdal, tavin.
I hear good things about Waterbury.
Gush is a kli rishon even if it’s on a kli sheini, and must be given the chumros of a kli rishon.
Respectfully, a refutation means quoting sources, not quoting what you feel the halacha to be. There has been more heat than light shed so far, so I thought it prudent to actually look up the halachos. Those here who are still oseik in torasu umenaso, feel free to correct me where I am wrong and add in additional mareh mekomos.
I read through OC siman 75 with mishna brurah last night and this morning. I also took a look at the aruch hashulchan.
Mishna brura makes it clear that all areas above the knees and elbows must be covered. The heter of less than a tefach of elbow only seems to be in regards to saying krias shma, not if a woman is allowed to walk around like that. Rav Shlomo Zalman Aurbach holds the elbow itself is like the area above it (dirshu edition notes). This point isn’t clear in the mishnah brurah. The Rem”a paskens that even less than a tefach is assur for saying krias shma if it’s not your wife. Aruch hashulchan argues on this.
The mishna brurah makes clear that there is no tzad heter for showing legs or arms if everyone does it, as they must be covered.
The mishnah brura also says that less than a tefach of the area above the knee is assur even if it’s your wife, since it causes extra hirhur. The aruch hashulchan argues, and says it has the same din as the arm. Rav Henkin quoted above says that less than a tefach of above the elbow is muttar lechatchila, but it seems to argue on Rav shlomo Zalman, who says the elbow itself must be covered even though it’s less than a tefach. Rav Henkin had a “limud zechut” (as in, “I hold it’s assur but perhaps they won’t burn”) if it’s more than a tefach but the sleeves are tight so the body can’t be seen. However, this seems to contradict the gemara which says tefach be’ish ervah. The Chazon Ish holds you need to cover from the elbow to the hand, but he seems to be a daas yachid on this. If there are any relevant igros moshes on it, please let me know. I hope to go to yeshiva soon to check them out.
And congrats to whoever made it into Mishpacha.
Try Chaim Berlin High school.
I did find, via google, one lenient source. Not normative halacha, though:
The best development I’ve seen on this is Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin’s Contemporary Tseni’ut. It appeared in Tradition 37:3 (2003), as well as its own book. The Tradition article is available online, paid subscription required. Here’s his conclusion, as relates to your question:
A typology can be established, then, as follows:
There is much contradictory info on this, but bar shatya’s is what wikipedia says. Other sites say 65 pounds-130 for a yearling lamb. But that’s with modern pproduction methods. Ancient animals were much scrawnier.
But it’s hard to get good info, as lamb is not that popular…it’s the silence of the lamb weights.
You also have to remember that the ancient kezayis was much smaller than today’s halachic kezayis, more akin to an actual zayis. So that works in pba’s favor.
(kezayis today fallows halachic mesorah, so one who eats a kezayis of matzah based on the old standard isn’t yotzei- sorry Rabbi Slifkin…)
Soliek, in your experience, what are the top 3 reasons kids of otd and end up in our place?
I was told by someone who wants to remain anonymous that Rabbi Belsky doesn’t wear it during the week when people would see, but he does wear it on shabbos underneath his frock, and this is a personal chumra. He hasn’t discussed it publicly because he doesn’t want to impose it on others. This is also why he only wears it on shabbos, underneath his frock. I was also told his own close talmidim do not wear it. As I am just an anonymous cr poster and not a voice of authority, ask your own LOR.
I am working through a contact to find out about Rabbi Belsky.
Every good poseik has personal chumros he keeps for himself but does not impose on others. The question if this is one of those chumros or not.
This issue has also become highly politicized, with techeiles being viewed as a mizrachi mitzvah. So it could be, if Rabbi Belsky does this, that his silence is simply so as not to be attacked by the anti-zionists. Thus the need to clarify.
There are many issues with the murex trunculus, some of which were listed above, as well as the fact that long after the Jews “lost” the secret, the Phoenicians were still making purple dye from it just a few miles away. I knew Rav Shachter did, but Rabbi Belsky used to not. I will try to get clarity on this.