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How about an Android app? there is no good streaming android app that plays jewish music. This way I could listen in my car through my phone.
According to the chassam sofer, Nittel nacht follows the Eastern Orthodox (Julian) calendar, not the modern Gregorian.
Yiddish=German. How a about a kodesh tam?
It’s a good idea of it’s moderated. Bad idea if it’s not.
xoxo is txt, not Chinese.
Because Yiddishe tam names are like wearing a black hat, white shirt and black pants- it doesn’t identify who you are, since you look like everyone else. “Kama yosi ika beshuka”.
I still lurk, but I post more rarely.
The OU sourcebook shows that the murex trunculus techeles are NOT clearly the right ones. Too many kashyes:
1. The dye is chemically indistinguishable from kala ilan (indigo). Yet, the gemara says there was a test to distinguish techeiles from indigo.
2. The murex trunculus shells are not the color of the sea.
3. Murex trunculus doe not come up every 70 years.
There were a slew of other kashyas which I don’t remember offhand. But the bottom line is, it’s not a slam dunk by any stretch of the imagination. Tishbi yetareitz.
According to Rabbi Hillel Goldberg’s book on Rav Yisroel Salanter, as well as Rabbi Israel Glenn’s book, Rav Yisroel Salanter ZT”L suffered from depression, what was called by his talmidim as a “mara shechora”. He overcame it to become on of the most influential leaders klal yisorel has had in the last 150 years.
Most gedolim have dealings with people who have depression, as it’s very common- much more common than people are willing to let on.
Who’da thunk it that Mod42 would quote a toeva character in the CR? 🙂
So Moderator 42 is familiar with Harry Potter.
Congrats to surviving one year of moderating.
There is always GOOGL (46645)- send them a text. Good for most things.
Havesomeseichel, agreed 100%. Everyone has a role. Not everyone is meant to sit and learn, and they would do much more good for klal yisroel protecting lives than wasting time in the beis midrash. There’s a reason why “Nachal” has the support of most oif the litvishe gedolim. But for those who can accomplish while learning, they are better off learning than being a soldier.
We’re talking hoya and floyah. While the physical soldier is the shaliach, the zechuyos are determined by the mitzvos and learning done. A gvir’s accountant gies out a lots of tzedakah money checks. Without him the checks don’t go out. Is he an important person? yes. Is he as important as the gvir whose money he’s giving out? No.
The soldier is indeed saving lives, and we must have hakaras hativ to the soldiers. But someone learning gives the soldier spiritual ammo to succeed.
00646, because when you’re dealing with a terrorist someone has to be shooting a gun. The idea of Torah magna umatzla doesn’t mean you don’t need soldiers. Someone learning Torah properly prevents the terrorist from being successful, but they still need a shliach (ie a soldier) to kill the terrorist. Dovid Hamelech learned a lot of Torah, but he still needed to physically fight wars to be Hashem’s shaliach. There was a whole mob fighting the Romans by churban bayis sheini, but “Im Hashem lo yishmor ir, shav shakat shomer”. During war, Israel’s bus drivers take soldiers to the front. Yet, I don’t hear anyone say one should be a bus driver over a soldier, even though the driver’s role is vital.
Rabbi Dovid Weinberger says he took baby wipes to Rav Moshe Feinstein ZT”L and he always mattired them. But he’s a daas yachid. Other talmidim of Rav Moshe Feinstein ZT”L say lo haya velo nivra.
The ones accepted are the Sleek Sensation baby wipes. they have an acceptable for shabbos logo on them.
000646, this question is dealt with by the Ramchal in Daas Tevunos and Derech Hashem, and by others as well. The question goes back even further to the Baalei tosfos who died in the Crusades, the Tannaim who died during the Churban Bayis Sheini and Churban Beitar, the nevi’im who died during churban bayis rishon, etc. The answer is that during times of danger and sha’as hadin, even learning can’t necessarily save someone. The Holocaust is an old question, just on a larger scale.
Welcome, Mod77!
Now that we have all mods together, which stylebook should we follow for posts?
Clearly you are supposed to like the way the girl looks, and not be repulsed. However, making transient things like looks (how many girls fatten up after 2 kids?) or money (how many millionaires are currently paupers thanks to this crisis?) guarantees you that your love will be transient.
Gershon Veroba makes no pretense of composing those songs.
I find it hard to imagine that a video meeting between 2 people who never met could lead to something inappropriate. There are just too many social barriers. If we worry about that, how can we allow a couple to date? There has to be a balance, and the gedolim feel that this is on the right side of that balance.
Rav Avigdor Miller ZT”L writes that when he first went to the Yeshiva in Slabodka in 1932, the nearby city of Kovna (of which Slabodka was a suburb)had a bus leaving every half hour on Shabbos for mechallelei shabbos to go to work. By the time he left in 1938, the bus left every 5 minutes. One disadvantage to our way of memorializing Europe is that we think everyone in Europe was frum. This was not the case. Secular Zionists, Socialists, Bundists, and many other “ists” vied for attention with frum Yiddishkeit.
Lesschumras, Despite the rishonim you quoted, there was a lot of am haaratzus during those times. I believe the meforshim say that the Chelmnicki pogroms happened because of all the talking in shuls. One thing I do know is that Hashem is the ultimate dayan ha’emes, and no punishment comes to klal yisroel if they didn’t deserve it. this doesn’t mean we don’t mourn those killed. It just means we accept it.
I agree with Mayan Dvash. People actually give more based on the dinner. If the yeshivas could figure out a way to avoid the $200 per couple overhead for the dinners, I’m sure they would have done it. but it’s difficult. People expect opulence. You can get a better glimpse of the yeshiva’s values by seeing how the roshei yeshiva live. Do they live in opulence, or in litvish simplicity?
There is a machlokes haposkim how one should celebrate Bat Mitzvahs. Swiping from Harav Daniel Neustadt:
Rav Walkin (Zekan aharon 1:6)holds bas mitzvahs are a goyishe custom and should be avoided.Rav Moshe feinstein ( OC 1:104) holds it’s like any other birthday party and is not a seudas mitzvah. The Sridei Eish 3:93 and Rav Avadia yosef (Yabia Omer 2:29) hold it is a seudas mitzvah. However, both The Igros Moshe and the Sridei Eish holds it shouldn’t be celebrated in a shul.
Rav Moshe ZT”l clarifies in OC 2:97 why a girl’s bas mitzvah is treated differently from a bar mitzvah. The boy undergoes a change in his public mitvzah obervance (Tefillin, minyan, etc) and this warrants a public celebration. The girl’s change is in private observance, and this does not warrant a party. I would like to look up these Igros Moshes inside, since the Zohar which is the source for bar mitzvah celebrations would lechora apply to both.
The Zohar which discusses the seudas bar mitzvah of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai would lechora apply to bas mitzvahs (and, to a lesser extent, tzitzis parties) as well. However, what gets lost is the PURPOSE of the celebration, which is to celebrate the person’s obligation in the Torah, not a “rite of passage”.
Why don’t people make a “bar onshin” party at 20?
JAW22, clearly someone there who doesn’t accept the yeshiva’s authority over them will have no problem voting against the yeshiva’s interests. The question in this thread was “should they have a say”, not “should they have the only say”.
They don’t have to toe the line, but they can’t complain about BMG’s influence.
Getzel, nobody likes paying taxes. It’s a necessary evi. but as long as people have hakaras hatov for BMG, many will vote against their economic interest to (ostensibly) further Klal Yisroel’s spiritual interests, which is done by strengthening BMG.
Azi, there’s a difference between saying klal yisroel has flaws they need to work on and agreeing with every canard posted on an irreligious website. I agree 100% that one shouldn’t be complacent in his yiddishkeit, and that if one isn’t growing then he’s regressing. That’s not the implication of your post.
Jaw22, if you move to Alaska, you can’t complain about the cold, as it’s a conscious decision. If you move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, you can’t complain about the outsize influence that Harvard and MIT have on the area. There are many townships in New Jersey with frum communities (Edison/Highland Park, Teaneck, Passaic, Cherry Hill, etc). If you decide to pick Lakewood, then you are picking a town dominated by a 6,000+ member yeshiva, and where many residents are current or former members of the yeshiva. BMG’s influence comes with living in Lakewood. Lakewood is a thriving Jewish community ONLY because of the yeshiva. If you don’t like it, there are many other townships and cities in New Jersey who would love it if frum people moved in. But Lakewood is BMG territory. If you don’t like it, live elsewhere.
Azi, someone I know ( a relative) just made a wedding on the quick because the kallah’s father was very sick with cancer. The entire community pitched in to help make it happen.
People are always looking for reasons to hate Orthodox Jews because they make the irreligious feel guilty just by their existence. We shouldn’t give people ammunition with senseless acts of violence, but the good is quite easily there. If you wipe the dirt and self-loathing off your glasses you will be able to see the good as well.
If you live in Lakewood, then you face the fact that the yeshiva is the dominant player in the area. You moved to Lakewood due to the Torah atmosphere caused by BMG’s existence. You can’t then go on and criticize the yeshiva for encouraging people to vote in a way that benefits it. Unions do the same thing all the time.
Jews are hated the world over. Orthodox Jews are the Jews’ Jews.
I do agree that the chillulei Hashem caused by a handful of ***** have soiled our reputation.
But as someone who lives in an Orthodox community full of chessed, Torah, and good middos, lets just say I fully disagree with their comments.
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I switched to a cloth when I realized that my shvitz made my velvet ones disgusting. Cloth ones are easily washed.