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“It is the latest krumkeit and is totally wrong. Women and girls belong at home dealing with house things – the meal, kids etc.”

“I wish when people write these things they would add in my opinion, since there is no halacha backing this up.”

I personally know of multiple Gedolei Roshei Yeshivos who said that when women publicly practice a religous something that is solely in the domain of the men, (ie laining, shavuos night learning, etc), the motivation is wanting to be equal to – the same as – men. Women who are truly religously motivated l’shaim shamayim do their thing without any fanfare or political statement. There are many stories about the rebbetzins of gedolim throughout the generations who did all kinds of things. However, specifically in regards to shavuos, there is no basis whatsoever for the women to stay up all night learning. That does not mean that it is intrinsically asur. However, if it could/will? lead to even the slightest argument with her husband, if she’ll be in a worse mood on shavuos, etc, then she’ll be worse off for doing so. The feminist movement doesn’t understand the idea of different yet equal. HASHEM gave men things to do and gave women things to do. (One went as far as to say that a woman who wants to have, for example, a womens minyan is lying when she says the bracha of she’asani kirtzono because she clearly is jealous of the avodah given to men.) There is unlimited room for real spiritual growth within the framework of mitzvos given to women. Do these same women also strive to work on their middos with the same zeal? Usually not. Just as a woman should not be yearning to express her religous fervor through putting on tefillin, a woman should not look to staying up all night on shavuos as a means to spiritual fulfillment. Furthermore, there are shitos that hold that a man who will have his davening negatively impacted as a result of staying up all night should not. And the nashim tzidkaniyos who have stayed up all night were on a pretty high madreigah who already were tremendous baalei middos etc.

better not to take the drink maybe

How about a gemara? Shuchan aruch? Tanya? Rabbi Frand on the parsha? Rabi Akiva Eiger? I heard they all got great reviews.

Actually there are numerous other gedolim and roshei yeshiva who wear techeiles. Many do it privately. For instance Rav Belsky shlita wears it only on shabbos when it’s covered by his bekisheh. There’s another famous rosh yeshiva who shall remain nameless who wears techeiles and but tucks it in and it was big hock when his shirt once got untucked and everyon found out. Full disclosure: I do not support techeiles (being that Rav Elyashiv and the general consensus of gedolim don not wear it – and it doesn’t matter one iota what their reason is, or if some am ha’aretz blogger disagrees or not) however I do support the truth.

thanks mods!!

than you better do teshuva

its called Seasons, its on main street where supersol used to be by the traffic light of 68th drive. it’s supposed to open right after pesach.

p.s. they claim to be offering free coffee thruought the day to shoppers

that night

i heard b’sheim r’ Moshe heinaman Shlit”a that in Europe, people used a wooden spoon to stir hot foods bec the handle didn’t heat up like a metal utensil would. Naturally, as the year went on, the spoon developed cracks in it, which was a perfect fortress for renegade bits of glatt chometz. Therefore, the spoon would have to be destroyed before pesach, so the bedikah kit manufacturers sent a new wooden spoon to replace the old one getting sacrificed as a korban olah.

speeding well over the limit is dangerous but five, ten iles per hour is not. In fact, studies have shown that it is more dangerous to drive ten miles under the limit on a highway than it is ten miles over

G-D made him a lefty for a reason

bezalel:

He is not giving away anything that he would have had otherwise. It’s that simple.

sometimes it sounds like the podiums are arguing. . .

blueprints – that is absolutely not true. There is a famous maggid story that many people have a minhag to tell on Tisha Be’av night where the maggid essentially signs away all his olam haba to the town moser. I asked my rebbe if he really lost out because of that and he said absolutely not – HASHEM did not create a system where you can lose out [in olam haba] by doing the right thing, and for sure the olam haba of the maggid wasn’t lacking any from his deed. (The obvious question – so it’s worth it to give up your olam haba because you’ll get it back + more, so of course give it up, so why such a great thing – it only works if you’re doing it l’shaim shamayim – meaning you are really willing to give it up without the assurance of a “makeup”. There’s a story with the Gra, that someone asked him to daven for s/o, he said gezairah in shamayim i can’t, pleaded with him, so he davened, and was informed someway that he had just lost all his olam haba as punishment for “messing up” the gezairah. The Gra then said “Now i know that all my mitzvos were truly “shelo al menas lekabel pras”.)

Anyway, rest assured that you’ll get your full reward in shamayim.

because obvoiously this person did not do it in the lechatchila order.

the only point that i am proving from yeshivas’ use of internet is that there are some situations when it is obviously mutar to use, not what those situations are and not to any individual.

HaRav Elyashiv was asked by someone who was extremely tarud with very important matters in running a yeshiva if he could not do hnayim mikra due to lack of time, and answered absolutely not, but you can be yotzei one time mikra reading along with the baal korei on shabbos.

i asked my rosh hayeshiva this question, and he answered thus: It’s pashut that you don’t “lose out” by davening/learning etc for someone else. The zchus for the person you’re doing it for is that he is the motivation for you to do it and therefore he gets a share in it, for if not for him, you wouldn’t have done it at all/done it as well. Also, certain things – like tehillim – possess a specific mystical power for certain things, like refuah for a sick person, etc.

He also said that tehillim is not talmud torah but is a form of davening (because, among other reasons, talmud Torah involoves two mitzvas: knowing & ameilus, neither of which is likely to happen when one says tehillim. With the exception of Mishnayos, that has a mystical power to simply saying the words, all Torah shbaal peh is meaningless without knowing the content. (see Rambam at end of first perek of Mishnayos Avos for classification of the words that you speak out if you are just reading the words out loud))

Also, he said that learning is by far the most powerful zchus to give someone.

There is no blanket assur on the internet that is 100%. Most Gedolim agree that sometimes it is necessary, just in those cases you must have adequate shmirah etc. And if you noticed, many yeshivas have internet in their offices for administrative use.