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Look up the Sefer Hatodah on Shevuos how Yishai took a pilegesh to give birth to Dovid Hamelech but she substituted the wife for herself which Yishai was never told.
There is an interesting GRA on לבני הפלגשם where Rashi says that a yud is missing and a pilegesh has no kesuvah. What is the connection? איש, אשה and כתובה Hashem י-ה-ו-ה resides in it. The yud in ish, the heh in ishah and the vov heh in kesuvah where it should have been called כתב. The pilegesh has no kesuvah so the vov heh is missing by halfing the shem as פלג שם.
In our chasiddish yeshivas in my time they held that one should rather go to public school.
These clubs will dissolve automatically if there is no attendance. The schools should teach their detriment.
BDE, May Hashem console you among other mourners of Tzion and Jerusalem by bringing Meshiach with the redemption and know no more sorrows.
There is a benefit in milchamto shel Torah. It helped the Beis Hillel through allowing the Beis Shamai to come first because of their humility. They arrived to the truth by seeing the other side and not being blinded by tunnel vision, seeing only one side of an argument. Being humble, we will admit when we are wrong creating peace,
Sam, it is emunah and bitachon as the Ramban’s sefer not in reverse. Emunah leads to bitachon not vice versa as in English, faith and trust.
Covid is the opposite of kavod. Who runs towards covid, it will run after one and who runs away from covid, it will run away from one whereas kavod when running towards it, it will run away but when running away, it will run towards one.
I want to make my statement above stronger. Dr. Fauci can give the ‘best’ advice but people will die ch’v of he is not listened to. It is interesting that ‘listen’ and ‘silent’ have the same letters. One must be silent to listen.
Go to the website marbitz dot com the play a gemora game like gemora tutor to reinforce the gemora expressions, idioms.
The more often we scrutinize our actions in the year, the easier it is at the end of the year as the loan will be paid up.
Sam Klein, obviously we should do teshuva but it does not mean that we should dig our own grave as in the Midbar without listening to advice how to protect ourselves. You always encourage people to do teshuva but do you do teshuva? בכל עת יהי-ה בגדיך לבנים, we should not need a wakeup call to keep our cloth constantly white. The Dubner Maggid explains that teshuva is like the payoff of an installment loan. Some people account for their actions every night others every week end or month end and others once a year. The importance is that by the next year the loan should be paid.
Keep Rebbi Nachum Gam Zu’s saying always in mind, גם זו לטובה, this is also for the better. It could have been worse. Emphasize the positive. כל מה דעבד רחמנא לטב עבד, everything Hashem does is for the good. The Chasam Sofer interprets the pasuk וראית את אחרי ופני לא יראו. We don’t see the big picture. We see things from hindsight. איזהו עשיר השמח בחלקו, the truly rich person is happy with their lot.
Fauci might give the right advice but if he is not listened to, people will die.
It is not the same to be a tzadik ben tzadik where one has to work hard to live up to it and then he has double zechusim. The Mayanei shel Torah brings the Rebbi Meir from Premislan who says זה א-לי ואנוהו if a person recognizes his own G-d is beautiful but yichus G-d of my father might bring to gaive, haughtiness.
Learning between mincha and maariv might be based to learn day and night which ben hashmosas might satisfy as well as learning at dawn.
Through the Shechina which we can feel even if we don’t understand it. We should make Tikun Chatzos. Before I sit on a chair I say it.
AAQ, PhD in what?
My father had a favorite saying in yiddish, ob es ist bashert tzu tantzen, tantz man, when it is fated to dance, one dances. It is based on a story where the brothers spent over night in a motel. Their room was located next to the bar. A drunken soldier, being in a good mood, picked one of them up from the bed and started to dance with him. He periodically would do this. Eventually he had enough and he told his brother to change places, figuring that as he was dancing with him, he will continue dancing but now with his brother. When the soldier came back, he said, I danced enough with you so I will dance with him. He ended up dancing with the same brother, so he said the above saying.
Moish, you yourself still are not sure if Syag is a woman, so what are you talking about? I don’t see their personality revealed but you have revealed yours. Probably a bachur who is not sure about himself. You have not shown any halacha that this is an issur. Over here we discuss ‘gender neutral’ topics.
Mosh26, are you a Rav? If not, don’t tell people what to do. Your own reference about talking to the opposite gender indicated it is ok as no flirtation is allowed here where even her voice quoted from the Beis Shmuel is not a problem. So if you are unhappy and have a problem, no one wants to hear your views and get off this platform. As pointed out the mods are available to make sure that no private and personnel information is conveyed. I think you are speaking shtusim and lakshen as כל הפוסל במומו פוסל, one faults with his own faults. The women over here communicate just as men where their views are gender neutral. Only you care if the communicator is a woman or man and no one else, so it looks like you have a problem. I don’t ask anyone because I don’t think it is a shaila. I will tell you a story that my father a’h told me. A Rav gave a drasha about the issur of bowling. Someone who wanted the Rav to see what he is talking about took him to a bowling alley and showed him how it is played by throwing the ball and knocking down the pins. The Rav said this is a game but not bowling. When asking a shaila, one must tell the Rav the full circumstances how people on the CR mostly don’t know each other to whom they are talking to by writing in public and the mods (supervisors) don’t allow any private and personnel information as I quoted by the policy and principles that have been instituted here for the communicators by threatening them to be booted off.
Is there yichud by a doctor or he is tarid bemelachto, busy in his work, if no nurse is available?
Maaser kesafim is a minhag and not a chiyuv, rewarded well. The Dubner Maggid says that there was question above, why Hashem gives one more than kadei chayov, needed for survival? So Hashem said, I will give them ten times as much to be able to give maaser required for survival. If one does not give maaser, he will only get what is needed for his survival. This is what it says עשר בשביל שתתעשר, give maaser to become rich.
The Beis Elokim says that Meshiach is not coming because the majority has to ask for it. Marry for money usually does not work as the parties are not compatible.
AAQ, the Rambam above becomes questionable when when we have Non-Euclidean geometry and Copernican astronomy.
I will quote the rules posted by the mods which should eliminate the problems discussed.
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I think that the CR is ‘not’ yichud under any condition as it is ‘public’ and the mods will ‘deter’ any personnel communication. Therefore it is ‘not’ assur as the OP perceives.
When writing to each other is not really yichud as it is different than personnel private mingling where only the often communication creates the friendship to want a personnel meeting.
When writing in private to each other, one might create a rendezvous, wanting to meet each other.
AAQ, I agree.
Look at the Rambam Hilchas Kiddush Hachodesh (17, 24) where he says that by Mathematics and Astronomy we can rely on non-Jewish Greek sources as the truth proven cannot be denied.
Yes, it might be but the CR is public. Writing is better than talking.
ujm, your criteria might be a yichud problem as it might be done in private whereas over here communication is in the open.
The svara is, if there is a stipulation that there will not be a discussion about each others family and private matters but business and politics, there is no problem as the ruling of kol beisha discussed above. The woman in her discussion is seen as a man. We don’t know what the gender is and women are asked as the men not to reveal their gender. No one knew that I was a man until I revealed it and maybe I should not have.
Moish26 gave a reference above whether permitted to talk to another gender who says, ‘It is permitted for a man to talk to a woman regarding work or business related subjects [serious and to the point conversations’. This has a reference: See Beis Shmuel 21/4 “However hearing her voice during speech is permitted”; There is no prohibition found in Poskim regarding interaction with a woman for business related matters or other everyday activity, and so is the custom even amongst G-d fearing Jews to have work conversations with women when necessary.
Over here it does not say they don’t know each other, so it says when necessary.Should be עם האשה with the woman who is recognized as his wife.
CS, what was your major?