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Oomis, as a side note, Italy is one of the few, if not only, European country that I’ve gone to precisely because Italian Jews had a very high survival rate. The Italians viewed Jews as fellow Italians who happened to be Jewish and went out of their way to protect them. Don’t confuse Italy with the Vatican. Local parishes hid many adult Jews after Italy surrendered and Germany took over.
Then don’t go go shul when it’s raining
Hamilton attended cheder in a Spanish and Portuguese shul in the Caribbean because the church school would not admit because of his questionable parentage.
The amount of free/reduced tution is taxable as income
It’s hard to argue privacy when there over 500 guests
Just curious rious, doors ATT say they won’t because your contract doesn’t permit it?
There are actually numerous variations on Murphy’s Law. For example, the odds of a slice of bread landing buttered side down increases with the cost of the carpet
Chabad has online schooling for towns too small for a school and ttheir kids too young to go out of town.
The question came up several years ago regarding a dairy restaurant in Midwood and a pizza place in Manhattan ( both now closed ). The Health Department shut them down because of serious infestation/cleanliness issues. When questioned as to how both places had hashgacha, the two respective agencies that reporting on cleanliness wasn’t their responsibility
DY, this is my distinction. Being mechalel shabbos is wrong, but if they never had the education, it’s tinok shenishbar. But if they made their fortune illegally I wouldn’t accept it as a thief can’t claim he didn’t know theft is a crime. A person in my town wanted to donate a significant sum to the shul while under indictment for having stolen millions of dollars. The shul refused the gift, given its source. The person was convicted and sentenced to 20 years years in a Federal prison. On a side ( and sad note ) note, he asked to be sent to a camp at, I believe, Fort Dix as there were enough frum Jews there that they had both nusach sfard and ashkenaz minyanim. His request was granted.
Yes, and as long as it wasn’t earned by breaking a secular law ( he’s already breaking a halachic law)
DY, to answer your question. It’s not so pashut. If someone were to come to me as a school or a shul and make this offer: if I become mechalel shabbos, I’ll donate 20% of my profits, I would try to deter him from being mechalel shabbos. If I couldn’t, I certainly would not accept any donations.
However, what if the person was never shomer shabbos and his money was earned legitimately and honestly? I would agree with newbee that in this case I would accept a donation in that at least the money was being put to tzedakas. The yeshiva in Las Vegas has nearly 300 students in a beautiful building entirely paid for by Adelson. Without his money, these kids would be in public school. Better a yeshiva than donating money to Harvard or a museum.
New be, those are all sources of Ill gotten gains. You stated that a person should not liv a life of ease butbsaw nobreason why while couldn’t benefit
Newbee, so if I understand you correctly, it’s OK to mug an old lady, cheat the government, and borrow money from a bank with no intention of paying it back as long as I give it to tzadaka?
Newbee, so it’s okay for a shul/yeshiva to profit from ill-gotten funds?
What if he’s niftar and his heirs have other plans? I’ve Al’s seen one case where the askan was convicted of fraud and all of his assets were seized, leaving the yeshiva in bad shape because they had already incurred expenses
Google shabbos mode stair lift
Syag, your suggestion of diverting money from libraries to hospitals to support the Torah true position has one small problem. It’s unconstitutional . The Establishment clause prevents the government from supporting the viewpoint of a particular religion.
Besides, explain to a non-Jew why your viewpoint is more important than his library. They also pay taxes
What if you were shomer shabbos but t acquired wealth by being a slumlord or cheating the n business?
Daniel11, this is an old, oft repeated topic. Leaving lyrics aside, what often differentiates Jewish from non-Jewish music is the passage of time. 50 years go by and no one remembers the actual source of the song/nigun. As with most things, there are songs that are inappropriate and there songs that are uplifting and inspirational.
Joseph, what is your proof for that little piece of loshon hara?
Mentsch1, since you claim to have direct knowledge’s of what Hashem wants, can you find out if He wants the Rangers to beat Tampa Bay in tonight’s hockey game? On a more serious note, how do you explain all the ads for luxury goods, cars, sheitels and trips in newspapers targeted at the yeshivish community? As far as standing out, our modes of dress accomplishes that
Joseph, at last I can agree with you on something 100%!!!!
Newbee, you’re the one who brought up kollels and expansion. Why is is it so hard for you to understand that yours is not the only opinion and others can disagree?
Newbee, a shul has an obligation to maintain itself as well as tzadaka.By the way, why shouldn’t a mskom tephila and learning be expanded if it is overcrowded? The average yeshiva or shul usually don’t spend big sums of money on unnecessary expansion as they know mispallilim won’t approve/pay for it.
Newbee, you assume everyone supports the kollel system and is required to support them. Why do people like yourself feel they can sit in judgment on others views and priorities when it comes to tzedaka?
Akuperma,
Turning on lights makes you miserable?
Oyyoyoy,you’re entitled to your opinion. That’s all it is, your opinion. You don’t have to like the event; you just can’t force your opinion on others
This is the same argument I hear that Pesach should be a hardship and a struggle, and recent advances in food production has made ot too easy. Where do people get this idea that Shabbos and Yom Tov enjoyment = hardship and struggle.
Joseph, stop being eastern European-centric
Try Google. I found Kallah magazines’ Gemach directory and it had more than a dozen wedding gown Gemach listings in Brooklyn in several communities
The cost is not outlandish and when you consider what a couple gives as a wedding gift and the food they get
Akuperma, where did I say I like to spend lots of money on parties and that I needed a lecture on what constitutes a bar mitzvah?
What I did say is bar mitzvas should be as INEXPENSIVE as bas mitzvas. For my daughter, we made a kiddush in shul and a small party the next day for relatives and her classmates. And, before you ask, I don’t have sons but my grandson’s bar mitzvah seudah was in a shul with fewer than 100 guests. There is no reason to spend enormous amounts of money.
Not having read Rav Moshe’s tshuva, I would hazard a guess that the cause of his objection was that it was initiated by Mordechai Kaplan, an Orthodox rabbi who founded Reconstructionist Judaism. 90 years later, noone remembers this so it is no longer viewed as copying their minhag. The real key is making the bar mitzvah as inexpensive as the bas mitzvah, not the other way around
With the exception of Italy, I wouldn’t send a bachur to Europe
Oomis, many people talk during davening. Would you maintain that this is the mitzius of frum life and changing their feelings and behavior is out of their comfort zone?
Oomis, I agree that there are real world feelings, what concerns me is that in order to change, you have to believe your attitude needs changing and , based upon the posts, I don’t think they do
Oomis, if what you describe is the real world, would you be as accepting of a child going off the derech if being shomer shabbos was out of their comfort zone? Would a Rav get up on Yom Kippur and advise his olom that I know its difficult to do tshuva, what I’m asking you to do is outside your comfort zone, so hopefully one day in the future maybe you’ll change your feelings?
Why does the chasson need an expensive watch, and other gifts? Why do they need fancy Sheva brochos? Why do they need to invite 500 “close” friends?
When my daughter got married, the guest list was sharply limited to stay within budget, my daughter was happy renting a beautiful gown for $400 rather than spending thousands for a new one ( after all , she said that she wasn’t going to wear it again and people couldn’t tell ). Our machuten negotiated significant discounts for pictures,flowers and music and we didn’t go into debt.
As I said above, I’ve recently attended two weddings held in shuls. They were very nice and not expensive
So, if a Gadol says stay in Europe, Hitler is not a threat, your wrong for leaving if you have a chance to get out?
How a person could have some of the racist attitudes expressed here towards mixed marriages and yet consider themselves to be religious is beyond me. flatbusher, the problems that you say mixed kids produce is directly related to attitudes such as yours
By all means get married. However, I don’t agree that the community has to pay for a mega wedding. When I was married 44 years ago, an average wedding had 200+ guests; a large wedding had 300. Parents didn’t go deep into debt. If a couple and their parents can’t afford to make a large wedding, then don’t! I’ve attended two weddings recently that were made in a shul and the dinner was in the Kiddush/shalos seudos room. They were very nice, laibe dik and did not bankrupt the parents.
Clearly you’re not talking about the realities of the US judicial system and general absence of respect for seuvim issued by a BD.
It’s the civil courts that will determine how much support the husband pays, not beis din. He doesn’t have a choice. In most cases where he is withholding the get, the civil divorce has already been granted and there is no marriage to save.
I agree with Wolfish Musings. Hair and nails grow from the root, not the tip and thus cutting has no impact on their growth.
The source for all these are located in Gemara Baba Maisa. It also says it is assur to step into an open elevator shaft on Shabbos
Now I’m curious. Rebbeyid, what is your source for the 85%? How did you derive your definition of the two types of MO? How many people is “a lot”
Why do you care? What difference does it make? Noone on this blog is authorized to speak on anyone’s behalf other than their own ( even assuming the anonymous writer is MO )
Your Baltimore mayor told her police to stand back and do nothing to stop the looting and arson
Joseph, many people, and rabbonim, hold that you can switch, from year to year, as to which period you observe. That’s their minhag. So. If you attend a Rosh Chodesh wedding, you keep the second half that uear
Joseph. That would be true unless, like the Williamsburg halls, the contract required them to pay for a minimum number of people, whether they showed up or not
The problem with a Lakewood wedding is the distance from Brooklyn, Queens and Monsey. A Brooklyn friend of my sister made a wedding in Lakewood and saved a lot of money. The downside was it was midweek and 80% of the relatives and almost all the friends did not come because of the 4 hour round trip drive.