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I couldn’t open the page. Can you please explain it
They are celestial objects, not deities. What is the issue?
So, if I was absolutely certain I wouldn’t buy the coat you’re wearing I can steal yours. Theft is theft
Heath, I’ve been following the posts and have a few questions and points
1. Did the MO neighborhoods and approval for the school precede the buildings that the Chareidim occupy? If so they can’t complain now about the view.
2. Is the school in fact on the border? If it is and the times of the day when the girls go and come from school, why do the men any out on tat corner if the so offends them?
Just the fact that people consider replying to shidduch inquiries with lies makes me question the whole process (keeping silent is in effect the same )
But not his interpretation of it
The Satmar Rebe’s views are his ( especially on Israel ) but are not Torah law to non-Satmar
Just because the Satmar Rebbe said LT doesn’t make it Torah law
Derech HaMelech
My point was not to question the validity of Chassidus, just to point out that we tend to accept as mesora what was in existence when we were born and question the mesorah of the new. At the time the Besht was a minority of one and went against all the gedolei hador. If the Besht had come today, you would probably be among those questioning his mesora.
BY the way one example of ” we tend to accept as mesora what was in existence when we were born and question the mesorah of the new”. Many shuls now have a hashkomah minyan on Shabbos.
But do you know its origin, its mesorah? It’s roots go back only 100 years and they were started by Jews who gave into the pressure of having to work on Shabbos but still wanted to daven with a minyan and hear the laining.
Derech HaMelech,
I’m curious, what was the mesorah for Chassidus and their adoption of a whole new nussach and minhaggim?
The 5TVAADproblem strongarm tactics come into play particularly when someone opens a placeand already has a place elsewhere. Two owners refused to pay for a second hashgacha and the Vaad had no kashrus issues. They simply said if you operate here you haveto pay. When they said no,it was announced on Shabbos not to eat there.One folded and the other. Bagel Boss is doing great
I guess the problem people have is that to a large extent Gadolim and Daas Torah have been portrayed as all knowing., and we’ve seen the kol kores on trivial stuff
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Ironically,we in folks should be saying the same time as in Israel.
Talk Unstated is intended for local conditions and in Bavel they need the rain in December so it was changed for them. The Rosh, to to avail, argued that since France and Germany needed the rain the same time as Israel
w,the start date should be changed back. So,here we are praying that Iran and iraehave good crops.
Toi,
What if someone called rav Shach ” that shach guy ” ? You’d be upset. So, why is is ok to call Rabbi Lamm n lamm? Because you disagree with him?
Because in MO literature, they frequently refer to rishonim and acharonim by their last name (ex. Isserlis), so they must think it is ok.
What bothers me more than schnorrers are shmoozers. I’m always at a chupah in Williamsburg and people all around me are shmoozing and these are people who know better
The problem is all the fakers. When my community feet up a system whereby meshulachim had to provide documentation to a committee of Rabbanim that both they and the organization they were collecting for were legit, the numbers of meshulachim dropped
Where is the mekor for not complimenting a goy ? Someone who saved Jews in the Holocaust doesn’t merit a thank you? A goy holds a door while your hands are full
I’m always amazed how many people are Reform when it comes to the first perek since they make believe Torah she’beal peh doesn’t exist and insist on a literal translation.
Thanksgiving is an Anticancer holiday,not a boyish one
Josh Echad, Queens, like each borough has its open leafy areas. (Jamaica Estates )and its overcrowded congested areas (Kew Garden Hills, Forest Hills ). Staten Island, with the its low population and absence of apartment houses on most of the island is most oot
sam2 is right. Don’t use Rashi or any meforshim
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English and French are not remotely related. French is a Romance language from which the French have attempted to bar outside influences. English is Germanic with influences from any and all languages
What people don’t realize is that if the Tannaim and Amorim wanted to make people sweat over the Gemora they would have written it Hebrew, not Aramaic, the language everyone spoke Aramaic!! It was the commonly spoken language. Noone spoke Hebrew
Why a necessary evil?
Most antis overlook the tremendous amount of learning funded by the government. Would a n Arab govt do so? They didn’t have to grant army exemptions to be yeshiva students,stop transportation on Shabbos
Ask a Rabbi
So, how come Boone has a problem with people standing and fressing at kiddushes and smorgasbords?
Toi
My name is less, not no chumras. To the extent that I have an agenda, it’s the proliferation of chumras to the point peolple start believing a chumra is tha actual halacha ( as happened when Chava thought simply touching the tree was the ikar, not the chumra
Did the shul’s get a permit to block the sidewalks?
Actually, their original siddur ws the old Birnbaum Orthodox siddur
The original family name is Maza.
Toi,
Since you won’t name your source or how the right wing is being harmed, what is your point other than motzei shem rah?
Toi,
” that being said its foolish to promote an agenda and to criticize these people, because my understanding of them, and yours, is pitiful. and therefore im being mocheh. do not make fun, poke fun, or have fun, with the maasim we read in sefer beraishis. it is foolish and foolhardy. “
Toi, our understanding of Adam, Chava the Avos or the Shvatim is not the point. The behavior, or misbehavior, is cited throughout our miforshim in order to provide examples of proper behaviour or behaviour to avoid.
If this wasn’t the case, why would the Torah give the reason for expulsion from Gan Eden if not to learn a lesson? Why did the Torah detail the whole series of events that led to Yoseph being sold into slavery? Yehuda and Tamar?
I don’t pretend to understand them or their madreiga. But one can draw a lesson from them as to what can happen when a chumrah takes on the status of Halacha
Toi,
1. An unnamed source is not a valid one. If he is so highly respcted and big, why not name him?
2. Please define ” right wing”
bpt
“The legality of “guilt” or “innocence” is besides the point. Its a matter of who do we cheer for, and who do we condenm?
What we (at least, me) are talking about here is the cheapening of the most sublime human interaction, one that has been defaced by today’s society.
We of Team Yiddishkeit need to take a stand. This sublime human interaction (can’t get more specific, but ha’maven yo’vin) is not a sport, and not a powerplay.”
So why do we make excuses for the Japanese boys?
Stuck,
So, the obvious question. Where in the Torah are you alluded to?
Amused,
Why do chareidim and Yesivish label themselves?
600 , So, all the Yeshivas that get big donations from frum businessmen whose factories are in China should, by your logic, should no longer accept them.
Steve Jobs life was public so we know all of his negatyives. So, before any shul or Yeshiva honors someone wealthy, let’s make sure sure we investigate their private lives and thier business practices
I do have an issue with their Yom Tov machzorim. They tend to be unwieldy because they include numerous kapitlach not included in the regular siddur and it forced you to keep turning pages
There is a company called Moo Shoes that makes dress shoes that look and feel like leather but are made from vegetation. It’s a vegan company so you know there’s no leather
I wear them year round. including YK and Tisha B’Av
It’s hard to believe it today but there were chashuv European rabbanim who ame to the States before 1920 who actually joined JTS. The final break between JTS and YU came over taharas hamishpacha and one other issue.
Conservative was a breakaway from Reform. At their convention in the 1880’s, the left-wing Reform wanted to demonstrate a total break with Orthodoxy nd tradition so as a surprise , the waiters at dinner brought out pork, shellfish and othe pure treif foods. The “conservative” Reform members felt they had one too far and walked out and started Conservative Judaism.
Ask a Rabbi!!
Lets not forget dirty, graffiti covered subways, squegee men everywhere, a Times Squzre so dangerous you couldn’t walk there in the day time,homeless sleeping in Penn Station, rampant crime,
Last year there was a measles outbreak that started with Israeli charedim who didn’t believe in vaccinations
Let me put it another way, can you use another person’s sefer without his knowledge or permission?
pay for 10 Jewish men to come with you
“Last night was meet the teacher for my sons’ school. The teacher didn’t seem to have full control over the parents. One of the (3 or 4) fathers kind of tried to get order in the classroom”
I’m amazed that people are bent out of shape with one woman’s sarcastic remark but have no issue with the rudeness of the parents who were giving the teacher a hard time and resisting his efforts to bring order to the meeting.
85% of Italian Jews survival the holocaust. Milan. has yeshivas,Florence has the most beautiful shul in Europe, Venice has one of the oldest active shuls. Nusach Italia is one of the oldest and community is 2000 years old.
Years
Toi, I’ve curious why you are so focused on the army. The same kfira govt provides electricity.sanitation busses etc. Do you abstain from them too? What about a passport?