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Toi, just so I understand. Does kfira extend to refusing the army’s protection? Refusing all government services? [ fire trucks, sanitation?
I was referring to the US Army.Why is it kfira to jopin the Israeli Army? P
Health,
What would you have done in 1942 when, if you were of draft age, had been drafted by the army? Told them it was kfira and refused?
shlishi,
But not everyone has the mental capacity to do so. Those that don’t should not be in kolel at the communities ( or tax payors )expense. They should be learning is shiurim either before work after work or both
Frumguy
What Nusach do you daven?
The Choices are:
1) Ashkenaz
2) Sefard
3) Ari
4) Eida Mizrachi
5) Other (?)
You left out a nusach that is much older than any of the above,
Nusach Italia.
It’s been used by Italian Jews for nearly 2,000 years, which is approximately how long the Italian community has been in existence
Obaminator., regardless of the time my point was why go on the internet and ask bloggers instead of either listening to traffic reports or going to their websites.
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Not to be sarcastic but there is something called the radio. WCBS 880 and WINS 1010 report the traffic avery 10 minutes and both advise not travelling by car tonight
All the more reason, that if one chose to ignore the Friday mandatory evacuation, the radio should have been left on to be able to find out if it had gotten worse and more dangerous to stay
bombamaniac “the hurricane isnt hitting us until sunday so i see no reason to leave the radio on on shabbos “
But the order to people living in Zone A to evacuate was to be given on Saturday ( as it wAS ) ( Coney Island, Manhanttan Beach, Brighton Beach, Far Rockaway etc ) and Motzei Shabbos was too late to evacuate
For those of you who think this is a funny topic, it is anything but that. Far Rockaway was one of the areas ordered to evacuate because it is a narrow low lying peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay right in the storm’s path and the hurricane is supposed to get there at high tide, pushing a wall of water anywhere from 3 to 6 feet high. Many frum people wouldn’t leave on Shabbos despite the saccana and by the time Shabbos was over ( after 8:30 ) it was too dangerous ( Mayor Bloomberg just announced that if you didn’t leave, stay where you are )
So,
does than mean Artscroll goes back to using scrolls because goyim invented ptinting?
The Chabad in Sandy Springs is fairlylarge.They built a beautiful new building several years ago that besides the shul has catering facilities and classrooms. Between 100-200 people raven there on an average shabbos.theyalso started a shabbos minyan for Israelis, vj
Ben Lvi
I’m curious. Are you saying that thee are no child molestations in the frum community?
This is how the minhag startd. In the late 1400’s there was a shift in the Gulfstream that caused a mini-Ice Age across Northern Europe. No icebergs but significantly colder weather that lasted nearly three hundred years. It killed off all the vineyards in England and Northern Europe, promptimg the locals to distill whatever was at hand, Russia and poland turned potatos into vodka, Germans became beer drinkers and the English ,Scots and the Irish drank whiskey.
Wine became so expensive that the Rabbanim paskined that only kiddush erev Shabbos , not the morning, required wine. The Mishna Brura discusses it.
The reason why the US has never , until recently been a big wine consumer is becuse all the early colonists and immigrants came from Northern Europe
If they have men watching it’s probably because people were abusing . It is not good for their business if potential customers don’t shop because spots closet to the store are tken by non-shoppers. My suggestion is to get on the Belt at 14th Avenue and drive i/2 mile to the parking area provided ( it has about 20 spots ) on the right hand side
“I think the man is right. In Oz v’hadar, he says the same. Jews are affected more by Jewesses. Look it up”
Question #1: Two women get out of different cars, both dressed in shorts. If neither is wearing any religiously related jewelry around their neck, how does a man know which one is Jewish?
Question #2:Then whay are so many Jewish men attracted to and marry non-Jews?
Weiner’s Father was Jewish, not his mother
Question:
Which one is the Dioraisa?
Kibud Av
Black Hat
His father said no.
ahavas yisroel,
Then a frum school/kolel should only accept food stamps and Medicaid from Jews.
mdd
“the Shoa was a gezeira because everybody was going off the derech there. ” and you know this to be fact becasue…..
if it really happened, why wasn’t 911 called?
I know Rabbi Machlis since he was a boy in Brooklyn. His father was Rabbi Leon Machlis, who was rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Ohel Moshe for over 50 years. My daughter spent a shabbos with them many years ago and she said it was great. You cannot believe how many people they host every shabbos.
Rabii Machlis is a true tzaddik and a great educator who has a special innate ability to reach any boy at the correct level and connect
HIE,
With all due respect to your father, I lived in Flatbush in the 1970’s. The acceptance/nonacceptance was pretty much driven by where you davened.
All the large shuks ( with the exception of the Young Israel of Midwood ) accepted tye Eruv, all the Yeshivish and Chassidish minyanim ( as far as I know ) did not. Your father probably fell into the latter category.
So, please don’t claim All the Velt did not accept it
HIE,
You still haven’t defined who is the ” velt”. You made the claim, you have to prove it.
mw13
If you don’t eat gabrochts, would you correct someone who does? If you don’t use an eruv, would you corrct someone who does?
Where do you draw the line?
mw13,
I find it ironic that we live in the first country since the days of the Gaonim that actually allows us the freedom to practice as Jews without interference from the Church and people like you want to use that freedom to to deny it tto others.
Contrary to your opinion, Boro Park is not a theocracy and you cannot dictate to others what they can or cannot see or do. Not all people agree with with your definition of tznius.
And you should care what they think. Even if they are wrong, that would be of small comfort to the men they might assault because they believe beards and peyos are forbidden. Once you establish that people can take actions into their own hands, it matters little what you think. The fact that the Russian peasantsvwho murdered Jews during this time of year were wrong in their beliefs didn’t make the Jews any less dead.
mw13,
I had one child because of a medical condition that I understanably did not publicize.So am I subject to your blanket condemnation?
When our child graduated from high school, ateacher that she was friendly with learned for the first time that she was an only. In what was intended as a compliment the teacher perpetuated a blanket mis impression when she said she didn’t kmow she was only because she wasn’t selfish
mw13
Wrong. If the Torah says something is obscene, it is obscene. Period. Nothing to talk about.
If anybody has “different standards”, they are simply wrong.
Daas Yochid:
“There is absolute right and wrong in this world – it’s called the Torah
This is the point that Grandmaster,Daas Yochid and mw13 keep repeating but don’t respond to. There is no one absolute truth in Torah. Take any subject in the Gemara and point out one issue where there were no minority opinions. The Ritvah and Rambam, Bais Hillel and Bais Shammai, the Vilna Gaon and any Chassidic posek, I could go on on, they diagreed with each other on almost everything. You are assuming that your view supercedes that of all other poskim that you disagrre with.
I’ll reask another question. If a woman were to be standing at the same street corner that the Ad was placed wearing a tam top and shorts, would these same bochrim be justified in your view, in assaulting or spray painting her?
Grandmaster,
So a goy following his teachings can spray paint a shul?
You are not the only people living in Boro Park, and your standards are not the absolute halacha. If I know you are doing somrtjing that I can find halachic sources to prove it is wrong, I can spray paint your house?
Grandmaster,
So if you have a Toyota, and i don’t like Japanese cars, I can spray paint it. If I don’t like your radical view of Yiddishkeit, I can spray paint your house. Try explaining to a judge about gezel akum.
Quinoa ( /?ki?nw??/ or /k??no?.?/, Spanish: quinua, from Quechua: kinwa), a species of goosefoot (Chenopodium), is a grain-like crop grown primarily for its edible seeds. It is a pseudocereal rather than a true cereal, or grain, as it is not a member of the grass family. As a chenopod, quinoa is closely related to species such as beets, spinach, and tumbleweeds.
Quinoa is grain-LIKE , not a grain so there is no problem. If you don’t want to eat, fine but it is not chametz
Here we go again! There i no such thing as ” Jewish” music. Our music is adopted from the culture in which we lived. A Jew from Bucharia , hearing our Eastern European based music might consider it goyish. Songs that are considered Jewish music today could very well have been taken from non-Jewish melodies that noone today remembers and current songs taken from non-Jewish music will be considered Jewish by the next generation
shlishi
Wgat is the source of ” the vast majority of divorces are completely avoidable.” ?
truth be told,
One reason for the rise is that people are no longer willing to stay inabusive marraiges now that much of the stigma is gone
In pevious threads, people who were machmir on bein adom l’makom isus bragged how they blocked diveways or double parked .The classic case is the person on my friend’s block in Midwood who had his driveway blocked by someoe rushing to make a minyan
Daas Torah is a relatively recent concept. No Rabbi is infallible and beyond questioning, particularly a pulpit Rabbi most people have never heard of who allowed $7 million to be spent on a shul.
to realbrisker,
Last time I checked, we do no believe in rabbinic infallibility.
Yes, you can argue on spending $7 million on a shul. Aries was questioning the concept, she was questioning the amount spent.
bbubbee,
I guess we have to disagree.
1. At our age, my wife and I can take a room with a king sized
bed in a hotel. You are judging us as not being tzniusdik
by your standards.
2.I feel bad for your friend in dire economic straits. Does that
require all sellers of goods and services that she cannot
afford have to stop advertising? Does that mean that donations
of amounts larger that she can afford to give should no
longer be announced at appeals because it throws it in
her face? Where does it stop?
There is a growing tendency to , rather than exercising self
restraint, remove temptation by banning the activity for everyone. I see it in the annual ” I don’t
like the idea of Pesach hotels so noone should go “
and in secular areas. I recently heard a radio program dealing with people with an inability to control thier overeating. One indiviual’s solution to his inability to stop eating donuts was to ban any advertising by Dunkin Donuts.
bbubbee
By putting Frum in ” “, are you implying they are not frum for accepting the ads? How does Tznius apply to the ads?
You have a right to your opinion, but not to jusge others by your standards. Don’t read the publication or give any business to the advertisers if that is how you feel.
So, bo this logic, no one would have married a sister of Yaacov because of Esov
Trader Joes
1. Exremely helpful satff
2. Quick checkout
3. A lot of very unusual products
5. All their products have great prices, many with hechsharim
6. Because many of their products ate off brands ( which is
why their prices are so low) tthe hechsharim can also
be not well known. However, at the entrance of
their stores they have a brochure listing every
hechsher they carry, who is behind it and the phone number
to call for information.
Gabboim and Health,
Can you cite the source of your divorce statistics?
Thank you
Poppa bear
A fetus can be damaged if the mother consumes alcohol
Scor,
You have a husband. Ask him to help on those days
Cedarhurst,
It should have been obvious that I was talking about two senior citizens
Cedarhurst,
I’m aware of that mitzva but it doesn’t apply to senior citizens. By the wy, there is absolutely no reason why senior citizens shouldn’t get married. Why should they live alone?
Cedarhurst, what mitzvah would that be?
I’m amazed at the level of selfish and materialistic comments from a sitethat places such a high priority on marrying a learner, not a worker.
What is wrong with public transportatation? Many of the posters make it sound like it is beneath their dignity and station in life to use. Renting a car is expensive, not to mention the fortune it costs to park a car in a Manhattan garage. Where is a future kolel guy supposed to get this money for every first date he goes on?
As for the girl, if this is a turn off, what exactly does she think kolel life will be like? I imagine when she is stressing out how to pay tuition and the rent, she’ll thimk back and wish she had the money she insisted her husband waste on rented cars and parking.
What I do fault the boy om is that he should have picked her up at her house nd saw her to her door.
edarhurst, can you cite the mesorah for this? You are talking about a Gentile last name. For thousands of yers Jews had no last names, just mosehe ben Avraham or Leah bas Moshe. Marraige didn’t have any effect.
Jews didn’t take last names until the last 200 years.
Jews have spoken aramaic, Greek and Arabic. Does taht make them holy?
In NY it’s illeagal to have a religious marraaige without a civil marraige