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I agree they are not kosher sfarim, but they are written inold Hebrew
Modern names are no less Jewish than made up yiddish names
Mentsch, i amend my statement
Joseph,
A. Once again you made up a new scenario. If you are hiring , do you pay the man more than the woman simply because he’s a man?B. So, since you can’t/won’t provide sources, you have none
What’s interesting is those letters were not used until Ezra introduced them after galus bavel. Prior to that, everything was written in what is termed paleoHebrew script , which looks totally different. Nobody knows why ttche switch was made to Aramaic block lettering. I judt read somewhere that the Samaritans never switched and their sifrei torah are still written in paleoHebrew ( letds noutt argue about their kashrus
Joseph, please respond to my point. You insist on creating alternative scenarios and responding to them.
If a man and a woman have identical work experience , talent, and knowledge, they should be paid the same. Do you agree or disagree?
By the way, on what basis do you claim men are better negotiators?
Litvish, no it isn’t.
David111,
A. There aren’t that many secretarial positions any more
B. More and more women are managers and CEOsWhy does equal payment ( assuming same job and reuhhal skill set ) equate to feminism?
Uber, first, please follow your own advice about stating fiction as fact. Bedrock is not 15 metres above. Bedrock is actually well below the ccurrent plaza. The Kotel extends below the plaza level. I believe what your calling bedrock was the 1967 level. Keep in mind, over the centuries the area was filled with considerable debris, particularly after the churns. Each succeeding occupied ( Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Ottoman ) simply built on top of the old structures, raising the ground level.
Who are the Rabbanim that are cholek the Kotel was built by Herod as a retaining wall? Have you been in the Tunnel? The path actually leads to the end where yo can see where the wall meets the bedrock.The shittah is held by rabbi Joseph. The wall has no Kedusha. It is simply a retaining wall
Joseph , do you have permission from Rabbi Miller’s heirs to copy and print his work? Is it copywrited? Usually copywrited material can only be reproduced for purposes of a book review
When a person sits with their arms folded and their elbows extending over the armrest onto your side is invading your space
Litvish, the tunnels do not go under the Mikdash. They simply follow the rest of the Kotel wall down to the northwest corner of the Wall. The last part of the tunnel was originally an open street. It appears as a tunnel because over the centuries there was construction against the wall and over the street
Joseph, I asked ou cite a source for your 75% figure. You said the Pew report. When i was the number was actually 62, your reaction indicated you had guessed 75 and pulled the Pew as a random source without actually having checkked. You then felt was unreliable. So, once agsn,what was your source for 75%
LU – in a survey of Orthodx family size, why would singles be a factor
As per the Census bureau, of 3700 cities, towns and villages with at least 10,000 residents, KJ is the poorest. 70% live in homes with incomes below federal poverty guidelines, 40% are on food stamps and nearly 50% are on Medicaid
Neville, next time you want to accuse me of being a hypocrite, don’t do it based on one of the most widely reported economic statistics regarding chateidim
Joseph, so you trust goyish polls when it suits your purposes? The Pew poll says that % of chareidi Jewsis 62% , not 75, and that the average Orthodox family has 4.1 children, not 7. They do not bresak down that number between MO,or Chareidi
Joseph, once again,you are pulling numbers out if the air. Please cite your source for close to 7 to 8 being the average number and that 75% are chareidi. In addition, Dr purposes of a discussion on taxes, you have to exclude communities like KJ that are almost entirely on public assistane and thus are not affected
CT, you truly live in an alternative universe. Many people had to pay significantly more for less coverage and they couldn’t keep their doctor. 13 million people aren’t losing coverage, they simply are no longer being forced to to buy expensive coverage or pay a hefty fine. As week speak, ATT, Comcast, Wells Fargo and other major corporations have announced $1000 bonuses to 300,000 employees as a direct result of the corporate tax cut. Stop drinking the Schumer Pelosi koolaid
The k-12 529 did not make the final bill . At the last minute Democrats pointed out that this and 2 other items violated Senate procedural rules. That is why the House had to vote a second time
DY, actually my comment re 11 days off was a somewhat sarcastic response to a poster’s claim that only Yidden jfkad an accurate calendar. The Mesopotamians not only had the a lunar calendar with leap months as needed ( just like ours ) but many of our month’s names were bborrowed by Ezra from the Babylonian calendar ( Tammuz is the name of a Babylonian war god )
DY, I have learned the sugya and I keep the sfaka; however the reasons are just justifications for not making a change
Joseph, you’ve mixed up your holidays. Easter was the holiday where Jews were forced to to go to church and be yelled at by the priests and when Jews were assaulted by mobs incited by the priests.
I remember as a 5 year old in the 1950’s a 5 year old Italian boy who lived in my apartment building in Brooklyn asked me on Easter Sunday why I killed JC. I asked who was JC. He said he didn’t know either but that morning his priest said we killed himWhat people don’t realize that Christmas was not celebrated in the US until the 1870’s when the Irish brought it with them. It had been observed in 17th century England with 12 days of heavy drinking in bars and all sorts of licencious behavior. So when the “chareidi” Puritans came to Massachusetts in the 17th century they made its observance illegal. It eventually was decriminalized but not observed.
They’ll speak out as soon as Agudah comes stops opposing a pedophile registry for private schools and mandatory fingerprinting of teachers.
The OU did force Rabbi Wiess’s former shul to stop wishing mazal tovs for gay marriagesThe use of the term holocaust in this context demeans te term.
an accurate calendar that is 11 days short of a solar year and that pretends that in chutz learetz we don’t know when yom tov begins
Regardless of other local rules, you need insurance above and beyond your homeowners policy.
Children will get hurt and you are responsible .
I assume you are planning to report the income, so you need to get legal/accounting advice on the best way to set up your business.
Is your backyard fenced in? If not you run the risk of a child wandering off.Joseph, the chareidi mesorah of prioritizing sitting and learning all day only dates to the establishment of Israel. In the centuries leading up to ww2, only the best and brightest learned all day as the social state didn’t exist. If you wanted to eat, you had to work. There was no Meficaid etc
You gave a check to a stranger for an entity you never heard of?
Joseph, I find it laughable when you get upset about unsupported challenes as you do it routinely. You still haven’t sourced your frum health claim. Either source it or admit that you mare it up
Joseph, you didn’t answer my question
All you did was whineJoseph, the source for your health claim for frum people? And, you were trolling , not facilitating a discussion.
Year’s ago it was majority NO but no more. Who h is not to say that there still isn’t a significant MO population
Except for Inwood each town has a Young Israel with Woodmere, at close to 1500 families and 7 daily shacharis minyans, being the largest. By the way, despite the name, they are not legally towns. They are either villages or unincorporated areas in the Town of HempsteadBaltimoremaven, there is a news story today that officials in Carrol County Maryland, at the recommendation of their Sherrif, has cancelled all school trips into Baltimore because it’s too dangerous. Baltimore’s mayor says crime is out of control and their had been 300 homicides this year.
Comments?Litvish, I addressed your chukas goim point but yo ignored it. Why do we claim to be Americans when it comes to voting, Medicaid, Section 8 , aid to yeshivas but we’re Jews, not Americans when it comesto national secular holidays?
Because Kings County originally was composed of the independent cities of Brooklyn and Williamsburg and the Townbc of Flatbush., Bushwick, New Utrecht, Flatlamds anb Gravesend. The City of Brooklyn gradually annexed the rest before becoming part of the City of New York in 1898. That’s why it’s called Brooklyn. Queens County, on the other hand , was still a collection of towns before 1898 so it is called Queens
Litvish, where in the Torah does it talk about Medicaid, Section 8 , food stamps , aid to yeshivas etc? When it comes to them, we jump up and down screaming ” give me give me , I’m an American!!”. However when it comes to Thanksgiving and the 4th of July, I’m Jewish and they are the ways of the Americans
It’s amazing to what lengths people will go to avoid Thanksgiving. It is and has never been a religious holiday. In fact , the first official Thanksgiving had Jewish origins. President Washington wanted Congress to declare a national day of thanksgiving to thank G-d for the new U.S. Constitution. Southern Congressmen objected as they said such declarations were the actions of kings. They had just rebelled against a king and did not want Washington acting like one.
Roger Sherman , a Congressman from Connecticut arose and gave a different reason in support of the declaration. He said they were emulating King Solomon, not European kings . Just as Solomon thanked G-d for allowing him to build the Temple, they were thanking G-d for the Constitution. The southerners accepted his reasoning and voted for it.Coffee addict, Aramaic was the official language of the Assyrian Empire ( 911 to 605 B.C. ) and has 3100 years of written history. What is the basis of your assertion that it is a corruption of Hebrew? After Ezra returned from exile, he replaced the original Hebrew alphabet with the Aramaic block letters we now use. What’s interesting is that Samaritan sifrei Torah are still written using the original alphabet
Jews were expelled in 1290. Oliver Cromwell allowed a Sephardic community to unofficially exist in 1656
Much of what we today call vulgar language was simply pre-Norman Conquest English descriptions that were driven underground by the ruling French speaking Normans.
Joseph, is your knowledge of everything as poor as it is about the 5 Towns? You make It sound like a small place that could be something else if it grew
1. It already has a very large frum community
2.It has numerous shuls, ranging from yeshivish to MO.
The largest, the YI of Woodmere has close to
1500 member families (7 daily shacharis minyanim , including Shabbos)
3. It has numerous yeshivas, with new ones opening every year
4. Yes, Lawrence is very expensive and Woodmere can be expensive. However reasonable housing can be found in Cedarhurst , Inwood and parts of HewletObviously we don’t know
WTP, that’s because New Utrecht Avenue was named after the Town of New Utrecht. Founded in 1652, it was one of six towns founded by the Dutch in Kings County ( Brooklyn ). It was,named asher the Dutch town of Utrecht
Joseph ,
Please provide documentation that blacks purchasing homes in areas like Mahwah always bring more crimeJoseph, your last comment is a great example of the OP’s point. It’s apparently ok for you to make a racist comment ( blacks that can afford to buy expensive homes in Mahwah bring crime ) but anti-Semitic to say that the Jews of Monsey will bring unwanted density, zoning violations, etc
Joseph,
Since when do Americans hold by chareidi possum?Brooklyn has a baseball stadium, in Coney Island.
Joseph, when people began leaving Brooklyn, it was more to Long Island than Queens.
Brooklyn was largely settled by the Dutch ( Brooklyn,Midwood and Flatbush are of Dutch origin ) while Queens was settled by the BritishI’ve nbever dribbled mmilk on the container so I’ve no idea what your talking about. Those milk bbags are a pain to use. First you have to cut the corner ( not always easy) and then pour without getting it all over yourself or the table
Lenny is financially hurt it increases his legal expenses