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LU, bad businessmen, contractors, store owners etc all hide behind accusations of lashon harah to rip off customers.
Again, you never answered where you received your Smicha so please refrain from issuing blanket psaks assuring things based on your opinion

There was a two minute clip put together by Trump s staff that illustrates the hypocricy of the Democrat’s firestorm. In this clip, virtually every major Democrat ( Sanders, Schumer, Pelosi, Reid, Kane and about 8 more) are shown demanding the Comey be fired or that Comey should resign. Now, they are blasting Trump for doing what, for the past few months, they were demanding

LU, why are you avoiding the issue. When you tell a person something is assur, rather referring them to a Rav, you’re issuing a psak. What are your qualifications to determine what is assur?

LU, I agree with the moderator. What are your qualifications? Do you have Smicha? Where did you learn and for how long? On what basis do you deem yourself a posek?

Joseph, spare me the technicalities. I said essentially they were bankrupt, not actually. If you’ve gone three years without a a lottery payment and Illinois, with no budget in sight and 11 billion dollars in other outstanding obligations, I wouldn’t count on being first in line when a budget is passed

Brooklyn is not two names mashed together. When the western tip of Long Island was settled by the Dutch in tn the 1600’s, they named the settlement Breuckelen after the Dutch city

Lynnbrook, , a village in Nassau County was renamed Lynnbrook in 1894 by reversing the two syllables in Brooklyn. It was done because many of its residents cane from Brooklyn

Part of the problem could be inept administration and too trusting of claims of poverty. My father in law served on the tuition committee of a yeshiva decades ago. He was sickened by the stories he heard and the schemes. One couple came dresses in shmattas to prove they needed a reduction. When asked for their tax return they said their son’s elementary yeshiva never did. Turns out the return said they were making 6 figures and could afford full tuition. .

Gestapo offers of ransom were not to be believed. They gathered 3000 Roman Jews and offered not to deport them in return for a huge payment. The payment was made and, surprise, the Nazis reneged and deported the Jews anyway

By the way kj, it wasn’t the Zionists who told the Jews to stay in eastern Europe when they had opportunities to leave before the US closed immigration in the 20’s

DY, you avoided the issue.

LU, in Israel you get a yeshiva deferment without having to prove you’re actually learning and progressing towards Smicha. In a war scenario, that wouldn’t happen in the US.

So, in other words, Joseph guestimated, which is fine as long as he acknowledges this. BTW, Joseph, what was your source? And you still haven’t disclose the source for the number of newborns

Nisht, educate me. Name one prayer we say everyday, in a siddur that’s written in Yiddish. I’ve never seen one. A different, I’m talking about a regular siddur, not Tserena

Going back to the sacrificial system is not so simple. Keep in mind that, for the most part, Temple Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism were substantially different and had very little overlap. Temple Judaism ( TJ) was centralized in Jerusalem in general and the Bais Hamikdosh in particular. There were no shuls, until the very end, and other than the Monday Thursday laining established by Ezra, and the Shma no prayer services until the end. The shmone esreh was formulated late in the Temple period. So, if we return to TJ, shouldn’t that entail going back to TJ in all its forms?

LU, to address some of your points
1. What people are paid is a function of their ability, the number of people who can perform those skills and the revenue that it generates.
2. Making a movie is is actually hard work. It requires many weeks and months, often under less than ideal conditions. The salaries they receive is contingent on how many tickets are sold ( more sales increases salary for next movie)
3. Athletic skills at the professional level is rare. There are only roughly 750 major league baseball players and 350 major league basketball players and the leagues generate billions in revenue. The players, who help generate that revenue share in it via enormous contracts.
3 . whether or not they benefit society is the eye of the beholder.
4.the professions you mentioned are important UT are not in the same category. They don’t require specialized, hard to find skills. Generally, the compensation of athletes and actors will diminish as their skills and marketability do. However, teachers, because of unions, can teach forever, get annual raises, regardless of how inferior their skills are. While yeshivas do not have unions, my daughter had her share of poor teachers whose biggest attributes were a willingness to work cheap and go weeks without a check. Excellent rebbeim should be well compensated but many yeshivas don’t have the cash flow to do it

Old joke: for years bochur searched for perfect kallah and finally found her. There was unfortunately no shidduch as she was looking for the perfect chosson

LU, I’m still waiting for your source that most dati soldiers become not frum.

Lilmod, if you read my posts, you’d see that I registered during the Vietnam War, when there was an active draft.
You keep conflating registration with being drafted and claiming it is assur. Do you realize that it is only one Rav who is creating the a problem? If registration is assur, how do you explain the past 40 years all the roshai yeshivas who allowed, and continue to allow, their students to register?

Lilmod, it seems that you avoided commenting on the riots by claiming a lack of knowledge.
However, lack of knowledge didn’t stop you from being motzei shem ra on the government.
The government does not draft chariedim. They do require them to register, whereupon they get an automatic exemption. The same applies, for example in the US. During the Vietnam Nam War, everyone had to register, and then apply for a 4D religious deferment.
The riots going on in Israel is because they refuse to register, which technically makes them draft dodgers and subject to arrest.
That is what makes this so frustrating. This “problem” goes away if, like all other yeshivas, they simply registered

Does anyone have any established, proven instances where someone left an open sefer and forgot their learning? How long does it take to lose it? Is it instantaneous?

Akuperma, so how do you explain the extensive government funding of yeshivas

The reason for not kicking another individual is negiah? you are kidding right?

The definition of male vs female clothes constantly changes. Just look at portraits from the 18th century. The well dressed man wore powdered wigs. At different points in time Jews in the middle East and North Africa wore robes. You can’t apply 21st century standards to prior centuries and vice versa

Mammals, if your Stat is correct, then 25% of all people traveling east for 9ne time zone ( and thus gaining an hour) should also get having heart attacks

LU, LB is obviously sincere but also quite naive. You can’t accept and and treat every minhag and old wives tale the same. From what I’ve seen, to her every word of every Rav must be believed as halacha mSenai. Somewhere and somehow she has to develop the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff. Utter naivete can be as ultimately problematic as utter cynicism

Well, you seemed to be disproving his statement by citing one player from a non_mixed marriage

I give via organizations and tzedakahs authorized by the shul. The problem with giving small amounts to collectors is the demands for larger amounts.