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Of all the ideas, I’ve found that having a snack every hour works best
LU, child molestation is relevant to this conversation. Molestation in the frum community was denied for decades and the molesters were protected by rabbanim. If you go back in time in the Coffee Room, you’ll see that not only was molestation denied, they blamed the child. Rabbis insist that , contrary to the law, that they be consulted before the police. How many cases have you seen ( including in the CR )where more sympathy is expressed for the shidduch prospects of the molesters family than he victim before you say , if halacha is protecting the molester, forget halacha
Mammele, there was no way Israel like win the War for Independence without the help of Hashem and his miracles
As for working thru Bibi, a number of the Shoftim selected by Hashem to liberate the people of Israel in Tanach were deeply flawed
CT, Crooked Hillary lost so the liar in chief is a misnomer. The President and the Republicans have made it clear that coverage for preexisting illnesses will continue. I’m glad ACA worked for you but please stop generalizing. My nephew and his friends experience is more common. He is going without insurance because he can’t afford the $13,000 premium for a policy that has an $8,000 deductible.
And, please stop bragging about your role as a Democratic legislature. Connecticut has become one of the highest taxed States. Briggeport is ba krupr and Hartford , the capital, is headed that way. The economy is flat and He left the state after the primal state budget Bose to E another big tax raise rather than cut spending. The two New York commuter lines that are a part of Metro North are in the process of updating their fleets with new cars; Connecticut has no plans to replace the aging fleet on its branch.
How come this topic isn’t lashon harah? It’s all speculation and none of your business
Joseph, Cllnton received 3 million more votes
Mormons call non Mormons gentiles
LB, you really have to stop accepting what every rabbi says as the final word on the subject, especially, as in cases like this where he is merely expressing an opinion
The worst part is that it appears that the decision was arbitrary as no explanation was provided. It gives the appearance that the principal was being arbitrary and a control freak.
Joseph, I would ask why was it necessary to add yet another item to the banned list
Yossi, the problem with your theory is that there was rampant avodah zarah throughout Israel from the times of Joshua up until the first churban. Most Israelite homes in Judea and the north that have been uncovered in archeological digs had little statues of astarte and all of Shoftim involved Bnei Yisroel being punished for idol worship. Ironically, two things disappeared with Ezra’s return, idol worship and nevuah. Neither is mentioned in the Second Temple period.
By the way, two other things changed with Ezra’s return, and noone really knows why. 1. We adopted Babylonian names for months that previously had no name I.e. Tammuz 2. We adopted an Amaraic form of block letters ( our current printed alphabet ). All writing prior to the churban was in what is called paleo-Hebrew, which looks starkly different.
During WW2 the Swiss didn’t readily admit Jews who made it to their border. People here don’t understand that the the concept of freedom of religion and separation of church and state is a uniquely American concept. It was a reaction to European practices . LU, in another thread you maintained you were Jewish, not American. Well, you are acting like an American, not a Jew. Separation of church and state and religious pluralism, tolerance and accommodation are not Jewish, halachic concepts ( nor are they Muslim concepts under Sharia law ).
LU, who are the Rebbaim that you are referring to? You make it sound like they are apart from MO but have a role in deciding if MO is Orthodox.
LU, while it is not according to halacha, it is not sick
no. it’s not safe and it has no religious significance
You have to smile at the irony. When the exact same scenario is taking place in Ramapo ( except there it is long time residents protesting that profusion of yeshivas and trailers on lreviquiet streets ) we tell them to suck it up and accept change.
ZD, that’s what companies like Touring Friends are for. They have great trips to Mount Rushmore, US national parks, New Mexico, California among other places
They’re based in Far Rockaway. A caterer accompanies the tour bus and they have a specially written sefer Torah that is small enough to fit into an overhead compartment on a plane
Last time I served, a guy gave clearly rediculous answers to not get picked and was excused. The court officer later said that the unofficial policy was to put people like that back in to be called in six months
Joseph, you never answer,so I’ll keep asking. What’s the heter for the Satmar brothers suing each other in civil court for years?
Still is popular among retired women in Florida
Joseph, the OP said she wanted it publicized
Nisht, what confused me was that her objections involved a reduction in ruchniyos and her kids religious environment. The congestion issues you raised are valid but she didn’t raise it except to say her kids would be playing in the parking lot
The ship I was on had an auxillary kitchen that was kashered and supervised during the trip by machgichim. The ship was obviously not partitioned, although we had a separate dining area.
How do so many frum people go to Miami Beach in the winter? Even if you don’t walk on the boardwalk, the streets are filled with women in skimpy outfits ( or so I’m told )
What was her point? Are her children being bussed to a mall?
Joseph, you have a right to your uninformed opinion. But remember, don’t step out of your house in the summer, go to a park, a zoo or anywhere else where attendance is optional but there might be an issue of shmirat anayim
Joseph, if you are relying on hearsay, keep your comments to yourself. I don’t recall if I did see anything on my kosher cruise, but, that can happen anytime anywhere. If you don’t like it, you have a choice, go or don’t go
Joseph, unless you’ve person send on a cruise,you can’t declare something treif based on hearsay. The Alaska cruise I was on had 150 passengers ( out of 900 ) with Kosherica. We had our own dining area so no treif at our table. The weather wasn’t warm enough for bathing suits, especially if you didn’t go to the swimming pool on the top deck. As Meno said, it is more expensive but what price do you put on having minyanim, shiurim and fresh food everyday, meaningful Shabbos programs nd being with 150 other frum Jews while being able to enjoy the sights of Alaska. Shmiras ynayim is a problem anywhere
According to rabbi Blumenkrantz z’l, those matzahs were the source of the gebrokts minhag as it was possible to have unbaked pieces with. He therefore did not follow the gebrokts chumrah as he held that today’s matzahs are baked so thin and burnt
It’s not just the wheel ( which will be, at 60 stories tall, the biggest in the world
With Kosherica, you experience Shabbos in a way that is impossible when you go on your own. On the Kosherica cruise I took : 1. A salon was assigned to Kosherica for use as a shul 2. On Shabbos, two elevators were set up as Shabbos elevators 3. All electronic doors between shul and the dining room were converted to manual operation. 4. Instead of frozen dinners, we enjoyed fresh Shabbos meals 5. There were sheurim
LU, I can categorically state without fear of contradiction that if I were to ask any of my many frum Israeli dati friends if they considered themselves Chareidim, they’d fall down from laughing so hard. You clearly move in much different circles
Sfardim, not stardom
LU, I’ll try one more time. You’re addressing a question I asked Joseph, and didn’t understand it
Firs. You clearly don’t understand the term Rabbinic Judaism or you would not have accused me of kfira. From the time of had Sinai, our religion didn’t have a name ( the term Judaism wouldn’t exist until after the kingdom split after Shlomo’s death ) and centered around the sacrificial system centered first around the Mishkan and then the two BH. There were no shuls or formal prayer services other than reading the parsha. With the destruction of the second BH, chazal realized that the way we practiced religion had to be made portable and they formulated Rabbinic Judaism. Torah sbebeal peh applied to both.
With regard to Joseph. He stated that a. Chareidim is the default form and b. there were NO changes since had Sinai. So, in that context, piyutim were a good example of a change.
I used the stardom to challenge Joseph’s default statement in that while also from, their halachos, minhagim and nusach are different. At best, the Chareidim were the Eastern European default form
LU, then you are addressing a question I directed to Joseph that you either don’t understand his question or my answer. He stated, among other things, that what we call Chareidism was the default form of Judaism. H e also said hat it goes back to Har Sinai
I simply pointed out that he did not take either Chassidus or Sephardim into account.
With regard to his Har Sinai claim, Rabbinic Judaism is only roughly 2,000 years old. It bears little resemblance to what went before and has evolved dramatically since. Just look at our Machzorim, for example. The authors of the peyutim were born between 700 and 1100 A.D., so they were obviously not part of our davening before 700.
LU, you made my point for me. Joseph had stated Chareidim was the default Judaism and I simply pointed to two examples ( Chassidus and Sephardim ) to show that it wasn’t.
Joseph, how do the Chassidim fall into your definition of normative , default Judaism? It was a radical change from the existing practice and was fought for decades by the religious establishment.
In addition, you should modify your definition to read the EASTERN EUROPEAN default Judaism . You excluded the whole world of Sephardic Judaism
Hello!!! I’ll repeat myself. The wall has zero kiddusha. It was not part of the Bais Hamikdosh. When Herod rebuilt the BH, he decided to expand the plaza on the Temple Mount to accommodate more people. To do this, he surrounded the Mount with four retaining walls , on top of which he placed a platform. The kotel was , for centuries, the only visible part of the retaining wall. It is NOT on the Mount and has no kedusha
There it snothing intrinsically holy about the kotel. Herod vastly expanded the mint by adding a platform and the kotel was part of the retaining wall.
Avram, no, it’s not. I’ve asked her repeatedly to back up her sweeping assertions, which are routinely ignored. I’m not generalizing g; I’m asking how she knows the actual , private details of the divorces that she based her generalizations on. How does she know that none of the men in kollel don’t secretly surf the internet? Does LU realize that they won’t tell her?
Health, by now you must realize that LU bases all of her generalizations upon a handful of acquaintances.
LU , are all of your friends such shameless gossips that they share with you the intimate details of their divorces? Do they say ” LU, noone else knows, but despite my sterling reputation, I secretly surf inappropriate websites” ? Of coarse not. Then why do you keep making sweeping assertions based upon your circle of acquaintances?
Please say you’re kidding
If you have Verizon, you can use its Travel Pass. For $10 a day you use your phone exactly as you would at home, so no charges for calls, texts or email. For long trips it’s expensive but worth it if using it less than two weeks
Kicked off for holding a smartphone
LU, you constantly make broad, sweeping claims based upon nothing more than people that you know. Yet, when Health makes a claim based upon the same criteria, you dispute the accuracy. You can’t have it both ways
Someone with two Jewish parents
LU, your attitude is deplorable, and, hypocritical. If we are Jews, but not Americans, then give up your citizenship, don’t vote, don’t demand benefits ( I.e. bussing, section 8, Medicaid, beneficial zoning ). It seems we’re Americans if it means getting, but Jews when it comes to giving back. Places like Kiryas Joel are able to live their Jewish life precisely because they exercise their rights as Americans to vote and obtain what they are entitled to. Being Jewish and American are not mutually exclusive
Tonight
Carter was by far the worst
Mass murder would be the intentional killing of civilians. If you’re bombing factories , the unintended death of civilians would collateral damage
Lavender, why are you asking total strangers for advise on an important life decision? Would you walk up to a stranger on the street and ask?
Actually, only well done cookies are Assur
Who specifically assure it