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Wolf: Do you call Jackie Mason, Rabbi Jackie Mason?
Detroit, MI
Writersoul: men and women have different roles in life, with different functions and with different standards.
Netanya, Israel.
Ruzhyn, Ukraine
Wolf: What if a smicha earner became frei?
Amsterdam, Netherlands
it’s better to give up your own chumros
DM, for many their shitta is that refraining from consuming cholov stam isn’t merely a chumra but rather is ikkur halacha.
writersoul: Orthodox men only.
Kiryas Yoel, NY
It is correct and proper to call someone who teaches Torah a rabbi, irregardless of hantige smicha or lack thereof.
There you have it in a nutshell.
St. Louis is well off in employment opportunities?
Ger, Poland
The martians are coming! The martians are coming!
Lemberg, Poland (currently Ukraine)
fhw, in a nutshell, what you’re claiming is that the non-Chasidim are outgrowing the chasidic population?
Monsey.
Are the Chasidim outbirthing everyone else?
New Square, NY
Englewood, NJ
Apt, Poland
Ruzhin, Ukraine
Erlau, Hungary
Do we actually want Moshiach??
Isn’t life in places like New Jersey, London and Melbourne so g’shmack – why jeopardize that with Ben Dovid avdecho?
Nebech.
Norfolk, VA
Hey, ZD, are ya trying to ruin this game with that X? :p
Nyiregyhaza, Hungary
DY: Didn’t NASI require a prepayment by the girl’s family before shidduchim were redt (so how would they not pay?), or am I mixing it up with another shidduch program?
Ellenville, NY
Great minds think alike?
rob: He was speaking about the (many) cases he was involved with, not the worldwide total. And it was a tiny percentage. As far as Get Me’usa, it is complicated indeed, but it is also playing with fire as Get Me’usa brings mamzeirim into the world.
Dachau, Germany
Davos, Switzerland
The Talmud Muvhik of Rav Elyashiv zt’l, who is a Rov in Yerushalayim currently, and was previously a Rov in the U.S. He might have a brother in Lakewood.
What country are you coming from? Do you have any preferences as far as hashkafa, i.e. yeshivish, modern, chasidish? Do you need to move somewhere that you need to find a position is a specific industry? Are you willing/able to pay a relatively high amount in tuition?
If one of the parties refuses to accept any beis din, then beis din can issue a Siruv and put him/her in Cherem. But even in such a case beis din cannot halachicly issue a ruling that a Get is mandatory without first having an actual trial with the parties to determine whether or not the halacha is that a Get is obligated to be given/accepted.
I’m sure great poskim in other cities have had similar cases as well. It unfortunately happens that such cases occur where such action is warranted; fortunately they’re infrequent. But when they do transpire those poskim are correct to act.
The problem arises when vigilantes such as the unrecognized or non-poskim act outside the framework of a recognized beis din that duly has jurisdiction of the case, and act upon their own initiative and their own sense of right or wrong to engage in coercion, where the circumstances of the case do not halachicly warrant it.
Rav Nachum Eisenstein said that over many years of dealing with contentious gittin cases he only saw two cases of real agunos, where the husband refused to give a Get out of spite. All the other cases he dealt with where someone cried they’re an aguna were cases that did not qualify as such, as often it was simply the parties not having settled the divorce in a halachic manner and the aguna card was played to either generate sympathy or obtain unwarranted concessions without agreeing to settle the case on halachic terms in beis din (i.e. one party was using non-Jewish/secular courts to obtain judgements in contradiction to halacha.)
New York, New York
(Can’t believe no one used that yet in over four years of playing this game!)
Kennebunkport, Maine