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The Septuagint was also produced miraculously when the king locked 72 talmidei chachomim each into separate rooms and commanded them each to translate Tanach on their own. He planned on mocking them when they finished by saying, look you all translated your Torah differently. When they all completed they realized all of them miraculously translated the entire Torah, word-for-word, exactly the same via ruach kodesh. They even all similarly modified a pusek what could have sounded like mocking the kings daughter. And changed the order of the first pusek to not sound like a god named “Bereishus” created Elokim.
Gavra, if you pay him union wages then you can ask him for a union workday. 🙂
What’s “your tznius level” mean? Tznius level is set by halacha not you.
Why is kosher food so expensive? Why is yeshiva tuition so expensive? Why are Jewish books so expensive?
Why are you being bittul zman by going back and reading so many old threads?
Torah is der beste sechora.
Avram in MD,
The teretz is that all other things being equal, a person who learns Torah more is better than a person who learns Torah less.
I agree; however, it is fundamentally impossible for two separate people to have “all other things” be equal. So this answer is functionally meaningless.
The point certainly does have meaning once you understand the underlying message. Namely that learning more Torah is better than learning less Torah. So the act of being in Kollel and learning seven hours a day is better than working seven hours a day and learning one hour a day. So for an individual capable of it, it certainly is better to be in Kollel and learn more Torah than to work and learn less Torah.
What if the product with the mislabeled OU was produced by an outfit that has no contract with the OU?
Does the OU have the legal ability to order a food manufacturer to recall their product?
Everyone’s demanding an answer!
The teretz is that all other things being equal, a person who learns Torah more is better than a person who learns Torah less.
The question is are people who learn Torah all day better than people who learn Torah an hour a day.
Simplifying the question will make it easier to answer.
Post the code and the errors here.
squeak: Remember the old AOL chime “You’ve got mail!”
The only thing my mother and her mother-in-law ever agreed about is blue for fleishig and red for milchik. Maybe it is a yekkisher thing.
Is that what pulled your shidduch through?
Chasidim wear both pairs after their wedding. Those who wear only Rashi tefilin are not transgressing anything.
Shhhhh… not too loud. If Reb Wolf hears this he’s gonna say he’s a rasha for not wearing both (and insist he’s not changing).
Don’t some of the mothers there wear pants?
If someone reads his emails while in shul or by chazaras hashatz, al achas kama vkama he could be emailing during her labor.
CTLAWYER: Cruz is a natural-born citizen. Anyone who is a citizen at the moment he is born is a natural-born citizen. What’s shver? I’m not sure which conspiracy site is peddling that Cruz’s mother ever renounced her US citizenship.
You are incorrect about the Constitution requiring that the President be born on US soil. The Panama Canal Zone is not US soil, and McCain was born there, and Mexico is not US soil and Romney was born there. And if Obama was born in Kenya (he wasn’t) he would still be a natural-born US citizen by virtue of his mother’s citizenship.
*Sigh* Firstly, you either don’t read what people write or you fail to understand the import of their comments. I suspect the latter. Secondly, you are answered, and once again you say you say you received no answer. And then you wonder why you are eventually ignored and you start kvetching that people don’t answer you.
For the umpteenth time, your hypothetical question was about an ordinance for the (to directly quote you) “obvious goal of preventing Goyim from moving in”. I told you such an ordinance is unconstitutional on the face of it. Tenafly proves my point. If the intention of the municipality (as in your hypothetical) was to specifically and directly and singularly target a specific religion, it is unconstitutional. That’s what your question pertained to and was. Tenafly did target a specific religion and thus it was unconstitutional. It doesn’t matter that the ordinance was broader since what mattered was how they selectively enforced it.
So I correctly answered your question a month ago that an ordinance with the “obvious goal of preventing Goyim from moving in” is unconstitutional on the face of it and cannot be enacted “in a constitutioanl sound way” as you suggested in the wording of your question last month.
Capish? Or do you need to repeat it seven more times? In either event I’m done wasting my time.
I’m sorry that your comprehension isn’t optimal, ubiq. You have an inability to put comments into context. In Tenafly the court determined the municipality did not enact their ordinance for the expressly intended purpose of singularly preventing the eruv but made it broader to obscure that fact. So your citing Tenafly here isn’t relevant to the earlier comment I made in response to your hypothetical question of a municipality enacting an ordinance for the “obvious goal of preventing Goyim from moving in”.
Nope, it is because the minhag of giving gelt is a Chanukah one so with time the gelt became Presents.
There’s a real minhag to give one’s spouse a gift for the shalosh regalim.
But, then again, it isn’t Christmas season so perhaps some don’t hold much of it.
Notamod: I’m the referee. 😉
ubiq: As I told you after our experiences in previous threads, as a general rule I will decline to respond to your repeated questions as you don’t accept responses not to your liking – and then you go on and pretend to have not received a response as you re-post the same question a half dozen more times after slightly altering the wording of the question (and claiming it is a new question that was not previously addressed).
And, as you know, I’m not the only one who has had this experience with you and told you as much.
Zev, you seem to be agreeing with ubiq.
Btw, why don’t the people who give so many Chanuka presents to all their family members do the same on Succos and Pesach and Shavuos and give all their family members similar presents, in quantity and quality to all the same people, they do on Chanukah?
Is it, dare we say, because there is no Christmas gift-giving season during the other yomim tovim?
It has always been the long time tradition that a shadchan is paid only once they make a successful shidduch. This has been true hundreds of years ago (the seforim hakedoshim discuss this fact) and this has been generally the rule at least as recently as in the last decade.
Has this changed in the last ten years?
My first sentence is stating that pure raw S&D pricing unmodified is anti-halachic due to the point made in my second sentence, which if accepted would alter pure S&D pricing.
golfer: Supply and demand pricing is anti-halachic. Halacha makes dictates on price limitations in the market.
Avi: There are hundreds of thousands (and growing rapidly) who speak the language as their first language. Very very far from dead.
I don’t think anyone thinks 4″ is literal halacha, but rather people realize it needs to be longer than just the knee since it needs to cover the knee when sitting, getting out of a car, etc. (as shimen pointed out). And 4″ is a reasonable number to cover most common scenarios (though even 4″ doesn’t cover all situations.)
DY, this is my best rendition:
‘Talmud hoya shematahare es hashrotzim b’150 tamim’. Yidishkeit was perpetuated not from Shulchan Urach but from ‘al titosh toras imaycha…’ I dress as I do because thats how my father, grandfather, etc. etc. did. And that’s why my children, grandchildren and b’h great grandchildren dress the same. As opposed to your derech of changing. Your grandparents or somewhere earlier down the line were like us. Then along came MO to accomodate or save (which was necessary then…), then centrist, then OO (kofim gemutim, no matter which way you put it.) Would the holy Chasam Soifer, Igros Moshe, Noda B’Yehuda etc. etc. allow a Baptist minister in the beis medrash?)
None of the above.
(With complete sincerity)
The Wolf
What will you do on election day if the only candidates are from the current pool?
Tuition and cheating, as the counter examples, are also straw men.
Big issues or small issues?
with Trump, Cruz or Bush it will be a major Democratic landslide
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are statistically tied in the latest hypothetical match-up according to a Rasmussen Reports telephone survey released today.
And that is a national poll of registered voters from all parties and independents.
The poll is consistent with another recent survey by CNN/ORR which had Trump and Clinton within the margin of error.
In a few centuries, if things stay this way, you’re gonna have mekors for chanukah trees, chanukah presents, pesach bunnies, purim ash, etc.
They have “options” to certify Jews open on Shabbos, according to their FAQ.
Their website stresses they can certify you if you’re open on Shabbos.
Have you checked yet with Rabbi Google?
Is there a more yeshivish high school in Monsey than BYM?
sdd, which tune of S”A, specifically, are you referring to?
I’m not sure what you’re implying, CTLawyer. The Republican nominee will be one of the current declared candidates, which you indicated you will not vote for. And the Democrat nominee will be Hillary.
No one not currently in the primary race will be either of the major parties nominee. Eight years ago whilst Hillary was the front-runner for the Democrat nomination, there were always still other viable serious candidates who still had a shot. That is not the case this round with Hillary not only being the front-runner but she being the shoe-in, as there are no other candidates, Sanders notwithstanding, that even have a serious shot at winning the nomination.
Who does Rav Moshe apply the term “Yeraim” to?