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  • in reply to: Bending to our will #1104557
    Joseph
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    Perhaps the rabbi had made arrangements with the corporate owners to have the TVs off on that day of chol hamoed and the local yodel working that day was being obnoxious because he didn’t know the bosses wanted the TVs and radios turned off and already arranged it so that a busload of boys could be there.

    in reply to: Getting trampled By Hoshanos #1101063
    Joseph
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    Who said you gotta complete the circle around the bima?

    in reply to: 300,000 Comments In The Coffee Room #1139319
    Joseph
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    sdd, how’d you do your calculation?

    in reply to: Schar in proportion to potential #1101368
    Joseph
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    How about a wife who gets the same schar as her husband, for her enabling and assisting her husband to reach his level in Torah and Avoda. i.e. What Rabi Akiva said regarding his wife Rochel – all that is mine and yours (his talmidim) is hers, etc.

    in reply to: Chapping Shrayim at the Tish #1100922
    Joseph
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    What’s the chilik between divrei mussar and chasidus?

    in reply to: Why Was Woman Created? #1188058
    Joseph
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    The answer is befeirush in Bereishus.

    in reply to: General Shmooze 4 #1100902
    Joseph
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    Thanks.

    in reply to: Har HaBayis Revisited #1112283
    Joseph
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    Offhand I think there’s a teshuva in kovetz teshuvos.

    in reply to: I am having a Euro Obsession at the Moment… #1104604
    Joseph
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    How about the Yiddish-British accent. Are their accents more similar to their Yiddish speaking cousins in Williamsburg or to their native British contemporaries?

    in reply to: Har HaBayis Revisited #1112281
    Joseph
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    Yes, there certainly are written teshuvos by them and earlier poskim.

    Even when Sir Montefiore ascended to the Har Habayis in the late 1800s, the gedolim of Yerushalayim publicly denounced him the following Shabbos in Shul. He tearfully and publicly apologized to the rabbonom saying he hadn’t realized it was assur and promising never to do so again, and the rabbonim said he was forgiven. And he was one of the most powerful figures and wealthy Jewish benefactors of Eretz Yisroel of the time. This is hardly anything new or “political”, as you attempt to malign the gedolei yisroel and poskim of our dor.

    in reply to: Learn to play jewish music #1100993
    Joseph
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    “What is your greatest challenge in learning to play Jewish music?”

    Hitting play on the CD player.

    in reply to: Stampede at the Bais Hamikdash? #1100906
    Joseph
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    I’d have to look inside. But it stands to reason that there was population growth in the hundreds of years between bayis rishon and bayis sheini. With a larger population and not a (much) larger bayis, it was still a neis that they all fit in. Perhaps an even bigger neis.

    in reply to: Nero's Conversion to Judaism #1100681
    Joseph
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    You’re still challenging Chazal based on claims of Roman historians. Rather you should challenge the Roman historians claims based on the emes from Chazal.

    in reply to: Nero's Conversion to Judaism #1100679
    Joseph
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    Sam, why would you so willingly eat up and accept the record of Roman historians? Btw, the Roman historians whose record survived all are from a later era than Nero. And why would you accept that over Chazal?

    in reply to: Nero's Conversion to Judaism #1100678
    Joseph
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    Sam, Roman historians aren’t renown for their honesty. L’havdil, much like today’s liberal historians who read into history their agenda.

    Nero’s conversion was an embarrassment to the Roman establishment and it would be no wonder that they’d falsely write him out of history as a miscreant and try to whitewash and ignore his conversion. Indeed, today the historians view is that the idea that Nero fiddled while Rome burned is a falsehood.

    in reply to: Stampede at the Bais Hamikdash? #1100904
    Joseph
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    In the Bais HaMikdash, miraculously, all the Yidden fit in and were comfortable, even though it wasn’t naturally big enough. And when the Yidden bowed down for the Avoda, miraculously, there was enough space for everyone to bow even though moments earlier there was only enough space for them to stand.

    in reply to: Stampede at the Bais Hamikdash? #1100903
    Joseph
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    No.

    in reply to: I am having a Euro Obsession at the Moment… #1104600
    Joseph
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    Do the Northern Irish have an accent more similar to the British or to the Irish (from the Republic)?

    in reply to: Chapping Shrayim at the Tish #1100915
    Joseph
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    What is the chilik between Divrei Torah and Chasidus?

    in reply to: Taivah for movies #1148202
    Joseph
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    It was only Uncle Moshe movies I relied on your psak for. I deeply regret it.

    in reply to: Nero's Conversion to Judaism #1100675
    Joseph
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    I’ve read that the accusation that “Nero fiddled while Rome burned” was a falsehood and libel issued against him by some ancient historians embarrassed that a Roman Emperor became a Jew. He was in fact out of Rome during the fire.

    in reply to: I am having a Euro Obsession at the Moment… #1104596
    Joseph
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    I would still like to know how to tell apart a Brit from an Australian, based upon his accent.

    And how about those Irish?

    in reply to: Kittel Scam #1100650
    Joseph
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    Is there an inyan to be buried in the same kittel one wore during his lifetime?

    in reply to: Singing in Davening #1100664
    Joseph
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    How are you differentiating nusach from melodies?

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101151
    Joseph
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    No.

    in reply to: Singing in Davening #1100653
    Joseph
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    What would be an example of what you refer to?

    in reply to: Taivah for movies #1148192
    Joseph
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    Oh.

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101134
    Joseph
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    DM: FWIW, the organizers of the center in the news story you’re referring to, on the bottom of their posters advertising their location, write “Long live the Rebbe King Moshiach forever and ever”.

    in reply to: Taivah for movies #1148189
    Joseph
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    I want to make clear, since it is before Yom Kippur, that nothing I wrote here was intended to pasken, and that anything I discussed was just talking in learning. As seen by the different kashas against me, most of what I said may not have a solid backing in the Poskim and if anybody relies on anything I said here is making a big mistake since I am not a posek nor anywhere close to being one (and even if I was, I was not intending to pasken.)

    Besides, there could be other issues with movies besides pritzus that was not enumerated.

    Now you tell me? For the past six months I’ve been relying on your psak.

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101131
    Joseph
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    2,000 years ago today’s anti kapporos wackos would have been protesting the animal cruelty of kapporos on the mizbeach.

    in reply to: Defining “The Shidduch Crisis” #1153165
    Joseph
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    pcoz might not know many Chasidim but he does read some news media about them to form his opinions.

    in reply to: It is d�j� vu all over again #1100603
    Joseph
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    He said it ain’t over till it’s over. It’s now over.

    Yogi Berra, R.I.P.

    in reply to: Gmar Chasima Tova #1100370
    Joseph
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    Gmar Chasima Tova.

    in reply to: Mochel Loch… time to forgive and be forgiven! #1184935
    Joseph
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    Please forgive me, be ye young or be ye old, for all my sins against you new or old.

    Gmar Chasima Tova.

    in reply to: twins before mashiach #1100402
    Joseph
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    Off topic somewhat, but the plague in the mid 1300s killed about half of Europe’s population and a third of the world’s population. It took about 300 years for the world population to recover to pre-plague levels.

    in reply to: Not Sinning For Lack of Opportunity #1100387
    Joseph
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    Why your equivocation, Sam?

    in reply to: Is it wrong to secretly not want moshiach to come #1132542
    Joseph
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    Yes, it is very wrong. And one who doesn’t want Moshiach may find himself left behind by Moshiach when he does come.

    Very very soon, IY”H.

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101118
    Joseph
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    If someone is driving away with your stolen chickens, you have every moral and legal right to stop them before they disappear.

    in reply to: Mazel Tov! #1224400
    Joseph
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    Mazal Tov!!! What’s the lucky Choson’s coffee room screen name ?!?

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101116
    Joseph
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    The animal activists in that car had stolen chickens. The first part of the video was posted on ywn yesterday.

    in reply to: twins before mashiach #1100392
    Joseph
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    What is the historical timeframe when medical science materially increased the survival rate of twin pregnancies?

    in reply to: Defining “The Shidduch Crisis” #1153159
    Joseph
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    Doing the same thing over and over is not very exciting.

    Marriage isn’t about getting excited. In life we need to do many things over and over.

    Chassidim do not believe in emotional personal living so do not relate to the issue.

    Chasidim believe in emotional personal living more than non-Chasidim do.

    in reply to: Not Sinning For Lack of Opportunity #1100381
    Joseph
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    Sam, so if I take a detour route out of my way to avoid passing an area where women congregate I got no mitzvah and did no good deed?

    in reply to: Kapparos #1101103
    Joseph
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    The chickens that weren’t kosher or schechted properly are sold to non-Jews. So it isn’t wasted and the tzedaka profits from that as well. Additionally, even on a farm there is a certain percentage of spoilage. The spoilage by kapporos isn’t a lot despite the anti-semites’ (both the Jewish and PETA variety) lies.

    Sam: The vast majority of kapporos centers treat the chickens halachicly and appropriately for animals and are appropriately taken care of.

    in reply to: (another) Mechilah Thread #1101393
    Joseph
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    Machul loch.

    And can you be me mochel?

    in reply to: twins before mashiach #1100390
    Joseph
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    What makes you think that more twins have been born more recently than in the past? Because your neighbor and friend had twins?

    in reply to: I am having a Euro Obsession at the Moment… #1104589
    Joseph
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    There’s also a Brooklyn Bridge that Jews use.

    in reply to: Not Sinning For Lack of Opportunity #1100379
    Joseph
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    So to your very core you’re a tzadik. Even your fibers and kishkas simply naturally react like a Torah Yid should to the point in your anivus (which you don’t even recognize as your anivus) you simply attribute it to a natural non-commendable reaction.

    in reply to: (another another) mechila thread #1100341
    Joseph
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    Mocehl loch, mochel loch, mochel loch.

    in reply to: I am having a Euro Obsession at the Moment… #1104587
    Joseph
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    Geordie, once your laughter has died down, please do describe those differences between the accents of the British, Irish, Australians and South Africans.

    akuperma, you seem to have forgotten than England had Jews at one time and they were expelled from the land.

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