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Re: cherry-picking poskim, a well-known Gemara (Avoda Zara 7a) states that once one halachic authority is questioned and rules regarding the halachic status of an item, no other authority should be questioned to procure a differing ruling:
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[2] With the exception of where a mistake has been made by the Rav, in which case the initial ruling had no potency. See the Ritva there and the Rema and Shach (cited below), for a discussion of which mistakes this is true for.)
One final caveat. The whole discussion here about the essence and power of psak only holds true to a ruling made on a specific item: e.g. the Rav is consulted about the kashrus of the chicken; or the beracha on a food, however, regarding a general halachic enquiry: for example, what is the halacha if I forget ???? ???? on Rosh Chodesh, should I follow a certain practice or minhag, the above discussion is not relevant. In such a situation there is no physical item for a ???? of psak to become active (Chut Shani, Y.D. 188). It is to be explained how it is in such questions that a ruling can obligate the ???? to follow the words of the Rabbi.
(above from A Prager)
Even under the best realistic case scenario, the religious slate will not have enough influence to make any serious change in what is funded by the WZC.
Furthermore, the kind of things the WZC is commissioned to fund would have little impact on religious Jews even if religious Jews outright controlled the WZC (which everyone knows won’t come close to happening even under the best case scenario.)
Word games? You can’t write words on Shabbos, even as a game.
Can you do it with one person if their are three other people?
What’s it cover?
It’s been a known bug for years. It started after an upgrade of the bbPress forum software on this site about four or five years ago. Before that the issue didn’t exist. And apparently there have been no bbPress upgrades here since then with a version that got rid of the bug.
Another bug introduced during that same upgrade was you are no longer logged in to the CR and the main site simultaneously. Previously if you were logged into one, you were automatically logged into both. Now it’s one or the other; logging into one automatically logs you out of the other.
Another bbPress upgrade would fix both of those (and other) issues. [Another bug introduced with said upgrade was the “Member” link under everyone’s screen name used to automatically link to their real profile irregardless whether the screen name was different than the username.]
gosh, lior! you sure learned a lot in 7 months 🙂
Another question: Can you say Shalom Aleichem three times to the same person rather than three different people? What to do if there aren’t three other people? What to do if you say Kiddush Levana b’yichidus?
In code.
In the same sense can a frum man or woman move to Alaska near the Arctic Circle?
DY makes a very good point. But it certainly is a different point than the one Comlink made that I addressed.
Lav davka. Hardware needs internal software to run. So the software can first be created followed by the necessary hardware to run it.
Comlink: Jewish men have generally always had high literacy rates even when living in areas where the local gentile population were mostly illiterate.
Other than Jews, I doubt most Americans know that German luxury car brands are German, much like most don’t know Lexus is Japanese, Saab and Volvo are Swedish or Jaguar is British.
Sam: But there’s no defined “Yeshivish” community or organizations. The term is merely colloquial. The same is true about “Chareidi”. The organizations that people call yeshivish or chareidi don’t refer to themselves as that. OTOH, you have an official MO movement with MO organizations and institutions and rabbis who officially consider themselves MO. Those who are colloquially called Yeshivish (or Chareidi) mostly never referred to themselves as such. In America you can go to Yeshiva from Kindergarten through Kollel and you will most probably never hear “we are Chareidi”, and you may even never hear the term used at all.
What I’m trying to understand is if there are no “MO shittos” or minhagim why does anyone officially consider themselves to be MO or have established MO institutions?
You take out a mortgage.
Is there even a definition to an MO shitta – or does it depend on which person’s MO you’re talking about.
Who said the vomiting was voluntary? The idea that he mistakenly consumed non-CY may have been revolting to him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some Yeshivos are, too, “mercantile” in that sense. Many hospitals are non-profit, btw. But all this is besides the point.
uniq: I would categorize naming a hospital closer in similarity to naming a shul. I don’t think anybody would object to naming a shul or yeshiva after a godol. But neither is comparable to using a godol’s name for mercantile purposes.
Some people draw the red line after all self-declared Orthodox before Conservative. Others draw the line before the meshichists. Others draw the red line after MO but before OO. And others draw the line before MO. And others draw the line elsewhere.
But everyone has that red line where once you go over you’re crossing the rubicon. It’s only a matter of where you draw it. (Some people even draw the line inclusive of the Conservatives.)
I was partially parroting the poster I responded to.
The yeshivishe community is not in sync with fashion trends. They are typically about two decades behind, and even then particular in only choosing conservative styles.
What kind of “source” are you looking for? Something in the Igros Moshe recounting the maaisa?
Gedolim, including in our own times, have long been able to tell us why a tragedy occurred. Even why the holocaust occurred. There’s nothing new here.
Read, again, the Gemora and Rambam DaasYochid cited.
Rav Eliashev publicly said (available on a recording) that the Kenesset is a “beis minus”. Obviously the Chaereidi MKs have a heter to enter. But as a rule that’s what it is. And frum Jews shouldn’t enter the perimeters of the Kenesset.
Find me a Makor in Torah or society that naming a cruise ship after someone is a lack of Kavod. The Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship is not a lack of kovod, right?
Would you find it objectionable for Cunard Line to name their next ship The RMS Rav Moshe Feinstein and target the Orthodox Jewish market? I certainly would.
The Evil Witch of the West died because a cyclone lifter up the house of Dorothy’s aunt and landed it on the witch, as oomis pointed out. Dorothy being in the house at the time does not bear her any responsibility, even unintentionally.
The Evil Witch of the East died from being unintentionally doused with a bit of water. Water does not normally kill, as Feivel said.
CTLAWYER, so wait a couple of years to get your BMW.
If Rav Pam was a bean seller he wouldn’t have been Rav Pam.
The Nazis wore pants. And boots. I hope no one else does.
And do you for even a moment think that Rav Pam’s descendants would dare permit his name to be used on a commercial food product (even if there was some relevancy between the food and Rav Pam)?
Did Bartenura or Rashi give their assent to their names being utilized for commercial products? Or would you be okay with purchasing a jar of Rav Pam Beans?
The World Zionist Congress, founded by Theodor Herzl ym’s, has no influence on normal Yidden.
Mishpacha is on the left-wing of the chareidi world. Forget the position of Rabbonim or Roshei Yeshivos as to voting in WZC elections, none of the gedolim do so, but rather ask the more pertinenet and unanswerable question as to which Rabbonim and Roshei Yeshivos support Mishpacha.
Once voting in WZC elections, don’t forget to do the same in United Synagogue and HUC elections.
The relevancy of the made-up brand name to the godol is irrelevant (no pun intended) to the point I’m making.
Would you purchase a bottle of Rav Belsky Orange Juice*? Would you find that brand name objectionable?
*no affiliation with the named godol.
mw13: As I mentioned, it has historical links, as the RCA was originally founded as the Rabbinical Council of the OU. The OU and RCA frequently put out joint statements. The RCA’s website, on their “About Us” page says that they are an “important partner” of the OU and that the RCA is the OU’s “rabbinic authority”.
Would news of Chamberlain appeasing Hitler before WWII give you more emunah?
ubiq: We’re not discussing whether it is a good marketing brand name. We’re discussing whether it is disrespectful to name a commercial product after a godol.
Hagaon Haadir Posek Hador Ba’al Shevet Halevi HaRav Shmuel Wosner shlit”a should have a refuah and a yeshuva b’korov.
Comlink: Which google result are you referring to?
The Agudas Yisroel of America represents all of Orthodoxy. It doesn’t purport to be a “chareidi” (whatever that means) organization.
Pouring a drink backwards.
We should boycott the British for killing us in York and expelling us.
And the Spanish for the Inquisition.
And the Italians for destroying the Beis Hamikdash and killing us out in Yerushalayim.
ubiq: Yes. If a kid is in a MO school where *no one* wears a hat, and he wants to, he often will not wear out out of such pressure.
What if the kid wants to wear yellow or blue or grey pants? Should anyone dare stop him from choosing his dressing preferences?
When someone who grew up wearing a black hat and black yarmulka and then changes by dropping them, he is making a statement against his frum community.
When in the military you can’t be creative in clothing. You wear what you are told to and given. The same uniform as every other soldier. Same for Hashem’s people. You identify with Hashem’s children.
Bottom line: When a Jew walks in public, weekday or Shabbos, he should be wearing a hat.
Sam: So we’re taking our cues on what is bakovidik from the non-Jews?
Quote from Maran Rashkbhag Hagaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein ?????????:
“There are people who maintain that Talmidei Chachomim are not qualified to decide political matters, that Gedolei Yisroel should limit themselves to Torah and Halacha. Such people cannot be considered within the Torah camp. One might well say ignoring the advice of a Talmid Chochom is far worse than violating a commandment. One who violates a commandment because he is too weak to resist temptation, at least knows that his action is wrong. By contrast, one who ignores the advice of a Talmid Chochom denies that a Torah scholar’s wisdom is superior. This is a far more serious breach.”
(Reb Moshe, p. 123)
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Igros Moshe, Even HaEzer 2:1
“My outlook is based only on knowledge of Torah whose ways are truth, without any influence of secular studies.”
If you want to forget your Torah, walk away from your still open sefer.
Upon further reading, I cannot say that it has a strong feminism undertone. It is simply a book with the opinions of one woman.
popa put it succinctly. The leadership of the OU (i.e. parent organization) is of MO officers and rabbis. And the OU is officially affiliated with the overtly MO RCA. In fact, the RCA was founded as the Rabbinical Council of the OU; later it merged with the Rabbinical Council of RIETS/YU to form the current RCA.
Sam: The kashrus division is jointly run by Rabbi Belsky and staffed with rabbis such as Rabbi Reisman.