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Even if that’s all true, there aren’t thousands of non-religious from across the USA that will be willing to fly to BP for a Shabbos.
“There are a number of woods that rot very quickly when placed in the ground”
That’s good. Jewish caskets should rot as quickly as possible. In Eretz Yisroel they actually bury without a casket altogether. For the same reason that the bottom is removed when there is a casket. (Perhaps that is why you mentioned that they rot.)
The Syrian rabbinical establishment stopped *performing* conversions about 80 years ago due to a problem of marriages with non-Jews who then sought to convert for marriage purposes.
Nevertheless they only will not perform any conversions within their community. Valid conversions done by rabbis outside the Syrian community are fully recognized as full Jews in all respects by the Syrian community.
That will bring in a few dozen cumulatively, at best, “from far out in the USA”, not “thousands”.
@littleeema: Commercial casket makers, to the best of my knowledge, do not prepare in advance that this casket is made and set aside for Chaim for when he dies, and this casket is made and set aside for Chava when she does, etc.
Curiosity: That picture looks awfully like it was taken in Eretz Mitzrayim, circa our slave age.
I’ve recently read the letzonei hador mocking yesterday’s project with comparisons and making equivalency to inviting frum Jews to a mechallel Shabbos weekend to share the joy of being able to do whatever one wants one weekend as a response to the “missionary nature” of this project. Apologies for being jaded and viewing with a critical eye something that possibly sounded a bit along those lines.
The less and the simpler the better; plain and wooden. The bottom should preferably be removable so it can be slid out.
That being said, it seems inappropriate to prepare one for a living person.
Nu, Mark, what do you think is the demographic reality?
But then no one will have anyone to invite. So they’ll end up inviting each other and it’ll all be one big happy family reunion.
If the joke is a comparison to yesterday’s project it is no joke. One is sharing truth and the other falsity. Even if both think they have the truth, we do and they don’t.
50% of the amount you are depositing in his college account.
Do you trust their kashrus?
Why is anything debated here – or anywhere else for that matter?
AIY: He says if the bochor “desires”. Only the bochor can tell us if he desires. We cannot tell the bochor that he doesn’t desire if he says he desires.
Yeah, of course, some stragglers here and there. But the OP was talking about “thousands”.
Which outskirts of BP? One side is Flatbush and the other side is the Asian neighborhood. And how many on the outskirts are there – and the ones there are are apt to go to frum folks in their own area.
Is a sleepover a fancy way to call a pajamas party?
Boro Park is close to 100% frum. Flatbush still has non-frum residents. It would be difficult to import thousands of frei yidden to Boro Park for a Shabbos. Where will thousands of irreligious Jews willingly come to BP from for an overnight stay?
popa: Your point is equally applicable regarding “Chareidim” and even “Orthodox”.
Being Chareidi but not Chasidish. (Now ask what it means to be Chareidi.)
Are you supposed to join the idf or hope your kid joins it before finding out about the spiritual dangers involved?
My uncle was with him in the Soviet Ukraine after the war (Russia had seized the Carpathian Ruthenia from Czechoslovakia) and came to the US with him in the ’60s. He was my mohel. The day he was niftar I was thinking about him before I heard anything.
There are other shittos that one’s entitled to follow.
The bottom line is that there’s no reason not to politely ask if someone can trade seats with you. Regardless why you ask. You want an aisle seat. You need to be closer to the bathroom. You and your spouse or children were assigned seats apart from each other. Or because of religious sensitivities. And if anyone doesn’t like that, well, that’s no one else’s problem.
It’s telling that most of the folks opposed to religious accommodation have no objection to a polite seat change request for a non-religious need or preference.
Again, these requests are being made politely. And no one is being coerced to agree to change.
I don’t see why the aforementioned Gemara in Eiruvin or the 13 ikarim cannot colloquially be described as a psak rather than your preferred conclusion.
“No one really believes that the entire nation is meant to learn in
kollel full-time while their wives work and/or somebody supports them, do they? If that is indeed the mindset of the system, then something is presumably wrong.”
Even the biggest proponents of Kollel don’t advocate or expect *every* yungerman to go to Kollel. And certainly no one holds that “the entire nation” should be in Kollel. The claim that anyone holds something like that, which you sometimes hear advanced by those opposed to Kollel, is a red herring.
tzvik: Spiritual danger. (Even if you argue against this point, those who do find it to be so will not relent on this point.)
SoL: I doubt the government will put tens of thousands of Chareidi draft dodgers in jail even if the law mandates a draft of them. Does the government really want to draft neteurei karta guys or anyone who will resist their having been drafted?
“pointing out that a conclusion is not the same thing as a psak. I concluded that I typed this but I did not pasken that I typed this. The fact that Beis Shammai/Beis Hillel or the Rambam reached a conclusion on a given matter does not make it a psak. It means that they think it to be true or even that they are sure that it is true.”
Without addressing the larger disagreement but only addressing the terminology, I don’t see why pasken cannot colloquially be used in the sense of concluding.
Would working as a cashier be something doable and available?
1. The starting assumption is any Ha’aretz report is inaccurate.
2. The “Hareidim” requesting a seat change invariably do so politely and request it voluntarily from a willing party. They don’t (and in fact can’t) coerce.
3. The request is typically made to someone travelling alone not to someone sitting next to a family member. There are more than enough single travelers that it isn’t necessary to ask someone sitting next to their spouse.
4. These reports are always hyped and greatly exaggerated by reporters who have a chip on their shoulder with their disdain for “Hareidim”.
/sarcasm
PAA: How is it relevant whether it is what you term “halachically objectionable” if leaders of world Jewry said it is a radical and dangerous departure from Jewish tradition and the mesoras haTorah, and must be condemned in the strongest terms and that a woman in a rabbinical position of any sort cannot be considered Orthodox? That statement is clearly stating it is objectionable in the strongest terms. Suppose, hypothetically, it isn’t “halachically objectionable” (however you differentiate that “objection” from the Gedolei HaTorah’s objection), if it can’t be done what are you aiming at?
Are there any contemporary Kabbalists that are accepted today as such uncontroversially across Klal Yisroel?
If there are no kids in shul it’s okay for the gabbai to give gelila to an older single? Or must he then give gelila to a married guy but definitely not the single?
Online is usually the best source for hard to find books.
Those opposed to giving land to the Palestinians, do you then support endless warfare and terrorism by the Arabs who will never agree to anything less than independent land? All your ideas and arguments against giving land may be wonderful and logically sound, but at the end of the day the Arabs will never agree to anything less and will continue their war and terror. You’ll have to accept endless fighting and death.
I fully agree with everything eftachbchinor said.
A new Palestine would be a more formidable military foe than Egypt, Jordan and Syria were in the past?
“there would be a very plausible reason why non-kollel people would want kollel people to leave kollel and not the reverse, namely that the non-kollel people are generally the ones supporting the kollel people.”
No one is forcing anyone to support anyone else, in Kollel or out of Kollel. I have no tainas if someone chooses to give their maaser to things other than Kollel and not a dime to Kollel. So don’t give. But where do they come about spouting against other’s choice to attend Kollel?
The current smicha is intended as an imitation of the original smicha. And the current smicha indicates a license to serve as a Dayan.
I bet he didn’t shave and the girl fell in love with him at first sight for being such a tzaddik and they are now engaged.