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While not feeding the meter might arguably be called “theft”, putting an old ticket on your windshield doesn’t break any law.
Would they have the same concern renting to a single or divorced woman because she may be a stumbling block for the bochorim?
I get google adwords ads on this site, so I’d be doubtful it has its own network.
PAA: On the same token perhaps we ought to suggest that men will get some sense of fulfillment by baking cookies and cleaning the house?
They’ll usually look at the ticket. If it is old they’ll usually give another ticket.
lz: Who said they aren’t following the Torah on the other side of the Sambatyon?
Chazal itself (Berachos 17a) say that a woman’s merit comes from assisting her husband and sons in their Torah endeavors.
Torah society *does* officially grant a married person, regardless of age, a higher status than his unmarried peers. For example, when determining who should be shliach tzibbur during the yomim noraim.
gavra, who do you expect to fund the free schooling you expect the gedolim to open?
A Yid walks to the bar at the chasuna and asks for a martini. The bartender asks “Dry?”
The Yid replies, “Nein, just one.”
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A ship sailing past a remote island spots a man whose been stranded there for years. The captain goes ashore to rescue the man and notice three huts.
“What’s the first hut for?”, he asks.
“That’s my house”, says the castaway.
“What’s the second one for?”
“That’s my shul”
“And the third hut?”
“Oh, that?” sniffs the castaway, “That’s the shul I used to go to.”
How do mathematicians scold their children?
I’ve told you n times; I’ve told you n+1 times…
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A mathematician wanders back home at 3 AM and proceeds to get an earful from his wife. You’re late, she says, you said you’d be home at 11:45!
Actually, the mathematician cooly replies, I’d said I’d be home by a quarter of 12.
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Why did Beethoven get rid of all his chickens?
All they said was Bach, Bach, Bach…
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Did you hear about the suicidal homeopath? He took 1/50th of the recommended dose.
Gelilah is a rather big kibud. It is questionable why it is often given to children rather than to adults.
You linked to fny’s comment to me and my response to him. What is your action as a dayan in the above scenario based on your understanding of halacha?
DY, so lets address the situations where that’s not realistically going to happen.
You’re a dayan. A woman petitions the beis din for a Get. She says that she and her husband disagree on too many things in life so therefore they’re not compatible. That’s her basis. You and the other two dayanim determine that objectively her concerns, even if provable and true, do not fit into any halachic category that requires a husband to give a Get if he does not wish to. The husband, in the evaluation of the beis din you’re sitting on, earnestly and sincerely wishes to continue the marriage. He states he is ready and willing to fulfill all his marital obligations to her, as he had until she left. You and the dayanim agree there is no halachic basis to order a Get. What do you do at that stage (soon after she first walked out); order her to stop being a moredes and return to her husband? Is that what halacha requires?
Okay, that was when the case first came to court soon after the breakup. Now it is two or three years later. Literally nothing changed. She still didn’t return and wants the Get – and he sincerely still wants the marriage. They come back to beis din. At this point you’re sure there’s no realistic chance she’ll ever change her mind or go back. But you also see he is sincere in his stated desire to continue the marriage. You think he is being completely unrealistic and perhaps even delusional in thinking that might happen but you acknowledge his sincerity. You and the other dayanim strongly advise him that you highly recommend he give it since you believe there is no realistic chance she’ll change her mind. He politely declines following the suggestion. I maintain halacha doesn’t obligate he give it and he gets no aveira for not giving it (and she is continually sinning by having walked out), and doesn’t even allow beis din to advise him that he is halachicly required to give it or to demand or pressure that he do so.
Do you disagree and maintain that he, at this stage, is halachicly required to give it? Do you as dayan order him to give it? I maintain that if the beis din does order or pressure it, even if he says even though I don’t want to give it but if beis din orders I am obligated to give it, then I will give it on that basis, it constitutes a Get Me’usa.
What do you, as a dayan, do to insure halachic compliance by both parties as well as insure the beis din itself follows proper halachic requirements here that doesn’t result in a get me’usa or worse?
oy: I know the policy. Was adherence to that policy worth two beheadings?
WM: I answered your question in the comment immediately above yours.
FiOS’ fastest available package in my area is 500/500. (No typo; five hundred up and down.)
I’m wondering if cable and FiOS both actually provide their advertised speed.
You can do a lot more with Franklins than with Bitcoins.
And whatever banking restrictions are applicable to Franklins, they’re also applicable to transferring Bitcoins into the banking system.
Frumguy: It is known since one of the foreigners who was held hostage with Sotloff, and later was freed when their government paid off the IS kidnappers, related these facts about Sotloff.
Who agrees America should have paid off the IS in order to save these two Americans lives, like the European (France, Italy, etc.) governments have been doing for their kidnapped citizens?
Hardly driven out. Obama simply was fulfilling his campaign promise against the advice of American military leaders. And Obama fed the rise of the Islamic State with his foolish refusal to arm the moderate Syrian rebels early on in the conflict. He is on the verge of doing the same in Afghanistan.
gavra: It is outrageous to assert anyone, regardless of income, be limited in having children. If poor families have 12 children it is not only their absolute G-d given right and our obligation to merrily welcome them, but it crosses all boundaries to talk of, even half humorously, baby licenses. Large families are not the exclusive province of the wealthy that is denied to the poor. The question is whether a family limiting themself in this regard is appropriate; not whether third-parties inserting themselves in others lives can even suggest such a sordid idea – that wasn’t even an option through the vast majority of history. Nor do we punish children with many siblings who cannot afford a Torah education.
About $50 for FiOS and $40 for cable with a comparably claimed entry-level downstream speed.
DY: Visa and MC do an address verification prior to approving the transaction and some merchants (including some American) choose to refuse to accept foreign cards as a security precaution.
pba: Amazon is a multinational corporation unlike most businesses.
Charlie: Benjamin Franklins are also great for drug lords and unsavory folks laundering money.
Is anyone familiar with the comparative performance between FiOS and cable internet and whether it’s worth the price differential?
They accept Visa and MasterCards issued by EU banks but not from outside the EU. They are a reputable (European) merchant but are not geared for American customers.
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Mazel Tov!
He adamantly denies it but many persist in attributing his denials to great humility.
When we were kids the redd in yeshiva was that America and Russia were the gog and magog.
Gavra: If after selling her ring and candlesticks she can only pay two months tuition for her five children, should they be disenrolled from yeshiva beginning in November?
Nope, never said that. See my response to point 2. Besides, I don’t think my wife wants me to be dating. 🙂
DY, I addressed that point above in my response to your Point 2.
“in all areas of halacha that a MAN with semicha is then I am fine with that”
Why this intense focus on her being able to mimick “ALL areas of halacha that a MAN”? If she is less knowledgeable than a man rabbi, say for example areas of halacha that are particular and applicable only to a man, you are still unsatisfied?
I too am discussing propriety, good behavior, righteousness and Gan Eden. Everything I’ve stated is within those parameters. His not giving a Get-on-demand because she woke up on the wrong side of the bed or just decided the single scene is more fun than married life or that he isn’t rich enough for her or that she’d prefer a European husband instead of an American like him or that he is boring or that he doesn’t bring her flowers or that he doesn’t get along with her parents or that he’s just not her type is NOT revenge and there is no default and automatic reason he should give it because she asked for it. And it is improper, bad behavior, unrighteous and a risk to her Gan Eden for her to insist on it unreasonably or to walk out unreasonably if he wishes to continue the marriage and fulfill his duties and obligations to provide her all her marital rights. And his reaction as such fulfills all aspects of propriety, good behavior, righteousness and Gan Eden.
Why did you decide to change rabbis in the first place?
“I am not advocating that there should be women Rabbis.”
If you advocate smicha (Rabbinic Ordination) for women then by definition you advocate women rabbis. (Not you specifically, but someone advocating such.) Rabbinic ordination = rabbi.
What’s wrong with a yoetzet to fit the bill of what you’re describing about being certified to answer halachic questions? You also didn’t address my above point that a heter hora’ah is considered a license to be a dayan. ??? ????? ????
Meal Mart is coming out with a new gefilte fish. Supposedly it will change the world.
It’s happened to many people recently and in the past. And will happen to many in the future. There reasons are many and always different for every person. It’s one of life’s challenges. We need to be strong and get past the difficulties we encounter. Sometimes it’s hard but we persist nevertheless.
Time heals. It’s hard to see it at first but it comes. And then you see you were all the better for the experience. Even though it’s hard to see when the pain is fresh.
Hatzlacha and IY”H by you.
They don’t accept paypal.
The answer is simple: We are right and they are wrong. We were told by G-d to do so and they were not (despite claiming to be doing G-d’s will.) We can criticize them because they are going against G-d’s will whereas we are going and went in accordance with G-d’s will. Our argument is simply we are doing G-d’s will whereas they are not. Whether it is provable or unprovable to non-Jews is secondary. We don’t need to have a winning argument in order for us to speak and know the truth.
anon1m0us: Yes. You wouldn’t do so?
So be forthright and clear that you’re advocating for Woman Rabbis. That’s what smicha is. Writing “There is a difference between having semicha and being a Rabbi” is simply muddying what you’re trying to accomplish. Someone with Rabbinic Ordination (smicha) is a Rabbi.
Additionally, women cannot sit on a beis din and a heter hora’ah is considered a license to do so. So a heter hora’ah doesn’t work for that reason as well. Furthermore, we should not deplete the title of Rav from its meaning of the way it has been understood throughout the doros. Moreso, advanced learning of Torah Shebaal Peh is forbidden for women so they cannot be Torah teachers in the full sense. And finally, there is an issue of tznius with women in public leadership positions (or speaking publicly in front of large gatherings of men).
We can criticize others because we know they worship a falsehood. If they reciprocate the criticism, so what. We know the truth and needn’t defend it.
I understand you’d want to root it to gain access to things that require that, but what do you gain by changing the rom?
I’m trying to purchase something overseas that doesn’t accept foreign credit cards but does accept bitcoins. Which bitcoin provider would be easiest to setup an account with? And how difficult is it to use bitcoins in general. And how safe.
The Chofetz Chaim had and there are people in every generation, including our own, that do.
Nevertheless, once you give “smicha” by definition they can call themselves rabbis and many will act as such and take positions as such with the rabbinic ordination (smicha) legitimizing it.
In an example where the son, in his own opinion, feels he will be able to accomplish more Limud Torah is Yeshiva X compared to what he’ll accomplish in Yeshiva Y that his father wants to send him to?
Proof is secondary to truth. We know what the truth is whether we can “prove” it or not. We don’t need to prove it to anyone. The Torah is truth as much as the nations of the world deny it.
Sam: The boycott was in response to unofficial antisemitic actions of the Nazis. It was a horrible response, though. It accomplished nothing other than to give them a pretext to officially incorporate antisemitism as official government policy with sanction of the law itself. And the consequences for (initially) German Jewry was devastating. The anti-German protest at Madison Square Garden with 55,000 people when the Germany boycott was initiated occurred on March 27, 1933. The official reaction of the German government was thereafter.