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Themusicman,
If you take into account the 165 year discrepancy of the calendar, it comes out to year 2075.
Themusicman,
adam3-Hes A HERO!!!
Anyone that Obama doesnt like is a HERO in my books.”
So Osama Bin Laden was a hero of your’s?
How about Bashar al-Assad?
kfb-If someone c’v is unable to have children, should they not be allowed to marry?
Hakatan, how do you explain vestigial organs such as the appendix, wisdom teeth and vestigial behaviors, like getting goose bumps?
What exactly is the issur?
I do read his blog. Thats why I asked.
Sam2,
Why do you think he has the din of a moser?
Why would woman be too quick to divorce?
RebDoniel, it seems that you have very little of knowledge of psychological experiments. You claim that psychology is purely subjective. That is very far from the truth. In order for a psychological theory to gain recognition as a valid method of practice, it must pass several experiments, ones which are very specific and rigid. You mention Aaron Beck, the founder of cognitive psychology. The reason that his methods have become so widespread is because study groups wh receive his treatments fare much better in the laboratory against a control group who receive no treatment at all. It is very scientific in nature. This is the reason why freudian theories have been largely discarded. They have shown no validity in an experimental situation.
Psychiatry has a very ugly history, but so does nearly every single other school of medicine. The psychiatry practiced today is nothing like it was 50 years ago. Instead of guesswork, we now have ways of measuring the efficiency of any treatment.
I’m not really sure what social work has to do with welfare, marxism,feminism or racialist ideas. Its goal is to help people. Thats about it.
HaKatan,
Please don’t call Rav Soloveitchik Rav “JBS”.
Health,
I apologize if I confused anyone with my post. You are right, i should have specified what I was referring to when I said they are on par.
Health,
If its not inborn, why would anyone who considers themselves frum decide to be gay? All it does is create a life of misery for them
Health,
They are QUALITATIVELY on par, not QUANTITATIVELY. I assumed that when i said the level of learning is the same, it was a given that this is excluding a 2nd seder.
Shmoel,
Can you really see no difference between a homosexual and an adulterer? Someone who is gay has inborn sexual tendencies which they don’t get to chose. An Adulterer willingly chooses to do so.
Hakatan,
When would mixed seating be assur?
And as I have said earlier, a club that gives support to someone who is gay is not a bad thing. YOU seemed to ignore that.
Heath,
Sure they could do that, but YU doesn’t have a proper 2nd seder. If one wanted to learn in yeshiva full time, why would they send to YU. While it is a yeshiva, its not one that has 3 full sedarim.
But you havent told us of any issurim being done!!!! Mixed seating at a table is not assur.
anon1m0us,
I couldn’t have said it better myself
Yes, they are proudly MO, but no, they have no less halachik. Standards.
Could you give an example of such tznius issues?
Health,
Its not that its not conducive. Its that its a college. People who are against college will be against YU. There are several rabbeim in YU who do not agree with the college aspect of the institution. That doesnt mean that its not for a ben Torah.
The rabbeim who dont send their kids to YU do so because they dont approve of a college atmosphere.
Health,
You said you know 2 rabbeim that didnt sent their children to YU. 2 cases does not substantiate your claim. It is just anecdotal evidence.
Im not lying. The level of learning in YU is on par with any other yeshiva in north america, not to mention that YU has the largest collection of roshay yeshiva in north america.
Please come to the gleuck bais medrish and join in our learning. You will not be disappointed.
Hakatan- How on earth would you know that? Have you ever attended YU. I have, and was a member of several clubs, and never did I see anything inappropriate behavior at any of these events. Most gatherings are just events related to a specific major, like a guest speaker of a certain profession. Others are more relaxed, but the administration has a lot of oversight about what goes on during these events.
shmoel- The club in no way promotes any kind of immoral behavior. Its just a support group. People who are homosexual have most probably been outsiders of ostracized for most of their life.
You are confusing homosexual feelings as opposed to acting on them.
Health- there could be a hundred reasons why they didnt send there. Plus, there are plenty of rabbeim who do send their children to YU.
Shmoel- To quote from einstein’s website, “The Einstein Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders (EAGLBT) attempts to provide both social and academic support for members of the Einstein LGBT community, as well as educational programming to raise awareness of the clinical and social issues faced in working with LGBT patients and colleagues.” I dont see a problem with this. Its a support group. Thats it.
HaKatan- Whats wrong with a kosher social gathering of men and women?
HaKatan- im not really sure which events you are talking about. Yes there are plenty of clubs in YU that one can join, but non of them promote or contain promiscuous behavior.
Health- Have you ever been to the YU batai midrashim?
Have you considered Y.U.? Its ranked by U.S news and world report as the 46th best college in the country and has learning on par with lakewood.
Things like chasidism and kollel are inventions of the past 300 years
Just a couple of questions/points.
1) Does emunas chachomim mean to believe that our Rabbis can never be wrong?
2) Moshe spoke directly with hashem. Our rabbonim dont. Its not right to compare the two.
Naysberg – are you saying that the Gra made an error and his talmidim were wiser than him and recognized the error? That is like kfira in emunas chachomim!
Im just curious-Do you believe that rabbis cant make mistakes, and to say so would be wrong?
Shmendrick- I enjoy playing baseball, but since only a select few get chosen for the major leagues, only a select few should play baseball.
interjection-“That my friend, is kefira.”
How is that kefira exactly? Does that violate one of the principles of the Rambam?
HaKatan-“Just as every dignified human male wears both a suit and a hat”
The president doesn’t wear a hat. Almost nobody today wears a hat. While it used to be standerd for a male to wear a hat, today it’s not. Times change. Dress changes. It has nothing to do with modernity. Since the birth of society, dress has been changing.
Its fine to wear a hat, but to say that “every dignified human male wears both a suit and a hat” is just wrong.
did the war end with the miracle of the oil?
The answer is in the book of maccabees. They were celebrating a delayed sukkot. In reality, the miracle was only 7 days.
The answer is that the first chanukka celebration was a delayed sukkot celebration. While the miracle of the oil was only for 7 days, the sukkot celebration went on for 8 days.
Ready now
I apologies for the mistaken identity. I confused you for another poster. Please accept my apology.
I apologize for my gramatical errors in some of my posts
Ready now,
I was referring to your views on divorce, not on using christian comparisons to Judaism. That was what was hurtful.
In regards to your personal situation, a fully apologize if i misrepresented the shalom bais of your home. I had no intent to disrespect of insult you. Please accept my apology.
My primary point was that we should not judge all cases by the same grading rubric. All marriages have their own details that as outsiders we are not privy to. So dot make generalizations about how divorce is never an option.
Ready Now,
This will be my last post in this thread(with Gods help).This world is not black and white. It is full of grey. Not situation is the same for everyone. Blanket assertions like the ones you were making have no purpose, unless your purpose was to hurt others.
You were probably very lucky in the fact that you grew up in a house full of shalom bais. But unfortunately, not all homes are like that. Sometimes couples fight, and thats normal. But sometimes the fighting becomes extreme, affecting both the husband, wife and especially the kids. It is at this point that a couple must make a cheshbon. They must weigh the benefits of staying together and negatives of splitting up. And sometimes the divorce is the more logical and reasonable answer to constant fighting in the home
Anecdotally, my parents divorce was the best thing that ever happened to me. My house went from a war zone to a peaceful, pleasant place to live. Sure it was hard, but everyday of my life I thank my mother and father for going for the divorce.
My message to you is to not generalize situations where you have no idea of the specifics. Every situation has its ins and outs that you have no idea about. So how about offering support instead of criticizing other peoples moves.
Ready now
I dong understand your point. There is nothing wrong to make a contrast between us and other religions. The gemara, and reshonim do it all the time. The ramban famously debated pablo christiani. It’s well documented.
There is no halacha that states that the kids must go with the father.
Ready Now
So its better for kids to grow up in a house with zero shalom bais and constant fighting than for the parents to get divorced?
Ready now
Why on earth would an 18 year old girl willingly put herself through this torture to convict him if he is innocent. what does she have to gain? Only slurs and hurtful remarks.
Ready Now
I dont get your point. Its not an “unlike comparison”, it was a contrast. We are NOT like the catholic church. Whats wrong in saying that?
PLONIALMONI4 was making an excellent point. Unlike the catholic religion, Judaism allows for divorce if it the appropriate measure.
so divorce=murder?
Im not saying that divorce is a good thing, just that its a reality.
rebdoniel-Divorce will damage your children. The kinderlach are never the same afterwards.”
Never the same!!!! So its imposible to move on from a divorce?
Its unfortunate that there are posters here that have no idea what divorce means. They think that its some cataclysmic event that destroys someones life. I hate to break it to you, divorce is not that all uncommon. In fact, there is a whole tractate about it. It happens. And when it does, just like any other tragic event that can(and will) happen, people get over it. They move on.
WIY
You make it sound as if us children of divorces are a different species. Everyone has baggage. EVERYONE. To think otherwise is foolish.
Its not that im tougher than anyone else. Its that divorce isnt that that big of a deal. Yes its hard. Yes its sad. But at the end of the day, my parents marital status had no bearing on my emotional well being. I still have two parents who love me very much. And I imagine that most divorces are not very different than the one of my parents.
To say that most kids get “emotionally damaged” is just ridiculous. Please dont make statements like that.