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Chatzizah be’tvilah is a problem because it creates a hefsek between the guf and the water. Hair should not be a chatzizah as it is a part of the guf. There is no din that it has to be on the shaved head.

Sam2, I expected better from you. Learn Y.D.198!

2cents and RebRY, the Zohar is in Parshas Nasso. The chatitza shaving is in the Achronim. One of the reasons is since it is minhag to shave then…

Nechamah and Mammele, women head-shaving is disgusting. This is what we mandate for eshes yafas toar to make her repulsive in the eyes of her Yiddishe chosan.

Chazon Ish was a major Misnaged.

The Zohar does not say to cut the hair, it just talks about not showing it. They cut it to make sure it does not show. Before the advent of the fancy sheitels female shaving was a problem of making the wife unappealing in the eyes of her husband.

Chazizah for tefilin? Please, learn Hilchos Chatzizos in Y.D.198, you’ll see it is not really a problem.

To be fair, Belarus was the biggest component of Lita. Chofets Chaim lived in Belarus.

Chofets Chaim said that the Chassidim have a number of pe’shoim, but their ahavas HaSHem covers them over.

Englishman and Kozov, ask alter Lakewooders if Reb Aharon was a Misnaged.

Kozov, take it easy. Eventhough, the current Litvishe Gedolim do not fight the Chassidim so much, it does not mean that they do not object to a number of their shittos. Mofsim do not prove much — somebody needs to know the Sheimos and be choshuv enough and do it le’shem Shamaim. It does not mean that he is right about all of his shittos.

Proud Hungarian, they held that the black-clad Hungarians and others were wrong in their approach. And the truth is that the Tanoim did not look like Satmar chassidim. Do not start counting from mid-19 century — Klal Yisroel is much older than that.

Mamin, “live and let live” is a posul, non-Torah principle.

Shlishi, Ramban held le’ma’ase not to do it and even not to talk about it.

Women going to Ukraine? It is an unsafe, anti-Semitic country.

Yittai, they said it concerning ervah minhagis — hair of a married woman, not about wearing mini-skirts and low-cut dresses.

And any red-bloodied man will tell you that one does get used to and becomes unaffectable by the ladies dressed in the abovementioned fashion.

Your shittos sound like the YU, not like the BMG.

Whatever Rabbeinu Yonah says in “Sha’arei Te’shuvah” is his halochic opinion.

Yittai, please, stop confusing the olam here with the shvere das-yechid/minority shitta that we do not pasken like. You may be causing people to be nichshol.

Generaly speaking, we had this discussion already. In many areas of Halochah, you can find shvere shittos (lenient or strict) that we do not pasken like. You can matir 3/4 of the Shulchan Aruch like that.

Most Poskim hold and any regular man understands that certain parts cause hirhurim even if many women are accustomed to reveal them.

As far as your “common sense” svorah goes, look in Brochos 24A and in Rashi there — it is befeirush not like you said.

Sam2, Yitay…, Reb Moshe writes that only tights without a skirt is not enough as a woman “dressed” that way still causes hirhurim. Btw, look up Brochos 20A about pritzus.

Rabbiofberlin, the argument about Palestine is as follows. Some fellows claim it was a gross blunder on the part of the Gedolim not to tell people to go to E. Yisroel. Chocandpatience answered to that that Rommel almost got there, and the Jews of E.Yisroel were saved at the last second.

Again,the danger of Hitler did not become totaly apparent till 1938.

Choppy, you are right — once there is a psak from the Great Sanhedrin. However, some here claimed that they could not possibly make a mistake.

Zahavasdad, wrong! Ye, the Jews needed incomes, but going to the US meant otd and no olam habah. Needing incomes does not matir aveiros! Sending over some Gedolim would not have helped — there were tremendous nisyoynons with keeping Shabbos. Also,some people just wanted to go off the derech.

The ta’anah about the Holocaust is preposterous. Nobody could have known what was going to happen untill it was to late.

Sam2,”Behold, in his holy ones He believes not…” — Din can be very strict. I do not have time to bring proofs now.

O.K.Sam2, I do not think they meant to do an aveirah. They had some heter in their minds.

HaLevi, you mixed up the Gemoras. There is a Gemorah that says about two people who volunteered to die to save Klal Yisroel that “no creature can approach their place”. It does not say it about the harugei Beitar.

Yichusdic, the mishnah talks about famous Tanach people.There could be others.

Coffee addict,Gemorah says he gets kaporah. I guess, issurim mechaprim. On the other hand, we say kaddish for him. It follows that not always such a person goes straight to Gan Eden. If he did not have the right kavonos, it for sure makes sense.

Naftush, there are ofene sugyos about these things. Do not delegate it to the Beis din shel ma’alah. Yichusdic, the person’s kavonah makes a difference as to how much kaporah he gets.

His violent death provides a full or a partial kaporah for him.

Getzel1, what shayhos?

I hate German. It’s alleviated a little bit by Yiddish being a dialect of it.

I said “pretty much limited”. And with the Arabs, it’s a recent thing. And they want just to destroy the state. And they are big mouths – they do not 100% mean everything they say.