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“The details of his life as described in the Gemara are widely off that of the Gospels, such that the Yeshu of the Gemara lived nearly 100 years earlier. There is a good chance that they are not the same person and it is a mistake to attribute the activities of one to the other.”
There are (at least) a couple people that went in to the legend of J. One who lived around 100 BCE (see Sotah 47a) and one who lived around 100 CE (see Horiot 5b IIRC).
In the Gemara of Sanhedrin, last chapter, a certain non-believer asked a Rabbi about the length of Bilaam’s life. The Rabbi responded 33, and the other guy said “sounds good”. One interpretation is that the other person was asking so that he could use that number for the legend that he was about to create.
Liberals are into symbolism over substance.
Let the riots go on for a day or two or three. Let them “raise awareness”. Then it’ll all subside.
” His Rosh Yeshiva told him that he’s a “kofer” because Chazal say that all bnos Yisrael are pretty. “
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“Chazal also tell us that it is forbidden for a man to marry a
woman before seeing her, “??? ???? ?? ??? ????? ?????? ????.” “
That statement of Chazal is talking about a person’s preference, not an objective evaluation. The wording is “perhaps he will see something disparaging….”. It’s talking about his perceptions and nothing objective about her.
She may be beautiful, but there may be something that he does not like.
That school was founded by Abraham Geiger, who had been active in establishing Reform Judaism.
“What is alarming to me is the attitude of ‘NevilleChaimBerlin’ that has become pretty mainstream- disqualifying anyone who and anything that does not conform to the (extreme) chareidi line. “
While I often find NevilleChaimBerlin’s opinion to be extreme, here he is saying nothing extreme. Like it or not, we judge people by the company they keep, especially when they are there for decades. Beside which, we all have our “red lines” which we say is too much. When there is wholesale abandonment of Mitsvot and denial of Torah min hashamayim, that should be any Orthodox person’s minimum red line to say that’s not Orthodox.
If Heschel joined JTS supposedly before it went OTD, I could somewhat justify his staying there. But first he went to the Reform HUC, which had already thrown off Torah and Mitsvot for years. Like, what was he thinking?
Even at JTS, it was just a few years later that they “mattired” Chillul Shabbat. That did not happen in a vacuum. It’s not like they were following halacha l’mahadrin and then just said, hey let’s drive on Shabbat. They obviously were on a spiritual plummet from smaller breach to larger breach.
Maybe Heschel thought he could mekarev them. I can’t comment so well as I am not in his shoes, but if that was his intention, he clearly failed. In fact he clearly failed to see how he would fail.
When I first read the title, I thought it said “Machasheifa ….”
I guess we sometimes see what we want to see.
“It should then say ????? ???? instead of ????? ????. “
If you say that, then the present lashon is also a problem. Why does it say he was “from those who had little faith”? I don’t need to know about the others, just say that Noah had little faith. It should say something like ??? ????
Ella, Shema Mina Tartei
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PBA said:
” I also hold of messing up grammar to read things how I like.
For example, you might read “Bereishes bara Elokim: es hashamyim v’es haaretz….”
You can read it in a different way that is chronologically correct. According to one Midrash, Hashen created 6 worlds before the present one. With that in mind read the passuk like this:
“Bara Shis” – [HE] created six [worlds]
“Bara Elokim et hashamyim v’et haaretz” [then] Hashem created the heaven and earth.
Trader Joes has really good ice cream: 1) vanilla and 2) cherry chocolate chip
“I think a mensch would level with her.”
It’s very difficult. You want to be open, but you are afraid to hurt the other’s feelings more. Been there.
Maybe if it is public knowledge it would be muttar, B’apei tilata.
lilmod ulelamaid,
Your last post is the best.
I’m kind of doubtful that there is a rabbi. Blaming his rabbi makes a good excuse (as long as you don’t contact him).
Lavender,
From what I hear, I just have a gut feeling that something is off with him.
“He asked his rabbi if he can give me his number but the rabbi said no.” That sound to me really weird. What’s he or his rabbi afraid of?
“He is 30 and already lived in 3 different countries on his own.” Sounds a little unstable.
“it seems he didn’t really have relationships before either, except one, who turned out to be crazy.” – At 30??? Sounds immature socially. BTW it takes two to tango. Saying that she was crazy does not bode well for him.
“He is 30 and already lived in 3 different countries on his own. So he didn’t sound immature or someone who can’t make decisions without his rabbi. ” But yet he did. Again something off.
Lavender, consider yourself lucky.
Chafetz Chaim Yeshiva is into Mussar, both the study and practice. That’s why they are mentchlich. Their Mussar aims to be positive and uplifting (as opposed to being heavy-handed).
To find out more about their Mussar/outlook do a search on “Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt” their Mashgiach Ruchani. You can listen to his Mussar Shmuzim.
” And her connection to the death of Vince Foster is nonsense.”
DOZENS of people in Arkansas who were connected to the Clintons have seemed to commit suicide or were killed.
Google the word arkancide
Unfortunately, the other main choice is no better.
I plan on abstaining, if not writing in someone.
“is chutzpah to call him that “
As Joseph pointed out above, calling him Rabbi JB Soloveitchik is not a problem. Some people, who are trying to denigrate, will just say JB. That’s a problem.
I would say something negative but my 3 wives don’t want me to. Just kidding.
In literature analysis, the term romance means a fictitiously embellished account or explanation. In other words, slightly beyond reality, as opposed to fantasy which is way beyond reality. So even in English, romance means fiction.
I was thinking about this recently and came to the hypothesis that romance books (about love and lust) are called that because they romanticize (fictitiously embellish) real couple interaction.
IMO, a man can be just as misled by his unrealistic expectations.
In the beginning I was convinced that Trump was working for Hillary. As he rose in the polls, I thought maybe not – maybe he is his own man. Not that it seems that he is attacking her a lot less, and more well orchestrated “surprises” are coming out against him, I am starting to think again that he is working for her. They made it look like he had a chance. Trump is a master salesman. He knows what to say and when to say it to make a deal. He said stupid things at the debate IMO that he knew he shouldn’t have.
BTW, the Clinton’s have done this before in 1992. Bush, Ross Perot and Clinton were in a 3 way tie. Perot pulled out of the race right before the Democrat convention. Clinton spoke very well, like usual. About half of Perot’s supporters went to Clinton. None went to Bush. A few years later, the federal government bought about a billion dollars worth of junk land in Texas, which “happened” to owned by a Mr. H. Ross Perot.
If you say that the Pri Ets Hadaat was going to be permitted later, the snake and Chava spoke about it before they were supposed to.
Shimon and Levi, when Shechem and Hamor came to them after they abducted Dina. They spoke before their father.
Joseph,
He did not mean that. He was giving a brush-off to get rid of the asker. It’s clear from Rav Shteinman’s words that he didn’t really mean it.
This is from the article you cited.
You see in the article that even those around the Rav asked him why he gave an outlandish psak/eitza.
“…people in general (male/female) are attracted to different things …”
IMHO, people are attracted to what looks healthy. Makeup can give a healthier look. Foundation, for example, helps the skin look smooth and even colored. That looks more healthy than blemishes and splotches, and experiments have shown that people find smooth skin to be more attractive. Lipstick and Rouge look like good blood and circulation. Etc.
“NOTE: A greater percentage of Chareidi/Frum tax money goes to support the secular school system than the percentage of non-Chareidi/Frum tax money that is going to support the Chareidi/Frum schools, since all of the secular schools are completely public, wheareas the majority of Chareidi schools are private.”
The charaidim still take a lot of gov’t money. If you see the P+L of a school, you will soon realize how they need gov’t money and how much they take.
A few years ago, there was a movement to separate Ramot Beit Shemesh into two different cites, one Charaidi and one for everyone else. The Charaidi mayor told the Charaidim not to do so because they would not have enough money if they just relied on their own.
“Just because a parent uses government funds to pay for his child’s schooling, funds that are taxpayer’s fund not some nebulous entity called “the government’s” money, that the taxpayers themselves gave to the government to fund their children’s schooling, does not give the government the right to dictate to the school how to educate the children against the parent’s choices in education. “
The vast majority of that money, which you say came from the taxpayers, really comes from non-Charaidi taxpayers.
“Why do working people tend to not be as ruchniyus as Kollel people?”
1) The way the question was posed has a tinge of Lashon Hara. It should say “Why do Kollel people have more….”
2) Let’s properly define “ruchniyus “, otherwise we’ll be talking in circles.
3) Whatever exactly is “ruchniyus” (see above), I think that most of us view it as an internal trait. With that in mind, how can it be measured?
“Does Rav Ovadia have something on the Shulchan Aruch?”
In a biography that I have about Ran Ovadia Yosef, it says that he always held like the B”Y, except for 53 times. When you consider that there are like 10,000 siifim in the Shulchan Aruch, 53 times is not much. In one instance, the biography states that R”OY said that the the B”Y did not have a copy of the R”OSh for that inyan. We now have that girsa, so even the B”Y would agree to the change.
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“Why should Ashkenazim learn Yabia Omer if we don’t posken according to Rav Ovadiah? “
To learn his derech halimud and psak. You might pasken differently, but his clarity and completeness are amazing.
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You can download the Kitzur Yalkut Yosef for free on Android in the play store.
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“I’m reading the Halacha of the Ben Ish Chai… He frequently quotes the Shulchan Aruch of the Alter Rebbe…, .. the Chida and Rav Palachi and other authorities — the Malbim and Rav Eibshitz too! “
Rav Ovadia Yosef was critical of the Ben Ish Chai because ROY felt that the BICh somewhat deviated from the Sephardic Halachic Tradition by including Ashkenazic psak and also Kabbalistic psak.
This is not to say that ROY didn’t have the utmost respect for the BICh. He did. But he felt that he had to voice his opinion as needed. ROY used to teach a BICh class(I believe in depth) on Sundays. He taught through the BICh 10 times and wrote a commentary based on those classes. He published that commentary, and it’s called Halichot Olam.
“Is there such a thing as a female ups girl?”
I think I’ve seen it, but they are kind of burly.
AS APY said, the problem was because the women were making themselves up for immorality. See the passage form the Gemara.
Shabbat 62a, Soncino Translation:
[mesakrothh] eyes:28 they filled their eyes with stibium and beckoned.29
Walking and mincing: they walked, a tall woman by the side of a short one. And making a tinkling [te’akasnah] with their feet: R. Isaac of the School of R. Ammi said: This teaches that they placed myrrh and balsam in their shoes and walked through the market-places of Jerusalem , and on coming near to the young men of Israel, they kicked their feet and spurted it on them, thus instilling them with passionate desire like with serpent’s poison.30
[bosem] there shall be rottenness:31 the place where they perfumed themselves [mithbasmoth] shall be decaying sores. And instead of a girdle a rope [nikpeh]: the place where they were girded with a girdle shall become full of bruises [nekafim]. And instead of well-set hair baldness: the place where they adorned themselves shall be filled with bald patches.
(24) Isa. III, 16.
(26) Ibid.
(27) I.e., with short mincing steps. One who walks with outstretched neck must take short steps, because he cannot see
his feet (Rashi).
(28) Ibid.
(29) To the men.
“Evolution per se is not Kefirah.”
When I took a biology class, the beginning of the evolution chapter(s) pointed out that there may be various explanations to explain what looks like evolution, including a Creator.
The problem with that book and others, however, is that they start by saying things like “We think it happened this way based on ….”, BUT later they don’t say “we think”. After a few pages, the books usually sound more resolute, as if they know. And they leave off the idea of a Master Planner (past the initial page or two).
“My UPS driver is a chasidishe yungerman, with the payos and the whole nine yards. Instead of wearing a UPS hat he wears a shtreimel. “
A shtreimal during the week?
I assume you are kidding.
I just look at the Rema in Y”D 246:4.
He says to study Mikra, Mishnah, Gemara, and poskim that are connected to them. Therefore the Rema could be interpreted as saying that one should not learn Hashkafic books regularly.
I remember reading somewhere that that is the only Perek of Mishnah that does not have any Machloket. That was supposed to be a significant factor as to why it is included. I don’t remember the reason
Men are not allowed to dye their hair because of begged Isha. With that in mind, clearly it’s considered OK for a girl to do so.
BTW, there may be those who matir for men nowadays.
So is smoked salmon.
Sometimes I add a smokey flavor to my chicken.
Clean body and clean mind (kodesh thoughts, not just refraining from impure thoughts).
IIRC there is a difference of opinion whether one is allowed to think about business while wearing tefillin. IIRC correctly, the majority are machmir. For practical halacha CYLOR.
Joseph,
Several months ago, Avi Weiss came to my hick town. Some one I know wanted to go, so I told them what I thought of him. I pointed out how he publicly derided the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in a NY Times article which he wrote a couple years ago.
Long story short, it seems to me that ????? ?????? ??????? means it’s a mitzvah kiyumit. I spoke up when I had the opportunity.
If you want to say it’s a Mitzvah Chiyuvit, you should get a big sign and protest in front of Weiss’ shul. Jump up and down screaming “Apikorus”. (just kidding – please do something better with you time)
“Will people who put on Rashi and R”T Tefilin everyday of their lives (on weekdays) get more Olam Haba than someone who only puts on Rashi everyday of his life?
If not, why are the R”T wearers wearing it? If yes, why are the Rashi-only wearers not wearing both? “
A female neighbor of mine one told me that one reason that women don’t wear tefillin is because it’s too big of a risk if not done correctly. In fact, that’s why men only wear tefillin for 45 minutes and not all day.
That concept may be applied to wearing R”T. Better to do the minimum correctly and not mess up, rather than going for too much and messing up.
“Most Syrian Jews descend from Spanish Jewry.”
Because of intermingling over the generations, that’s true, but the majority of their Yichus is not Spanish. That’s why they don’t do Ladino. The Spanish Jews that went to Syria comprised only a minority at that time.
“1) Blacks and whites in America now are basically trying to learn the same stuff with the same goals even if surface level vocabulary is different.”
Same with Askenazim and Sephradim – same Torah
“2) Ashkenazin amd Sephardim have different minhagim and they pasken differently.”
So should you separate Ashkenazim that pasken by the Taz vs Shach vs M”A OR separate by modern poskim?
“1) Without having to explain on Pesach what Ashkenazim hold is chametz the Sephardim hold is Matza and rice.”
Total am-haartzus. Rice is not Chametz. The Rema says that the Ashkenazic minhag is not to eat rice, but one can own it and benefit from it. In fact the Rema says that if a little falls into a pot of food, the food is mutar on Pesah, unlike chametz.
I think that most kids can respectfully see other minhagim while keeping their own.
“2) Our Sefer TOrah looks and is held completely differently then theirs.”
Same Torah inside. Beside which, some Sephardim use Sefrei Torah in cloth covers.
“3) Hald the class pronounces the taamim one way the other a different way.”
News flash. The Sephardic way is correct, at least according to an Ashkenazic Rebbe I had, who was a baal dikduk. According to that Rebbe, missing the accent could change the meaning. For example vi-A-hav-TA is the proper accent and not vi-a-HAV-ta (see the taamim). That mispronunciation changes the meaning from future to past, and a person may not be yotzei K’riat Sh’ma.
Actually Ashkenazim used to do it correctly until the Haskala.
“Sephardim have their own version of “Yiddish” Its called Ladino”
Just those who came from the Spainish expulsion, which does Not include Syrains, Yemenite, Bavli, Persians, and many from North African. And even those from the Spainish expulsion, they rarely speak it today.
But if you want to stereotype with what little knowledge you have of Sepharadim, I won’t stop you.
Let’s apply what I call the “Black people test” and see how it comes out. Replace whatever group you are talking about with Blacks and see if you could be accused of racism.
1) Black children are brought up at home in a different way than white kids, therefore it will be difficult to integrate them into the school environment as they have a different way of expressing themselves academically and socially
2) The White school systems are based on the European model – which is very different from the old Black system
Sounds potentially racist.
“What does an eiruv have to do with giving a woman a ride in your car?”
Both are high-strung subjects.
DumbOld Grump believes that the more he repeats a lie, the more people will believe it. And guess what? He’s right.
“I’m honestly not sure if the Rabbis in that community were bigger Talmidei Chachamim than this visiting Rabbi”
The community rabbis obviously knew shimirat halashon better than the guest rabbi.
I’ve heard that the Irish are very anti-Israel.
Dr. Hall,
I said it before and I will say it again. You are a very intelligent person, but when it comes politics, you seem to throw out your intelligence & reason and follow the party line, even if intellectually dishonest. You took Pence’s statement out of context. It’s clear that he meant to say that smoking does not kill as much as people think because of…. His stats clearly show that people die from smoking, even if a minority of smokers. His point about smoking is a nuanced point.
So if Rashi is 1,2,3,4
then R”T is 1,2,4,3
and Sh”R is 4,3,2,1
From what I understand, according to Rashi, R”T tefillin are not kosher, and vice versa
Is Sh”R kosher according to Rashi? Is it another way of arranging Rashi? For example, could you say that it’s still 1,2,3,4 but looking at it from the opposite side (of the Rosh) or left to right (for the Shel Yad)
And why do the Sh”R have to be big? Why can’t they be the average size of about 33mm?
What is the difference between Shimusha Rabba and Rashi (or R”T)?