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BYG: Did you read it? No where does he say that the internet is chzaer treif to be avoided. He says make sure to watch your kids, and to filter properly.
“A truly almost empty country with a negligible native population”
In the 18th and 19th centuries, when Jews began returning in larger numbers, That designation fit perfectly to Palestine. Didn’t stop the negligible native population from making a pretty big stink!!
The change in nusach goes back to the Arizal.
I was around in ’68, but too young to have known what was happening. I do remember ’75 in the Midwestern community that I was living in at the time. Rav Dovid Lifschutz, the Suvalker Rav, came and spoke at that event.
More than half the speakers at the last Siyum Hashas were in English. The time before that as well.
I remember 1982. Four main speakers. Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky, Bluzhover Rebbe in Yiddish. Rav Mordechai Gifter, Rav Shimon Schwab in English.
More jews drive on shabbos than not.
Not meant as a direct analogy. Only that more doesn’t make it right.
What I meant to say is that 1981 All Star Game was also held on Tisha B’av.
After the strike which shut down baseball for 2 months in 1981, the resumption of the season opened with the All Star Game in Cleveland. IIRC the American League broke a long losing streak, as Fred Lynn from Boston led them to a 13-3 win. CA should be happy about that!!
Hey Popa! What happened? Did the NY cops get you unfairly?!?
Headline on YWN: “NYPD, PBA At Odds Over Ticket Issuing”
Shkoiach for being moser din al chaveiro. With friends like that . . . .
Every single mainstream gadol who has discussed YCT has said that they are beyond the pale. They are de’ios kozvos. Leitzanusa d’avoda zara is muttar. Perversions of the Torah as the gedolim have said, surely qualify.
Check out Chazon Ish Emunah ubitachon 3rd Perek where he talks about Midos Tovos, Lashon Hara, yored imo l’chayav, are all dependant upon Halacha.
I didn’t know Lieberman was the leading Talmudist of the last generation. I always thought it was Louie Ginsberg.
Yochanan Kohen Gadol was meshemash as Kohen Gadol for 80 years and then became a tzeduki.
Elisha ben Avuya was one of the greatest talmudists of his time too. So was Shabsai Tzvi.
Well, I think it should be pretty eveident that I’m a, would you believe, a Midwesterner!!
To those who say that 40,000 is not a large number, I will ask a question. How many events in the history of Klal Yisroel (in America at least) have sold 40,000 tickets for one single location? The number is exactly Zero!!
The Siyum Hashas was scattered all over NY/NJ last time. (Continenetal Arena in NJ, MSG and Felt Forum in NYC) Even this time, it has been marketing for YEARS and selling tickets for MONTHS to a national audience of men, women, and children. It is a feel good event, that sells itself to large segments of Daf Yomi participants all across the fruited plain. And they are holding between 40-50K sold so far, if I hear correctly.
This on the other hand, is gonna be a large mussar schmooz, which people don’t like to listen to if they can avoid it (see today’s daf, Tamid 28a, for a lesson about that). It has been publicized for a couple of months, tickets have been available for about a week and a half now. No women or bochurim under age 19 are invited. AND THEY’RE SOLD OUT!!! That is hugely impressive, and a tribute to the respect that many have for America’s Mashgiach.
His car’s still here. You just gotta know where to look!!
In Jewel gallons are 5.49 and half gallons are 2.89. In Kol Tov the Gallon are 5.59 and halfs are 2.99
I have been happily ignoring this thread for years.
I have been told recently that I am now a member of this prestigious club. Blech!! 137, 159, 148, 164. Those meant nothing to me just a few weeks ago. 6.7, what’s that all about? Oy vey! Gotta stay under 7!!
Look for the Jokes Thread, then scroll down till you see Gumball. She asked, and was rewarded with a whole bunch of them!
Popa is surely in a safe location. You just have to know which Starbucks to check this morning!
Come on over to the Midwest! We have gallon containers here!!
Oy I missed it! Sorry for the repeat!
The most significant Jewish, Torah based population was in Bavel and/or Persia from 11 years before Churban Bayis Rishon (Hecharash v’hamasger) until roughly the time that Rabbeinu Gershom left and went to Europe. The greatest gedolim and biggest yeshivos were mostly (but not completely) in Bavel. Rabbeinu Gershom, upon moving to Europe about 50-100 years before the birth of Rashi, became the first Gadol Hador to live there. Rav Hai Gaon was probably the last of the Gedolei Hador to live and die in that area.
I think I might be short one A in the last one! Sorry!!
A super chareidi kanai going to YCT might be tempted to “Bopp a Rabba!”
Some of those are still here. ItcheSrulik, Yossi Z comes and goes. But I’d like to know what happened to Gumball??!!!???!!!!!!!?!!!!!!!
Cahssidic and Litvish are not geographical labels. They are sociological labels. They indicate a lifestyle. If one is looking to live a Litvishe lifestyle, then frequently a yekke will fit the bill. And if someone is looking for a chassidishe lifestyle, the Oberlanders are not all that much different. No one is insulting anyone. Just trying to figure out what will be a nce fit.
In the Goyishe media, Hasidic is code word for Ultra-Orthodox. They don’t know how to distinguish. The point of their article is the same whether the people its talking about wear gartels and visit rebbes, or wear bent down hats and say tachanun between Isru Chag Shavuos and 12 Sivan.
Well if Rav Yisroel Belsky says its ossur, but Country Yossi says its muttar, then I guess all is well, and fire up your CD players!!!
There was once a poster here whose witch hunts and security obsession turned the coffeeroom “jo”y into w”rath” for some people!
I know I split his name. Sorry!!
11*9=99; 9+9=18, 1+8=9
81*9=729, 7+2+9=18, 1+8=9
387*9=3483, 3+4+8+3=18, 1+8=9
And so it is with any whole number you can make up.
5555*9=49,995, 4+9+9+9+5=36, 3+6=9
123,456,789*9=1,111,111,101, 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=9
987,654,321*9=8,888,888,889, 8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+9=81, 8+1=9
Gefen: Thanx for the shout out!!
If you work with Popa’s subtitle, there are plenty of letters to play around with!!
As far as Lma’aseh is concerned, who gets to determine who is included? Or does the very fact that one requests it prove that he is eligible?
B’vigdo Bah/B’vagdo bah. Yesh Eim Lmikra darshans the lashon of beged; Kivan sheparas taliso aleha shuv aino yachol l’mochrah, or in other words, ein adam mocher es bito l’ishus achar shifchus. But the yesh eim l’masores people explain it as a lashon of treachery, as in Ashamnu Bagadnu, and not therefore advisable behavior.
Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky was also makpid to give only single names. All of his children and almost all of his grandchildren and great grandchildren born in his lifetime have single names. The only exceptions (that I’m aware of) is some decendants of his son Rav Binyomin who married into a Chassidishe Rebbishe family, and there were mesorahs on that side that had to be accomodated.
It is also known that when certain questions came up about wedding traditions in his family, Rav Yaakov was known to say on occasion, “My family’s tradition is whatever the mechuten wants.”
Derzoger: Please read fropm the top. Rav Shimon Schwab zt’l suggested that the dedication of Bayis Sheni was held in 2 stages, 165 years apart. So Bayis Sheni would have stood for a total of 585; 165 in a scaled down format, and 420, which is mentioned in the gemara, when is was fully rebuilt.
Not sure where that last ROB count comes from. Shimon Hatzadik haya mishiyarei Anshei Kneses Hagedola. The Anshei Kneses Hagedola was led by Ezra in Bayis Sheni, which was constructed, according to Chazal, in 350 BCE. Not sure why he would have to be 150 years old.
I’m from Great Britian and I got bitten when I went to visit the city of Prague.
I am from Africa and I sell Paprika when I go visit the city of Prague.
AZ. Cute!! Like it!
One more thing: Probably not proper to use AD to describe the goyishe calendar. It is roshei teivos for a phrase that includes recognition of some human as a deity. BCE for before common era and CE for common era is probably more appropriate. It jsut recognizes an accepted cheshbon without accepting any individual’s influence on its creation.
Unless it wasn’t a typo, and you were somehow involving the famous NASI apologist, though I can’t figure out why. 🙂
MDG: If bayis sheni was destroyed in about 69 CE then it was built around 351 BCE. Then Bayis rishon was destroyed in around 421 BCE. The problem with that is that there is voluminous historical data that Nevuchadnetzar actually destroyed Bayis Rishon somehere around 586 BCE. Hence 165 missing years. Rav Schwab’s thesis includes a machshava that Bayis sheni was built with yerios on a somewhat scaled down level at which it functioned for some 165 years until it was formally dedicated. The 420 years of Bayis sheni begin at that point. He was subsequently chozer from it, as I and other commenters above have mentioned.
Did you know that for 1500 years, during most of Bayis Sheni and for 1000 years afterward, Klal Yisroel paid no attention to calculating brias haolom in any meaningful way? There was a cheshbon called Minyan Shtaros that was used in virtually all correspondence, on all kesubos and gittin, shtarei mechira and shtarei chov.
When Klal Yisroel migrated from Bavel and Africa to Europe around the tekufa of Rabbeinu Gershom Meor Hagolah, an effort was made to reinstate the counting from Brias Haolam. They started pretty much like you did. Leidas Yitzchok in 2048, as can easily be calculated by pesukim in Breishis. 400 years al pi Chazal to Yetzias Mitzrayim makes 2448. Posuk in Melachim (haftarah first day of Sukkos) says 480 years after yetzias Mitzraim Shlomo dedicated the Bais Hamikdash, 2928. Gemaros tell us 410, 70, and 420, which makes 3828 for churban bayis sheni. And they had tracked since then.
No one ever counted continuously. It was only reconstructed after 1500 years of neglect. Not such a peleh that someone might’ve missed a step. See Rav Schwab who has inferences from pesukim and chzal why Hashgacha may have caused this to happen, and why Hashgacha allowed it to be discovered many many centuries later. You might even be able to Google it. Comperative Jewish Chronology or something like that.
This article was written originally by one of the gedolei rabbanim in America. Not some YCT type skeptic. It’s arguments are very compelling. Yes, he was chozer. That is also part of his gadlus. K’sheim shekibel schar al hadrisha kach kibel schar al haprisha. Not Emes according to Rav Schwab. But to dismiss it as a shtus when you don’t know what it’s talking about smells of ignorance.
That is a famous misquote from the Satmar Rav. What he said was go to any yid who went through the Holocaust and is still Shomer Torah Umitzvos. The specific line was any yid who rolls up his sleeve to put on tefillin and you see the numbers.
Although your grandmother probably does not wear tefillin, if she is a survivor and is a shomeres Torah Umitzvos, she would surely meet the Satmar Rav’s criterea.
Time, time, time! I put mine up before davening on Friday morning, and I daven at the 6:00 Shacharis. So it’s going a good 30 hours.
The bulk of the money put up for the event was done by a single individual who already does all the things mentioned by Z-dad and others in huge amounts. It would be difficult to tell him that doing things like giving 5 million to Mir and catching them up on all their outstanding chovos to thousands of Aniyey Bnai Torah of Yerushalayim is not enough. He is doing this for a specific reason from his discretionary funds. He is perfectly entitled to do so, without peole questioning his judgement, which has proven to be pretty right quite often.
May Hashem continue to bless him to be able to continue his avodas Hakodesh ad bias goel tzedek!!!
Rav Shimon Schwab zt’l has an essay printed in one of the “Selected” books, I think it was Selected Speeches. (It’s the last essay in the book.) It was originally printed in 1962. He introduces (as a third option to answer the contradictions between goyishe history and Talmudic history) the possibility that Chazal intentionally hid the 165 years. In that essay, he seems to lean towards actually holding that way as well.
When it was reprinted in the Selected book in about 1990 he adds a post script that he has thought about it long and hard for decades since the original publication, and he has decided that he believes be’emuna sheleima in the counting of Chazal where they state that Bayis Sheni stood for 420 years. He trusts that just as goyishe historians have revised their theories about numerous other topics, surely they will here as well, and the version of Chazal will ultimately be proven correct.
According to many poskim the rule of chatzi shiur assur min hatorah does not apply to daled amos birshus harabim. Daled amos is not a shiur of issur, but rather the definition of mekomo. If you move less than 4 amos, you have not moved it out of mekomo, so there is no issur.
If you are relying on the tables being a teil birshus harabim, you’d also need to make sure that you lean over the table every time you put something in your mouth, including the cup for drinking which is very difficult. It would also place you in the position of being over a drabanan of al yaamod birshus harabim v’yishte birshus hayachid shema yotzi.
If yeynam is yayin nesech, then how were you yotze kiddush? Bishlama Friday night, you could’ve used the pas. But Shabbos morning? Unless it wasn’t a YCT crowd, just a hashgacha on the eiruv. But if they rely on YCT for eiruvin, how can you trust their food?
Shamaya and Avtalyon were descended from Sancheriv. It says mibnei banav shel Haman lamdu Torah biVnei Brak.
Rav Yaakov Galinski shlit”a was having trouble getting his son into Ponovezh. So he called the Ponovezher Rav and said, “mibnei banav shel Haman lamdu Torah biVnei Brak, und far mein zun is nit duh kein platz?”
The Ponovezher Rav told him that, “Haman’s einiklach were politically connected, and they had better protektzia!”
(Heard from Rav Galinski himself while delivering a Purim Drasha)
Let me try to explain the math. Rabbi Miller said that 99 percent are the fault of the male and 99% the fault of the female. That means one percent extreme on each end, and 98% overlap where both parties are responsible.
98 + 1 + 1 = 100.
Q.E.D.
Someone once asked Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l (in the open Q&A at the end of one of his Thursday night shiurim) why there are so many mitzvos in the Torah to protect an almana, but not a grusha. Aren’t they both undergoing the same nisyonos of single parenting?
Rav Miller responded, “Because 99% of divorces are the woman’s fault!” The grumbling and chairshifting becomes immediately audible on the tape.
Rav Miller continued, “And in case you think that I am discriminatory, I will tell you that 99% of divorces are the man’s fault!” He then explained that there are 1% extreme cases that are only his fault, and a likewise 1% amount of extreme cases that are exclusively hers. The rest are a bunch of combined factors with enough blame for everyone to share.
Just trying to figure out certain topics that have appeared here in the last few days. Virtually every qualified posek of note who has published on the topic, has said that it is assur to listen to these a Capella tapes during the sefira and three weeks that have the music and beats simulated to sound real. Maybe I missed something, and the esteemed CR can enlighten me. I should surely be dan l’caf zechus that there are such poskim. Does anyone know if they exist? If not, people should probably cease commenting about all these wonderful things that are kneged halacha.
Assumptions make a donkey out of you and umption.
Love it!!