midwesterner

And the mekor for the din d’oraisa is?

Spirit Air had $55 round trip just before. Two of my daughters went to Gefen’s former neighbor’s wedding in Lakewood earlier this month. Don’t know if it’s still available!

MDG: Reb Moshe does NOT say that Chalac Companies is like Chalav Yisroel. He says there is what to rely on, but Baal Nefesh Yachmir.

Whatever.

I agree that Yerushalayim and Meah SHearim have special kedusha. But from whom should they ask permission?

There were two maasim. The first was a dispute with Mod 42. That caused AYC to take a voluntary leave of absence. You can’t even trace that story now, because the apologies that eventually brought him back required changing and deleting some of the offending posts. That is what triggered the original “AYC: Ayeco” thread.

About 2 weeks after he returned there was a second misunderstanding, where the Mods saw something in one of AYC’s posts that caused them to be concerned for improper behavior on his part. They locked him out for a couple of weeks until they confirmed that he was really OK. Since the Mods have reponed his account, he has not returned.

So yes, there were 2 maasim.

Apparently Leitzim123 didn’t even understand who I was making fun of. I was not poking fun of him; rather at those who were over analyzing his every little step.

Hey Sem! If you need someone to sing grammen in that band your conducting . . . .

Wow!! Is the Boozer a Telzer? Welcome aboard!!

And he also has the intellectual honesty to apologize and retract something he feels was unfair. See the Rabbi Chait thread. (I actually hold like Popa kodem chazara in that issue. But the ability to be chozer is very important.)

AZ: You said “The ONLY thing that was ever said in the name of 70 R”Y is EXACTLY what was published in their name with their very own signatures.”

However, the original ad about the game changing plans and letters in defense of it that came out in the ensuing days, DID claim that the roshei yeshiva were on board for the program. See http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=107721

among other places.

It is well known that many roshei yeshiva who signed were only signing on the concept that one should not feel badly about dating a girl of your own age or older. They never meant to force people not to date younger girls. The proof is in the amount of those same roshei yeshiva who have actually done those kind of shidduchim with their own children since the letter was signed.

They also never signed on the over the top monetizing of the entiore process, by forcing people to pay many thousands that they don’t have up front for nothing more than a name on a list. Did they agree to quadrupling and more of shadchanim fees?

Was on an all stars with Suki & Ding, called Hallel.

That whole tasting wine by kiddush thingy reminds me of a story that happened to a friend.

Her daughter was applying to move into a college dorm. One of the sections on the application asked (1) do you drink, and (2) how often. Thinking about those little Friday night sips of wine from the Kiddush, she replied yes to the first question, and to the second, she replied “religiously.”

It seemed quite strange when her application was denied for behavioral issues. Upon inquiry it was happily resolved. (Happily only if you approve of girls living on college dorms, or course.)

At the time, the mother sent the story in to “campus Comedy” in reders Digest, and got 300.00 for it when it was published!

If clicking the number on any post gives an accurate reading, per Squeak above, we crossed 300K around 2.5 months ago.

And this message is 331,796, or almost 11% past 300K!

I don’t think AYC will be back. Maybe with a screen name change. But as AYC? Doubt it.

I used to have in my possession (chaval al d’avdin v’la mishtakchin) a 1960 yearbook from Philly. In it there was a picture of R’ Elya Zt’l wearing a gray hat. This was several years after he was appointed rosh yeshiva in the 1950s.

How does anyone remember a year later what date they joined?

Z-DAD: Not extortion. A marketing decision. I’ll get extra hashgachos if it will entice nmore customers in here. If I think the third Hashgacha will cost me, say, $2000, but it will bring in 10K of new business, then I do it. If I think that the amount of people for whom the first 2 hashgachos weren’t enough but who will be impressed by the third hashgacha, they’ll bring in less then that in net revenue, then I don’t get the third hashgacha. Simple budgeting and math. No extortion there.

This is all very disturbing to me. Until today, I felt confident that I could come to this site and be spared the filth against anashim chashuvim.

Is YWN going to degenerate into a soft core FM, or TUJ, or RHM, DB blog, or any of those other places the we avoid when we want to have good clean discussion?

Comments on on this thread are already in the realm of those on that other site with a V that has been justly decried by rabbanim. Is our innocence gone? People who want the nastiness know where to look. We shouldn’t sully ourselves here.

Agreed. This is an important topic, but not for this website.

Cut into its simplest terms, Torah Umadda means that knowledge of non Torah subjects is a worthwhile pursuit for its own sake.

More conventional yeshivishe Torah hashkafa is that it is permitted to pursue secular knowledge for a specific purpose, as a kardom lachpor bah. But to study the sciences, humanities, philosophy or whatever in chachmas chitzonios, lishmah, as it were, would not be permitted. That would explain why the Rambam was involved in other chachmos, as they related to the various specific positions that he held, whether in Torah, medicine, community leadership, or government.

She’s complaining that she is a girl and we are trying to turn her into a boy. But if women are not Jewish, aren’t we then trying to convert them?

There is no question that a white shirt is more formal, perhaps more classy. Yeshiva bochurim, especially those in yeshivos influenced by the Alter of Slabodka and his mussar philosophy of Gadlus Ha’adam, would naterually gravitate to that which is perceived to be with more “Shtoltz” then with say blue stripes and pink polka dots.

’tis not the shirt, but the choice of the wearer in deciding with whom he wishes to identify.

How about discussing which roshei yeshiva have success with which kinds of talmidim, rather than who is a better rosh yeshiva.

Both places had their roshei yeshiva selected by Rav Henoch Leibowitz zt’l for their specific mission. Surely both places are excellent. It remains only for you to decide what your children need, and see if that specific person has the ability to provide that.

They only asked for last names!!