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Chicken is fleishigs midoraisa according to all tanaim except R’ Yosi Haglili.
Just curious what Goq’s family did about brachos if the whole family convened in another room for a half hour.
147: We don’t get to choose what the halacha is by reading history books and deciding who was the gadol hador centuries back. If you have a mesorah like the Ramo, then fine. If not, you can’t just make up stuff like that. Like someone else who decided to make up his own K’lachar Yad to make an Av Melacha muttar lechatchila on another thread yesterday.
Reminds me of the fellow whose wife was expecting twins. His wife went into labor while he was out of town and out of touch, so his slightly crazy brother took her to the hospital. When he gets back in touch, his brother calls to congratulate him on the birth of his twin girl and boy.
“As long as I was the family member there anyway, I decided to name them,” says the brother.
Knowing his brother’s nuttiness, he starts to cringe as he asks what names were selected.
“Well, I called the girl Denise.”
The father thinks, OK, that’s not so bad. “And what did you call the boy?
“Why, Denephew, of course!”
So the CEO of the third largest computer company in the world is depriving you of a whole slice of kosher pizza? Big deal! (If your annual bonus is really just a slice of pizza and a can of soda, maybe you should try somewhere else.)
There seems to be some disputes in how to define who is the third largest computer company in the world, after Samsung and Apple. Some say Lenovo, others say Xiaomi. Both are based in China and both have Chinese CEOs.
I’ve never really been hiding. I’ve given plenty away about myself over the years. Not sure who you are though.
I have a married sister here in town with a number of children, ka’h. I’m not giving anything away on line, but the next time you see Mrs. Midwesterner, I’m sure she’d be happy to tell you who that is.
My eldest is moving to Baltimore. Right now they are living in my house, as the moving truck left on Thursday. They will be leaving on Tuesday. You know, when you get married and settle in the Midwest, you know that odds are your kids will not end up local. That is unless you’re one of the Nursing home owners, then they all come back to daddy for parnassah.
Kumtantz. Not really a music video production. More like a staged pretend wedding with some of the most talented musicians and singers.
Well, it is snowing out here again, and driving is getting rough. So maybe put your “Chevy on a Sled.” That could be a good handle. Well, he’s not a Chevy. And a sled doesn’t exactly fit either, so you’ll need a substitute. But think about it Gefen. Let me know if you get where I’m going with this.
BTW, one of my nephews told me he has “Chevy on a Sled” as a Rebbe’s assistant! Enjoy them while you have them!! My daughter and son in law are moving hundreds of miles away next week and they’re taking my grandchildren with them! snf!
I’ve heard that Nakai is Luke and Toda or tavda (depending on the nekudos) is Thaddeus. Don’t know the rest.
My email is printed in the newspaper every week. You just have to know where to look; and I think that you would be able to figure that out, if you don’t know already.
I actually know your mechuten since elementary school! One of the nicest fellows you’ll ever meet!
‘Twas our pleasure! May you have only nachas!!
The Chaplain promised me some pix. Still waiting.
The Frum guy: For a very similar reason that “Hands up, Don’t shoot!” is popular in certain neighborhoods.
Or Kfeila Arma’ah
I believe Bar Shatya knows Popa. Also, Abba bar Aristotle can help you too.
I have met Popa on several occasions. I believe there is not much that gives him as much pleasure as when people take it seriously when he is yanking their chain.
If his attitude bothers you so much, well as they say, don’t feed the trolls!!
Since this was linked . . . Health: cute chap. But I am not aware of any reason to say going to a zochor when in the street. I know that in the mikvah on Friday afternoon, people will talk about a zuchor, because Shalom is a name of Hashem that some consider to be inappropriate to say in the mikvah. ON the street, no reason not to say the full word.
I once saw a label on a grape juice bottle that had its disclaimers in Hebrew, and someone obviously ran a program like google translate and the same list was right below it in English. The hebrew said “Naki meichashash arlah etc” and the English had a literal translation right below it. “free of any concerns of foreskin”
I hope this comment makes it through the MODs. It was the funniest label I think that I’ve ever seen!!
LVT: Would that book be called perhaps Talmud Bavli? Maseches Gittin 68 et al?
To Barry: I believe that is an often misunderstood teitch of the Noach issue. Noach was not faulted for not reaching out to other people. he did that very much. He took 120 years to build a teiva, for that purpose explicitly. There are also maamarei Chazal that describe Noach and Mesushelach traveling around and talking to people.
Noach is faulted for not davening for the salvation of generation, like Avrohom Avinu did before the destruction of Sedom and at other times as well. Chareidim that I know do daven for the protection of the soldiers all the time. Yes I know that most don’t say the Mi Sheberach that was composed in recent times. But they say tehillim, and they say the time tested pisgam of Acheinu kol bais Yisroel.
Giving out chumashim at an induction ceremony means absolutely nothing if the behavior once they’re in the army is k’neged Hatorah.
I would like to thank all for finding these important maamarei Chazal that R Aharon Kotler and others obviously missed. It’s too bad the coffeeroom didn’t exist back then for them to see, or the Jewish world would probably look much different today.
On a more serious note, many sources listed above go back to R’ Yishmael vs. R’ Shimon Bar Yochai, either directly or indirectly.
Everyone knows that there are more aniyim than ashirim in the world. It has always been that way, and will always be so. Ki lo yechdal evyon mikerev haaretz. So if Harbeh asu k’John Rockefeller or Bill Gates, vlo alu byadam, does that mean one shouldn’t try? In the gashmiyusdike world they all are hoping their child will be the next Steve Jobs, or Sam Walton or whoever.
Yeshiva and Kollel, full time learning, is built on every single person wanting the best for their child. Yes, many if not most will not be able to survive, and may not thrive that way. But that doesn’t mean one can’t strive to be the best he can be? Isn’t that the American dream, to want that our children should have it better than we do?
R’ Yishmael never said that RSBY was wrong. Just that it was a tough act to follow. Everyone is entitled to give it the good old ‘college’ try.
RSBY also said Ra’isi bnai aliya v’hema muatim. Im elef hem, ani ubni imahen, im meah hem, ani ubni imahen, im shnayim hem, ani ubni. That is the dream of every ben Torah.
Another point. The world has changed in recent years and decades. There is wealth beyond what anyone could have imagined a century ago. The world and Torah community’s economy allows for this lifestyle to be supported. For some, that means they can have two or three cars. They can go on vacation to the other end of the country or world many times a year. Some homes are as big as apartment buildings were just a few years ago. They can afford to have little devices in their hands that can do more than a suite full of heavy machines could do just a generation ago. For others, they use that as an opportunity for something else. Pas bamelech tochal, umayim bamesurah tishte etc,(albeit at a slightly updated 21st century level) uvatorah ata ameil. And they are Ashrecha vtov lach as they attempt to join RSBY’s bnai aliya. If you are zoche to the highest level, you can be a Yissochor in that formula. If not, partake of the program as a Zevulun. But those who decide to sit out completely, and to C”V discourage those Zevulun’s from making the system work, well I’m not mekaneh their chelek in Olam Haba.
We have a married daughter in Israel (with a son in law and a granddaughter), and a son learning in Yeshiva. Next week, another daughter goes off to seminary. If they are in danger chas veshalom, then they will not be safe even at the gates of Lud. And if there are no gezeiros, they are in the best place to be. They are being mechanech themselves in the proper way. Batel retzonecha mipnei retzono kedai sheyivatel retzon acheirim mipnei retzonecha.
Mazel Tov!! Sorry I couldn’t attend the vort. But I sent a shaliach!!
363 pages now.
Sam2: “Third of all, many places on Earth are just not Shayach to take in Shabbos late in the summer (try London). I know big Rabbonim who are not Makpid on the Mishnah B’rurah’s Chumra to have a K’zayis of bread after Tzeis Friday night because they are asleep before then, as Tzeis can get close to or after midnight (especially if you want to hold 72 or 90 minutes or even degrees). So people fall back to Ikkar HaDin (that early Shabbos works) because there really is no choice.”
What about Krias Shema?
Not sure how difficult the MB’s chumra really is. Let’s assume even a 16 hour day, which is longer than most places ever get. London peaks at about 17. Paris at about 15.) So Plag is exactly 100 minutes before Shkiah. So you make kiddush maybe 40 minutes before shkiah. How long do you wait for that Chumrah? My rav holds to wait 50 minutes only unless it is D’oraisa. (Like krias Shema and melacha on Motzoei Shabbos.) But if drabanan or minhag, like Motzoei Taanis, or even temimos on the first night of Shavuos, then go with 50. So how long is it between Kiddush and 50 minutes after shkiah? Not so difficult.
Should I be insulted?
I’ve heard that Chemdas is going to have some great girls. I know for sure at least one, because my daughter is going there.
I know the son of a certain adam gadol, who kind of “dances to his own drummer.” He once asked Reb Moshe about hunting (or it may have been fishing, its been many years since I heard this and that detail is a bit hazy in my memory.) Reb Moshe responded, “Ich ken nit zogen az es iz ossur.” Then after a slight pause he asked, “Uber host du amohl gelernt in yeshiva?”
I heard from Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky zt”l that in today’s world, (That would mean at least 30 years ago already) hiskatnus hadoros is detectable in 4 year cycles.
rebyidd23
homeschooled in the school of hard knocks
Why should a kid be listening to the news?
Said Vernon Dursley.
The highest paying jobs with the least work that I can think of are lottery winner and heir. See if you can sign up for one of those.
As someone once said, the only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
In order to understand, you will need to don an ancient tiara, which no longer exists as it was destroyed by fiendfyre.
OOPS! And I even responded to him earlier! Silly of me.
Disappointing? What were you looking for? I got every significant frum community, and a fair amount of the small ones too, except LA and Miami and surrounding areas, and every state, except 2. If you head north out of Denver on the 25 until you hit 80 going East, you can get Wyoming. And if you head East out of Albuquerque on the 40 until Oklahoma City before turning south to Dallas, you will have all 48. I challenge anyone to do better with fewer miles, and/or more frum communities.
Sorry, never been there. Notice the handle; midwesterner, as in middle of the western hemisphere. Other than a two day visit to Zurich for a friend’s wedding, I’ve never been to Europe other than spending time in airports waiting for a connection to or from Israel.
To many, the word heimish is secret code for “comfortably well off.” Especially when consulting regarding shidduchim.
Any Conservative Rabbi is at the bare minimum a mumar l’teyavon. probably wworse than that.
Yom Tov Erlich composed them. AS well as those on Ich Hub Gevart by MBD. There is also a Zishe Schmelczer CD with some of his as well.
APY: Parents? Mother and her husband yes. But his father was a Roman soldier, perhaps named Pondre.
I’ve always had difficulty with that story. It’s a great lesson, but it seemed like extreme extortion to get to that point. Not questioning anyone’s gadlus chas veshalom. I guess there are just different mehalchim.
When asked who is there, “It is I” seemed to be, as least according to the rebbe in the lesson he wished to give at that moment to that talmid, to be a bit overpompous. I don’t thing anyone ever meant to purge the entire expression of first person from the language, just the self introduction of I, as though “I” needs no further introduction or explanation.
As in, l’havdil, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Sorry I am not really up to all the philosophical debate here. But one thing is in my purview and that is pshat in a gemara.
R’ Yehoshua was saying that Rabban Gamliel made the incorrect psak. He was told by R Akiva, and subsequently even more clearly by R’ Dosa ben Harkinas, that Kiddush Hachodesh is dependent on the Nasi, and even if he’s wrong, he’s still right, because the entire power of kiddush hachodesh is invested in Klal Yisroel in general, and specifically the Nasi. The gemara says that the Malachim sit around waiting for Klal Yisroel to be mekadesh Chodesh Tishrei before they sit down to Din. To paraphrase the old sign, “Rule #1, the boss is always be right, Rule #2, if the boss is wrong, see rule #1.”
So we don’t say that R Yehoshua was right. Only that if Rabban Gamliel would have used his intuition better, as R Yehoshua would have and his intiution was correct, he would have rejected those eidim and paskened differently, delaying ROsh Hashana and Yom Kippur by a day. But since he didn’t, R Yehoshua is WRONG, and Rabban Gamliel is correct. The halachic principles aren’t telling us to follow Rabban Gamliel even if he’s wrong. The halachic principles are telling us that Rabban Gamliel is right.
There are 4 main highways across the country: 40, 70, 80 and 90/94. You won’t even get close to all the states unless you do all 4. And that takes a loooong time. Are you from the NY/NJ area? Do you consider it a long drive from Brooklyn to the country? The country is quite HUGE, beyond your hasagos. Just going east west across the country twice, to cover all 4 roads is about 12,000 miles; which is about 50 round trips to the mountains. A few detours to cover the intermediate states that don’t intersect those roads, add in a Florida to Maine run, and you’re talking 14-15K miles.
So if you start out your kosher tour on the 80/90, you’ll pass Cleveland, then a small detour to Detroit then Chicago. From there there are several ways to go. If you do the northern route, you’ll get Milwaukee then Minneapolis. Then nothing frum as you go across the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, and Washington until Seattle. The head south to Portland, and California. There are several places in California, but if you goal is numbers of states, you don’t want to waste too many miles there. Maybe hit Nevada and Utah as you go South and go through Phoenix and whatever nothing Jewish in New Mexico. Then Texas, Dallas and/or Houston. Then New Orleans, Mississippi Alabama and Florida. Then up to Atlanta, and maybe the Carolinas. Then head west again covering Tennessee and Memphis, Arkansas, and St, Louis. Then Across Missouri and Kansas (KC) until Denver Colorado. Then you can head back East, via the 80, where you’ll go through Wyoming, Nebraska (there’s some decent Kosher food in Omaha), and Iowa. Then Across Kentucky to West VA, VA, MD, DE, and back home to NY/NJ. Spend a day or two doing the New England States and you’re done!
That wasn’t so bad now that I worked it out. Probably 10k!
Who would’ve ever thought that we’d hear a ??? ????? ??? speech about the IDF from akuperma?
The Wolf has bragged that he talks all the time during laining. If he wouldn’t go to to that shul, then who would? (Talk during laining, that is)
So that our reward will not be Nahama d’Kisufa.
But not if you haven’t actually gone yet.
A son in law of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt’l spoke at our shul between Mincha and Maariv during one of the days of Yom Tov a few weeks ago. He mentioned what happened when his son (Israeli) married an American girl (daughter of the Novominsker Rebbe) shortly before Pesach many years ago. The couple remained in America until after Yom Tov. The chosson was Israeli, kallah American, planning on moving immediately after Yom Tov. He asked his shver (RSZA) and was told the kallah must keep two days. Planning to move, even in conjunction with marraige, isn’t moving. (The discussion was not even on that topic. It was regarding arvus in brachos, and can a husband who is not keeping the second day of Yom Tov be motzi in Kiddush his wife who is.)
All of the above was only meant as an anecdote. Please don’t ask halachic shailos to the coffeeroom.
Miami I think Klal Yisroel together. Avraham Fried on Aderaba. David Werdyger Melitzer vol. 1. Yeedle on Together.
I echo Syag!!
Popa’s on vacation because he already learned the first 14 blatt in Rosh Hashanah!
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