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I know of an adam chashuv who had two of his daughters marry brothers. He did not attend the first aufruf, saying “It is yenem’s simcha, has nothing to do with me!” However, when the second one rolled around he did attend. When asked about the inconsistency he replied, “My mechuten is making a simcha, I shouldn’t go?”
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Rav Schwab wrote that theory as a possibility in a rabbinic journal in 1962. Years later, in the late 80s, he reprinted that essay in the back of one of his ‘Selected’ Books; I think it was Selected Speeches, maybe Selected Writings? Whatever. Either way, he puts in an addendum there, where he clearly says that he did not hold of it then. A bit vague if he meant to be chozer, or if he said it was always meant as a scholarly thought piece, but never meant it l’maaseh.
Haleivi: The sequence of the 6 questions in that gemara is not necessarily meant as the importance of any one of the questions vis a vis any other. Rather it is darshaning a posuk, V’haya emunas itecha, chosen yeshuos, chochmas vadaas, yiras Hashem hi otzaro. The questions are in the sequence of the drashos from the order of the words, with yeshuos coming before chochmas and daas, so the yeshua question comes first.
If it is Arab folklore, then my version is probably more accurate. You know, Yado Bakol, v’yad kol bo!
I have heard b’shem Rav Chaim Kanievsky that the other version is not found in Chazal anywhere that he knows of.
There was a place in Yerushalayim of old. Two brothers lived on opposite sides of a shared field. One had a family with large responsibilities, the other was an old bachelor. Came the harvest, the bachelor says, “My brother has a family to take of him in his old age, he doesn’t need so much. I’m gonna sneak out in the middle of the night and take some of his share.” The other one said, “My brother is a single guy with small expenses. He doesn’t need so much. I’m gonna sneak out in the middle of the night and take some of his share.” So they met each other in the middle of the night, each figured out what the other was doing, and a fight broke out which ended with them killing each other.
And on that spot the Knesset was built.
Rosh Chodesh Nissan. Chodesh Hageulah!
VM: Maybe he’s a rebbishe einikel, and she’s his first cousin?
Well, since the ads aren’t blocking anymore, probably!
Oh shoot!!! I have the invite on my fridge and I was gonna post the Mazel Tov first thing Wednesday, before you put it up. And I forgot!!!
Much nachas, syag!!
Purim must be coming! Syag agreed to something Popa said!!
Source for “one was not even permitted to taked photos as the kosel” please?
Interjection said that the gathering was a kiddush Hashem. Agreed 100%. Interjection also said the signs were a chillul Hashem. Maybe so, maybe not. But they were 100% against the will of the rabbanim who organized the event who explicitly asked that signs not be brought.
As far as the reasons quoted, I would comment that #3 is important for us all to know at all times. Nothing to do with politics, just Judaism and Torah life. #1 is so true that it makes #2 seem a bit imaginative. Yes, we know that Hashem accepts tefillos and uses them in ways beyond our comprehension. And who knows if that interception of the Iranian weapons wasn’t as a direct result of those tefillos. But I can’t imagine there is anyone who thinks that the chareidim were actually davening for the defeat of Iran. The event was so well publicized, that even without the signs, everyone knew what it was about. The people who aren’t on our side, don’t understand the way the Hashem listens to tefillos that you described.
Dayan Dunner once asked that question at a Bain Adam Lachaveiro session in the mountains one summer. His response was that no cheshbonos of lishmah help when one makes another feel bad.
You could fantasize about a kidnapping or the CIA infiltrating a terrorist cell or a secretive detective investigating a crime.
Syag: Last week they were saying that we might see 50 this Thursday. HAven’t heard it repeated since Shabbos though.
That line is alleged to have been said by. R Yaakov Drillman.
I was born at a very young age, right near my mother.
Notice that even JF, who thinks it would be harmless, did not share her birth year. And you too, the OP, did not reveal yours.
Why is everyone so concerned about the female singers in the choir? Isn’t this the synagogue that has women leading Kabalas Shabbos?
I think Popa, in this (weaker than usual, sorry) attempt at trolling us, has revealed that (s)he has not been part of the seminary process. Anyone who has ever gone to seminary, or sent a child to seminary, (a Bais Yaakov Seminary at least) knows that applications are due in November, interviews are during the winter, (right around now) and all acceptance letters come out at exactly the same time; within a few days of February 15.
My fourth daughter, k’ah, is a senior in high school, and is having one of her interviews today. She is going to NY/NJ next week for the interviews with the other two that she appplied to.
Here in Chicago, it has been snowing almost non stop since Tuesday evening. It is now Sunday afternoon. But it has only been very heavy in small pockets. With all that we’ve gotten here (Tomorrow’s high is supposed to be -13! Yes the high will be 13 below zero. And then you factor in wind chill! Brrr!!) I am still not sure that we can say it was a blizzard.
The problem is not that Weiss’s people will go to Lakewood or wherever. The concern will be when one of their children “Frums out” and ends up in such a location. Then the fact that there are multiple and questionable standards in geirus will be devastating.
So Syag: How’s his trip going? Which camp? Do you mean Marshall or SH? Either way, It would be tough. My daughter was supposed to drive to South Bend today (She teaches there) and that got totally cancelled!!
Agreed, Syag. But it’s light snow. And the traffic is moving. Just wish the Lake effect would run it’s course and stop adding to the totals already!!
Did have the pleasure of chapping a schmooz with him over the weekend.
New album is nice, but not Yom Tov Ehrlich songs, so it doesn’t quite have the same taam.
‘Twas awesome as usual. The Mashgiach (R Matisyahu) who doesn’t go very much of anywhere anymore, was here. He came to. MOtzoei Shabbos session. He was sitting the second seat from the podium (next to the Novominsker) and when he was introduced, it took probably 3 full minutes till he could get over to stand at the podium. But once he started, he was so inspirational as always. he went on for nearly half an hour! He spoke about our obligation to give thanks to Hashem for everything in life. You could feel him talking about himself, and his being able to participate, even with all of hus recent health challengees. His presentation was the same as always, maybe with a little weaker voice.
You go to Wafflebar you run out of money pretty quickly!!
You can call me Midwesterner, I don’t mind!
Romanian hot dogs are not from Romania either
Yes, Mazel Tov to sem20 on his engagement!! (Yes, he’s a guy. Hope I’m not blowing anyone’s cover!!)
Interesting to see 600 Kilo Bear, o’h, identifying himself as a non poster, now that he sadly is truly a non poster.
I will take the jerk part as lashon sagi nahor as well.
We’ll just skip this one.
Not a big fan of the ride sharing thing here. A girl who is close to me once requested a ride for a couple of single girls from the country to Lakewood (this was in the summer a couple of years back) and got a 30 something year old married bored guy on the prowl.
Don’t you just love the people that say that they are not mekabel the lashon hara, but as a public service, they’ll pass it on anyway? They say they don’t believe it, they also say that that which they didn’t believe in the first place probably changed, (Kol haomer lo lavisi, k’omer lo parati) but I’ll still share it with the world.
I wish the Mods of this coffeeroom would put a permanent moratorium on people asking for opinions about specific mosdos. It degenerates into a lashon hara about the institutions virtually all the time, which can be a very serious issur. And none of the leaders of those places ever come here to defend themselves anyway! So all you get is one sided innuendo provided by anonymous people!! And the target is Torah!
I don’t understand the problem. What you sow, you reap. And the next year, you take what your reaped and you sow it again!!!
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
And my daughter says that “ven you reap your clothing, den you got to sew it back again,”
They’re all pretty much the same. 17K to 19K.
I frequently tell my two youngest children, “Plonis: Stop bothering Almonis. And Almonis: Stop being bothered by Plonis!”
FLEXIBILITY is the key!!
We don’t really know the whole story. But if a female FBI agent made a sting operation, setting up a fake personality, it is highly unlikely that the bais din went through the process of hazmanah and siruv properly. If it was all a setup, and there was no husband, then who and how were they mazmin to din, and how were they able to determine siruv? Unless maybe the FBI created a fake husband too?
I don’t know that anyone was making serious money here. (Except the paid thugs.) Hiring people to do these nasty deeds, and be willing to risk arrest, is not cheap. Some of these cases also have some hefty travel expenses involved. I’ve known the rosh yeshiva involved, and of these activities, for many years. He has traveled the world tracking down some of these recalcitrant husbands. He is independently wealthy. He started doing this, at least in the beginning, to help people that had no where to turn, and frequently at great personal expense. Now that some things have happened to his family wealth (thank you again, Bernie Madoff) maybe that has changed. But I tend to think that the sums charged were to offset some huge expenses involved in working these delicate matters.
As an aside, I think it is ironic that for years, the left wing aguna activist crowd would complain about the inflexibility of the chareidi community to their issue. “When is someone gonna do something about this issue?!?” Now they find out that someone actually HAS been doing something, those same people are some of the loudest complainers. As the old cliche goes, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it!!
Yes, an invalid get causes mazeirus. There are halachically legal processes by which one can force a get, (get me’useh b’Yisroel) in which case it would be a kosher get, and the subsequent children will not be mamzeirim.
There is, however, a cheirim from Rabbeinu Tam, on one who is motzi laaz on a get finalized by a bais din. Given the number of people that have violated that cheirim in the last couple of days right here in the coffeeroom, it may be ossur at this point to visit, for those not in that cheirim may no longer be permitted to associate with quite a large number of posters.
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Robertz: Huh?!?!? The closest thing that there is to a right wing blog is this coffeeroom. There are one or two other sites, but there is no give and take like there is here. On the other hand, The Left Wing/MO is all over the place in the blogosphere. There are literally dozens of such sites and forums!! The anti right wing venom on those on a daily basis is orders of magnitude greater than anything the Mods here will let slip through.
Jay Carney has never held political office.
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Not nearly as important as the other way though.
Lets see. Two singles from Ari Goldwag, a yiddish album, a ladies album, and maybe the Maccabeats.I think you just proved the OP’s point!
I have always liked to stay very current in the Jewish music scene. I am now 6 months into Aveilus on my father HK”M. I periodically check the websites to see what I’m missing and to make a mental note on what I’ll want to get when the year is up. So far, not a single thing (except maybe the Fried Yiddish album) has piqued my interest.
There are already numerous threads discussing subtitles. I’ll leave it to the real pros to help you find them.
It is hakaras Hatov for the past. Not (necessarily) angling for the future. If your mossad is in with the source, they will generally be OK without the ad. And if they’re not, the ad will only appear to be like ambulance (hearse?) chasing. And the gvir, who was smart enough to get as successful as he has gotten to be so far, will not fall for it.
This is meant as a general thought, not in direct relation to any specific niftar or nifteres.
I just re-read this. Wow! Very interesting watching it all develop!