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I think he means that Josh Groban is Bilaam Harasha.
Besalel: I understand how Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond could be called good business people. But in what way are they good Jews?
YD: How about Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle, two perpetual drunkards who basically drank themselves to death (Mantle more so than Ruth)? Or Ty Cobb who sharpened his spikes extra in order to hurt opposing payers while sliding into bases.
I don’t know that you could ever learn anything about lifestyle, even from the real old time athletes either!
Worked out OK in the end. And thats the most important thing. Was 27 years ago. We have grandchildren now, BH. That shadchan is our favorite uncle. He was an elementary school rebbe of mine and my wife’s uncle. He has loads of successful Shidduchim to his credit and his daughter is one of the most successful shadchanim in the yeshivishe market in North America over the last 8-10 years. So I’d say their process works. He spoke to my in laws to make sure she was ready. Maybe my in laws over communicated to my wife in trying to determine exactly where she is holding. But I love them anyway.
Flexibility is one of the most important traits to have to maintain long term social relationships, whether marraige, family, business or whatever. Both she and I, and yes her family too, have worked our entire lives to be flexible. So now, when someone “steals my thunder” no one will die over it. It was a day of great simcha, all was forgiven, and we now have a nice story to post in the coffee room!
Rf: And how much money did a nation of impoverished and oppressed Holocaust refugees have?
Gam: they way I understood your comment was you were working off of RF’s philosophy, as in ??? ???, ??? ????? slavery was a cause of the lower intelligence. If you only meant economic circumstance and not intelligence, then I stand corrected.
As long as it was brought up, may I ask something? Slavery ended almost 150 years ago. Why is that still being an excuse for anything anymore? If we can rise above the Holocaust to become a thriving community, an economic force, in 20 or 30 years, let alone the 68 years it is now, how come they are still blaming slavery after all these years? (This question is not coming from a ??? ???? ??? ??? ?? ?? ???? ??? perspective. I know it comes from ????. But He runs it through a ??? process. Can’t they at least try?)
I should’ve learned from the sagacious Sam. He gave up trying to explain how a raya from a gemara or a rishon works to someone with obviously very little experience.
To Gamanit: Did you know that in the 1930s and 40s, 14 percent of African American children were raised in single parent households? Now that number is around 72%. Apparently the effects of slavery remained latent for several generations before suddenly rearing their head after the wonderful Great Society programs kicked in.
Wouldn’t it be fair to say that getting out of the ‘hood is a symbol of higher intelligence? And just hanging around and wollowing in the filth, without making any effort to improve your lot, wouldn’t that be a sign of somewwhat lower intelligence?
As you can see from my handle, I’m a Midwesterner. In all three of the major Midwestern Jewish Frum communities, the frum lived in the ‘hood, were invaded by that element, and figured out how to rearrange their situation and not be impacted by it. Ask any Detroiter about Dexter, 12th Street, or Northwest. Ask a Clevelander about 105th Street, or a Chicagoan about Douglas Blvd-the West Side, South Shore, or Austin. We were there, the neighborhood tanked, so we moved and built a better neighborhood.
They, on the other hand, just live in it, and engage in the more and more of the behavior that causes it. Single parent home, gangster lifestyle, drug usage, dropping out of school . . . . So is the lower intelligence a result of those conditions, or possibly a cause?
I had discussed with the shadchan that I was gonna propose that night. So he told her my plans. When she got in the car that night, she said YES, before I have had a chance to pop the question! SO I told her to hold that thought, we went out to eat and then to the place I planned to ask. By then it was somewhat anti-climatic. At least back in the olden days when that happened, we did have time to savor it ourselves, as no one had cellphones back then!!
One of the rayos that is brought is from Ben Tzitzis Hakeses who was one of the three gvirim (together with Kalba Savua and Nakdimon ben Gurion) who had the means to support the entire city of Yerushalayim for a 21 year siege (see Gittin 56). The gemara says he was called this because his tzitzis dragged on cushions behind him as he walked. Some say (don’t remember offhand who) that if he bore that name as a shevach, then it must be that it was not a davar ossur to do.
While I am very much not a follower of the above referenced shittah, perhaps one can justify as follows. The Gemara darshans that ?? ??? ?????? means the ???? ???, where the Jews said ??? ????? ?????. And ????? ?? ????? is referring to Sinai where ???? ? was heard. So maybe RSA was referring to when there is no Remez of Sinai left, then one discards the children.
Basar B’chalav has nothing to do with animal skins
Reb Mordechai:
??? ???? ???? for sanctioning this discussion. But before you did that, I think that one should apply the famous vort of the Chofetz Chaim that if you say the rav can’t sing and the Chazan can’t learn, then you are over Lashon Hara. But if you say the rav can’t learn and the Chazan can’t sing, then you are over retzicha!
All these comments about the skill of a specific person at the task from which he earns his ????? are very inappropriate. I would agree very strongly that this should be shut down, and probably be deleted.
Halacha states that a person must come into the shul 4 amos before davening. (Yeah I know there are other leshonos that learn that it means an expression of time and focus, but still it wouldn’t hurt anyone to observe the literal meaning .)
George Zimmerman’s defense claims that he was headed back to the car, per instructions of the 911 operator when Trayvon jumped him.
I was there too. Very powerfully emotional affair. Although I didn’t see the banner come down.
The one who mentioned that vort was Rav Binyomin Shulman, a rebbe in Englewood I think, and uncle of Ayala.
Not Sinah; but rather Machlokes. And definitely NOT chinam!
Either way, by now it is already the 9 days whatever the zmanis, unless you’re in Hawaii.
Those that need to know don’t have to ask!
Back to the original topic for a moment. I have heard that one of the three promoters of the anti R’ Ovadia letter, the one that prompted this thread, is in line for a major promotion in the RCA. One of the head dayanim of the RCA, a landsman of his, said he can not get that promotion unless he travels to Israel and does a personal bakashas mechila from R’ Ovadia.
Agree with biology eat al. One qualification. The litvishe Bnai Torah in Bnai brak have largely given up on Yiddish as well. It is still alive in vizhnitz. But in ponovezh, slobodka and other such places, ivrit dominates.
Of all the shudder threads that have popped up in the last couple of days, this one is one that we should shudder about.
Started with Popa, who else? His RCA thread contained that phrase in the title.
He acknowledged in essence that he does occasionally slip and sees things that he probably shouldn’t. So that was the answer to the question that you asked. And reading that paragraph would help avoid the gratuitous application of the hypocrite label that you insinuated. Gratuitous, because he already acknowledged it in his second paragraph.
I was once at a conference at Navy Pier in downtown Chicago, on a Thursday (IIRC.) They were filming Jeopardy! in the next room over from where our conference was. (The show spent a whole week in Chicago at that time.)
I guess mussar zoger missed one paragraph in a 2 paragraph post.
Popa, women should absolutely not be prohibited from hearing apikursus. How can you forget one of your most famous threads? Are they even Jewish?
Rationale for clapping on Shabbos can be found in a ?????? in ???? ???? ?? ?.
She’s been kidnapped! She is being held in a undisclosed location, together with Gumball!!!!!!
As a father many times, and having made dozens and dozens of long interstate drives with kids, I can tell you that if they sleep in the car, then they’re up at the destination. You have to decide how much peace and quiet in the car is worth the hassles at the end. Generally, if they’ve been up the whole trip, and there’s an hour to go, I hope they stay up in the car so they’ll sleep when I stop.
It is not worth the one hour of sleep in the car for the three hours of awake at the end.
Three generation family vacations are inadvisable.
I know a gentleman in an out of town community who made a celebration recently to mark a milestone. He had reach one quarter billion distributed to tzedaka over his lifetime.
The Asher yatzar es ha’adam bechochma argument is a paraphrase of an argument that the goyim tried to use against the Mitzvah of bris Mila.
“Whose creations are greater, G-d’s or man’s? If you say G-d’s, then why do you try to improve on His creation by cutting some away?”
The Asher yatzar es ha’adam bechochma argument is a paraphrase of an argument that the goyim tried to use against the Mitzvah of bris Mila.
“Whose creations are greater, G-d’s or man’s? If you say G-d’s, then why do you try to improve on His creation by cutting some away?”
Both Heter Iska and Pruzbul are takanos that the Rabanan made, using processes that were Mid’oraisa acceptable. The Rabbanan just codified the procedures for those not well enough versed in all the sugyos.
Nice to see Z-dads sudden newfound respect for the gedolim!
You don’t want to slash their tires if they’re parking there. Then they can’t move their car out.
Anyone know where the elementary school is?
There is a relatively pareve explanation for the separation between Pinsk Karlin and Karlin Stolin. When the Rebbe R’ Yochanan Perlow was nifter in 1955 or so, his desgnated successor, his grandson the current Stoliner Rebbe, R” Boruch Meir Yaakov Sochet of Givat Zev, was all of 6 months old. Those who didn’t want to wait for him to grow up formed a breakoff group and called it Pinsk Karlin.
Yes, I know that there’s more to it than that, but that is a relatively harmless version of the story.
The Loitzker Rebbe is R Yochanan Sochet, younger brother of the current rebbe of Karlin Stolin. Young enough to have been named after his grandfather, R Yochanan.
Most mitzva tantzes are family only so the Kalla does not cover her face. Those in big time rebbishe circles attract the hamon am of chassidim, hence the desire to have the kalla cover her face.
News reports on this site and others. Friends and relatives who were there. But they’re all chareidim. So if they’d assault he women they’d probably lie about the numbers too.
Nobody that you’d trust, so why bother.
Brony: Every month there are 500 people at the Kosel when WOW show up. There are 10-15 idiots. This month, due to Rav Shteinman’s call, there are 5000 people at the Kosel when WOW showed up. There are the same dozen crazies. I think it is fair to infer that the additional crowd was peaceful, and the nuts were the same as the ones there every month.
The sikrikim who threw stuff did not come because of rav shteinman’s call. They came because of the women. They would’ve been there with or without Rav Shteiman’s followers. All of whom behaved, BTW.
So Popa, I googled the article to which you referred. On the side there was a link to somthing written by “Rabba Sara Hurwitz.” Interesting to see what she writes about herself.
“And so, on a daily basis, I try to do it all. I function as a rabbi in a large Modern Orthodox synagogue in New York . . . .”
Same fellow as The Purim Story. Produced (and most of the voices done) by Rabbi Yossi Kirsch from Cleveland.
Maybe they were followers of R’ Tzadok Hakohein of Lublin? Or who knows? Maybe they don’t like NASI very much, and they are really followers of Tzadok Katz of Lakewood?
I’ve seen some un-thought-out silly remarks on this website over the years, but that one comes close to the top!!
Tzadok Hakohein, mentioned many times in Navi, has no connection to Tzadok and Beitus, the two talmidim of Antignus Ish Socho, spiritual founder of the Tzedukim and Baitusim. They lived many hundreds of years apart.
Pigs and dogs are not mekabel tumah. Nothing is mekabel tumah while alive except Jewish people. Not beheimos, not sheratzim, not goyim.
Intersting that one side of the debate keeps bringing up money, and insisting that is what the other is all about, when the other doesn’t mention it at all.
How about size 3 or 5? That would make it an odd number and Torah613Torah could participate!!