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would be very nice. especially for predators who can’t be given over to police. Gemara sanhedrin 73 states that one may kill one who is in the act of perpetrating certain crimes in certain circumstances. it works.
Many many chashuv rabbeim in yeshivos hold that seminary, from a academic religous standpoint, is at best pointless and at worst have teachers who spout untrue krum hashkafos. Case in pt: Multiple times over past few years, daughter of rabbi in a yeshivah gedolah came back having been told that “only guys who are burned out go into chinuch or dayanus, etc” Response: So all Roshei Yeshivos were “burned out?!?!?!?!?!!?”
i was present for multiple big poskim of America answering this, as well as been in a camp where they asked one of the gedolim:
1- Def nothing assur whatsoever with wearing them.
2- There is a heter when there is sufficient tzar caused. Machlokes on what qualifies as “sufficient”. This is heter for sports, etc. Not toluy on whether beratzon.
3- To not wear tzitzis stam, though meikar hadin not an aveirah, it is very prob for other reasons, like once e/o is noheg, mystical shmirah, loss of mitzvah, L’maan Tizkiru, etc – no such thing as personal choice.
4- In camp, etc, there is also chinuch issue – big machlokes.
i heard very awesome seminary story: Teacher says that “shelo asani goy” – even micheal jordan. Girl marries avid sports fan, tells him this. His response: “shelo asani isha” – even Rebbetzin —.
“Princess/NOMTW – I agree with you 100%. A select few belong in Kollel, the rest of the boys should be working to support their families.”
Perhaps we can replace the incompetant moetzes with the more brilliant, inspired minds of the cr!!
Judaism is not a democracy
“.the world was made for men to work to support there wife and family and NOT the other way around!!!”
Actually, originally there was no b’zeias apecha.
Furthermore, a woman gets schar for her husbands learning, and since it’s the biggest mitzvah in the world, by a long margin, i imagine that it might be worth a little sacrifice. And see what the chofetz chaim writes at the beginning of shem olam. Furthermore, one of the gedolei hador of the prev generation said that it is vital to be learning the first year of marriage, as the first year defines what the marriage will be, and it is smart to indocrinate a chashivus of Torah and proper life priorities etc into ones marriage.
“curiosty-I think most boys out there SHOULD have ur point of view in learning”
Because you clearly know better than the gedolim what hashkafos to instill in guys. all systems have their drawbacks, but it takes a gadol to weigh them – i daresay you have no shaychus whatsoever.
“so why are girls taking both curses on themselves????”
Bec it’s well worth it. We say brachah of “shelo asani isha” with good reason too.
There’s got to be something they do as an incentive to get unwilling recalcitrant spouses to give/submit to a get.
moche timche may Hashem bless you with a long healthy life. Amen. V’chen L’mar.
I’m glad you’ve finally come around to this point. Mochoh timche suggested something along similar lines above, and yet was put down for that.
Wow thanks! first time someone has stuck up for me.
@mochoh timcheh – I think mexipal was joking, judging by the “seriously” on the next line…. 🙂
I realized, or i would not have posted such a blatantly accusatory comment which if i thought he was serious might make him feel very bad about his past.
But it makes no sense to simply discuss texting in a vacuum as if it is objectively problematic.
Even if the problems it causes are not in a vacuum, once there exist problems with it in certain situations, then the sum of these problems can be taken into account when judging it in a vacuum, mitzad that its existence will lead to these problems in their respective specific situations. The sum total of these problems can then veryy well be a strong enough svara to justify terming it an unteable evil, or out of hand, in a vacuum.
smoking. A pack a day is a great way to reduce stress. (until the health problems chas veshalom kick in).
Which brand, in your obviously sophisticated opinion bourne from vast experience, is the highest quality or best? Also, were you originally able to cope with your extreme stresses with just 1 or 2 a day or did you start with a whole pack? And how did you break the intoxicating addiction? Btw, it is a line from R’ Chaim – “It’s not the same svara with a cigarrette as it is without one”
whos the Rav HaMasmich of the CR?
Other factors such as financial issues and unemployed husbands may be playing a role.
I never denied that. I merely pointed out that it is among the causes, which is a position held by meny eminent rabbanim and psychologists; it is not my own estimation – my personal opinion is irrelevant and worthless bec i do not have the daas nor the experience to analyze such things.
obviously it’s not a blanket carte blanche statement bli shum guzma
theres someone (at least acahron i forgot who) who wrote that one who calls his friend by a nickname ain lo chelek baolam haba
gefen:
1) so texting is the cause of divorce. hmmm. interesting.(yes- sarcasm intended)
i did not say it is the primary, or even significant cause. What i said is that it hardly helps in an age where there is already a marked decrease in people’s social and interpersonal skills, as evidenced by, among other things, the rising divorce rate, to have yet another thing that will erode further these vital skills. How much of an effect this has i do not know. I do know, however, what a very successful rabbi/marriage counselor told me, that he held it did make a tangible affect.
2) from reading your posts here and on other threads, it seems you think very highly of yourself and think no one else is entitled to their opinions because they are of course WRONG.
1- i think so highly of myself that i do not formulate opinions of my own; rather, i let daas Torah – my rebbeim and the real, recognized Gedolim, decide for me what is right and what is not. People who make up their own opinions about anything related to Torah tend to be wrong bec they are not daas Torah.
2- Why is Torah matters any different than quantum physics? Surely if someone posted his “opinion” about the quantum fluctuation of naked singularities, you would agree that his opinion is irrelevant and meaningless! There is even a story about marcus jastrow’s grandson who was an astropysycist with less than favorable views of religion. At some affair, he got up and said that while he doesn’t know much about religion, it can be summed up in a few words, and they weren’t particularly flattering. There was a rabbi there, i forgot who, who got up after him and rebuuted that while he doesn’t know much about astropysics, it can be summed up in “twinkle twinkle little star, how i wonder wht you are”.
3)you like stirring things up. a) either you’re just having fun, in which case I say, GET A LIFE. or b) you truly feel the way i described you in #2, in which case, i kind of pity you
you are definitely entitled to an opinion about me. However, i beg to disagree with your conclusion in “b)”, bec i am very happy being subservient to daas Torah guidance; what i stray from thereof is b’shogeg, i am far from perfect.
he could be bouncing his ip around the globe
its such a disgrace that he’s still in jail. I saw someone who wrote that he thinks that obama yemachshemo is hoping he’ll just die already chas veshalom so that he can say they were actually going to free him but then he died first.
As you can undoubtedly glean from your nearest Orthodox Gadol, to quote verbatim from one who belnged to the previous generation of Gedolim ZT”L, as heard from multiple close highly regarded Talmidim, “There is no such thing as a chumra by Tzenius”. Enough said. Also see Shaarei Teshuva chelek gimmel num 3 where he talks about the imeeasurable benefit and greatness of Rabbinic safeguards.
“Once you are zoche to be healthy and past 70, it is all a matter of Mazel, and Davening to Hashem to sustain your mental and physical Koach as long as possible.”
As opposed to before 70, when. . . ?
both go way overtime (depending on what venue)
Is there a rav Hamasmich for the CR?
not if her foot is broken
“mochoh: I’m not convinced of that. I think there is something qualitatively worse about a racial crime.”
Except that not every time a white guy attacks a black guy is it racially motivated. If anything, the constant indiscriminate labeling of every instance of white vs minority as racially motivated makes sure that the racist overtones will never fade precisely because for it to fade would require that whites vs whites and whites vs blacks be the same, this transformation however is prevented by the stupid unyielding assumption that all instances are race related. This further promotes that psychologically white perpetrators will more likely view it as a racist crime bec society loudly proclaims it to be so, and society has a profound subconcsious impact on all who are exposed to it. Furthermore, much of the racist steriotyping of minorities as thugs etc is spawned by the justified perception and reputation as being thugs – every day another person or perople are killed in gang violence, etc, things like the incidents referenced by granderson in his article – if you crack down and curtail the minority perpetrated crime, then their reputation will be hopefully a little less thuggish.
“Mochoh timcheh – I don’t know if you read a certain part of my post. I picked up different bits and pieces from different places who all had sources. I am not going to look up every single source and quote them all on what they said. If you would like, and if you would ask me kindly, maybe I will look some of them up. It may take quite a bit of time to look through many notebooks of mine, but if you would really like me to then maybe I will.”
Apparently you did not read my previous analasys. Vesides for which your first post is wi tink somewhat inaccurate in terms of answering the specific question posed by the OP as well as your own thesis
“mochoh timche – You had me in mind, no? I can sense it.”
Your female intuition is misdirecting you this time.
“Mocho Timche, I think we can all agree that siyata dishmaya from the brocho of a godol to a good person is an incentive to shlaimus. That makes sense. It is unfathomable to compare that kind of syata dishmaya to putting one’s foot over that of his kallah for the purpose of dominating her in the matrimonial home.”
Let’s review: “is an incentive to shlaimus” – That’s not what pshat in a bracha is, though true in and of itself; a bracha is actually a powerful mystical tool with real tangible effects in the Hasgacha of HASHEM on the world what HE will Make happen.
“It is unfathomable to compare that kind of syata dishmaya to putting one’s foot over that of his kallah for the purpose of dominating her in the matrimonial home.” – Since every form of segulah, bracha, etc works in the same exact way – ie affecting what the Hashgacha in the world will be, what metzius will be in the world and in what state it will exist and what interactions will occur – there is no difference between the these two things except for the mechanism that is causing the change in metzius.
this country is sickeningly pathetic they only get up in arms when there is a percieved injustice commited against a minority. It doesn’t ever matter whether it was even remotely anything to do with race, or whether the “injustice” was even perpetrated. Witness how when blacks beat up blacks, no one is up in arms. I read this article by a LZ Granderson that expressed this point, and he mentioned a recent beating of a black by other blacks i think it was in baltimore. Wheres sharpton yimach shemo? or j jackson yemach shemo? of course they don’t give a whoop. if zimmerman was black not many would care, and it certainly wouldn’t have recieved the national attention it has. And when you see all these instances – videotaped – of blacks mugging people, beating up people, and the same for other minorities who have suach a reputation, well there is maybe good reason, or at least it makes sense that people naturally would be assume more readily that a minority teenager is a thug than a white teenager. martin was no saint, not even close. it’s a tragedy that someone killed someone, yes, but it happens every day, and many are more tragic, and don’t recieve any attention. This country is pathetic. and eric holder, the attourney general should not be going to al sharptons events – surely that doesn’t mean that he will not prosecute unfairly like ignore blatant crimes commited by minorities, a la black panther party, etc.
Sam2: ill get back to you after y”t hopefully iy”H. But it’s pashut that it’s true. I heard this many times from my Rosh HaYeshiva
“Every day, expect that day to be your last. And act accordingly. Do teshuva. So say the Seforim HaKedoshim.”
The alter of Slabodka said that before 30, one should not contemplate death, etc, bec it subdues the natural youthful exuberanc that younger people have. AS far as teshuva for preparation for your death, there is an axiom in halacha that someone who is aliva and well has a chazaka that he will live for at least one year more – so if he goes missing and we don’t know where (excluding, for example, if he was captured by terrorists who have the annoying habit of beheading captives on live video) or why or other details. Therefore, it is brought down in seforim that mitzvos which we do only once a year, one should be extra machmir for bec there is no chazaka that he’ll be around next time, and there is a big inyan mystically which we hold of that the last time of any mitzvah is in many ways the most significant and definitely has the most potential power. However, to do teshuva every day as if expecting imminent death for us bazman hazeh is probably wrong bec after the first few times it becomes rote and insincere, and if chas veshalom the real time of imminent death rolls around, it will be much harder to say it sincerely. And stam, insincere vidui is itelf a sin, and we even say an al chait for it on yom kippur.
you could burn black hats and white shirts. . .
“mochoh timche: i didn’t mean to say there is NOTHING wrong with it. All I mean’t to say was that it isn’t out of line and worse then many other things”
the question was “has texting gone out of hand”. you answered that “there’s nothing wrong with it”. that means that in regards to whether texting has gone out of hand, it absolutely has not, even in the slightest, or so your choice of words connote. And even if not, what i said still is a valid critique of your position regardless, as this is not the opinion of the gedolim and valid daas Torah of today; it is also blatantly obvious in metzius, as is true about anything that metamorphases into an addiction; even without it being an addiction, it is quite obvious that it has the downside of eroding to some extent people’s interpersonal skills and quality of relationships, which is quite serious, especially in a society where divorce rates among religious jewsish couples is skyrocketing. V’chuli
“whoa. how interesting! and dreams on shabbos have a special meaning. why don’t you speak to a mekubal about this?”
The dreams of big big tzaddikim once in a while can have truth to them. As for the rest of us, never happens. You can look it up in Derech HASHEM, i think it’s at the end of chelek 2 where he talks about dreams, vast majority of people fall under the category of those whose neshamos go up and consort with demonic untruthful beings who do not relate to them pearls of truth; furthermore, and really obviating the need for the previous point, is that even if your soul actually is granted something real, it just integrates into your dream in some aspect that you’ll never recognize or be able to distinguish or even to know what it is that you’re looking for.
in kelm pesukei d’zimra took exactly 50 minutes, even on shabbos and yom tov.
“And according to this law, was he allowed to shoot to kill or should he have shot in the leg, knowing as he did that Trayvon has no weapon.”
How easy exactly do you think it is for someone who is being attacked and beaten up b’shaas maaseh to keep cool and think logically when he also is scared that he may soon experience a serious, permanant, and possibly life-threatning injury that he will be able to calmly pull out his gun, uncontested, steady aim and shoot at a non-vital part, and aiming isn’t so pashut either. If you’re at the point where you’re shooting the guy, you just aim center mass and pull the trigger, not go through a whole cheshban of what’s the politically correct way to do it. Agav, people who hold political correctness in such high esteem are mekalkel society in that they cause people to be unnecissarily hurt, taken advantage of, and killed, all bec someone is too afraid of the reshaim of the liberal left, yemach shemom, bringing charges, etc. The world would be better off if they all dropped dead. . .
i have a bro. hes crazy though
“This “remedy” doesn’t make any sense. I’ll repeat, what happens to Bechirah Chofshis? Either a Chassan or Kallah’s Bechirah Chofshis for their entire lives is removed if one of them does this at the wedding? Come on. It defies logic and basic principles of belief.”
What these medrashim, etc mean is not that you lose your bechirah, but rather that it is much harder for you to choose one of the options – ie harder nisayon. For example, someone born from a woman who doesn’t go to the mikvah [meaning born from niddus] will have bad middos. THis means that rov will bec it is a much harder nisayon. And further, ahen a gadol gives someone a bracha that he become a tzaddik, that doesn’t mean he has no free will, just that it will be easier for him to achieve it. Ramchal in Derech HASHEM spells this out – (loose paraphrasing) – “Gazrah B’chachmaso HaElyonah that some people will get siyata dishmaya and therefore be able to achieve shlaimus more easily, and some will aderabah will min hashamayim be put into very trying conditions that will make it much harder to do so.”