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It would be great if you could find a Rav to speak to, instead of relying on The (Un)Official CR Handbook of Halacha. I saw your thread about washing your hands on a plane. You can get some answers here, but there are different opinions. You’ll always do best asking a Rav- you’ll get answers that are appropriate for you in the circumstances you find yourself in.
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I seem to remember a meeting between two CRers being arraigned in the past… Joseph and the Wolf maybe? Anyways I think they just chose a time a public place (a restaurant, if I’m not mistaken) to meet without exchanging any personal info.
I didn’t think he was that defiant… OK, maybe a bit, but still…
No, the Internet is not the cause of all evil in the world. However, it does make accessing all the evil in the world much easier…
Welcome to the CR, FuturePOTUS 🙂
Yeah, the whole “the Russians hacked the elections!” thing is definitely overrated… While the Russians did probably hack and leak the DNC emails (Why would the CIA lie about this? Just to antagonize their future boss? And it shouldn’t be a shock to anybody that the CIA didn’t announce how it got its info – ever heard of the concept of “classified”? </rant>), that wasn’t the main focus of the Hillary email scandals – it was mostly about the emails she sent over her home-brewn server as Secretary of State. Can’t blame the Russians for revealing that.
And anyways, it’s not like the Russians falsely framed anybody here – they just showed us up what the DNC was really up to. The Dems should stop whining about the Russians airing their dirty laundry in public and start actually taking responsibility for the mess.
An excellent article – if anything, it is even more timely today. We cannot hide our hides in the sand and just pretend that this wide-spread problem does not exist.
Or what if I, like I did while eating tonight, imagined eating both meat and dairy while looking at menu ideas.
It’s totally fine. While it is indeed admirable to have noble intentions in mind while doing seemingly mundane things such as eating or going to sleep, it is not mandatory. And there is certainly no problem of thinking about milchigs and fleishigs food in the same meal.
So I was eating without appreciating the food since I thought of other food at the time. I wasn’t eating mindfully.
I give you a bracha that this should be the greatest of your spiritual struggles 🙂
In last week’s parsha, we read about Yaakov Avinu dreaming of angels climbing up and down a ladder. This ladder represents (among other things) the process of spiritual growth. One must ascend this ladder rung by rung, slowly but surely, to make sure that they end up on the top. To attempt to leap to the top in one jump would be too risky, and probably end in a great fall.
Remember, slow and steady wins the race.
And so, to answer LB’s real question:
Because I want to understand. Is this a new thing that they are telling women today? I don’t know what I believe. It’s been pitched to me as a good thing and real by kiruv. I wondered if ffb people learn this and/or ffb guys are taught this. I’ve had men tell me this is true but then again I don’t know.
It does seem that most people here (both male and female) have been told this concept, but not everyone is entirely convinced that it is “the truth, the full truth, and nothing but the truth”.
The ???? of ??? ???? ???… I’m sure most people here are familiar with the explanation that this is so because women are naturally on a higher spiritual level, and therefore do not need as much “work” to develop their relationship with Hashem
I have indeed heard this explanation, but I’ve always wondered if there’s any real source for it… It does seem to fly in the face of the concept of ??? ????? ???????, that being chosen to perform mitzvos is indicative of a higher spiritual calling.
(Also, if one takes this theory to its logical conclusion, wouldn’t it mean the Jews are on a lower spiritual plane than non-Jews, since they have so many more mitzvos needed to help them perfect themselves?)
That being said, I’m going to re-post my two of my favorite comments from this thread:
LU:
“Basically, each gender is better in different ways, and each gender needs to focus on its maalos (advantages) and not its chesronos (disadvantages). It is counter-productive to focus on the chesronos of your gender, certainly not before you have reached the stage of having enough self-esteem and self-confidence in your identity and your role that you can handle it (if that ever happens).”
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Person1:
“The question “who is better” is not relevant to observing torah. There are much more practical guidlines”
Well said, both of you.
The big minyan factories in Monsey are Vishnitz and Skver, although I think Satmar has one as well.
Mod-??:
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Health, people are complaining about the way you speak to them. I will delete any name calling when I catch it, and I can either rewrite your posts less venomously, or you can. Your choice.
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Why is the divorce rate in the jewish community so high? & why has it gotten this high just recently in the past 10 years alone?
Does anybody actually know what the divorce statistics in the frum community are, and how they’ve changed over the past ten years? Personally, I suspect that there has been more of an increase in the focus on divorces than there have been in actual divorces. (Same with shidduch/OTD crises, btw.)
iacisrmma:
There are numerous reasons starting with the shidduch process itself. We expect two people who barely know each other make a decision in 3-4 weeks after meeting less than 10 times; get engaged and barely talk/see each other during the engagement period and then get married and expect everything to work.
LOL. While I don’t know what the exact divorce rate is in the frum community, I am willing to bet that it is a tiny fraction of what goes on in the culture around us where courtships do stretch out for months or years. From the American Psychological Association: “about 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce. The divorce rate for subsequent marriages is even higher.”
Hows everyone else doing? Health, scienceprogram?
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We usually just here the problems here on the CR, not the good stuff. Always nice to see a happy ending…
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Fine, have it your way…
Health!:
MW13 -“Name them”
Why should I?
Because otherwise you lose all of your credibilty and nobody will take you seriously. I can’t believe that I have to explain that to you…
Health!:
My opinions are based on the Daas Torah that I was taught!
Name them.
Mitchilah cheap Shoppers hayu avoseinu
yehudayona:
What does the election have to do with the fires in Israel?
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/quotes-2/page/2?replies=86#post-635022
Ooh, I have a great idea of how to help our brethren in distress! Let’s yell and scream at each other and hurl around nasty insults!! That’s sure to help!!!
So people have (possibly intentionally) tried to cover up the wrongdoings of the past – big deal. Sure beats running the risk of leaving the mistaken impression (particularly on impressionable young minds) that this is somehow a legitimate practice consistent with Halachic-observant Judaism just because some people have done it at some point in the past.
The mistakes of the past must be taught very carefully so as not either legitimize those mistakes, or belittle those who have made them. This is a delicate balance, and I don’t at all blame the publishers of a biography for trying to sidestep such a thorny issue.
They should treat them like arsonists.
Perhaps you would like to share some thoughts or opinions?
Mod-29, you convinced me:
Consider this thread in your honor 😉
DID RUSSIA HACK THE US ELECTION??
From The Telegraph:
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced a fundraising effort on Wednesday to pay for recounts in three battleground states.
Ms Stein launched a fundraising page aiming to raise $2.5 million to fund recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in an effort to ensure that the “election results are reliable,” she said in a statement.
“After a divisive and painful presidential race, in which foreign agents hacked into party databases, private email servers, and voter databases in certain states, many Americans are wondering if our election results are reliable.
“That’s why the unexpected results of the election and reported anomalies need to be investigated before the 2016 presidential election is certified. We deserve elections we can trust.”
The announcement comes after it emerged that a group of election lawyers and data experts urged Hillary Clinton to ask for an independent review of the votes in the three key states to ensure a cyberattack was not committed to manipulate the totals.
The activists, among them J Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Centre for Computer Security and Society and voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz, told the Clinton campaign they believe there is a questionable trend of the Democratic candidate performing worse in counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to paper ballots and optical scanners, according to a “source briefed on the call”.
The computer experts reportedly found that Mrs Clinton received 7 per cent fewer votes in Wisconsin counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to counties that used optical scanners and ballot papers.
They calculated that if the electronic votes were changed to match the percentages in the rest of the state, she would have received an extra 30,000. The Democratic candidate lost the state, which carries 10 electoral votes, by 27,000.
In the run up to the US election, the White House had expressed concern about potential cyber attacks influencing the election, and the Obama administration accused Russia of attempting to breach voter registration data and of hacking the Democratic National Committee emails.
PHOTOS: Trump and Obama Meet In The White House – Obama Says Meeting Was ‘Excellent’
And Trump is saying that he will seek Obama’s counsel… How about a cabinet post for Hillary?
Yes, I do think there will be a civil war; between the Republicans and the Trumpians.
oh no, she is quite dead. This second botched coronation will be her last, and she will go down in the history books as the biggest loser to ever try (oh so hard) to be POTUS. She couldn’t even bring herself to give a concession speech.
IDK what the exchange rate is now but I would exchange now anyways, seeing as the USD is about to fall off a cliff…
Anyway, did you hear that the Government of Canada’s immigration website crashed due to high traffic? No, but seriously – I just tried it and it’s still down (at ten to 2 AM).
Yeah, only the Libertarians and Green Party are normal.
Not sure what there is to be confused about – every Frum Jew must vote for Trump, and every Frum Jew must vote for Hillary; that way we’ll be on the good side of whichever nut wins.
#VoteEarlyVoteOften
philo:
If you truly believe that everyone should read just any Jewish material without checking out its author, then Shabbsai Tzvi may be just your thing.