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Dear Avira,

This is all fuzzy research. Asking uncles who hock too much and aunts who think they have a better memory.

Some points. Fallsberg claims to a Bais Hatalmud creation. And Sav Elya Ber does not call himself a talmid of Rav Aaron.

Stamford moved to Monsey or near it. I’m not sure if it’s similar to what it was. I do not know who the money was, but it definitely was not Rav Meir. And I’m not sure he would know much about who Rav Aaron honored or didn’t.

Obviously, Rav Chaim Epstein’s yeshiva is a good a source as there is for Rav Aaron’s opinions. But I’m still guessing off of what I gathered from hearsay. I have no source that this is intentional to any of them.

When I started asking, I thought I would get more chessed organizations. But it was too conflicting. Like people who were born into not frum families that stayed close to the Jewish communities. Or the wealthy that used their wealth on others, but were not otherwise noteworthy role models.

And what if nobody wants to hire them?

Dear Yabia,

Brisk does not idolize the Rambam.

I did not know that Hebrew was the Rambam’s first language.

Your critiques of the yeshiva are more sensible than some of the other posters here. Still, you assume that the Yeshiva is on the inside what it is to those outside of it.

Dear Young,

1. Hishtadlus. Not needed here. Let the general public try all the social experiments they want. It has no meaning to me. Why would any yid with a strong foundation even follow this nonsense?

2. Policies. If Washington had not been non-functional for the majority of my life, this may be worth discussing. But the fact is that our elected representatives to the collective bodies of government can’t govern. Nor can they be collective. They can’t even represent anymore. Now they are moving to the point where they can’t even be fairly elected. In this climate, policies are just fuel for bigoted cultural discord. The sensible person would take on whatever position is less inflammatory. Even if that means ‘supporting’ something that we personally find abominable.

Dear Avira,

Rav Hirsch was using a scientific position which is now known to contradict thousands of known phenomena. This not a questionable matter, as Rav Hirsch himself says that we would discard our theories when they are not in conformation with even one known instance. You should follow the truth that Rav Hirsch was not stating that this is an eternal truth. He was understanding the science based on what he knew from the Torah.

Dear Gefilte,

The problem with Rav Leff’s pshat is that then the Rambam in Shemita is discussing his ideal. But what is he in practice? If it’s the same reality with a different ideal, how can one be ‘holy of holies’ and the other an embarrassment to religion?

Dear Common,

I did a lot of research. The rumor is that Rav Aaron had such a standard for his yeshiva, but held that it did not apply to other types of mosdos. I’m not sure. Take it or leave it. This seems to hold up somewhat with the honorees of the BMG dinner. Though I was told that Rav Aaron himself made an exception once. Some Lakewood Yeshivos put a good face on the effort. Some don’t.

Here are three that seem to be genuine about it. Bais Binyamin of Stanford. Maybe that’s why they had no money. Yeshiva Zichron Moshe of South Fallsberg is said to have such ideas. They don’t have a regular dinner as far as I can tell. Zichron Meilich has a dinner every year, with such an idea.

There will be more abortions next year than any year in the last thirty years. Which fits well the neo-conservatives idea of morality.

Dear Big,

The discussion in those sources is about teaching Torah to women. That means that the students are female. Not what gender the teachers are. I would discuss either with you if you try to get anything straight.

I’m not ranting. The fact is that Sefaria got their translation from Steinsaltz. In your view, what is the difference between lying and research?

The problem with Haupttman is not that she is a woman. She, and nobody like her, had any impact on their translation of the Talmud.

There are no mefarshim on that page. Only links. Can you answer if you played her song, and why you decided to click on the embedded video?

I looked up those pages from your first mention of them. I’ve been calling your bluff the whole time. Here’s a tip. Before you make outrageous statements online, think what would happen if just one person with a different view takes the time to check it up.

I think it’s the opposite. Our yeshivishe shprach lends itself to a lot of ambiguities. It covers up for when we don’t know what we are saying. Being that for most in yeshiva today English is our first language, our brains would have a clearer understanding of what we can put into clear English.

I’ve heard people ramble endlessly trying to make a point in some yeshivisha sefer that could be succinctly put into one sentence. The general grasp of subject matter in the yeshiva world today is terrible. We talk about ‘ameilus’ and ‘iyun’ and ‘lomdus’. How about ‘havanah’?

Dear Syag,

Beware of your own advice! It may apply to you as well.

Dear Syag,

“You can’t pull a “different strokes for different folks” in Judaism when halachah is not being followed.”

I can.

Lakewood Yeshivos eat before tekiyas shofar.

Briskers don’t fast on the regular fast days.

Chasidish men shave their heads.

Stolin davens the whole pisukei dizimrah out loud.

Many people daven Shacharis late in the morning. And Mincha after sundown.

Some light the menorah inside, others light outside.

It is common to dance on Shabbos. Just about everybody dances on Simchas Torah.

There is a widespread minhag to eat inside on Shemini Atzeres.

Sometimes, different Jews do things differently.

Dear Common,

It is much more expensive to clean sand oil. Guinea has only high sulfur diesel. They have zero refineries. It is all imported from Europe and the USA.

Any way you want to have it, the sole purpose of the Keystone Pipeline is to send Canadian oil to Europe. The parts that service our oil infrastructure is all built. Almost none of the locals want that last phase. Especially after they saw what happened in Texas and other States.

Dear Avira,

Nice guess. But Rav Moshe at times didn’t dissuade his sons from not doing things he held were prohibited. Proving what Rav Moshe’s opinion was from his silence is a fool’s errand. Rav Moshe did not assume he was Hashem’s enforcer on Earth.

Dear Shimili,

Back in the day there were a number of posters that really knew their stuff. What percentage of boys that enter the yeshiva know how to really learn a sugya? Is it even a quarter of them?!? And how many of those did it despite the yeshiva, and never conformed to the ruach hayeshiva?

Dear Common,

The oil from Canada is too dirty. That makes it unfit for domestic consumption. The Keystones pipeline is to send this oil through the USA and on to international markets with lower fuel standards. More fuel there, does not correlate to cheaper fuel here.

Dear Ujm,

Most of the Keystone that we have, was built under Obama. Now, if only it would be used at capacity, or if that oil would be usable on American markets…..

Fracking is no longer a partisan issue. It’s all tied up in the Courts. The oil industry knew it was a legal gamble to not apply long standing legal norms to new methods of drilling. Now they have a bunch of useless infrastructure. But their happy. The public already paid for it twice.

What’s happening is the Fed needs inflation to offset all the crazy borrowing of the last twenty and eighty years. There is no stick happy ending to this one.

Hi, Cs!

Avodah Zarah 9a. Tana dvei Eliyahu as well.

Dear Always,

A start would be if parents would make an effort to collaborate with the teachers to know what is going on in school that they don’t see at home. As well as to share what they see at home.

Dear Avira,

I have. You haven’t????????

Dear Yabia,

The modern day yeshiva was a Lithuanian creation. It’s brand was it’s superior products. It never had any marketing until now.

Dear Gefilte,

I hear you. But using the national guard on the riots was a last report. It makes it worse. The best method, is good policing right away. But policing was the problem to begin with. Mayors were caught in a bind without a solution.

Armed insurrection – the Metropolitan Police made two arrests for bringing guns into the Capitol. One rioter attacked the police with a metal flag pole. Fifteen of the rioters charged with violent crime had weapons. Not to mention the many that were there and never detained.