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zsdad, The Israeli parades and protests are mostly frei non-Orthodox.
yytz: There are a whole lot of former-MO’s who are today Charedi. Daven and affiliatedd with Chareidi shuls, sent to Chareidi Yeshivos and even often wear black hats.
The big mass influx of Russians to Israel (many many of whom are goyim – but that is a whole ‘nother discussion) diluted the vote and made everyone else – religious and irreligious Jews – be a smaller portion. Nevertheless, and despite this dilution, the Chareidi parties have virtually maintained their seating strenghth in the Parliment while everyone became smaller. So that is an indication of greater growth among Chareidim.
They sold out 42,000 seats for Asifa at Citi Field a week early. (How often do the Mets EVER sell out the stadium?!) They could have easily sold another 10,000 seats. And it was men only. If women were allowed (and there was space), it would have been an asifa of over 100,000! And that’s Chareidi Jews from just one metropolitan area in one part of one country. And even in that locality many Chareidim wouldn’t come because of scheduling conflicts, illness, too old, too young / children, absence that time from the city or away on business or pleasure, laziness, philosophical disagreement with the asifa, they don’t touch the internet anyways, family functions or wedding or a myriad of other reasons. Figure over 350,000 Chareidim in just the New York Metro area. Figure that many more in cities (Lakewood, Los Angeles, Chicago and many large and small towns) all over the rest of the United States. Add in Canada. Eretz Yisroel. Europe. Australia. South America. You’re talking large numbers.
Go give him a big Shalom Aleichem and ask about his family and hobbies.
It figures. Also, don’t forget that traditional Orthodoxy has had a tremendous and ongoing influx of Baalei Teshuvas that cannot be discounted. (Much much greater than departures.) Aside from BT’s, it seems that there is even a large amount of formerly MO yidden that have become Chareidi.
Rabbanim who deal in gittin say “beware of a divorced girl.”
How’d you take pictures on Shabbos?
What if a woman was c’v ill in the hopital for a few weeks, and couldn’t tzind licht for the duration. Does she have a knas for each missed week? (It would seems so, for the same reason she adds a licht for each child.)
The Chofetz Chaim married a woman much much younger than himself. His second wife (I think it was her first marriage) was only niftar in New York in the 1980’s or 1990’s (and her kever is in Queens.)
OOM: I was discussing why Pesach hotels are non-gebrochts. It makes great business sense. The non-gebrochts people definitely won’t come if the kitchen serves gebrochts. The gebrochts people will still generally come if the kitchen is non-gebrochts.
Chacham, the Chofetz Chaim and Steipler didn’t eat gebrochts and did have simchas yom tov. So I am in good company.
It is a mandate for non-gebrochts people to not eat gebrochts. There is no mandate for gebrochts people that they must eat gebrochts.
By not serving gebrochts, anyone can eat at the hotel. By serving gebrochts, many people cannot. So it is a wise business decision. The number of people who will only go to a hotel serving gebrochts is minimal, as it isn’t a mandate for them to eat it; whereas it is a mandate for those that refrain.
Hands-on experience, at any age, is an incomparable chinuch to any alternative.
This is not a new trend. It has always been done, in many Yeshivas. In fact, they start very young. Yeshivas start sending bochorim to collect Tzedakah for the Yeshiva at least as young as 8 years old.
The reason is much more than to raise money for the Yeshiva, as important as that is. It is a matter of chinuch. It teaches the importance of Tzedakah for a Torah Jew. Including, importantly, in raising Tzedakah and in giving Tzedakah. This time-honored form of chinuch cannot be foresaken.
Why does anyone waste a buck on this?
How is Mega Millions different than PowerBall?
Middle: Did you travel hundreds of miles to meet them or did they travel hundreds of miles to meet you?
MDG: Rav Chaim, who is the Steipler’s son, also doesn’t eat gebrochts.
lebedik yankel: That’s a good point you make. While by the secular perhaps the wife typically files for divorce, by us the Torah doesn’t allow that. Only the husband can give a divorce. And he must want to give it by his own free will for it to be effective. There must be good reason for that, as we see what is happening in the secular world here.
Yungerman – why do you need to ask this shaila to Rav Elyashev? Previously you said your LOR suffices. R’ Baum thus qualifies.
90% of divorced female college graduates sought the divorce?! Wow. That oughtta scare anyone from marrying a girl who went to college…
BTGuy, in a good way, correct?
So if someone promises something, if her husband doesn’t like it he can declare her promise null and void?
Discussing such garbage is probably not as bad as watching such garbage. 🙂
It’s much worse in Florida (especially summers) than almost anywhere else.
However much is dependent on nature, can a person (or rather parents) effect a change for the positive on the outcome of what otherwise is dependent on nature?
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Today a girl is simply looking for a guy with pants. After all, with the crisis and age gap, she’s hoping to simply get *a* guy.
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Is a psak permitting a mirror for Tefilin predicated on the assumption that it shouldn’t be used in general? Otherwise why the need for a psak, and why issue the psak without saying it’s okay anytime?
That Achashveros’ party was an aveira is proof to this issur. The Shulchan Aruch (YD 152:1) paskens its assur to party with them, based on the Gemora’s in Megila and Avoda Zora.
The Taz writes that the prohibition is m’doraysa and even applies if the Gentile making the party is non-religious. The Mishna Halachos 7:118, based on the Taz, specifically says the prohibition includes attending an office party.
If a divorce is recognized by some rabbonim, but other rabbonim say the divorce was invalid, if she remarries will subsequent children be sofek mamzeirim?
Well, as more than one poster has clearly and amply enumerated, she is much worse than an abuser. We don’t determine this, Hashem did.
Haleivi: What do you mean?
The idea of not becoming friendly with goyim is the reason for Chazal’s gezeira? Would that be a principle (set by Chazal) in of itself?
That’s another type of marriage TCG should support based upon his reasoning to support toeive marriage. Even health-wise toeiva is well-known to be far more detrimental than a sibling or other incensuous relationship.
TCG: Hugely damages the social structure of society more than homosexual marriage?? One must be completely out of their mind to write such a mind-boggling claim. And I’m sure you are not that. So it is patently obvious you are defending your openly hypocritical stance due to your having been strongly negatively influenced by Western societal immorality.
And this is all from a strictly secular perspective, without even begining to consider how far you’ve strayed from yiddishkeit in your views.
646, The comment you quoted makes no referance to threatening harm to anyones children. You are being completely disingenuous and leave the strong impression you have no arguable response.
TCG – PBA responded to your question to me quite well. I will add that polygamy is less problematic than toeiva marriage, and has been practiced for thousands of years (as well as being legal m’ikur hadin.)
So I take it you are (at best) hypocritical in your position, and you clearly come to this position as a result of Western/secular values (as you’ve almost made explicit in your comment) versus the values incumbant upon a Jew.
TCG – surely you are not a hypocrite, and do support the legalization of polygamous marriage (not nearly as bad a toeiva marriage) as you do toeiva marriage. Correct, you are not a hypocrite?
And Al Pi Halacha, using secular court is an issur gamur normally. They MUST, al pi halacha, arbitrate their dispute in A B”D, whichever one it is. Secular court is NOT an option for a Jew.
Isn’t there a klal of minhag k’halacha, and one shouldn’t deviate from his father’s minhagim?
That author is also in favor of abolishing Tisha B’Av, for the same reasons.
646: For good reason. She is in fact in violation of maintaining a Torah lifestyle, as clearly evidenced by the photos she publicly posed for and supplied the media. Furthermore, every divorcing couple SHOULD be arbitrating their divorce in Beis Din as halacha demands them to.
And even IF she had maintained the religious lifestyle she agreed to, there is no more reason that she should have primary custody than that HE should have primary custody. There is no basis to give a mother automatic preferance over the father.
Additionally, she is getting divorced not because of her false claims of abuse that she publicly and falsely advanced in order to win sympathy (does anyone have even a shred of evidence of that, other than this evil woman’s claims?), but rather because she engaged in adultery, immorality, public immodesty, and violating every tenet of our faith.
Why wont sharks attack lawyers?
Professional courtesy.
What is the definition of mixed emotions?
Watching your lawyer drive over a cliff in your new car.
TCG – marriage is in the public sphere. We aren’t discussing here what they do in their home.