Neville ChaimBerlin

Yeah, I mean we obviously come here for the bias. I was under the impression that the whole point was to have a news site geared towards the frum world, not to have unbiased reporting.

I had no idea they had a Durham campus. That would probably be really nice and you can ignore everything I said if that’s where he would be.

CTLaw might be about to say this, but I can’t see it yet.

Waterbury is a really, really terrible area. People often underestimate it under the assumption that all of Connecticut is nice; it has ghettos just like anywhere else. If you care at all about your kid’s safety when he steps one foot outside of campus, then you should really think about this.

Anyway, this got really derailed…

Happy Holidays, everyone. I hope you all had a very Halal Pesach.

Milhouse: He did mention the Rema/Machaber earlier. His assertion is that anything that happened after the times of the Rema is fair game to do whatever you want (eg. any shailah resulting from technology that didn’t exist then). He’s then going to pretend to be surprised that there are people on YESHIVA World News who don’t support shittah window shopping because “every rabbi he’s ever hear of” says it’s OK to chose whatever shittah makes you feel good. It’s really not worth going into. It’s derailing the thread, which he’s now trying to slyly accuse US of being responsible for.

Gadol, I agree; it’s about time we get to that permutation. Wasn’t there a black guy a few years back who converted and started like the “Chabad-Karlin-Satmar-Ger” Chassidus or something like that?

I can’t remember exactly what it was. If anyone remembers his name, let me know.

I once was asked by a Muslim about Halal meat at the certain butchery. I warned him that it was cut with the same equipment as the treif stuff, and he ended up not buying it. I later found out that Muslims don’t have a concept of “Halal Equipment” like us. So, I inadvertently talked him into observing a weird Kosher-Halal creole halachah.

He later went on to convert and become a Chassidishe guy.

…OK, just kidding about that last part. The first part actually happened though.

“there is no reason they shouldn’t advertise for it and make more money through Muslim customers.”

If a restaurant is near a prison, is there no reason why it shouldn’t display “ex-convicts welcome” in order to get their business? The point is, with the situation in Europe, “welcome all Muslims” is not necessarily a sign Jews want to see in front of their restaurants. It could very well lead to more loss than gain in business.

I don’t think the point the OP is making is to condemn all leftist, but he’s observing that when a right wing nut shoots people, the media has it on the front cover for months. When this left-wing women from a protected ethnicity does it, they barely covered it at all.

Nobody is claiming that CS is treif. The only ones making a controversial claim here are the ones saying (in Reb Moshe’s name) that there’s no benefit at all to drinking Chalav Yisroel.

Back to the OP, CS definitely lasts longer. It’s really annoying. It’s not really a financial strain, it just requires you to buy smaller quantities and go to the store more often.

“But as long as teh restaurant keeps the halal rules, there is no reason it shouldn’t advertise as halal and have Muslim clientele.”

On paper, but sometimes it’s better for business for certain things to go without saying. If people can get up in arms over a storefront displaying “Happy Holidays,” then it’s not too much of a stretch to think advertising as Halal might turn some people off in regions where the religious Muslim population is known to be unfriendly towards the Jews.

Gadol: Halal is actually extremely meikel once the animal is shechted. They don’t avoid parts of the animal like us, or check for blemishes to my knowledge. So, I don’t think they would differentiate between Bet Yosef and Rema. In fact, I think they’re even OK with Hebrew Nationals, unlike the Hebrews (that’s how you know WE’RE the real chosen people).

“unless of course it isn’t halal and they find out it might create a chilul Hashem”
Don’t you mean a Chillul Allah?

So, it sounds like the Baalei Nefesh require it to be shechted with a brachah, while the more balabatish Muslims are OK with eating the regular, kosher meat. Would a Shiite eat meat that was Shechted with a Nusach Sunni brachah?

Also, was your friend able to access the CR from his phone, or did he have a Hallal phone? If a phone is kosher, should it advertise that it’s also hallal?

Chametz is being sold at an extreme discount right now, on the other hand.

Unmarried bocherim still fulfill the mitzvah of tzistzis.

This is sort of a side point, but I had the impression that the Maharil off of which not wearing a tallis is based actually said that unmarried boys are patur from tzistzis altogether (no distinction between tallis gadol and katan). Can anyone confirm whether or not this is true? I’m not sure where the source is.

Also, who said duchaning on weekdays is a halachah? Are we at the point now where the word “halachah” means whatever Sphardim say, and “not following halachah” means whatever Ashkenazim say?

Most samples here haven’t been halachas. Polygamy was mutar, but it certainly wasn’t a mitzvah. I don’t know that it was even a lehatchilah.

Tevilas Ezra was a real halachah (I think) that Litvaks no longer do.
Leaving over the peah of your field (not hair) for the poor is a halachah with it’s own Mishnah, but we don’t do it anymore.

Does anyone really matir not washing before soaked vegetables, or is it just a “the masses are meikel and we do not protest” situation?

golfer:

It’s the minhag in the CR passed down for generations that, just before Pesach, we all come together and critique each other’s minhagim. I’m not sure if this minhag CR is still relevant, but we don’t want to be mevatel a minhag.

I think he was responding to your Joe account, not your Joseph account 😉

lesschumras: Surely you don’t really mean that question l’maaseh.

Also, who says the circumstances with kitniyos have changed (other than reform Jews)? The Sphardim still wash and check individually, and Ashkenazim still avoid. Nobody says you can pour a bag of rice straight from Wal Mart into a pan and call it a day.

The defenders aren’t getting it:

Hawking and other celebrity physicists have created a kind of cult of science. They deny religion, but then create outlandish theories like wormholes, the universe being shaped like a folded piece of paper (none of their theories have any evidence by the way) and the naive college students eat it up. They deny religion on the basis of lack of evidence, but then believe everything these guys say without evidence. People underestimate how dangerous this is. We have an authority that a huge portion of the population considers infallible. In the middle ages it was the Church, now it’s celebrity science.

So, when they say the Jews are evil and we should all be pro-Hamas, people don’t question them. Why would they? They think they’re infallible. Baruch Hashem, this particular one is no longer with us.

Wolf, I probably shouldn’t get involved because you’re clearly on the warpath, but I don’t really see what was so illegitimate about bringing in Yaakov Kaminetzky. The OP basically asserted that anyone non-Chassidishe Ashkenaz should eat gebrochts. Bringing in an exception is fair game. The fact that he did so by his own choice rather than for a standing minhag seems to make it even fairer game. I must be missing something here.

“So the consensus is that one should put on Teffilin during chol hamoed but should only do so when sitting in the area where one normally has built a sukkah and must follow the davening by eating a pas gebrokts.”

Brilliant. Baruch Hashem someone remembers it’s still Adar.

“I cannot think of any other yom tov or chag where there seems to be so many variations of what was once a fairly prescribed routine.”

To be fair, tefillin on chol hamoed has nothing to do with Pesach specifically.

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