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The feminists only learn on shavuos night and the non-feminists learn every night besides shavuos.
“I consider myself an Orthodox Jew.”
What does this mean? Since your conversion, have you always kept shabbos and kashrus? Did you do anything when you were 13?
How old were you when your mom converted?
bava metzia 84b- you see that only bitul torah was docheh what he was trying to do.
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The OP seems like a tzadik and the topic is bitul zman on the thread below.
yehudayona +1
What good is going to come out of this thread?
$40 a month per kid?
Many people cant afford to put away $40-50 a month per kid every month for 20 years. More realistically, even if many people did do this, if the family is tight that money would be used up way before 20 years because of some medical emergency, needing to pay rent, needing to leave a rent deposit, needing to get some sort of car- no matter how junky, needing to see a dentist- the list goes on an on. You are living in a world that many people would consider fantasy with your 20 year at $40 a month technique.
I force myself to take a shower once a year at a minimum, whether I need one or not.
golfer: “I happen to know for a fact that some people enjoy cigars.”
Few! I thought you were going to say you only have substantial evidence that some people enjoy cigars, but you lacked enough data to prove it as fact.
“there’s a whole long list of reasons why the takanos idea (of limiting wedding costs) just never took hold.”
What is this so called “long list of reasons?”
syag- accroding to you these people are still being lifnei iver on lo sachmod. according to me though lo sachmod does not mean that you should not what others have for yourslef also, it means that you should not want their personal items. So its a lose – lose either way you look at it.
Dont take it out on the couple, Rabbonim should refuse to be mesader kiddushin at very expensive weddings and bans should be placed on expensive weddings.
I have been to weddings where they had personal cigar rollers, I have been to weddings where everything was so fancy that the couple could not afford to invite their own extended family members who wanted to come, they paid for all these expensive things over their own family members who could have came if they just had it at a more affordable place- its disgusting
The whole concept that its fine for people to buy very fancy things as long as they give tzedka is mamish wrong. How do they not realize the pressure it puts on others.
You do realize if race played no role in marriage, there would be no white people, asians, blacks etc. everyone would be one bland color- sounds kind of boring to me.
People are not racist if they dont date you because you are black, green or purple. Many ashkenazim refuse to date sefardim and visa versa. Some people like yellow cars, some people like blue cars. Are they shallow, possibly, it all depends on the situation.
“Jews in Banking and Wall Street got the blame”
No they didnt you are talking about some youtube posters. No serious political figure blamed the Jews. There is zero chance of a Nazi-like dictatorship starting in the US. In Nazi Germany, anti-semitism had been brewing in Europe for a very long time, and there was very little cultural diversity in terms of percentage of the population.
No- this is not possible in any reasonable sense. The chances are so infinitesimal of this happening in our lifetimes in the US. With ever increasing cultural diversity and technology that allows for transparent communication and education.
The bigger threat, though extremely unlikely, is the US becoming more like communist Russia than Nazi Germany, where a militant atheism could gain power and prevent mitzvos if they have a even a tiny sliver of intellectual appeal, i.e. shechting will be banned because its painful to animals and a bris mila will be banned because the baby does not have a choice in the matter.
“Can the person caring for the person use the Kosher Light Switch and feel good that they are not violating any of the hilchos Shabbos?”
Poskim wont change the tzurah of shabbos in order to prevent people from being over a lav or to ease their emotional discomfort- better to tell them the right thing to do over and over again and hope they change- appose us changing for them. A rov needs to be consulted for the questions of hospitals and the like. From what I have learned and heard, there is essentially no place for the kosher switch in our homes.
We see that the rabonim created a tzurah of shabbos- we should have the table set nicely, light candles, drink the meal over wine, we cannot ride on a horse because we “may break a twig”- the underlying reason is the rabbis did not want people’s shabbos to look like a weekday and riding on a horse and the like would ruin the tzurah. Its not only what is technically permitted that matters. The kosher switch has both very real melacha issues and zilzul issues and I dont see it having any place in the Jewish home now or in the future.
that doesn’t mean the laws of nature are fake, it means Hashem overrides them in a miraculous way for some people.
rabenu chananel says that the grama does not work if its the way its usually used. its intended purpose is to make something happen- thats what its made for- this is called meiseh, so I dont get the entire concept. Many times poskim will be meikel for cholim- how can you apply this to everyone when we are dealing with a chiuv kares according to rabenu channanel?
be joyful: “a very depressed person is allowed to take depresson pills”
you just said in another thread that medicine is 100% fake
taka: He basically said college was all about trying new things and finding out who you really are, came from a MO background.
“but also for personal fulfillment” tell him to learn torah and do mitzvos- it will also be a lot cheaper.
I think a bigger problem is not that people mamish go off the derech from college- but they sacrifice all of their learning time for it and between that and davening 3 times a day they have no time to learn. The only learning they end up doing is the 5 min google search for a halachic issue that comes up or a brief glance at a daf yomi. Most talmudic skills are lost within 4 years after Israel.
what do you mean? how does that answer the problem of people not being able to eat because they cant buy food or cant afford to see a dentist? because someone took a humanities course and went off the derech means someone else with a solid foundation should be somech on a nes or starve?
Can you please copy and paste the answer you are referring to.
One thing I will never forget from my first year in college (in all honesty one of the few things I remember), in a seemingly innocent psych course- one young man came in the beginning wearing a keepa, at the end of the course he stopped wearing it. The professor kept going off on tangents having nothing related to the course material how silly and contentious religion is and about this woman who was suffering from being brought up orthodox.
“There is no doubt that if the standard of living were lower, the nisyonos would be lower…Chazal had an idea: pas b’melach tochal. ”
I agree that many, many people should lower their standard of living- there is no need to become a fancy lawyer or doctor in order to make 200k per year and work 24/7 when you have 2 kids.
But what about the people who can only afford food to eat if nothing happens to their car, and if they have to fix their car, they dont eat, if they dont fix their car, they dont work, and hence they dont eat. what about the people who can barely afford rent? who dont eat every day or only eat pasta in order to pay rent. The people who sit in pain day after day because they cant afford to see a dentist. These are just the basics- cant lower it more than that.