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“You buy a lotto ticket knowing the odds are so slight, but you say, “Hey, it’s only a dollar to play!”
but if Hashem wants you to win the odds are not so slight anymore, Hashem can cause the number you picked to be drawn. Perhaps it was destined the number you picked was to be drawn since the beginning of time. So it still allows for hope. (note* Im not saying you should or should not play the lottery).
thanks for hearing my point.
For some, waiting for moshiach fills the same role as buying that 1 lottery ticket with a possible 100 million dollar pay off- it gives us the happiness of hope and the pleasure of fantasy. I know a popular saying is that one of the keys to hapiness is always have something to hope for- no matter what you may already have. maybe thats what Hashem intended. That the gift of the moshiach is as much before he comes as after.
Its funny while listening to some of the lectures of Rabbi Kahane on youtube (someone recommended him in another thread for debating dennis prager), in a different lecture he responds to someone in the audience asking him about rumors that moshiach is going to come in 2 years from that time (then 1986). He basically says someone who doesn’t think moshiach is coming soon in this special time is blind- 29 years have since passed. This very well can be a special time- but the period of transition might be a lot longer and gradual than we think.
i have also heard rumors about this for many years now, as did my grandparents before me and their grandparents before them. I am not saying moshiach is not on the way and hope he is! but the fact is throughout Jewish history after every tragedy these rumors are amplified.
I find it is in particular people who are not happy with their own lives that are obsessed with moshiach coming any day now. I hope they are right. But in terms of dreams, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard non-Jews dreaming about JC coming to them and telling them things.
we can only hope, but should one quit their day job and use all their savings to move to eretz yisroel? probably not the best idea. As a great rov once said, you should not want moshiach to come for yourself, since this will limit how much you can live with mesiras nefesh. you should only want him to come as a sacrifice for the sake of the world seeing a kidush Hashem.
“How common is it that the klal, or parts thereof, follow other shittas where it differs from the Chofetz Chaim?”
all the time, especially {name censored} from Passaic who talks lashon hara non-stop about {name censored} from Cedahurst how much of a ganaf he is since he stole all that money from that nebuch…..
Francorachel3: “There are no statistics when it comes to Frum people. Hashem tailor makes each jew’s situation, and no studies or statistics are relevant when it comes to what Hashem feels is right for each person.”
Very well said, the best comment I have read on here.
What if I stain my shirt friday night? Can i throw it in the washing machine/dryer with this type of device, and have it ready by shabbos morning? can i use it to turn the air conditioner on and off? can i use it to grind up coffee grinds and to brew a nice cup of coffee in the morning? can i use it to turn my digital photo album on and off?
theroshyeshiva: rov rosen not only basically condemns the device but even the man/company who is making it as dishonest!. I hope this does not become main stream. its the same concept as leaving a tv on for shabbos.
“I don’t see the downside to putting these in your home for those just in case moments or to prevent accidentally flicking the switch.”
The downside is they will be used regularly even not by accident. better flick a real switch once by accident than use these every shabbos.
“and the reason women are better off is because they’re married”
That’s my point for people like you- to say that women are better off because they are married is not proven by this study (though is most often true anyway). It’s that women usually are better off staying married once already married than getting divorced- not that women are better off marrying in the first place opposed to never marrying. Anyways, there are new studies every day, I personally think these studies on meaningless on a practical level for individual people.
Can I ask, what online college and what does he want to get out of it (i.e. do for a living)?
a lot of it has to do with money. loosing most of your money in court battles over a bad business deal will also give you a higher rate for heart attacks. correlation does not prove causation.
what if you use an old smart phone, with no wifi availability. i could not imagine at this point going somewhere and not having tanach and shas literally at my fingertips. have to run, sorry if i dont reply for a while.
sirvoddmort: If you dont use it for the internet and only certain finance apps, email and torah apps- what is the problem? You are not going to see shmutz.
“The Rebbi told him that it was like putting a piece of matzah into a dish full of Chometz – not only does the Chometz not become Kosher LePesach, but it actually makes the Matzah chometz too.”
This is nice and all but at the end of the day it is only your rabbis opinion. I need a smart device for work, so yes I would need either a smart phone or tablet anyway. But to say that smart phones are not suitable for most people, especially younger people, and therefore no one should have one, is not pashut in my opinion. Especially if it has a filter.
I think splitting your learning time and working time in half is a thankless job, though not a job per-say. But since you spend half your time learning you do not get the benefit of standing out at work, getting rich or having a prestigious career and since you work half the time also you are not considered a kollelman and do not get the recognition of being a serious learner and might have a harder time in shidduchim.
sam2: “The party is celebrating their being together as a couple. It’s not explicitly (or even implicitly, nowadays) celebrating a Maaseh Aveirah.”
Sometimes we have to use our common sense. Two men bepharhesya getting married under a chuppa is a public support of toeva. It used to be people were ashamed to do this in public. That’s what they aim to change.
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I have a 100% searchable tanach+Rashi+shas on my smartphone. I use it all the time. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to stay in yeshiva all day surrounded by sforim.
There is a halacha saying you should not laugh at women cleaning
it should be noted that the store memories pizza went from having 2 reviews to over 500 hate reviews by these people.