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ZD,

It is a tree hugging attitude to assign the ?????? about ?????? ??? to an issue of ??? ???? ????. Because that was never the halachic issue. It is dishonest to use this as proof as to what you may or may not do in using animals for food.

FYI, as most of us know, geese were never brought as ??????. What it does say in ???? ???? is ?? ?????? ??? ???? ???? ???? ?????? ?? ???? ??????? ??? ???? ?????? ???? ??????

So you see clearly that this is not a problem of ??? ???? ????.

And you also have the Gemarra that explains ????? ???? ??????. A tree higher would assert that it prohibited because of their misunderstood concept of ??? ???? ????. And they of course would not be in conformity with ultimate basis of what is moral, the Torah.

Like the misguided flock at HIR and their Rabbits who’s mislead them and try to replace the Torah with their own self defined phony moral code that is ????? ?????.

“I think there is a real debate if Foie Gras can ever been kosher because of the way the animals are treated even though it is a kosher animal”

That is utterly incorrect. The question is if they become treifos, not because of some tree hugging attitude.

The halachos of tzar baalei chayim do not change with the times. Almost all the complaints of tzar baalei chayim that all these radical vegetarians hock about are not halachic problems. Why don’t you look up in the Gemara how they used to do shechita of korbonos.

The Gemara talks about the change and tzar baalei chayim never enters the discussion.

“In other words, we light a bonfire to celebrate people who died working and supporting their families??”

Are you really that simple? Is that really how you read that?

I am sure if you tried, you can find a more rational relationship, not something that requires some ridiculous stretch of the imagination.

“He is the grandson of the late American gedol Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin z’tz’l”

But as anyone can tell you, he is not at all his grandfather, not in psak and not in hashkafah.

Generally, the crowd services by Yoatzot are not the ones heeding to the calls for tznius, so that claim is utterly bogus.

However, this is probably a good program because otherwise many of these feminists would completely abandon taharas hamishpacha. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

What is interesting to note is that only 56% of the Iranians that the Neturei Karta partnered with are anti Semites. On the other hand 100% of the “Rockland Clergy” group that Ari Hart aligned with in his hateful crusade ( he announced it in a church, the term is appropriate) against frum Jews are anti Semetic.

Seems that there is a temple in Riverdale that has to do some serious soul searching.

I had the displeasure of being in Manhattan today and I passed by where some group was have a rally, It was outside the Governor’s office in NYC. It is possible that since it right near the UN, that the Iranian embassy or consulate was somewhere in the vicinity as well.

The protest was supposed to a Holocaust remembrance event against Iran?!?

Anyhow, there were about 40 people there (and that is being generous), I think all thought they were going to speak.

You had the usual group of lunatics, such as Avi Weiss and Shmuely Boteach and some feminists yelling nonsense at the top of their lungs and then sticking around to sign autographs.

The NK group across the street had a better showing and were better behaved and making less of a chilul hashem.

Either way, I felt like going over and spitting on both of them, if it were not beneath me to do so in public and that they were still Jews and I, for one, would not spit on other Jews in public. (Not like Ari Hart, apparently. Let him write that up in Al-Jazeera)

“I read the article by ari & ari on soft matza.

I won’t say you’re a goy of you eat them.”

However, I might call you a cannibal.

PAA,

Lo shomanu is not a rayeh. I always remember being careful to eat the first kezayis in a the succah kday achilas pras, without hefsek.

As Akuperma said, it is because it is more difficult to eat a kezayis of matzo, and it is harder to gauge the shiur, that you hear more about it.

I believe that among those who wear tefilin on chol hamoed, when they lein kol habechor, they leave tefillin on through leining instead of removing before hallel that day.

In EY, almost no one wears tefillin on chol hamoed because they follow the hanhagos of the GR”A.

Is this the same Michael Broyde who was kicked off the Beit Din of America for manufacturing precedents in teshuvos?

That is whose heter you are relying on?

Oookayy.

ZD,

Not for fear of it becoming gebrochts. That is something you made up and added because you wanted a reaction. And it is not just chasidim, many Brisker do the same as well.

The single item that are most likely to be ??? are the matzos. Therefore they limit eating to the mitzvah. This a chumrah they accept for themselves. They do not force on anyone else.

You should be particularly happy since they spend very little on matzos because of the chumra.

Besalel,

I think a coffee may help you sober up or at least alleviate the effects of the kool ade you have been imbibing in.

“The only person I know of who held that refraining from gebrokts was a shtus was the Vilna Gaon.”

Where is this written?

ZD,

I asked a simple question. Where does it say it in the RSZA Haggadah? Do you know? Have you seen it?

All of which is really besides the point. Do you eat the ????? as it is brought in Haggadah of ????? ?

Do you even know how it says one should eat the ?????? And that is Halacha, not minhag.

ZD,

And your point is?

So RSZ”A did not have a minhag of gebrokts, or as it is called in the seforim, matzoh shruyah. And we also know that it was hard for him to chew when he was older.

Not everyone has the same minhagim if RSZA. And he never said it is a minhag shtus.

BTW, where in the Haggadah does it say that, I would like to read it myself.

“Potatoes can also be baked into bread.”

Quiet!!!! If the matir asurim of the month club finds out, they will permit bread, too!

Because otherwise the bread will feel that it was provided the same opportunities.

GAW,

No, I do not believe it is highly flawed, I believe it is exaggerated to help make the point easier to understand, but not flawed in it purpose.

As far as who is competent? Regardless of your disgusting comment about who is competent, there is no question by any sane individual, that Harcsztark is not competent to change halacha as codified by the Rema. You think his high school rebbe made him so or perhaps the board of the school?

Harcsztark’s whole letter publicized his own incompetence in psak to the whole world.

You will note that the it is the Rabbonim who are always listed as the gedolim of the Modern Orthodox communities, the ones that the centrist commenters bust a gut in their insistence that they should speak in Lakewood, who are the ones leading the protest.

So it does not have to be defined who is a competent authority because the only ones who are publishing/paskening to contrary are so clearly incompetent.

“He became a posek when he was hired by the SAR board”

That explains everything.

Which members of the are capable of making someone a posek? There is only ONE rabbi even listed as a board member and his whole claim to fame is Christianity. Perhaps that is why this p’sak came out.

And yes, that is just one of the reasons I would not send my children to SAR. Because of how they choose a posek, who is clearly not competent. That flies in the face of what we are charged with in the very first mishna in Avot.

And it plain idiocy to think that because he is the principal, he becomes a posek. They are very different roles. (And this stance of yours is quite hypocritical, considering how often the charge is leveled that RY cannot be poskim, even extended by your friends about R Shachter, when he came out so strongly against partnership minyanim)

“But he has surprised The Rav’s grandchildren, including Rav Twersky, with some of the things he heard directly from The Rav.” Agin. I see what R Shechter and R Twersky have publicly said, I have no reason to believe your anonymous attributions.

“Rabbi Hershel Schachter does not always follow Rav Soloveitchik either” But he will not say that that he is following R Soloveitchik when he does not. Which is what you are saying now. I trust R Shechter a lot more than you to say what is the derech of R Soloveitchik. Your comment is pointless.

“and himself ran with his wife and daughter a similar school in Massachusetts, the Maimonides school” The Maimonides School allowed girls to wear tefillin in school while R JBS was there? So how can you make such a redacted comparison?

ZD,

What are you even saying? You are not making sense.

ZD,

I like to clarify something which you seem to be missing, Chareidim are Jews as well. they certainly can be the target of anti-semitism. As far as I can tell from all comments posted even on the APP, the Mayor who is “Chareidi” as well as the previous mayors seemed to be well liked. The current mayor is a Major in the US Reserves. And he is very much Chareidi. As much as that thought disturbs you.

The issue seems to be that the public schools parents do not want any part of the school budget to go to private school children. Even though they are entitled to services under state mandates. And that is based in anti Semitism when you read the comments on the blogs. Even if a number of those comments are from less religious Jews.

Please the JP has long ago sold out to Yesh Atid.

I remember when they had on of Lipman’s foolish articles, where he wrote how he thinks the Yeshivos should change the way to learn. It was stupid thought then, and indicative as to his stance now. Which is undeniably to decrease limud hatorah.

He is an evil snake and the JP is one of his forked tongues.

ZD,

Sounds like you provide information to Sam Heilman.

I must say that the complaint raised here is probably one of the most inane complaints posted in the CR. And that takes quite a stretch.

PBA is right, this was lifted out of a ridiculous article in Tablet. It was silly there and it did not get any smarter on its trip to this site.

I have heard of times where yeshivos have children who they try to protect from their homes. Children who they have accepted and deal with even though they do not get paid and they are not typical. Those are children who, nebach, are in dysfunctional families. These are children who have to be protected from home. Every other instance and every other yeshivah very much work and understand that parents are more than just partners in teaching children and in school and life lessons.

If you find that the school is trying to keep your children from being influenced by the home, it is probably for a good reason. VDAL