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March 4, 2024 9:21 am at 9:21 am in reply to: Children are not here to “bring Nachas to their parents” #2265998pekakParticipant
The OP is correct. Parents should encourage their children to serve HaShem. How they choose to do so when they grow up is between the child and HaShem. I truly hope that ujm is just trolling as usual because that’s a recipe for disaster. Avira has it backwards. Some people need to find another way. Is Rav Mosheh Twersky Hy”d suffering in the olam haelyon because he abandoned YU and went to Brisk? Of course you believe that YU is problematic but his parents didn’t. Did he have a right to turn his back on his parents?
February 15, 2024 1:38 am at 1:38 am in reply to: Chris Christie – why can’t Jews rally around him? #2261457pekakParticipantI finally see some people answering the original question. Kashrus organizations are for the purpose of determining that the ingredients don’t contain foods and/or byproducts of the foods (fish/meats etc) enumerated in Torah shebeK’sav and Baal Peh to be impure/unfit (in the common vernacular “treif”) as well as basar b’cholov.
If you want to know what’s healthy see a doctor.
pekakParticipantHe also talks about the lofty neshamos of those who unfortunately go OTD but won’t condemn Footsteps.
pekakParticipantThis addictive train wreck was started as a blog reporting on what was going on in what’s colloquially known as the Yeshiva World.
January 1, 2024 9:04 pm at 9:04 pm in reply to: Is it assur to wish a goy a “Happy New Year”? #2250544pekakParticipantIt’s very much of religious significance to the goyim. The current “secular” calendar was actually set up by the Catholic church. The different versions are named for popes.
December 20, 2023 5:24 pm at 5:24 pm in reply to: Chofetz Chaim says bless those you don’t love, pray they see moshioch #2248301pekakParticipantThe original Neturei Karta had their own shita before Vayoel Moshe was written. They may overlap sometimes but neither one is dependant on the other.
October 29, 2023 7:36 am at 7:36 am in reply to: More Torah being Learned than ever, yet more Troubles #2235304pekakParticipantWe earn credits for all mitzvos. We don’t get to tell HKBH how to apply the credit.
October 20, 2023 7:13 am at 7:13 am in reply to: Pompadour hairstyle: why do our young men have this? #2233145pekakParticipantThey see theowback pictures of some of the biggest gedolim of the last 50 years and they figure that this specific hairstyle helped the gedolim become gedolim.
pekakParticipant@lakewhut
That’s not what they told us in NY at the time. We were doing Yom Kippur Kattan, fasting, saying tehillim every day (5 extra minutes from children’s “free time” lost forever) listening to mussar shmuessen, etc. The majority of Israelis were living it up.
Didn’t materialize? Do you know how big a SCUD missile is? The size of an 18 – wheeler! When they hit the ground they shattered every window and shutter 4 square blocks from impact. The SCUDs that actually got through completely demolished entire buildings. No zeicher. Just because they didn’t hit chareidi areas doesn’t mean the theeat didn’t materialize.
Here’s an excercise for people who don’t understand Israeli mentality. On the wall outside Beis Yisroel shtieblach there is a plaque memorializing people who got killed in the courtyard of the shul by shelling from the Arabs during the war in 1948. There are several names from the same family killed on different days. People went out the next day after their own brothers were just killed. They don’t think like you. Silly Americans freak out more than the Israelis.
pekakParticipant@lakewhut
You don’t know Israeli mentality..They don’t think like you. They don’t act like you.
pekakParticipantWhen I lived in the States I used to frantically call a cousin in EY every time I heard that there was an air raid siren (I even had an app to notify me of them). He didn’t know about most of them. That’s life here. Take it or leave it. During the Gulf War most of my friends got on with life.
pekakParticipantI guess the illustrious mods are neither divorced nor children of divorce. If the mods were they might read the thread differently.
I have witnessed enough to traumatize me. I ask again for what I’m missing. It can be a private post.
pekakParticipantThe nastiness shown here to the OP is beyond comprehension. A human being expressed true pain and the majority of the responders here chose to pour salt on her wounds. I recommend that the theead be deleted. Att: Mods Deleted, not closed.
Other than huju’s comment the negative comments were toward divorce, not the OP. The comments about the suffering of the children was exactly the OP’s point, but that she overcame it. If I missed something please let me know.
September 21, 2023 4:48 pm at 4:48 pm in reply to: Simchas Torah Minyan for Bnei Eretz Yisroel in Brooklyn #2227181pekakParticipantSuck it up. Put on Tefillin betzina. Go to Shul and celebrate when they celebrate. Lots of us have done it.
pekakParticipant@Coffee Addict
There are many people who should be divorced but stay miserable because of מזבח מוריד דמעות. I’m not ח”ו arguing on חז”ל, but do you think there are no דמעות when people are miserable?
pekakParticipantDivorce is a Torah solution to an untenable situation. Divorce is something that HKBH created. Most children of divorce know that as difficult as it is to be from a broken home, they’d be exponentially worse off if they’re parents had stayed together.
pekakParticipantYou’re stating your personal opinion that it’s not ideal to stay married. You’re not a Rabbi. There have been Rabbonim who have advised otherwise.
Eidim are NOT halachically allowed to accept payment.
pekakParticipantSeriously Mods. Please do something about the annoyances clogging up our once stimulating CR.
I feel your pain
pekakParticipantThe Alter Rebbe didn’t “succeed” the Mezritcher Maggid. He had his school of thought based on his understanding of what he was mekabel from the Maggid. There were other schools of thought.
1) Besh”t
2) Mezritch
3) Lizensk
4) Lublin
5) Yismach Moshe (Satmar descends from there).pekakParticipantCR and Mods should be removing users and posts that are exceptionally annoying. Users should be required to prove themselves capable of normal dialogue before being allowed to open new threads. I don’t know what @Commonsaychel did to deserve being trolled by a newbie.
pekakParticipantOP’s English needs a lot of help. I’m referring to basic spelling and using nonexistent words.
pekakParticipantContinuing from where you left off: They changed Lakewood. They wanted to be “close” to the Torah that they so revere, but they brought along all of their gashmius and in doing so they changed the entire Torah Shtetl. If you think differently you don’t remember Lakewood 40 years ago. I do.
August 14, 2023 10:22 am at 10:22 am in reply to: Shidduchim Between Litvish Girls and Chasidish Boys #2215855pekakParticipant“Litvish” Mesorah isn’t a thousand years old, you’re confusing it with minhag Ashkenaz that continues today almost exclusively by those whom we call with great affection “Yekkes”.
Both Litvish and Chassidish Mesoras are actually minhag Ashkenaz heavily influenced by others.
pekakParticipant@Sam Klein
I think this is the first time I agree with you. The proximity to “The City” made the problem. It’s irreversible.
pekakParticipantWealthy people who eat bread and butter will give the poor people sawdust.
pekakParticipantLakewood is no longer a Torah shtetl.
pekakParticipantYou’re providing journalistic commentary and I’m providing my real life experience. What I told you is exactly what I do. I pay for a seat that the “mammals” can’t overflow into. Even if it means an extended stopover because of the cost.
pekakParticipant“But this time I got a window seat. So it is marginally less stupid.”
So now you can be stuck between one or 2 “incredibly obese mammals” and a window and we’ll read about your childish complaining.
pekakParticipantIf you don’t want to be stuck between 2 incredibly obese mammals you can pay to choose your seat. If you insist on flying an airline that doesn’t allow seat selection (even for a price) it’s your own fault.
pekakParticipantToras Chochom is a shul, not a Yeshiva. Most of the people there don’t identify as Breslov. Breslover Torah is rarely mentioned regardless of Rav Morgenstern Shlita’s connection to Breslov.
June 15, 2023 7:45 pm at 7:45 pm in reply to: Chrstians claiming Rabbi wrote note naming Moshiach #2200272pekakParticipant“Yeshu” Hanotzri as he was referred to by Yidden is Roshei Teivos Y’emach SH’emo V’ezichro.
When Js for X realized that they changed it to Yeshua. There is no source claiming that he was ever named Yehoshua.
pekakParticipantWhat Yeshiva?
pekakParticipant@ Neville
Your words on the issue (comment #2190287)
“It makes no sense to say it’s a chumrah. If it’s mutar, it’s due to pikuach nefesh (the hospitals need electricity), if it’s assur then it’s chillul Shabbos.”
pekakParticipant@Neville
Was the Chazon Ish the only posek in his time? I think not.
May 10, 2023 9:14 am at 9:14 am in reply to: Is “The” Yeshiva world news” some sort of Instagram? #2189083pekakParticipantWhere do all the news sites get all their information? Do you really think they all have people roaming the streets with notepads?
pekakParticipantLos Angeles has a chassidishe kollel, though I don’t know how people deal with the cost of living there.
Veitzen – Chicago also has a chassidishe kollel.
pekakParticipantThere are certainly people like those you speak of. If you alienate them you are also alienating their children. The best you can do is ignore them. Like ChaZa”l say
דע מה שתשיב לאפיקורס, הני מילי לאפיקורס עכו”ם
משא”כ באפיקורס ישראל דפוקר טפי
pekakParticipantSo @AviraDeArah holds that people whose heart’s aren’t “in the mitzvos” should stop doing them entirely?
pekakParticipant“Unfortunately, not everyone will be zoiche to techiyas hamaisim.”
Are you G-d? Are you privy to His decision making?
pekakParticipantWhat does stay in “galut” mean? Galus and Geula are facts, irrespective of location.
March 28, 2023 12:26 pm at 12:26 pm in reply to: Lessons Learned from the False Arrest of the Innocent Tzadik in Flatbush #2177744pekakParticipantPost #2177396
“Yay.
Hopefully, the chasid has learned the very important lesson of not touching other people’s children for any reason.”
March 27, 2023 6:03 pm at 6:03 pm in reply to: Lessons Learned from the False Arrest of the Innocent Tzadik in Flatbush #2177554pekakParticipantWho exactly was chassidish in this very Flatbush story?
pekakParticipantThe bigger question is, how does a person who doesn’t know the halachos well enough do teshuva for deciding to be machmir on himself or somebody else with sometimes horrible consequences.
pekakParticipantWhat is a “remnant holdover”? If I eat a “remnant holdover” must i use “mayim achronim vasser” even if I didn’t have to wash netilas yadayim before eating?
February 14, 2023 11:34 am at 11:34 am in reply to: Quick Quote about Older Singles from Rabbi Zelig Pliskin #2165713pekakParticipantAll bullies throughout history meant it l’shem shamayim.
גם כי יזקין לא יסור ממנה
“Interventions” are not a Jewish concept.
February 13, 2023 9:12 am at 9:12 am in reply to: Quick Quote about Older Singles from Rabbi Zelig Pliskin #2165267pekakParticipantPenina had the same opinion as you. She did what she did l’shem shamayim. She lost everything.
February 12, 2023 2:09 pm at 2:09 pm in reply to: Quick Quote about Older Singles from Rabbi Zelig Pliskin #2165192pekakParticipantPenina had 7 sons, Chana had none. Finish the story…
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