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I dunno. What does the halacha say?
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Of course you cannot feel a stare. However, we do develop an intuition for the type of circumstances when it is likely that someone would be staring at you.
Thus, if you are walking up the stairs and someone is following behind you, it is pretty likely they are staring at you. Because for those 15 seconds, you are the only thing to look at besides for stairs, and stairs are even less interesting than you are.
Popa
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more_2: I don’t find that story funny.
Ok, so I still disagree with the article, but I do agree with the email.
Also, the article is flat out wrong. There is no presumption that there is only one person in the world for you to marry, and that if someone doesn’t marry you that proves it wasn’t meant to be. That is simply wrong.
Dr. Jessica Jacob at Northshore LIJ
An easy solution is to put the women in a different level than the men. If the women were in the upper deck, it would be considered a mechitza, wouldn’t it?
which is exactly the proof that this story is probably false or overblown, and that they are not making stupid decisions.
I’m sure there are ways to set up a mechitza without sinking poles into the concrete. the story was a joke.
I thought the story about that was satire. It couldn’t possibly cost a quarter million dollars to put up a mechitza.
And you are correct, there would probably be no need since you could just use different sections of the stands which are unconnected.
But, as far as your contention that it isn’t “halachicly necessary,” I don’t really understand why you think that only things which are “halachicly” necessary can be a good idea. There are plenty of gemaras which say that it is a good idea to do all sorts of things which are not “halachicly” necessary. In fact, I can recall a case where a beis din was mechayev someone to pay something that was not halachicly required.
I do not agree with that article. you don’t say what the email said, so I don’t know if I agree with it either.
squeak: Would you need an eruv in a hotel, or would we say is is all reshus hayachid of the hotelier?
I’m talking about letting your children make their own choices (within reason of course) and let them come to understanding the beauty of Torah on their own.
I’m not sure what you are advocating. You say to let your kids make their own choice about Judaism, but then qualify it by saying “within reason.” Well, if you only let them choose “within reason,” then what choice is there?
(Full disclosure: I think that kids always have a choice about Judaism, whether or not you want to allow it to them.)
I agree with you that a person should make the choice his own, and not simply drift along with it, but I don’t know what your suggestion is about that.
I’m in charge of the putting. First people to go are anyone who hasn’t laughed at my yom kippur thread.
“Or are you saying that people who grow up frum should think about life and Judaism, and make a personal connection with it? I do that all the time.”
Yes. But what I was trying to say was that I don’t think that someone who has always been totally frum and always dedicated to being a Shomer Torah and Mitzvos could ever really appreciate Judaism in its entirety. They have only tasted Torah. That’s all they know.
That sounds to me like a different point. It sounds now like you are saying we cannot know how special it is to be frum.
That doesn’t bother me. Does it bother you?
And what does that have to do with choices? I thought you were saying that we are not properly serving Hashem because we haven’t made a choice–to which I responded that I have made a choice.
There is a rule of trolling, that you cannot preface a post by saying it is not intended to be lashon hara.
Once I was staying a hotel in Salt Lake, like a moron, for shabbos that only had electronic locks.
The rabbi I asked suggested that we leave the door unlocked, but said that if we get locked out, we can ask the hotel staff to let us in.
We put the apikorsim behind it.
ok, ok, I read this thread now. (Or at least the OP).
So, what are you trying to say? That anyone who grows up frum should go spend a few months experiencing all that issur has to offer and then decide if he wants to come back, like the Amish do?
Or are you saying that people who grow up frum should think about life and Judaism, and make a personal connection with it? I do that all the time.
I didn’t see it until later, and when I did see, it wasn’t immediately apparent to me what the joke was.
I think the concept is funny. I’m not sure why I didn’t think it was so funny.
Sorry. Sometimes mine bounce also. Then I bump them until I get validation. It helps to dedicate the joke to a certain poster, because then they feel obligated to appreciate it.
I’ve never heard of blazes oberlander
Wolf: I assumed the question was asking about when you are not working also, like on sunday.
I don’t know the answer to this question. I still dress like I did in yeshiva, and sometimes I stand out a bit, but I don’t care.
Is it for Americans? Are you considering it? There are plenty of opportunities here for vocational training, including haskalla school.
And the women don’t even know tzena urena anymore!
Dachtzuch mir, that I’ve never met a social worker who wasn’t socially awkward.
You know the joke about when yeshiva guys daven at a baalabatishe minyan…
…They come late, leave early, and complain that davening is too fast.
Sorry squeak. I haven’t been completely following this thread. I really just popped in to make my tax point, and then also made another point.
Here’s your validation: “validation.”
Also, I’m not feeling so validated on the two troll threads I opened yesterday.
Hey, BTguy: I need validation. Please come back and say: “Popa knows so much about tax. He must be a taxidermist.”
Feif: When you talk about separate seating, are you talking about in your house, or at a large communal meal like a wedding or dinner.
The story of the chofetz chaim seems to be a meal in his house. What information do you have about what they did in Europe for large communal meals?
I also don’t really see how anyone could have a problem with it. To state: “there is absolutely no reason for it”, would be utter foolishness.
To say that it causes very much hardship or discomfort is also foolishness.
So maybe they didn’t do it 50 years ago. They also had mixed dancing at shul dinners 50 years ago. Big deal.
Besides, why is the relevant time 50 years ago? Why don’t you ask whether they had mixed seating in the time of the gemara? Like the gemara which says that men who teach young children are suspect because the mothers come and pick them up from school.
Those who fail to understand, or who fail to see the difference between this and polygamy – go find something else to do.
Gimme a break. Of course there is no difference. I don’t know why people pretend there is; if you think both are fine- just say so.
how much of the population supports gay marriage?
So now it goes by what percentage of the population supports it? Ok, what percentage of the population supported allowing marriage between a white person and a black person, 20 years ago?
BTGuy:
Ok fine. You are ignoring two taxes which are very relevant.
1. The Capital Gains tax. We can bicker about how much the KG (capital gains) rate should be, but you can’t simply ignore that it exists.
2. The Corporate Tax. If I invest 1000 dollars in a company which I own, and the company makes 100 dollars, the company pays 35 dollars in tax and is now worth 1065, and then I also pay tax when I either take the other 65 out, or sell my company for 1065. There is a machlokes among the economists regarding who bears the burden of this tax ultimately, for reasons I don’t entirely understand. But again, you cannot simply ignore it.
When I said you cannot spend money without paying tax, I was referring to the income tax-not to the sales tax. I meant that by the time you have the cash, you must have paid either income tax or KG.
Regarding the companies who have international earnings, you are again only referring to the corporate tax. And, who says we should tax companies that are doing business outside the country? Just because they are headquartered in Delaware? And what if most of the investors are also international?
Yarlmukes shrink. You always buy a bigger one than your old one, because your old one was really bigger before it shrank. Also, you only have one. And if you lose it, then you’re a goy.
along with all those billionaires who do not “take a salary” and avoid income taxes
Yeah, you’ve been watching the news. That isn’t really true, but I don’t have the strength to explain it right now. It is quite amazing how the media has no problem publishing misleading stories like that, though.
You may rest assured, that it is impossible to spend any money without having paid taxes on it.
I just want to point out that this whole tax business is utter garbage. Married couples today are much more likely to get a tax penalty than a tax benefit, because they both work.
See, there are 4 tax schedules: http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/www/t26-A-1-A-I-1.html
As you can see, single individuals are treated the worst.
So imagine Bob makes 53,500, and Jane makes nothing. If they don’t get married, then Bob pays 12,107 in taxes. But if they get married, then together they only pay 10,183. That is the marriage benefit.
But, imagine that Bob makes 53,500 and Jane also makes 53,500. If they live together unmarried, then each pays 12,107 in taxes, for a total of 24,214 for the two of them. But if they get married, then they have income together of 107,000 and pay in taxes 25,698.50 which is more than they would pay together if they were unmarried. And that is the marriage penalty.
Most households today are two earner households, and have the marriage penalty. Interestingly if you live in a state that recognizes gay “marriage,” you don’t get the marriage penalty since the feds don’t recognize it.
That is a good point, and I stand corrected.
I should say that nobody is going to convince me by merely asserting it.
I should also say that the question is not about if they are “gadol” but if they are someone I should not argue with and criticize.
I don’t really think the gadol question is worth discussing. Nobody is going to convince me that anyone on the roundtable cast is a gadol.
But I would like to mention that I didn’t call anyone a clown. If you look at that post, you will see that I said “at worst clowns.”
DOH: As Logician said, this thread is on the premise that the punishment is intended to embarrass, as that is the question that was asked.
Also, we have already discussed, that it is impossible that the point is simply to send to a quiet or different place, since if so you would just as likely send to an older classroom.