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So if I take fins and scales and implant them on a treifa fish, does that make it kosher?
If you put lipstick on a fish, it’s still smells.
The Rema was alive when Jews first started eating turkey.
I like turkey.
100 years after the Chanukah Story the Greeks were insignificant, it was the Romans who were the world power
yah yah, the story in the end of sotah is how the romans got into yerushalayim, and it was because there was an old dude inside who knew greek and yelled down to them to send up a pig.
That’s fine… but then it’s not a matter of being a mesorah on the bird, it’s a matter of the bird having a certain set of properties (just as with a mammal or fish) and any new bird we find with that same set of properties would also be kosher, even if there was no mesorah for it.
Well, actually, the current minhag of ashkenazim according to the rema is to require a mesorah on birds. So no, even if we found another bird with the precise same set of properties (simanim, which are listed in the shulchan aruch), we could not eat it.
I curious to know how a you could have a mesorah for an animal that you never knew existed.
The turkey is a famous question. No need to reinvent the wheel here.
My favorite answer is that it was discovered and decided kosher according to the simanim shortly before the minhag began to only use mesorah on birds.
The bison is also a famous question. My favorite answer is we hold you don’t need a mesorah on beheimos. Alternatively its the same animal as a cow.
Chazal Assered Greek culture 100+ years after the Chanukah story as a direct response to something that happened.
yah yah, because of the end of sotah.
I think the feminine form of rasha is rashanta
someone clearly went to a modernishe high school that teaches dikduk.
I don’t know if binding, but definitely a good idea. Otherwise you’ll probably end up with people treifing your house, and you treifing other people’s houses.
You aren’t even marrying them! Why are you preventing other girls from finding these guys after telling us how good they are?
rasha.
hh should have said “nearly universal,” but it was implied. Not sure why Wolf missed the obvious implication–must be off his game.
Would the holy Chasam Soifer, Igros Moshe, Noda B’Yehuda etc. etc. allow a Baptist minister in the beis medrash?
Didn’t the church used to force us to have have the priest darshan in shul? I think so.
I’m a chef. Last night I made food.
I personally have dated two Chofetz Chaim boys who were taking Landers classes; both of them were serious learners, not yeshivish, mentschen, and well-rounded intellectually. Trust me, they were not using overly yeshivish lingo.
What are their names?
many things people say are Halchas are actually Chumras or hashkafas
And vice versa.
Pacific Torah Institute. It’s right around the corner from one of the places you might be posting from, right on Oak and 41st!
(IOW, what’s your geographical requirement?)
Trump.
I picked an ordinary Catholic high school near me, Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers. Current tuition is $8,500/year. By comparison, the Yeshiva University High School for Boys charges $24,590/year plus some mandatory fees.
Are you not aware that the church subsidizes catholic schools? Really? You didn’t know that?
Very strange oversight.
So a perfectly stupid thread about MO has turned into an asinine thread about charlie.
I’ve never heard it claimed that full tuition is intended to equal that amount, until reading this thread.
How do you figure annual budget – including cost of the building or not?
There’s a whole chochma of accounting, and they’ve figured this stuff out.
You amortize the cost of capital assets over their expected usable life.
you can pay me $500 an hour to be plumber or electrician etc… i still wouldn’t be successful cause i don’t enjoy doing these things.
I’d take it and spend 200 a week on therapy until I liked it.
Definitely would first need a degree in PT.
I have reviewed financials of private schools that charge in the upper 40,000 per student and still receive contributions and are netting (not gross, net) 8-10 million a year and have reserves and endowments of many millions. But this not the case for any of the yeshivas I’ve seen. Any one that actually showed a net gain for the year was based on donations tiding them over. And the gains were not huge and for the most part were used for buildings and he like which are not expensed as spent.
I don’t think we’re talking about the same numbers.
I’m saying if you take the annual budget (say, 1.5 million), and divide it by the number of kids (say, 200), then you get the amount it costs to educate each kid in that school (in my example based on nothing, 7500).
In that example, based on nothing, I would categorically refuse to pay more than 7500 per kid.
Do you insist the school operate at a non profit or do you believe they are entitled to operate at a profit?
Not sure what you mean by that. I’m not aware of any yeshiva day school which is run as a business for profit and the owner takes home the equity interest. They’re all run as nonprofit organizations which means that any extra they make over what they spend stays inside the organization.
@popa_bar_abba: You may not realize but there is in fact a lot of work being done behind the scenes.
Maybe. But it’s outrageous to charge girls to meet with you without you promising to do anything.
It really costs full list price to educate your children. The poor children’s subsidy is coming from donors not other parents.
That’s what you say. I’ve seen numbers to the contrary.
When my kids are in school, I’m going to categorically refuse to pay more than the school’s annual budget divided by the number of kids.
Then, if I can afford, I’ll consider the school a tzedaka priority. And at least I’ll get a tax benefit.
I recently heard a girl complain “I wouldn’t pay a penny to meet a shadchan”, really? why not?? does the shadchan owe you anything to spend hours and hours to try to find you someone–do you know of anyone that works for free??
Do you know anyone who charges to meet with you and doesn’t promise to actually do any work for you after that?
Like for example recruiters? No.
Most people with non-government jobs earning remotely in the range required to pay tuition if you aren’t a rebbi.
mishmar is a “watch”, and in the people who take a turn standing guard. Idea is you are taking the night watch to learn while everyone else is at work.
Okay, I can’t prove to you it was such for “thousands” of years. Would hundreds of years make you happier?
You don’t even know how they were done for hundreds of years. You have “many maiselach.”
And I’ll note that having the parents agree at the age of 3 is NOT what the chassidim are doing now today, so are you suggesting beshows, or are you suggesting agreeing at the age of 3?
And that’s the way it was for thousands of years in Jewish life.
You’re making that up. You have no idea what it was for thousands of years.
Let’s try this: Do you think there are cultural differences which would make beshows a much worse idea for Litvish families than for chassidish families?
After adjusting for the cultural difference defined as that they do beshows and we don’t?
If I’m reading you correctly, you buy in to the classic Litvish thinking that chassidim have worse marriages than Litvaks.
No. I just also don’t buy into the “outsider idealizing” that they all have perfect marriages. Some of them have terrible marriages, just like us.