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Why does the average bachur in BMG (or any yeshiva for that matter) need a cell phone, even without texting capability?

??? What?

Why does you need a cell phone?

Mod 80, Why would that be “unfortunate?” It allowed you to go to medical school and add one more frum doctor to the community.

Can I presume correctly that while in yeshiva, this was the explanation you gave to your rav?

If I wanted to go to medical school, I would tell my rav why I wanted to go. I wouldn’t make up stupid reasons.

I’m also not sure I would ask a rav. Unless I had some shaila about it. Whether or not to go, in a vacuum, seems like it would just be my personal preference and career ambitions.

What does TOMO stand for?

TOrah, Modern Orthodoxy.

(I think it stands for Toras Moshe)

Hmmmm.

Now will Joseph tell us whether Jothar was ever moser modaah on future modaos.

And will Wolf please tell us if being moser modaah makes you a moser.

Anyway, can you have Terms of Service? Where is the kinyan?

I agree that we are only judged according to what we are capable of, and getting angry when your kids make you mad, is really not the worst thing I’ve heard of.

At the same time, I would think you need to ask mechila, even if G-d really isn’t going to count it against you.

For example, imagine you tell lashon hara about someone and ruin their marriage. Imagine it was in a way that it was assur, but it was so hard that there really can’t be a complaint against you (like maybe you were so mad about something and it was in a fit of rage that wasn’t your fault). I still think you better apologize.

So again. It is hard to not get mad at your kids, and it is probably not very high on your aveira list. But if you hurt someone, you should apologize.

Who said I don’t ask my kids mechila?

Ah yes, and the fourth group is our dear Dr. Hall.

We can expand it and say academia.

I will denigrate academia a different time, when I don’t have to be insulting Dr. Hall.

How are they any crazier than the originals? I understand the karaites being worse because of the other nonsense they tacked onto it, but why do you dismiss today’s chevra so easily?

I thought you were talking about the karaites. Who are you talking about?

AFAIK the conservative Committee has not touched shechita yet. You can email them and ask what they hold about shechita.

Good, so email them and ask if they hold that every jew is required to only eat properly shechted meat. And while you’re at it, if they hold of all the rema’s chumros of shehiya bmiut basra, and the rest.

I am aware there are conservative jews who won’t eat non kosher meat, but that is way different from the tzedukim where the entire movement actually had uniform standards, which they held were incumbent. (And like I say, I doubt any conservative jew if shechting himself would be makpid on shehiya b’miut basra.)

I think his point is that there is little logical reason to differentiate between a Tzeduki and a Conservative for this.

You mean for shechita?

That is ridiculous. The tzedukim believed they were required to shecht the same way we do it. The conservative don’t. So that is a pretty good reason to differentiate.

Re the halacha being to trust tzeduki shechita: what changed? We no longer trust shechita of people with those de’os.

They changed. The ones who still “hold” of that deah are a bunch of kookoos.

I’m responding to the previous post about how the perushim went to the beis hamikdosh even when the tzedukim were in charge.

The mishna says they used to stone the tzeduki kohanim with their esrogim if they did the avoda wrong.

He also sold us out on health care. The biggest scam since global warming.

No, I haven’t read the sridei eish one.

I have to say, I didn’t like the tone, but it was a great read.

When I lein, I try to make the words as short as possible, and swallow the long words and syllables, because I don’t want to be talking during leining, and want it to be as little as possible.

I’d take biden over Obama any day of the week. Biden is your classic old time democrat liberal. Obama is absolutely nuts.

I’m sure Popa is wondering how they can count non-Jews for a minyan!

I can’t think of a funny reply, but this is noted.

Yes, you’d need to wear gloves so aren’t also washing your hands.

So an egalitarian minyan is a minyan without a mechitza, where the women count toward the minyan and can do all the roles?

The other Bar is my younger brother, and I’d appreciate if you didn’t agree with him over me.

Can we delete the “who is Rabbi Abady” question? Last time it was discussed nothing good happened.

Hmmm. I don’t remember that. Can someone link it?