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Ubiquition, I think we’re on the same page. You can feel free to keep on champing at the bit if you want.

Menchie, I distinguished from hatzala in my very first post on this thread. I don’t know why you are so anti hatzala, but you can always join ezras noshim if it’s itching you so much.

Or, could drive some of the girls OTD.

I mean, more than we already do. It feels like we try harder with boys to drive them OTD (probably to reduce competition for paying kollels), and maybe that’s the real problem that causes age gap.

Ok, so a couple fit my narrative. All y’all ok with R’ Akiva Eiger calling you achzarim?

Is it muttar to answer questions on litigation strategy on shabbos? Or to answer questions on corporate law?

The problem with you folk is you get so hung up on defending your uncle’s brother’s friend who is a doctor, that you can’t see your right elbow from your left ear. Forget that, you probably can’t even touch your right elbow to your left ear.

Here’s the bottom line. It is totally accepted that doctors do residencies and shifts that require them to treat shabbos like a regular day, even though there is zero pikuach nefesh need for them to do that. And while I’m sure they’re correct that it’s muttar min hadin, it is definitely wrong.

And it’s a bushah on the frum medical profession that they let it happen. Consider that no other profession has allowed their work to intrude on shabbos, even in ways that are probably muttar. Would it be assur for a biglaw lawyer’s associate to come to their house, and show them some changes in a document, and then go execute based on his advice? I don’t know–I bet there is something they could do that would be muttar. But every other profession drew a hard line around shabbos, and didn’t go looking for heterim.

And then there are the people who agree that there is something wrong with it, but won’t discuss it. They won’t raise the topic themselves, and will tell anyone who raises it that they are being a hyperbola or a hypotenuse so that they can shut down the discussion (instead of just discussing it minus the quadratic equation, because they trying to bury it). What drives those people? If the internet had existed in the time of the gemara, would it say tov sheb’internet l’gehenom?

Aside: All you arguing with the gemara are basically kofrim. If you don’t like what it says, too blasted bad. It’s the gemara. You should try learning it someday, and maybe you could have made a siyum today on baba basra.

Ubiquitin:

Am I correct, or incorrect, that most frum doctors do not do a shomer shabbos residency, and do not even try to?

Wow, and Dr. Nat manages to take an internet discussion to the level of advocating letting someone die, who he has never met.

If I were to generalize, I would now say that all doctors are sociopaths, but I have no proof that Dr. Nat is in fact a doctor. Probably a phlebotomist.

Oh, now we’re calling it a “challenge.”

Like, it’s very hard to not talk lashon hara, or to not have kaas, or to have kavana during davening. It’s challenge. We all try to work on our challenges.

Yeah, it’s a “challenge” to not take a residency which means you won’t keep shabbos for the next 3 years.

Amen!

The bottom line is that if you become a doctor, you will probably no longer keep shabbos. Whether that is muttar or not, you can ask your rabbi. But it’s not shabbos.

And no, it is way different from for example being in hatzala where you regularly do melacha on shabbos for specific pikuach nefesh situations. Doctors treat shabbos like any other day.

As the gemara says, they go to gehenom.

Your wife should know this type of stuff

What is sterile gashmiyus?

Rule is half your age plus 7.

So 34 year old man can marry 24 and up. So it’s fine.

Given the fact the OU is a recognizable name and would destroy their reputation if they declared something kosher when it was not and they did the actual painstaking research, their opinion must be given promimance – See more at: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/kitniyos-expansion#sthash.VR8FS9dL.dpuf

Like putting their symbol on the outside of a package with treif food inside? Or putting OU Pareve on something that contains milk? http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/ou-kashrus-is-not-reliable

InShidduchim.com: Is That the Jewish Way?

OU is not reliable.

If he really feels that it would be a problem for him, it is assur for him to knock on the door, and a bigger Mitzvah to skip putting on Tefillin. In this case, putting on Tefillin would be a “Mitzvah haba al yidei aveira”.

No, that’s not correct.

Dy, I hope your single daughters apt isn’t broken into br said creepy guy after she leaves her keys in the door, and because some frum guy was too frum to knock on her door.

So I guess the question is, are we talking about the creepy guy or the frum guy.

That enough ideas? You aren’t pattur from mitzvos just because you’re frum. It’s a common misconception, but even frum people are chayav to keep the Torah.

Take the keys, go outside, tape them to a rock with duct tape, throw the rock through his window.

Knock on door and run away. If he doesn’t notice keys, do it again and again until he notices.

Call his rav.

Wear a sheitel so he thinks you’re married.

Or, or,

Run back out, buy a megaphone, stand in your apt and start broadcasting “apartment 2b, your keys are in the door.” And do the screechy sound so it masks your voice and he doesn’t know it’s you.