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That is not what Judaism means to me.

The application of old halacha to new fact scenarios is fine. It is when old halacha is applied to old fact scenarios that I take issue.

I don’t care what most frum people were doing 100 years ago; I care about what the rabbonim of the past 100 years have been saying.

I am not against innovation when it is required by there being no precedent. I am against innovation when there is valid precedent, and people choose to follow very old and not accepted precedent over recent and accepted precedent.

As far as the d’oraisah or d’rabanan, I follow d’rabonon the same as I follow d’oraisah, and I don’t know why you read my post any other way.

As far as the Rambam, it relates precisely to my first point.

I do text while driving.

Despite that it is per se negligent. I actually stopped briefly when I realized that, but then remembered that I also speed.

lightitup:

I would say it has to do with thinking that there is such a thing as beshert and that you will only be happy with one specific person and if you miss him/her, you will be unhappy, and if you get him/her, you won’t need to work on your marriage.

As I opined earlier in this thread.

I’m going to agree with pascha here.

And besides, the DSM is a highly political publication. Inclusion and exclusion has more than a little to do with lobbying groups.

Here for example, ADHD was probably lobbied to be included so that some government organization would be required to treat it.

I kind of do think there is something wrong with modern orthodoxy.

It seems to me to be infected by the very things that mdd accuses. I am disturbed when I see people relying on rishonim that have not been relied on for hundreds of years. That is not how we do it. We follow our mesorah, as it has developed. We don’t do new things.

I really don’t care whether something is d’oraisah or d’rabanan, or whether a strict reading of the Rambam allows or prohibits it. I care about what frum jews, particularly my personal rebbeim and their rebbeim, have been doing last year, the year before, and the hundreds of years before.

I am far more convinced by pointing to a posek from 100 years ago, than 1000 years ago.

I just opened this thread for the first time.

Good one rollerskate, whoever you are.

If by “cards out”, you mean sources- that would be appropriate.

So, how about some.

Explain:

Are you asking about guys who go after graduating high school to schools such as OJ, TOMO, Beis, etc?

Or are you talking about guys who go several years after graduation to schools like Mir and Brisk?

So you retract your comment that he cannot go to the pool area?

Ooops. wrong username.

I don’t get it. What could be wrong with a sheitel? If you can find one that looks natural, that would be great.

kookalibeer:

That is pretty much my point.

If you are looking to do something that you are not supposed to do the whole year, what makes you think it is a good idea to do it today?

And who says being nice to your wife and kids is not a segula? I imagine doing what Hashem wants is a pretty powerful segula!

Does it seem like we are ignoring what Hashem tells us he wants to try to guess what really makes Him tick? Why do we think He is trying to fool us?

So how come girls are allowed to say no because of height, but guys are evil when they say no because of weight?

I always forget;

What is the difference between a roach and a prune?

My, look at all the fun I’ve been missing. I was too busy last night to log on.

80 is the gematria of “peh”, which means mouth, and I am a mouthpiece for humanity.

I don’t know about that either.

My friends are not just “people I choose to hang out with”. I have a relationship with them, which was developed for many years.

I could no more “divorce” them for being a bad influence, than I could for starting to bore me. They are my friends.

I don’t know.

Would you break off a relationship with your brother if he was a bad influence on you? With your mother?

I like to think my relationships with my friends are deep enough that I couldn’t break them for any reason.

I say from 20+ it goes to both the parties and he parents.

From 25+ it is breach of confidence to tell the parents unless the parties allow it.

If I weren’t real, how could I be asking myself whether I am real?

i know someone

Hmmm.

Yes, that is right.

And the worst thing to find in your bank account is no money. (Is that the same thing?)

One more point.

Fordham has a different experience with BTLs than other law schools because it is the next best school in NY after the two really good schools.

Since yeshiva guys often want to stay in NY, they benefit from getting BTL guys who barely were not accepted into CLS who would have otherwise gone to PBMV if not for needing to stay in NY.

obvious:

I am asking about Law school in particular.

I don’t know what lawyers do, but I imagine over 3 years you could pick something up.

Again, have you ever heard someone bemoan not having gotten a real degree so that he would have had better writing skills going in to law school?