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I have no dog in this fight so let me offer a couple of comments.
1. Health never claimed that kiruv isn’t a mitzvah, just that there is no chiyuv to do so in the cases mentioned. Nowhere does he state or imply that kiruv organizations or programs should be disbanded or discontinued.
2. Health has taken offense when clearly none was offered. I don’t know who or what he thinks he is, but here in the semi anonymous world of an internet forum he’s just another voice like everyone else and certainly not entitled to any special deference.
3. Mod, this subject has been beaten to death. Let’s close this thread.
No need to close the thread. The argument is over. Health will no longer be responding. If the subject has been “beaten to death” then no one will post further. If someone wishes to make a point they may.
Hard work and determination always pay off over time, but laziness pays off right now.
In my opinion, Artscoll’s most important contribution is the Artscroll Shas which has enabled and encouraged thousands to learn gemorah. it’s maintainance of the tzuras hadaf and it’s own commentary make it a superior learning vehicle for all.
With it’s siddurim, Artscroll greatest contribution is the elimination of errors and poor typesetting that had crept into most of the earlier mass printed siddurim and the re-inclusion of tefilos and parts of tefilos that had been eliminated for political reasons.
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His treatment of Steve Wozniak, co-founder and the original brains behind Apple, was dispicable.
Cookie, what your are dealing with is classical stalking. You’ve already told the stalker that you would take action if she did not desist. Now, call the cops. Your stalker is clearly a disturbed person and you may actually be in physical danger.
Have you mentioned your problem to your doctor? Absent physical exertion, an adult human being should be able to go without food and water for the duration of the YK fast with nothing more than hunger pangs and, perhaps, a headache. Your symptoms suggest that there may be an underlying medical problem. Before you approach your Moreh d’Asrah for a heter, consult your physician.
There is certainly precedent in Chazal for raising an orphan. Abaye was raised by his uncle. The word “adopt” in legal usage implies legal status which I don’t think is the halacha. Abaye did not inherit from Rabbah bar Nachmeni.
Hand writing anaysis proves that PBA and Mod 80 are, in fact , the same person.
Ask your Friendly Neighborhood Orthodox Rabbi.
Is there an actual halachic basis for adopting a child? In common law an adopted child has all of the perogatives of a natural child, I.E. he has inheritance and all other rights inhering to a natural child. I do not think that there is any provision for such in halacha, but I may be wrong.
Many frum Jews at Yale. Brandeis has a kosher dining room. Queens College is pretty good, but why waltz when you can rock & roll.
Eating meat was never “immoral”. Before the mabul it was assur. After the mabul HaShem mattired eating meat. Eating meat, with the exception of Korban Pesach (not sure if other Kodshim require eating or not), is a reshus, not a chiyuv.
PBA, check the thread, “roll over Einstein”. Nobody disproved nothin’
Yeah, I got change.
Previous posters beat me to my point. Please delete.
I remember when they changed the subway fare from 10 cents to 12 cents. I was comming home from school and I didn’t have the extra two pennies. I used the dime to call my mother and she came and got me.
Ah, nostalgia isn’t as good as it used to be. How about a thread about growing up in the ’50s?
Syms is okay. Also shop the sales at Macy’s or Barney’s warehouse. I seem to remember that Syms does shatnez testing.
One result, while interesting, is insignificant. The result needs to be duplicated at CERN and at other facilities before Einstein can be seriously questioned.
For Monseyites, try the Brick Museum in Haverstraw.
Mead is often used on Pesach. Frankly, I think it tastes awful but tastes differ. You might like it.
Sam, the key words in the last paragraph of your post are “legitimately” and “proper”.
Mod, I didn’t say that anyone should believe that the world rests on them alone. I said that one should CONSIDER himself so and act as such. Even in the secular world or, at least in my secular world, a good atitude to have is that ” If I don’t do it, it won’t get done.”
Clearly, there are deeper levels of understanding the principle but for pratical application yours and my previous comments suffice.
That should not be taken als ga’avah. The implication is that you (that is, each indvidual) should consider that you alone are responsible for the continued existance of the world. I.E. It’s your Torah, Avodah and gemilas chesed upon which the universe rests.
What’s wrong with texting?
1. It’s rude. Texters act oblivious to the world and the people around them.
2. It’s innefficient. You can cover the same ground as a 15 minute text exchange in a two minute phone call.
3. It gives teens too much privacy. Parents dislike texting for the same reason that teens like it. A parent can sort of keep track of phone calls by checking the phone bill or by eavesdropping. They can’t eavesdrop on text.
Hello99, Even if most peanuts are pureed, which is not clear, peanuts are also commonly eaten whole. By seichel, it seems to me that brachos.com is correct. Mod 80, who eats chunky pb with a spoon? Smooth is ok like that, but chunky…??
Zeidy78, The New York Times doesn’t have comics. That’s why I read the Journal News.
I do not see why both the boys and the girls resumes should not include a picture. If questions about china or plastic are relevant information for shidduchim, certainly what the people look like should be at least as relevant.
There were many Gentiles would learned some Yiddish from working for, or around, Jews. a famous one is Colin Powell who, in his youth, was a Shabbos Goy in Washington Hights. Back in Der Heim (well the part for Der Heim my family comes from) there were many majority Jewish towns and even major cities. Both Minsk and Pinsk were majority Jewish (Pinsk was 70% Jewish). In such a milieu, Yiddish was the lingua franca and most of the non-Jews spoke it as well.
Why do you assume that someone with Asperger’s requires treatment? People with Asperger’s usually function well and many are high achievers, albeit socially inept. Back before every personality trait became a named disease or syndrome, they just called us nerds.
mommania, the woman of whom you speak is Temple Grandin. read her books.
It specifically refers to psak. Lots of folks here in the CR, including me, express opinions that may be halachically incorrect, but that’s just ignorance. No one (I hope) considers anything on the CR as psak halacha.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by posters in the CR do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Bashefer.
Because the call doesn’t show up on the bill and they can’t hear at least one side of the conversation. Parents get nervous (and rightly so) when teens and younger kids have lengthy private conversations.
One has to distinguish between the system in the U.S. and the system In Israel. In the U.S., where kollel families do not constitute a majority of the religious population and has it’s own sources of income (parents and proffessional working wives)in addition to government largess, the system cam probably continue for another two or three generations.
The above does not address the hashkafic issue of whether or not an open ended commitment to learning without entering the work force is, in fact, the Torah ideal.
Another thought: It could also be related to oaths. Our word, ELOKIM also means judges.
I was told that the Moslem name for the Diety was from the same root as K L.
Edom originally referred to a group of people, descended from Esav, who lived south of Judea (negev) called Idumians in Latin. They were conquered by the Hasmonean King John Hyrkanos (Yochanan Cohen Gadol) and forced to convert to Judaism (Yes, that’s right) Rome came to be associated with Edom by installing an Edomite king over Judea (Herod the Great). The Herodian kings were clients and vassals of Rome.
Oh, yeah. There is no such thing as a platonic friendship between members of the opposite gender. Between members of the same gender, the term does not apply, unless you’re Plato.
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A small irksome item. the word “gender” is not used when refering to people. “gender applys to grammar as in masculine or feminine “gender”. “Opposite gender” in incorrect.
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You may be correct, nevertheless we prefer that the term gender be used here, archaic and prudish as we may be
Years ago I got this advice. “Drive as if you have a raw egg between your right foot anf the gas pedal.”
Also, buy a diesel car. Diesel fuel in NY costs 7% more than regular gas but diesel cars get 25% to 30% better mileage. Plus a good diesel car is good for 250,000+ miles. Try that with a hybrid.
A while ago here in Monsey there was a woman (don’t know if she was Jewish) who used to do her morning run down 306 in shorts and a tank top. Comments and questions such as those of the PO and MDD were raised at the time. Our Rav responded that, 1. It’s her neighborhood too and 2, It’s our responsibility to guard our own eyes.
MDD, It is you who are wrong. See Parshas V’eschanan.
P.S. You wouldn’t be welcome in Saudi but feel free to emigrate to Iran. I’ll pack you sandwiches
Cherry lights do not “soup up” a car. Engine and chassis mods do that. Cherry lights turn your car into a schlock rod.
If there was ever an issue that needed da’as Torah intervention, this is it.
The issue to me isn’t New York vs every place else. It’s is more of a large community vs small community issue. To me, there is very little difference (besides accents) between the large Jewish communities in NYC, Chicago, LA or Miami. All of those places have large enough Jewish populations to have developed separate communities of Jews, chareidi, MO, chassidic, etc.
Compare that to the Jewish communities in, say, Birmingham Alabama or Omaha Nebraska. There, the most striking difference from big city communities is the fellow feeling that the entire community has for each other. the various denominations of Judaism come together and cooperate in ways that would be unthinkable in places like Flatbush or Skokie. For instance, you will see the local Lakewood kolel receiving support from Federation. Try that in BP!, Heck, try that in Lakewood.
Let me add to my previous post. Not only do women in the work force have to “…differentiate between real threats to halachic propriety and immaginary ones.” But men, as well, need to learn what constitutes appropriate halachic behavior and what is over the line. In addition, men have to be sensitive to feelings of women in the office and, perhaps, go lifnei meshuras hadin in interacting with them.
I don’t get it. I have gone to affairs where I felt that the kashrus was suspect. I just don’t eat it. You don’t make a fuss and embarrass the host. In this case all the baal simcha had to do was advise the guests as to under whose hashgacha the affair was and let the gusets draw their own conclusions.
MDD, No one is talking about tznius per se. If dealing with normal office activities and conversation violates your sense tznius, then, by all means, remove yourself from that environment. Granted, I don’t know the specific nature of the interplay and conversation in Ms. Mentch’s office. There very well may have been inappropriate advances made, but my sense is that she felt threatened by what most would consider innocuous office pleasantries.
In the “goyishe veldt” there are very strict laws and work rules against harrassment. Don’t believe me? I worked in an office where a fellow was written up and officially admonished for telling a female co-worker, My, you look nice this morning.” So, yes, I stand by my statement that “…millions of women (and thousands of frum women) work in offices everyday with dignity and safety.”
The ideal for all Bitei Yisroel is ” eshtecha k’gefen piryah b’yarkesei beisechah”, but the sad fact is that many Bitei Yisroel have to join the work force to suplement family income or, R”L, as primary bread winners. To effectively navigate the working world women have to learn to differentiate between real threats to halachic propriety and immaginary ones.
Hey Shlishi,a note on swords (guns), See Tehillim 149.
General question, How can you tell your children that “we keep a higher standard” without the implication that the other kids somehow inferior?
Mod-80, re: no mods in the workplace, maybe you can create a slot for yourself.