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I agree with almost everything written here, but I venture that almost none of you commenters have actually paid for a child’s wedding.
Let me inform you that you are low man on the totem pole. You have hopefully a wife, a chosson and kallah, a mechutan and the dreaded machateinister . The sum you do not want to spend is of no consequence, you are not the boss. Get that into your head. The decisions have been made long before the couple has met, and you did not make them. Wedding in the living room, no band, no fancy shtreimel or sheitel or gold watch, well, good luck. I am rooting for you, believe me.

A few of you (be in the appropriate chassidus) may even be successful in changing society and human nature. But most of you will bite the bullet and wonder where you went wrong. You didn’t go wrong, you were in the right. But life is a bit stronger than your pure intentions. As the saying goes, “Father of chosson or kallah? Keep your mouth shut and your checkbook open”.

This Rav who managed to pull it all off for a paltry sum needs to be regarded as no less than a hero. Spread his message far and wide. Then try it on your son-in-law tachshit who just spent two years in Brisk tilting his hat “just right” while polishing off his astronomical market value. I’d love to see you, I know how to treat a black eye.

Meshicha? Ouch, might as well try hagbahah . The first mishna in Kiddushin may be a nice place to start studying the kinyanim that apply to marriage

If we are are moving towards (or have been there for some time) super-specialized rabbinics, maybe the standard semicha יורה יורה באיסור והיתר should be replaced. There can be מתרץ קושיות רע”א אבל אין לי מושג בפסולי ס”ת , or the like.
It’s very honest when a Rosh Yeshiva doesn’t consider himself a posek, but it’s not a good policy. I wonder how many would be willing to accept a person who says “I’m a Rav. I’m not a lamdan or posek, I don’t know whether we say Av Harachamim today, and I don’t even read Hebrew, but I don’t need to. I specialize in hashgachas for frum cruise-ship voyages”. Slippery slope.

Akuperma is right, except that literary Hebrew never died, but spoken Hebrew did. (a trivial point, it is pronunciation).
I’ll add to Akuperma’s list the letters that Ashkenazim pronounce differently than North Africans and Middle Easterners.
The Gimel, Vav, Tet, Samech, Tzadi (k), Kuf, Resh, Sin, and Tav.
So the OP’s question is misleading, it’s not only the Ayin.

“…thinly veiled argument that everyone should just be super meikel and eat borderline treif ”

OU, Rabbanut, Triangle K, and maybe other hechsherim that I missed being mentioned going around the CR block a few times are apparently the reference point in this statement.

Implying that any one of these hechsherim is borderline treif is quite a heavy accusation, and seriously weakens the argument. If one wants to be taken seriously, it’s best to stick to verifiable facts and avoid the hyperbole.

I looked it up in the dictionary and below is what I found. I am aware that the Hebrew k”neged can be used as “in opposition to” and in lashon chachamim as intending “corresponding to” as in “k”neged arba’ah banim”, which obviously does not mean “adverse to”.
That was my objection to the translation of k’neged as “against”. I do not see in the definition below any mention of the word “against” as “corresponding to”, as all the descriptions are along the lines of “in opposition to, adverse to”, that is, a negative connotation. The third seudah on Shabbat is definitely not negatively disposed to or “against” any kabbalistic or Jewish concept.

I do accept the explanation above that it is a translation from Yiddish. I am not interested in criticizing perverted translations from Yiddish to English, except to say they are incomprehensible to someone who grew up speaking American English.

a·gainst
/əˈɡenst/
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preposition
1.
in opposition to.
“the fight against crime”
synonyms: opposed to, in opposition to, hostile to, averse to, antagonistic toward, inimical to, unsympathetic to, resistant to, at odds with, in disagreement with, contra; More
2.
in anticipation of and preparation for (a problem or difficulty).
“insurance against sickness and unemployment”
synonyms: in case of, in/as provision for, in preparation for, in anticipation of, in expectation of
“it is advisable to insure all oriental rugs against theft”

Oh my goodness, someone is on the attack, and attacking others too. Sad.
I suggest you take some lessons in open-mindedness. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I sense that you have not read the scholarly books written in Hebrew. Not Fleischer, not Ta Shma, not Yaakov Katz, not Goldschmidt, not Grossman, not even Zimmer. If I’m wrong, I apologize and you win. If I’m right, then we’ll end this discussion because to come to a personal conclusion, argue for it, and attack someone to boot, one has to have done the homework. So either way, end of discussion.

Ubiquitin: Here you go

“אִם יִקְחוּ מִמֶּנּוּ יָתֵד לִתְלוֹת עָלָיו כָּל כֶּלִי” (יחזקאל טו:ג

“תוקע יתד בארץ וסומך עליו את הקורה” (תוספתא בבא בתרא א, ג

In Tanach, there are words that operate as male or female. The most famous is דרך , as anyone who studied the beginning of masechet kiddushin knows. Others are ארץ, קצה, יתד,דוב , and many others.

There are essentially three dialects that we deal with, each with its own rules and quirks. One is Lashon Tanachi, second is Lashon Chachamim-Chazal (mishna, gemara, siddur and machzor) and the third is Vernacular-Modern Hebrew (עברית מדוברת). Of course there are subgroups and sub-sub groups.

In spoken Hebrew, the plural of טלית is טליתות. So declared the אקדמיה ללשון. Proofs from Chazal are not proofs, they are just לשון חז”ל. Notice that Chazal replaced the Tanachic ש (sin) with a ס ( samech). Why? It served their purposes. Right or wrong? Inappropriate and irrelevant question. They did it because they wanted to.

In any case, it is foolish to make fun or denigrate anyone who utilizes vernacular instead of sticking to the rules. The rules are not always operable, and different systems have different rules. I like rules, they help us understand each other. Breaking them may be annoying, but hardly a crime.

Once again.
ציצת, ציציות
טלית, טליתות
That’s just the way it is. There are rules and there are exceptions to the rules.
Milhouse’s comment on the lack of gender to the word talit was very interesting and enlightening.
The Israeli אקדמיה ללשון grapples with these issues on a constant basis

It is difficult to change the vernacular, and as many said here, language is dynamic and ever-changing. Therefore, it is perfectly acceptable to say shabbosim and taleisim and shtusim.

That said, I suspect that even the “who cares” contingent here will correct the ba’al kore if he leins שבע שבתים תמימות תהיינה. So, sometimes it matters, and when it does, it matters alot.

One of the most amusing mistakes found in the mefarshim is on the first page of the standard Ritv”a Al Hashas found in every standard beis medrash and Jewish home of the learned. It says that the new edition has corrected all the טעותים from the older editions. I always laugh at that faux pas.

To think that one’s personal “family mesorah” is the only legitimate set of customs is a terribly disturbing thought.

Google it in Hebrew
רבי נחמן שותק

Rav Kaniefsky maintains that his views are halachah, that is obvious. However, he doesn’t pasken for the world, he paskens to the person or institutions (i.e., Degel Hatorah Knesset Members) who ask the question. When asked, he paskens.

If one decides to obey the Rav’s views without asking him for a personal psak, this is a very short list of some of the things he will do.
1. Stop using the internet
2. Stop using a smartphone
3. Stop shaving
4. Stop using electricity on shabbos in Israel, unless there is an independent generator providing power
5. Stop wearing short sleeved shirts
6. Stop reading any type of secular newspaper
7. Refrain from attaining any type of secular education

The conclusion is that there are many Torah observant Jews in America who would do well not to view the Rav as the world’s only acceptable Posek.

zchus זכות
schus in Hebrew is cartilage.

For an Ashkenazi outside Israel, there is no way that kitniyot are permissible on the eighth day of Pesach, this year falling on Shabbat.
A better question is for Israelis for whom Shabbat is no longer Pesach, could they have cooked kitniyot on yomtov for a Shabbat meal (assuming eruv tavshilin) ?
Some did, most did not.

As for erev pesach, kitniyot would be forbidden to eat after the sof zman achilat chametz

probably not

Now that I am being accused of not being frum, I will kindly request that the following questions be answered. No rational or logical thinking allowed, please give the correct and obvious “frum” answer.
Example: Am I allowed to wear shatnez? Answer: No.

1. A woman stopped nursing after six months and wishes to remarry. It is a leap year. Does she have to wait 18 more months or 19?
2. A man’s wife becomes psychotic and is institutionalized. May he marry another woman?
3. May photochromic spectacle lenses be worn outside the house on Shabbos?
4. A kohen who converted to Christianity and became a moser wishes to go to shul on yom tov and duchen. Should the kehillah allow it?
5. The local shochet for 20 years is rumored to have committed adultery. The accused woman is clearly pregnant. Can the shochet keep his job?

Remember, just the obvious halachah, no logical thinking permitted.

As an aside, if you knew something about halachic history, using electricity on Shabbos would not have been included with shatnez and basar b’chalav. Until the Hazon Ish put his meta-halachic foot down, the poskim (yes, the frum ones) were ready to accept electricity as at worst a d’rabbonon and possibly even permit it. There was no halachic precedent and they had to use, um, rational thinking.

I pay 80 shekel per kilo

In Bnei Brak prices go as high as 50 shekel PER MATZAH if baked erev pesach after chatzos hayom
Think that’s a high price? Well, it’s matzas mitzvah where one wants the best of the best. It’s not like just choosing a wife.

I was not aware that olive wood can deliver an olivey taste to the matzah. I’ve been in Israel for decades, first time I’ve heard that and I’ve definitely never tasted a difference. Very interesting.

As I explicitly wrote, I am aware of the various shitos regarding keeping one or two days. One can “pull out” of the poskim any answer one wants, and there are heavyweights on both sides, as some of the above commenters have mentioned.

However, simple logic (surprise, the halachah and many poskim are logical) demands one day here in Israel, because here there IS only one day. All other factors are irrelevant.

I can logically accept a Brooklynite keeping two days here provided he didn’t adjust his clock upon arrival and is acting according to Brooklyn time, seven hours behind.

cave in to pressure

Perhaps studying English or even speaking the language is unnecessary. At least one percent of these people will make it big in real estate and will then announce that formal education is a waste of time. The other 99% will suffer in their illiterate and ignorant silence, too proud to admit they listened to fools, but still unable to pay the rent.

“the importance of looks are vital and their are countless stories of the sad outcome one one ignores it.”
First, basic English requires “there” and not “their”.

Second, I say with confidence that the sad outcomes are greater in number and severity when one marries for physical attraction rather than when one ignores it. I venture that anyone over 40 will corroborate this.

A frum yeshiva boy is raised in a home infused with Torah and Yiras Shamayim. His Rebbes and yeshiva shelter him from the evils of the outside world. His mother would never allow the four walls to see her natural hair. His father wouldn’t think of allowing a secular newspaper in the house. He has little to no association or exposure to pritzus, no television, no movies or theater. Modern music is off limits. He listens intently to a musar shmuess weekly if not more often. His role models are gedolim, lamdanim, tzadikim.

And here I learn that when it comes to finding his bashert for the purpose of building a home of kedushah and taharah, all he really cares about is …….

The cheshbon nefesh required here defies quantification. Operating on this disease may kill the patient. Or, the charade will just continue. After all, almost everyone is doing it. But please, enough of the fake frumkeit, it doesn’t fly anymore

Placing unmarried men and women at the same table at a wedding is a terrific idea. I’m all in favor. Much good will come of it.