Anyone who thinks Yiddish was given at har Sinai should read this book and feel at home with this type of fantasy

Yaakov: Does the list tell us where the ones who are headed for yeshiva/sem are going afterwards? If not, the number going to problematic places is likely even higher than the list would indicate. As Rav Hershel Schachter has pointed out, a few months in a dorm destroys everything the kid picked up in yeshiva.

Trump helps us so he deserves our support. That’s the only thing that matters. Compare that with the various Dems that some mosdos suck up to who are in favor of criminals, illegals, drugs, mishkav zochor, and decimating limud hatorah.

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Hmm….so if my wife enrolls my son in yeshiva, I can balk at paying the tuition?

Smash them at tenaim or chuppah?

If it doesn’t taste as good, you might eat less of it, which will be better for you. So you should eat fresh, nicely seasoned vegetables, and stale pasta.

“My father was once by Rav Chaim and his gabbai Rav Amar came into the room wearing a watch. Rav Chaim motioned to him, and he smiled and put it into his pocket. Take from that story what you will.”
That Rav Chaim wasn’t terribly makpid, if he didn’t have a problem with his own gabbai wearing a watch, just not in his presence. I’m sure Rav Elyashiv didn’t remove his own watch when Rav Chaim was in the room.

To those who are opposing shaving: just out of curiosity, what do you think about trimming one’s beard?

I like self-checkout because many people seem to be afraid of it, especially seniors, so the lines are much shorter.

In a similar vein, can YWN implement AI so that the coffee room can automatically generate its own posts and comments, and we can just sit back and watch the computers do all the work?

Depends also on the role tefillah betzibur will play on this trip.

1. I like that idea.
3. As long as you give 2 other things that they don’t object to, I’d think you’d be yotzei.
4. So many skinny people eat/drink diet. The obese recipient should take it as a compliment!
6. Give rose water instead. Easier to swallow.

I think he meant sign them up as a threat to bankrupt the public school system. But I’m not sure that would work for the most recent problem, because most of the local school budget is from property taxes (at least outside of NYC), so it would be a nice rough-up to the local school system, but not to the state govt that’s causing this trouble.

Menorahs are vandalized more than shuls? Would need data on that. Otherwise what you’re saying is that we’d have to hide our shuls. Menorahs don’t cause antisemitism and more than shuls do. It’s just an easy target. As far as sakanah….what do you think the sakana would be from a menorah? I mean a sakana to the yid, not to the menorah.

Igros moshe choshen mishpat 1:92 allowed to work for the tax department even though you might have to report a yid cheating, since if you don’t work there a different guy will find the irregularity anyway. Here, too, it’s obvious to the whole world that a car is blocking a driveway.

Same, 1:8: ossur to masser a guy selling neveilos; one of the reasons is that we can’t say that beis din can’t take care of it. Can we say beis din can take care of this, right away? Other reasons to asser there are that punishment by goyishe court is more than beis din…is that true here?

shevet halevi yoreh deah 58. Noch a tax inspector. Muttar since owing the govt taxes is a legitimate choiv, als dina demalchusah, so no problem telling the govt. Ramoh says it’s bad anyway, like hashovas aveidah to a goy, but that doesn’t apply to tax man because it’s to the govt, not a nochri person. Is a fine like that? idk

teshuva of r. elyashiv brought in sefer devar sinai/she’eilos be’eretz hachayim 45,46—mutar to report theft to police since mesirah only applies where the goyim would treat him harshly, which is not shayech nowadays. Based on panim meiros 2:155. again, is nidon didan like a case of theft or not

“What has actually occurred, בעוונותינו הרבים, is that our leaders have achieved a new status that is one of the ideals of the current era. CELEBRITY. Every Rosh Yeshiva, Rov, Rebbe, has that potential.”

True, and at least partly because it’s considered a g’nei to earn a parnasah. So they become celebrity (or quasi-celebrity) rabbis and make money that way. IOW, if I go into business or a profession, then feh, past nisht. But if I try to become the next Paysach Krohn and earn a parnasah that way (with the storytelling, not the brissin), that puts me on a higher level, somehow.

“The gemora Pesochim 42:1… is telling us to learn the great trust they had in their sages. They did not question, what makes your water better than our water?””

I didn’t see where any meforshim learn that from the gemora. Sounds like it’s your personal diyuk, and isn’t muchrach, because:
1. How do you know they weren’t a bunch of amaratzim who didn’t think to ask, and why should we learn from amaratzim?
2. Where do we find an issur in asking “why”?
3. Anyone nowadays would ask “why”, so we obviously don’t hold like what you’re saying the gemara means, which it doesn’t mean that anyway.
4. emunas chachomim doesn’t mean we don’t ask why we do something

Joseph….how do you know what restaurants they are ate at before geirus, or after? And how do you know what she did when she converted, as opposed to now? Maybe she covered her hair and ate only at the right places, as she had been mekabel, and then after a while said well no one else in my shul is doing this so why should I?

“Bread will satiate one to the same extent as the delicacy of fattened geese.”

What about on shabbos?

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Sam: Don’t be obtuse. Kadur is a ball. Rashi says it’s a ball (“pelote” in French). The statue is holding a ball. I don’t what the ocean being a plate is, but I do know we’re being told the olam is a ball. In any case, you’re making it like the story with Alexander is coming to limit the prior statement that the olam is a kadur, which it’s clearly not doing.

By the way, when you said in your first comment on this topic, “It’s Kefirah to say the world is round”, which part of the Yerushalmi were you accusing of kefirah?

Most mitzvos are bitul torah, but you have to do them anyway. Speaking of mikra megillah, Mordechai was mevatel talmud torah to take care of tzorchei tzibbur, which is why he was only raztzui leROV echov and not kol echov, and also why he was demoted in the rankings between Ezra 2:2 and Nechemya 7:7. But he was mechuyav to do it.

Also, the comparison between leining and other mitzvos is imprecise, because leining is part of the mitzva of talmud torah, so it’s not bitul torah.

PBA: What do you mean by ” the earth’s curve”? I thought you said the earth was flat?

In any case:

Yerushalmi Avoda Zara 3:1 towards the end:

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Joe: So you have more faith in the American army than the Israeli army?

Chuckhall: “One of the most stupid comments ever posted to the internet.”

Whatever one thinks of the original comment, your comment has way surpassed it in terms of idiocy, since you felt that merely calling something “stupid” was a good counter-argument. As I write this, my four-year-old daughter, however, agrees with you, that calling someone’s statement “stupid” and leaving it at that is a good argument.

Joe: No, actually, I can’t verify it, and neither can you. In fact, the more I think about that story, the more preposterous it sounds. First of all, of all the brisim that must have taken place over the years since 1948, at which, undoubtedly, many anti-Zionist gedolim were present, we’ve never heard of the Brisker Rebbe saying tachanun, Satmar Rebbe, Rav Amram Blau, Rav Shach, etc. Only this one story.

Second, it’s part of a whole section of not being mechadesh a ta’anis on 5 iyar and not be mechadesh a ta’anis for the victims of the holocaust. So to say that he decided to declare some sort of “eis la’asos” in this case seems fanciful.

Joseph: Just out of curiosity, what style of hat do you wear?

Reminds me of that other place (maybe a bar at the South Street Seaport?) that came under fire some years ago for turning away people with black hats and “fringes” because they tended to order only water and linger.