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There IS someone out there for everyone. A lid for every pot.
Many heavy men will find a heavy woman attractive (and vice versa). Also, there are many people of varied backgrounds out there; I know of a Chassidishe girl (Emunas Yisroel) who married a black ger. I know of many unlikely shidduch stories like this, as well. In my case, I am the BT/giyur le chumra child of a father who was raised very frum, in the Brooklyn Sephardi community, and went off as a young adult, and I am involved with a girl who is a BT whose grandparents are frum and whose father went off after being raised in the Breuer’s kehilla. (In both our cases, we beat the odds, returned to halakhic Judaism, and prevented who knows how many generations of assimilation away from klal yisrael?)
My point is that an open approach will go a long way in shidduchim.
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Why would you donate to a shul on behalf of a dead cat?
Is this serious? Assuming so, I offer you condolences. Losing a pet is sad, but in time, you’ll find another cat to make happy.
Perhaps in Cupcake’s memory, consider adopting a cat from a shelter or donating to the ASPCA or another worthy cause.
Throwing kids out of schools is akin to a death sentence; the Yiddishkeit and even health of such kids is threatened. Drugs and other horrible things are rampant among the real OTD crowd. Just look at a place like Our Place, which says that they’ve gotten heterim to have open caskets at levayas of kids who overdosed, r”l.
There needs to be more opportunities for people to make a parnassa, get a decent education, and also there needs to be more diversity in the type of learning we offer.
Are you talking about a kumkum?
IIRC, Rav Soloveitchik felt that a Reform convert was a safek ger, and if such a woman were to remarry (of course, without a get), the kids would be the only thing worse than mamzerim- safek mamzerim.
The facts demonstrate that Rav Druckman’s converts are valid even if only be’diavad.
A counter-protest should be organized.
From what I’ve heard, it’s appropriate for those who have gone to another yeshiva, like Ohr Somayach, first for a couple of years.
Accounting is a solid career, as are Physician Assistant, OT, PT, Speech Language Pathologist.
She represented Finchley early on in her career and first forged ties with the Jewish community then.
I doubt Moshe Rabbenu knew the ins and outs of Gateway to Happiness or Rabbi Ploni’s Insights on Pirkei Avot.
There is a yesod that Torah MiSinai consists of Torah she ba’al peh and Torah she bikatav, i.e. Tanakh, Mishna, Sifrei, Sifra, Midrashei Aggadah, Gemara, etc.
I don’t say a bracha on Hallel for Yom haAtsmaut or Yom Yerushalayim, simply because Ta’anit 28b delineates when you say Hallel. Likewise, I don’t say a bracha on any other half-Hallel, because I don’t believe in making a bracha on a minhag.
In all honesty, as much of a Zionist as I may be, I’d rather people not say Hallel at all than to make a bracha le vatala on this occasion.
She was as tough as they came, a real leader, and a true friend of the Jewish People. She was one of the few who understood what was good for the Free World. She will surely be missed.
There should be seforim that give people lomdus in a simplified manner.
Yytz,
My concern exactly. I see many things done in the name of stringency that don’t have adequate backing in the Gemara, Rambam, Shulchan Aruch, etc.
I don’t see what this bag would accomplish al pi halakha.
Ironically, the issue came up recently in the daf on Berachos 19 and Eruvin 31.
A proposal to have kohanim hermetically seal themselves was proposed in the past, but rejected, IIRC.
I don’t see how a bag can eliminate the issues with tuma involved.
The airplane is an ohel zaruk, which makes it highly problematic to travel for kohanim. I see no grounds for leniency here.
Ariella is my favorite Jewish female name. I also like Talia.
Just tell the shadchan it isn’t shayach because there’s no physical attraction.
And I thought it was because people eat too many calories.
It is a shame the Kosher Gym is no more; I would feel very uncomfortable in a mixed setting while exercising, wearing shorts, etc. I also agree that mixed gyms are probably assur.
It is also a hashkafa which some leading gaonim hold by, including Hakham Faur, Rabbi Chait, Yeshiva Bnei Torah, etc.
Many people go to Pomegranate for specialty food items that can’t be purchased elsewhere.
I don’t know of too many people who do their normal shopping there.
I generally shop wherever is cheapest, obviously buying cheeses, cold cuts, meats, deli, certain frozen items, etc. only from kosher markets.
Eggs, milk, pierogies, ice cream, vegetables, oil, etc. I generally buy from Key Food, C Town, or any host of cheap stores.
A divorced man and a married man are both capable of the same things. It is equally immoral for any kind of teacher to do something “Es past nisht” with a talmidah.
I don’t see the nafka mina between a married or divorced rebbe.
If you look at Ari Zivotofsky’s column in Jewish Action, he addresses this.
It is a non-halacha.
Tattooed persons are permitted burial, and this obviously became a she’eila after the Shoah.
Many people who are chozer be teshuva have tattoos.
Pinter on 14th Avenue has books for $1.
Rabbi Silver is a talmid chacham, a yirei shamayim, and a gaon b’torah u’middos. I use Sriracha sauce and Greek cheeses with his hashgacha without compunction (if you keep halav yisrael, you wouldn’t be able to use cheese he supervises).
Boston is a VERY modern community (too liberal for me, actually- politically, that is).
Baltimore, OTOH, is cheap, and has a nice mix of demographics- plenty of yeshivos (although they don’t have much of a frum MO day school; Beth Tfiloh is a community day school, and the other schools are very frum), R’ Berger’s shul has great learning, Ner Tamid, Suburban Orthodox, Netivot Shalom are all great shuls.
Long Island has communities like West Hempstead, Plainview, etc. that are nice, but may not be too affordable.
How would this work with potato starch? (thinking ahead to Pesach 5774).
There may be legal protections for a divorcee getting fired due to that. Not that I think having men teaching single girls in their late teens is a good idea, anyways.
Teaneck is not full of Jews “infected by a nochri spirit.” What a pot shot against people unlike yourself, the YU/Modern Orthodox community.
Teaneck is full of many huge talmidei chachamim and gedolim- Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky, Rabbi Nati Helfgot, Rabbi Ronald Price, etc.
It is described in the ShA as a minhag. Kitzur 131:6 says it is a mitzvah, not a chovah. And I heard in a shiur from R’ Rakeffet that Rav Soloveitchik did not go to the mikvah Erev Yom Kippur.
Aruch haShulchan says “nahagu kol yisrael.”
In any case, it is a minhag, not a chovah.
On “Rumpelnacht,” I went to Pomegranate for some hot bagels (which I had with cream cheese left over from Pesach).
Pizza King, Mendelsohn’s, Mendel’s, JII, Chadash, Pizza Time all had lines out the door.
147- I suppose your point is correct; strictly, there is no chiyyuv to go to the mikvah before Yom Kippur for a man, but it is a mitzvah to do so.
The Chizkuni (Shemot 12:18) says thatalthough there is no obligation to eat matza the entire week of Pesach, one who does eat matza fulfills a mitzva by doing so. He explains that when it comes to most mitzvot, one not only merits reward for observing them, but also deserves punishment if he is negligent and fails to fulfill them. However, some mitzvot (such as eating matza after the first night of Pesach) do not entail any punishments but do bring reward to those who opt to fulfill them.
It is well known that the Gaon of Vilna maintained that eating matza all Pesach is an optional mitzva. It is related (Ma’aseh Rav 175) that he accorded immense value to this mitzva. In fact, he would make a point of eating se’uda shelishit on the last day of Pesach (although he did not usually eat se’uda shelishit on Yom Tov), in order to fulfill the mitzva of eating matza in its waning moments before it expired.
I ate matzah every day of Pesach in accordance with this view, and at around 5:30 on the 8th day of Pesach, had a small meal of matza.
There was a state dayan in Haifa, R’ Shlomo Yaluz, who actually did hold like those mekorot. If you look in the Jewish Law Annual from 1978 (IIRC), R’ JD Bleich discusses the case.
Ironically, there were several who felt that the child of a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father would require conversion (R’ Akiva Eiger on YD; Maharit Algaze, Bechoros 47; Yam Shel Shlomo, Yevamos 16b).
Yes. R’ Sherira Gaon explicitly held that science in the time of Hazal was limited to the knowledge of that era.
Based on his approach, many things like ruach ra’ah, leaving onions and eggs out overnight, etc. wouldn’t be concerns any longer.
Ironically, a convert lacking any Jewish parentage or grandparentage could be Reform or Conservative and make aliyah, whereas many Orthodox converts wouldn’t be allowed to make aliyah.
Mimouna, essentially a chametz party, was observed in Morocco.
If the Rambam were alive nowadays, I don’t think he’d hold by the science he had in his days (same with Hazal; they were going by what was available they had in their days).
The idea that a child of a Jewish mother is always Jewish was not accepted by all.
R’ Akiva Eiger (in Yoreh Deah), and the Maharit Algazi and Maharshal (Yevamos 16) all say that such a child requires a form of geirus/tevilah.
I don’t know what the status of conversion in mamlachti circles is like these days in Israel.
After Rabbi Druckman’s retirement last year, there has been nobody to replace him in the position of Conversion Authority head. The status of giyur in Israel is now in limbo.
If you want to get married in Israel, you may have issues.
I wonder what these people would say about R’ Yochanan, who would be considered morbidly obese by today’s standards, and was known as the most handsome talmid chacham of his dor.
Marbeh Torah is not for the very beginner, though.
You need to have some background prior to going there.
What may suit you would be spending a year in Ohr Somayach and then going to Marbeh Torah for 2-3 years. MT was highly recommended to me by many roshei yeshiva.
In my experience, men like getting any kind of honor. OTOH, we have many American and Russian men who aren’t frum, but they are proud to come to shul and make a minyan, and they are even more proud to have a kibbud.
Chalav yisrael or normal milk?
I’ve noticed this year that Farmland and the chalav stam companies don’t go through the trouble of printing “Kasher le Pesach” anymore. They stamp “K-P” near the expiration date.
Milk purchased on Pesach does need the K-P designation, because there is no bitul of chametz on Passover (unlike before the chag).
The prvate beit din of R’ Nissim Karelitz is NOT accepted by the state Rabbanut. There were several articles in the Jewish media bout those converts being deported from Israel.
Maneschewitz makes a macaroon pie crust for Pesah.
The problem with Key Lime Pie is that I never once saw condensed or evaporated milk with an acceptable Pesah hechsher. I could be wrong and maybe one of the heimishe companies makes it.
Ka mashma lan, from my grandmother, a”h, to make a crust with pistachios, sugar, potato starch and egg whites (She was Syrian, and made lots of desserts on Pesah with pistachios, walnuts, dates, etc.)
I was seriously involved with someone last year (B”H both parties moved on, she is engaged, and I am furthering my education and not rushing dating until I make at least $50K a year), and ironically, I felt like my weight was made an issue. There were no shadchanim involved, but when dealing with the family, I felt like that was an issue they held against me. There is a great deal of bias against heavier people, and the negative perceptions further a lack of maturity on the issue.