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Hakham Ovadia Yosef and many others permit women’s megillah readings. The Gemara in Erchin itself says a woman is hayav in hearing Megillat Ester.
Most rishonim hold that women are obligated to read Megillat Ester and, therefore, should also be empowered to read it for others.
An all-women’s megillah reading would also alleviate a lot of the concerns with kalut rosh.
I’ve heard al pi Rambam that some give tavshilin for Mishloach Manot.
I keep it simple and cheap.
An Arizona drink, a bag of chips, and a packaged hamantash with a ribbon tied around it.
I don’t like eating things made in private kitchens; I don’t know how clean people are and I don’t know their kashrut standards (similarly, I would expect people to feel the same about me).
Humradoxy is a very popular approach.
What ever happened to Kocha d’ hetera adif?
Why is it that if a person relies on the Pesah list of a rabbi who learned under the Hazon Ish and heads a kollel in Lakewood he is insulted and ridiculed and dismissed as a trouble-maker?
Why can’t people admit simply that they choose to take positions that are rooted in a desire for stringency rather than the codified halakha?
Poskim have also said a Jew can wear the iron cross insignia given by different orders and can in effect, be knighted, or inducted into the Order of the British Empire, and whatnot.
I think this blows things out of proportion a little.
When things become divorced of their origins, there is no more hashash for avoda zara. We have months named after pagans (Tammuz, etc.) Times and circumstances change.
Plenty of poskim tried banning potatoes.
Corn wasn’t around when the takanna on kitniyot was enacted. Both corn and potatoes, like quinoa, are foods from the New World.
Give him a copy of the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions discreetly.
Anyone ever tried Posh Tomato? It looks nouveau.
Nope. Some say that there is a chashash that some wheat may be mixed in to it. Star K says it needs a special hashgacha.
Others say you can just be careful to check it (same way Sephardim check rice).
I tend to have nuanced, well-thought positions on things.
I see, ironically, the Yoetzet movement and the Ezras Nashim movement as rooted in a similar mentality- women like feminizing basic societal strictures.
And if a woman is concerned about fixing her hair when the paramedics arrive- that is simply silly. Don’t most women who believe that they have to cover hair wear a mitpachat in the home?
Someone asked R’ Dr. Bernard Revel about having a diploma from a Catholic college, since it had a cross on it.
He paskened that in such contexts, the cross loses its religious significance and he cited the Rema that they don’t actually worship it, but it just serves as a zecher for them.
If someone dresses as a knight, I don;t see much that could be haalkhically objectionable.
Plus, it is said that the Carolignian dynasty has Jewish roots.
I’d suggest a good Pesach list. Many liquors and spirits are not made from grain products and should therefore be acceptable.
I’ve never read any teshuva advocating for the exclusive use of male Ob/Gyns. We’re not Muslim fanatics. We believe “Ve Chai Bahem.”
All EMT’s are more than capable of delivering babies. It’s an important part of their training.
A professional male doing his duties is not a situation of pritzus. Part of why I am not crazy about the “Yoetzet” movement is that the assumption there is that a male rabbi who looks at a bedika cloth or who discusses matters pertaining to niddah is somehow not oisgehalten; it makes men out to be perverts and sexualizes things that are not sexual in these contexts. There is nothing sexual about delivering a baby, unless people’s mistaken ideas make it out to be that way.
Tznius isn’t a reason. Women go to male obstetricians all the time.
I think this is another attempt for women to want to do everything men can. A further erosion of gender differences.
There is a fine line between evil and insanity. And there is a reason for the term “criminally insane.”
I would never allow my child to marry a meshugenneh. Ever. Too many dangers and hassles and headaches.
There should be shadchanim who match the mentally ill. Although genetically, this is probably bad.
It would be nice to donate to YUTorah.
I donate as much as possible.
No joke. This is not Purim Torah.
I read an article on the website of the “Shamayim v’Aretz Institute” where they “pasken” you can be mechallel shabbos to save a pet.
This org is founded by Shmuly Yanklowitz of ULT fame and advocates veganism and “animal rights” (sic).
Insulting me and insinuating that Modern Orthodoxy is not a legitimate expression of Orthodox Judaism reveal defects in character in those making such hurtful claims.
Who do you think threw all those people over this past year onto subway tracks? Girl scouts? No, it was people with schizophrenia off their meds.
Andrea Yates, who murdered her kids, was bipolar. Adam Lanza from Newtown was mentally ill.
How many cases do you hear about women becoming abused and then agunos by bipolar men?
Igros Moshe OC 5: 37 says that mikar hadin, there would be no issue with wine touched by a mechallel shabbos. He says that : One may not give wine to a Yisrael Mumar idolater, for he may not drink it. Does the same apply to a Mechalel Shabbos in public? The primary decree was only for real Nochrim due to intermarriage. We find that it applies even to a Yisrael Mumar to idolatry (Chulin 4b). After the decree, Yehoshafat could not drink Achav’s wine. However, if a Yisrael Mechalel Shabbos in public does not serve idolatry, there is no concern for Nisuch. We do not find in the Poskim that he makes Yayin Nesech. The Beis Yosef brought this from the Rashba, and Nekudas ha’Kesef brought it, but they did not put it in the Shulchan Aruch and Shach. It was not so clear to them. The custom is not to drink wine that he touched. A Sefer attributed to Rashi says so. We may decide Halachah based on a custom to be lenient, but not based on a custom to be stringent, for anyone may be stringent if he is unsure. Also, perhaps it is not a universal custom, rather, only for Yir’ei Shamayim. Since the Isur is not clear, and it seems that it is only a custom and not letter of the law, we are not stringent not to give to a Mechalel Shabbos to drink. Even if this is due to animosity, this is the custom. Even if there is a Safek that perhaps some are stringent about this, we are lenient about a Safek mid’Rabanan.
With cheese, if they use vegetarian rennet cheeses, like Tablet K (most cheeses produced in general are vegetarian, as animal rennet is obsolete), one can probably be somech on Rabbenu Tam, Avodah Zarah 35b, s.v. chada; that wouldn’t pose an issue for the kashrus of their pots and pans. Something like mozzarella or feta would be even less of an issue, since it’s a soft cheese that the gezera may not even apply to.
I above said that shellfish and catfish in the pans would be an issue.
You probably wouldn’t have many issues at all eating in such a kitchen.
Also, I try to be makpid on yashan, as that is a real issur d’oraita, whereas the milk we have in America would all be considered halav yisrael according to the Hazon Ish and Reb Moshe.
I said explicitly that you can’t eat their cheese. All I said was that their donuts and baked goods generally came in the stores after being produced under kosher conditions.
A donut with cheese sounds gross.
Mental illness is not just any chesron.
It is one where the potential to destroy lives is evident; a person can have a nervous breakdown and decide to stop medicating.
Most wine is mevushal. Plus, if a person is a tinok shenishba, would they have the din of a mechallel shabbos b’farhesya? And, Reb Moshe paskens that mikar hadin, a person that is Mechallel Shabbos that touches wine does not prohibit the wine mikar hadin.
Also, even if they cooked swordfish or sturgeon, that wouldn’t treif up the pots and pans, since there are shitos which say these fish are kosher (R’ Hershel Schachter, the Noda bi Yehuda, Knesset haGedolah, and the “mesorah” experts Greenspan and Zivotofsky, for starters).
My feeling is that objectively, there would be little to cause their kitchen to be treif.
Do they use treif fish in this kitchen or do they cook with non-kosher wine?
sw33t,
You are 100% correct about the source of the donuts.
I personally only buy DD donuts or bagels from a hechshered store because in NYC, there is no reason not to.
R’ Abadi has interesting ideas, but he has a makor for them all.
Rosa’s is no longer kosher. Bravo Pizza went kosher and is fantastic.
Pastene brand makes San Marzano tomatoes with the OK hechsher. I think ShopRite carries their items which are really good.
Pastene tonno, Italian tuna in olive oil, is far superior to American tuna, and is OU.
The donuts come in in a box and are produced under kosher auspices.
The same exact donuts they serve in the treif stores are served in the stores with a hashgacha and there is no price difference between them.
The donuts, muffins, croissants, bagels, do come into the store with hashgacha. AFAIK, bagels and donuts don’t have cheese in them.
R’ Abadi says you can eat these 100% without a problem.
ALL DD Baked goods are in fact kosher, as pointed out. There is no way that these come in contact with treifos, as they use separate gloves, etc. when handling treif meats and cheeses and the kosher donuts and whatnot. You can’t get anything toasted, though.
It is illegal to sell treif milk in America, anyways (pig, horse, camel, etc.)
Alcoholism and drunkenness are not looked upon favorably at all in Judaism.
Enjoying the fruit of the vine is one thing; getting wasted is an aveira.
With milk, there is the issue of whether procedures performed on the cow’s stomach renders the milk treif, totally independent of the cholov yisroel issue.
For this reason, HaRav HaGaon HaGadol Hershel Schachter, shlita, doesn’t drink any milk.
If any business didn’t want my business, I wouldn’t want to give it to them, just like I wouldn’t want to join any club that didn’t want me as a member.
How did he abuse his wife?
I don’t believe in government encroachment on the liberties of businesses. If these Satmar stores want to discriminate, that is their business.
Most places do not even use dishwashers, and the coffee cups are used only for tea or coffee.
He should be given help for his substance abuse and then given a position teaching or doing kiruv.
A person needs to find one consistent halakhic hermeneutic (“mehalech”) and stick with it.
Case in point- If I follow the Gemara/Rambam/ShA and eat something made on hezkat halavi with meat (Hullin 111), then I should be consistent and also not use our eruvin. Or, on the converse, if a person believes that they can clap on Shabbos, there should be no reason why they shouldn’t eat vegetarian cheese that isn’t gevinat yisrael, since the same principle matirs both of these things (the approach of Tosafot is that changing circumstances can override Talmudic gezerot; Tosafot allow clapping on shabbos in contradiction to 2 gemaras in Betzah 30b and 36b, and in Avodah Zarah 35b, s.v. chada, Tosafot allow vegetarian cheese made by nochrim; Rabbenu Tam says that the gezera was due to the use of nevelot, and therefore, that wouldn’t be a concern in certain cases).
There is a gemara in Horayos which condemns one who is maikil all the time.
In dishwashers, there would be no issue, since the soap would render anything treif pagum.
The Constitution gives us the right to bear arms, and our constitutional rights come from G-d.
The Talmud guarantees a right to self-defense (Sanhedrin 72b).
Maharshal paskens that one can have a vicious dog in an area of danger; therefore, for self-defense, one can have an object of danger. Rashi (on Shemos 22:1) says that a burglar has no blood, therefore, it is not retzicha to kill an intruder.
Furthermore, Rav Shlomo Goren and Rav Meir Kahane were ardently pro-gun, even allowing one to use them on Shabbat to avoid danger.
The objection you were pointing out was a woman wearing a gun decoratively, like a man. For self-defense, anyone can use a gun and lo yilbash doesn’t apply there.
I don’t know enough about how they learn to make a statement on that. I am much more familiar intimately with YU’s learning, since they make it available to the world on the internet.
Melting cheddar is better (and with guacamole, salsa, sour cream, jalapenos, maybe beans).
This is government encroachment into business.
If a business wants to discriminate, that is their right to,, IMHO, which is why I believe the accomodations clauses of the Civil Rights Act in particular are unconstitutional.
Market conditions are enough to dissuade the type of behavior the city deems unlawful.
If one follows his kulot, they need to follow his humrot, as well.
I wouldn’t eat in a DD without a hechsher, but if people do eat donuts from such a place, they’re not technically violating anything, which is why I cited R’ Abadi’s shita.
IIRC, he also says a person could eat a tuna salad sandwich from a treif Subway restaurant and could eat grilled fish in a treif restaurant, under certain conditions
I happen to love good baked beans. And next time you have a shalom zachar, I’d love to come and offer divrei torah v’ bracha and partake of these beans.
I’ve realized a lot about the ideas emanating from YCT lately.
They promote socialism, gun control, and the normalization of homosexuality, things which I cannot accept as a Jew and as a Republican conservative.
Also, R’ Weiss penned an off-putting editorial in the lefty Huffington Post after the shooting in Newtown, calling for gun control.
This is very ironic for the following reason: in his article on Open Orthodoxy in 1997, R’ Weiss condemned the doctrine of “daas torah” on the grounds that rabbis should only speak with authority on areas of halakhic or theological importance. Yet, he is doing exactly the opposite and using his position as a rabbi to advance a particular political agenda. Since when does a rabbi without any legal training dare to express an opinion on a topic he knows little about? Is he an expert on the Second Amendment? I think not.
To their credit, organizations like Agudath Israel thankfully have not added their names to the chorus of statists looking to trample on the U.S. Constitution and on the liberties granted to us by HaShem, namely the right to bear arms.
I also have used the above-mentioned episode as an opportunity to support Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (led by R’ Dovid Bendory, who has numerous semichas), as well as the NRA and the Gun Owners of America.
Also, they call for an increase in the minimum wage, which would be a job killer and according to R’ Dr. Aaron Levine, zt”l, is a concept antithetical to normative Jewish thought and economic common-sense.