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I was wondering the same. A quick Google search showed that it was really a Thai woman who was purported to be expecting but that was false. She’s freed and isn’t pregnant.
I have a LG Wine phone I like a lot. No QWERTY but you’ll survive. It has hotspot capabilities. It has a browser but it’s pretty bad. I’m sure TAG can remove it for you if you’re tempted.
I’m not sure I understand the question. You don’t fly El Al, when it’s been 20 years since you last did? Where’d that policy come from? Kosher meals are like on any other flight, why would it be different?
This is a weird question. There are zero statistics regarding this.
Sivlonos?
All I see on their site is Nefesh BNefesh trying to market towards American charedis considering aliyah. It says they’re going to have two zoom seminars discussing frum schools and frum communities.
Many sefardim don’t eat it either. It’s not used by most charedim if I’m not mistaken
I don’t see why every home NEEDS a Rambam and Piskei Teshuvos…
Jews from all backgrounds are welcome to make aliyah to Israel, so you’re full of nonsense.
Professor Marc Shapiro on seforimblog brings from Rabbi Mondshine that the Torah Temimah never saw Mayan Ganim. Here’s a quote (I’d post a link but links are forbidden):
“Yet”The truth is that Epstein never even saw the book and thus did not know the true nature of Ma’ayan Ganim. He learnt of the relevant passage, which he places in Rayna Batya’s mouth, from an article that appeared in Ha-Tzefirah in 1894. We see this from the fact that the Ha-Tzefirah quotation mistakenly omits some words, and the same words are omitted in Mekor Barukh. This shows that his knowledge of this book came in 1894 and that he never discussed it with Rayna Batya, who died many years prior to this.”
Many of us frum Jews are incredulous and even horrified when we look around the world and see people having zero concern for the health and wellbeing of those who are high risk at getting seriously ill from a highly contagious disease.
I know a Rav who was makpid to stop this tune in his shul for this reason
@TristateJew you can smell an unfounded conspiracy theory a mile away when someone says the words “but the information is being hidden from you”.
Who is hiding it? Why would they? What do they have to gain? Why are you the only one blessed with the knowledge of the truth?
The fact that you said the vaccine isn’t FDA approved proves you don’t know what you’re talking about. Your false information is dangerous and everyone should ignore it.
@torahvaluesoverparty I think the point was if you tell people to take an unproven medication to stop corona instead of a proven vaccine, people will needlessly die. Not that HCQ is itself dangerous but that it’s a red herring to what will really put a dent in this pandemic.
Everyone should ignore aoish3x3. They are a serial troll on another Judaism site I frequent. They posted this there as well.
Also 0.1% of the US population dead, as opposed to 0.04% of the population in Israel doesn’t sound like the laissez-faire attitude worked in anyone’s favor.
The mutated virus hasn’t really affected the US as of yet. Israel is always the trend setter with this pandemic. Everything happens there first. So no Raya.
Rafi Hecht I’m surprised you’re asking considering you have a website devoted to techeiles. You seem to be holding.
In any event HaRav Shlomo Miller wrote that one reason not to wear techeiles today is that there’s a chashash Bal tosif since according to the Rambam only one string should have techeiles. If someone only put on one string then it’s Bal Tigra according to other Rishonim. I mamash don’t get it though since the Mishnah Berurah already paskened like Rashi and Tosafos to have four strings of techeiles…
No one is surprised there is a second wave. It was expected from the beginning. That’s how these types of contagious diseases work…
I assume Meorot is very good because the Rosh Medrasha is terrific. Be in touch with them if they take someone converting.
I feel like most seminaries won’t take someone who hasn’t converted yet. Even someone Jewish would need to be fully observant in most seminaries. Seminaries for baalos teshuva would be ideal for someone Jewish, but are usually for someone after college. There’s Meorot though for post high school.
You’re late to the game. Reform and conservative Judaism have been misusing this term for decades.
Btw it doesn’t only appear in aleinu. Have you learned nefesh hachaim?
Yserbius123 everyone holds its murder for a goy. It’s a machlokes if it’s murder for yidden, even though all agree it’s assur
I find it interesting that Joseph has failed to comment on my point. Shtika kehodaah?
@Joseph they also encouraged getting married at 14. No gadol today would advocate that, and you know it. Times have changed.
@RebYidd23 you can’t make decisions for your kids, but it is a parent’s responsibility to try to stop their kids from making irresponsible and reckless life decisions, that affect others as well as themselves. Plus, if they want support (which at 18/21 they’ll need), they’d best listen to their parents.
Unfortunately divorce rates in the Frum community are on the rise. I believe this is because many people are not prepared for what marriage is about, and have false expectations. When those expectations aren’t met, they think they made a mistake, and end things. They don’t realize that divorce won’t solve their misconceptions.
I believe very strongly that encouraging 21 year old boys to get married is just going to exasperate the problem. They’re even less likely to be mature enough to know what it takes to have a successful marriage.
I think a better solution for the shidduch crisis is remove the arbitrary and ridiculous stigma against dating a girl older than you. The 24 year old guys should be encouraged to date 24 year old girls, and above. Obviously not a 40 year old woman, but a year or two is no big deal, and a 26 year old with G-d’s help can have many children. So that’s no excuse
I don’t know why you assume that they don’t work a regular full time amount. If anything they work overtime.
Rav Moshe holds חירות is only expressed through an intoxicating beverage. Grape juice doesn’t cut it for him. Not everyone agrees.
@CTRebbe I’ve read teshuvos from chashuve poskim who disagree with some of your assumptions. I don’t necessarily agree with them though, as other poskim who I usually follow argue.
In any event your statement about being motzi them in kiddush is misleading. You don’t need arvus to be motzi others. Only if you were already yotzi do you need arvus to be motzi. So when you make kiddush for the first time, you can be motzi them even if they aren’t subject to arvus (yes I know about the MA and bring yotzi kiddush with Maariv; the MB and AH argue vehemently against it).
Also teshuva is irrelevant to the discussion. Even if certain “club benefits” don’t apply to them, they’re still obligated in the Torah, which last I checked included teshuva.
Regardless, you have failed to show how any of these aveiros, no matter how repulsive they are, are lehachis. You’re basically saying any aveira that offends you is lehachis, which is ridiculous.
@its time for truth you’re lumping together mitzvos sichlios like murder with chukim like arayos. It’s not normal to have taavos to kill, so there’s no excuse. It’s normal to have taavos for many of the arayos, and contrary to what you believe for some reason a miut hamatzui have taavos for the same gender.
@its time for truth, what lie are you accusing me of? You still haven’t provided a source.
@divri hayamim that’s quite the jump. It’s one thing to say it’s not so common and quite a different thing to say it never happened. It’s quite clear from our history that there were those who were mumarim lehachis. Read the Chumash. I don’t see how these individuals are lehachis, unless you redefine it the way It’ss time for truth has, which essentially makes most avaryonim lehachis, when they are clearly mumarim leteiavon.
I’m not tolerating any aveiros but I can’t accept someone’s claim that anyone who is under the control of their yetzer and rationalized their aveiros to the point where they don’t feel guilty for what they do (shana bah hutar lo) is called lehachis. The word literally means to spite or anger Hashem, and no one here is as far as I know doing that. Only someone irrational would. It’s not irrational to follow your yetzer hara, just a bad decision.
@its time for truth, again please provide a source for your definition as I find it grossly mistaken.
Yes, everyone can rationalize what they’re doing. You’re proving my point that your statement that they’re lehachis is presumptuous.
@divri hayamim source? You don’t know their intentions. As I said, maybe they’ve rationalized to themselves it’s muttar. I know of one famous “Orthodox Gay Rabbi” where he was megaleh panim batorah shelo kahalacha and explained the pesukim in vayikra in a way which permitted his lifestyle. I’m not confining this, just giving an example where people can rationalize their behavior without intent lehachis…or they just gave up on that one mitzvah in an extreme way (adopting it as a lifestyle), I don’t see why that’s not leteiavon.
@It is Time for Truth I don’t know why you think a congregation of those who identity as LGBT Orthodox Jews are living their lifestyle lehachis. It would leteiavon, and/or they rationalize why it’s not assur.
According to David Rosenthal, who wrote the book why Open Orthodoxy is not Orthodox, writes:
“Moskowitz is a former senior educator of Uri L’Tzedek, an “Orthodox social justice organization” founded and run by YCT graduates.”
I previously read a headline that a Rabbi associated with Open Orthodoxy took this position. Now I see this thread claiming a frum Jew took this position. Which should I believe? Where does he really align himself?
While I admit my anecdotal evidence isn’t worth much (for many reasons), I feel the need to point out that I know hundreds of BTs and only 2-3 found out they weren’t Jewish and needed giyur. I don’t know that any of them turned out to be mamzerim, but people don’t tend to bring that up…many of them got married so I assume they or the mesader kiddushin looked into it
I don’t get it. You want to date American girls while living in Israel? Or you want to date American girls who live in Israel? There are plenty of good shadchanim in Israel who help Anglos. Why deal with time zone issues?
@samthenylic the exceptional cases such as the one you describes have no bearing on the majority of cases where thousands of bochurim have positive experiences in yeshivos in Israel and shteig away. No need to scare others.
@shuali not sure where you got your facts from. The same gemarra in Kesubos that says to compliment the kallah describes amoraim entertaining the couple with various dances, props and gestures. I believe Tosafos in Sukkah describes how they used to joust on horseback to entertain the couple.
the concept of the shechina resting in a tzaddik just like in the beis hamikdosh is found in nefesh hachaim (my favorite litvishe Sefer). See nefesh hachaim 1:4 in the hago I quote
לזאת הרי כי ודאי עיקר ענין הקדש והמקדש ושריית שכינתו ית’ הוא האדם שאם יתקדש עצמו כראוי בקיום המצות כולן שהם תלויין ג”כ בשורשן העליון אז הוא עצמו המקדש ממש *ובתוכו* ה’ ית”ש
By that logic one can daven TO the beis hamikdash. As far as I know, Lubavitch doesn’t advocate for that. It’s one thing to daven towards it or to have the makom Hamikdash in mind, but not to daven to the building Chas veshalom.
Therefore it is clear to me that this is a misappropriation of the teaching of the Nefesh Hachaim, and him saying the shechina rests in a tzaddik clearly doesn’t include permission to daven to him.
@aww I’m just giving a practical nafka minah between the ability to tack on the title shlita and what the Nefesh Hachaim is referring to.
@aww no one says Moshe Rabbeinu shlita. There’s a clear difference between what the Nefesh Hachaim writes and claiming that someone is alive to the point that they can/will be Moshiach. Using that quote it would make more sense to say Dovid Hamelech is moshiach, as he is still alive.
I just read that a soldier was hospitalized because people threw rocks at his tank, causing him to hit a lamp post. I don’t know if there was any protests against this behaviour.