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All food gives energy. It’s called calories.
PBA: If the corn bread is always made in this Fleishig pan and corn bread is easily distinguishable as corn bread, then being corn bread itself would inherently count as a different Tzurah. (This is entirely Leshitascha. I think that this wouldn’t apply to corn bread or any other bread not from the 5 Minim.)
RT: There are (two, precisely, a Sefer Chassidim and a Machzor Vitry) sources in the Rishonim for drinking Purim night. That doesn’t give people a legitimate excuse to get retardedly drunk though.
Anything that keeps people from doing stupid things Purim night should be a good Z’chus.
Who cares?
PBA: See the Beis Yosef in this Siman. It’s definitely Assur to reach Shichruso Shel Lot.
HaLeiVi: The Rama is only a misconception if you assume he’s actually learning from the Rambam. If he just says to drink a little and gives an Eitzah for when you will be Ad D’lo Yada then people read him correctly.
PBA: The G’zeira is because Ki Al Halechem Yichyeh Ha’adam. I assume that doesn’t apply to corn bread, but I guess it could. I guess that could bear research.
Pesachim 40something, I think (and it’s in Brachos too) mentions that a Zaken or Choleh can even soak his Matzah in water so it’s easier to chew. And, as mentioned above, saliva is Mechametz. Thus, to really hold Gebrochts you couldn’t let Matzah come in contact with your saliva.
PBA: I would think that doesn’t apply to corn bread.
Orach Chayim Siman 99, I believe.
BTGuy: You’re still a Jew. I see that as a Chisaron in your community (no community is perfect though; Hal’vei that’s the worst of your community’s problems), not your dress. Especially if you were sick. It’s not like you were doing it to cause trouble.
YD and Sushe: No sources exist saying that they shouldn’t. It’s clear everywhere from the Gemara on down that it’s a R’shus. They can do it if they want. The Rosh (quoted in the Be’ur Halacha) even goes farther to say that they should, but not quite have to. The only reason people Assur it nowadays is because there are many who do it for feminist and non-Halachic reasons, and therefore people want to keep Halacha-keeping women away from that. There is no source, anywhere, with any valid Halachic reason, not to. It’s entirely a thing to keep us away from those trying to change Yiddishkeit. So if a woman does it (And I think they should; why not? It’s a Mitzvah that Pashtus is a Safek Kiyum D’Oraisa.), just don’t make a big deal out of it. If you want to do it then the point isn’t to make waves or say that women are the same as men. If you do it, do it because it’s a Mitzvah and don’t make a huge deal about it in your community.
PBA: Maybe you and your friends are members of the select few for whom getting retardedly drunk isn’t inherently Holelus and Shtus. Maybe, but I highly doubt it. And your cheap shot at the Me’iri is not appreciated.
Rav Schachter is almost always available by phone.
PBA: The Be’ur Halachah rants against it for a reason. The only Mareh Makom the B”Y brings down in this Siman is that drinking is always Assur. It’s a disgusting practice that leads to injuries and damages every year and sometimes even deaths. It’s unhealthy, unsafe, and stupid. There is a reason so many of the Gedolei Ha’achronim tried to limit what Ad D’lo Yadah means. We should not ignore that just because it’s fun to get drunk once a year.
Logician: Ah, there’s the important part. You said “what you want to eat”. The Halachah says Eid Echad Ne’eman. The food is Muttar. Whether you want to eat it or not is entirely up to you.
Fedup: It is also well known why R’ Kamenetzky didn’t eat Gebrochts and it had nothing to do with a Chumra/Minhag by Chametz on Pesach.
PBA: Yeah, but on your list you include many Poskim who don’t say Ad D’lo Yada Kipshuto, so of course they wouldn’t count not using wine.
See the Beis Yosef in this Siman. It’s Assur to get drunk. Ever.
It’s an explicit Mishnah. You have to be Modeh Al Hara’ah just like for Tovah.
Why should Purim be Mattir an Issur D’oraisa of Beged Ish/Ishah?
Logician: If he gives it to you he is saying that it is Kosher by your standards. Unless you really wan’t to call everyone who doesn’t keep every Kashrush Chumrah that you do “Chashud Al Hadavar” then it should be fine Halachically to eat. If you know that their standards are different and that they would give you something that you wouldn’t eat, then they’re either terrible friends or probably shouldn’t be giving you Shaloch Manos in the first place. But the Halachah says that as long as they are Torah-observant Jews you can trust them.
In the Spiders Web could keep him interested for weeks. A lot of mature content, but no Pritzus.
BTGuy: You saw kids throw rocks at someone and you still want to defend the community’s standards as a whole?
YD: We don’t. A lot of cities in Eretz Yisroel actually read twice where there is minimal archaeological evidence but some that may imply walls.
Logician: Not true. Ma Shekan’sa Isha Kana Ba’alah (Gittin 77b and other places).
Sushe: It doesn’t. Women are Chayav in Kol Mitzvos Hayom, even those that are Z’man Grama because Af Hein Hayu B’oso Hanes (Safek).
Fedup: Look up the history of Gebrochts. People may have kept it throughout the past 10 or so generations for whatever reason, but I think that someone is decently justified if they want to call it a Minhag Shtus. It’s a 300-year old Minhag against Mefurash Gemaros. You can’t get much more of a Minhag Ta’us than that.
Toi: But why does everyone get to/think they get to decide the “spirit of the law” based on whatever they personally feel.
Yankee Doodle: I’m not disagreeing with your point. There are plenty of people who do that too. That doesn’t change the validity of mine. Both are serious problems.
I have a rant from another thread that I think fits perfectly here, so I’ll just cut-and-paste it.
My real problem is this: far too many people in Yiddishkeit nowadays decide that whatever they’re uncomfortable with is Assur. What happened to just not doing something that you feel is a Nisayon for you? I have a Nisayon with problem Y. So I know for myself to avoid situations where Y could occur. Does that mean that I have to try and get the whole world to think that Y is Assur? Apparently, many people throughout the Frum world think yes. Rav Schachter always quotes the Mesilas Yesharim that someone has to realize what his Nisyonos are and make Gedarim for himself to avoid falling in. And this Nisyonos are different for every person. So why is it that everyone suddenly thinks that if they have a Nisayon they have to make a Geder for the whole K’lal?
If your Minhag is a Minhag Ta’us then you can change it, even Lekula. Of course, waiting 3 hours is a Ta’us based on a typo in the Rabbeinu Yerucham, so no one should ever change to 3 hours (even if you used to wait one). But a Minhag Ta’us can be changed. Anything else needs a Hataras Nedarim and probably to ask a Shaila about as well.
Loyal Jew: So not to be Motzi La’az on Doros Harishonim only applies to the Gedolim? No wonder you have no problem saying that everyone who came before us wasn’t frum.
BTGuy: My point was that if you’re in a community that has decided to look down on jeans that’s why “mothers pull children away from you” when you where jeans, and therefore you (and the community) see jeans as being something that shows a person a mother should keep their kids away from, which is because the community looks down on jeans, which is because jeans show something bad about the person, which is because people look down on jeans, etc.
I believe that you think what you said it true based on your experiences. You view yourself in a certain way when you wear jeans and therefore think that everyone else views you in the same way.
My real problem is this: far too many people in Yiddishkeit nowadays decide that whatever they’re uncomfortable with is Assur. What happened to just not doing something that you feel is a Nisayon for you? I have a Nisayon with problem Y. So I know for myself to avoid situations where Y could occur. Does that mean that I have to try and get the whole world to think that Y is Assur? Apparently, many people here (and throughout the Frum world) think yes. Rav Schachter always quotes the Mesilas Yesharim that someone has to realize what his Nisyonos are and make Gedarim for himself to avoid falling in. And this Nisyonos are different for every person. So why is it that everyone suddenly thinks that if they have a Nisayon they have to make a Geder for the whole K’lal? I would never tell you to wear jeans. You see a problem with yourself when you wear jeans. It makes you feel lower about yourself and more willing to do improper things. Okay, so now that you realize that you should choose not to wear jeans. That doesn’t, however, mean that it has the same effect on everyone (or anyone) else. So don’t wear jeans. But don’t tell everyone else that they shouldn’t either (which was very much the vibe I got from your post). That was my point.
Sushe: You’re not. But you might finish really quickly.
Tintin is an absolutely excellent suggestion, and one that he will probably re-read more than once. It’s a graphic novel (comic book) but I don’t think there’s a single instance of something not-Tznius there.
Ad’raba. You should feel guilty if you say yes when you shouldn’t. No matter what, as long as you made the right decision it will turn out best for both of you in the long run.
The only reason to have a cell phone on in Shul is for an emergency (e.g. sick family member, pregnant wife, etc.) or if you have Davening on your phone and only then if you block incoming calls/texts. I can’t think of any other reason to ever have on (though I guess another one or two on those level could exist that I just didn’t think of).
Eid Echad Ne’eman B’issurim.
BTGuy: I don’t think that’s true. If I had to guess, I’d say you’re projecting how you look at yourself on others (or you’re in a community which looks down on that type of dress, in which case your logic is circular).
Loyal Jew: There is a concept in Halacha not to introduce Chumros so as not to be Motzi La’az Al Doros Harishonim. Apparently your outlook is to throw the Doros Harishonim under the bus altogether.
For someone who doesn’t read non-Jewish books at all I wouldn’t recommend Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. They are clean by almost all standards, but I would definitely understand if someone found some stuff in there objectionable (especially Nancy Drew). I would go with a young adult version of old Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
Gefen: That’s also against an explicit Gemara. You can’t change Hashem’s Gezeira either way (but a Tzibbor can change for the better but not for the worse), but it can be mitigated both ways. Meaning, a Bracha can change to come at a time where it isn’t really a Bracha and a K’lala can be changed to a form where it’s actually beneficial.
Logician: The sources are everything in Judaism. We’re not smarter or more logically inclined than these Rishonim. There’s no need to “make sense of them”. They make perfect sense on their own.
Gefen: I believe the standard assumption is that there are three categories: Someone who deserves to die now (whether because of Aveiros or because it was just his time) who will die now no matter what; someone who doesn’t deserve to die now but someone else uses their Bechirah to kill them, who will also die; and someone who deserves to live, meaning that they have enough Zechuyos or for whatever reason Hashem decides to save them (possibly miraculously) even if someone wants to take their life. Very, very few people fit into the third category, and it’s possible that nowadays even no one does.
Gefen: It’s a Mefurash Machlokes Rishonim (Tosfos and Rabbeinu Bachya) as to whether someone has Bechirah to kill himself before his time. This is extended to the Bechirah to kill someone else before his time. The majority seems to be like Tosfos that someone has the Bechirah to take someone else’s life before their determined time. In my opinion, there is also a story in a Gemara that is almost explicit like Tosfos.
The Minhag almost everywhere for many years was that a Yahrtzeit has preference over anything, even Shloshim (and that’s how it’s brought down in the Kitzur). The M”B Paskens that Shloshim goes before Yahrtzeit. So nowadays, where Rabbis don’t know the Minhag and look up to Pasken out of the M”B, the Minhag is slowly changing that a Shloshim goes before a Yahrtzeit.
Avi K: Assering red is a misreading of that Rama.
The French Revolution attempted to create a 10-day week.
PBA: An accurate summation.
More: That’s a common misconception but wrong. You need to wash your hands once after cutting your nails (for some borderline N’kiyus/Ruach Rah issue) and nowhere does it say that you cannot learn after doing so.
The Beacon reflects nothing on YU. It is now basically a group of editors who will publish any “good writing”, no matter how controversial, and now has writers from places all over the country. It is no longer even limited to the YU student body. They YU student body’s reaction to this piece shows much more about YU than this piece ever should.