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Naisberg: And that’s what we call Motzi Shem Rah.
The author actually explained himself quite well, or so I was told. He doesn’t like emotional responses and wants everyone to think about things logically. While he is still wrong even with his mindset (human beings should never make any decisions based purely on emotion unless they can understand them first), if you understand what he’s going for then he really only comes down to being a complete jerk and not a neo-nazi antisemite, as apparently he has been called all over campus these past few days.
A piece so controversial that even the Beacon had to close its comments section and you want to discuss it here? Oh boy.
BTGuy: Don’t fall into the fallacy of assuming that anything that affected/works for you will work the same way for everyone else.
Uneeq: That at least has a source in the Gemara. And there are stories about people getting sick because meat needs to be prepared at higher temperatures and bacteria that are harmless in fish actually causing people to get sick when they touch meat and stuff like that. Also, you might be surprised by the answer Rav Schachter gave to someone who asked if it’s okay to eat fish and meat together…
Stay sober and actually enjoy myself.
Uneeq: There are no conclusive studies because no one cares enough to do it. Everyone knows there’s no problem. When someone has a decent study against it I’ll start worrying.
Someone on the page of the Shulchan Aruch points out that even if you hold fish and milk is a Sakanah then fish and butter isn’t (cream cheese probably counts as butter).
Uneeq: Keivan D’dashu Bei Rabim Pok Chazi Mai Ima Davar, regardless of what the doctors currently say (and no one says that it’s actually harmful; there are just some small inconclusive studies).
I think you spelled y’all wrong. 🙂
We usually assume Yeish Omrims in Gemaras like that Betoras Vadai.
Chacham: Someone specifically asked Rav Schachter in a Shiur a few years ago that according to the Rashba who Rav Schachter holds by for Bal Tigrah (he didn’t quote any opposing Rishonim if I recall correctly) that Bal Tosif and Bal Tigrah are not at all opposite sides of the same coin. In fact, they are very different. You cannot be Over on Bal Tigrah according to the Rashba unless you also fulfill the Mitzvah but not Bishleimusah.
Uneeq: I’ve never seen a tshuva that quotes modern doctors.
You’ve never looked at a contemporary T’shuva?
It doesn’t. Stealing is stealing unless it’s one of those tiny bottles where the hotel expects every patron to walk out with them.
Hello: I am saying that from what I was told by many people that some places (in Europe especially) refuse to give organs to Jews/Israelis because organ donors themselves have preference for receiving organs and that they think that all Jews refuse to donate organs. That’s the Eivah I’m talking about and it’s quite direct. Although you are correct in this case in that any Melacha for a Refuah can be turned into a Melachah Sh’ein Tzarich L’gufa. Does the Chassam Sofer actually say that himself though? I feel like it’s one of his Tzdadim maybe but I don’t quite recall.
YD: Isn’t this Mefurash in the Shulchan Aruch?
Rav Schachter also Paskens (I think he published this in Ginas Egoz) that you are Over on Bal Tigrah if you wear Lavan without T’cheiles and therefore he says that it’s better to wear no Tzitzis at all than to wear Lavan without T’cheiles.
My swordfish post didn’t make it through. Oh well. I didn’t expect it to. Rav Elyashiv was once shown a swordfish though and said that it was Kosher.
Rabbi Baruch Simon (author of Imrei Baruch on Chumash) is also on YUTorah and might be what you are looking for.
Uneeq: Yes, but if it’s Assur Mishum Sakanah and we know that the Sakanah no longer exists then the Issur goes away completely.
Listen to Rav Schachter every day on YUTorah.
Chavivin Tzadikim B’misasam Yoser Mib’chayeihem. Also, this seems Assur. You are not allowed to actively give up your life to save someone else. It’s a lack of appreciation of the time Hashem gave you and trying to flout His will for the time He gave R’ Elyashiv.
Hershi: You’re ignoring my Maharitatz and the fact that a Beis Din capable of doing this would have to be accepted by the entire community it presides over.
DH: I think he was only referring to the later Kabbalah movement (13th-17th centuries and continued by Chassidus). I would be shocked if he was referring to anything in the Gemara and if he was then his opinion should just be entirely discounted anyway.
You’re really complaining about kids having too much candy on Purim when the adults are all having far too much of things much, much worse?
At one point people thought it was a Sakanah. The Beis Yosef brings it down (in the Siman about Basar B’chalav, not Sakanos if I recall correctly), though many later sources think it’s a typo and should read fish and meat (to keep in line with the Siman about Sakanos), not fish and milk.
Hello99: I love that Mareh Makom and would love to say it Lema’aseh (unfortunately, I don’t have that Koach; I do think it’s an amazing P’shat in the Gemara though). I take it a step further too. The Gemara says Afilu Beyom Hakippurim B’afilu B’shabbos because it’s Pikuach Nefesh and therefore Muttar even on Shabbos and Y”K.
There are endless articles and publications about why specifically countries and people won’t give organs to Jews/Israelis because Jews refuse to donate organs. Look around online if you have the stomach to read anti-Semitic writings.
Longarekel: And the point that they’re missing is that that’s mostly because there are more Jews in Israel than anywhere else.
Giving money and showing political support that hurts Israel (and by extension Jews) in the political forum. Also, why go to Israel’s enemies when they have more powerful allies who will support us.
Msseeker: Yes, many. A friend of mine has (not) gone on 4 dates already because the girl refused to wear a seat belt so he refused to take them anywhere. I have gotten people to speak to the administration of more than one seminary in E”Y because there were teachers there telling the girls it’s Assur to wear seat belts because it’s not Tznius. When one of the teachers heard of my complaints he responded that Giluy Arayos is Yeihareg V’al Ya’avor.
No one is applauding her C”V (I hope). Everyone agrees she clearly exaggerated some things or took them out of context to paint them in a bad light. That doesn’t mean that everything she said is inherently 100% false. Some posters are just trying to figure out what she said that was true and what she lied about. The best thing to do with people like her is ignore them anyway.
The seat belt thing wouldn’t shock me. I know many people who were taught in high school not to wear seat belts because it’s not Tznius. I would not be surprised if Satmar said the same.
All languages are Machlokes-inducing because all people naturally get along better with people of the same language. What I think the OP meant is that Yiddish has an added element that some people (very few of them B”H) unfortunately think that you are only a “real Jew” (not my words, it’s what’s been said to me in the past) if you speak Yiddish.
YD: And Jews didn’t live through Jewish-targeted terrorism (pogroms) throughout our history in Europe?
I heard that it’s a nice little out-of-the-way town in Michigan. And yes, Hell freezes over almost every year.
YMB: I’ll give you another person who went to the Romans: Bar Kamtza. There is a right way and a wrong way and a right time and wrong time to meet and negotiate with our enemies. Most people seem to think that what the NK are doing (actively supporting someone who wants to kill lots of Jews) falls under the “wrong way” category.
This is a Gemara in Brachos (I don’t remember the Daf) and the Artscroll commentary there deals with possible discrepancies and different opinions about which bones to count.
Health: I’d guess 9/11. And more Jews died on that day than in a year of terrorism in Israel. And Jews are murder victims in this and other countries just like anyone else can be.
Avram: I like to take it further than that. According to some Rishonim (Rashi and several Ba’alei Hatosafos) we are all Apikorsim because we believe that HKBH doesn’t have a body (See the Rash on Chavivin Adam Shenivra B’tzelem if I recall correctly). According to many Rishonim (Rav Saadiah, the Rambam, and everyone who followed their line) we would all be Apikorsim if we believed that HKBH does have a body. We manage to get through that while still being fine Jews. So why should we worry about what everyone says on everything else. We Pasken like our Mesorah and some other people have Kulos and some have Chumros. That doesn’t make anyone any better or worse than anyone else. It just means they Pasken differently.
YMB: Your logic is flawed. More Jews are killed or get in trouble in Israel than anywhere else because there are more Jews there than anywhere else. The Rubashkin, Madoff, etc. stories all increased anti-Semitism, and they had nothing to do with Jews from Israel causing problems.
Hello: I was unaware of that Mishnah Berurah. Rav Schachter always quotes that Chassam Sofer Lehalachah. We see that the Eivah exists and that it comes from the perception that Jews refuse to donate organs to save lives. Anything we can do to change that perception helps. Besides, if the Chareidi population of E”Y would be willing to be post-cardiac (and only post-cardiac) death organ donors then I guarantee you that the Israeli doctors would start using their organs. They have no other choice. So even if the Metzius in E”Y is as mentioned above, it could very easily be changed, especially if the Poskim would say that post-cardiac death harvesting is allowed.
And just as an amazing Mar’eh Makom, see the Ben Yehoyadah on Pesaching 49b, I think.
RK: I thought the same thing and asked that to Rav Schachter. He quoted Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach that if someone who suffers cardiac arrest’s heartbeat returns then Iglaui Milsa Lemafreah that he was never really dead. An arrhythmic heartbeat doesn’t cause Halachic death. This would be the same as a really long arrhythmic heartbeat.
Zeeskite: The best way to defend Hashem’s honor is to ignore her and continue to live your life as a Torah-true Jew. Shouting about it rarely has a positive effect on people and will more likely lead people to believe that Frum Jews are actually as she claims them to be.
Any people who are actual bad drivers are close to being Rodphim. A person who is a bad driver has to recognize himself as such and stay off the roads.
Hello: I meant the Sakanah was for Jews in E”Y, not the Poskim there. Sorry. That’s my fault. And it’s a famous T’shuvah in the Chassam Sofer about a doctor on Shabbos. I don’t remember the precise Siman.
Hello: As DaasYochid said, we allow people to be Mechalel Shabbos Mishum Eivah, even in cases where the Poskim mention possible good excuses that can be given. And I haven’t looked into this in at least a year, but I was informed when I did that there was a way (at least in the places that I asked lawyers and doctors about) to have a card that says that organs can only be taken after cardiac death. And I already amended to say that I only did this in America, not Israel, so I didn’t accuse the Poskim in Israel of anything. I apologize if it was taken that way.
Greatest: It is Mefursam the reason why R’ Kamenetzky didn’t keep Gebrochts, and it had nothing to do with a Minhag that started in the 17th century.
Greatest: Even if we were not ruled by non-Jews this wouldn’t be applicable because nowadays, Rachmana Litzlan, Klal Yisrael appears to be incapable of picking a Beis Din that would be Muskam to everyone. Each community would be able to create such a Beis Din for themselves though.
Yungerman: Can you source where we know that about the CH”CH from? It seems very strange. Gebrochts is, at the very best, Minhag that is a Chumra B’li Ta’am.
The Chassidishe Gatesheader: I could not have said that better myself. I have attempted to say that same thing many times in many situations. Well done.
I saw today that the Kitzur (48:6 if I recall correctly) also specifically said that soft pretzels were Hamotzi.