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Sushe: Pashtus is no one created or founded Modern Orthodoxy. It was just a different way of reacting to all the terrible losses Yiddishkeit suffered during the Haskalah. The Chasam Sofer’s Derech was to negatively prevent people from leaving by cutting off those still frum from the rest of the world. The other Derech was to embrace the world and positively keep people from leaving by having Frum Jews associate with the rest of the world and see why Judaism is still better than them (I am using the words positive and negative in their literal, and not colloquial, senses). Both have worked for different communities and both have roots in Yiddishkeit going back over a thousand years. There is no real other difference between “Modern” Orthodoxy and “Traditional” Orthodoxy, as some here like to call it.
The Gemara in Chagigah 5b says that Hashem cries for those who can learn but don’t and for those who can’t learn but to. Zees, even you have to agree that there are some taking money to learn who shouldn’t be. I can make that statement and still love Torah very much.
Musser Zoger: The name Ester is also mentioned in the Megillah. That doesn’t make it Hebrew.
YehudahTvzi: Rav Schachter explains why we call the months by those names when according to the Ramban there is an Issur D’Oraisa in naming the months. He says we rename the months as a Zecher to major Geulos. Thus, the numbering go from Pesach and the names from Purim.
We never should say Baruch Shepatrani (Vehamaivin Yavin).
Longarekel: We don’t always Pasken by the Rambam. The Shulchan Aruch does not require Ituf. The Rama is clearly Mechalek between married and unmarried women covering their hair as the Minhag. See the Aruch Hashulchan too. My Mesorah isn’t false. My Mesorah is for my Havara and that Mesorah goes back to the time of the Ge’onim. Such a Mesorah would be Assur for me to go against as the Ge’onim were those who transferred Torah Sheba’al Peh to us. I agree that there are cases where one does not have to wear a Kippah. That being said, the Minhag is strong enough to require it outside a large Sha’as Had’chak.
PBA: You can’t use Shittas Beish Shammai to create a Sfek Sfeika. Aino Mishnah.
Tora Yid: Rav Schachter quotes a Ramban that after Jews have control of Eretz Yisrael for a third time they will never lose it again.
Most Conservatives have Kosher Brisin (unless you’re Chassidish and hold that M’tzitzah B’peh is M’akev Afilu B’dieved, which is a tough Shittah to hold by anyway), so that probably wasn’t a concern. It was a Bris in the building. I think that’s enough to not say Tachanun.
Uneeq: Rav Schachter explains very well why feels that we are able to do such a thing (interestingly enough, he holds based on a Ramban that Yom Ha’atzma’ut is much more important than Yom Yerushalayim.) If you actually are interested, search for it on YUTorah. He’s given the Yom Ha’atzma’ut Shiur many times, I’m sure it’s on there.
Longarekel: “2)Tallis and Tefillin should be worn by mincha, Tallis by maariv. 3)all boys should wear talleisim and cover their head with it. 4)ben shmone esrei l’chupa. 5)One should not live in eretz yisrael today. 6)the yemenite havara is accurate. 7)it is not necessary mai’ikar hadin to wear a yarmulka. 8)there is no mitzva to do kiruv unless the non-religious person is a child or a tinok shenishba. 9)shaving the beard is in most cases an issur d’oraisa many times over. 10)the kashrus industry is (for the most part) treif. being so involved in gashmius is not kosher(like having 35 flavors of potato chips,45 flavors of ice cream etc.) 11)yeshivos should learn tanach and shma’atsa aliba d’hilchisa. I have other opinions which I’ll save for another time.”
I’ll address some of these because I’m not sure where you get them from.
2) The only thing I can disagree with is Tefillin. It’s enough to wear it when the Shulchan Aruch limited it to. If Chazal decided that we are only capable of wearing Tefillin for that little each day, then that’s all we can do.
3) Why? The Mishnah Brurah 91:2? That’s a Zohar that most people who wear Taleisim aren’t even Yotzei anyway.
4) Hal’vei that we can all find the right person by then.
5) I saw your earlier comment on that. It was ridiculous and deserves to response. You created an Aveira to call it a Mitzvah Haba’ah B’aveira.
6) True but irrelevant. We have our Mesorah.
7) You mean because the Nosei Keilim in Siman 2 call it only a Midas Chassidus? See Taz 8:2. And K’lal Yisrael has accepted it as a Minhag. And Orach Chayim 91:3 says that while Davening (and probably learning too) or in a Beis Medrash you need to wear one.
8) I’d be interested to see a source for that. All the Poskim and Gedolim now seem to assume that anyone capable of doing it can. 9) How so? An electric shaver should be Mispara’im K’ein Ta’ar and Muttar (I think, I haven’t learned that Sugya in a very long time).
Sam4: Ain Hachi Nami according to many opinions the men have to leave if there are 1 or 2 there. What can I say to the rest of that? I have P’shat in the Shulchan Aruch and Rishonim backing me.
Yungerman: I have heard of many Heterim. None of them satisfy me.
And it’s a Davar Pashut that women have to answer a Zimun. I hold they really should make their own if no (or 1-2) men are there.
I have gotten huge flak for several of my opinions, though I think they are all correct. I think that all music is Assur, that it’s absolutely Assur to dance on Shabbos (voicing that opinion in Meah Sh’arim once got me an extreme verbal berating by a Chossid), and that 3 women who eat together should always make a Mezuman unless they have a very good reason not to. Should I say more?
Toi: I have been to very few weddings and almost none of them were separate seating (dancing obviously always is). I guess part of the issue is that I don’t feel we need to make our own Gezeiros. If the Poskim don’t decide it’s necessary, who are we to think that we know better than them?
Toi: In theory I don’t disagree with that. In practice I see that more problems than good have come of it.
Moshe Rabbeinu had a grandchild who worshipped A”Z. This should teach us to never judge someone by their descendants.
Adams: What else is the purpose of a date? What’s wrong with that?
DaasYochid: What Issur? And judging by her age, I’m not so sure that the problem you’re thinking of exists.
GAW: This is obviously a “Geder” that the application of has caused serious problems.
The mods didn’t let my detailed Halachic explanation through, but you should ask a Shaila what Issur there is in what your mother is doing. I have a feeling the answer will surprise you.
Toi: I sort of agreed with you until your last sentence. One is the letter of the law while the other distorts the spirit of the law. There is really no “spirit of the law” concept in Judaism. We aren’t Doresh Ta’amah Dikrah. If Halachah tells us something is Muttar or Assur then we listen to that, regardless of whatever feeling someone has as to what the Torah thinks is right or wrong. I’ll give you a perfect example. A growing Baalas Tshuvah once asked me what Hashem wants, that she should fast and lay in bed all day on Yom Kippur or eat a bit and go to Shul? She said that since the point of fasting is only to help us focus on our Tefillos and the day, why should she fast?
I’m only talking M’ikar Hadin though. Granted, if a man sees that he is attracted to a woman sitting in a seat on a bus he should not sit next to her. It very quickly goes from Muttar Lechatchilah to Yeihareh V’al Ya’avor with no middle ground. A person has to have Seichel about it. I don’t think mandating men and women to sit apart is called Seichel. I do think that people realizing their own issues and avoiding them is called Seichel.
Health: What Chiyuv does a girl have to get married? Also, if she doesn’t find the right one then are you saying that she should just marry someone anyway?
Oomis: Oats do not naturally contain gluten. The reason most celiacs can’t eat oats is because most oats almost everywhere in the world have been cross-contaminated with products that do contain gluten.
RK: Rashi also says that Orez isn’t rice…
YehudahTzvi: What do she lose by living with a non-Jew? I would say leave her be.
Health: Now you’re being silly and you know it. Did any of us learn by the Mishnah Brurah or Rav Moshe (well, some of us may have learned by R’ Moshe). Nowadays you can be someone’s Talmid without learning directly from them. Rav Kook has many Talmidim Muvhakim nowadays. That’s not really a disputable fact.
I’m not looking to get married right now. Sounds like a perfect match. :S
Health: I don’t recall seeing any mention of a Sha’as Had’chak, but I will admit that I haven’t looked at it in years. It could be he thinks it’s Muttar even when easily avoidable. In fact, that makes the most sense. Negiyah Derech Chibah is Yeihareg V’al Ya’avor. We wouldn’t be Mattir it just for convenience. This is a case where it’s either Muttar Lechatchilah or Assur B’dieved and there can’t be a middle ground.
And some of us follow the Torah because it’s what HKBH wants from us, not to get a reward in an afterlife.
Health: A Talmid of Rav Kook’s can hold like him, even against the Rov.
“No, we can’t. One day Hashem will reveal the truth. By that time, the ones who are Not on the side of truth will lose. It will be too late for them. I’m almost 100% confident that I’m on the right side! G’luck to you -you’re gonna need it!”
Health: That’s the way that sectarians like the Essenes viewed Judaism. We hold of Eilu V’eilu Divrei Elokim Chayim. So long as someone is Oved Hashem B’chol Kocho and does what he thinks is what Hashem wants through his Mesorah and his understanding of Torah Sheba’al Peh then HKBH views it as if he did everything right, regardless of what will be Paskened in Yemos Hamashiach.
Health: In my Tzitz Eliezer it says it’s perfectly Muttar to sit next to a woman on a bus.
Twisted: There is some sort of Machlokes by almost every one of the 5 Minim. We assume that the 5 are what we have held them to be, even though logically some shouldn’t belong. Also, if gluten is the determining agent, then what is the Machlokes of R’ Yochanan Ben Nuri and the Chachamim by rice?
Sam4: It’s close enough. All of this is pure guesswork (no matter how educated) and can lead to problems if everyone is wrong.
PBA: I don’t think he thinks they’re evil. He just thinks they’re wrong and by going about being wrong in an improper way are making a Chillul Hashem, which I guess you could call evil.
You can say the paragraphs of Shema as loud or quiet as you want, so long as you can hear yourself say the words. (Also, be smart that you’re not so loud as to disturb other people.)
You say the Brachos yourself and then you answer Amen to the Chazzan (whether or not you say Amen to Ohev Amo Yisrael depends on your Minhag). It’s quite possible that if you rely on the Chazzan for Shome’a K’oneh for just those final few words of the Bracha that you were not Yotzei, though P’shat probably is that you still were.
The Gemara says bad things about those who try and figure out when Moshiach will come. This is not a discussion for a public forum.
Longarekel: Might be? Why wouldn’t it be?
Uneeq: Hirhur is Assur no matter what. If it causes you Hirhur then avoid it. But we don’t assume that another woman will cause Hirhur for a woman.
If only Chareidim rode these buses they should be accommodated. But non-Chareidi women ride the buses too. So what makes the Chareidim stronger that their being insulted “Halachically” is more important than the women being insulted?
Longarekel: There is no Issur of sitting on the same side of the bus as a woman. Anyone with a decent knowledge of Halachah knows that. Rav Moshe and the Tzitz Eliezer both have T’shuvos being Mattir sitting actually next to a woman.
CA: Shittuf is A”Z even for non-Jews. I think that’s fairly Pashut, actually.
See the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch on Lo Sechonaim and I’ll assume that the Minhag relies on him.
Assume it doesn’t mean anything and ignore it. If it scares you anyway, fast the next day.
Longarekel: Just because you can make a decent logical case for it does not change how it looks to the world.
Health: I think your issue is that you seem to view almost any type of disagreement as degrading and a personal attack.
Loyal Jew: Darchei Ha’emori? The rest I hear (well, maybe not Mar’is Ayin), but how do you get Darchei Ha’emori?
People quoting the Issur of going to Roman stadiums have to realize the difference between the events that took place there and between sporting events. I’m not saying it makes a difference Halachah Lema’aseh, but at the very least it’s a distinction that must be noted.
Learn how to make lots of rice-based meals and get good practice at reading labels. Avoiding accidental gluten ingestion is much more important than finding fancy or look-alike food for him/her to eat.
Yitay: Isn’t there a case in the S”A about grinding up infested wheat into flour that it’s okay because you’re not Mechaven to be Mevatel?
Shidduch Girl: They say moving on just takes time. He obviously wasn’t the right one. When you meet someone who is, then this previous relationship won’t matter anymore. Until then, it’s just a matter of fighting through it and waiting for the right time.
BP: Really? It never matters to me because all of our Chametz is gone by then but I feel like they always give the Gra’s Zman for sof Achilas Chametz.
DaasYochid: Or they feel that the Shittah of the Magen Avraham was completely Nidcheh by the GR”A and therefore isn’t something to worry about even Lechatchilah. Not every Machlokes is an opening for a Chumra. (Although I did find a Tosafos Rabbeinu Peretz in the beginning of Pesachim that agrees with the M”A.)