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Maybe your assumptions fuel your conclusion.
old man: I’m not positive, but doesn’t the Gemara in Menachos say that the wrong order is Me’akev?
PBA: Last I checked, the Wikipedia article on the legal history of marijuana in the United States is good enough to get the point across, though there have been some editing wars between pro-pot and anti-pot people on it. I think editing is locked now.
PBA: At least learn the history of why marijuana is illegal. I do think that the FDA and the government are being honest, but those with Taanos aren’t crazy. It’s an interesting story.
mentsch: You are very, very incorrect.
I am aware that the main reason the battle took place was to kick out the greeks and abolish their edicts.
That said, the main hashkafic reason we have a holiday of chanukah is to commemorate our victory over greek culture. Chanukah is not a celebration of a military victory.
Have you read Al HaNisim recently?
The mefarshim ask the question of how goyim can be metamei the pach shemen and the answer given is that it was tamei because of the hellinistic jews. This was a war against an influx of foreign culture and that it still what it is.
I have no idea what you are saying. Non-Jews are Metamei Kodshim by touching or moving them. That’s a Gezeirah D’Rabannan
I would be glad for anyone to prove me wrong. But it would shock me. Nothing I have ever seen has ever even implied a tolerance of chazal of imitating or integrating any foreign culture.
Chazal don’t like Greek culture, but that came much later than the Channukah story. Chazal have some (albeit very few) nice statements about some things that some foreign cultures do, notably the Persians.
Those familiar with the controversy over moreh nevuchim know that one of the main sources of contention by other reshonim was the RAMBAM’s respect for greek philosophy. And thats just thought, certainly no one tolerates practice.
The biggest Taanos on the Moreh Nevuchim were how he defined HKBH and Olam Habah and similar things, not because he quotes and respects Aristotle. And it’s not just “thought”. If you were familiar with the controversy over the Moreh (and Yesodei Hatorah in the Yad), you would know that the Rambam says that these “thoughts” are far more integral to being a Jew than any actions.
mentsch: You’re against B’feirush Gemaras. Chazal Assered Greek culture 100+ years after the Chanukah story as a direct response to something that happened. It’s very clear that they didn’t outlaw Greek culture at the time of Chanukah.
DY and GAW: No. Meshaneh Halachos is the proper grammatical way to say R’ Menasheh Klein’s Tshuvos. People say Mishneh Halachos but they’re wrong. Mishneh Halachos means repetition of Halachos. It’s a noun. The verb “Leshanot” means “to change” in modern Hebrew but meant “to learn” or “to teach” or “to repeat” in Mishnaic Hebrew. So “Meshaneh Halachos” is a verb meaning that these Teshuvos are teaching over Halachos.
I don’t know the exact Chelek. I never saw it inside, just a pdf.
DY: I think the Meshaneh Halachos says that eating Chinese food is Assur because it’s “Goyish”.
mentsch: Ah. I have no idea what the dorms are like. I assume each floor or whatever puts up their own posters.
Matan1: Probably. I won’t say yes, but saying no is probably false.
mentsch: I would be fascinated to know what “walk” in YU you are referring to with non-Tznius pictures posted. I highly doubt it exists. Tthere is actually one possibility and there is an interesting story behind it. There is one picture of a girl with her elbow (but not higher) uncovered. From what I was told, many Roshei Yeshivah protested and asked that it be removed. I believe the final decision was that it would embarrass the girl to remove it so that wasn’t worth taking it down.)
42: I actually don’t think he gives or signs any Smichas.
DY: I thought R’ Moshe was saying it is situational, not like R’ Schachter who holds that even ideas that come from feminists are Kefirah.
DY: Of course. Not as strong as R’ Schachter’s though. Though R’ Schachter will probably claim that R’ Moshe would agree with him in the current climate.
R’ Moshe has a Tshuvah that sort of implies a special-made women’s Tallis/Tallis Kotton might be okay. R’ Schachter’s points about feminism still probably stand, though.
HaKatan: To quote you, Ad Masai Atah Poseiach Al Shtei Hase’ifim? Are MO’s Kofrim and Ovdei Avodah Zarah or are they just misguided?
Health: There is no real information coming out. There are rumors. No one has admitted to torturing these boys and, as far as I have seen, none of them are claiming to be tortured right now. If it’s true, then it’s certainly a horrible thing. I just don’t know if it’s true.
There are two sides to every story and the Shabbak knows more about these things than we do. That said, hopefully no one is wrongfully incarcerated and that anyone who is is released speedily.
Joseph: That same Pew study that said that 1% of American Chareidim have Christmas trees? Yeah…
DY: That’s true. Many who go to secular college (who don’t live at home) are lost. Which is why so many MO won’t send to secular colleges now. At least, not to live on campus.
rwn: That’s mostly not true. Honestly, from all the research I have done on that it is a label that was forced onto the “MO” by either others or by those who chose to identify as MO when they weren’t fully Orthodox. There are still a lot of people who are completely Halacha-observant while being MO.
DY: I really don’t know that it’s true that the “MO” have a higher OTD rate. I know the claims, but I really don’t know how true it is or how meaningful it is if true.
yehudayona: It’s the author’s personal way of refusing to call the Open Orthodox actually Orthodox.
charliehall: There is literally only one student of the Rav who claimed that co-ed was preferable. Everyone else said that it was only super-Bedieved, where a community could not support separate schools.
theprof (an ironic name): RIETS/YU does not emphasize secular education over Torah in the slightest.
DY: I don’t see such an issue. Populations always have natural shifts in attitudes and observance. The “Modern Orthodoxy” of the 1960s was different than that of the 1980s and is different than that of today. The “Chareidi” community of the 1960s had different attitudes on things than we see today. There is still a strong population of completely Frum people who value interacting with the outside world. As long as that exists, “Modern Orthodoxy” will have its place.
This article really didn’t say anything. Other than offering a historical defense and definition of “Modern Orthodoxy” (one I have said here many times), he’s not providing any sort of solution or idea.
ca: That is not true. He can “marry” her without freeing her.
Joseph: 13 months. The Noda Bihudah quotes that because one woman in a million can have a 12-month pregnancy, maybe we can assume that a husband who has been away for 12 months is still the father.
Isn’t this like years old?
Joseph: It depends. The Rav points out that there are two types of psychological assumptions in the Gemara. Some are just the Gemara noticing the psychology of the people around them (for example, the assumption that a person won’t lie when it is obvious that his lie will be discovered) and those can change over time (and therefore any Halachah that sprouts up based on those assumptions can change). This isn’t radical. Rishonim have said this already.
The other type of assumption is one that is built into the Briah (I believe the Rav called it an ontological truth). Those (his prime example of it was the Tav Lemeitav assumption) and those cannot be changed, no matter what we notice in the psychology of those who surround us.
DY: Not being every day doesn’t define Zman Grama. The night thing is interesting, but I’m not sure why Hallel has to Davka be during the day.
If you hold like the Rishonim that Hallel is D’oraisa, then it really shouldn’t be Zman Grama.
R’ Menachem Liebtag has an article online (I think on the Gush website somewhere) flushing out what simcha said and brings lots of proofs for it. It’s kinda brilliant.
Why is Hallel Zman Grama?
I have no issue whatsoever with a college biology class, even if it contains evolution. Most will not touch on evolutionary history, but will definitely discuss evolutionary principles. And regardless of how we hold the world was created, Le’ma’aseh we can see the biological world functioning based on evolutionary principles. So there should be no problem studying evolutionary principles, especially if you are only looking at the now and not the past.
Trump’s immigration policies aren’t evil. His new Muslim policy is.
mybrother: Being at war with radical Islam is not the same as being at war with all of Islam.
You used to only be able to get a Kehillos Yaakov from the family in Bnei Brak. Now they have them in stores around the world.
The red mini-Rambam sets can only be found in Israel.
Trump is evil. I can’t believe that people don’t realize that refusing immigration and making people register based on religion, in America at least, is just evil.
sholom: That’s just not true. I mean, I don’t know how to disprove it other than the fact that the Menorah doesn’t exist.
nfgo: There is no Mitzvah to wear a Kippah.
flatbusher and rebyidd: It’s not necessarily about a greater reason. The Gemara assumes that attempting to look younger is a female endeavor and therefore is Beged Isha for a man to attempt.
42: Carbon dating is Kefirah.
HaKatan: Several of the leaders certainly are Apikorsim. I do not know about the average OO Jew “on the ground”, though.
Whoever we disagree with. We deal with them by disagreeing and showing that they are wrong.
Joseph: Even if not, I would gladly put them in the homeless shelter next door, wouldn’t you?
Avi K: The M”B quotes that in the name of the Magen Avraham, but he contradicts himself on that elsewhere and says that you even need Kavanah for a D’rabannan.
zb: There’s a Kehillos Yaakov on it, if I recall. There’s also the Maharal in several places (heard quoted, not seen inside) that seems to be quoting/selecting from Spanish Rishonim in their presentation of Natural Law.
LF: Okay. But other Achronim say the opposite.
It’s a Machlokes HaPoskim whether one needs to have Kavanah even while performing a BAL”CH or whether having Kavanah (that we’re doing it because Hashem commanded) while performing a BAL”CH defeats the purpose. It’s a fascinating conundrum. I thought that one could be Yotzei both by having in mind that you are doing it because this is what a good person would do and that HKBH wants us to be good people.
Joseph: It probably would make a difference but it probably shouldn’t. It would be the right thing to do either way.
Joseph: If I could vet them as safe? Absolutely.
Mammele: That’s fair. Bringing them to America is probably the easiest way to do that, though.
Joseph: True. And keeping hundreds of thousands of people in horrible conditions who are starving in that condition is also a terrible tragedy.
MA: I am aware that it is a Machlokes HaPoskim and that Pashut Pshat in the Sugya is that it’s perfectly Muttar (certainly for Ashkenazim). Therefore, in a Bedieved situation, it is better to make sure to say the Bracha (and not risk falling asleep without it) than to not talk after saying the Bracha.
If I know that I will be going to sleep that night and that it will be very late (say, 4-5 am), I usually say HaMapil around 1-2 am to guarantee that I don’t accidentally fall asleep without it.
Someone who is up all night is a Machlokes HaPoskim. I think the Tzitz Eliezer or R’ Ovadia has a Tshuvah where he brings down the relevant sources.