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Yitachokm: Are you trying to claim there is some Issur of Chukas Hagoyim here? Check out YD 177-179 (give or take) and try and make that claim again please.
I have read one amazing Jewish novel: In the Spider’s Web by Chaim Eliav.
Health: Please stop with your ridiculous assertions about Rei’acha, Amcha, etc. No one can claim that these people are Mumarin Lechol Hatorah Kula. Regardless of how they hold on certain issues, that’s just blatantly false.
Yitzchokm: And what is the problem with it, exactly?
There is a concept not to add Chumros sometimes so as not to be Motzi La’az on the Doros Harishonim. Apparently some now think that it’s okay to completely disregard the Doros Harishonim so that we can add Chumros.
OOM: No, that’s a Mefurash Mishnah in Gittin that it’s okay.
Yitchokm: Jewish music throughout all of history has just been taking the Goyish music and using it for purposes of Kedusha (and sometimes not even then).
Health: I just watched a video with the girl in question. Her mother’s hair is covered.
Yitzchokm: I know for a fact that the Maccabeats want Jews to hear and see their videos about the holidays. In this particular instance, since it is a Tzedaka campaign, they would love to reach both.
Shmoolik: That is what the Kitzur S”A brings down which is presumably actually the Minhag nowadays. How that came to be I don’t know as it is a very minority Shittah.
I knew that Gush and Har Etzion were the same Yeshivah. And Old man, Rav Lichtenstein’s thoughts are still important because guys take the opportunities to listen to Shmuezes from his when they can, which often move into the philosophical realm.
Health: If they have no intention of giving Mussar/Tochachah then how is the yelling Muttar? It should be Halbanas Pnei Chaveiro B’rabim.
There is no Issur.
NANA: That’s ridiculous. Jeans determine someone’s abilities to be a Rav?
PBA: Right. He doesn’t C”V mean that we make parts of the modern world parts of Judaism. He means that we take parts of the modern world and use that to enhance our Judaism. It’s a subtle distinction but it makes a tremendous difference.
PBA: Not to integrate the good of the “greeks” into the Torah. No one ever advises integrating anything into the Torah. Rather, it’s taking developments from the secular world and using the for the purposes of better understanding and keeping the Torah.
WIY: Mitzvah Haba’ah B’aveira?? Why, because they asked for money online/on tv? Let me know when any Frum institution refuses money unless it comes from someone who doesn’t watch tv/use the internet.
Hatzolajew: Rav Liechtenstein doesn’t believe that “Modern Orthodoxy” exists except as a pejorative term that some use to deride others who hold of a different Halachic standard than them. “Centrist Orthodoxy” refers to the exact same thing as what people derisively call “Modern Orthodox”.
Gush is, by definition, the basis of “Centrist Orthodoxy” in Eretz Yisrael.
Health: You misread the Gra. The Gra says things were created for Avodah Zarah is in S”K 6 (5?) and is about actions, where he is talking in regards to Darchei Haemori. In S”K 1 he clearly says that any clothes that were worn by the Goyim without purpose and Jews didn’t wear are automatically Chukas Hagoyim to wear.
WIY: Wow. Please, enlighten all of us, what does having a shirt tucked out say about a person? I certainly can’t tell what type of person someone is based on what they wear. Kol Hakavod to you if you can.
MDD: Nowadays I might agree with you. But 60 years ago, when even the most Frum woman would reveal their elbows, I would say that they were relying on existing opinions and not just doing what they wanted.
Student: “Most” is an overstatement. Most make Aliyah or go to YU. Several go to Ivy Leagues, though that number has dwindled in recent years as more and more head to YU.
Mik5: Your anecdote seems to disprove your point. I’ve never worn jeans either but that doesn’t make me any better or worse than anyone else. I’ve just always had comfortable pants and never had any reason to buy any other type.
Mik5: As long as you are involved in fixing up the Mitzvah and don’t speak/do anything else, you wouldn’t make another Bracha no matter how long it takes you to do it. I recently had to tell someone who has having a lot of trouble with his wicks not to make another Bracha even though it was almost 10 minutes because he literally spent every second of that involved in fixing up his wicks. (Asking me if he had to make another Bracha may have been a Hefsek so I preempted him by telling him “Just light, don’t make another Bracha, don’t speak at all, I’ll explain after.”
You are not allowed to blow out the candles before they have been lit long enough. Pikuach Nefesh always trumps everything. Also, since it’s an Asei D’Rabannan, you could blow them out to avoid serious financial harm, which your house burning down would constitute in a situation where there is no Pikuach Nefesh.
If they were starting a fire and you lit in a way that would lead to that then you probably weren’t Yotzei and would need to light again with new Brachos afterwards. If for some reason an Ones happened that made them start a fire, you should definitely put them out and may have to relight, so the relighting should be done without a Bracha.
Not everyone agrees that the elbows and knees must be covered. Everyone agrees that the area above the elbows and knees must be covered. The elbows and knees themselves are a matter of dispute. Also, there are those that say that because “Tefach B’ishah Ervah”, you are allowed 3 inches above your elbow (I’ve never heard anyone use that for knees though). These might not be at all accepted opinions, but to say that everyone agrees that elbows and knees must be covered is a bit of a stretch.
TY: In Israel many still refer to themselves as Chareidim. Rav Rosensweig in YU once said that he is Charedi. Why should Chassidim and those more right-wing have a monopoly on being “Chared El D’var Hashem”?
John Doe: You claimed that Rav Herschel Schachter, probably the biggest Techeilis proponent now and someone who has published the obligation to wear it in his Seforim, doesn’t wear the Techeilis we have and then you had the gall to call someone else a Shakran? I’m impressed. That took guts.
Sam4: They say that Rav Elyashiv told Rav Schachter that he would wear Techeiles but if he did that many of his followers who can’t even afford food as it is would spend far too much money on buying Techeiles.
I wasn’t trying to degrade the Minhag or anything, I was just saying that to avoid embarrassing yourself publicly it’s okay not to do.
PBA: There was no Bal Tigrah when it was impossible to wear Techeilis. Or there was, but that’s an Ones. He says that since we have it now the Bal Tigrah goes back into effect. He is sure it’s really Techeiles.
Chacham: He will tell you (I presume) that that is referring to when Techeiles is not available.
PBA: The Issur of removing a Mitzvah from the Torah. Rav Schachter holds like the Rashba that this is accomplished by being Yotzei any Mitzvah but not doing it Bishleimuso Mid’oraisa.
Bar Shattya: Thank you for the qualification. If you remember in the middle of any of the 13 middle Brachos you finish the Bracha. If you remember in the middle of Retzei through Sim Shalom you go back to the Shabbos Bracha immediately. If you remember after finishing Sim Shalom, you have to start the Amidah over.
I did not see this thread before, but Rav Schachter holds that since we have the real Techeilis nowadays it’s better to not wear Tzitzis at all than to wear Tzitzis without Techeiles. He says there is an Issur D’Oraisa of Bal Tigrah if you don’t wear Techeiles.
You finish whatever Bracha you are in when you realize and go straight to Shabbos from there. And you don’t have to Klop your chest. Hitting your chest is barely a Minhag and if it will embarrass you to do it in Shul on Shabbos then you don’t have to at all.
Musser zoger: I’m no Rav. I’m just a kid who ended up in an awkward situation earlier in life and therefore still has to answer more Shailos than I ever should. By all means, feel free to disagree with me on anything. I wouldn’t answer a Shaila unless I’m pretty sure that I’m right, but I don’t have nearly enough Ga’ava (well, maybe I do-but I pretend that I don’t) to assume that anything I say is in any way binding.
2scents: That’s just not true. The SH”A clearly says it’s a Minhag. If it’s not your Minhag, then it’s not your Minhag.
Hello: I have said that I am 23-years-old, I think (I consistently lie by 1-2 years on online forums; no one needs my exact age and an approximation works just as well). That has never stopped anyone from asking me Shailos.
This is honestly one of the silliest things I hear and it upsets me every year. People see this in a Sefer and they start asking/researching what they are allowed to do and not. It’s a Minhag!! If it’s not your Minhag, then no research needs to be done. You just don’t avoid any Melachah because you were not one of the ones who was Noheg that way. It’s that simple. I get Shailos every year from girls/women asking what they’re allowed to do or not. The fact that you’re asking means that you weren’t Noheg it which means that you are allowed to do any Melachah.
Old man: Yes, I have met two families who are Noheg to actually treat it like Shabbos, Melachos Ochel Nefesh included.
PBA: Any Ba’al Korei who makes a correctable mistake during Channukah Leining deserves it anyway, unless you’re just talking in general and that didn’t happen today.
PBA: You have Shabbos Pesukei D’zimra down? I still need a Siddur for that sometimes. And what about B’rich Shmeh? What about Rosh Hashanah Mussaf? Do you use a Siddur for that (I would be duly impressed if you know that one by heart)? Also, if you said V’yiten Lecha I guarantee you that you would pull out a Siddur every Motzai Shabbos (what about Kiddush Levana, by the way).
Itche: Don’t you “V’achar Kein” as opposed to “V’achar Kach”? It has to be a Kaf to start the word.
This includes whatever your Minhag is for it to include. Some are Noheg like Shabbos, some like Chol Hamoed, and some not at all.
I thought the Gemara was in Bechoros. It says you give 10 Shekalim for a 2-headed baby.
Health: I think it might be on the page of the S”A but I’m not positive. The Gra holds that any article of clothing that doesn’t serve an obvious purpose that the Goyim started wearing and Jews didn’t start wearing immediately becomes an Issur D’Oraisa of Chukas Hagoyim for a Jew to wear forever. The two major Nafka Minos of this Bizman Hazeh are ties and the Chassidishe garments (not that the Gra would have had a problem calling Chassidish garments Assur).
This might be one of the few ways to do a real Issur D’Oraisa of Chukas Hagoyim according to all Shitos nowadays. It’s completely Assur. Same with a Hannukah bush. Even if you think it’s Pirsumei Nisa, it’s still Chukas Hagoyim.
Health: Now that I think of it, the Chochmas Adam is probably coming off of the Gra. If you’ve ever worn a tie then you don’t hold like the Chochmas Adam.
BTGuy: To anyone but a religious Catholic it shouldn’t be a problem. To everyone else it’s either not Avodah Zarah or is about family.
AOM: His name was probably Yeshua, assuming he actually existed. When the Gemara refers to him, if it actually refers to him at all (it’s hard to tell because everything even possibly related to him has been censored), calls him “Oso Ha’ish”. Yeshu is a later reference, quite possibly because it can stand for Yemach Shemo Vezichro, but was also used because it functions ans a Kinui of his actual name.
R’ Dessler says that people don’t have Bechirah about huge or small things, only things within their range of where they are in life. It has nothing to do with whether the decision is important or irrelevant.