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Vayeitzei: I would hope that I would ignore your neighbor telling me how you are Mechallel Shabbos. Lashon Harah is Lashon Harah.

Sam4: Sure, Rav Schachter knew. They told him beforehand and he even knew that at a certain point the Macabbeat in the video would ask a question.

Choca: If you’ve read many of MichaelC’s earlier posts I think you’d see that he’s much more interested in imposing every Chumra of Rabbi Falk’s on everyone rather than to make Rabbi Falk look foolish.

Health: What do you mean, owns? The president of the university has the final say on issues, because he is the president. Rabbi Yonah Reiss is the dean of the Yeshivah, so he technically makes most of the decisions concerning the Yeshivah. Rav Schachter has more clout than anyone associated with the Yeshivah/school combined. Once again, there is no official Hashkafa/policy that you can point to. But the closest thing to an official public voice is Rav Schachter.

Sam4: The Tzitz Eliezer has a T’shuvah where he explains under which circumstances it would be permitted (his Shaila was from somewhere where it would be rude to get on a bus before a woman).

Absolutely not! There is a tremendous difference between saying “your relative should be ashamed because of you” and saying “you know, it’s probably not proper to be wearing such a thing. Maybe next time you should do… (obviously depending on how not Tznius it is and what type of lack of Tznius it is).” Just because Skiaddict did something not Tznius does not give someone a right to be rude to her. And saying it to her friend is pure Lashon Harah and not Tochachah in the slightest. There is no excuse for that whatsoever, regardless of what other wrongs may have been committed by other people at the same time.

If it were up to me, I would Pasken Halacha Lema’aseh that someone who gets behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated has the Din of a Rodeph. Saying driving under the influence is dangerous is so much of an understatement that saying so is gross negligence. It’s attempted murder, nothing less.

Health: Just because you say that doesn’t make it so. For starters, YU has no “official Hashkafa”. And some Roshei Yeshivah do represent the school less than others. But Rav Schachter (and Rav Soloveitchik before him) have always represented what the mainstream opinion of the institution is.

A mamin: Or there’s a third choice-neither!! Why is it impossible for you to think that different Minhagim/Psakim doesn’t make someone “on a different level”?

To sort of agree with nitpicker, 20 years ago Jothar’s Rabbi would have been correct. I think most people have lost Ne’emanus on this issue. It is not for us to judge whether she did it as a Malitz Yosher or not (we certainly hope she did), but unless we know for a fact that she did I wouldn’t encourage it.

Derech Hamelech: America?

MichaelC: And what truth is that? That you enjoy inventing Halachos and calling others not frum for not following your distortion of Halacha/Mesorah?

Oot for life: There are Halachos about Ma’aseh Shabbos.

A mamin: I didn’t mean you personally. You clearly said that those who are Makpid on separate seating are on a higher level, didn’t you?

A mamin: A higher level? You’re making the same judgment that these people are. You think that separate seating is a higher level. They think that burqas are a higher lever. Why should you make fun of them? They’re on a higher level than you, right? Do you see the problem with your argument?

Dvorak: Your doctor said WHAT??? I would consider getting a new doctor.

A lot of classic Dinsey songs are up there on my list.

Golden Mom: There is nothing wrong with a woman drinking a bit together with her husband in the confines of her home.

Gefen, GAW: Many explain that Gemara as Davka applying to Avraham Avinu because if he had a daughter she would have to marry a Goy and her descendants wouldn’t be part of Klal Yisrael. Everyone agrees that under normal circumstances having a daughter is a good thing. Although there is another Gemara which might sound like having daughters is a bad thing…

I love coffee: Rav Moshe has a T’shuvah where he says that you can only go to a therapist that would only give help/advice that agree with Torah values.

Kollel_wife: Will your daughters walk to a store? After all, a sidewalk and a store are both places where men and women socialize. You can go to Stern or YU and almost never see a girl/boy. It is done by many Frum and Erlich people. The lobbies of each building where people can interact are avoidable. Someone can enter the building and go straight to their rooms without entering them.

I believe the Gemara says that on the 8th day of Milu’im both Moshe and Aharon were Kohanim Gedolim. It was the day that Moshe transferred the Kehuna Gedola. I once had a proof from a few places that Moshe did the Avodos Haboker and Aharon the Avodos Ha’erev, but I am not positive that I am right about that.

Snapple calls them “real” fact because a certain percentage of them (don’t remember, it’s either a half or a quarter) are fake.

There can be boys waiting in the lobbies, but nothing requires a girl to be in the lobby or interact with them at all. There are never really co-ed parties on campus (technically I think girls can show up to watch the Super Bowl, but I doubt many do). What guys and/or girls do and who they invite to their own apartments isn’t really something the school has a say in. Girls/guys are only allowed in the lobbies of all of the dorm buildings, nowhere else (with the exceptions being the guys’ cafeteria and gym for sporting event, which are in the basement of one of the buildings).

Emunas: I don’t think WIY meant any offense. I think he was giving some honest advice as to what he thought would be most beneficial to your uncle. I don’t think he meant to imply C”V that you weren’t doing anything else. I think he was saying that (in his opinion) there were things that you could do for your uncle that would have more of an effect in Shamayim than a Segula about taking Challah.