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CA: Ask whoever is in charge of the Kashrus place that you work for whose standards they use. Most places like the Star-K have pretty detailed websites explaining what you have to worry about and what you don’t.
A bit of practical advice that I have found: When you have black dots that you’re not positive about, try and catch it on your fingertip. It’s much harder to tell when it’s wet, so let it dry out there then hold it up and look at it into the light. You’ll usually be able to tell if it’s a bug or not once it’s dried out.
Jothar: So it is. I was looking at 124. My bad. I thought I made the change in e-daf but apparently not. Though that Mishnah is interesting. That would seem to only still apply to skin that is close to edible on its own. I wonder if making the skin edible involved some really heavy processing would still be Treif. This Mishnah doesn’t go against that.
Wait, 22-year-old girls qualify as “older”?
How appropo. It was actually the Daf for Daf Yomi two days ago. Oops. I guess I don’t learn Daf Yomi. And Jothar, I don’t see anything of the sort on that Daf.
CA: If you have an honest doubt then it’s a problem. If you honestly doubt it too often then you may need to consider getting a different job or undergoing more training. But most organizations give guidelines and as long as you follow the guidelines of whatever your organization tells you (I’m assuming it’s a good organization) then you’re fine.
Shmoel: There are also very legitimate anti-Mussar Derachim in Avodas Hashem. Both are perfectly legitimate ways to go about it, but everyone is different. A way that works for one person will have the exact opposite effect on someone else. That’s why Kiruv cannot ever be formalized or institutionalized. It’s different for every single person.
Jothar: I was clearly just asking. I never claimed to know anything about Ha’or Veharotev. I used a maybe and a question mark because it was an entirely facetious theoretical question. I wasn’t To’eh because I didn’t state anything. I asked the question and received an answer.
Shein: Giving the death penalty when necessary is prescribed by the Torah. How do you know that Hashem wants that as a threat constantly hanging over our heads? Maybe it’s just a necessary consequence of certain actions.
Shein: I don’t remember the M”B by heart. I apologize. He seems to say it in Siman 60 I believe which is (theoretically) the main discussion for this concept but I feel like he contradicts himself a bit in the details of a few Mitzvos. I don’t remember where and how off the top of my head.
Jothar: I seem to be blanking terribly. Where is this Mishna?
Segregation is still segregation. What if someone came by with a religious belief that blacks should be kept separate from whites? The fact is that women are protected as a “minority” under the law and segregating or discriminating against them is illegal, regardless of whatever perfect logical reasons we can give.
That is absolutely rude shmoel. If you don’t see a bug then you have done exactly what you should. You should be very scared and therefore make sure you check properly. But once you have properly checked you should feel confident that you did exactly what was required of you.
I do not see why Halachic discussions in the CR would be any worse than Halachic discussions anywhere else. Do we say not to have Halachic discussions anywhere unless you’re a Rav because you might get something wrong? Of course not. I don’t see what makes the CR different than anywhere else.
Shein: And what is the issue with bumping into each other? There’s certainly no Halachic issue.
I think the assumption is that readers are smart enough to know to ask a Shaila before doing anything Lema’aseh, especially in an anonymous forum. While I personally wouldn’t post any Halachic opinions or sources unless I was confident enough to hold by them myself, no one here has any idea who I am or if I actually know anything. So I think people with a bit of Seichel know not to take anything Lema’aseh from here.
Sam4: In one place he seems to assume like that Chayei Adam. He seems to assume otherwise in other places though.
Well M80, you can’t blame that one on me. None of my posts in that thread got through. 🙂
600: If it is a Chumra with minimal (or no) Halachic backing then others have every right to stop people from doing it if it will cause them harm.
Toi: I think everyone agrees to that.
I honestly like cloudy and windy weather, maybe with a light drizzle. Not too much rain though.
Talking to oneself is not schizophrenia. But that doesn’t make it less serious.
Jothar: Do you have a source for this Issur D’Rabannan? I thought we always assume that because the bones, skin, and hooves are not themselves edible that we don’t consider them Treif. Maybe nowadays it would be different because people routinely eat skin. I would assume though that skin is inherently inedible and that we would just say Achsh’vei by skin eaten in certain ways. Who knows? Maybe pork rinds are actually Kosher? That would be an interesting thing to think about.
Shein: Not really. The Mishnah Berurah appears to contradict himself and no one really comes out with a clear L’ma’aseh Maskana on whether Mitzvos Tzrichos Kavanah or not. The closest compromise we have that is assumed most often is that we say that D’Oraisas need Kavana and D’Rabannans don’t. And once again, there are different definitions of what Kavana means and no real clear P’sak.
Who says pig bones are Assur? The marrow is Assur, the bones are not.
CA: No one says otherwise.
YD: I would assume we hold 6 by this also. It’s all the same issue, I think. It’s not a real Tefilla B’tzibbur (according to the M”B at least) unless there are 10 though.
I know in 2008 it was supposed to drizzle over the opening ceremonies of the Olympics so the Chinese did some weird thing with putting a lot of rice (or something like that) in the air to absorb some of the moisture so it wouldn’t rain.
I agree with Yossi. This thread is just asking people to relive incredibly painful memories. If someone wants to say something like that on their own, that’s fine by them. But there’s no reason to have a thread like this as a constant reminder.
Sports: If the pot was not used in the previous 24 hours then it’s Muttar.
Brown vs BOE has been applied to much more than just schooling. And gender segregation is generally treated very similarly to racial segregation. The courts might be a little more lenient but technically they should legally be the same.
SandraC: Breaking the law is never a Kiddush Hashem unless the law is explicitly against Halacha.
I don’t know either. Those are the statistics. Maybe if the relationship got more serious more quickly the withdrawal time would be longer. The basic principle should still apply, even if the average amount of time it takes to “get over” someone would be a little different.
I cannot tell you why the Monsey bus is legal. I can tell you that one of the most famous supreme court cases ever says that segregation is illegal.
Yitay: You have to check. I don’t know the Metzius by strawberries but I heard someone claim that there is more than Shishim of bugs in strawberries.
Also: I believe just the other day I overheard someone mention that being Mevatel an Issur Lechatchila is an Issur D’Oraisa. I don’t recall where or why or how though. I was doing something else and just heard something like that in the background.
Shein: You are just wrong. Segregation is illegal. Many states (and almost all of the ones in the South) have specific laws stating that forcing people to seat in the back of the bus is an example of illegal segregation. Your entire argument is based on a false premise.
Sam4: It’s an entirely different type of issue. Assuming there is no inherent Issur of being Mevatel Lechatchila (some seem to assume there is but Pashtus is like that; Pashtus is that if I am intentionally Mevatel something that I’m going to throw out anyway there is no problem) so even though there is a P’sik Reisha that it will become Mevutal there is no P’sik Reisha that an Issur will be done.
Igros Moshe YD 2:24 goes to great lengths to prove that the Shellac is Muttar beyond a shadow of a doubt.
BTGuy: A pre-med guy told me that a relationship has the same effect on the nervous system as cocaine and that going out of it is withdrawal. He says for guys it lasts on average about half as long as the relationship was (for girls as long as the relationship). Trust me, you’re not the only one who goes through things like this. I would tell you it gets easier with time but I can’t honestly say that it has for me yet. Everyone else tells me it will though, so there’s that. 🙂
Feif Un: I agree. But would the Minhagim of Elizabeth bind a new community in California? “America” is not one community. You cannot call all the individuals coming to America since the 1500s as coming to the established Sephardi community of “America”.
GAW: I’ll disagree. Please bring a source Shein: Obviously you wouldn’t be allowed to live with her again until she converts, but I cannot think of a source that says that once she does you can’t remarry her. (And yes, I know that we do not force Ba’alei T’shuvah to do all the mitzvos at once. I’m just talking Me’ikar Hadin.)
Chanie: And why would an old time Rabbi necessarily not post in here? I would think it’s a good way to learn Torah with a large group of people.
Yasher Koach to whichever mods let Queen Bee’s defense through. It both deserved and was needed to be said.
Coffee addict: Yes.
The whole Sugya is complicated and has several different very technical opinions. For most things we seem to hold that 6 people actually doing whatever we need a Minyan for is necessary for a Minyan. For others (Kriyas Hatorah on Simchas Torah is a very good example) we seem to hold you might only need 1.
A Heimishe Mom: That’s a bit silly. Just because the first Jews on this continent were Sephardim that makes the whole continent a Makom where the Minhag is Sephardi? I once heard a Rabbi say that any new community in Israel has to have Sephardi Minhagim because the oldest community in the country is Sephardi so the Minhag Hamakom is Sephadi. It’s silly. One are can’t determine the Minhag Hamakom for an entire country or continent. Each community has the right to establish (or bring) its own Minhagim.
BTGuy: If the two of you are both still that interested then maybe you (or her, or both) should talk to her parents. You’re not looking to marry her parents, you’re looking to marry her. And at the end of the day it’s her life, not her parents. Maybe you should try talking to everyone and see what happens.
Shein: A Minyan is 10 people. Period. Then comes the issue of what those 10 have to be doing precisely towards the Minyan. But if there are not 10 people physically there then you don’t have anything to start the conversation with.
I believe it’s a T’shuvah in the Tzitz Eliezer quoting I believe a Pri Megadim.
(I know the Tzitz Eliezer mentions it. I do not recall if his Maskanah is that he holds like it. Either he didn’t or I read the T’shuvah and was upset by the fact that he didn’t because the M”B calls it Korov Lebrachos Levatalos. But there are definite legitimate sources for it.)
YD: Once again, not quite true. In fact, a sleeping person can count as one of the 10 for a Minyan. You should have 9 (10 actually) answering at all times but sometimes this just doesn’t work. And the Lashon of the Poskim is “Karov Livachos Levatalos”, not quite actually Brachos Levatalos.
We don’t daven Tefilos Nedava Bizman Hazeh.
Yungerman: That’s a Chumra from a T’shuvas Harashba that we hold like if possible. You should only start a Tashlumin right after you finish your Shmoneh Esrei. But I don’t think you have to wait only Hiluch Arba Amos. Taking a minute to prepare yourself should be fine. His only requirement is that you still have to be Assuk in that Tefillah.
A Meizid cannot Daven Tashlumin but a Shogeg can. It doesn’t have to be a pure Ones. In fact, we are pretty lenient by this as to what an Ones is.
When Davening Tashlumin one should be very careful to have in mind that the first Shmoneh Esrei is their current Chiyuv and the second is the Tashlumin. Both Shmoneh Esreis are identical though. (i.e. if you missed Minchah Friday afternoon you Daven 2 Shabbos Ma’arivs.) The one exception to this is Havdalah. If you forget Shabbos Minchah then you only say Atah Chonantanu in the <i>first</i> Shmoneh Esrei.
Not quite, but it’s a nice thing to say to get everyone to answer.
I apologize for calling it yours. Have you seen the picture from Tehillim? The Yom Shlishi on the top of the page is from the Siddur/Tehillim it’s printed in, not from the Tehillim itself. Also, if you look at the entire Passuk from Koheles I don’t think that’s a Remez that someone would want to make. I apologize if my dislike of these Remazim insulted you.
Wouldn’t a popa-sized spot be absolutely massive?