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Gefen: While everything is found in Torah, I don’t think it’s found in the random printing of some Siddurim. Also, I think your Remez from Koheles is a bad one from context.
So I can’t find the Gemara I was thinking of but there are a few Gemaras at the end of Yoma that mention that doing things that make Jews or Rabbis look bad constitutes a Chilul Hashem.
The Gemara defines a Chilul Hashem as doing something Assur in front of Jews (I think 10 but it might be 3).
Shein: He said they could, not should.
Shein: What makes you think that Hashem wants men and women on separate areas of a bus?
Engagement rings.
Shein: That doesn’t work for things like this. If you claim that there is a religious responsibility to give minors hard liquor (even on Purim) you will be laughed at and arrested.
M80: I would Ta’anah that the custom of many to wear full customs on Purim nowadays as actually taken from the Goyim by Halloween.
There is no Avodah and no celebration in kids asking for candy. It’s not a religious service at all. In fact, most kids going out and asking for candy probably aren’t religious anyway. There should be nothing Assur about giving them the candy unless you are worried about Lo Sechonem.
M80: That could be. I am not familiar with the Rosh Yeshivah. I am familiar with the site and it is a disgusting place run by those with an illogical and visceral hatred for Chabad that goes far beyond normal Kana’us.
M80: Nothing from that website should ever be called “illuminating”. That site is Mamash Sinas Chinam, regardless of the legitimate Ta’anos that exist against Chabad.
BTGuy: Unfortunately (or fortunately, probably) you apparently haven’t met any Yechiniks. They are a problem. How serious a problem is a very good Halachic question. Interestingly enough, those who deny that he is dead is probably less of a Halachic problem than those who think they will come back. Those who deny he is dead are denying reality. Those who think he will come back are altering a basic tenet of Judaism.
Jothar: I would say that unless you hold like the Chochmas Adam (who says there is no Bittul by Heter B’heter) then it should be okay. At the time you do the Bittul you are not being Mevatel any Issur.
Mdd: The Gemara does not quite say that so clearly. Also, one opinion in the Gemara is that Moshiach won’t come. Holding like that is Apikorsus, wouldn’t you agree?
Plenty of places make Kiddush before dancing. And if they don’t, the guys just break out the whiskey and make Kiddush on that before/during dancing.
Why is Avid Lechazusa not Nikar Ha’issur?
Plenty of out-of-town places as well as in a lot of places when people are dating it’s normal, even though you know you’re not being Mekadesh or even getting engaged yet.
OOT: It’s brought down in some Poskim that the reason boys don’t send Shalach Manos to girls is because there is a Chashash Kiddushin. That might still apply in many communities today but there are also plenty of places where it would be normal for boys to send girls gifts and therefore there is no Chashash Kiddushin.
Her Rabbonim could have told her to explicitly state before taking any of the Shalach Manos that she is not accepting Kiddushin by taking these. That would also work.
Jothar: It’s not Derech Bishul, it’s not on the fire, and there’s no Kli Rishon. There is no Issur of Bishul Basar B’Chalav in that case.
How is that Bittul Lechatchila? Assuming there is no taste you should say “Ein Adam Oser Es Davar She’aino Shelo”, shouldn’t you?
It’s Halachically Treif (I assume) because you have no one being Me’id that it’s Kosher. Maybe if there was strict FDA enforcement on 100% canola oil (I have no idea if there is) and rules about the way it’s processed, etc. then you could consider the packaging saying 100% canola oil as being Mesiach Lefi Tumo and it would be Kosher?
In my experience with Chabad (and I have quite a bit), the Messianist movement is overblown by a lot of outside people. It could be that in certain communities there are high numbers of people with problematic beliefs, but I think the average Chabadnik does not believe that the Rebbe is still alive or necessarily is still Moshiach (they almost all think that he could be though).
Also, it’s a little hard to call believing that a dead man can be Moshiach Apikorsus. We might not hold that it’s true, but it’s hard to call it Kefira just because a dead man cannot do everything the Rambam describes in the Sefer Hamitzvos. It is not a belief that we want to let permeate into basic Judaism, but I don’t think we can call it Apikorsus.
There is a T’shuvah in both the Tzitz Eliezer (seen it inside) and Igros Moshe (never seen it but heard it from a reliable source) that it’s Muttar to sit next to a woman on a bus. I agree with Zahavasdad’s question. How is this not a Chilul Hashem?
Jothar: You would take a small bite of the dairy so as not to have a Bracha Levatala and then you do not eat more. (I believe Rav Schachter quotes that from R’ Akiva Eiger but if it’s within the first hour you can’t eat it. He quotes from the Zohar that within one hour is a real Issur D’Rabannan but after that is just a minhag and the Minhag can’t force you to make a Bracha Levatala.)
Yes, you can throw the hot pizza out.
No, The Issur of Bishul Basar B’chalav only applies to Basar Beheima Tehora Bechalav. There is a Machlokes Haposkim about Neveilah Utreifa. But Beheima Temei’ah everyone agrees is Muttar to cook Bechalav and Muttar Behana’ah. (There is also no Issur of Basar Bechalav if you would eat it but it’s obviously Assur because you ate pork.)
Toi: I clearly said “getting drunk”, not “drinking”. Enjoy your one or two shots (or three). Don’t have more.
Old Man: That’s a nice idea, but cannot be true. Olei Regel wouldn’t be fasting Behab because this Minhag started well after Churban Habayis (I think).
2qwerty: Of course you need Eidim. Kiddushin isn’t Chal unless there are two Kasher Eidim.
It’s Mefurash in the Shulchan Aruch that a child under Bar Mitzvah cannot be Mekadesh a woman.
Dr. Seuss: It might make zero legal difference, but people would be much less likely to complain about men sitting in the back.
How about this? You go up to an African American and ask him to sit at the back of the bus but tell him you’re not racist because you honestly don’t see the back as being inferior. See what happens.
Jothar: Fish and meat (or fish and dairy) is not in the Simanim that Yitay is asking us to ask about as far as I know.
Dr Seuss: Because practice in the American South until the 1960s proved that being forced to sit in the back of the bus was considered derogatory and discriminatory. The easiest solution would be to put the women in front and have a curtain halfway through. Add a rear entrance for men if you want to look super-frum.
Toi: Maybe I believe getting drunk is wrong because Judaism is against it?
She has to have Da’as. If it’s sudden then we might be able to assume that she didn’t.
Iyche: Use Im Ha’osios on the one with the Alef then Im Hateivos and Im Hakollel on the one with the Hey. They’re equal.
Maybe it does. Either way it’s a good Ra’ya to the Midrash. Also, it’s a good Smach that before Matan Torah being married just meant living together.
So you’re saying that because they don’t want to feel left out, people can do what the Moreh Nevuchim calls the worst possible thing someone can do?
Obaminator: The communities accepted it upon themselves or they just wanted everyone to come so they made it separate for those who wouldn’t have come otherwise/were worried about the social repercussions if they hosted a mixed event?
I would say that because the rest of the species were being wiped out (and the Midrash tells us that these animals had never been involved in any form of relations) and since the vast majority of animals do not mate with their offspring, for all intents and purposes each pair was a “husband and wife”.
Monopoly played by the proper rules should never take longer than 90 minutes-2 hours. You guys found ways to give out extra money, didn’t you? (The Free Parking adds at least an hour to the game.)
When did it become okay to be uncontrollably drunk on Purim?
In Chumash it’s almost always Chassier, isn’t it?
Obaminator: You need to define “established”. There are still many, many people and places that have mixed seating at weddings.
It’s a famous one where he says that if you say that Basar aChayah V’Of is Assur B’bishul with dairy Min Hatorah then you’re Over on Bal Tosif. It’s famous because it’s Soseir himself somewhere else where he Paskens that Basar Chayah B’Chalav is D’Oraisa. I’m blanking on where it is at the moment. It will come to me soon hopefully.
Mw13: The Rambam disagrees with you. Both of those are violations of Bal Tosif.
Rav Schachter and his wife used to go for walks on Shabbos. They would cross part of the George Washington bridge then stop and turn around because the bridge is farther than the T’chum.
I have been called a “liberal reformer” for eating gebrochts. I didn’t want to give examples, but gebrochts is a great one.
Dr Seuss: Ona’as Devarim applies to everyone.
I oppose any Chumra being passed off as a Chiyuv/Issur D’Oraisa. Doing so is itself an Issur D’Oraisa of Bal Tosif.
Why wouldn’t it be? Any Korban is Pasul if Shechted sitting, isn’t it?
Why is making fun of a Rabbi different than making fun of anyone else? If you have express permission from everyone possibly affected then it might be okay. Otherwise it’s absolutely Assur, regardless of whom you are making fun of.
Dr. Seuss: There is also a possible issue that Mishum Eivah the argument of “Eis La’asos Lahashem” might apply. I don’t think he was Matir any other Jew to go.
I’m not sure what your story proves. Are you saying that not putting up certain pictures shows a “middle-of-the-road Jew” attitude? There is clearly something more going on there.
Actually Toi, I believe I am quoting the Ramban. I believe he says that from here you need to differentiate between a Chumra and an actual Halacha so as not to come to a Michshol.
Plenty of words end with an “Oh” with a Hei. The issue I believe is where there should be a Mapik in the Hey and a Kamatz but instead there is a Cholam before the Hei. I believe “Veniscoh” in Rosh Chodesh Leining is one of them. Just a guess.