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Health: V’inisem es Nafshoseichem only means fasting. That’s a Mefurash Gemara.
Toi: Eis L’asos Lashem, Heifeiu Sorasecha. But yes, no one individual today can make a call on that issue.
AYC: What Bracha L’vatalah is there during the day? It’s just a Hagafen and if you drink the grape juice it’s a Bracha you have to make anyway. At night you would have to say Mekadesh Yisrael V’yom Hakippurim if you hold there is a Chiyuv of Kiddush.
Health: It might seem that way in the Sugya in Yevamos but the standard rule quoted throughout Shas is that we don’t say it.
Just to clarify, the Gemara in question is in reference to Ya’el and not Yehudis. And Karka Olam is still Assur, there just is no punishment and is not Yeihareg V’al Ya’avor due to the technical detail of there being no Ma’aseh.
CA: It says they are equal, actually.
Health: So many did it that it’s hard to call it being Meikil Shelo K’din. I would think it qualifies as a Minhag. I’m not sure how you would distinguish between the two.
TT: It doesn’t matter now. He gets out in a few years anyway. Guys can gain face by asking for his release. But it was very clear that he ticked someone off for some reason to stay in prison that long.
AYC: That might work at night, but why not make Kiddush during the day if you’re going to eat? Also, isn’t the famous story about R’ Yisrael Salanter during the cholera epidemic that he made Kiddush?
Health: I was saying why his Pilpul is inherently flawed. And not eating on Yom Kippur is both an Aseh and a Lo Ta’aseh.
PY: Chatzi Shiur Assur Min Hatorah.
Health: There were very strong Minhagim in many places that women never fasted except for Tishah B’av and Yom Kippur, and in some places they only fasted Yom Kippur.
Imaofthree: Not a Minhag. It’s very clear that there is almost no Heter to eat Pas Palter during these days.
Itche: Conservative denied the Mesora and claimed that any “Rabbi” ever has the same power as Chazal.
And apparently we are discussing two different types of egalitarian Minyanim.
If it’s what I am thinking of, they let women lead Kabbalas Shabbos and Pesukei D’zimra and get Aliyos.
Health: While that might be true for some people, would you really ever risk setting someone up with someone else like that? There’s a good reason we can’t share personal details here. It should stay that way.
Shmoel: No, they really didn’t. They denied basic tenets of Judaism, as did Conservative. You raise a good point Rikki, but I don’t think that we can be the ones to make that judgment call. I think all we can say is that it’s not for any normatively Orthodox Jew and leave the people who do this to their own devices.
As bad? No. From what I understand, they try to use legitimate Halacha to justify it. Does that mean it should ever be done? Of course not.
Can we delete the “who is Rabbi Abady” question? Last time it was discussed nothing good happened.
AYC: Yeah, but his facetiousness is usually grounded in good Halachic fact and/or logic.
Hello: I was thinking about this over Yom Tov, and isn’t there a Gemara in Chullin that says that if an animal ate poison it’s Kosher but Assur to eat because of Sakana? Presumably the poison does not equal 1/60 of the mass of the meat of the animal (even if we cannot count the bones), so this Gemara would sound like by Sakana we worry when there is even less than 1/60. Unless you want to say that in this case it’s known that there is a danger. In such a case, presumably even that long list of Mekilim you cite would have to agree that it’s Assur to eat (it would be very strange to say that in a case where we know the Sakana is potent that we can still assume it is really not there because it is Batul).
PBA: Simanim might seem weird (and I understand that this rant is mostly facetious), but they actually are mentioned in the Gemara (K’reisos 6 if I recall correctly). P’shat in why they are allowed is that the Gemara in Shabbos says that anything that actually works cannot be Darchei Ha’emori. The Lashon of that Gemara that I think is in K’risos is “Shma Mina that a Siman works”. They would be Darchei Haemori if not for the fact that they worked. That’s my P’shat, at least.
Gemara or Mishnayos?
I do. It’s unclear how appropriate it is though. I try to read through all of the commentary and Halachos in the Artscroll Machzor before I actually open a different Sefer though. Also, it’s actually Assur if it will cause you to miss an Amen or cause other people to talk/read outside materials during Chazaras Hashatz.
Sam4: Interesting. I looked at the MB and you appear to be correct. I always thought it was because the Gemara in Avoda Zara says that Hashem is done judging the world at Chatzos.
Sam4: I thought the Arizal’s reasoning was also based on that Gemara in Avodah Zarah that Hashem finishes judgment at Chatzos.
TTE: Actually, it is an idea picked up from Western society which was picked up from Judaism. I’m not sure when the diamonds made their way in though.
Chanie: There are many stories told both secondhand and by those who met him about times when they bought stuff directly from him in the shop. And ArtScroll Gedolim books are not a source. They are amazing compendia of inspiring and uplifting stories, not historical facts.
Shlishi: They are being Moser millions from K’lal Yisrael to someone who wants the capability to destroy us. Whether for technical reasons they may not have the Din of Mosrim, what they are doing definitely constitutes Mesirah. And if they actually give him any money they become Rodphim, plain and simple.
The idea is that how can your spiritual defenders defend you in Shamayim when you are not awake to defend yourself. I always thought based on a Gemara at the beginning of Avoda Zara that one should not go to sleep before Chatzos on Rosh Hashana night either.
Thanks.
Hello: I will double-check, I believe the Aruch Hashulchan points out that a Ta’am Kalush doesn’t apply to Avida Leta’ama less than Shishim. Issur V’heter Halacha Lema’aseh is far from anything that I am knowledgeable in, so I could very easily be wrong.
Being Mochel doesn’t mean you no longer feel pain. It’s okay to be hurt and it’s even okay to sometimes be upset at the person. Being Mochel someone is acknowledging that they wronged you and saying “Even so, I am willing to pretend like it didn’t happen so that this person does not have a strike against him/her in Hashem’s chart.” There are higher levels and everyone is different obviously, but the minimum form of Mechila is you telling Hashem that even though this person wronged you, you no longer feel that they deserve to be punished on your behalf.
Chanie: I don’t know what here did or did not fit with my “modern Hashkafas”. All I know is that it is far from true that the Chofetz Chaim only entered his store to check the weights.
Chanie: Revisionist history at its best.
Toi: In the Avnei Nezer somehwere. Ummm, more than that I’ll probably not know until after Rosh Hashana. The Avnei Nezer is what I read in bed before I fell asleep a few years back so where stuff is in there is pretty jumbled in my mind. I’ll look.
Squeak: Actually, the weren’t. Check out the Mishna in Yoma (it’s the last Mishnah in one of the Perakim, not the eighth, not sure which one though).
Presumably we shouldn’t eat old Simanim that relate to random languages that we don’t speak anymore. I try to only do the Hebrew and English Simanim as those are my languages.
That’s only if you assume Ta’am K’ikar is Mid’rabannan.
Wow, you’re just asking for people to get their responses modded. Society has changed quite a lot since R’ Kook and the Sridei Aish wrote their T’shuvos. Whether that should change their P’sakim is up to someone a lot more knowledgeable than any of us to decide. I personally see nothing wrong with it but that’s just a personal opinion with no Halachic backing.
Toi: The Avnei Nezer brings down that even if you say that Biah B’miktzas is Assur and even if the thickness of the wall counts as Biah then there is still no reason to say it unless you get to the halfway point of the wall. Also, this is only an issue if someone is a Zav/Metzora/Ba’al Keri. A T’mei Meis is allowed on Har Habayis.
Mak: Anyone who says not to get close to the Kotel is using the false assumption that the Kotel was a wall of the Beis Hamikdash.
Whatever sounds like it works.
I was always told he came to America for a bit. I’m looking for when. There are a few famous stories about his passport.
Hello: The Sh’arim Metzuyanim Behalach (on the Kitzur) brings a whole list of Poskim that say that by Sakanah we should be Machmir for more than Shishim (he also brings those who say that Shishim is enough). It would be very irresponsible (at best) to say that a potent poison could be Btel B’Shishim, wouldn’t it? We already have a concept of Avida L’taama so we know that some things can be not Batel even though there is less than Shishim. I don’t see why something dangerous would be any different.
Mak: I once quoted that to this guy. He started screaming at me that I was calling his Rebbe senile because then he didn’t know what his own Rebbe looked like.
There is also a picture of the CC (with half of his face covered) from his passport when he came to New York. That one is decently famous.
I believe the Ya’avetz (doesn’t sound right but that’s who I recall) says that Al Pi Kaballah one should not have a portrait of themselves drawn. Presumably people are Makpid not to have pictures taken for this same reason.
Soliek: You obviously know the wrong “MO” people.
See: The Challah on the Shulchan was not braided. It was a loaf shaped by a mold.
I thought there is a Minhag not to eat anything pickled because pickling produces a sour-ish flavor.
Mak: Was that a serious answer?
They claim the famous picture is not him. I was told by a Talmid of his Talmid that it is him. Also, this person claims there is another picture which can be found in the Encyclopedia Judaica (I forget which volume and page, sorry).
PM: The non-Halachic concerns will probably get modded. We’ll leave it at calling them political.
And I don’t know of any Poskim who still hold of issues by the wall. The issues can possibly exist depending on how you read combine certain Sugyos. The Avnei Nezer has a T’shuvah explaining what the possible issues could be and why he thinks they are no problem at all. And I have no recollection whatsoever as to where that T’shuvah is, sorry.