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Real sources: Notice what is missing from the list of things that are Assur.
Wow, Hello, you want everything. I believe the no translations was somewhere in Yoreh Deah Chelek 2, but I’m not positive at the moment.
And the Rosh is quoted by the Rama in YD 109:2
In Chumash it means any supernatural occurrence. I have no idea what the colloquial usage is.
Maybe. It could be WWIV if we don’t deserve it. It could also be the Arab spring if we do.
Health: Except Fridays and Erev Yomim Tovim.
The idea that only the “select” top of Judaism will see the Geulah was the idea of the Essenes and other splinter, non-Masoratic groups during the late Bayis Sheini and right afterwards. It was also the opinion of the Puritans. It is not a Jewish idea in any way, shape, or form.
MDD: Chas V’shalom. You are only correct in the fact that a Torah-run country would be run under a restrictive set of laws-i.e. Halacha. To say that a country with religious repression based on the whims and interpretation of religion by an insane dictator is closer to Torah values than democracy and freedom are is offensive to say the least.
Please let this comment through mods. I am trying to temper my original one because I realize it could have come across as much more radical than I intended it to be.
I would never, Chas V’shalom, ever claim that R’ Moshe’s P’sak would have been any different or that it doesn’t apply. No one ever has the right to say that. My only thought is that he may not have written about it in as strong a language if he had ever seen a working platonic relationship. It was just a thought I have had, nothing more, and definitely nothing near a Halachic argument.
Saying we don’t accept something is a lack of respect. What you said is in fact what everyone assumes to be true and is not what R’ Avush writes.
EI: What Rav Arush says is not what the vast majority of K’lal Yisroel accepts to be true. There are some cases where a person is put into an impossible position and has to choose between the lesser of two evils (see Kiddushin 40a, I believe). But we assume that when someone sins it is their fault and that they must make up for it. We don’t assume that Hashem forced them to sin, with the possible rare exceptions explicitly mentioned in the Gemara.
I was told by a prominent Rabbi that R’ Elyashiv said that if the shaver you use leaves enough hair to feel (against the grain) then it is not Assur.
Unfortunately, in quite a lot of communities, realizing that won’t stop anyone from risking hurting their Shidduch prospects by doing anything differently anyway.
Scissors: By the way, you should never do anything with Avodah Zarah, even if you feel that what you are doing is insulting to the idol or in your best interests. Remember, if part of the service of this idol was to cover it for a period of time then you accidentally were Oved Avodah Zarah. Idols should be completely ignored unless you know for a fact that whatever you are going to do to it is not any type of service.
Trak: A trusted translator of R’ Moshe’s Shailos is an inherent contradiction. If I recall correctly, R’ Moshe has a Tshuvah saying it’s Assur to translate his T’shuvos.
Rav Moshe never mentioned the machines but I always wondered about that. You can’t sneak in Treif milk while milking if you don’t have a person do the milking.
Scissors: Or it means that someone snuck in overnight and took the food away and the religious followers thought it was a miracle.
I know. I have a lot of trouble finding old sources. I get them eventually. My notebook unfortunately disappeared at some point, so I’m left with a lot of imprecise sources. I can’t memorize anything, much as I would love to.
Meat and fish are assumed to be Assur because it’s a Sakanas Nefashos. It’s in the Siman in Shulchan Aruch of things that are dangerous. Yes, a Gemara says it’s Kasheh L’Davar Acher but the general assumption is that it’s a physical danger also. And the Yabia Omer was the same one we each had.
I was just assuming that most abortions are done by chemical and not physical means. If that’s not true then I admitted I may have been incorrect.
Sam: Tallis? I thought he just says that by Tefillin. Regardless, do we ever Pasken by the Targum Yonasan?
I don’t know. Our extended family has always been very close and no one has ever had a problem. We have one super frummy cousin who stopped talking to his female cousins and is now the butt of all the family jokes for it. He takes it well though.
Sam: Like I said, at some point some overlapping religions formed from the two. At its most basic, Buddhism is an atheist religion. And Hinduism is much older than Buddha, with its own pantheon of deities, none of which include Buddha. Read the Wikipedia page for starters if you are interested. But basic Buddhism is not Avoda Zara.
Some believe platonic relationships can exist even with non-family. A lot of people think they can’t. Some would be appalled at the idea that cousins of opposite genders can be friends while others would be appalled at the idea that they can’t. It depends on the community and the people.
Ushmartem should only apply, in a Halachic sense at least, to physical harm and not mystical harm. I think I have a source for that but can’t recall what it is. I’ll look.
The Issur of Lifnei Eideihem does not apply in Chutz La’aretz. And Buddha is not worshiped by anyone (Hinduism has nothing to do with Buddha, though some religions have formed from a crossover between the two) but some of the actions done with Buddha dolls may constitute Avoda Zara anyway.
That also depends on whom you count. Some people like to believe that anyone without the same political ideas as them can’t be Gedolim.
The Shulchan Aruch says that you have to wash before walking 4 Amos. The later Poskim (I believe it’s one of the first Simanim in the Chelkat Ya’akov, but I could be mistaken about what he says; saw it a while ago) discuss reasons why nowadays people don’t do it immediately and why that might be ok.
Some exist and some is made up. Those with legitimate sources we can believe in and those without sources are probably Assur to believe.
Tums: Are they actually opposed to shaving or do people just use their names to back up when they say you can’t shave? People like to quote names (R’ Elyashiv’s especially) when citing things that were never said.
MichaelC: That is just insulting and entirely uncalled for. You have no reason to call anyone who won’t listen to your made-up Halacha as lacking of knowledge in Torah Sheba’al Peh. I’m not going to brag or claim anything that I have learned, but I will say that I think I have “discovered” Torah Sheba’al Peh.
GumBall: Whenever a human being takes another’s life it is a tragedy, whether Jewish or not. The reason people feel so strongly about 9/11 is because we all saw it and lived through it. The Holocaust and the Crusades don’t resonate as strongly with us because to us they are just powerful stories, not something we experienced ourselves.
So, once again, you have no source. By the way, the Gemara you reference was two Amorai’m, not Tannaim (Yevamos 37b, I believe but I could be off by a daf or two; it is an Amud b around 15-20 lines down). And the Gemara there clearly gives two answers how such a thing worked. In one of them they sent Shlichim a few weeks early but according to the other answer they would be Meyached the girl (Machlokes Rishonim as to what that means) when they got there, without a Shaliach.
Tomche: I assume your confusion comes from the tough transliteration, but it’s in Tehillim and part of Shabbos Pesukei D’Zimrah.
MichaelC: You admitted in an earlier post that your agenda is to get everyone to use Shadchanim. My only “agenda” is to ensure that someone doesn’t twist sources to make Halachah say something it doesn’t. If you want to say that you feel it is inappropriate to meet members of the opposite gender by any way other than through a Shadchan, that’s a fine opinion to have. But don’t misrepresent sources to make it like a Halachah.
Your response to my refutations is “You’re right, they’re not mentioned but it’s obvious that a Shadchan was used.” Just so we’re clear on what this means, you used a source to prove your point but your source is only a proof if you assume your point is always true. Nice proof.
MichaelC: I’m still waiting for you to “refute my refutations”.
MOC: It kinda works better as a 6-word phrase than a 3-word phrase, doesn’t it?
It could be that’s something we learn from it, but the real reason that Gittin comes before Kiddushin is because it’s longer.
Me’ayin Yavo Ezri
Here is what I do get: You have an agenda. You admitted it. You probably feel like it is better for K’lal Yisrael if everyone listens to you on this. That does not give you any right to misrepresent sources and fake Halachah.
Since when is an eidetic memory a prerequisite for a Gadol?
B’dieved you have until Tuesday. It is assumed to be an obligation. The Gemara doesn’t say it like that but says you get long life for doing it. Very few Rishonim read it as being optional, especially if one is a Talmid Chacham and wants to learn Gemara instead. It is a very minority opinion though.
I’ll be Soseir your first few proofs and leave it at that. You admit b Yaakov, why should age matter?
There’s no proof from Yitzchok, he couldn’t leave Eretz Yisroel.
Moshe met Yisro’s daughters on his own first.
You really want to bring a proof from Dovid and Batsheva? Read the story again and tell me how he first saw her.
Nowhere in the Mishnah in Ta’anis does it mention a Shadchan. P’shat is that the girls said that themselves.
Just because you can prove that Shadchanim existed doesn’t mean that no one was ever allowed to date without them.
This is ridiculous. How many misrepresentations of Chumash and Gemara will the mods allow before they just close this thread?
Maybe just a couple more? -95
See my comments in the “I wish I could be a Talmuud Chacham” thread.
Correct, the Shulchan Aruch does say that one shouldn’t eat on Shabbos (lunch) before they finish. And the Gemara calls it “finishing the Parsha with the Tzibbor”.
I could list names but I’m not sure what the point would be. See if you can find any pictures of the signs from 1948-50 telling everyone that they should celebrate what we were given and that they should participate in the government so that there will be representation for the religious. Some of the names signed there might shock you.
A Bracha is the same as a Tefillah for someone else and the Gemara says that when you Daven for someone else you get answered first.
Health: Many people (I don’t know Poskim, but people) read the Shulchan Aruch as saying that you can only teach them the Halachos that are pertinent and no background. I have heard stronger Shittos but have no source whatsoever to back them up. Then there is the famous line from the Maharil that “It is Assur for a woman to open a Sefer.”
Health: I think a good number of people hold that it does actually.
Mewho: Watching the news in NYC after an event like that is probably one of the only uses for television that is Muttar according to almost everyone.
Honestly, I expected more anti-learning on the “Yeshivah” world. I was once on a Yeshivish site where a “Posek” told a girl that it’s better for her to watch TV than to learn Gemara. There are many to whom I would recommend the modern adaptation of the Drishah’s Shittah. I just didn’t think that I would find anyone like that in here.
Let me restate things. The Drishah had a Chiddush that it’s Davka teaching which is problematic. This is talking about anything. Many Poskim don’t accept this Drishah. Everyone agrees that you have to teach her what she is obligated in (at the very least the basic Halachos). The modern Chiddush is to limit it even further and say that unsolicited teaching is Assur.