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Vacation is really just a change of scenery. That’s all you need. You can really go anywhere. It doesn’t matter so much what there is or where there is to go. (As long as there is some minimal things, even nice outdoor scenery.)
Yehuda Tzvi: You mentioned in another thread that your great great grandfather was from Lithuania and you only know that you have Sefardic blood due to a DNA test. Mere DNA results are certainly no reason to change one’s minhagim in any event.
BTW, how are you Yekke if you shtam from Lithuania?
I think halacha has two types of marriages and a person can “fully” marry more than one person. A pilegesh is a second “lesser” type of marriage that can be utilized. I’m not exactly sure how a pilegesh wife is different than a full wife (or even a reason why a man would marry someone as a pilegesh rather than a full wife.) But I believe a person can have more than one regular wife without either being considered a pilegesh.
We need to protect society from those that violate the 4th commandment in as much as we protect society from those that violate the 6th commandment. Fire and Brimstone is mentioned in the Torah and the many mussar seforim that relate the terrible things that one will experience both in this and the next world for violating Shabbos.
That wouldn’t be much of a chiddush. I doubt any of us are as smart as the Rebbe.
I think the bigger question is why was it behind their ears in the first place. 🙂
quark2: Shulchan Aruch 73:1. (It says a woman should not go outside much. The beauty of a woman is to stay inside – Kol Kevudah)
quark: Even if we don’t follow the quantification of the principle mentioned in Rambam, we still follow the premise and principle that women should be in the house as much as possible. It is also so stated in Shulchan Aruch itself.
Is shadchanus really just a numbers game? You just keep on redding and eventually some will happen?
walton, Thank G-d for that. But that isn’t always the case, and we cant let our guard down.
Working out is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Why should it be any different today?
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kylbdnr: Yes, it’s true. Ashkenazim don’t take warm/hot shower in the 9 days except for Erez Shabbos.
yaakov doe: Yes, Sefardim can halachicly have more than one wife, but don’t because the secular laws don’t allow it where they live.
I heard a psak than a woman shouldn’t work in a male only (i.e. just the boss) office.
The Gemara elaborates on this concept and says we learn it Mediverei Kabalah from the Posuk Boel Bas Ail Naychor.
The gemorah brings al pi kabalah?
MP: Au contraire. Men who plan on getting a job should have to pass an “competency exam”, as well as show a true love and interest in working, in order to be allowed to work, any job that pays. Otherwise, go learn, and work on the side when you can.
LMA: Not every baal-aveira was necessarily messed up by someone else. More likely than not they messed themselves up. Do you excuse Levi Aron as being messed up by someone else? Do you excuse thieves as being messed up by someone else?
BTW, using your above criteria you are saying that loshon hora is worse than murder.
A person is not supposed to change his minhagim.
The Sefardim have a strong sense of Kovod HaRav and they will listen and follow the instructions of their rabbis to a very extreme extent.
It’s a mitzvah to hate apikorsum and mosrim after an attempt was made to have them do teshuva and they rejected the overture.
Exactly. And Sfardishe Chasidim too.
kako: Satmar takes ALL children into their Yeshivos. And if you can’t afford they’ll reduce or even eliminate tuition payments.
In the name of the achdus you are promoting, are you ready to send your children to Yeshiva there (or learn there yourself)? And will you marry a Satmar and have your children consider Satmar shidduchim — achudus for Klal Yisroel.
kako: That’s absolutely untrue and in fact loshon hora on Klal Yisroel. There is no reason anyone looks down at other frum yidden because they are Ashkenazim or Sefardim. The only ones guilty of this are the chilonim in EY who treat the Sefardim like Jim Crow era blacks. The Torah Yidden treat them as their brothers.
The difference in standard and method of observance between an average Ashkenaz and an average Sefard is greater than the difference in standard and method observance between an average Lakewood Litvak and an average Williamsburg Chosid. Yet no one is complaining that the Lakewooders don’t agree to date or marry the Williamsburgers or vice versa — even though they both are Ashkenazic.
Of course you think you are right; most of the time even if you were wrong a person won’t admit it or even realize they were wrong!
He didn’t write anything on size altogether I believe. If you dispute that, cite your source as I have mine above for 66 inches.
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1 Tefach is just under 4 inches. 18 Tefachim = 66 inches.
Please cite any source to the allegation that either Rav Soloveitchik held 3 feet or 33 inches (as two conflicting claims above make) and which Rav Soloveitchik (another conflicting claim above between Feif and tsharer), as I believe no source for any such claim will be found.
Rav Soloveitchik never held 3 feet is enough. Please cite a source, as I have for 66 inches, and you will find none.
Rav Moshe said 17-18 tefachim (66 inches).
Igros Moshe 1:40, 1:42, O.C. 4:31
The main point of the teshuvos is that the point of a mechitzah is to show a separation between men and women, not to hide the women.
Wrong. It must be at least 66 inches according to Rav Moshe. The women must in fact NOT be visible to the men. If it isn’t high enough, the shul is treif.
I once asked a Charedi rav about a mechitza and he said the minimum is 36 inches, so 4 feet is OK.
No Orthodox Rov, let alone a Chareidi one, ever said that.
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That’s obvious and different. You changed it specifically so he shouldn’t have your number, so it’s obvious you didn’t want your number given to him.
Generally it is perfectly normal and perfectly okay to give someone a friends number. Unless there is specific reason or instructions not to.
IUseBrains: So while you admit it is okay to not want to marry a Satmer Chosid, MO or Bukharian Jew, you say that’s only because “there is not much of a difference between the mentality of a mainstream american”. Yet you do not complain that a totally Americanized MO/YU wouldn’t marry a totally Americanized Litvish/Lakewooder. Both are totally American. Ahhh. There is a difference of hashkafah and minhagim! Yes, there is even a bigger difference in minhagim between Sefardim and Ashkenazim, then between an MO and Litvak. You are okay with not wanting to marry someone because of “a difference in mentality” regarding nationality etc., but you are not okay with not wanting to marry someone because of “a differene in mentality” regarding minhagim or hashkafa? That is a much more important that nationality/mentalities.
Those griping why often Sefardim wont marry Ashkenazim or vice versa — would you marry a Satmar Chosid? Would you marry a Kippa Sruga? Would you marry a Bukharian Jew? Are you telling me you would equally go out with all three of the aforementioned types of frum Jews?
R’ Henkin demonstrates that nowadays a mechalel shabbos’s wine is fine.
Which R. Henkin? The godol zt”l or the rabbi in Israel with the same name (and descendant)?
ItcheSrulik:
50% of MO compared to significantly under 1% amongst Chareidim. It isn’t even remotely comparable.
Rav Elyashev shlita somehow tied in “tikun ha’olam” to allow reporting abuse when there is “raglayim la’davar”. Does anyone know how tikun ha’olam figures into this teshuva? (That also might go a long way in explaining what tikun ha’olam means.)
ursula: A langeh shaitel is far from a sign of someone being a Litvak.
Spreading Torah ideals to Goyim? They are obligated in the Sheva Mitzvos, not the rest.
Most blogs that call themselves Orthodox violate this principle on an ongoing basis.
Why would anyone think there is a problem giving someone a phone number (unless previously asked not to)? Giving out a phone number is a common courtesy.
Just about everyone long knows that the Jewish Week is an anti-semitic rag. It keeps getting smaller B”H, both the pages and the subscriber base (as their subscribers intermarry and the children are goyim.)
Maybe people who text on Shabbos feel this way.
What they “feel” is absolutely meaningless. They are mecheleli Shabbos befarhesya, and frankly they may be chayiv misa. Much worse then if they would be eating pork 6 days a week.
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“Significant” spark? An “insignificant” spark is also assur.
Baruch Hashem divorce is stigmatized. Otherwise the situation would be so much worse.
quark: I’m sorry you lead a sad life, but being less frum wont make you happier.