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Derech Hamelech is expressing true Hashkofos HaTorah.
No matter how disconnected one is from Torah, if he lives in Israel he will likely marry a Jewish woman and there is always hope that future generations will return to Torah.
A large percentage of the Russian (and other) women living in Israel are shiksas.
Is this a popularity contest where you will go with whatever gets the most votes?
pba: Only if he is halachicly required to provide it. That isn’t necessarily the case.
At times, especially when one of the two parties flies in for a date, the two of them could rack up 3 dates without getting serious. If the shadchan knows that after one more date he/ she will receive compensation regardless of the outcome… I’ll let you figure out on your own what will happen.
I don’t understand. A shadchan can’t force two adults to go on another date without their willing consent.
OMG Dr. Pepper! That was me who told you that and you said that to!!
The father’s main business (as a van driver) is the current summer season transporting passengers and packages between downstate and upstate during the vacation months when people are traveling in those areas. So this is a large portion of his income.
Also, being in business for himself I’m not even sure what kind of insurance he has, but generally whatever it is generally only covers a portion of therapy and even then the good therapists generally only accept out of pocket payments and most plans don’t cover out of network.
2 months ago, 3 months ago, 7 months, over a year ago… it’s a constant theme of yours, even if not statistically the most numerous.
Why are you so into suicide? It’s one of your favorite topics you write of.
Loss of income, burial, therapy, etc.
Read some of the horror stories related by Moshe Kohn. Those are just the tip of the iceberg.
‘Nuff said.
What exactly does Rav Moshe’s teshuva say?
It sounds like he is saying going into a theater is terrible but if one does it anyway he still shouldn’t take his yarmulka off.
I agree with Itche. How much more ridiculous can we get than making arayos issues? Rabbonim have spoken about these dangers so many times. Are we really smarter than them all?
I’m just asking DY how he came to the conclusion he came to, as incorrect as you claim it to be.
DY: How did you conclude AZ stood for someone significant in his life?
Shlishi for your curiousity sake i have no idea who DY is..
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According to a friend of his that I spoke with, he uses AZ because he knows everything from A to Z.
They are the initials of a significant person in his life.
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It’s not too hard to figure out who AZ is.
How does DY know AZ signifies an important person in your life. And how does he know who you are?
AZ & DY: Are you both in Yeshiva together? Or know each other somehow else?
DY: How do you know AZ personally irl?
but he thinks the freezer is artificially holding back boys who would like to start.
Well, then this disagreement is essentially between an anonymous internet poster and the Roshei HaYeshiva of Beis Medrash Govoha.
Halacha defines what constitutes being a shoiteh. I don’t see how medication would change that.
Next thing you know, some people might also want to change the definition of a koton. Nowadays some people might even tell you a 13 year old is still a koton, even though the Torah tells us he is an adult. Y’know, children take longer to grow up these days; in the olden days they used to work on the farm by 13; nowadays even a 20 year old can be a child!
How did the barley cause the stomach to explode?
I don’t know if POW is the correct term per se. The women were from the areas that the Jewish soldiers captured.
I don’t think they actually starve him, but rather feed him something that will cause his stomach to burst, thus killing him. I forget what type of food that is. I also don’t recall when Beis Din utilizes this procedure.
There is also a waiting period before he can proceed with the marriage (for the purpose of hoping he will reconsider his decision to marry her as it is not a good idea.) It also says the children she bears will be bad.
Someone above claimed abuse is rampant in the Jewish community and it is covered up. She offered no evidence whatsoever to backup this assertion. I will emphatically state it occurs exceedingly rarely. If anyone offers proof otherwise I will then counter their data with my own.
That being said, I do agree that even one case is one case too many.
Midwest: Reading your comment one might c’v assume our poor grandparents nebech hardly lived much of a life, until we smart alecks came to the modern era and the industrial age. That is not only inaccurate, I’m sure any of us would trade places with our zeidas.
mw13: On what (halachic) basis do you make that correlation?
one could can be oiver a lav per word. We have to think before posting.
Are you trying to assert that per (spoken) word in halacha is equivalent to per (typed) word online, in regards to being oiver a lav per word?
What was his other strike?
At least in the CR, I’ve never seen one poster call another poster an “apikorus”. I have seen (especially in the much older threads) being mevazeh talmidei chachomim (most times as a group rather than individual.) Loshan hora has gotten through a lot on the main pages more than the CR. Taking credit for someone else’s words is a special problem in halacha (I think it removes bracha but is not an aveira), rather than sheker per se. Although many times when quoting another anonymous poster on another site, it is difficult to credit something anonymously, and this sites policy doesn’t allow links or competitors attributions. Considering the anonymity here, its hard to imagine posting someone elses secret, unless that persons first posted it (and presumably then it isn’t a secret.) The biggest problem I have noticed though (again more on the much older threads) was apikorsus that was in fact posted.
Then is the issue of how the halacha is affected considering the fact that for the most part everyone is anonymous to everyone else.
So long as there are any older single boys out there, any individual older girl certainly has opportunities to get married.
AZ: With that attitude, you are saying it really isn’t a problem for any girl at all, as long as there is at least still one older single boy out there. Only after the last boy runs out (er, gets married) does the problem start.
Working on ones inner tznius is wonderful, but that work doesn’t exempt compliance from outer tznius at the same time. If one pushes off one for the other, they risk never getting to the latter.
The current no pics is working perfectly fine thank you. You can always subscribe to Good Housekeeping if you need pics.
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Not going mixed swimming is ikor hadin and NOT a chumra. Going mixed swimming is not a kula but rather a severe violation of halacha.
Geneivas akum is assur. But intellectual property can’t be “stolen” under halacha and it doesn’t have a din of property.
It’s never appropriate to dress to kill. Dressing up is different of course. But “evening wear” is not something you find in a Jewish wardrobe.
Can one assume a chumra for oneself if he feels it will help enhance his Torah observance?
Can one assume a kula for oneself if he feels it will make his life easier?
aries, you are correct in that these women’s husband or father are equally culpable for her transgression and must put their foot down and stop it.
Agudah is fighting this on the political level.
My follow-up comment, which you haven’t disputed, was that at a certain more advanced age (I guesstimated 26-27) the girls pool of available bochorim is considerable shrunk and she is at that point at risk of being left unmarried for life (per the age gap issue.) So at that age, girls will have to compromise on important issues.
And taking your viewpoint to its logical conclusion…
“No specific girl is certain to not have a close-in-age shidduch, so whether the odds are against her or not, few girls will compromise on an important issue.”
…you should likewise be arguing against NASI’s close-in-age (i.e. one or two years apart) shidduchim since, as you said, no specific girl is certain to be left out.
DY: sh’tikah k’hoda’ah. I presume you’ve accepted my points how this issue interacts with the age gap.
Two issues are that a. it definitely draws attention to you and b. a bas yisroel shouldn’t be doing something punk like.
What about the goyisha men, like the story kapusta mentioned above?
And if the men close their eyes all day, is that a license to dress to kill??