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Sam: Why would you think so? If she became an almana twice it applies and he says if she became a gerusha twice it applies. Why would you differentiate?
The Mishkanos Yaakov cited above indicates a twice-divorced woman, like a twice-widowed one, shouldn’t remarry.
akuperma: Many feel that we already crossed the line in our daughters’ education, teaching them Torah subjects that is halachicly forbidden to teach them.
There are risks involved in neonatal circumcision even without metzitza. Those risks include life-threatening bacterial infection, bacteremia, hemorrhage, surgical trauma and urinary tract infections.
Perhaps these folks should be pressing for government regulation, or even banning, of any neonatal circumcision performed by a non-physician or outside a medical facility.
There are risks to plain circumcision. Certainly the aforementioned risks are reduced when performed in a medical facility (i.e. a hospital) and by a doctor.
How can these people risk their babies health performing it outside a medical facility or by a non-physician?
That’s exactly my point! Even the vocal anti-MBP crowd themselves continue metzitza (with a tube as it is) because Chazal were Kovea it as such (and even though modern medicine would tell them to forgo metzitza altogether for a medically safer approach).
And our point is that Chazal were Kovea MBP itself. (Granted they disagree with this view of Chazal, but nevertheless it is our strongly posited halachic definition of Chazal. And they cannot demand we forgo what we pasken is mandatory per Chazal.) So just as they insist on continuing metzitza with a tube because Chazal were Kovea it, we insist on continuing MBP because Chazal were Kovea it.
If they demand we stop MBP despite our poskim paskening we must do MBP per Chazal, they should have stopped metzitza (even with a tube — in favor of a more modern medically safe approach). Since they are not, they are being hypocritical in their position. They continue MBT (per Chazal) but demand we stop MBP (which is also mandatory per Chazal, according to our poskim.)
Sam2: truthsharer said above that there is a health benefit to metitza with a tube. So I wish to know what it is.
DaasYochid: There are many in the anti-MBP crowd (and I’m not in any way referring to you or people who use a tube in general but rather the anti crowd) that make the argument that a) MBP was only instituted for the health benefit b) now there is a greater health benefit to do bris milah without MBP and c) therefore we halachicly can and should replace MBP with a new method that promotes greater health and safety.
So my question to those folks is that, using their line of reasoning, they should be promoting discontinuing any metzitza even with a tube and rather be using modern medicine’s approach to keep the baby healthy immediately after the bris, than using any form of metzitza. Modern medicine does not require any metzitza (and no doctor [instead of a mohel] performing a neonatal circumcision will use metzitza to remove the blood) as they have “safer” methods.
” frum jews do MBT because they know that there is a health benefit to metzitzah, but the benefit is negated when you do it MBP.”
What is the health benefit to metitzah with a tube?
I made no mention of Rav Hutner. And although Rav Hutner wrote a Sefer by that name, Rav Hutner is not commonly known as “The Pachad Yitzchok”. My comment was quite clear with the context of referring to Rav Breil and his status as the Rebbe of the Pachad Yitzchok.
DaasYochid: You missed my point. I was addressing my question to those that say it is unnecessary to do MBP because it has now been proven medically unnecessary. Based upon that reasoning, they should do away with any metzitza.
Those that claim we can do away with MBP because it was only instituted for medical benefits and they now say it has no medical benefits… according to your logic you should discontinue ANY metzitza — including with a tube — based upon that faulty logic. Why do you still do metzitza at all (with a tube)?
I accept your response, but am curious why when you are feeling down you don’t feel like posting on your site, but you do feel like posting here at such times?
Thank you. I appreciate your new approach.
One thing I never understood was even while you made those self-deprecatory remarks here, you never did so at your own site. That made it seem contrived, since if it were sincere why the difference between here and there?
So why all the coded language purposefully avoiding rabbinical names?
Now someone needs to figure out which Rosh Yeshiva hosted Rav Malkiel in Chicago, Sunday 9/2/12… Anyone?
Most of the top Torah shiurim in most Litvish Yeshivos are given in Yiddish. It is an important language for a Torah scholar to know.
Baruch Hashem we are being an Ohr Lagoyim and spreading tznius/modesty (a little bit) among our midst.
aurora: I’m curious how you found this place the first time?
No, not if you’re a mature, responsible adult.
1) Not everyone is “a mature, responsible adult.” Precaustions are needed because some are not as mature. 2) Even “a mature, responsible adult” cannot trust himself on issues of inter-gender interactions, without precautions.
Not only do I say “Good Shabbos” to people I see in the street, I also say “Good morning” and “Good evening” to the bus drivers I see every day when I get on/off the bus. Never once has it resulted in a wink, a shmooze or a “full-blown relationship.”
You rarely if ever see the same bus driver on your morning route again. The threat is somewhat lessened as a result. Someone you see regularly, you need greater precautions.
It is also the position of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch, another opponent of Zionism and Jewish sovereignty.
Rav Moshe paskened that NY’s Get Law causes Get Me’usa (invalid get’s.)
That’s completely untrue, also. He was never against Chasidus. Did he have different shittos? Just as he had different shittos than the Litvish.
It always starts with something small. First its a GS. The next time it includes a wink. Later its a shmooze. And before you know it, a full blown relationship.
Chasam Sofer (I believe he himself was a lubliner chossid)
The Chasam Sofer was Chasidish?? Are you sure about that?
The stupid troll threads, that tend to be ripe with juvenile idiocy, either asking a really stupid simplistic question or alternatively asking a complex controversial issue in simplistic terms.
25 years ago we had Ronald Reagan, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope.
Now we have Obama, no hope and no cash.
yekke: R’ Chaim Volohzhin never said that.
Is one Gadol greater than the other??
Yes, absolutely, some Gedolim most definitely are greater than other Gedolim.
If you pay my expenses, I’ll come along to help out with the minyan. 🙂
Why only the national anthem? We should all be criticizing the Gedolim shlita (after all, we’re smarter than them) for not doing all of the following patriotic acts at the Siyum HaShas…
1) Singing the National Anthem
2) Singing G-d Bless America
3) Reading the Pledge of Allegiance
4) Flying, actually parading with, the American Flag
5) Reading the Declaration of Independence
6) Making a barbecue and eating Apple Pie
7) Having a fireworks display
8) Have a moment of silence for fallen soldiers
Over $5,000 is definitely not normal.
Absolutely unnecessary is right.
Doesn’t the opinion of Shulchan Aruch and Rambam count for something???
It’s assur to publicly go against the minhag hamokem of the shul.
(Which is the same reason one must say Kedusha with the same Nusach of the shul.)
The Rov is also trained to some degree in handling a din Torah between two litigants. These two litigants will present their cases, in which the Rov typically paskens in either direction. Again typically, the litigants remain foes or rivals after the psak, which hopefully is followed. The role of the Rov is not to resolve the machlokes, but to choose the halachic direction of right vs. wrong.
You are so wrong, it is not even funny.
The absolute goal IS in fact to restore shalom. After a Din Torah, the two litigants should be going out, whatever the verdict, as two long-lost brothers hand-in-hand. The machlokes at that point is a historic relic to be forgotten.
Does that always happen? No. When it does happen, is the reconciliation perfect? Often it is. And sometimes it’s not. But certainly that is the Rov or Dayonim’s goal.
One advantage that rabbanim can have is that they are not governed or possibly limited by APA-LSW rules and guidelines.
What are the APA-LSW regulations that limit therapists in a way that is unhelpful?
Curiosity:
Michtavim Umaamarim vol. 3, #213.
“Everyone must follow the traditions of their parents. One may not deviate from their customs. And in a case where there is a disagreement in Halacha and there is no family tradition, one should follow the Posek who is a greater Godol BaTorah. And it is possible to know who is greater, for example, here in Eretz Yisroel there are many places where people should follow the Psakim of the Chazon Ish.”
Good Shabbos might be okay even in places where being friendlier is not. And being friendlier might not be okay even in places where Good Shabbos is.
Those two sentences are a repetition of each other.
Sam and Naftush: Please explain your understanding of the above referenced Shulchan Aruch and Rambam. Why do they prohibit, al pi halacha, sending a greeting even via a messenger? And considering it is prohibited even via messenger, how could you justify it in person face-to-face?
Wait… “eating our yummy cupakes”… is that all that is left of yummy cupcake? She’s been turned into the winner’s food, after this food fight?
Wine? That explains it! The two shikkurim couldn’t remember which screen name is whose!
Rav Aharon Kotler’s son-in-law, a Chosid, who married his adopted daughter, sat up front of the Beis HaMedrash right in front of Reb Aharon (who sat facing everyone else) fully dressed Chasidish. Reb Aharon would welcome his best friend, the Chassidic Rebbe of Kupishnitz, with great love and affection. Reb Aharon was once asked by a student why he so respected the Kupishnitser Rebbe, and treated him so wondrously. Reb Aharon answered that the purity of this rebbe was what the goal of every Jew is. Everyone knows that the entire Agudas Israel founded by the Chofetz Chaim was filled with Chasidic rebbes such as the Gerrer Rebbe who was very close to the Chofetz Chaim and his disciple Reb Elchonon Wasserman. Reb Elchonon was very close with the Slonimer Rebbe and would go on Shabbos Shalosh Seudose to hear his talks. Litvishe Yeshivas in Europe such as Kaminets, with Reb Baruch Ber, had Chasidic talmidim. Reb Baruch Ber once wrote to a rebbe that he wanted more such students. This is from the recent book on Reb Baruch Ber HaRav HaDomeh LiMaloch.
Shulchan Aruch (EH 21:6) says that one may not ask a woman about her welfare, even via a messenger, and even via her husband. (Based on Bava Metzia 87.) Rashi in Kidushin (70b, DH Ein Sho’alin b’Shalom Ishah Klal) writes that asking a woman about her welfare is prohibited because one thereby “makes her heart and mind familiar with him” and creates a feeling of affection within the woman which could, Chas V’Shalom, lead to sin.
Rambam Mishna Torah, Issurei Biah 21:5 says a man should not send greetings to a woman at all, not even via a messenger.
(Wolf: I corrected the citation of the S”A per your point on the previous page.)
Because G-d said to get married and to be fruitful and multiply.
Is G-d’s word not enough?
If a talk therapist can help resolve your disputes with your wife, he should be similarly capable of helping resolve your disputes with your business partner!
Do photographers give the family the digital photos or they just give them the prints? And if they give the original digitals, is it the full resolution?
I agree with princess17. As long as you don’t cause any damage, there is nothing wrong if you only touch the other car(s) when backing into the parking spot. It is expected and the “custom” (especially in NYC).