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there used to be a barbie doll that when you pulled its stings it would say “math is hard”.

et tu, mod 80? you have an ipod?

so if you knew then what you know now, if you knew before the divorce that he would lie to them postdivorce and turn them against yiddishkeit and make them OTD postdivorce, if you knew all that beforehand what would happen after a divorce, would you still have gotten divorced?

also, #4 was during marriage or afterwards? if it it was during, how would a divorce stop it (especially since some of the kids are [or were] in his custody or with him)?

why would not being 1,000% certain of a posters gender affect whether its permissible?? if a boy and girl, who never met each other, were “pen pals” and wrote platonic letters to each other every day, would that be okay? can he/she excuse it with the excuse that maybe the pen pal is not being honest about his/her gender? i dont see that. for the most part, i think most posters know other posters gender, and whether it is the opposite of their own.

are you talking to me or to the author of that sh”ut statement in Even Yisroel (rav yisroel yaakov fisher ztl)??

Rav Yisroel Yaakov Fisher (Even Yisroel 9:161) was asked if it is proper to insist that every member of the community purchase life insurance so that the burden of supporting the Almana and Yesomim does not fall on the tzibbur?

First of all says Rav Fisher, I don’t understand why money is collected to marry off Yesomim, while they are still children. If you tell me it is because they invest the money and then there is more later on, I can accept that. Nevertheless, I don’t think you can obligate people to buy life insurance. Without the protection of life insurance, Hashem would be more inclined to keep the family’s natural bread winner alive in the zechus of the wife and children. Once there is life insurance this zechus is irrelevant.

Furthermore, says Rav Fisher, the collection of funds for Yesomim and Almanos is a great zechus for Klal Yisroel. Life insurance will rob us of the zechusim of tzedoka and chessed that are so dearly need in our situation, Hashem Yirachem.

Getting your attention is the point of advertising.

The reason why I asked this question is because I remember hearing that the Chazon Ish holds that one should not have life insurance because if someone does it could work against him. The reason is that perhaps the reason why he is spared death is because of the financials problems he will cause his family, but now that that issue is no more, he might die.

Am I quoting him correctly? Has anyone heard of this?

Also, assuming what I said is the Chazon Ish’s shita, I have a kasha. According to him, wouldn’t health insurance fall into the same category? Perhaps a person is not getting a sickness due to the financial strain it would put on his wife or children who dont deserve it, but now that he is insured that problem is gone, so Hashem will send the sickness.

So how can anyone follow the Chazon ish’s shita on Life, and at the same time have Health? Is that not a stira (assuming I have all the facts right)?

I think there is a difference between the Chazon Ish’s position not to get life insurance — because if someone’s wife and children were not slated to be punished by not having parnass but the husband was slated to be punished by dying, the RBS”O would spare the husband’s life on account of not punishing his wife and children financially. If he gets the life insurance, his wife and children wont suffer (as much) financials if he dies. That issue doesn’t happen with health insurance.

im not quite understanding some peoples point. if women are on a higher madreiga, why did Chazal institute the brocha of shelo asani isha for men?

is this setting that can be modified somewhere in the area where you click your screen name on the top of the screen, where it says ‘welcome’?

is their a halachic difference between a cold mikvah and a hot mikvah on shabbos?

why dont you quote the full statement in context, rather than a snippet out of context? in that case it would be clear to you that it is permissible to do the right thing (i.e. a bris mila in the soviet union) even if its against the secular law. my quoted point being that if the authorities will harshly punish someone for making a bris (or other good deed), he might be exempt from doing it if he might get caught.

pba: how’d you do it with your sn?

DY: how’d you shorten your sn?

“Actually, my family is makpid not to eat from keilim that had gebrochts cooked in them in the past 12 months. My grandmother has a special frying pan that she uses for shmini shel pesach to make gebrochts.”

why? the next time you’ll use the shmini shel pesach keilim will be 12 months later anyways.

DY: how can you start a sn with someone elses existing one? when i experiment it says name already exists.

am i a posek now?

real-brisker: how can two different screen names both be exactly popa_bar_abba?

even 3 screen names can be popa_bar_abba

In Orchos Rabbeinu (vol. 1, p. 170) it is stated that the Chazon Ish did not even allow a child to utilize the eruv and carry in Bnei Brak on Shabbos.

mbachur: i found this via google. can anyone verify?

“This derivation indeed seems to be the basis for a whole set of

requirements that one use the right hand. Much of the work in the Beis Hamikdash must be performed with the right hand.

In fact, left- handedness is one of the 90 types of “mum” which cause a Kohen to be unfit for work in the Beis Hamikdash. Rashi in Behorot 45b explains that a lefty Kohen is rejected because much of the work must be done with the right hand and he can’t do it this way.”

“The Gemarah and Rambam say a left handed person may not do avodah. Not all agree that left handedness per se is a P’gam. Some hold (Ramban) the left handed acts are not “k’darko” that is not normative, and therefor should not be performed in the mikdash.”

“Avodah – sacrificial acts in the Temple – must be performed with the right hand by righties. There is an opinion that lefties are considered as having a mum, while Rashi seems to say that performance of these acts with the left hand is not the proper “way” that is it does not honor the Temple.”

is being a lefty a mum in the beis hamikdash?