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Shulchan Aruch (EH 21:6) says that one may not ask a married 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.

Sam: So regarding geneiva from a corporation, the halachic distinction would be that it is gezel akum and not gezel yisroel?

There’s a difference between British and American English in this regard.

Sam: I think Der Rav is relating how his rebbi, one of Rav Moshe’s greatest talmidim, explains Rav Moshe’s psak on the matter — not his own.

There’s nothing in that story relevant to this discussion. Some uneducated woman ambushed Rav Moshe and touched him somehow, before he had a chance to know what she was about to do.

popa: I thought the CR is your vacation.

This is a troll, insincere, bogus thread.

1923, when America closed immigration, was too early for anyone to know. Hitler ym’s came to power in ’33. He didn’t invade Poland until ’39. No one outside Germany could have predicted he would invade. Once he did, it was too late. All doors were closed long before then. Certainly to mass emigration.

A) Prior to 1939 there was no reason to think of mass emigration.

and besides

B) The U.S. wasn’t accepting mass Jewish immigration from Europe. (And the British weren’t accepting mass immigration to Palestine.)

And come to think of it, Chazal weren’t advocating mass emigration prior to the massacre by the Romans.

As a matter of Halacha, suicide is assur. (It, essentially, is Halachicly equivalent to murder.) Now there are a very very small amount of extremely exceptional circumstances where it may be permissible, just as there are times when one may be permitted to kill someone else. That being said, Rav Yaakov Emden’s opinion on this issue (Shailas Yaavetz siman 33 1:43 is much more encompassing where he ostensibly permits it as an atonement for ones sin that is a capital crime) has no standing in Halacha, is considered rejected and comes under severe criticism from every subsequent poskim who discussed it (Igros Moshe C.M. 2:69.4, Yabiyah Omer Y.D. 2:24.8, Shevet Shimon 345, Chida in Birchei Yosef 345:3, etc), and may not be utilized by anyone.

There was never such an incident in Meah Shearim with the Rebbe.

Well, then, perhaps you’re wrong about the “pashtus”, that there is any pre-Jewish pagan meaning for the same thing being discussed, and the many Tzaddikim and Mekubalim are right.

(Btw, there’s an old thread about this: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/hamsa )

See what I mentioned that Rav Shach writes.

Again-

If you yourself dont know, then thats fine – not everyone can know the answer to all questions they encounter. Clearly, we can compare “levels”, its just that to some, certain comparisons are “obvious” and others are not. Well, to other people, perhaps who are more knowledgable and skilled in assessing these kinds of values, other comparisons are also obvious.

Rav Shach writes – if you dont know who to follow, follow whoever is greater – and, he adds, you can of course tell who is greater. So, absolutely it can be made by individuals. If you yourself dont know, then thats fine – not everyone can know the answer to all questions they encounter – but why in the world would you say nobody else can know? So clearly, we can compare “levels”, its just that to some, certain comparisons are “obvious” and others are not. Well, to other people, perhaps who are more knowledgable and skilled in assessing these kinds of values, other comparisons are also obvious.

In a nutshell:

If you print more money, all prices rise and everything costs more. So you almost never accomplish any good by simply printing more money.

Sam, you wrote: “I have heard some fairly big (no one huge though) Rabbonim say…”

When others write that someone is or isn’t a godol or say Rov A is a greater rov than Rov B, you on more than one occasion jumped in and effectively said ‘how dare you rate rabbonim’, etc.

Yet, here you yourself rate rabbonim… some are “fairly big” but not “huge”, while others are “huge” rabbonim. Now you can understand looking at rabbonim comparability is not only okay but actually necessary. (As you yourself just did.)

What if you read (and understand) only the English side of the Artscroll Gemorah’s, without reading the original Aramaic page. Can you make a Siyum?

Yaakov: No. He isn’t against those programs.

Though he is for lower taxes. And I wish he was in favor of reducing the programs you mention. This way Yidden would benefit from lower taxes.

We would benefit more from lower taxes and lower benefits than higher taxes and higher benefits.

Saying a Tefila for our brethren is not a nationalistic theme. So just as in EY they davened for our brethren in trouble, so too we here in NY davened for our brethren in trouble. In addition to davening for our brethren languising in prison in NC, IA & Bolivia, there was a general Tefila at the Siyum for all our Yiddishe brethren in prison to be released.

B”H for the organizers. It was perfect.

Feif: Rav Levi Yitzchok did not make a public announcement calling being drunk on Pesach night a “Kiddush Hashem”. He made clear it was wrong being drunk by indicating even someone who wrongly is drunk isn’t totally bad…

Here people are calling this woman’s public sinning a so-called “Kiddush Hashem”. That kind of falsity must be countered.

More than one Baal Teshuva has related and even some non-Jewish people have related television as such. Besides that it is hardly a secret. What the wider world consider even “normal”, is pritzus al pi halacha. And the Olypmpics in particular is much much worse than what you would normally see.

Morah: And if you see an anonymous Jewish poster write that he eats shrimp and loves it, and he doesn’t mind sharing that fact with the wider Jewish audience, you just sit back and accept that without comment? Of course not. You cry out in pain that a Jew could be like that.

This is the same situation.

Sam2: Almost impossible. They are prevalent everywhere. Right from the newscasters at the games who themselves are dressed inappropriately, to the audience members you will see displayed, to practically every female athlete. None of them are dressed anywhere near appropriately.

yichusdik: Imber didn’t put chofshi in it. The Israeli government added it in later. So even if Imber wasn’t an apikorus, the authors of the current anthem, with their altercation, are.