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SiDi: Give it another shot and try explaining here how you did it. Thanks

I didn’t necessarily mean everything listed in the OP is correct. (I also wonder if his teachers really told him *all* those things.) But he threw in true things on his list. For example, Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlit”a writes in his Seforim to not step over a child. And spare us the drivel about the last few hundred years. If the Achronim tell us something (i.e. Eliyahu Hanavi at the Seder, women shouldn’t drink havdala wine [nothing to do with growing a beard though], etc.), they didn’t invent it. It comes from our Mesorah all the way back. Even if the earliest Sefer YOU found is “only within the last few hundred years”.

And even if another Achron disagrees with a certain concept, a teacher can teach something as a fact based on another valid source (i.e. an Achron) cites it as factual.

These are true things.

You’re teachers were correct and you are wrong.

Are you kidding, lesschums? 10% of Jews aren’t even frum, let alone sit and learn full time! (Well, the frum are multiplying, kein yirbu, naturally and with baal teshuvos, and we are B”H becoming an ever increasing proportion of Jews. Especially as the irreligious reform/conservative/etc intermarry, nebech, and become 100% assimilated goyim.) There is nowhere close to 10% of Jews learning Torah full time. Not even 1% learn fulltime!! We should strive to at least quadruple the current percentage of full time learners.

Rabbi Krohn is correct that those “Jewish” websites should be blocked by the filters.

Itche: Why?

there are plenty of rabbonim who will give you heterim to have unfiltered internet.

I very highly doubt that.

Sam – How do you explain the practice of putting a Talis over a Sefer Torah?

A hat is a indication of ones madreiga in as much as wearing a yarmulka is.

I like that answer, BSD. Thanks for sharing.

Jews for millenia have given up their freedom, homes and even lives rather than recognize a foreign religion.

The Jewish National Fund? The Brisker Rov, Rav Chaim Soloveichik, wrote: “If you intend to give a coin to the Jewish National Fund, give it to another idolatry, but not to the Zionists, since this idolatry is worse then any other.”

And, again, the idea that anyone claimed that Gedolim are not human or are infallible is libel.

Okay, Sam. So will you be the one to tell us when the Gedolim make mistakes? Otherwise who will be this annointed one that points out their mistakes?

Perhaps you, or this anointed one, is mistaken — rather than the Gedolim being mistaken. How do you — or whoever it is that is claiming they are mistaken — know when the Gedolim make a mistake? Is the person claiming they are mistaken greater than them? Do you — or this anointed one — not make mistakes that you can authoritatively advise us when the Gedolim ARE mistaken?

It’s a mitzvah to wash hamotzi every day, including Chol HaMoed, in the Sukkah.

Very true. Which is one of the reasons many Gedolim (i.e. Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l) strongly recommend that girls get married as early as possible, i.e. right out of high school.

No Jew is killing any Amaleiki’s. We don’t even know who they are! So what is this pathetic comparison between Arabs killing Jews to Jews killing Amaleiki’s? They don’t. It is today only a theological concept in theory, not practice like how Muslim terrorists murder infidels.

Who cares about what those antisemites and others think. They’ll hate us regardless of whether there is reason to or not. (There isn’t.) Besides, one is a theoretical passage that no one uses to kill anyone (we don’t know who the Amaleikim are), and the other is murderers actually killing people today.

I see, Health. You live in Lakewood. And you would have heard about it. Since you haven’t heard about, it ain’t so. Since you would have heard about it.

How about call any of the Yeshiva’s poskim, take your choice which one, and *ask*. Wouldn’t that be a novel idea?

GMan: Actually they’re here all the time in the CR (and elsewhere online) defending themselves.

What’s the shaychus? Are you implying that if someone is part of Bikur Cholim they should accept merchant discounts on personal items for being a BC member?

The reward in this world for bikur cholim is given by Hashem (i.e. he spared punishment in this world – Shabbos 127a/Nedarim 40a), it isn’t something he uses to obtain favorable treatment.

I’m getting vibes from the article that Rav Adlerstein and many other “right-wing YU”-type RCA rabbis (btw I am aware that Rav Adlerstein didn’t go to YU) want to make a splinter organization if the RCA doesn’t take a stand on its Orthodoxy.

I don’t see that in the article from R. Adlerstein or as being realistic in any event. If they want to be right-wing-types they can simply be Chareidi. There really isn’t any room for a something more right-wing than the RCA but less right-wing than Chareidi.

Building the Sukkah mainly means putting up the sechach. So wouldn’t you have to put the sechach up Motzei YK to fulfill this?

If a woman can stay home, she should. If she can’t, she can’t.

BTW Queen Bee, women contribute much more to this world at home than outside it.

adorable: Jewish women in general shouldn’t work. That a women does work needs explaining. That a woman doesn’t work needs no explaining.