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The minhag of the Gaon was not to wear tefillin chol hamoed. This has become the minhag of all of Eretz Yisroel. Even so, if you feel you must, do it betzin’a and don’t talk about it. No matter what you do, yesh al mi lismoch, see above posts. After all, it is difficult to abandon the Rama.
There are two aspects of fasting. One is the issur of eating or drinking. The second is the aseh of “Ve’inisem es nafshoseichem”. If one hydrates with an IV, he does not transgress the issur of drinking, but he does not get the mizvah of inuy.
Multiple Sclerosis
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Ta-reshet Ne-fotzah
All Jews are permitted to talk about halachah. If one studies a subject in depth, he or she may pasken for themselves. Smichah authorizes one to pasken for others when asked.
The average man should spend time with and talk with (not to, but with) his wife much more than he thinks he should. This is a corollary of the mitzvah of Onah.
You need not light an extra candle. One fulfills the mitzvah upon lighting one single candle. All extra candles for any reason are based on minhag only.
Poorly kept secret; Just park outside the public library any time of day or night. The wireless connection reaches well out to the street.
Rashi lived 950 or so years ago, that is more like 40 generations at least, not 25. In any case, since we Jews have 2 to the 40th power ancestors going back 40 generations (minus the overlapping of ancestors) , it is likely that almost all of us, excluding converts, are descendants of Rashi. Me too.
The Chasam Sofer, Orach Chaim 159 writes that one is permitted to shave and that “??? ?? ??? ????? ?????? ???, ????? ??? ????? ??? ??”. It’s a long tshuva, I’ll let everyone find the quote by him or her self.
“is it possible to marry someone who is not your bashert? if someone gets married can we say with certainty that that person was their bashert? “
The answer is yes, one can marry someone who is not their bashert, even if that person was destined for someone else. Then the answer to the second question is obvious; one cannot say with certainty that a given marriage was bashert.
This answer is from Sefer Chassidim (Rav Margoilis edition), se’if 321 ,near the end of the footnote .
If the table I am at gets good service from a waiter at a wedding or bar mitzvah, I and others at the table pool together and give him a(n extra) tip.
The OP made two mistakes in his opening sentence.
I quote:”The Gemara (Kesuvos, 72A) states that a woman who goes out with her hair uncovered gets a divorce without a Kesuvah.”
1. This is a mishnah, not a gemara. Yes, I know it is the tractate, but there is a difference, and the difference is important.
2. The word ???? does not mean uncovered. It means wild or unruly. This definition is the crux of the entire issue. If it is improperly defined, the discussion loses value.
Tostien:”However, the Chazon Ish approved of his grandson (or great-grandson?) marrying a BT.”
Sorry, can’t be. The Chazon Ish had no children.
Rabban Shel Kol Bnei Hagolah
I agree with bombmaniac. The term “seforim kedoshim” has no relevance unless they are identified.Their “mesorah” is limited to those who accept it, and does not exist for those who don’t. The packagaing of it all under “torah sheb’al peh” is open to debate.
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A Torah Temimah is a bar mitzvah gift for life.
Dear Moshe Rose,
You presented an interesting viewpoint regading this tuition issue.
I would appreciate if you would kindly answer a few questions I have.
Is this your own personal understanding of the role of torah learning (keeps the world in place) and specifically that the goyim should support it?
Is this the hashkafah of the yeshiva you learn in?
Is this hashkafah (in your view) accepted as the consensus in the frum veldt?
Thanks
There seems to be a fundamental disagreement here. One side says that something is unquestionaby permitted until it is proven forbidden. The other side says one cannot assume anything is unquestionably permitted , as it is always possible that some time in history it was questioned. I vote for the first side.
Me’iri
The most famous example is from the akeidah, “Vayashkem Avraham Baboker Vayachavosh es Chamoro”. Avraham Avinu, despite the emotional difficulty inherent in what he was asked by God to do, still did it bizrizus; he woke up early to fulfill God’s command.
I’ll try to explain it simply.
A Lakewood yeshivish person…
1. Places learning Torah as the highest priority with anything else a distant second.
2. Attempts to limit his contacts with the secular world to the minimum.
3. Does not approve of secular studies that are not essential for parnassah.
4. Does not attach value to material possessions or accumulation of wealth.
5. Displays absolute loyalty to the Roshei Yeshiva and mashgichim, their hashkafah, and their guidance in all matters.
Aharon Karov and his wife Tzviyah.
Yerai shamayim, risked his life for his fellow Jews, had his face blown off by a bomb in Aza two weeks after his wedding. His miraculous recovery process and his no less miraculous determination in this painful and frightening period, his total faith in the Almighty, his devotion to his young wife and her devotion to him, are an inspiration to all. Simply put, mesiras nefesh for am yisrael is not lip service to him, it is reality.
Dear Dovid,
While I agree with your sentiments, you are fighting a battle in the wrong arena. The vast majority of readers here (apologies to Dvorak)are more than thrilled to belittle your idealisitc lifestyle, living in Yesha. They are thrilled to knock the Israeli government and the very idea of a Jewish State, and to remind you that you are in golus (do you feel like you are in Flatbush? I doubt it). Your admirable efforts on behalf of Roi Klein HY”D ‘s family would best be done at home, where people understand where you are coming from. The Flatbush/Lakewood/Monsey et al. crowd has no clue who Roi Klein was and what he meant to people like you and me.
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daven harder
Never heard of it, sounds like a very nice minhag.
The German Jews had (some still have) a minhag that the chosson and kallah meet the morning of the wedding, with the chosson and kallah walking down an aisle holding hands or arms to sit under a canopy. Known as “Chuppah de Mein”, it is written up extensively in the wonderful series “Shorshei Minhag Ashkenaz”
I beg to differ. Other than spiffy clothing and learning some mussar, there is little in common. The greatest of the Slabodka talmidim, Rav Aharon Kotler, Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky,Rav Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman,and Rav Yitzchok Hutner, all could claim to have headed yeshivas in the Slabodka tradition. In Slabodka there was no specific derech in learning (a quote from Rav Kaminetsky), and they certainly didn’t spend a whole zman on just a few blot. So to claim that Chofetz Chaim is a throwback to Slabodka is not true.
Did the students in Slabodka also go to college at night? No. Do they switch yeshivas in Chofetz Chaim every year or so? In Slabodka they did. Does Chofetz Chaim encourage their students to hear shiurim of gedolim in neighboring yeshivas? In Slabodka they did. Does Chofetz Chaim send out groups of boys to strengthen mussar in nonmussar yeshivas? In Slabodka they did. Besides, how many chess masters came out of Chofetz Chaim? In Slabodka it was what they did in their spare time. I suggest you read some books on Slabodka and yeshivas in Europe in general, you will see very little in common with Chofetz Chaim.
There’s nothing wrong with a specific yeshiva thinking it’s the best, I wouldn’t expect otherwise. But to say that it’s the only yeshiva where you learn how to learn must be a joke. Really? 98% of the yeshiva world is populated by boys who never learned how to learn? How arrogant can you get?
Furthermore, to say that it’s the only yeshiva the way yeshivas used to be is a bigger joke. Which old time yeshiva is Chofetz Chaim like? Volozhin? Telz? Slabodka? Mir? Ramailes? Lublin? Slonim? The list is endless and the answer is none of the above.
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I’m all for a winter vacation. However, the word “yeshiva” in the title raises the eyebrows quite a bit. Do yeshivas in America really stop smack in the middle of the zman for a break? Meimisim atzmam be’ohola shel Torah on the slopes?
The Rama in O”H Siman 696 states that there is no issur because it is done for “simcha be’alma”. This is as clear a heter as one could find, and it’s black on white in the Shulchan Aruch.
However, others, (Shlah,Bach,Taz, etc…) were very much against this custom. It’s interesting that the custom did exist in those days and apparently the rabbonim were forced to discuss how much to oppose it. A lesson for our days.
There are frum tour guides who can take you on a tour of Israel through the words of the Tanach. Places like the battle in Gilboa, Emek Ayalon, Kever Yoseph Hatzadik in Shchem, fishing for the chilazon of techelet in the western Galil, the hidden secrets of Chevron, caves in midbar Yehudah and much more. It being winter, a trip to Metullah and the rivers feeding into the Kinneret (Hatzbani, Dan, Yarden, etc…) is quite beautiful.