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What’s next? People who drive as opposed to taking a horse-drawn cart as our forefathers did?

When they used a horse-drawn cart, there was no car available. When they chose black and white clothes, colored clothing was readily available but specifically rejected.

The Vilna SHas was adopted by klaal yisroel. We learn from seforim filled with dafim/pages which we turn, not pixels.

Tecnology and innovations creep in after the hamon amm is poretz geder. The first to do so are porkei ol, the latter are following accepted minhag.

I call the first ones “Nachshon ben Aminodov of Tumah” as they jump into the raging sea of modern secularism.

I am happy that I am mesameach you. Use the simcha for avodas Hashem.

Kiruv helps “us” – internally. We are One. The rechokim are in critical condition and need immediate life support. If we close our eyes and let them “die”, we will soon succumb too.

An ayzah tovah is worth more than a dozen meaningless oy vays and sighs. My aytzos are emes, as they come from dedication to toras emes. The oy vays and sighs come from belly aches.

Firstly, chazal tell us “ain oni ella b’da’as” – poverty/poorness is merely a mindset. If you are someach b’chelko, you will instantly become wealthy.

Secondly, there are many who give tzedaakah tthrough their rabbonim – if you belong to a kehillah, speak to your rav – he can and will help you get tzeddakah b’kovod.

Thirdly, once you become a “oiver al hapsochim” -collecting on the streets, the chiyuv of tzedakah is actually DOWNGRADED to giving you a lesser amount than if you are not panhandling! As such, YOU are to blame for those who give you only a token amount, as is the halocha.

Fourthly, everyone has a tafkid in his lot in life. The malach was gozer on you to be a chochom or tiesh, onie or osheer etc, it is predestined and THAT is your shlichus and nisayon which you must be mikabel b’simcha instead of judging others. Many gedolim suffered extensive poverty and they were able to grow into our gedolim.

Finally, since you are not busy working, maybe join a kollel so that you will have zchus hatorah to enrich your life with ruchniyus.

In case you wonder: Kesef mina lon? The gashmiyus follows, by others who want the great zchus to partner with you by being the zevulunm, supporting your learning with kovod.

My $0.02 based on many years of Torah study lishmah.

Kabbolistically, a person should wear only white (davka)on shabbos – seems it represents chesed (while black is for gevuros). Those that are noheg al pi kabbalah should follow their minhagim. Unless you consistently follow kabbalah minhagim – it is irrelevant to you.

In any event, the white (and not “colors”) is consistent with the color scheme of other yidden who wear white and black.

Regarding the so-called “famous portrait of the Tzemach Tzedek (3rd Rebbe of Lubavitch)…always wearing white clothes” – I once saw this DRAWING (not a photograph) and it seemed to have been sketched in black and white, thus the fact that there was no color in his hat or bekkishe is no rayah at all.

Some Rosh Yeshivas, as in CHaim Berlin etc. on shabbos would wear their talis by folding the black stripes on their shoulder UNDER the talis so that only the white part of the talis showed. This way they were yotzeh the kabbalistic need to “wear white” on shabbos.

On yomim noroyim (strictly mmarried men) wear kittels, to be yotzeh wearing white (among other reasons) but no hakpodeh to wear ONLY white (pants, shoes etc).

Wearing gray and/or blue is stam being poetz geder, and as generations decline, following your derech of prikus ol of the black-white malbush, your grandchildren may wear orange and pink r”l. That can happen when we start making minor adjustments to “al titosh toras imecha”.

If you leave a straight path by just one degree, after a few miles you won’t be able to see the path you left.

“The text has the kedusha, not the paper. If you want kedusha, hire a sofer to write out the entire text on real Klaf (like S.T.A.M.) in Ktav Ashurit.”

The paper of a siddur or chumash has a din of shaimos requiring geniza. No need to davka have a klaf and ksav ashuris. A broken Kindel or Ipad, no matter how much Torah was downloaded on it – does not become shaimos.

[There is an interesting shaylah about deleting a page that contains shaimos sh’ainom nimchokim from a computer or electronic device – I leave that for another thread].

One of the zchusim that redeemed the Yidden from Mitzrayim is that they kept their levushim. These levushim were not the “yellow star”, the ” Kippah, Tallis & Kitte” (and/or Teffilin), rather it was the levushim similar to the intrinsic definition of what we wear today, albeit, without the “modern” twists.

The clothes were tzius both practically and in spirit. The colors and style were modest and humble (comparable in this sense to the modern dress which evolved to a simple white button down shirt and black suit for men and black skirts/dresses for the women as is the minhag in the Torah city of Lakewood).

[The clothes they “borrowed” from the Mitzrim, it says in some seforim that they were only used on the children of the B.Y. because they were too short and not tznius in spirit for adults}.

Minhagim are the very cornerstone of yiddishkeit, hence the “4 questions” on Pessach includes the question of “matbilim” – merely a minhag, but that keeps our Tradition alive.

In halacha it is mentioned (Shulchon Oruch Y.D.) that a minhag is (at times) more chomur than a din. The Gemarah also mentions that b’shas cherum, yidden must give up their lives for a minhag, even the color of their shoes!

It is TOTALLY inappropriate and painful to see on a frum Yeshiva website comments that seem to mock minhagim and say that minhagim is gematriya gehenim, something straight from the Haskalah/Reform movement. They first attacked minhagim, and then they attacked the Anochi of the Aseres Hadibros. They took out parts of davening and then removed the Kail Adon.

I am surprised that the frum members are not howling in protest! B”h I have the opportunity to be mikayim l’shem yichud the mitzvah d’oraysa of Hochayach Tochiach and make this public machoah.

Rolls and mezonos can not coexist; mezonos rolls are a spurious term and the correct brochah for the so-called mezonos roll is hamotzi lechem min haaretz, with netilas yadayim a prerequisite.

See halachuc discussion and reasons:

http://www.oukosher.org/index.php/common/article/the_mezonos_roll_is_it_a_piece_of_cake_by_rabbi_yaakov_luban/

Wolf – “Why should it be any worse than using a paper book?”

Short answer: Tradition.

We dress “traditional”, some even wear the clothes of the “old country” (at various levels: homberg, kapotte, shtreimel, white socks, knickers etc.). We certainly don’t wear latest styles of clothing and hairstyles. This is because we keep to our “Traditions”.

Yes, after a while the tradition evolves, especially after the porkay ol are poretz geder, but we, the frum olom, are not to be the “Nachshon ben Aminodov” of tumah to jump into new cultures and styles.

If this applies to our livush and our hairstyle, how much more so to our learning in the bais hamedresh, that it should remain as true as possible to the bais hamedresh in Villna, in Lodz, Lublin, Rastov etc. The learning in the bais hamedresh should be in a way that if the Vilna Goan walked in, he would know he is in a mokom Torah. He should see chavrusas leaning over a Vilna Shas, not a Kindle or Ipad!

The whole auction/raffle is a major problem of asmachta lo kanya. It also encourages gambling and m’sachek b’kuvya.

This hanhoga nefed hatorah is the gateway to casino visits and gambling addiction.

You never see pictures of Gdolim buying a raffle ticket!

(Only badly photo-shopped pictures of them giving to “certain” kupos of aniyay tzedaka – it is davka badly photo-shopped to avoid ram’ous, trickery)).

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crdle – yes, chabad has “some” limited value and purpose to regular frum yidden b’sha’as hadchak. Reb Schneir z”l had kovod for them.

sof davar, anochi ofar v’efer, I don’t care if someone mocks me or denigrates me, adarrabah, hearing my cherpah and remaining silent is a tremendous zchus that I seek to embrace.

However, when someone attacks the kovod of Torah or kovod shamayim which includes the kollel learning of thousands of avreichim, we DARE NOT remain silent. We must call out Mi L’Hashem Elay!

My words here are not for my kovod at all, only kovod HaTorah.

BTW – someone who learns in kollel is mamesh a cheftzah of Torah and should be treated like a sefer Torah.

I sometimes hesitate as I step into the washroom – how can a living sefer Torah enter a bais kisseh? It must be so that I can make a Brocha of Asher Yotzar.

Let us be melamed zchus. There are many halachos that are matir dinim b’mokom hefsed merubah. There are other dinim that are mutur b’mokom tzar. Likewise mifakchin al tzorchei tzibur is allowed in many instances. There are MULTIPLE instances that we can be dan lkaf zchus, and I don’t mean r”l bmokom pikuach nefesh for a choleh…what would R’ Levi Yizchok Barditchiver say?

He once saw a man wearing talis and tefillin (middle of davening) while he was harnessing the horses to his wagon. R’ LY cried out to Hashem, look at your children, in the middle of their work harnessing the horses to the wagon, they interrupt to daven and pray your praises!

It is all perspective!

As one godol said: We have two eyes, one eye to look favorably at other yidden, and one eye to look critical at ourselves.

Unfortunately, we often mix them up!!

josh31 (I hope you have a Jewish name), you clearly despise the kollel system. The same type of people were yesteryear also against the ENTIRE full time yeshiva system, choosing a “real” education for their children and sending them to Afternoon Hebrew School after their “real” schooling. Time are a’changing my friend…the yeshiva system has been fully adopted by the frum olom, and so is the kollel system.

I am a proud member of the kollel for life system. I was zoyche to it. Sadly, you weren’t. But as a consolation prize, you can have the great zchus of supporting me and my chaverim. This will give you a purpose in life and a zchus to enter olom habah.

Instead of supporting the learners of Torah, you hate the kollel system and denigrate it. In your mind, only the few token select few should be in kollel. Following that logic, only the select few should be students in yeshiva and the rest don’t belong there!

Chazal tell us, why is it called Har Sinai, because Sina came down to the world, a hatred against those who learn Torah. While I got the Torah at Sinai, you got the sinah.

Either you are with us or against us. Seems you are not with us!

Minyonim and learning is available at the various shuls and learning centers:

Van der Boechorststraat 26 Amsterdam, 1081 BT Netherlands 31-652-328-065;

Tweede Weteringdwarsstraat 53 Amsterdam, 1017 ST Netherlands 31-610-442-770;

Kehilath Jaakov Synagogue

Address: Gerrit van der Veenstr 26;

I would appreciaye if you don’t mention my personal information.

The R”Y said many times that we FFB’s would not be able to stand up to the nisyonos and the daily complex dilemmas that a B”T must deal with. We have it “easy” – al mei menuchos, compared to the BT’s life.

On a fast day one did not eat Pas Shachris. As such, their might be a chiyuv to be mashlim eating pas shachris after the fast.

It is “ah GITTEN erev shabbos” not “ah gutten” as in gluten.

A BT comes with a family who are often not BT.

Suppose the BT’s brother acts like a goy, eats like one and is marries to a man – that can create huge complexities. Do you attend the “simcha” of an intermarriage or a man “marrying” a man? DO you sit at a wedding that serves treif food, a chuppah officiated by a lady rabbi and a minister?

Likewise the BT’s parents can create a problem for the couple’s children when they do not act as a Zaidy or Bubby should act.

I agree with Health that BT’s should USUALLY marry BT’s and deal with common issues that are B”H foreign to FFB’s.

Someone named their daughters: Avigail and Avichail. Both used “Avi” for short.

In your case, the issue would arise if both mother and daughter are called Sheva for short. If that is the case, it can lead to confusion and issues of Kibud Aim. They would require a shinuy to avoid this.

A shinuy is even when there is a second name, as between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, although the “added” name should be first. The shinuy should actually be used.

In your case, the distinguishing “prefix” is first and therefore (if the complete name is used for one of them), there is no chishash.

Josh31 “A man who messes things up, always loses and feels miserable. An unfortunate. Closely related to Schlemazel and Schlemiell….If you do any learning change your posting name!!!”

This is a perfect example of the clash between Torah views and secular attitudes. Avrohom, Moshe and Dovid said about themselves that they are Dust, Earth, Ash. I am not on such a madreiga to consider myself like that, but I feel I can be called a “loser, miserable and unfortunate”. That is a level that secular thinking cannot adopt.

Come join the bais medrash and shtyg a few days and you will start thinking with daas Torah.