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  • in reply to: akuperma #1114734
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    *contributing editor

    in reply to: Joining Hatzalah #873028
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    Committing your time to learning Torah is a greater endeavor than committing your time in anticipation of people needing life saving help, at the expense of learning.

    in reply to: Joining Hatzalah #873025
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    chaimboruch: Learning Torah is greater than saving a life.

    in reply to: Shemone Esrei: Putting Feet Together and Davening Quietly #871952
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    Sam: What’s the reason and the source of putting the feet together? And *ideally* should they be perfectly aligned and touching each other from front to back?

    in reply to: Joining Hatzalah #873019
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    Even if they act wrongly?

    in reply to: Shemone Esrei: Putting Feet Together and Davening Quietly #871950
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    Is it okay to daven shemone esrei without putting your feet lined up exactly together with each other? (If not, why must the feet be together?)

    in reply to: neturei karta sinks to new low praises alla #872292
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    Abc: Muslims don’t have a “savior”. You’re mixing your religions up. Alla simply is the word for G-d in another language (Arabic). Akhbar simply means great. You can even go into a Mosque, since Muslims pray to the same one and only G-d as Jews do.

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    Don’t forget that a two-year discrepancy in dates is due to whether you start counting the years from year 0 or 1.

    This makes a difference as to whether the Churbon of the 2nd Beis Hamikdash occurred in the year 68, 69 or 70 in the common era.

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    This whole thread is not a kasha at all, unless you give any credence to historians versus Chazal. Why would you do that?

    in reply to: Davening Gemara #1017046
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    Why Zohar and Mishna yes inherent kedusha, but Gemorah no inherent kedusha?

    in reply to: Heter for Women Learning Torah in Beis Yaakov #867316
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    sam4321: The Yerushalmi (that Tosfos quotes) says its better to burn Divrei Torah than to teach it to women?

    in reply to: Heter for Women Learning Torah in Beis Yaakov #867314
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    YosH: The OP is not wrong in asking. It is a legitimate question.

    in reply to: Saying Mored Hatol and Vsein Brocho 100 Times #867207
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    If you have to go back to the beginning, do you stop in middle of whatever brocho you are in or do you first finish that brocho and then go back?

    in reply to: SEDER MINHAGIM? #1148834
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    1 – There is a mekor for not wearing a kittel during shana rishona. (I don’t have it handy at the moment.)

    in reply to: tuition and home buying #869116
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    You cant take maaser for girls schools.

    in reply to: tuition and home buying #869113
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    Question:

    Everyone is saying that the Yeshivos costs are NOT covered by the parents tuition alone. Not even by the parents who pay FULL tuition cover all the other children who don’t pay full tuition.

    So, if that be the case, WHO is covering the Yeshivos costs not covered by the parents?

    in reply to: Kol Isha #869308
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    The Mishna specifically states, without any dissent, that it applies to a wife.

    in reply to: Saying Mored Hatol and Vsein Brocho 100 Times #867205
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    And if one said mored hageshem instead of mored hatol, and didn’t realize it in time to either repeat S”E then or at the next tefila, is it as if he had skipped S”E and didn’t daven that tefila altogether?

    in reply to: Kol Isha #869305
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    Oomis, Al tarbe sicha im isha specifically does include ones wife.

    in reply to: Rav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg & Baseball #867062
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    D. Dovshtein: A man learning Torah 12 solid hours every single day or a woman doing Bikur Cholim 12 solid hours every single day is both a mitzvah and a madreiga.

    Don’t ever tell anyone not to learn 12 hour every single day or not to do Bikur Cholim 12 hours every single day.

    And don’t ever tell anyone being a fan of professional sports is not a negative.

    in reply to: tuition and home buying #869102
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    besalel: What are potential, *realistic*, solutions to the problem you’ve identified?

    in reply to: No Taxation with Representation #867338
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    Can’t be reconciled.

    in reply to: Saying Mored Hatol and Vsein Brocho 100 Times #867204
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    If you said it wrong, and realize it while still saying Shemone Esrei, how much later can you go back to it (without having to restart S”E)? And where do you go back to?

    And if it is too late and you have to restart S”E, do you stop wherever you are currently holding in S”E and immediately start it over, or do you first finish the paragraph you are currently in middle of (even if it has Hashem’s name still) and then restart?

    in reply to: Will books soon be obsolete? #867155
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    Shticky: A LOT of newspapers across the US have gone bankrupt in the last 10 years. Readership has plummeted across the nation.

    in reply to: kollel and welfare #866810
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    Great point Nechama. Tax dollars go to all sorts of things, good and bad, helpful and wasteful.

    Government money towards Kollel families is one of the best, wisest, and most helpful of all government dollars spent.

    in reply to: Location of Bnei Brak Same Today as During Chazal? #866993
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    One example off the top of my head is it has the years wrong for the Beis Hamikdash.

    in reply to: kollel and welfare #866800
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    Don’t be jealous. Be very happy Kollel Yungerleit and their families can lead easy lives while upholding the world and us with their learning Torah.

    in reply to: Location of Bnei Brak Same Today as During Chazal? #866991
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    Yungerman – Not even close, when it comes to Jewish history.

    in reply to: How Much Below the Knee Should a Skirt be? #1059885
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    Halacha defines what has to be covered.

    in reply to: Location of Bnei Brak Same Today as During Chazal? #866989
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    Wikipedia or Google is hardly a reliable source for ancient Jewish history.

    in reply to: Location of Bnei Brak Same Today as During Chazal? #866986
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    dash: What causes you to think that Ibn Ibrak was the same city, or on the site of it, as the original Bnei Brak?

    in reply to: Kabbalah, Zohar and The ARIZAL #866776
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    Sam: We only need to concern ourselves with Talmidei Chachomim, on the issue. Not am haratzim academics who make “historical judgements”, and other shoddy assumptions. And there stupidities in inventing “historical facts” on this (and many other) Torah issues, are pure figments of their imaginations without any Torah basis. No, they most certainly do not have an iota of any “good rayos” on this that is worthy of anything other than a hearty laugh.

    in reply to: Kabbalah, Zohar and The ARIZAL #866773
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    Sam: It was only briefly questioned for a short time by a small minority of Torah figures. The entire Torah world has long accepted its authorship by Rabban Shimon Bar Yochai. The apikorus academics have no bearing or standing on the issue.

    in reply to: How To Take Control of Your Marriage #869468
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    The OP cites a maare makom. It should be pretty easy to lookup if its an accurate quote.

    in reply to: Rav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg & Baseball #867050
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    This is a well known story. And the reason is well known too by his talmidim. There is no secret. It can be verified with them or his children. He was happy that he finally got the tumah of professional sports out of his heart.

    in reply to: The Sefiras Ha'Omar game!! #949634
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    Are you trying to kick out most of the girls?

    in reply to: Biggest Chassidus' #867561
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    Which parts of Europe has Satmar kehillos? (England, Antwerp, etc.)

    in reply to: Kabbalah, Zohar and The ARIZAL #866766
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    The Zohar was authored by the Tanna Rabban Shimon bar Yochai, but was kept secret for over a thousand years, until it was finally revealed to the masses about 500 years ago.

    Zohar shouldn’t be learnt before one becomes 40 years old.

    in reply to: Should Oldest Son Inherit a Rov / Rebbe's Position? #866525
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    The Rema and Avnei Nezer disagree with you, and say it is inherited. Even the Chasam Sofer (OC 13) says it is inherited if the Rov is also a communal leader in addition to his rabbinic position.

    in reply to: The Longest Seder Contest�How Late Will Your Seder End? #1199576
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    Chacham: I will not complete

    I know how badly you wanna win, but still, you are mechuyiv to say Krias Shema shel Shachris. So you will have to complete by that time. You can’t just keep your Seder going on forever…

    But I do commend you for having the right spirit!

    in reply to: Biggest Chassidus' #867557
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    zichmich: Ger is bigger than both Bobov’s combined?

    in reply to: I missed my own 5th CR anniversary!! :( #895501
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    You became frum since your post 2 years ago?

    in reply to: Biggest Chassidus' #867554
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    Belz should also be on the top 10 list.

    in reply to: "Trolling could get you 25 years in jail in Arizona" #866260
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    Unlimited freedom of speech is bad.

    in reply to: YU for girls #866487
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    Worse than YU? Highly doubtful.

    in reply to: Selling the Chometz to the Goy #866076
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    KZ: How could it be the second that is chal? The first goy already own the chometz, so the second goy’s sale can’t be chal.

    And what if Reuven sold his chometz via Rav Shimon first and Rav Levi second. But Rav Levi completed his sale to a goy before Rav Shimon did.

    And I never heard anyone davka selling chometz through two or three different rav’s.

    in reply to: Shabbos and Friday #865964
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    Educate her.

    in reply to: Selling the Chometz to the Goy #866073
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    Mistama the second sale wasn’t chal. But the shaila is whether its the second time the guy went to the rov, or the second rov to sell it to a goy.

    in reply to: Selling the Chometz to the Goy #866072
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    What about the guy who absent-mindedly sold his chometz twice, through two different rov’s?

    in reply to: Here's a question for you (poll) #872701
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    Do be bittul zman and have a good time.

    Besides, you don’t have anthing better to do with your life. (Otherwise you wouldn’t be asking.)

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