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  • in reply to: drinking on purim, teaching kids? #1056428
    shmoel
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    I strictly follow Shulchan Aruch L’shem Shamayim to get stone drunk on Purim.

    I wonder if the people that DON’T get stone drunk are not getting drunk l’shem shamayim or they are simply afraid of fulfilling the obligation and mitzvah to get stone drunk and are thus looking for excuses and kulas to not get stone drunk.

    If they would at least get plain drunk, even if it wasn’t stone drunk, I might be able to understand. But if they don’t get drunk AT ALL on Purim, they are likely just looking for an excuse to not fulfil their OBLIGATION and MITZVAH to get drunk.

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    Toi – definitely. He should call a task force. And take his children and run. Keep her away from the kids. Then get a proection order against her.

    in reply to: Shabbos and Friday #865957
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    Who isn’t makpid to say Erev Shabbos or Leil Shabbos? Almost everyone I know is and does.

    in reply to: drinking on purim, teaching kids? #1056405
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    YC: PBA is correct. The S”A does say until you are so crazy drunk you can’t even tell the difference between blessing Mordechai or cursing Haman.

    in reply to: drinking on purim, teaching kids? #1056393
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    yummy: Halacha says it is an obligation to get stone drunk on Purim. Yes, halacha says that in black and white. Current halacha. Like Shulchan Aruch. What’s so hard to understand?

    soliek: All the doros managed and we do too, with that.

    in reply to: Friday in Geulah #866013
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    It’s the 2% we need to worry about.

    in reply to: Mesira #865374
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    You may, or are even possibly obligated to, kill a moser even bzman hazeh.

    in reply to: Bein Hazmanim important? #867411
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    Telling a bochor to work during bein hazmanim is akin to telling a working man to take a part-time job during his 2-3 weeks of vacation days from his employment.

    in reply to: Mishing on Pesach #1144885
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    One of the reasons for not mishing on Pesach is that there soo many different legitimate minhagim and chumros on Pesach that people don’t have all year, that it is very likely your friend or neighbor has certain Pesach customs that are not in accordance with your own.

    in reply to: drinking on purim, teaching kids? #1056351
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    What does Shulchan Aruch say?

    in reply to: Metzitzah B'Peh #865777
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    Maybe you can just make an automated machine to replace the mohel doing mbp (or even bris milah itself, if possible!) After all, the only reason they didn’t use a machine for thousands of years is because there were no machines.

    in reply to: Matzah-Why so expensive? #865163
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    Why cant someone open a new bakery and sell it for half the price?

    in reply to: Friday in Geulah #865987
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    Adopt the very succesful takanos from Gateshead.

    in reply to: Tzedaka: Is Giving a Quarter Enough? #864825
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    Is there a threshold of minimally giving?

    in reply to: drinking on purim, teaching kids? #1056330
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    Its a mitzvah to be as drunk as possible on Purim.

    in reply to: Older Guys = Rip-off Rant (re: NASI "Game Changer") #822823
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    A lifetime remaining single is perhaps the worst life a girl can have.

    in reply to: Older Guys = Rip-off Rant (re: NASI "Game Changer") #822819
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    OP: Your advice in a nutshell is it is better for older girls to settle into lifetime of singlehood.

    in reply to: Arba Misois Beis Din Awareness #822759
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    OneOfMany: We don’t discard a posuk in the Torah (fire and brimstone) because goyim use it in a messed up way.

    Josh: Beis Din could execute 100 people in one day, if necessary.

    Sam: See the Mussar Seforim. I’m sure you don’t advocate discarding them. They are FULL of very scary consequences for what might even seem like “minor” aveiros to some.’

    in reply to: Arba Misois Beis Din Awareness #822751
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    I don’t know, or care, who Dante was, but “Fire & Brimstone” is a verse from the Torah.

    in reply to: Ashrei Adam Mifakeid Tamid? #822458
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    Sam: It was a joke.

    in reply to: The B110 Bus #821836
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    At one time there was racial segregation of restrooms. And gender segregation of restrooms. The racial segregation has been deemed illegal. The gender segregation is still legal. And women are not classified as a minority under the law.

    in reply to: Do Online Halachic Discussions Cause Some to be Nichshal in Aveiros? #868048
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    Much worse than online halachic discussions are online personality discussions and online Jewish political discussions and online machlokes discussions, all of which entail sheker, loshon hora, rechilus, and/or motzi shem ra as well as a host of a whole lot of other extremely serious aveiros, in virtually all such discussions and stories.

    Both by participating in the discussion or even by merely reading it passively without active participation.

    in reply to: Do Online Halachic Discussions Cause Some to be Nichshal in Aveiros? #868047
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    The CR is open to the hamon hoam and the uneducated easily gullible masses.

    in reply to: Nasi Project has a new approach, I hear. Is this a nasty rumor? #823868
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    Where did you hear this, OfCourse?

    The part about paying more the older she is doesn’t sound likely to be the case, since NASI specifically wants to help the older girls.

    in reply to: AYC: AYeCo? #829112
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    What does AYeCo, in the title, mean?

    in reply to: The B110 Bus #821834
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    There is no legitimate reason to segregate by race. There is good legitimate reason to segregate by gender. Thus one is discrimination and one is not.

    in reply to: Ashrei Adam Mifakeid Tamid? #822455
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    Please let us all know which establishment this is, so we should avoid eating from it.

    in reply to: A Woman's Place in Frum Society #814585
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    There is nothing in SA that says 73:1’s admonitions for her to not go outside (Rambam says once or twice a month is good but SA just says not too much) becomes inapplicable if she otherwise will accept tzedaka.

    in reply to: Advice for fasting YK #882578
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    It’s good you’re not a man. Otherwise you’d need to be in shul all (or most) of the day.

    in reply to: The Starving Thread #931949
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    0.

    (The toast is good.)

    in reply to: TEXTING ON SHABBOS #815542
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    An article on OU.org says some figures put it at 50% of mo teens. You don’t seriously believe the numbers are remotely in that ballpark by the ultra, do you?

    in reply to: source for not buying stuff for a baby before its born needed #813825
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    How do you even know boy or girl?

    in reply to: ENTERTAINING VIDEOS: Neturei Karta #851615
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    If they don’t make an impact, why do a lotta folks here get all riled up and unwound whenever they hit the news? And why does this site have a dime a dozen stories about their activites every Monday and Thursday?

    in reply to: Turkey – Israel Relations #813577
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    Assyria was more where Syria is today, not Turkey.

    in reply to: Egalitarian Minyan; As Bad As Reform? #815194
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    Reform also started out by justifying their actions under “legitimate halacha”.

    in reply to: A Woman's Place in Frum Society #814576
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    Artscroll is one of the foremost compilations of historical facts in the Jewish world.

    in reply to: ENTERTAINING VIDEOS: Neturei Karta #851597
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    Whatever you want to call it, moser and rodef are entirely inapplicable regarding them. It is simply twisting the terms.

    in reply to: Help Me Forgive #971384
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    No one should tell friends they are dating or about to get engaged.

    in reply to: No Sleeping Rosh Hashana Days #813353
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    If you sleep, it sleeps away your mazal for the year?

    in reply to: No Sleeping Rosh Hashana Days #813352
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    But if you wake up very early (after alos) you shouldn’t turn over and go back to sleep for another few hours.

    in reply to: Help Me Forgive #971375
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    Haleivi: I disagree. It is very much possible to be mochel someone who neither seeks it nor cares that he wronged you.

    in reply to: ENTERTAINING VIDEOS: Neturei Karta #851585
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    In post-war America too.

    in reply to: A Woman's Place in Frum Society #814559
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    gavra: does SA say not to take tzedaka? SA says they shouldn’t go out the house much. It’s obvious from SA to rather take tzedaka than go out.

    apy: The CC’s store was in the back of his house. She didn’t have to go out. And the SA is 73:1.

    in reply to: pay to daven? #812951
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    But it does help to have a tzadik speak to Hashem on your behalf.

    in reply to: A Woman's Place in Frum Society #814553
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    Who cares wha the hamon hoam’s reply is? We know what Shulchan Aruch says. The fact their are extenuating circumstances that unfortunately make women leave their home, does not make it anywhere near the ideal.

    in reply to: flowers? or too soon? #858709
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    What do girls like about flowers?

    in reply to: I HATE SHIDDUCHIM!!!! #858774
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    Just get married and you’ll be done!

    in reply to: A Woman's Place in Frum Society #814496
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    Well said OP.

    A woman’s place is at home.

    That’s what Shulchan Aruch, the Jewish code of law, says.

    in reply to: Where There’s A Will, There’s A Violation What The Torah Wants? #812379
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    Wolf – regarding life insurance benefits, I dont think the halachas of inheritance apply, since the benefits were never your during your lifetime.

    in reply to: Where There’s A Will, There’s A Violation What The Torah Wants? #812377
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    None of the kosher WIC grocers that I know sell non-CY milk.

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