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It’s not just frum people. Most religious people are Republican/Conservative. (with the possible exception of Muslims).
Without going in some of the many other reasons the democrats and liberals are becoming increasingly hostile to religion. The pundits wonder why the evangelicals support Trump even though he isn’t even nominally religious in his personal life. The answer is simple. Much as Trump makes fun and insults other people , one group he NEVER starts up with or makes fun is religious people or religious leaders .
Yes Obama is a family man who went to church for twenty year listening to Jeremiah Wright deliver his message of hate. But when he talks about “clinging to guns and religion” instead of joining his enlightened crowd, when he tried t force Catholic employers to violate their religious principles it’s easy to understand why religious people don’t want his ilk in office.
It’s not just frum people. Most religious people are Republican/Conservative. (with the possible exception of Muslims).
Without going into some of the many other reasons the Democrats and liberals are becoming increasingly hostile to religion. The pundits wonder why the evangelicals support Trump even though he isn’t even nominally religious in his personal life. The answer is simple. Much as Trump makes fun and insults other people, one group he NEVER starts up with or makes fun is religious people or religious leaders.
Yes Obama is a family man who went to church for twenty year listening to Jeremiah Wright deliver his message of hate. But when he talks about “clinging to guns and religion” instead of joining his enlightened crowd, when he tried t force Catholic employers to violate their religious principles it’s easy to understand why religious people don’t want his ilk in office.
I think he is confusing Anim Zemiros with a different song sang on Shabbos that is alleged to have been composed by Shabsei Tzvi. I’m not saying which one.
(most people attribute that song to the Arizal)
Are any of the current Roshei Yeshivos of YTV considered to be the primary RY, in the same sense that Rav Pam zt”l held that title?
Rav Pam held that title only because of how well known he was in the outside world.
He didn’t have the power that most Roshey Yeshiva have
He needed permission from the board of directors for many decisions. Even for things which he didn’t need the board’s approval the power in the Yeshiva wasn’t exclusively his. He shared it with other hanhala members to a much larger degree than most other Roshey Yeshiva do.
Rav Yitzchok Lichtenstein will probably find himself in the same position.
(1)A taxable transaction doesn’t require buying or selling
(2)Why would anyone charge tax on a free item if the law didn’t require it?
There are things that I wish were different in the Yeshivos I learned in but the stress on Lomdus is not one of them.
When I go online and see how bungled Torah topics are by those who don’t know how to learn I really appreciate the focus on Lomdus and knowing how to learn. The focus on Lomdus also teaches people not to understand Torah superficially. Those who don’t understand that seem frequently misled about Torah concepts online. Etc.etc.etc.
<i>J Street and their ilk do not fear generally fear antisemitism (I suspect that many Jews on campuses who publicly espouse anti-Israel positions do so out of fear). They are ideologically opposed to any form of nationalism.</i>
If J Street’s issue was nationalism then they wouldn’t be pro Palestinian either because the Palestinians are way more nationalistic than the Israelis are.
Their issues are that they very much want to assimilate completely but (1) it is difficult for them to be pro-Israel when the prevailing feeling in the left is so anti-Israel (2)anti-Semitism masked as anti-Israel makes them realize it isn’t so easy to assimilate .
To drown out those thoughts they take a very anti-Israel position to tell themselves there is no anti-Semitism in the anti Israel bias and to tell the non-Jews. “No we’re not like those Jews. We are just like you . Let us assimilate among you.
It isn’t for no reason that the head of J Street frequently takes a salami-ham-and-cheese sandwich to interviews. He is trying to make a point that he has nothing to do with “Jewish” Jews.
The headline isn’t accurate at all. There were people with Jewish ancestors who fought with the Nazis but they weren’t assimilated Jews. Almost none were Jewish halchicly and they weren’t people who actively assimilated themselves .
Also the number 150,000 sounds way to high.
That said the concept is true. I used to wonder how secular Jews in America were so indifferent to the holocaust and even sabotaged rescue efforts. I was sure that today things would be different .Until there starting being groups like J Street . They would act the exact way .
I think you mean a “Haskafa Yeshiva”. Not a “musser yeshiva”
If you aren’t extremely frum and motivated going to a “musser yeshiva” can be damaging. I can think of two Yeshivas that were very heavily focused on and heavily stressed Musser twenty five years ago. They both toned down their focus to be more mainstream because their original focus had been damaging for American teenagers.
Almost all Yeshiva have Musser Seder. You can learn haskafah seforim during that time. And other times.
From the name alone you can tell that it is a propaganda paper.
Lakewood has more room but less infrastructure than Flatbush. You won’t fight for parking but you will fight to get your child into school.
Lakewood has much more Torah, space and cheaper housing.
Flatbush has a larger variety of kehilos and Yeshivas. e.g. There are more Mesivotas in Lakewood but if you want a good one that also offers a good secular education you will have a easier time finding one in Flatbush. If you want a shul with a Rov that you can build a relationship with you also will probably have a easier time in Flatbush.
It is way more important for a website to have a rav that it answers to.
Does anyone know where the Gemara being quoted which says that if a person has צער גידול בנים, if he has difficulties in raising his children, then אינו רואה פתחה של גהינים is?
I’ve never once met a paleontologist who I wasn’t immediately fully mekarav
GAON
This issue is beyond the scope of the coffee room but if you are going with the argument of “it has always been done” then in Lakewood you are dealing with a situation where as a matter of principle “it has never been done”.
To answer in very general terms.It is almost impossible to make an eruv over a large area of non privately owned property according to all shitos and without many kulas. Usually the larger the area the more difficult.
There are so many differences in halachas of making an eruv between the cities you mention it is beyond the scope of this answer to discuss them all.
akuperma:
My point is that if you aren’t so frum about the D’Oyraases involved in taking money from the American Government in a less than 100% glatt yosher manner then it’s not your place to worry about haskafah issues involved in taking money from the Israeli government.
(1)If you aren’t makpid on 100% Glatt Yosher when it comes to taking money from the American government then the you should have no issue with taking from the isreali government.
(2) Once you take money to a certain degree you are implicitly giving them legitimacy in FINANCIAL areas.
I would love to have a rov but out of all the shuls in my neighborhood only two have a practicing rov.
One has a shul so crowded that I could never daven there the other is of a totally different haskafa than me.
Two weeks ago I davened in Torah Vodaas Friday night and Motzey Shabbos. There were about 35 people there. I remember 25 years ago when there were about two hundred people there.That is more than a 80% decrease.
On the other hand the other side of Ocean Parkway in Kensington seems to have much more frum people than it did 25 years ago.
Jackson is up and coming but it won’t be like Lakewood
Which new community was ever just like the old one?
The R’MA says a sukkah cannot be built on public property (R’Shus H’Rabim) The later Achronim discuss to what degree the RMA meant it. All agree that the R’MA was not speaking about a case where you got a permit. The Biur Halacha even seems to say that if your backyard is government owned land but nobody ever goes there or uses it and the government doesn’t place any restrictions on things like your kids playing there then you can make a sukkah there even without a permit.
If this is relevant ask your LOR
So it seems that “mesorah” in the case of birds does NOT mean from Sinai, but means only “a well established custom among the frum Jews”, which leaves open the question of how such a “mesorah” comes into being.
There is no Mesora from Sinai on all Kosher birds. There is only a Mesora on which are the NON kosher birds listed in the Torah. Being that today we no longer know which birds are non Kosher we, therefore, need a mesora on which birds are kosher. Once we know they were always eaten we also know that they aren’t from the non kosher birds the Torah lists
The Litvish Yesivos also start on Rosh Chodesh Chesvan. And most Chasdishe Yeshivos go through the entire Av
It is a lot easier to collect funds for mosdos located in Eretz Yisroel than it is to force those who head mosdos in Lakewood to accept children into their schools. I question if they would even have the right to do so.
And no I’m not negating in any way the school shortage problem in Lakewood.
I don’t know about a Tinok Shensibah but I have the following observation about the current OTD crowd:. Although many of them are very self righteous and judgmental I never met anyone who went OTD that would be considered a principled idealistic person by SECULAR standards.
Why do you ask?
I did it for Partners in Torah and for Oorah. In my experience it depends a lot on the partner you are set up with and their interest in learning. If every week they have a new excuse why they can’t learn it won’t work out. If they are committed it will.
It is little different from teaching anyone else on a one on one basis.
I don’t know if people are faking their identity but I do suspect that many coffee room posters would have not turned out well had they actually grown up in an environment that holds of the haskafa they are pushing.
Without going into the specifics of this case we are in Golus. You don’t publicly pick a fight with the president of the United States over something that doesn’t directly pertain to the Jewish community. Even then you have to be very careful.
He has enough people criticizing him over this. No need for the RCA to chime in.
It was more like twenty five years ago when Lakewood schools didn’t make a major issue about tuition. Back then you were dealing with a crowd who considered paying tuition a priority. No one who said they can’t pay was spending money on luxuries. Also thirty years ago the Rebbeim in Lakewood Cheder went on strike for not being paid. Today neither the Rebbeim or parents would tolerate such a situation. So of course there will be more pressure to pay tuition.
Much as I wish community schools were still around I do have to acknowledge that they were not very successful. They end up becoming schools for all those who have issues or aren’t interested in learning. It is important of course to have such a school but truthfully they didn’t disappear because of their successes.
The little that I know:
From what I remember thirty years ago the bochrim who considered themselves yesivish for the most part had peyos behind their ears like today. The VERY Yeshivish crowd had “Brisker Peyos” The percentage of kollel yungerleit who had beards was smaller but not so much smaller than today.The Chidusay Harim on Shas was commonly learned in Litvish yeshivos. (There is even a GRNA”T answering a kasha in it.)Long malbushim and bend up hats are no more common today than they were then. In fact frocks and homburgs are LESS common than thirty years ago in yeshivish circles.
There are lot more Talmiday Chachomim and Yeshivos in Kensington Brooklyn.
Well as the old saying goes “Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate” But seriously it is unlikely that they are consciously avoiding you because they don’t associate themselves with people of your kind. Rather it is probably because they have moved in different way and have much less common ground with you. (out of sight out of mind)It is also very likely that they aren’t inviting you to simchos because they are scared that doing so would be rubbing in your face how they have families and you don’t (yet).
Put yourself in their shoes. Had the vision you had for yourself of torah ugedula bemakom echad,came true how often would you still be thinking about those who you knew forty years ago that didn’t make it?
When you were the one who was considered a baal kishran, and envisioned a life of torah ugedula bemakom echad,how much attention did you pay to the bochrim who found learning difficult, were not socially adept and had no friends?
Do you understand any Yiddish at all? You can listen to Shiurim in Yiddish and when you come across words you don’t understand look up their definition. If the speaker is American born his Yiddish will be easy to understand.
<i>What do you mean they have no place else to go? Surely Hashem will provide for their livelihood somehow.</I>
What a remarkable amount of Bitochen on yenem’s chesbon
<i>A melamed who does not perform well can be fired without notice because the damage he does is irreparable. </i>
What is considered not performing well?
The point is that it would wreck major havoc on the Chinuch system if Rebbeim can be fired so easily when they get older. That is a major Pseida D’Lo Hodder.
(The secular laws in the US also make it illegal to fire older workers)
If the person was only a rebbe for five years presumably he is young enough to move on to another job. If he is older than that and burnt out that is a different story.
I know of one Yeshiva that tried to fire many of their rebbeim. The younger ones moved on. The older ones brought them to a Din Torah. The school lost the Din Torah. Among the things the Dayan told them was a very important point: If it would be so easy to fire a long term rebbe because someone younger can do a better job after a while no one will go into chinuch anymore.
I’m not a therapist but I realized the truth of what that the therapist quoted by the OP before therapy was acceptable in the frum world. Back in the 1980s out of town yeshivos were really in style. The out of town crowd insisted they would never learn in town and that no good bocher would.etc. Fast forward thirty years. All those big talkers about how wonderful out town is wouldn’t dream of sending their own sons to a mesivta out of town.
<i>Is anyone referred to as the The Rebbe by anyone other than his Chasidim?</i>
Highly unlikely for a technical reason. The way Rav Ahron Kotler and Rav Moshe got that title was because at public events where many Roshei Yeshiva were present the other Roshei Yeshiva would refer to them as “The Rosh Yeshiva” By Chasidim they don’t have Agudah convention type events. Nor do they make hespedim with many Rebbes from different groups present. Therefore they don’t really have the opportunity to informally crown anyone with that title. (perhaps because the litvish crowd doesn’t really have neutral gatherings with many different Roshei Yeshiva present anymore either that is why the title is no longer used) But what Rav Ahron Kotler was to the other Roshey Yeshiva the Satmar Rebbe was to the other Rebbes
The Rav and The Rov are both spelled and pronounced differently I don’t see the confusion. The first time I heard someone mention The Rav I didn’t know who he meant but the pronunciation made it obvious to me that he did NOT mean The Brisker Rov.
When Rav Ahron Kotler was alive “the Rosh Yeshiva” usually meant him unless you were in the actual Yeshiva or talking to another Talmid of someone else. Afterward he was nifar if that distinction was used it was a reference to Rav Moshe Feinstein. I can’t think of any Rosh Yeshiva alive today who is referred to as “The Rosh Yeshiva” by non Talmidim.
I know of such a case that happened many years ago. The girl was adopted by a regular family and was in a regular Bais Yaakov but she opted out of being Jewish when she became twelve. Because of the technical difficulties in raising her as a non-Jew along with their other children, her adoptive parents sent her to a boarding school for high school.
I heard a similar version of that joke (also a reference to Rav A Miller’s moshol) A guy who always relied on the most lenient shitos dies. They tell he is going to Gan Eden and send him to a room with a rickety shtender a well used Gemorah and a glass of hot tea and tell he will be left alone there forever. He asks “this is Gan Eden!?” “Yes” They tell him “According to some opinions…”
The Kalloh has people around her the whole time. It would be very difficult for her to run off and change cloths with someone else. Very few Kallohs wear veils that she can’t be seen through at all.Even so some people are in fact makpid to lift the veil under the Chupa to make sure the Choson knows who is being mikadesh
They covered one eye but they wore makeup on the other! That doesn’t like a Burkah shito. But as above the Gemorah is discussing what was done.Not Hilchus Tznius.
I didn’t make any derogatory comments but it was not the Minhag in the time of the Gemorah for women to wear burkas There is a Misnah in Shabbos which discuss if wearing a burkah is ho’otza on shabbos, The rishonim on the mishna say that women who lived in Arab countries wore them but don’t imply any halacha requirement to. There is a Sdei Chemed (if I recall correctly) which discuses the following shaalo “If you live in a country where all women have their faces covered may you make a brocha in front of a women with her face uncovered or is this an issue of ervah” He says you most definitely can because the non-Jewish customs don’t guide us in the halachos of Tznuis. That is why I oppose women wearing burkas. We have a mesorah and halacha discussing what is tznuis.We don’t have to copy the Bnos Yismoel
No storeowner would sell you an item on a credit card knowing that you intend to retun it. To buy from him with that intention without his knowledge is pure genavus daas. It is also genavas momon because you are causing him to lose 3% or more by “buying” and then returning. He is willing to absorb that loss for legitimate customers but not for genovim who are only looking for points.
As far as the credit company is concerned if you think their position is unclear call them and ask them. Let us know what they tell you.
Just becuase you go to Rabonim and leave out facts (ah ganev bleibt ah ganev…)doesnt mean everyone does.
There was a Kol Koreh about it a few years ago saying that it is geniaveh.
I would discuss it but not with people who use for their screen name a word the Soney Torah V’Lomedeah have been using since the 1950s
Blogs died because the people who wrote on them never took “Siyug L’Chochman Shtika” into account.
And since the blog world never cared about what Chazal had to say I’ll say it in the common vernacular “When you talk too much you end up talking like a fool”