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I have never seen the Brisker Rav’s position on the subject, but I can imagine him saying that Tefillin isn’t a daily chiyuv – which is, I think, the position of most Rishonim.
You are pretty much correct in your guess in general. (see below)I have no seform because I’m at work (self employed this isn’t on my bosses chesbon) but the Mishna Brura very clearly says there is a chiyuv to put on tefilin every day. I think the Mogen Avrom gives tefilin as an example of a mitzvah that has to be done daily.
Which rishonim explicitly say it isn’t a daiy chiyuv and where?
The quote I refer to is from a likut sefer that I haven’t seen in over twenty year quoting a Brisker Hagadah.(brown cover I don’t remember the name
Rav Moshe Sternbuch writes that he heard the BR held there is a chiyuv to wear tefilin every day but it isn’t a NEW chiyuv every day. It is a constant chiyuv that you are yotze by wearing them once a day.
<i>There is a two volume sefer (very small and thin) called מעתיקי שמועה, where they are מלקט various Chiddushim of the Brisker Rav from his Talmidim – from Shailos UTeshuvos, from Sefarim al haShas and other sources. I saw it there.</i>
These type of seforim are extremely unreliable. I’ve seen in one of those type of Seforim that BR held there is no chiyuv to put on tefilin on a daily basis anymore. The Am Hartzus of that shtickel “Torah” was so mind boggling that I showed it Rav Reuvain Fein ztz’l for clarification. He answered that there is nothing to clarify.Some Talmid misunderstood the Brisker Rav and wrote it down. He added that he has seen “Pi Hasmuah” Brisker “Torah” that contradicts an explicit Misnah on that very topic.
What would the Brisker Rov do with the shito of “Mitzvas Betales L’Osid Lovo” Is that also heresy?
I don’t share Jospehs concern. Based on my (mis?)understanding The blios and stuff like it are sold with a kinyan agav because no one would ever buy a bunch of crumbs. In fact some botey din require something with real value to be sold because of that concern. But the crumbs are in fact sold so if you want the goy to pay for your chometz make sure to give them to him.
If you don’t buy back the chometz how are you going to make sure to give all the chometz you bought back to him? This includes chometz attached to utensils and even chometz absorbed in them. Have fun getting this all together to give to him.
It doesn’t have kedusah per se but the idioms, colloquialisms and euphemisms are so based on Torah, chazal and Torah haskafa that Yiddish has enormous value in that sense.
To give a random example. (I can think of many, many others)Someone who was picking up Rav Moshe Feinstein to drive him somewhere told him “In Europe (Yiddish) we said the ba’al agalah is here. In America(English) we say the car is here” Rav Moshe commented that this is a very sad difference. In Europe (Yiddish)the focus was on the person (the ba’al agalah) who is waiting outside.In America(English)the focus is on the car and your ability to get a ride.
Ba’al Agolah is Hebrew so this idiom definitely wasn’t picked up from non-Jewsih society.
I’m surprised at the question. Why would you even think those who aren’t with Chabad have difficulties with the items you mention?
Why don’t you simply ask how did people deal these issues before the internet came around?
<i>This is against the advice of all the big chinuch experts these days</i>
I’ve never heard any Godal B’Torah say that someone who went OTD and is currently mocking Yidiskeit deserves unconditional love.
<i>Because it’s not effective? Or do you think that even though it is effective, it is wrong to show חניפה to Oivrei Aveirah? </I>
Actually both. I think it’s not effective and it is wrong to show חניפה to Oivrei Aveirah.
I’ve heard people say that had they grown up today with all the acceptance, validation, understanding etc shown to the OTD crowd and rebellious children they would not have remained frum.
I’ve also heard someone who did grew up today (recently) comment that she would have went off had not a certain person told her inter alia “No one will blame you and everyone will sympathize with you if you go off. But it is you will receive the reward if you don’t and the punishment if you do”
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I know this unpopular to say but if a son who was FFB then left the folds and is now mocking Yiddishkeit it depends on the circumstances how he should be treated but thing is certain: he should NOT be given unconditional love. I think the whole concept of unconditional love is a morally bankrupt one.
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I do not support these protests but you can not tell people who are under the threat of imprisonment for learning in Yeshiva that they should just “live and let live”, when they are protesting that threat.
You need the other side to have that attitude too to tell it to people.
There is a tremendous difference between the Kiruv movement which is focused on Tinokes Shnisbu
and the way to deal with someone who grew frum but is now mocking Yiddiskeit.I have a different take on these protesters and how they justify their behavior.
They aren’t different from anyone else (like bloggers for example) who believe they are out to save the world and the ends justify the means. They have a yetzer hora to act physically. Bloggers have a yetzer hora to hide behind a computer screen where they are safe. in ESSENCE they both have the same mentality. It is very easy for one group to bash the other.
I’m not justifying anything.But I do understand the yetzer hora that causes people to justify this behavior to themselves.
I don’t think this group would exist if not for Yair Lapid’s effort to draft Lomdey Torah.(They didn’t exist before in this demographic)) And I don’t think they are inherently evil people acting with the malevolence the blog world attributes to them.They are reacting to the threat of imprisonment the government has placed on them.Albeit in the wrong way.
Penina L’Shem Shmoyim Kivanah.
First Welcome back! B’Mokom S’Baaley Teshuva Oimdim Tzadikim Gemurim ainom yochulim la’amd
However I have to ask you the following: Why SHOULD an upstanding BY girl who never anything did majorly wrong in her past want to consider someone who did?I don’t mean this only in a frumkeit sense. I mean it in a compatibility sense. If you’ve been “more than around the block” and she never considered such behavior are you really sure she is on your wave length and holding in the same place in life as you?
On another note a niece of mine went off. Now she came back B’H. Would you be interested in her? Well guess what? She wouldn’t be interested in you because she is insisting that she will only marry a boy who doesn’t have a past.
I apologize if I was too blunt. I mean this just as something for you to consider. I know I’m very possibly terribly wrong and terribly misjudging you and you situation. May you your find you zivug hagin b’korov
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I question if it really true that each generation feels the next generation is worse. Back in the 80s when the post holocaust leadership was dying I used to see article after article saying “Look how bad things were when he came to America and look how good they are now in relation to those times”
Is there any halachic basis a beis din could stop a developer from building on his own property because neighbors don’t want the development?
Yes. Perek Lo Yachpur and the halachos of Nizkei Schanim discuss when you may not build on your property due to the adverse effect it will have on the neighbors.
Having never been called to Beis Din (Beli Ayin Hara), how does that work? If a Bais Din in Lakewood calls me in, can I respond with a suggestion to go to a Bais Din in Chicago instead?
You can not ignore a hazmona but you don’t have to litigate in the BD that issued it. You can suggest a different BD. If the plaintiff doesn’t agree to your BD then each of you can pick a dayan and those two dayonim pick a third dayan to form a zabla BD.
I do not believe women are on an intrinsically higher spiritual level than men. Based on experience the people who say it have a very hard time coming up with any place in Chazal, Rishonim etc. that say it. I was told that one of the gedoily hador in the 1970s was so upset when he first heard a speaker say that women “don’t need to do” Mitzvas Esey Shzman Grama because they are on a higher level that he publicly got up and protested (in middle of the speech) the zilzul in Mitzvas (Esey Shzman Grama)
If there was any real source that gadol would have known about it.
One thing is certain. Women should be offering their opinions on what Bochurim should be doing Bein H’Zamnin. I was reading a prominent women’s magazine discussing the topic of Bein H’Zmanin and…..Good thing the Roshey Yeshivos aren’t consulting women about what Bochrim should be doing Bein Hzmanin.
I was a bochur twenty five years ago and the claim that magazine made that 25 years ago even the top bochurim from the top Yeshivos worked during Bein H’zmanin is pure baloney. There were some boucrim who worked a counselors or learning rebbeim and there were some who hocked around in offices making minor money and having a great time with friends. But they were the minority and they weren’t doing it out the sense of obligation this magazine was suggesting.
I can’t really answer the question because my parents didn’t deal with the same internal or external situations (nisyonis) that I do. Nor did they grow up with the adanatages I did.
All things being equal who is/would be frummer? I don’t know.Only Hashem knows who is really frummer.
This is an issue that causes a lot of pain to people on both sides.
The pain by those who are rejected is probably so intense that I don’t know how objective they are but at the end of the day IF a school feels it will be negatively impacted by accepting too many people from a certain group it is wrong to insist they accept them anyway.
Of note (1)the Sephardic elite for the most part doesn’t send their children to schools that don’t have quotas. Why not?(2) People I know who very strongly condemn Israeli schools for not accepting too many Sephardim send their (American) children to very picky and rejecting schools
Ten years ago I used to listen to and really take seriously what the OTD crowd and their sympathizers had to say. But after seeing and hearing from the OTD crowd ad nausuem I became disillusioned.
Some may have legitimate complaints and if an OTD person wanted to talk to me now I still would listen to them and take them seriously.Not only that some of their complaints are legitimate even in the absence of an OTD movement.But despite the intrinsic legitimacy of those complaints and criticisms they aren’t reasons to go OTD
I think the majority of the OTD will just take whatever excuse will get the most acceptance and clearance for their conscience. No matter frum society will do the Yetzer Hora will be smart enough to find other excuses.
Most Yeshivos aren’t looking to make it easy to get a BA from them.Their purpose is Torah L’shmo.Not to be draft dodger… I mean college dodger yeshivos.
I was told that even Ner Yisroel won’t accept someone who perceives them as a place to get college credits through learning, instead of wanting to go there to learn Torah L’Shmo.(And get credits in the process.)
Ironically from the most difficult Yeshivos to get a BA from (or at least used to twenty years ago I don’t know the situation today) is Torah Vodaas. Even thought they allow their bochrim to attend college.
I question the whole premise that Lakewood has a higher OTD rate then elsewhere.What unbiased source can I get confirmation from?
I don’t know how long it takes.
I heard that they made it take longer then they used to because they don’t want people coming to BMG as an easy way to get a BA and then going to the college/law school etc. they really wanted to go to in the first place.The person who started this thread is probably scared of looking like such a person. Who really believes they will throw him out just for asking?
The office will probably give an evasive answer to a new student because of the reason I mentioned above
<i>Shortly before the war broke out, the yeshiva administration brought a television set into the building, placing it atop the staircase that led from the entrance to the beis midrash.</i>
I asked two talmidim who were learning Torah Vodaas at that time. Neither remembered the Yeshiva administration bringing a television into the building and placing it above the staircase leading into the BM.(One suggested that perhaps a worker in the offices near the steps to the BM had one but he didn’t remember that either)