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And now it goes to Golfer:
Yekke, you’re bothered by someone writing an article “without any halachic/hashkafic mekoros”?? That pretty much sums up a lot of the articles in the glossy Jewish publications that have come onto the market in recent years. The Jewish Observer, which contained articles penned by people who were in some cases themselves respected sources of information on Halacha and hashkafa, no longer exists. Presumably because there was no market for a Jewish magazine that lacked colorful photos, recipes, and let’s not forget- fabulous, true-to-life, nail-biting fiction. Every generation gets the manhigim they deserve. Apparently, the same goes for magazines.
The problem with Avoda Zara is if they tell you that it is coming from a specific Avoda Zara. The Rashba was Metzaded to be Mattir real Kishuf, since Nitten Reshus Lerofe Lerapos so it isn’t Mak’chish Pamalye shel Maale.
Non-natural remedies were never Assur when they worked. The Gemara has plenty of such remedies. Not understanding something does not make it Kishuf.
He explained how he thinks the Torah was written, and by whom. He then added in apparent qualifiers to pacify Kanoim. However, he left room for what he wrote earlier and at other times.
A “narrative depiction of a deeper truth” does not mean standing near the mountain and directly hearing Hashem speak $mdash; what the Rambam calls the biggest, unrepeatable, and most essential miracle experienced by Am Yisroel. It sounds rather like a unanimous conclusion which resonated emotionally with the people, therefore being attributed to a higher element.
He believes that the Torah is meant to be. This is in line with what he clarified elsewhere, that everything added became part of the Torah since they were put in through Divine Inspiration. They were meant to be added in.
He believes in interpreting the Torah only by using (or playing with) the built in methods. This is the typical Orthoprax ideology. Halacha must be kept because that keeps the people.
I’m not sure to what extent he believes in Nevua. Calling it the ‘encounter between God and the people of Israel’ sort of washes that out.
The CR is for opinions. It depends who you ask, and it also depends on what exactly she’s doing.
That last Pasuk of the Torah musta been put in by Christains.
Charliehall, is that joke or just a bad, failed, and yet often used excuse? Rashi is discussing the Pasuk of Bereishis and says that the term Bereishis can’t be coming to say that Shamayim and Aretz were first.
This thing with non-literal is way off track. But that’s how things work. Gadola Machlokes Shemegia Ad Kisei Hakavod. First they start with sources to disregard Chazal; then comes Torah Shebichsav.
The Rambam is far, far from what his words are being used to protect.
Today was the Yartzeit of the Ribnitzer Rebbe. There are countless miraculous stories about him.
They had to know them in order to hear witness first hand.
They’re coming to take it away. Ha ha. Ho ho. He he.
Are you a midair re-feuler?
I once missed a flight to a friend’s Chassuna in an unfamiliar city, thereby missing my planned ride. I was not about to venture out with a Muslim taxi for a half-hour ride to a place that I have no clue if we’re getting closer to or further from.
After landing, completely stranded, I met one Yid who couldn’t take me to the hall since it was too far but agreed to take me to the main Yiddish neighborhood. In the elevator, making small talk, I asked him if he knows our Mechutanim who live in that area. He said, “Sure, he’s my neighbor.” Things turned out even better when after showing up by their door it turned out that they were also going to this Chassuna.
That it’s not a slap in the face.
I don’t think anybody says that it is a good thing. But, you know, if you have to go in you might as well come up with something to make yourself feel good. Feeling good is a big priority these days.
Sam, I saw that Svara in Mishmeres Shalom from the Kaidnover.
Or, “You did a wonderful job during the meal, but I heard that you snore loudly so please find another place to sleep.”
It seems to have been the prevalent Hanhaga in the days of the Rama. Like many Poskim and like Tosafos and Rishonim, that was a reason to search for a Svara as to why this is the Halacha. I think that the concept of a make-believe Limud Zechus, that you don’t actually believe in, came later.
We don’t wear Tzitzis on a scarf, and no one ever did. This prompted the Beis Yosef to invent Svaros, that we rely on, as to why this is the case. Clapping on Shabbos and not washing Mayim Achronim, are Heteirim taken from the fact that it was not Nahug.
I don’t think we can find any Tannaim or Amoraim that had multiple wives (besides for perhaps if there was Yibum and ??? ???? ?????). However, perhaps in the days of the Gemara it might have been feasible for both to be in the Succah.
Calm down. You don’t want her to learn Gemara so don’t be surprised when she doesn’t.
So Rav Tzvi Meir was Mechaven to Eclipse’s brother:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/hes-still-at-work
Goq, he didn’t light a candle but he carried the torch.
What does he do with the Mishna?
I think the Ramban ties together doing it for the sake of the person as in cutting nails and hair with cutting for the sake of what you get, as in wool. But you can argue that biting nails is for neither, which will make it Eino Tzricha Legufa which is a Derabanan according to Rebbi Shimon. Couple that with the Derabanan of not doing it Bikeli. Makom Tzaar…
You can say that they crashed into each other. When the fighting subsided they decided to marry.
How old are your kids that you should have to explain how they met?
That’s for sure, but it has nothing to do with the Ikkarim, which everyone agrees to. (And among the other stuff there is much misunderstanding and misinformation)
He wants the uncensored version.
That’s not a Machlokes on Ikkarim. It is a Machlokes on numbers.
The Rambam also held of Sisrei Torah. He spoke of it often, and dedicated more than a Perek in the Yad to that. The question is only what is the Sisrei Torah. –side point
Besides, when I say that he didn’t make them up it still doesn’t have to mean it is Mefurash. They aren’t personal musings. It is what he took from the words of Chazal.
Lost, there are no categories. We are Jewish and we are all supposed to follow the commandments. Whatever you manage to accept and follow through with will get you ahead. G-d does not take your hardship for granted. It would be worthwhile to connect with a Kiruv experienced rabbi so that he can guide you on a healthy, stable path.
Last time I looked at the Seforim blog he wrote that Chazal had a sense of humor since he found a Drasha funny. That was my last time there.
That site is actually an example of being over the top the other way. He considers anything the big bad “censor”. Yes, we do carefully select what we feed our children. When they get older we fill them in on the world around them, but first we build up our world.
No, it is not important to gossip about Gedolim. Instead of living up to greatness we try to bring the great down to us. The greatest compliment about a Gadol is being ‘down to earth’, having a sense of humor, also enjoys good food, and is ‘regular.’
Some complaints sounded legitimate. But otherwise, someone who learns first-hand will get the big picture in the correct context. Whereas getting these obscure quotes in a lecture or an article paints an unoriginal perspective.
If you give some examples then we can discuss it. I know that some people are over the top on the other side of this issue as well.
WIY: It’s not. The Rambam would call that Apikorsus as well (I think he says that B’feirush somewhere; I have to find where).
Many people have similar views but it doesn’t really sit well with some Gemaros.
I mentioned that Rav Shrira Gaon held it is Muttar to ask a Malach something which is in its control. This is not prayer. When we recite and teach the Ani Maamins we say that we can not pray to Malachim. Even if the Rambam took it further it is possible that we don’t. No one said we hold of everything the Rambam held of, but we do hold of the 13 Ikkarim, especially since he didn’t make them up.
Could you do Kaparos with a crash test dummy?
I don’t think Reb Schwabb stuck with that theory.
Chava Rishon syndrom.
The problem had to be addressed 15 years earlier.
Did they wave the cow over the head in the Bais Hamikdash?
I take my chickens home for the family, and give them food and water. They usually don’t touch it.
Sam, the Tur also quotes a Gaon, who used chickens.
Actually using money seems to be the latest addition. I wonder if anyone before the Chaye Adam mentions that. The point mentioned by Rashi is that you toss it. The animal, too, is killed as a Temura. Where does money come in to the picture?
If they want to bring attention to methods of safety, they can and did. The kind of skimpy evidence and minute instances pointed to, even if relavent, do not measure up to the eamples mentioned by either of us. Rendering something like this a danger, when it claims less victims than houshold appliances, is a leap of judgement. It is precisely this next step, the liberty for authorities to utilize a sitution as such against an established religious ritual, that is being fought. The slope is not that slippery until you oil it.
The Gemara is actually far from being simply a collection of roughly recorded conversations. It is heavily edited. Words are stuck into braysos and some Kushyos and Terutzim are put in just to lead up to the main Kasha. Deeper questions hide behind a simple front, as Tosafos points out at times, to be easily understood. The language, when it isn’t a direct quote is more the most part streamlined.
Right. If terrorism can be outlawed even if your religion mandates it, then the obvious next step is that Shabbos can be outlawed since it causes people to work less, hence pay less taxes.
You see, reasoning like yours is precisely the reason why the very alert Rabbonim are trying to nip this pattern in the bud. Technically it doesn’t bother anyone if the parents will sign a document. Nobody is forced to do it in the first place. However, we actually don’t think it is dangerous in the least when appropriate precautions are taken (and they are), and we don’t want to be forced to say that it is.
You bring up two distinct arguments. One does not help the other.
Some hold that if a tree falls in a forest when no one is there it doesn’t make a sound. So, try to be there. Inconspicuously of course, lest the tree or sound find out you’re there and that ruins the whole thing.
(HaLevia here.) MCP: why do you assume it’s the men being holy? Is it conceivable to you that a frum woman might care about this as well? Yes I would have an issue with the woman next to me in shul on RH/YK wearing a skirt that doesn’t cover her knees.(I am talking about a woman who knows better.) Who considers it a virtue to ignore kedushas beis haknesses? This is at least as big a problem as kids playing and being noisy in shul, I would think.
Tell him the Gemara is the larger words in the center.
The same Shaila is about a soda machine. The Minchas Yitzchok discusses it. He included references to Shevisas Keilim. I think he was Mattir. My question here is if you will Assur it, whose Shabbos is the issue? The buyer? Seller? Server? Bank? PayPal server? PayPal bank?
The whole Issur is a Takana from Nechemia not to buy and sell. The question is if it applies here in the first place, since you aren’t making any transactions. I never heard of an Issur of Kinyan Sadeh on Shabbos. There does remain the problem of S’char Shabbos (which would probably go by the seller’s time zone). However, even that might only be through actually doing something. It is Muttar to pay after Shabbos for something that you took on Shabbos.
If you want to avoid it there is a free project holyclock dot com that disables your site on Shabbos, which I got from asite that WIY linked to (Reb Shlomo Kluger’s Sefarim).
Being that Torah discussions on this site are Lehagdil Torah Ulehadira, it is ridiculous to yell at someone for posting his thoughts on Halachic issues.
The gemara in Niddah says that many women at that time were very learned in those areas, and that they consulted with each other and even decided halachah. Essentially there is a talmudic precedent for the modern institution of the Yoetzet Halachah.
Not quite. It says that a certain woman told Rav Yitzchok that his father, Rav Yehuda, was mattir that particular type of condition, and the Gemara discusses if you can take her word.
We also recently saw in Daf Yomi that the single person who was cited as THE example of a top gemara learner was — Beruriah.
Or at least as someone who tried to master a lot but didn’t complete it, as the one telling the anecdote seemingly did.
Fear of G-d comes with focusing on G-d. If you do Mitzvos and pay attention to what you are doing that will make you more aware of G-d.
Your point about 13/12 rings true. I observed that most people don’t mature past that stage.
If you believe in Hashem Daven to Him to help and guide you in the right direction.