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Whocares is right. It’s just like a waste basket. The newer threads push the older ones down to the bottom until they are out of sight.
Walter Mitty
Are you saying it is more reasonable to run out from the the presence of king when he came to visit you than if it was for your benefit?
You say that he ran towards them and they didn’t run towards him. Now, had they run toward him, would he have ignored them or sent them to the Gabbai?
Obviously, public hanging would be a pretty irresponsible thing to do, but they definitely should get death, if for no other reason than to negate the possibility of giving them back.
Another point: Why is everything negotiable? Certain things are supposed to be off the table. They should be able to announce before starting any prisoner swap that they will absolutely not release a cold blooded murderer. The same goes for land: certain cites are out of the question.
Itche is most definitely correct. Bochurim should know the Ikrei Emuna. It doesn’t have to replace any Seder in any drastic manner. It would be enough if once a week there would be a curriculum teaching basics. This has nothing to do with teaching them to be critical of Emuna, just to know what to believe. And if someone does have a question, by all means, it should be addressed.
What I don’t understand is how they make appeals during Aleinu and recite Kaddish right afterwards. Mima Nafshach, one of them wasn’t done: either the appeal was a waste of energy or Aleinu was not said. If the latter is the case, why would you say Kaddish after an appeal?
As for the main point being discussed, some things are not polarizable. It is a problem that they Shter and it is a problem to send away Aniyim.
Or perhaps for what they did in Nanjing. Maybe they were Yotze in WWII, maybe not. They never officially acknowledged the extent of what was done.
Once we’re on this topic:
Many people are aware of the the Maamar Chazal that punishment only comes comes because of the Yidden. I’ve heard it explained that it is a sign to us or instead of us. The Maharal explains, though, that Hashem punishes those who deserve it. However, since non Jews wouldn’t learn a lesson from tragedies, there would be no point. The only reason that Hashem punishes those who deserve it is to show us that there is a Dayan.
Who asked you to call it shoving? Why do you assume it goes in the form of because I said so? How do you know they will discover what you want them to? What I said was, they shouldn’t, necessarily, be taught to question. I know that I will not change your mind on this issue no matter how hard I try. That is the nature of this very charged topic. No one should feel like they have to keep their questions to themselves, but there is a context. That’s what I say, that’s what you say, and we’ll leave it at that.
There is a much larger percentage of Rechokim that don’t make it.
While it is important that those who have questions have whom to ask, without being afraid, it is not important to have questions. Most children are better off without a questioning environment. I would even venture to say that today’s liberal thinking, question everything society is the main cause for the outwardly Frum and inwardly dried to the core.
Once someone is dead set on questioning there are no answers. As Sefarim quote, one fool can ask more questions than a hundred wise men can answer.
Oh Popa, you can’t understand. You’ll never understand.
It seems like the person interrupted with their unsolicited advice. In that case, it can just be ignored; just continue where you left off. As in:
A: So my daughter came over to visit-
B: You should show her love.
A: and we had a very nice time.
Daas Yochid made an amazing point, and it shouldn’t be ignored. There OTD children are the unsuccessful Kiruv Krovim products, while there are many more unsuccessful Kiruv Rechokim.
B: Why don’t you go there and do that?
A: I forgot.
busybody,
Being able to edit has nothing to do with your post being approved. There is a certain amount of time that you have to edit your post.
Grandmaster,
Pretty weird thing to tell someone. He does not have a Yetzer Hara now to sit near a woman in a couple of months, unless you are calling him a Rasha. Besides, I doubt he has a “Yetzer Hara” to sit near a woman in the first place.
Hey guy,
‘Rosh Yeshiva ym”s’?? Doesn’t sound like you just brushed it off. BTW, it sounds like an interesting story; would you mind sharing it?
observant,
Feif’s letter had a reasonable effect, mainly because of his being grown up. I don’t think your letter will be taken as seriously. It would be a much better idea to wait until you are over twenty and married.
Now you know what to do. Take along a Mechitza!
And right after he disappeared. I was like…
Why should the thread be closed? There were articles on the main news page condemning them.
Oh please. If you could skip pages, you wouldn’t turn to the end?
I have no problem sitting next to a man.
Chava; Rivka getting Yitzchock to send Yaakov away, and causing Yitzchock to rethink his children; Tzippora saved Moshe Rabbeinu’s life; Eishes Manoach; Devora; and Lehavdil, Zeresh.
Sometimes, when I’m being made fun of, I think to myself, “the last person who’s opinion I’d care about is the kind of guy that behaves like this fellow in front of me”.
One simple lesson to be learned is that you cannot jump to conclusions.
Reb Yakov Kaminetsky related that as a child, while he was once on his way to Yeshiva, an old woman needed his help. He was always on time, but on this day he came late. When his Rebbi asked why he was late, he told him exactly what had transpired. The Rebbi refused to beleive him and he was punished. Reb Yakov said that this story always bothered him. Here was a boy that was known to always tell the truth and never came late. Why and how could the Rebbe punish him without knowing of any wrong?
It’s not the first Yiddish way of talking that was mistakenly brought over to English. People say it all the time the same way they’ll say, “regards from the Statue of Liberty”.
Zero experience. If the issue is jealous of his success or contempt of his ability to get on and get a normal life, then there is one thing I can say. Don’t follow his progress. There is a natural tendency to make one’s self jealous. You’d be a lot happier by not looking.
This might be off target, but there it is just in case.
Who was the one that even a bird flying over his head would get drunk?
Why is it that you’d avoid someone that has a temper, and you run when they lose it?
ZeesKite,
That poem makes me flyHigh2Sky!
Well, I guess it depends on which one. It might actually be a Chiyuv.
She was afraid to make a real poem, because then it’d be a nursery rhyme.
When you say you are crying for A, are you really saying that you feel bad for B that suffered under A? Not in English. The Mizbe’ach is crying for her, because of him.
I’m not trying to be picky, but I am trying to rectify a misconception that it cries no matter what. When you see the Pasuk and realize that it says for what he did to her, it’s obvious that when it is to her benefit, it could only rejoice.
Truth,
Learn through the whole thing. You should notice that the Gemara finishes off with the Pasuk saying, “Why is this? Because of the bride of your youth that you betrayed.”
When it says, it cries “on him”, it means about him, about his actions.
Popa,
I’m sure you know the Gemara’s example of the wrong reason.
Truth,
The Gemara mentions the Mizbe’ach crying for her.
Knowing that something is good is not the same thing as being happy. Being happy is when you are fully integrated with the fact that it is good. Our job is to change ourselves, not just to know what the correct thing to do is. You seem to be talking about mood, which is a different topic.
Mod80,
Is that your own research or did you get that from Wiki Leaks?
I think I saw in Reb Tzaddok Hacohen that you can tell where a person is holding by seeing what he does to calm or cheer himself.
Knowing that something makes sense is not experiencing it. An emotion is when the whole you is experiencing the concept. We were not created to figure out that it makes sense. The idea is to become something.
RebDoniol,
Thanks. That’s precisely what I wrote earlier. It seems that in the days of Tosafos it was not common by men, either, to wash Mayim Achronim. It was stressed later on because of the Sohd, and women usually don’t do Sohd things.
outsider,
Did a family recently move out from the apartment beneath yours?
If you forget your username or password, consider it deleted.
Ask your financial advisor.
Forsooth
Why didn’t they call him Ben?
They didn’t call me Haleivi at my Bris, but they do by the Aliya. Obviously, because it is only a screen name.
Which screen name do you want to know?
Too many variables. Two of them are the care free and innocent tone.
This is so ridiculous, and mean, too. First of all, anyone who followed or kept up with eclipse would know that we are not talking about the kind of person that likes to fool people. If you need any proof, take a look how long the name watermelon lasted.
Second of all, you are comparing two very different people that are separated by thousands of miles. If you want to play the role of investigator, at least take the introductory course on being able to differentiate between two people that are very different. To me it seems that there is at least a 15 year age gap between the two.
Why would you insist on painting someone as the kind of person they are embarrased to be? What is the Taava to press on even while you see how agitated your target is getting?
As the saying goes:
In a democracy your vote counts; in a feudal system it’s the other way around.