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Looks like I came back just in time. Yipee. Experiement: Find 100 fully committed chabad chassidim. Dont’ care how frum, just make sure they’re 100% chabad either through birth or fam became BTs through chabad and they got sucked in (to the exclusion of someone who learns the rebbe’s torah/sichos, etc.) Ask said 100 people to categorically state the rebbe is not moshiach. You’ll be lucky to get 5.
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R Falk is/was a yuge machmir. There are things in his tznius book that are extreme for anywhere aside form gateshead and meah shearim. the one lady who is a talmida of his with whom Im aquainted dresses like a chassidishe rebbetzin. I’ve gone through the book and there are a bunch of chumros that no one should have to listen to. I don;t remember because i’m past my fiery stage of caring about stupid things like this. Also, hello old friends.
I didn;t read your whole post. It was too long. I read the beginning of it, and I dunno. I married a bt and no one seems to care, not even suure they know. Most times the bt stigma is because theyre not culturally intigrated. Same thing happens when you drop a real baltimorian who grew up with shabbos sneakers into bmg. people are going to think theyre weird because theyre culturally off, not because the didn’t keep shabbos 20 years ago. Seems like you have a complex
I’m not back, just checking in. Thanks for the welcome 馃檪
You’re still here?
Wow. My first time logging in in several years, and I find a thread I answered when I was a young warthog. Now I’m a slightly fatter, balder, grayer warthog
Morbidly obese (adjectives are not words)
And here I thought we’d get a good thread, and then it was just more dumb questions.
Just saying, I checked in here the last couple weeks for the first time in forever, the kishrin in the jokes department is so sadly inadequate, the old CR would be turning red with shame. Also, if your knee-jerk, gut reaction was not ‘burn it’, that’s your problem, not mine.
I think the answer is pretty simple. It’s for sure muttar lihalachah. If you feel it’s “grubb” or felt in edilkeit, feel free to wear a shirt.
rebE- It’s a gemara and mifurash in halacha. Maybe the CS”S is talking about nice ramazim, but no, it’s not because of tisha b’av.
@rebE- Nooooo, we don’t do it a third way to satisfy both. We do it in a way that won’t qualify as possul by either one. Yes, we ‘chap a rein’ both shittos, but no, we are not compromising between the two to make everyone happy. It is not a chiyuv to have it either way, that shailah is which way is possul. Neither shitta would view diagonal as a compromise.
rebE- “We find a similar idea in the placing of the mezuza. There is an argument between Rashi and Tosfas whether to place it horizantilly or verticaly, so we compromise and place it slented, satisfying both or neither.”
This silly line of yours has become my pet peeve on this website. For the zillionth time, you are wrong. The gemara says you cannot place the mezuzah like the bolt/nail of a carpenter. If placed like that, it is possul. It is a machlokes Rashi and Tosfos whether that means horizontally or vertically. In order to avoid both shittos of the psul, we place it on a diagonal. It is not, for the flipping zillionth time, a compromise. ENOUGH
Reb Eliezer, you consistently post the machlokes Rashi/Tosfos and refer to the halacha as a compromise, and I keep posting that your are absolutely wrong. Stop it already. The reason for the angle is that the gemara says that placing the mezuzah (I think the loshon is) ‘kmin nagar” is possul. There is a machlokes what kmin nagar means, standing vertical or laying horizontal. We do a diagonal to avoid it being possul either way, not to compromise on the shittos. Enough already.
Last I knew, the oilam eats at mul hayam, a restaurant off the beach near the big downtown square. Check with your lor in jlem about it.
Just a note on @catchyourself’s gematria from taamei haminhagim: It’s a quote from the Bnei Yisaschar on Chanuka.
Yes, Ted Cruz advocated for a snow storm that would wreak havoc in Texas and called for Texans to stay in their homes and freeze, just like Newsom and Pelosi made draconian rules and repeatedly called for the public to adhere to them, and were then caught violating those very same rules.
You need to look up the definition of hypocrite. Was Cruz insensitive? Maybe. Politically dumb? Certainly. Hypocritical? Nope.
Because she can’t cook. If she can’t cook, she’s out.
@ujm nailed it. Neither.
No Wolf, you should not say kaddish, you are the worst.
There are a bunch of teshuvos about this from after WW1 where yidden r’l killed each other in opposing armies, but I don’t remember details.
No Tachles, that would be dumb, I am but some random dude on the internet. But R’ Yosef shlita, with all his torah knowledge and political appointments, does not come close in psak to great poskim who preceded him, and disagreed with him. Just wondering if R Lau and R Yosef disagree on a psak, will you spontaneously combust?
GH- ACB made the democrat senators look incredibly stupid when they asked about Roe, and you just did the same thing they did. ABC argues that Roe cannot be considered super precedent id people are still nervous about it being overturned and activel debating whether to confirm a supreme court justice based on those considerations. If it was super precedent, that would not be a conversation we’d be having. Anyway, why exactly would you be pro one of the worst decisions on SCOTUS history, and do you endorse the murder of millions of babies every year?
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callously
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callously
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callously
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callously
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callously
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callously
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callously
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callously
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callously
I don’t appreciate my OCD being made fun of so callouslyEliezer
“This judges are wrong. Not for nothing it says chesed veemes yekadmu panecha, Hashem places kindness before truth. When we have coronavirus, unexpected by the legislature, the law cannot be interpreted as written and allowances must be made in voting.”
So judges should just act against their role, and instead be a super-legislative body, because you think so???? So basically, you’re not anti-Trump, you’re just a blazing progressive….why pretend otherwise?
Methinks Tachles is either a very bitter man with some very bitter experiences, a kookoo kanoi bt with a very narrow perspective in Judaism, or a troll.
The basic idea (this case actually not included) is that there are people who have an agenda and want something ‘assured’ and have to wait until the gadol hador who was mattir it dies so they can stir it up again. Sheitels, worms in fish, checking for certain treifos+shots in chickens, the list goes on. As usual, it will die down soon. Chill people.
Eliezer- I did not disagree with what you said you said. I’m wondering how your distaste for him carries over into making knee-jerk lefty arguments that have no merit. Whether or not the mothers life would be in danger based on overturning roevwade would not make it inherently included in the constituttion.
See, this is interesting. Eliezer hates trump. Fullstop. But, ostensibly, that’s a middos based distaste of the best president ever. Okay, that’s fine. Why would your distaste for the man carry over into the civics part of our country, why do you feel the need to argue for a lefty position that has no connection to trump whatsoever. I think you are a little crazy.
I don’t mind…actually wondering what there is to take out…
It is intense. The RY is super intense. If you’re not used to the brisker style in shiur and chinuch it will be very, very tough. The guys are mostly, extremely intense. The pressure is and motivation to perform is extreme. You either need to know you can thrive in that environment, or be suuuuuuper chilled, enough that you can be your own person and not get pressured. The hashkafos are intense. It’s important to come with a Rebbi and a clear hashkafa and take what you think is applicable to you from his shmuzin.
Funny, I don’t remember it being a nasty post. New mod? My old posts used to be waaay more vicious lol
Depends on the subject I guess 馃榿
Do you mind if I edit?
I replied, don’t know why it hasn’t gone through…
Didn’t want to delete but needs a bit of editing…
It’s not hard. There is no bechina. Your RY gets you in, you call him up and he talks with you for a couple minutes, tells you some details about yeshiva, that’s it, then you show up a day or two before the zman at his house to meet him. Consider carefully whether going there is a good idea for you…
Just to correct som1. The proud boys was not founded by the afro-cuban currently leading the group. It was founded by Gavin McGuiness and the new guy assumed leadership sometime in the last few years.
There’s a shmooze from R Gershon Ribner that addresses this. I think there’s a site devoted to his shmoozin.
@GH- I see how deeply committed you are to being deeply committed to being paranoid about him and never seeing what he does as positive. Would it be good if he cured cancer?
“devolved”
Nailed it!
“In general, I would support the minimum of one hakafa and just the person holding the Torah alone鈥搊utside preferably.”
Duly noted, we’ll consider it when deciding.
Without replying to the actual thread (yes, social media is probably the scourge of our generation, Jews and gentiles alike, darn, I just addressed it) Reb Eliezer’s point about the mezuzah is dead wrong.
“There is an argument between Rashi and Tosfas how to place the mezuzah, whether to place it horizantily(sic) or vertically. We compromise by placing it slented(sic)”
No.
The Gemoro (Menochos 33a) says 注砖讗讛 讻诪讬谉 谞讙专 驻住讜诇讛
if you placed the Mezuzah like a bolt/peg it is 驻住讜诇.
The Machlokes between Rashi & R.Tam is what type of a bolt the Gemoro is referring to. (vertical or horizontal)
The Machlokes is not which position one should place the Mezuzah but which position not to place the
Mezuzah so that it is not 讻诪讬谉 谞讙专.All agree as long it is not positioned like a peg it is 讻砖专.
Positioning the Mezuza at an angle is not a compromise (doing it halfway like both) but is the proper 诇讻转讞讬诇讗 way to place it, (according to both) being a peg is never placed at an angle.
Just thought I’d clear that up for you.
@GH- Interesting to note, Trump never drinks or smokes due to the health impact. I think he doesn’t even touch coffee. You have a pathological problem. If Trump cured cancer, you would demand it back.
I once saw a great way to sum it up.
The right thinks the left is crazy.
The left thinks the right is evil.The truth is, the reasons why people lean left or right have been explained by Jonathan Haidt and are more complicated than just being crazy or evil, but I think AOC basically summed it up recently when she commented how being morally right was more important than being factually correct. If it seems right and feels right, it is right. And when you base your morals on whatever your gut feeling is, because there is no higher power to lay down morals, you ended up believing ‘reproductive justice’ is not the most ironic misuse of the word in history.
You know, it’s really funny how the language has shifted in the last 10 to 15 years. When I came to EY to learn in yeshiva, no one referred to the broader frum community as chareidi. The bochurim in the big name brisker yeshivos in Yerushalayim, arguably the most culturally perceptive subgroup in orthodox jewry, reserved the word chareidi for the yerushalmim, exclusively. Not just anyone who lived in Yerushalayim, just those who make up the ‘old guard’ of yerushalayim’s residents, and their families. I highly doubt you could find the word chareidi in any jewish magazines up until the last ten years or so. Chareidi today just means religious, with a slight bent towards making religion the focus of your life as opposed to enjoying life while being religious. Yeshivish doesn’t have an accurate description. It’s like asking to describe the color blue. If you know you know, if not, you can only come to understanding it through experiencing it.
R’ Chaim Soloveitchik famously said that Hashem created the world in a way that the things which are assur and morally reprehensible are only destructive because they are assur. Had Hashem not assured murder, the world could exist perfectly with everyone murdering each other, even though that’s a reality we could never fathom. There are no absolute morals, the Torah is koveiah what things are moral and what aren’t.
Fried onions and onion soup mix+chicken soup mix. Also, put in kishka.
Just remember, making parev chulent is like simchas torah without booze. You can manage it if you need to, but never expect it to turn out the same.“…which Lubavitch are not somech on…”
If it’s for kiruv, they’re somech on it.
Na, just shmaltz. Evidently, you were never a bochur.