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…. by changing our dress.

Joseph, estimates of illegals in NYS is 500,000. Even if half of that would be in Brooklyn, the population would still not cross 3 million.

Feif Un, Coney Island in 2009 is not what it was when R’ Moshe wrote the teshuva.

Joseph, the population of Brooklyn is no where near 3 million and it’s not even close even if you include the illegals. I can be emphatic if you want.

Me? I think I got your point. I was being sarcastic. The parents obviously care more for reputations than they do for their children. This was a way for them to still maintain their prestigious reputation.

So what’s the problem? The father can just tell everyone he wears his tzitzis inside. That way nobody will be none the wiser.

One other reason I have seen floating around is that black and white were the cheapest to produce, so poor people wore black and white.

It is a very good thing color film was not readily available in Europe.

The sherry casks, by the time they are through with the cleaning, soaking, coaling, smoking, etc. is no more a sherry cask than it is a beer barrel. It was a way for the company to distinguish themselves from all the other people and companies selling scotch.

I don’t understand the issue. I heard a shiur a few years back about someone who actually traveled to Scotland and saw the process, and spoke with LBD people.

The end result of the whole shiur is that sherry casks was just a marketing ploy and adds nothing to the taste of the scotch and it’s also 100% kosher.

If you eat indoors on Shmini Atzeres, are you passul aidus since it’s a halacha befeirush in the Shulchan Aruch, and eating indoors is a Chillul Hashem bifarheisiah.

The Rov is saying that you can only rely on him, shivim panim out the window.

I never said anything else. Questioning is how we learn and how we pasken. It’s been like this for thousands of years until the past few years.

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Right, which is why I only give to organizations that actually tell me what they do with their money without bringing in bubbe masses. And I also give to Dovid Cohen in Israel. He is a one man tzedakah organization where you KNOW you’re money is going to the right people/things.

Joseph, R’ Elchonon Wasserman had visas available for him and his entire yeshiva, he turned it down.

Furthermore having no where to go is not the same as telling your people “Don’t Leave Europe.”

feivel, that’s a terrible thing then. Most rabbanim actually want, and probably enjoy, when they are questioned. It’s a way to solidify the learning. If I am told something that makes zero sense to me, I ask, and if it still doesn’t make sense, I can press for a better explanation. I don’t buy the “it’s just not done” explanation, and I see nothing wrong with asking a rav for a source, or questioning a rav to get an understanding on his reasoning. I recently went back to one of my old shuls and noticed the rav there still davening the way (whatever the case was) our “debate” ended up. Until then, he hadn’t thought of my logic, but once I didn’t just take his word for it, he realized he missed something and he changed.

ames, that is not what I’m saying. All I’m saying is that it is entirely appropriate to ask your rav how he got to his conclusion. You never find a SHUT sefer that doesn’t do that.

Perhaps it’s different with women, but I can’t see any self respecting man ask a rav a shailah and then walk away. 99.999999% will talk to the rav and question and ask sources and debate if necessary. It’s called learning. That might not fit into the BY notion, but that is how it’s done in the real world.

I’m not sure why squeak and ames are up in arms. All I wanted to know is if ames never asks her rav for the source.

I remembered the last time I asked my rav something, he looked at me and said “Let’s go find out.” And we proceeded together to lookup the halacha to my query. It’s a terrible thing when you can’t question. That was all I was posting. You can now stop with your immature insults and put downs.

WADR, HIE sounds like a 19 year old who just learned his first blatt of Eruvin. He has yet to see all the SHUT that discusses making eruvin in cities.

ames, that is indeed sad. You learn a lot when you question. You have the “right” to know how/why the Rav came to his conclusion and you learn a lot while he’s explaining it to you. Could be a gender thing, but most people don’t just take a yes/no (unless it’s a simple question perhaps), most discuss and yes, at times, debate until the conclusion is reached. Why would it be disrespectful to ask a rav how he came to his conclusion?

You’ll notice in 99.99999% of SHUT seforim that it’s never just the answer, but the logic and sevarah leading up to the answer. In many cases, that is even more important than the answer.

Ames, just out of curiosity, you never question your rav, or his sources?

Eim Habanim Semaicha was written by a Chassidishe Rebbe who blasted the rebbes and rabbanim for telling their flock to stay behind.

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Also, IIRC, the shittah for powdered milk is from the Chazon Ish.

ames, wearing stockings is not halacha, simple fact, they didn’t have stockings back then. It might be minhag hamokom, but it’s certainly not halacha.

Sometimes it’s Old Navy, other times it’s something a bit fancier. I usually don’t go for the fancy shmancy labels. But I do have an Allen Edmunds pair of shoes, those are great. Brooks Brothers is good too if you need something a bit nicer, and you can never really go wrong with a plain black/blue nice pair of pants.

I might be mistaking the gemarah, but if I recall, there was a story about someone who had to walk somewhere and he passed women bathing or laundering, he either had to walk with his head down or told the women to move or something, he was chastised and told that he should have taken a different route. It is not only up to the women, the men have a responsibility as well.

Furthermore, like everything in life, human nature tells us that if you harp on only one issue, it’s not good.

“When I got to the wedding I looked around, and found many women wearing the stockings the book said were assur. This included the wife of one of the dayanim in the community.”

Which is perhaps why you were told not to read that book.