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You can rely on a non-rabbi Shomer Shabbos Jew who testifies that a food is kosher.
IMHO a chavrusa is unquestionably better.
Feif Un: And how are you privy to all the facts? More likely you are going on third hand information from interested parties, and you are not knowledgeable of all the pertinent background details. Even what you do know may well be half baked information.
How can someone issue a “psak” if one party wasn’t present?
P.S. I would strongly advise all parties to omit any names or references that would make it obvious to whom they refer — if your point is anything other than theoretical — since you probably know less than half the facts.
yitayningwut: The Torah.org article you cited actually demonstrates Rav Henkin ztv’l agreeing with Reb Moshe ztv’l’s 66″ height (which as mentioned previously is itself a lenient position.)
And WADR to Rabbi Doniel Neustadt shlita, a Young Israel Rov in Ohio, his utilizing Bnei Banim (and irregardless if he is published in Yated or no Yated) as a source provides no additional creditability to R.Y.H. Henkin (the grandson). I actually fully agree with “qa”‘s comment about him. If you would like, check out his seforim, inclding his Teshuva on mixed dancing, see what he says and decide if this is a person you want to quote. Or the funniest Teshuvah he has is about – and I promise I am not making this up – whether you are permitted (yes, permitted!) to say “Zatzal” on the Satmar Rebbe ztv’l, or is it prohibited to say Zatzal on him, since Zatzal would imply that he was a Tzadik. I am not kidding. He really has a lengthy discussion about this.
charliehall: Rav Soloveitchik agreed with Rav Moshe’s psak on the size of the mechitza (i.e. 66″, which is a lenient opinion.) Rav Henkin never published a psak on the minimum size.
WolfishMusings: Like “says who” said, if someone b’shitto says I fully keep 612 Mitzvos with all chumros, but there is one Mitzvah I don’t agree with, he is a rasha and apikorus who has forfeited his chelek in Olam Haboah plain and simple.
If someone fails to keep Shabbos because he was never educated and doesn’t know Shabbos, or if someone doesn’t act as halacha requires during Chazaras HaShatz as a result of not being educated on what halacha requires during Chazaras HaShatz, they are both a tinok shenishba in each of those areas respectively.
As far as the label “frum”, it is just a label. Discard it, as it has no intrinsic value.
SJSinNYC: I believe it has to do with the quantity of available Mitzvos to each.
yitayningwut: I like that answer. And to add to it, you need the person who *can* fulfill the Mitzvah in order for those who cannot to get the schar. (As I seem to recall the concept.)
WolfishMusings: Now edit again to include my edit.
SJSinNYC: Hashem can verify. That’s all that counts.
WolfishMusings: The post in question wasn’t intended to “answer” your philosophical statement (it wasn’t even in the form of a question.)
WolfishMusings: You are expert at misunderstanding other posters.
SJSinNYC: That works for both genders. I don’t have the answer to your question, but perhaps another poster here does.
WolfishMusings: Instead of being so philosophical, start educating your mistaken brethren. 🙂
Either you misunderstood me or I wasn’t clear. I didn’t intend to imply a Mechallel Shabbos is considered Frum, just that he may be a Tinok Shenishba.
WolfishMusings: Tinok Shenishba.
SJSinNYC: You most certainly do get credit for Mitzvos you wish to fulfill but are unable to due to circumstances beyond your control. A Yisroel can get the Mitzvos that only a Kohen can fulfill.
Who said they’re right? Perhaps they are ignorant of the halacha, and are not knowingly sinful. You should educate them.
SJSinNYC: What I mean by all you need is the will to, is that Hashem credits you for every mitzvah you willed to do, even if you are incapable of doing it.
SJSinNYC: Arguably all topics are better left between each gender separately.
anon for this: Your concern expressed can apply to any discussion here between the genders.
All you need is the will to.
I agree with “says who”.
Talking about the halachas and concepts of tznius doesn’t cause anymore impropriety thinking of erva than if a man were to learn these in the Torah or halacha seforim (Shulchan Aruch, Mishna Berura, and many more) that are very specific in discussing these things, and were written for men and mostly learnt by men.
Omen.
tomim tihye, koma was saying that the Bayur Halacha was chiding the women of even his time for buying challa in the bakery instead of baking it — and the Bayur Halacha attributed it even then to a spiritual decline.
According to Reb Moshe the minimum height for a mechitzah is 66 inches. Many other Gedolim, including Rav Hutner, paskened it must be higher.
Perhaps the difference is one (milk) has a gezeira from Chazal while the other (other food) doesn’t. Just saying, since you asked for the “difference”.
Let this topic rest. Yidden don’t get numbered or known by a number.
I see Gut Yom Tov & Hag Sameah… What about for those of us who it is a Git Yom Tov? 😉