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When I was sort of newly married, and had a shiny new smicha, but no distinct life plan, a broad shouldered Rov, an acquaintance of my in-laws told me “young man, stay away from Kashrus, its a dirty filthy business” I sort of knew this, having been “deputized” to stand in for a mashgiach at a time when I had no kelim to be efffective, and them once when I had the keilim, in, believe it or not, a restaurant with a fleishig side, a milchic side, and a pareve middle. So I went into a business with some ordinary filth instead of the spiritual kind. For continuing education, I once was convinced to sell arba minim. I came to the conclusion that any business in religion does not have be, but very well can be a first class ticket to Gehinom.
Correct Mod 42, and another neraby. In all other cases, we are warned of straying yamin u’smol, hinting that when one strays, there is no peace but a zig-zag existance.
Sam2, its called living by the letter of the law, or zehirus, and not putting stumbling blocks in front of the ignorant. Some specific cases are a passage in the Hinneni, and the selicho shlosh esrai middos. This is not my own opinion.
there is a halchic directive not to appoint a woman to a positon of authority of the tzibbur, that may have influenced the status quo. There is also a necessary degree of comraderie in the working environment that would make a mix of genders more problematic than helpful. It was rumored that one of the Manhattan orgs had a woman among them. In my former service, most women were not averse to being helped by seasoned, mature people, but this was not in Booklyn, and the question is not without its merits.
Agent Felafel here. Send Homous to Agent Gribbenes. He should drop it off at shlishkes past kreplach for Gefilte. Eat this communique when cooked.
twisted to the left.
Riddle: of all the left/rights in the Torah, all but two are right AND left. What are the two right OR lefts?
OP: Hashkofo Emergency: Our tefila is a direct connection to HKBH, no angels needed. This is Ani Maamin #5, a critical article of faith. There are piyyutim that seem to represent otherwise, and those who take the ikkarei hadas seriously omit or rephrase those passages. Hatslocho on your path upwards.
Zecharya, yosh on th3 mareh mkomos. Could be Rav Moshes kpeida on the other minyan is that the minhag hamakom should not go wanting, not that the bar mitzvsh minyan was not yotze.
Thank you Toi. I believe this the first time we’ve been on the same page. Goes to show there is always hope among brothers. Shabbat shalom
Al tismach Yisroel el gil ko’amim (Hoshea 9;1)It is a stain on the yiddish neshoma to be present at a forum that gives importance to narishkeit and the elevation of physicality. This has its roots in ancient Greece, and we had a Channuka, one of it purposes was to eradicate those aping that alien culture. To fill ones head with statistic, names, games, aside from the hilul of the kodesh, it is maarich the golus and doche the geula. Feh.
My Rosh once paskined on this ( litvish listener/high speed chasidish reader) He said: firstly, it is a chovas tzibbur, and not a chovas yochid, and that if you can understand the reader that is enough, provided that not all the tzibbur not understand the reader. Most folks with any ‘exposure’ would generally understand the other-region dialect so it strikes me as preposterous that there are often multiple reading by zachor. I, once upon a time spent part of the year with a sfardi minyan, and I was sometimes, as the only moomche there, asked to read. When I would bluff a sfardi leining, they would tell me to go back to normal. I have made a casual study of Mizrachi Trop (all fourteen flavors) and I can do a better fake today than before, but in the very mixed minyan I lein for now, they acutally are very accepting of my o cholam, my attention to dagesh, ayin and the rafeh of all six beged kefes. My pronunciation is a kibbutz galuyot, just Teimani is a hurdle, and I have never heard or seen a transcription of Portugese nusach.
correle is great stuff. We broke some by hard dropping them on our linoleum floor in NY, but to fall on Israeli balatot is a truly magnificent crackup
When you wake up with valid reasons not to get to a minyan Rltz’ln.
When your teenager’s eyes grow round with disbelief as you describe some technological gadget of the 70s.
Meforshim note that the ben Hatzofis who was revived from dead by Eliahu became the Novi Yonah. What became of the ben Hashunamis?
If you are dead and a novi brings you back, do you bench gomel, mechaye hameisim, or other bracaha?
42: big as influential, a macherteh that would not shy away from the mitzva, or perhaps learned. We learn from her the principle of visiting ones rebbe, (or maharat?) on rosh chodesh and Shabbos. From rosh chodesh, the halacha was extended to regel.
True, the ease of reading and clarity is way better, but I find the collection of notes and mare mekomos to one column maddening. I am generally in a hurry, doing targeted sugya searches, and I prefer these things to be where they always were. Sometimes, an old sefer can be a real gem, in the historical sense. I have seen really old stuff that predates the Vilna, and the tzuras hadaf is very different. An elderly fellow I learn with has a treasured single volume of a shas published 1868 in Pressburg. It has an easy read type layout, and bolded Rashi headings. Talmon wasn’t the first.
To Goq, and others, suffering with this machala: I saw a documentary detailing some lost cause diabetics. They were “locked into” a deserted place in Arizona, where escaping was not an option, and fed a raw food diet (vegetarian) and given some moderate hiking. They lost weight, and most had pronounce drop in sugar levels. some were able to go insulin free. I have no idea of the fruit/ vegetable balance, or whether there was a glycemic cheshbon on the vegetables, but it worth looking into, with propper guidance.
It is a system in place because we no longer marry our daughters off at 13 and 14. They are thus kept busier than busy with an artificial hechrech to keep them from “straying” into troublesome activities. When they get to kallah class, they can relax some.
OP, in our long history there were some notable woman roshei yeshiva. I would not try that today though.
It is a system in place because we no longer marry our daughters off at 13 and 14. They are thus kept busier than busy with an artificial hechrech to keep them from “straying” into troublesome activities. When they get to kallah class, they can relax some.
OP, in our long history there were some notable woman roshei yeshiva. I would not try that today though.
in Yerushaliyim it rained once before Succot. For a short time there was a forecast of rein on the night of the first yom tov.
maybe not the exact concept;
Avraham avinu refusing the spoils of Sodom
Esev accepting Yaakov’s gifts
Yaakov, refusing Esav’s accompaniment
Rachel, giving Leah the passwords (medrash
Yehonasan, conceding the future malchus to Dovid
and on and on, the actual verb, and any vav based root is not found in mikra.
Toi, that there is nothing else. The torah literature is a wondrous and vast garden. They are practicing monoculture, and it is bad news for plants, and probably for Jews as well.
Jothar, me, being small potatoes, I call it karov laavodah zara. I once asked my Rosh, “IF you regard messianics and followers of a dead messiah as akin to christians, should we not eat from their shechitah? He answered “Yes”.
My work is avodas uman, and I try my best not to. Now and then someone I cant refuse has a tzorech hamoed emergency, and I tell them to get a psak that they can do it, and that they can davka use me to do it, and then I will do it betzina as much as possible ( at night, not changing into work clothes etc) and I generally don’t accept payment, or apply it davka to tzorchei hamoed. As my youngest are teenagers that wouldn’t be caught dead seen with their parents, I am free to pad the hours of my morning seder, and to attend a shiur of a maggid chacham. That chacham once passionately said it would be better for some to work than what goes on today on chol hamoed. (EY, where everyone is off) Mine is the chelek of the self employed, with mailos and chesronos. I used to lain Megillah on purim for a 6:30 train catcher’s minyan. My fastest possible was 22 minutes, and I felt really pained for these people.
Try science instead of segula. In the NY area and most temperate zones, the salix purpura is common,(cultivated and prized for basketweaving) and it is overloaded with rooting hormone. Start some days before yomtov. Take fresh looking arovos, and re-cut the bottom of the stems by about a centimeter. If you can manage to do this under water even better. ( there are cutters of this type for flower stems, with a cutter rigged over a water container. The cut should be angled. Trim up some leaves and stand so the stem is in water with no leaves, and set in dark, so the water needs of the leaves is reduced. Sooner or later root nibs will appear. This is the ideal time to use them, and return them back to the wet dark conditions as soon as practical. If the rootlets are not to badly beaten up, you will have a seven day arava. Or, you can buy 14 aravos, keep them in the same condition, and use as needed. In a weeks time the roots will get larger, but they will stay fresh. Consider yourself lucky, the celo packed refrigerated floppy aravos in EY(salix alba) have no such recovery capacity.
Eating garlic on a regular basis ( a clove every twelve hours) makes you mosquito proof after twenty four hours. It gives your breath, your blood, and your perspiration a faint garlic odor that repels the mosquitos, and some people too.
Mosquitos are just another delicacy in the wondrous web of life and food. Bats, birds, and reptiles feast on bugs, and mosquitos are a favorite.
I believe I am descended (on one side) from the Khazars. The eyes never lie.
The galut of the ten tribes was not absolute, there were remainders.
It is plausible that the galut of the capital city included many visitors or migrants from the outer areas and that samples of the 10 tribes went to Bavel, and came back with Ezra, or stayed whioh became the eastern diaspora that became the Mizrachim when Spain emptied out. One can also try to make sense of the end of Ovadyah, which speaks of two galuyot, beni yisral , and yerushaliyim. Survival was the aim of the remnants and tribe in galut was immaterial. The close gene pool of the Ashkenazim indicate that it may have been a small remnant indeed that became the Roman driven nucleus of Ashkenaz. In the future, the tribes must be accounted for to have shmitta and yovel, and a reapportionment of the whole land.
I am both close to, and very far, from Chabad. In times past, there was near universal lomdus among them, and now the average yankel goes through the Dvar Hamalchus ( a chabad sort of chok leyisrael with heavy Ramban content) weekly, and so is not an am hooretz. In public speaking though, there is nearly nothing other than the Rebbe’s Torah. That is a tragedy.
Sam4231: There doesn’t seem to be a nafka mina in a plain reading of the halacha. The prime example the SA gives for mitztaer is the inability to sleep due to bugs odor or wind, but only if not expected, and one cannot build a sukkah in such unpleasant circumstances and claim to be mitztaer, or iow you were mavatel the mitzva. The Rama’s calculus says if it is unusable for any basic function that you home provides, it is not a sukkah.
One nafkamina is that unlike most halacha, mitztaer is somewhat subjective. Thats how in places like Petrograd, they bundled up, put on the fur hats, and drank hot, fermented borcsht in conditions that the SA would say is patur. With the same subjectivity you might say that the stymied lone sleeper is not yotzee eating breakfast either, but his guests who had no intention to sleep there, are yotze eating there. I know one fellow, locked and loaded, who would love nothing more than an intruder. But the halacha generally doesn’t focus on the odd case. Run this by your LOR.
Sorry chevra, but at least those of you who feel meshubad to the Rama, need to brush up on tav resh mem/daled, according to which, if a preexisting condition (wild life, likelihood of thieves) prevents one function of teshvu k’ein taduru, such as sleep, then you are not yotze any other function either, such as eating.
5.70 x 2.8 meters. Sleeps 7 comfortably, and 3 meters floor to schach so it looks expansive.
Whats Tanach? Just kidding. I was a contestant in the national 40-somthig years ago, and there were GIRLS there, but that didn’t hit my radar because there were GIRLS in school too, a school with a sort of chareidi, very very zionist administration, doing the best they could with the circumstances outside Brooklyn. Would I send my kids (more likely grandkids)? No, they are measurably more chareidi than myself, and ccnsequently, they don’t know enough to compete, and the tanach my boys do know, is because they made it a project to learn by themselves.
Hullin peh daled:Tannu Rabanan: … what is the meaning of ‘asher yatzud’? The Torah here teaches derech eretz– that one should only eat meat with this preparation (Rashi there, “not frequently”) T”R Ki yarchiv Hashem es gevulcah (devorim 12″ the Torah here teaches derech eretz: that one should only eat meat ‘letayavon’. Pehaps one [with tayavon] should
procure meat from the market and eat it? The verse teaches “and you shall slaughter from your cattle and your sheep. Perhaps from all your cattle? the verse teaches ‘from’ your cattle (not in excess)
yitaynigwut; is “The Torah teaches here derech eretz” not a moral directive?
There are people male and female, for whom yard work, and its gentler subset, gardening, is in their blood, or as the pithy (npi) Israeli description goes, yarok banefesh. It does not, and should not have anything to do with marriage.
“HPV vaccine targeted to young girls” and “dark side of vaccines”
This rings some bells, like maybe the darkest side of vaccines. The following is from internet conspiracy theory territory, starring Big Pharma Big Money, Big Elitism, and supporting characters like Monsanto and its ilk. If true, truly horrible, if untrue, a good read. Al regel achas:
a)there are large players intent on population reduction
b)the easiest target is the third world
c)Large NGO pushing a vaccine for unlikely illness on the population of young females.
d)Local church interests grow suspicious, do own lab work and find a gestational hormone spliced to a virus, net result is vaccinated subject rendered unable to complete a pregnancy.
If you surf freely, search Eugenic+Bill Gates
Be moichel me if i am wrong, and I am not a professional, but this has the red flag earmarks ( on surface observation) of a control freak personality at the top. If that is correct, you and your married sister are the lucky free ones, others maybe less so. May you have the strength of kiskes and sterling derech eretz to get through this unscarred.
Being old timers we have two Kitchen Aids (one for Pesach) and they have never failed us. I also have a good respect for the design having worked around the big Hobarts, the floor standing three phase big brother of the K-A. As the stand in for the woman of the house, I also treasure my trusty food processor, but for challa and other breads, only by hand. It helps that I am big and muscled (with chronic tennis elbow both sides) and that my sourdough mix is wet and soupy for the most of the essential mixing, but there is no reason a slighter person can not manage it, as our grandmothers did. Also there is a kabalistic notion that the time of kneading and forming of the bread is an eis ratzon. Why blur the spiritual space with the whine of an electric motor?
grandfather of three. The color in my beard is putting up quite a fight, but loosing to the silver.
“growing strong bones” That is a huge debate nowadays. True, it is hard to buck the “milk and cookies are good for you” song, but some reasonable voices say that the digested milk leaves acid waste which is neutralized by the body pulling calcium from the bones.
I have low level upper respiratory inflamation on a regular basis, and I am very sensitive to smoke, volatiles and perfume. The latter generally smells like bug spray to me. When someone passes by and emits a three meter cloud of lingering air pollution it is just plain offensive.
have been places where chicken is served davka w/o a knife.
dontknowitall: sitting for mizmor lesodah and hallel hagadol is from, or in line with the directive in the Azor Eliyahu siddur, that psdz is recited sitting, ie in its entirety. The minhag I got from my rosh yeshiva (maybe Gra sourced) is that there is no tehillim as tefillah other than shir shel yom that is not bracketed by boruch sheamar and yishtabach. That takes away mizmor shir, and L’dovid ori, and multiple shir shel yom, (such as on rosh chodesh, most say the shir shel yom and kuf daled, when the shir shel yom is kuf dalet regardless of the day of the week except shabbos)See the nusach thread.
I would not shelter children from guns. I had them in the house, the children were aware of what they were for and what they can do, and the respect and caution required. Lelamed es benei Yisrael keshes, halo hee kesuva al sefer Hayashar.
The Chizkuni on the shovim min hamaarocha: devarim 20;5-7, quoting from Sotah 44,”Tannu rabanan: the torah is teaching here derech eretz, one should first build a house, then plant a vinyard, only then marry …
Imagine the age gap had we been in tune with the mussar of chazal.
When we were oleh to EY, we moved temporarily to neighborhood X ( a close copy of Brooklyn). We were off loading the ten cartons from a Nesher van, when a yid walking into the same building asked “are you moving in?” That was about the last casual conversation that we had for that month that was not initiated by us. When we moved to our apt in other area (mostly chiloni and DL at the time) we were greeted with cookies, and we had Shabbos invites unill we tired of them. I don’t recall the type of yarmulka I was wearing.
anonymouschochom: How OOT are you and at what frost zone and lattitude? You may be able to do your own plantation if weather/space/labor availability would work for you. I have been to many places where the aravos were unique to the locale. Most were floppy posture varieties with variations of color (red leaaves!) and edge serrations. The variety in NY area is definately a pretty one, but its range must be limited.
behatzlocho, twisted (sold in 89, and 90)
I was educated in halacha with almost no kabbalistic input, and by circumstance I have very few minhagim, but many “positions in halacha”. I fail to understand the concept of “bringing din on the person”, or “bringing down din shamayim” or “harsh judgement”. We don’t accurately perceive the workings of din, nor are we meant to. We get what we deserve, no more and no less, because Hashem’s ways are perfect and his judgment is perfect. Unless there is something inherently wrong with a behavior, or if it encourages a bad midah, there is no reason to abstain. There are no shortcuts to bad things. I am with Old Man on this.
I am seasoned and thick-skinned enough to fargin staring, especially from children, though it does hint at poor upbringing. Sometimes, you have to accept it. One case i remember well, was when a friend and I walked into shabbos shacharis at the Satmar bungalow colony. He was wearing a almost white beige suit, and I was either in blue seersucker or maybe mint green. (This was the late seventies, the age of polyester). There were some young ones wide eyed and pointing and who could really object? Now in EY where the cookie cutter lines are really rigid, I find that because I work in ratty uniforms and look like a scarecrow, kids who rarely see a working father take me for an Arab. In some respects, it is a defense mechanism. In the supermarket I am often once overed, and I see the confusion in those young eyes, not being able to assemble the tzitis and the beard with the rest of the package.
oy vey, I (we) put u’veneh osa last, because the rule ” ma’ain chasima samooch la’chasima” rules. Do I know you?
Mamashtakeh: So not the huge jump that I thought. It tickles my curiosity why the Rav counseled you to change, while he did not. I see many places in the Holy City that bechavana don’t hold to a particular nusach to make everybody welcome. I think it is mistaken, but the sky has not fallen yet.
oy vey, I (we) put u’veneh osa last, because the rule ” ma’ain chasima samooch la’chasima” rules. Do I know you?