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I don;t chap the hava amina. Is there not an indelible pnimius to someone who learned so long?

Is this not another layer(concept o) nignaz ? we have sky blue and turquoise, with primary sources saying is navy, or green or yellow? Or how much of/ how many strings?

Another idea. There is a klal that heftza shel mitzva from the animal realm should be from a kosher source, the only exception I know of is the tolaas shani in the mishkan. Any others out there? I don’t trust the folks at p’til techelet, I will patiently wait for the blue fish with black blood. With fins and scales. There was great effort to posit a Hebrew tahor unicorn of immense size for the yerios tachash. Teiku.

The last word, or almost last word in dietary science, is that you should pick an ethnic diet and stick with it, all the better if it is your own. I am a vegetarian and stopped eating fish, but I still love my horseradish. My bubbe served elaborate meals with the only acknowledgment of being in Brooklyn an entree of sectioned sugared grapefruit. Every thing else was standard Belorussian fare. She and her siblings reached ripe old age without much infirmity. Ptcha and rotech anyone?

My great grandfather came in 1905 to northern NJ and set up shop as a rav, shochet and mohel. He was a chabadnik of some yichus, and functioned as an outreach professional at the turn of the century. They had been wealthy until his daughter, my bubby needed a halizta . They were held up for all they had, so perhaps they were economic migrants, but the virulent anti semitism of the last czar could also have been a factor. Zeidi, came in 1907. The yorzeit for the people of his shtetl is Lag Bomer. They were murder en mass by the nazis and others y”s.

On the other side of my ancestry, around the same time, my grandfather came and worked on a farm in Connecticut for eight years before he could pay the passage for grandma. They came from a place close enough to be called “near Warsaw” but far enough that they were rural folk, and that farming was the natural fit for him, but the poverty must have been severe. They settled in Brownsville Brooklyn and were members of Adas Israel of Brownsville and New York. I have led a futile search of those early years, but some of my past runs through Connecticut and Brooklyn. That I am a shomer torah umitzvos is a statistical fluke.

There is a book “Chachmei Israel of New England” that collects the stories of many like my great grandfather, that settled in nidach outbacks (sorry CTL) and had functional single generation frum kehilos

If my memory serves me correctly (50/50 chance) the above mentioned maamar appears in Sifri, but changes “dress” to that they were not baalei LH. Dress has obviously changed many times, as have names. For names, have a look in divrei hayomim> Languages have changed, the shvatim spoke the mamaloshen of the imahos, which was Aramis. And b’avosenu horabim, its been a long time since there was universal shmira from Loshon Horah. The long golus in many places has caused all this change, because these details were no longer the nisoyon or avoda… until very recently

Yes, lightbrite, my humble garden has firepower, the feared capcasin.

Lul, green are just unripe fruits. They ripen to the very untzius red, or chasvesholom yellow, and the past nit orange and purple.

For those who “haven’t heard or have a narrow view of the halachashpere, there is a longstanding practice of adomo.bore nefoshos on rice itself and that only if not overprocessed into shehakol. And yes even among non chassidic ashkenaz.

Vaccinations are mandated. Why is that?

The drug companies producing them are indemnified. Why is that?

I generally accept science, but one must do due diligence in following the money. If all studies in favor(if any) are funded or conducted by the drug companies, gov’t agencies or any of their agents, what validity does it have? Western medicine and big pharma have acted as a top down mafia for a long time. You are lucky to find a doctor who will think out of the box of his/her education, and if too public about not following the party line, the effects can be brutal.

There is also questions on herd immunity, as the efficacy of vaccination does not necessarily extend into adulthood. Of course an adult should have a much stronger immune system compared to a infants and toddlers, but how many immunodeficient adults are walking among us, without the protection vaccine from 30-40 year ago. If there is an open minded scientific opinion out there how about an agenda free opinion?

GAW: re: “if she is benind the mechitza”

Do you know there is a mehitza in the picture?

Have you never heard of or r”l seen a ten tefach or lucite mechtza? Maybe she is the shliach tzibbur?

Maybe she is the rabbi?

The first hand cranked matzo machine came with the early industrial revolution.50 years later, the Rogochover gaon lamented the demise of home baked matzo and the rise of the commercial bakery. It is also apparent from tales of the Briskers, and the very language of “maos chittin” that even with the rise of the machine matzo, many people and places sourced their matzos as shumura wheat, that was then ground and baked privately or communally. The “artisinal” matzo of the home bakers of those times could have looked very different and variegated.

Nechoma, if one reads the halacha and sifts and reads between the lines, it is plain that chazaras hashatz is the main event, and one’s attention should be absolute. Letzareinu, this is not commonly uderstood, halevai we should be zochim

LU, you left out a category, mine. While my local chareidi community considers me their own, the remnant chiloni neighbors refer to me as “chareidi mezuyaf”. While my wife wore a shaitle and we had other things about us, I very obviously work, generally looking like something crawled up from a swamp. There is widespread belief among the secular that non of us contribute in the workforce. Hence our other name–parazitim.

LU: charedi in EY has a very jaded/antagonistic attitude toward secular education. For boys in chadarim, RRA is given very short shrift if at all (serious elite institutions may have nothing or just rudimentary math. Girls have more, obviously, and some advance to further educatiom. There is at the very moment a huge tug of war about BY girls going to college and beyond, the one side saying it is necessary for parnasa, and the other saying it is spiritual suicide. The “suicide” camp seems to be carrying the vote. This is no doubt due to the commonality of today’s breadwinner women heading out to work all dolled up (a tznius thread in itself) I have previously voiced the opinion that those who claim the nefoshos can’t “hack it” and won’t endure in the secular workplace and in the army are admitting to producing an inferior product. (an education/child rearing thread in it self)

lightbright: To be a judge in dinei nefoshos, a dayan must have children, and as the novi reads, this part of the job package of Moshiach. The Rebbe, according to most, was childless, which unfortunately seems to prolong the mass neurosis in that chasidus. The motif of the rebbe being the moshiach, or his ability to force the geula, or his being stymied from doing so, are not unique to them, it has a long history in chassidic tales and possibly stems from bava metzia 75b. (recently passed in daf yomi) Now you have some homework for shabat.

blubluh: Though petrol and deisel can rise and fall with the market, there is not likely to be a similar market rhythm with gas, and the cost has only been rising. I am not at all a socialist, but there is a long tradition of such in EY, and there is a local loathing of what is called piggish capitalism. and in this I must agree. In this small market, there are very concentrated stratification of weath and power. Those making their living in monopolies do not generally pass on their lower costs.

OP and others, I am in the hot water business here, and if it takes an hour you need service. Even in the winter there is solar input and a fresh or maintained system should heat up in half hour to forty minutes. For those with very large households and those who just want on demand hot water there are gas fired wall furnaces that will give a fixed amount of hot water continually. These units also are routinely used for space heating.

Point of use heaters are small electric heaters that are spliced into the hot pipe of the showers. They are sold in hardware stores here but they not long lived because they succumb quickly to the calcification of our hard water.

+1LU on what really matters, but the water in my corner of yerushalim is ice cold in the winter.

Opinion and anecdote: As one seeking a zivug sheni, and for reasons unusual, I cannot use shadchanim, rather certain match sites. From my perspective, there is an inexhaustible supply of divorcees, and this is in the young grandfather and young grandmother cohort. I can’t really tell the sub-category rate of not recently divorced among them, but I sense that they are many. The most terrifying prospect for me is to become unstuck from being “stuck in my ways” and this is probably a common thing. It makes the ‘too picky” 23 year old look flexible

huju, it does not go back to Rambam, there is no such halacha in hilchos KS tzitzis or tefila. This is the realm of minhag.

I dread being called to the omud ( and i do go) because it means I must shorten and hurry my usual 10-12 minute private davening. I have seen yeshivas daven 30 minutes on a weekday, and some that were fairly quick followed by a respectably enunciated chazoraa hashatz. So I regard myself as beinoni. Yet even by the medium slow. and/or places where I would not be called up, I generally miss most or all of chazoras hashatz but that is because the shatz is too fast.

Cooking or preparing some real food that is ole al shulchan melacim, and sending it to someone who accepts you standard of kashrut. Take a stand against the meshugas of junk food and theme sickness that this beleaguered mitzva has fallen to.

I am nearing the age that the Mishna calls zikna, and in the ‘”second shidduch” crisis, looking for a very stale loaf. You youngsters have no concept of the difficulty in getting two hard boiled personalities to sync.

Too bad the Mir story is false. It would have started a necessary dialogue on the use of commercial systems of scale that necessitate and institutionalize a level of tzaar baalei chayim that is unaaceptable if were only seen by the public. My great grandfather shechted chickens for his family and for his neigbours in the outhouse of his New Jersey home. Those birds were older, healthier, unmedicated, and likley a healtheir protein to consune. I don’t live in the past, I just have not eaten an animal protein in a very long time, because my standards are such that it is too costly. or not worth the bother. As for hashgachot, one can avoid the issue by strictly limiting the use of things that come in bags,boxes, tins, and jars. In my old life I had implicit trust in the OU. Them I found out that they subcontract to those in whom I have implicit distrust.

Queen. the source for the concept of spiritual legacy is Midrash Raba Shmos 5. There the example (msiras nefesh for a mitzvah)is a play on words, Yisro sheltered a goel running from a sonei, and Yael sheltered a sonei ( Sisrah-in order to kill him) running from a goel (Barak)

Here there is a time gap of some three hundred years, and Yael is possible only related to Yisro by marriage. This is in line with the language (“that mitzva will not stop (from being represented) in that household) and also with our concept of free will. If your children or grandchildren choose to excel in the causes and mitzvos in which you did, that is icing on the cake.

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RE: leaving EY to learn Torah. The Sifri reference by Ytz loosely tranlated by yours truly

A maaseh with Rabbi Yehuda ben Beseira, Rabbi Masiah ben Harash, Rabbi Hanania bar Ahi,Rabbi Yehoshua and Rabbi Yehonasan, who were going to hutz laaretz (reason unspecified) When they reached Paltom, they remembered Erez Yisrael and lifted their eyes, and they wept. They read (recalled) the mikra “that you shall inherit them, and dwell in their land (devarim 19) that dwelling in EY is weighted against all the mitzvot. They reversed and went back to their place.

A maaseh with Rabbi Elazar ben Shamua and Rabbi Yohanan Hasandlar who were going to learn Torah with Rabi Yehuda ben Beseira. They reached Tzidon, remembered Eretz Yisrael, wept, and returned home.]

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It is notable that in the second tale, Rabbi Yehuda ben Beseira had obviously overcome his original reticence to leave, as he was one of the travelers in the first tale. The point remains, that there were those who could not leave EY even for talmud torah, This was the dor shel shmad, they had lost sovereignty to the Romans, and it was for the survival of Torah that some went chu’l to set up Torah centers out of the reach of the Romans. Rabbi Hananya be Ahi is also mentioned as setting up in chu’l, a team was sent to him to put him in nidui for setting years and iburim in chu’l

Health, in my halachic universe, the Rambam looms large. His definition of milchemes mitzva include “lezras yisroel mtzar haba aleihem” This cam mean responding to rocket fire from Aza, or taking necessary measures against the misbehaving inbreeds train from childhood to engage in jihad. I sense you might disagree. It is all about context.