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“BTL is generally worthless in the secular world”
I have no idea what this line is supposed to mean. I suspect it is gibberish,.
“Do you know if a BTL helps or hurts?”
compared to what?
are you asking if you take the same grades but compare a BTL to a “more mainstream pre-law degree,” Then obviously the BTL hurts. (Do yo uhave a hava amina otherwise?)On the other hand are yo u asking if a BTL helps compared to nothing or a diploma you type up on microsoft word , then obviosuly it helps and people HAVE gone to Law schools ( even prestigious ones) with a BTL
Try Mizrachi books, though I doubt he has one, he might be able to point you in the right direction
No Chassidim are often makpid on iit, and occasionly even delay a wedding if it wont be possible (though I haven’t heard of this delay recently)
I havent seen it a yeshivish weddings though“We are going to be paying out your 55000 over twelve moths so instead of 56$ an hour it’s going to say 42$ an hour.
No big deal it’s the same 55000$ a year.”No that isnt right if 55,000 is split over 12 months or 10 months it is the same 56 an hour.
You throw in as an afterthought, (as the op did which is what made it hard to understand) “Oh but by the way you will need to work two weeks in the summer to keep your job.”
But that isnt an afterthought at all, THAT is the only change. the change 10 months to 12 months isnt really a change, this line: “In the past, (the hourly) wages were paid over 10 months, this year the same amount was divided over 12 months” is hard to understand.UB
“Is this called slavery or stam theft?”
Neither, it is called a pay cut. While upsetting, I’m not sure why you would think the Government would careCTrebbe
“… spoken by low-class ignoramuses who could care less what they sound like…”Yes ! I love it You win the internet today.
which brings me to Ubiquitin’s Law of the internet:
when the thrust of an argument is directed against criticizing, other’s grammar, it is a near certainty that said criticism will contain at least one grammatical error.
“Imagine you worked with people that kept saying incorrect things about Jews.”
What are you talking about?
Are you saying there is something incorrect about saying “Eretz Yisroel” over “Israel” ?
“Till then I’ll point out every single meshugas.”
YO pointing these out, doesn’t win any arguments. they make you seem so insecure.
why are you so obsessed with trivial things call it “Israel” wear whatever you ant on your head. YOU care more than any body I’ve metyou ask “I have to somehow believe that when Satmar was created less than a century ago, they magically knew better than the Bet Yosef? Rambam?”
NO!! who asked you to believe that? If you want chasidishe shechita, go for it if you dont, dont.
(Of course if you want to know what it is, ask, learning new things is always good but that isnt what uou did)
In short, why are you so insecure? be proud of your heritage
“Joseph could be anyone. Any of us.”
Joseph is all of us. We all have an inner Joseph telling us to do foolish things. for example that urge to touch a wall that says “wet paint” is our inner Joseph talking.
“The way to do it is to go to sleep for 4 hours after alois”
Its not so pashut that you can go to sleep after Alos,
YO
“Nah, I think people say EY to “sound frum”. ”
Yep. so what?
YO
“This is a very shallow, chitoniusdik, neurotic club, no?”Again, and we are going in circles, if you feel that way don’t join. Why do you care.
Do you think the club members care that you think they are ” very shallow, chitoniusdik, neurotic” why do you care that they think you aren’t “frummer”?
Yo
“In other words, what social pressures are causing him to doubt his previous appellation of the country?”He joined a new club. To be a full fledged member there’s a uniform, a secret language etc. He wants to be s member so the BT wears the velvet yarmulka and says Eretz Yisroel.
I don’t get the problem.
If you want to be a member you can do these things too.If you don’t want to be a member so dont do your own thing and let us have our club
Rational
I’m not sure what you are saying keneged does mean “against” see Rashi to “ezer kinegdo”Against has multiple definitions including facing which is the sense that it is meant here, though perhaps corresponding would be a better word choice
YO
Hi, you’ve been asking variations of this question a bit lately. Please help me understand, you ask “What’s wrong with just saying “My cousin lives in Israel”.”
Now obviously there is nothing wrong. You seem upset that it isnt the “frummer” thing to do.
so here is my question
do you care what other people think, ie do you have a desire to conform to arbitrary labels of “frummer” behavior?
If so, then follow them call it shul, call it Erez yisorel. Etc
If you dont care , then who cares , if others consider it not “frummer”?In short I dont understand caring that other consider it not as frum, but not carign enough to call it Eretz yisorel. Can you please enlighten me
One of my Rebbeim would say its easy to be frummer, it is far harder to be frum.
rational
Thanks a ton!YO
sure!Or,
it is just a colloquial expression, that doesn’t technically make sense . Language is peppered with countless examples. ( Take a bath, redundancies like ATM machine PIN number)
take your pick of the above, whichever helps you sleep better
Though hopefully nobody greets you with a “Good/gut Yontiff” since I’ll bet that one will really make your head spin, and I dont even have a vertel to explain why “yom-tov” became yontiff (does anybody?)
and on top of that all if you are a literalist and translate Yom Tov/ Yontiff as “good day” then if you were to be wished “gut Yontiff” they would be saying “good good day”
oh boywishing you and your family a Great yontif (oops)
and as the the old joke (?) goes if you meet the pope, on Shavuos be sure to greet him with a hearty “good Yontiff pontif”
Of course
Example both a mezuza and sefer Torah have kedusha, yet they are not equal.
both Tefilin shel yad and shel rosh have kedusha, but again not equal. Practically this has reclassification, for example starps for tefilin shel yad can be elevated to shel rosh but not the reverse. Maalin bekodehs velo moridin, we go up in levels of kedusha – holiness but not down
YO
“I don’t think there’s any excuse for soaking poorly like that”what was your excuse for this “You wanna keep Ashkenaz Havara” ?
“What does Shalos Seudos even mean? Three meals . But you’re trying to say Third Meal. Never understood that.”
Ask and you shall receive?
There is a classic vort I believe attributed to the Minchas Elazar, that by eating the third meal, you get schar for all three, hence “shalosh Seudos”. how so? Eating a Friday night mea, isnt necessarily done lekavod Shabbos, we eat supper every day. similarly the second meal, we eat lunch every day. However a third meal, especially on a short afternoon, THAT is unusual, most of u s dont sit down to wash have a meal 3 hours after lunch. by doing so we get credit for all three meals, as this shows out eating is (and was) lekavod Shabbos .Seriously though, the question is a bit silly. expressions dont always “make sense” my kid asks “why do you say take a bath, where do you take it?” Language often has quirks that arent “logical” per se
rational
do you have an example where יתד operates in the masculine?Cutting hair is kefira, If Hashem wanted people with short hair, He would have made us that way
midwesterner
thanks, though וּתְקַעְתִּ֥יו יָתֵ֖ד בְּמָק֣וֹם נֶאֱמָ֑ן וְהָיָ֛ה לְכִסֵּ֥א כָב֖וֹד לְבֵ֥ית אָבִֽיו׃, (courtesy of sefaria) in that passuk the “place” is neeman, not the “yated”
YO
“…These are NOT words. …You wanna keep …”
congrats you win the internet for today!“Is Sefaria kosher to use?”
without question, yes
Seems like a wrong, and counterproductive idea.
Joseph asked, regarding the OP
“Who is “pushing” his name?”These guys:
“Why is this acceptable? ”
what is the problem? , do you have trouble understanding any of those words? do you think there was anyone ever who was ever genuinely confused ” Taleisim what on Earth are those? Oh Talisos”
(My favorite is Yated Neman, which should be Yased Nemanah See Devarim 23:14 וְיָתֵ֛ד תִּהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֖ עַל־אֲזֵנֶ֑ךָ)
“It might be a just a little bit less holy than using www. though.”
and there I thought the beta version is holier
“It was so soon after that one would think that they would have known EXACTLY what occurred.”
Why would you think that? Human memory is very faulty , People easily forget details year to year
Love it!
Though not as much as I love Sefaria and Hebrew books
both are quite holy“that line is in my quote”
yowza thats embarrassing
I have no idea how I missed that. I will go eat some humble pie nowI am sorry for accusing you of willful omission
I got caught up in what seemed to me to be an absurd discussion (namely whether English has the same connection to Jews as yiddish does, which is the gist of this thread for it to have any relevance ) and somehow missed that line.
KY
“And I’m the one with the English comprehension issues”Lol, yes!
You skipped the second definition. (intentionally? Or just poor research? which way would dan lekaf zechus want me to assume, I’m sorry if I erred in my previous assumption when you left off some of my explanantion)
2. restricted or limited to the person, group, or area concerned.“I’d really appreciate if you could quote the exact lines from your post that I maliciously left out.”
sure: “but as a group it was spoken by the am hanivchar, it is unquestionably a Jewish language, the jews being a holy people, we have consecrated it making it holy ”
THAT is the main point. Yiddish is holy because it is a JEWISH language, not because it was the language that just happened to be spoken by Jews. This was clarified over an over throughout that long silly thread.
Or as Joseph put it IT was the primary and exclusive language of Jews.Now reasonable people can argue that that doesn’t make it “holy” (as Ive acknowledged several times, I’m not quite clear on what holy means, and am using “holy” perhaps a bit looser than its strict meaning )
What is a bit loony to debate, as we seem to be, as to whether there is something “Jewish” about Yiddish, that just isnt true with English.
Make no mistake, I prefer loony discussions, they are way more fun, than things we can “Agree to disagree on” like as to whether Vanilla or choclate is better, those arguments bore me. I much prefer arguments as to whether vanilla ice cream is white or whether Yiddish is more of a Jewish language than EnglishKy
A few things, first of all as an aside your history is a bit shaky and at any rate 13 century English isn’t similar to ours (see the Yiddish thread for an example)
Secondly and more importantly you quote joseph
“Yiddish is holy by virtue of it being the primary and exclusive language of Jews for over a thousand years. ”When you have a moment look up “exclusive” you don’t seem to know what it means
At least this part of your post “Maybe I have difficulty with the holy English language, ” is correct.You also cut my post short as I put in the same limitation as Joseph, that you failed to copy.
So in your one post you displayed your ignorance of history, and of English as well as your dishonesty
Great stuffKY
“Like the holiness of a man made language.”
Whoa, forget the less exciting question from Aramaic., there is a much more interesting chidush here. Namely that something man-made cant have kedusha!
wow!
and I have a marei makom for it: Its a beferish coffee room post.KY
“In a different thread, some posters posited, that Yiddish became a holy language, by dint of the fact that it has a long history of being spoken by Jews and / because much Torah has been communicated through it.”You should reread that thread. Laskern is closer. The argument there was NOT (As was pointed out numerous times) that it is holy because it was “spoken by Jews”
and besides, as you point out even if that WAS the argument, the English comparison, still falls flat “although obviously not the same history.”
So clearly that can’t be the point of this game. Its not nice to interpret someone else’s post as saying something so silly.I’ll keep trying :
Is Somali holy?It is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch.
It is the second most widely spoken Cushitic language after Oromo.
As of 2013, it is also one of the featured languages available on Google Translate.ACS
I agree! can we revive your excellent torah topic thread on wars starting or ending every 28 years ?
That was much more productive
Is Burmese holy?
It is a is a tonal, pitch-register, and syllable-timed language.
It is belongs to the Southern Burmish branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages.
it is an official language of Myanmar and the language of the Bamar people.
Am I playing this game right? I’m not so sure I understand it.
“I said instead of teaching five or six year olds their Chumash into Yiddish, why don’t we use אונקלוס and teach it in Aramaic.”
Ah, so this question (unlike your other one) I DO know the answer to: ווייל אזוי האט מען געפירט אין די היים
YO
“I am not arguing its importance in Jewish culture and history, but holiness”Hainu hach (as I clarified several times.)
Now you get it.KY
“Why is there no push for Aramaic”
Again, I don’t know.“I’d be willing to provide the translation from this old sefer . For free. It’s very accurate Aramaic. “It’s called אונקלוס.”
Sooooo, this may surprise you, but to this very day many Orthodox Jews recite this Aramaic translation weekly!
TC
I took your advice, Bereishis Rabbah 74:14
וַיִּקְרָא לוֹ לָבָן יְגַר שָׂהֲדוּתָא , אָמַר רַבִּי שְׁמוּאֵל בַּר נַחְמָן אַל יְהֵא לָשׁוֹן פַּרְסִי הַזֶּה קַל בְּעֵינֶיךָ, שֶׁבַּתּוֹרָה בַּנְּבִיאִים בַּכְּתוּבִים מָצִינוּ שֶׁהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא חוֹלֵק לוֹ כָּבוֹדA poster here said ” but that doesn’t make Aramaic holy”
Aramaic is in fact holy (again, as mentioned several times in this thread, I am not clear as to what “holy ” means, but clearly There is something special? sacred? important? holy? about Aramaic.) As the medrash warns, don’t take it lightly .“This continuing back and forth about holiness of Yiddish is insulting and degrading to the concept of Kedusha (holiness) ”
I agree, it is also insulting and degrading to the holiness of Yiddish,
And this discussion is getting repetitive. with absolutely nothing constructive being added at this point,This is pretty clear, josph put it very succinctly, I elaborated perhaps to a fault,
At this point, Kol hamosif goreah, if there is any particular point you have trouble with I’d be happy to try to clarify
but repeating “Done It is holy” “no its not” “Yes it is” Is not my styleKY
Poe’s law is already established law it doesn’t need any more proof.
“I don’t understand your last post”
Thats ok, your a bit late to this party and clearly havent read through the wwhole thing (not that I blame you) as you are repeating a lot of silly points that have been addressed already.
I will repost the main point from my last post, which points you in the direction of, what I think out point of disagreement is. :“but that doesn’t make Aramaic holy”
So that is where we differ, we may be defining “holy” differently . See joseph’s excellent concise explanation at the top of page 6, and my wordier one linked to right after his.TC
see Jacobs, Neil G. (2005). Yiddish: a Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. p. 2. who says it is 900-1100 years old
It certainly was in use in the 13th century (not quite 1000 years ago but close) as the oldest yiddish inscription appears in the Worm’s Machzor : ““Gut taq im betage se vaer dis mahsor in beith hakenseth trage,””(As an aside 13th century Yiddish similar to today’s Yiddish, and the above sentence is quite intelligible if you speak yiddish, compare to 13th century English (ie middle English) eg here is a line from “The Owl and the nightingale” “Þe bloſtme. gynneþ ſpringe & ſpred Boþe in treo & ek in mede. which apparently translates to The blossoms quickly spring and swellon every tree and in the dell:)
KY
“We didn’t stop it , it is still used for much of davening . with time it fell into disuse I don’t think there was an effort to stop it”
My sincerest apologies that was terribly worded, (more so that most of my posts) .
You said ““why did we stop Aramaic?” To which I was responding that , we didint “stop” it, we still use it . “it” being Aramaic . ie nobody got up and said ok Aramaic is creole Lashon Kodesh lets stop speaking it. IT fell into dissue. when and why? I dont know (though if you have sources Id love to learn more) .YOU then said “with time it fell into disuse I don’t think there was an effort to stop it.”
Which I understood as it = falling into disuse, tie hat there was no effort to keep Aramaic aliveMea culpa, I hope this explanation is clearer and we can be friedns again.
“but that doesn’t make Aramaic holy”
So that is where we differ, we may be defining “holy” differently . See joseph’s excellent concise explanation at the top of page 6, and my wordier one linked to right after his.
“nobody would change the language of a tefillah from a.k.h. but that doesn’t make Aramaic holy.”
So why not change it?“True you didn’t mention him but I was “gathering “more information about your position.”
Great that is encouraged! Though I’m not sure why you would think I thought otherwise. I have no problem speaking to people in Hebrew or English, if the Mahral diskin had a problem with it, yo u have to ask HIM (or whoever brought that story) if he davened in Hebrew“being as you In your line of questioning seem to equate casual conversation with tefillah,”
I am not sure where you got that strange equivalenceLucy
you have a selective memory. you say “My main point though, is that the dems have become completely unreasonable when the sitting president is not from their party”
while true.,
Mcconnell said the following during Obama’s first term ““The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.””
Not to improve employment, not to come up with a workable healthcare plan is most important goal was to prevent Obama being reelected again .you say “As much as Michelle Obama likes to spout that ..” but it sint Michelle Obama spouting it is Boener ““We’re going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.”” regarding Obama’s agenda
This isnt new
NC
“Why should a party with 5% support get more say than the party that came in second place? I ”while I hear your point, and am no really arguing , that isn’t completely accurate.
The second largest party, CAN join the coalition if they so choose, of course they would have to compromise on many (most?) of their ideals .
The way I see it, while in the US just the majority party has say and (practically speaking) nothing can be doen about that for 4 years. In Israel even the majority party needs to include SOME other points ofview, granted it usally isnt the view of the 2nd largest party (though it can be) but with one exception, (in late 60’s) they allways need to accommodate some other point of view, and usually more than one otherLucy
” So in a way they have a faster changeover rate than (thanks avik) we do”
Yes no question about that, I diont h think a single Isralei Government completed its full term (there may have been one or 2 in the early days when Labor dominated)
KY
“From what I can gather”
You should do more gathering. I good starting point is the title “Is Yiddish Holy?” Not limited to any particular circumstance.
“no-one I could think of would have the temerity to touch it. [Aramaic in teflla]”
Would you go so far as to say it is “holy”?“I don’t know. You wrote it. ”
Wrote what? You seem confused again. YOU said “with time it fell into disuse I don’t think there was an effort to stop it”
I asked you how do you know (that there was no effort to stop it?“Do you think the Mahril diskin … Would not say those parts of davening because they were not in Yiddish?”
I didnt mention the Maharil Diskin, but because your asking no why would I think that?
“Zero to do with a.z. Sorry”
Why are you sorry? Aderaba thank you! If I was wrong I was wrong, thank you for pointing it out. (Though I should note you havent actually contradicted my point “Once we had the mishkan in shilo they became permanently assur.” true but why? I vaguely recall a reason given because of Avoda zara, though I cant find it so I have to assume I’m wrong thank you for correcting me,)
“What does korban on bama have to do with a. z.?”
I recall seeing that korbanos on bama became assur, once goyim began doing it for avoda zara. I dont recall a source though, and can think of a few questions on it, so I might be mistaken.
“That’s really wonderful. Has nothing to do with the conversation though”
It is wonderful! and id does have something to do with the conversation. You said (and I quote) “why did we stop Aramaic?” To which I pointed out that we didnt “stop Aramaic” In fact we use it daily for some of our most important tefillos, and of course the Gemara, as you may know, is in Aramaic as well.
Reading understanding translating Aramaic is something taught to religous kids at a very young age today
So is Hebrew for that matter. I would hardly call that “stopped” In fact that is the very opposite oof “Stopped” Aramaic is very much alive, and effort is made to ensure that it remains so
Do you think the mahariĺ diskin didn’t say those parts of prayers because they were in Hebrew not in Yiddish? And he only wanted to speak Yiddish?with time it fell into disuse I don’t think there was an effort to stop it.
So why is there an effort to prevent Yiddish from falling into disuse?“So is Hebrew for that matter”
so is hebrew, what?
“Do you think the mahariĺ diskin …”
I assume this question isnt geared to me“with time it fell into disuse I don’t think there was an effort to stop it.”
How do you know?
As for your point to ponder, that was mentioned earlier.
Joseph
“Wasn’t the haskalah conducted in Yiddish? …Yiddish theater?”
Those aren’t Avoda zara. A practice taken up for Avoda zara like riasing hands during davening, korban on bama becomes assur that is why trees were stopped .
“why did we stop Aramaic?”
We didn’t stop it , it is still used for much of davening . with time it fell into disuse I don’t think there was an effort to stop it.
Lucy
while on your OP I dont’ disagree per se. I this statement “You voted on brexit, so just do it. Backing out now is lame and embarassing”I strongly disagree
I don’t even understand the logic of it, assuming they now realize it was a mistake, are yo u really saying they should go ahead with a catastrophic decision just because they once thought it was good, just to avoid being “lame”Just the opposite, following through on a bad policy to avoid being lame, is in fact lame and embarrassing.
(If you still support brexit, becuase t\you think it is good policy, thats a sepperate thing )
BTW
I’m not arguing that the US system is objectively worse, if you like it better, and many do that is fine. It certainly does have advantages I;’m just pointing why some may prefer another systemCTL
” and failure to follow the written words of laws and contracts.”
which of those categories does ywn coffee room fall into?
“It doesn’t matter what you meant to say you are bound by what is contained in the four corners of the document.”
what document? what are you talking about?
Lucy
“Because we like the decisions hell make. ”
But we don’t know the decisions he’ll make. Take George W bush, nobody knew he would invade Iraq under false pretenses. At what point Bush’s approval rating dropped as low as 30%. Realistically there is not much that can be done (granted this is partly because of our 2 party system as RY points out). In a parlimantary system, if you lose the confidence of a majority of the country’s representatives you are out.
“but ultimately no one can “get away with murder”. No?”
Of course he can. Though it depends how you define “murder” Arguably the drone program targetting people without judge and jury is murder,
Joseph
That is too unwieldy for a country of nearly 330 million or even for Israel’s 8.7 million.
Again though yes as I said, it depends on what you view as the most important factors there are pluses and minuses to every form of government.
Lucy
Its a trade off. The US way basicly chooses a dictator for 4 years.
Consider in nearly 250 years of this country. Not one President was removed from office (Nixon might have been had he not resigned) No matter how unpopular he was, there is a thread of “worst presidents” all of them completed their terms.
sure we through around buzz words like “checks and balances” to make ourselves feel good, but these are largely pretend. True nly congress can declare war, but the last time that happened was WW2, and Im pretty sure there have been several wars since then. oops ope, call them “police actions” or some other phrase to make it ok.
Oh but the President cant pass laws, no problem just cal it “executive decision” now he can do what he wants.If your goal is stability, then yes the Us system is pretty good.
If your goal is something more democratic like following the will of the people, then a parliamentary sysem does a better job of keeping that in check“Thanks for your permission to not like it.”
You are most welcome. You seem very concerned about this it’s ok.
“I said I don’t see the brilliance you claimed it was.
To which you respond I don’t have to like it??”No switch. It’s brilliant, you misunderstood it and therefore don’t see the brilliance.
Period“Do I like every brilliant lined?”
Lol you, probably not.” I give up”
You’ve said that already, yet here we are