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Bentch slowly.
Novelty: Does a servant skip shelo asani eved but still say shelo asani goy?
Does anyone have a response to my above question? Or, perhaps, there’s no PC response.
As is well known, some of the popular frum singers have made albums that include a song “shelo asani goy”. Very nice. But why have none of them included a song shelo asani isha?
If anyone can give me a coherent, intellectual, non-emotional response to that question as to why one is okay/appropriate/proper whereas the other is not, I would most appreciate it.
The same with great talmidei chachamim such as R’ Saul Lieberman, R’ Shlomo Goren and R’ Avrohom Weiss of Riverdale.
“materially”? Even one shred is a problem.
Jack, the Republican States like Mississippi WOULD ban abortion almost completely, starting from Week 1 of pregnancy, IF they thought there was a chance the courts wouldn’t overturn that law. Since they know there’s no chance the courts would let such a law stand, they’re trying to implement laws with the maximum ban feasible that the courts will let stand.
The zionist rabbanut under Druckman and others created hundreds of thousands of fake “converts”. Mostly Russian Goyim, but others as well, that remain halachic gentiles but the zionist State counts them as “Jews”.
jackk, the idea is to ban abortion as close to altogether as possible. Mississippi felt this is the furthest that’ll pass muster under the courts, currently. Ideally they’d just ban it almost always, regardless of number of weeks.
Syag, HaLeiVi is a very sensitive fellow.
The velt has accepted Rav Moshe’s Psak on abortion.
Shimon, are you saying that at most chasunas, using the normal chasuna system, they’re lacking simchas Choson V’Kalla?
Ubiq: “Mazel tov, it won’t happen though ”
Congress is unlikely. But the Supreme Court declaring a constitutional right to life is very very conceivable. And that would, effectively, render abortion illegal nationally.
huju: If you want to comment on the constitution, we can respect your views and opinion. But please do spare us your uninformed and flawed comments on Halacha.
N0m: Dress SHOULD matter.
Ubiq: Abortion should be illegalized at the federal level. Perhaps the conservative supreme court can find a constitutional right for a fetus to be born. Or Congress pass a law.
n0m: Do you currently or have you in the past identified yourself with the MO community or attended their schools or institutions? Would others possibly identify you as affiliated with MO?
N0m: Why do you want to abort crack babies?
Abortion should be illegal in all circumstances except when the life of the mother is at serious risk.
I was called a troll.
Mazal Tov!
Why don’t you do the normal type of wedding?
There’s no excuse to not be using a shadchan.
Period.
You never met Devorah Rivka Kaplan-Moskowitz-Katzenellenbogen-Srulowitz??
Natfush: The excuse that they could otherwise skip minyan altogether, if it isn’t a super high speed-minyan, is a very poor excuse indeed.
1. The Litvish used to wear shtreimals in Lita. In Eretz Yisroel many Litvish still wear shtreimals.
2. The Litvish used to all wear a long rekel (jacket) in Lita. The Russian government forced them to stop.
3. Litvish married women used to wear only a tichel. Until the Russian government banned them.
4. The long peyos was universal in Ashkenaz. Even German Jews used to have long curly peyos, like the Chasidim still do now. You can find pictures even of the very early German maskilim with long curly peyos.
5. All Jewish men used to always wear a hat in public.
HaLeiVi, I disagree. Nationalism/Zionism is just as illegitimate (ie an invalid position) as Tikun Olam promoted by the Reform or the ethical hashgacha promoted by the Conservative. Even though both positions have “Orthodox” rabbi supporters, and in principle isn’t a violation of halacha. Much like the early Reformade innovations that weren’t a direct violation of Halacha but we’re nevertheless denounced by the Rabbonim.
Reb Eliezer, how do people travel by ship on weeks-long journeys?
Reb Eliezer, I once met him.
TS Baum: You didn’t hear of the Rothchilds?
Government employees are overpaid, once you include their crazy amount of benefits (retirement, pension, paid time off, saved vacation and countless other highly valuable perks) AND are underworked.
They can almost never be fired, thanks to the union thugs, even if all they do is clock-in and clock-out on time, but otherwise sit and do virtually nothing other than slack.
N0Mesorah: Can you please clarify the meaning/implication of your chosen screen name. Is it intended humorously or do you actually intend to convey that you have no mesora and that you believe it is okay to live life without a mesora?
HaLeiVi: His people call him the “Gra”sh” — Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul.
“Would you use term, Talmid Chacham?”
That term has been applied to him by others.
HaLeiVi: What about Saul Liberman?
The standard of livelihood required is bare minimum. “Kach hi darkah shel torah – pas b’melach tochal etc.” — Bread salt and water – if you have that, you have parnasah. The Rambam writes that a typical Baal Habayis works 3 hours a day and learns 8.
This is what a “working person” is. Three hours a day. 8 hours learning.
What in the world does that have to do with today’s working man’s lifestyle where he works 8 hours a day and almost never even learns 3? It proves nothing that Chazal endorsed working, since working in those days meant learning 8 hours a day.
Or perhaps some folks here know better than Chazal. Bread salt and water isn’t enough you say? One must reach the “American Dream” of home ownership, a decent car, kids in college, fancy clothing and technological gadgets. Otherwise, say the American psychologists, the person can’t be happy.
“Male Nurses and Male House-Husbands; Female Military and Political Leaders, Has Western Society Fallen as Low as (or Lower than) Ancient Egyptian Society?”
AAQ: That’s bubbe maaisa theories coming from boneheads.
Avram: It doesn’t pas to have a goyishe hand-food like pizza for a heilige melave malka.
AAQ: If someone doesn’t join the army because he’s in yeshiva, he’s prohibited from accepting any paid employment until (if I recall) he is 28 years old.
“How many of your families have 3 or less children?”
By that token, if you have no children r’l, you’ll be “wealthier”.
“Still, the immediate visceral “ashkenazi lives matter” reaction was way inappropriate and shows that any community can fall low.”
Agreed. My Rov made the same point last year when some people started parroting “Jewish Lives Matter”. That we Yidden should never be taking or re-coining slogans originating from the lowest of the low.
Is the third type people who can’t count?
n0m: You attempted to obfuscate the issue dreying a kup about how a very clear and explicit halacha given in the Mishna, Rambam (on the Mishna in Horiyos), Shulchan Aruch, and many other sources that you were given and cited including the Chazon Ish, Shevet HaLeivi and the Igros Moshe, was not in your view viable or applicable in our day or in any other day. (The Rema, Shach and Taz are additional sources against you that weren’t cited in the thread.) And you offered no source saying what you claimed. You simply tried to drey ah kup that all the explicit sources were irrelevant, even though you had no source saying so, since you posited that all the aforementioned were merely giving a theoretical case that could not (and in your imagination did not) ever occur.
You ended promising to “explain” the Chazon Ish, Tur and S”A “in my next post”, your famous last words — except you made no more posts after those four words.
How is Caucasian a race but Ashkenazic not?
Never retire.