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America has confiscatory “laws” too, that unfairly seize private property for nebulous reasons.
“These sources are saying that it’s assur? Or that there’s just no mitzvah? I never heard that it’s assur for women to get drunk (privately at least)”
Yes, it is assur for women to get drunk.
“On a more (slightly) serious note, you’ve got to be really, really drunk to get to ad d’lo yoda.”
Correct. And there’s the widely accepted and followed Psak Halacha that that’s exactly what one is required to do every Purim.
Despite TLIK’s false insinuation that those following this Psak Halacha do so for “hedonistic “reasons*.
A so -called “no fly zone” is an obvious act of war. America declares a no fly zone and one hour later Russian warplanes violate it. Does America shoot down Russian war planes? If so, America and Russia are immediately at war and Russia can shoot missiles into Washington and New York. If not, the no fly zone is a joke.
1. Against
2. Yes
3. No
For some people 9:00 might still be too early.
And I’m just a volunteer?
He was too good for you. You did him a favor by saving him the trouble of getting rid of you.
AAQ: You incorrectly assume someone who doesn’t eat gebrochts even has the right to decide to eat gebrochts when at a relative who does, for shalom bayis or whatever other purported reason. That right may not exist.
There she goes again with her veibeshel “Torah”.
TLIK: Are you taking it upon your shoulders to condemn the Gedolei Poskim who rule there’s a chiyuv to get stone drunk on Purim?
Note that, rightfully, no one objects to any of the Poskim who rule one can fulfill the obligation with something less than stone drunk, such as with some extra sleep etc., or those that legitimately follow those shittos.
But on the same token, no one has the right to condemn the Gedolei Hador and Roshei Yeshivos, both contemporary and of yesteryear, who pasken an obligation to get drunk, and whom publicly get completely drunk themselves every Purim and advise their bochorim and adherents to do the same.
“I don’t identify with any community.”
Wolf: Repent O’Sinner. (Just goading you, sorry)
Seriously, every Yid must belong to a community. Please join a Yiddishe kehila/community ASAP that you will consider yourself part of and bound to follow.
Wolf: That’s absolutely incorrect. Great Britain is a Constitutional Monarchy (even though the United Kingdom lacks a written constitution) and a strict adherent to the rule of law. Indeed, the rule of law is one of the longest established common law fundamental principles of the governance of the United Kingdom, dating to Magna Carta of 1215. Britain could not and would not in the modern era discard the rule of law and its own constitutional principles to allegedly effect an act or law that is constitutionally void and legally invalid, such as purporting to extra-constitutionally effect an act that lacks legal legitimacy under the rule of law due to a lack of royal assent.
GHD: Don’t mix-up “EY” with the State of Israel. They’re two very different entities.
Wolf: Your community might legitimately hold from the shitta that sleeping can replace getting drunk. You’re halachicly okay, then. Many others come from communities that pasken l’halacha that it is obligatory to get drunk, literally. They cannot choose to pick another more convenient shitta rather than their kehila’s Psak.
Wolf: The British Parliament lacks unilateral power to remove the monarch or abolish the monarchy since the monarch can deny such an act royal assent, which would effectively ensure such an act doesn’t become legally effective.
Ad Dlo Yoda is a chiyuv to get drunk in the literal sense, according to many shittos. Those many Yidden who take their halachic obligations seriously and are parts of the many communities that abide by these shittos know that this halachic chiyuv, like others, starts when one reaches the age of Bar Mitzvah.
The Chofetz Chaim’s2 Rebbetsin was illiterate. So what?
Until not that long ago, relatively speaking, all matzos were hand matzos, as there were no machines. It’s absurd to say hand matzos are worse than machine. Did 2500+ years of ancestors use a less than optimal matzah?
AAQ: Sorry, can’t mish.
Shalom- al-Israel: Rav Yitzchok Ziff (pronounced Tsif) ZT’L
My great great grandfather was the Rov of Lemberg.
There’s no mitzvah or reason for anyone to respect or honor the kings of Swaziland, Ghana or of Nigeria.
50+ years ago many frum kids went to public school. Many survivied in Yiddishkeit and many did not.
(but I have been wrong in the past)
Are you sure?
The war in Ukraine has been going on non-stop since 2014. That’s 8 years, already.
Just as someone who has an inclination to spill blood should consider a career as a Shochet, someone who has an inclination to lie and cheat should but those traits to good use, and become a politician.
Being a shochet is holy and admirable, even when spilling blood, lying, bluffing, cheating and distorting the truth is loathsome and dishonorable, and even being a politician does not excuse those repugnant behaviors.
That said, akuperma is correct in describing politicians.
The Ukrainian anti-Russian factions have always, and still do today, honor their ant-semitic ancestors who murdered masses of Jews in cold blood, with street namings and national holiday and statues in city centers.
Ukrainians and Cossacks have been especially cruel and murderous to Jews throughout many centuries.
The American Reform led so-called “Jewish” boycott against Nazi Germany backfired badly and caused untold additional suffering towards German/European Jews.
“ they provide guidance on how a Frum Yid should vote in each election.”
Which Rosh Yeshiva provides guidance on how a Frum Yid should vote ? The only one who did this was HRH”G HaRav Avigdor Miller Zatsal.
The Moetzes and the Agudah have a long standing policy not to make such pronouncements.
Incorrect. Most Rabbonim in the American Chareidi community will readily tell you who to vote for, especially if asked.
The Aguda/Moetzes does not publicly do so organizationally in order a) not to risk their non-profit status and b) not to antagonize Democrats (*cough*cough* since the large majority of the time they’d be endorsing Republicans, especially on the Federal level) who they need to interact with and seek assistance from if they win office.
Why does the part about Rabbi Goldstein bother you?
Even if wrong, what’s the big deal (in regards to a minor detail in the book) about corona vs. vaccine?
Biden is simply senile. The rest is commentary.
Non-British subjects (which constitutes the vast majority of the participants here as well as the world) need not respect or pray for the British royals.
Avira, how do you address DassYochid’s difference with your description of the “robustness” of Rav Belsky’s water heter?
Also, Rav Belsky’s words regarding Rabbonim machmir on the fish would seemingly automatically apply to Rav Dovid, based on his machmir.
The Democrats have long had a love relationship with communism and the Soviet Union. It was only after Putin hit back hard against Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2014 involvement in supporting the coup d’etat and violent overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine that Democrats turned on Putin and Russia.
Shalom: You view, treat, would deal with and would sympathize with any troubles experienced by today’s German people the same way you would, say, today’s Canadians?
The Ukrainians not only enabled and assisted the Nazis (unlike the Russians), but the Ukrainians/Cossack Jew hatred/mass murder is much older than that. Tach V’tat was from the Ukrainians.
OP: Are you as forgiving of the Germans for Nazism as you are of the Ukrainians?
Avram: Excellent OP. On the point, all points, and honestly nothing more to say or add.
ubiq: Currently both Russia and Ukraine claim Crimea is their own sovereign territory. If Ukraine joins NATO today, any escalation of this territorial dispute can result in military conflict, which would automatically invoke Article 5 of NATO’s mutual defense pact, obligating the US and all NATO members to defend Ukraine against Russia.
As far as your second point about the fluidness of European borders, if your attitude is simply “Things change” and “in 1954 Crimea became part of Ukraine. Shoin! fertig Mazel Tov”, then presumably you’re being consistent and also saying “in 2014 Crimea became back part of Russia again. Shoin! fertig Mazel Tov.” And, even, in 2022 Kiev might become part of Russia, Mazal Tov!
Right?
Rav Bleich shlita”a
ubiq: “Only someone extremely delusional can argue Ukraine poses a threat to Russia. THAT is the discussion.”
A Ukraine that is part of NATO can be considered threatening to Russia. Let’s take the following example to illuminate this point. Crimea was part of Russia for centuries until the Ukrainian dictator of the USSR simply transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine unilaterally in 1954. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine simply kept Crimea. If Russia were to later contest Ukrainian sovereignty over Ukraine (as it did) on the basis that the 1954 transfer was illegitimate or that Crimean residents are vast majority ethnic Russians who prefer that their province be part of Russia, such a dispute between Russia and Ukraine is a far greater national security threat to Russia if Ukraine will have NATO, including a nuclear US, UK and France, militarily defend Ukraine against Russia.
ubiq: “Only someone extremely delusional can argue Ukraine poses a threat to Russia. THAT is the discussion.”
A Ukraine that is part of NATO can be considered threatening to Russia. Let’s take the following example to illuminate this point. Crimea was part of Russia for centuries until the Ukrainian dictator of the USSR simply transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine unilaterally in 1954. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine simply kept Crimea. If Russia were to later contest Ukrainian sovereignty over Ukraine (as it did) on the basis that the 1954 transfer was illegitimate or that Crimean residents are vast majority ethnic Russians who prefer that their province be part of Russia, such a dispute between Russia and Ukraine is a far greater national security threat to Russia if Ukraine will have NATO, including a nuclear US, UK and France, militarily defend Ukraine against Russia.
“We just gave NATO the GREEN LIGHT to grow even larger and stronger.”
Russia made very clear they’ll go to war against former Soviet states (Ukraine, Georgia) that attempt to join NATO — before they actually join.
“There about ten FORMER member states of the Soviet Union already participating in NATO”
There’s only three. The rest were Warsaw Pact states but not Soviet states.
Donald Trump has been the most Jews friendly president since Washington.
Crossing the street in middle of the block is, also, technically illegal. You’re supposed to walk 1,000 feet to the corner of the avenue, even if there’s no cars coming within eyesight.