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Use the dollar coin.
When Hatzalah started 212 was the area code for all five boroughs of New York City, including Brooklyn. 718 only became the new area code in the 1980s.
I recall yellow stickers a long time ago (1980s/90s) as well.
Smartphone GPS can send you down dangerous hiking trails.
Has the age gap of shidduchim in the frum community significantly narrowed in the past 5-10 years?
Are there now relatively less of an overflow of single older girls?
Has the shidduch crisis eased?
CTR: Being Chareidi has close to zero to do with externals such as dress, speech or mannerism. It’s all to do with how to implement practice of halacha and hashkafa.
Simply, those described today as Chareidi is how the average (and most) religious observant Jews before the haskala/Reform lived their lives — just, without any special or additional terms, descriptions, moniker or group name.
I would think pointers about swimming would benefit a lot more of our chevra than backpacking.
Refuah Shelamo. Kesiva V’Chasima Tova.
And those who were given the term Chareidi are simply the people who continue to follow the Judaism and mesorah started at Har Sinai.
Gadol: That’s the Beis Din Shel Matah.
The word or term may be a recent invention. But the practice of Torah Judaism that it refers to is the direct contemporary mesoratic practice of Judaism that started at Har Sinai and continues uninterrupted with those this term currently refers to.
Didn’t the Great Chicago Fire burn most of the city to the ground?
Syag, as to your first question, with my super user abilities. As to your second question, per the rules I’m not permitted to divulge that information.
Syag — Here are all the replies:
YO: A Chareidi is simply a Jew who follows Judaism as the Torah meant it, in full without looking for compromises.
In other words, a default practicing Jew.
The name was given to them by outsiders; they didn’t assume it for themselves. Much like Orthodox, another term imposed by outsiders who broke off from normative Judaism default Judaism and gave a name to those who simply continued following the Torah like their ancestors.
300 years ago those called this today would’ve simply been called Jewish.
Are you up to the lofty task?
Avi, does Ayn Rand say a wife should risk her life to save her husband?
CA, it’s usage is Yiddish. It isn’t utilized in Modern Hebrew. Furthermore, its roots is Amaraic, not Hebrew.
Was he frum?
Coffee Addict: Yasher Koach
If non-essential companies boycott parts of the State of Israel or the entire State, even, no one should care. Losing B&J’s in no loss at all.
Unless you’re a theological zionist.
Avi K, I noticed that you started speaking Yiddish, as Yidden should. Ah groisa dank.
AAQ: You can’t differentiate between Russian gentiles and Russian Jews? A large portion, likely a majority, of the Russians admitted into the State of Israel are gentiles.
Because Zionism comes before everything else.
The Ran in Nedarim (among others) paskens lhalacha that dina dmalchusa does not apply in Eretz Yisroel. Since the reason for dina dmalchusa is that the local government has no obligation to admit Jews in their country, since they do so we owe them dina dmalchusa dina. On the other hand, every Jew has a Torah right to live in Eretz Yisroel. That right isn’t dependent on the current local governing authority of Eretz Yisroel. As such, the halacha is that dina dmalchusa isn’t in force in Eretz Yisroel.
AAQ, how many times have you ridden the NYC subway?
The Gemara says מפרנסים עניי עכו”ם עם עניי ישראל – “We are obligated to support the gentile poor together with the Jewish poor” (Gittin 61a). That means because of darkei shalom, in order to keep peace, we give some charity to the goyim as well. In order to create a good impression, when you’re giving money to a Jewish poor man, and at the same time a gentile comes by for charity, you should be careful to give him something as well. It doesn’t mean that you have to give him the same. But for the sake of shalom, you give him something.
It says עם עניי ישראל – “With the Jewish poor.” Only when they come together. When this נכרי, this gentile, comes by himself, then you’re not obligated to give him anything. He could just think that you’re a tightwad; but not that you’re impartial to Jews. However, you should always be careful, because if it will create animosity, you should make sure to give him something. You’ll have to use your own judgement.
Since this site can’t publish Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l’s direct quotations, allow me please to paraphrase what Rav Miller said about this subject.
You’re sitting in the subway and a so-called blind man comes into the car tapping with his stick, and he’s peeking through his small glasses, looking for customers. He’s walking around and nobody is doing anything. So when he passes by, you just take out a penny – not a nickel, because this fellow is not worth a nickel – and you take that penny and drop it into his tin can. Don’t let anyone see that it’s only a penny, and you drop it into his tin cup with the most resounding bang that you can. And then lean back virtuously to enjoy the admiring gazes of your fellow passengers. Look, you have to do something, so you make it worth it.
When you’re waiting on line at the post office, and this gentile woman comes by. She’s knocking her pushka for veterans or cancer or some other gentile cause, so it’s good to always have a penny ready. Drop in a penny and she’ll give you a big thank you. And you’ve done what is required of you.
Many, and probably most, people with Asperger’s live normal lives with no one knowing the person has Asperger’s (unless told for some reason.) No different, in essence, than most people with diabetes. No one has to know. And the person lives a life like everyone else. With certain necessary health accommodations, of course. But no need to put your medicine containers, or diagnosis, on your workplace or Yeshiva desk.
“No”
Moderators, so why was his Torah deleted by the mods?
His Torah wasn’t deleted, your excerpts were. In a past life the request was made by family
Do the moderators consider the Torah as explained by HaRav Avigdor Miller zt’l to be unacceptable?
No
People with Asperger’s Syndrome are on the autism spectrum yet can and frequently do fully function as normal, healthy, human beings with most people never aware they’re on the spectrum. And this point is true in the secular world, as well.
Giving money to a nochri is not considered to be tzedaka.
There’s a limit how high frum families will purchase an apartment on. Too high a floor becomes a problem on Shabbos.
Eight year olds definitely go and use it.
And not have a fancy mansion or ostentatious displays of wealth.
How does eating treif on Yom Kippur help you achieve a stronger bond with your creator?
Post-apartheid the country has gone steeply downhill.
Can’t they have specialized minyanim at the dayhab?
Syag, you restated Reb Eliezer’s point in a much wordier way.
Reb Eliezer hit the nail on the head. Bingo.
CA, how much are *you* paid? I’ll bet it isn’t enough to explain most of the cost differential between kosher and treif. 100k is definitely an extreme on the high side.
akuperma: What you wrote is true for men/boys but not for women/girls.
Yes, but you scream the ENTIRE davening out loud.
I know the cost of a mashgiach and hechsher. That doesn’t explain the cost differential between kosher and treif.
You need to go to a Karlin-Stolin minyan. Issue resolved.
The cost of the masgiach/hechsher is NOT the reason for most of the extra cost of kosher versus treif.
Same reason that kosher food costs more than trief food.
Downhill since the ANC took over.
Get a Rebbishe bekishe, instead. They come in all kinds of colors.
They started making stylish kapotas??
The one where they warned against it due to the threat against Yiddishkeit from the Israeli government?