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The jury was intimadated by the mobs waiting to riot, loot and burn if the desired guilty verdict wasn’t achieved. So the jury complied under threat.
Pardon my ignorance but your other blog seems dormant for the past five years. What was this all about?
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You need a Rov. Without that this is improper.
Avi: There’s a clear halachic difference whether the owner is Frum or non-frum/non-Jewish.
As far as kinyan, if you put vanilla pudding into your cart but before checking out decided to change it to chocolate pudding, there’s a shaila whether you can put the vanilla pudding back on the shelf?
Wouldn’t hasagas gvul be more the question than loshon hora?
HaGoen HaRav Elazar Man Shach zt’l told American educators that Yeshiva boys should be taught Chumash in Yiddish, even if the boys speak English amongst themselves. He furthermore said that both boys and girls should learn to be comfortable in Yiddish. He also said that Yiddish is spoken by “all jews” (that is his phrase). He referred parents to send their children to Yiddish teaching yeshivos.
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My sense is this situation does not fall into the halachic category of telling someone “It’s cheaper in the other store”.
huju: “Yiddish is unknown – unknown – to the many Mizrachi Jews I know… It predominated in Central and Eastern Europe, which is hardly the whole world.”
Ashkenazim represented 90% of prewar world Jewry. And Yiddish is the international language of that 90%.
“I can understand the romantic and nostalgic attachment to Yiddish among many Ashkenazim, but that by itself will not maintain Yiddish as a living language.”
Yiddish is hardly in danger. It is a living, vibrant and growing language spoken by millions of Jews the world over. For many hundreds of thousands of them, and the largest proportion of Yiddish speakers, it is their first language learnt from infanthood and childhood on, and used as their primary day to day language at home, at school, on the street and at work.
There are some places in the United States, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom and in Europe that if you landed as an alien on the continent there for the first time you’d almost swear you must’ve landed in some Yiddish-speaking country where it was the official national language.
“There are great literary and scholarly works in Yiddish, but if they are not carefully translated into English or other language widely spoken by Jews and scholars, those Yiddish works will wither on the Yiddishe vine.”
The junk secular literature you speak of is already a forgotten relic. But no need to fret. Far more additional religious based Yiddish literature is being churned out every year.
That’s should’ve read Yinglish is the new English.
Yinglish is the new Yiddish.
There’s a famous story about the Satmar Rebbe zt’l, the Divrei Yoel. When he was looking to hire an English principal (to meet the government mandates for secular studies) for the Satmar Yeshiva and found the right candidate it was time to negotiate a salary. The Rebbe asked him how much material he intended to include in the curriculum. The Rebbe told him if you set a curriculum to cover 2.5 hours a day, your annual salary is $20k. (This was in the early ’60s.) But, continued the Rebbe, if you set a curriculum for 1.5 hours a day, your annual salary will be $24k.
English is not the new Yiddish.
Yiddish was, s and remains the international language of Jewry.
A troll is someone you strongly disagree with. Sometimes the “troll” will make strong arguments that you can’t objectively refute, so you’re such yelling “troll” to deflect your intolerance of the facts.
Are you asking about biological age or are you asking about age of maturity?
Jack, under the law when an officer mistakenly and unintentionally kills a criminal attempting to flee justice (especially with the added factors of assaulting an officer and having an outstanding warrant for arrest), he is granted more justification by the law itself in being absolved than a general citizen. And rightly so.
Just to note I was being rhetorical. I’m only trying to understand the logic. Explaining the differences between using one but not the other might address the subconscious motivation.
Wolf, perhaps you should start doing so.
Jack, when a criminal shoves a police officer and flees from him in a motor vehicle, he bears the most responsibility if the officer makes a mistake when reacting to enforce the law and prevent him fleeing. The law specifically gives police officers, who are risking their lives, extra leeway in case they make a mistake when enforcing the law.
Welcome Back BaalHabooze! It’s been ages. Your seventh anniversary should be coming up. Mazel Tov!
Yechi: As far as the mistake, it isn’t uncommon. There are more than a handful of previous cases of officers mistakenly using their gun when they intended to use their Taser.
As far as why she being all agitated while the male officers were chilled, as you suggested women shouldn’t be police officers.
And as far as the underlying situation itself, the greatest responsibility for this tragedy lies with Wright himself for resisting arrest, shoving the officer and attempting to flee by speeding off.
Yechi: Are tznius violations common at Kiamesha Lanes?
Wolf, as I asked you above, do you utilize “ma’am” with your female immediate family as you do “sir” with your male immediate family?
There’s no such thing as “chance”.
A Chareidi is simply anyone who aims to follow the entire Torah/Taryag *without* looking for compromises or loopholes.
Though we cannot discount that the rabbonim who organize very late minyanim in their Bais Medrash have a halachic source permitting so.
Is it muttar for a yehudi to save a nochri if no one would know if he didn’t, and thus no risk of Chillul Hashem?
The “few first men” theory is based on the absurdity that a tiny group of Jewish men who married non-Jewish European women begat the tens or hundreds of millions of offspring.
AAQ: “small group of first men Ashkenazim” is crock.
And how do you explain the many contemporary minyanim, each with the Rov of the Beis Medrash’s approval, that start after sof zman tefila or even after Chatzos?
Chauvin objectively deserves to be acquitted of murder. But the BLM/Antifa lynch mob ready to burn down Minneapolis, Louisville, Seattle,Portland etc. demanding a verdict of guilty, on threat of a riot, will in all likelihood scare the court and jurors in carrying out the mobs demand for a specific verdict.
Where is this article available?
I heard recently that Linden is taking off. You should also mention Staten Island. Bloomingburg is Satmar. Hasn’t Klausenburg been in Union for decades already? There’s also Jersey City.
What’s the name of the Sefer and where can it be obtained?
AAQ: The reason Sephardim wear black fedora hats is because the Ashkenazim set it as the default dress of Bnei Torah.
AAQ: If you accept to believe what the goyish antisemites so-called reverse historians most recent version of their discoveries. Do you also accept their Khzar theories?
Reb Eliezer, did you see my question to you?
“That may be true, but the prosecution has argued that the police have a responsibility to do all they can to keep a person in their custody healthy, especially if he’s restrained, i.e. in handcuffs.”
Even if an officer failed to keep a prisoner healthy, that failure isn’t legally murder.
Agree with what?
Georgia did the right thing.
CA: Can you summarize Rabbi Feiner’s thoughts on this?
George Floyd was not choked to death. He was not asphyxiated. He was not killed by Chauvin’s knee on the side of his neck. An autopsy showed Floyd’s neck muscles were not even bruised.
Floyd died when his heart stopped. Yet, he was already suffering from an enlarged heart with constricted arteries, one of five of which was 90% blocked and two others were 75% blocked.
An autopsy found heavy concentrations of fentanyl in Floyd’s system and traces of methamphetamines. If Floyd had collapsed and died in the street while being wrested into the squad car, his death would have been attributed to a drug overdose and a bad heart.
Also, a videotape of the minutes prior to Floyd’s being put on the pavement, his neck under Chauvin’s knee, shows Floyd crying, repeatedly, “I can’t breathe,” while resisting the two rookie cops trying to put him in the patrol car.
Moreover, there is testimony from those with Floyd when he was stopped for passing an allegedly phony $20 bill, that he had passed out in the car before the cops arrived. And the arresting cops claim he was foaming at the mouth before being restrained.
In short, Chauvin’s defense attorneys will likely make a credible case, backed by evidence, that Floyd’s death was not caused by the knee on his neck but by the battered condition of his heart, the near-lethal dose of fentanyl in his system, and his anxiety and panic at being arrested and fearing, as he wailed, that he was going to be shot.
In preparing for the trial of Chauvin, Minneapolis has fortified, with concrete barriers, fences and razor wire, the courthouse where it is held in. Understandably, for any acquittal of Chauvin, or conviction on a lesser charge than murder, could trigger a riot like those that plagued the city through the summer of 2020.
And if a mob does take to the streets in Minneapolis, as it did all last summer, the national reaction will be telling. How does one accurately describe a crowd that gathers outside a courthouse to demand, on the threat of a riot, a verdict of guilty?
And should a riot occur — and violent protests in Louisville, Seattle and Portland recently seem to point to another such long hot summer — may we expect our new national leaders (Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer) to denounce the mob and stand up unequivocally for the rule of law?
besalel: Are you suggesting that a “Beaver Hit” is the right choice?
lot11210: It is commonly known and long recognized that the Teimani pronunciation is closest to the original.
Between the Ashkenazic and Sefardic pronunciations there are claims one is better than the other. But even though Ashkenazim came from Eretz Yisroel while Sefardim came from Bovel, it is unknown between those two which is slightly closer to the original.
What did those hundreds of families who went to Orlando and found out at the last minute that they had no place to stay end up doing?
There are millions of aliens in the US. Including, approximately, eleven million illegal aliens.
Reb Eliezer, how have some tzadikim (in recent times) davened Shachris after Chatzos (or Mincha after tzeis), sometimes even with a minyan (Ribnitz Rebbe ZT”L, etc.)