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Doswin: I’ve seen others state that but in my experience that is far from clear. In fact, I honestly believe the opposite is true.
To make up for the fact that most rishonim are sephardic.
I once was babysitting for my nephew, and the baby monitor picked up some lady’s cursing and screaming over the phone.
Tzarich, it was the MIB that wrote that. AKA, Moderator in Bold.
I thought so too. Then I realized that it means to say that if your five letter word is really a four letter word plus an S or an R as in the words rider or rides which would both be valid words.
I thought so too. Then I realized that it means to say that if your five letter word is really a four letter word plus an S or an R as in the words rider or rides which would both be valid words.
Avi K
I clearly stated that the Mishna is brought down lehalacha. I don’t get what bothers you about the source of the poskim.
The pauper is expected to sell and move to a less expensive place.
After you bashed me for pointing out a mishna, you nicely make an assumption and bring it down as halacha psuka. I guess thats how halacha works nowadays.
Shmoel:
The halacha is talking about giving food to a poor person and not making him sell his home. However, there is a halacha regarding a person that was rich and became poor, that we support their old lifestyle. I would assume that the mortgage payments for his expensive house would go under that category.
Of course, ask your LOR and don’t rely on my feeble knowledge.
Avi K:
Look up the mishna in peah 8:8, which says that we do not force a person to sell their house to receive charity. This is brought down lehalacha in the tur and beis yosef in 253, and finally brought down by the shach in 253:6
TheBear: Do you agree with Shmendrick or with Shmendrick EDITED?
BTW which bear were you before you “came back”? 600 Kilo bear or that other bear guy?
There is mefurash S”A or Rama in hilchos tzadaka that says that we don’t ask a pauper to sell his house and move to a cheaper neighborhood. I’m not in front of a shulchan aruch but I’m sure others can find it pretty easily and quote it properly.
I asked this question when I found out that Har Nof has a nice sized keren tzedaka for residents.
The kids from the school bus went on vacation, what do you expect?
First of all, I am very sad to hear that you’re having such difficult time. I would love to say that I feel your pain, but I’ve never been in your shoes to truly understand the hardships you are going through. I will try to offer advice, if it’s worth anything.
1. If you need food for the family, there are plenty of organizations that specialize in exactly that. There are also soup kitchens.
2. There are ways to get rid of debt, whether through bankruptcy or through other means.
3. If I understood you correctly, you are pulling in a measly $20-30 a day in schnorring. If thats true, is it really better than working for minimum wage at a job that is slightly more dignifying?
4. Do you have an close friends that can raise funds for you? I did this for a family I know and I brought in about $2,000 in just a couple of days, while also managing to raise attention of the family’s plight to a bunch of askanim. BH, they are on their way to getting back up on their feet again.
5. There is nothing good to say about those in #1. At best I would be Dan lekaf zchus that they see hundreds like you a day, and have become numb. Maybe that is Hashems test for them in this world.
6. Its really hard to expect someone that doesn’t know you to give you more than a couple dollars. Is it really possible to go around, verifying the authenticity of each and every schnorrer? And is it either possible for someone to gave $30 to every schnorrer that walks around? People gave big money to organizations because they trust them. People give a dollar or two to a schnorrer “just in case” they are honest.
7. Sign up for every form of government aid.
ZDAD: Why obey such things as traffic laws since one could say its an averiah to stop at a stop sign or go through a red light (As long as you wont get into an accident like there are no cars around) , Why not double and triple park like they do in Brooklyn
I’ll help you out:
Why not become a drug user?
Why not beat up children in the park?
Why not burn down forests?
Why not vomit into open convertibles?
C’mon! I usually enjoy your posts, even though I usually disagree with most of them. Though on this last one, were you really too lazy to think of a better response?
Obeying traffic laws- Venishmartem meod lenafshoteichem
Not double parking- Derech eretz
Not passing red lights even when no one is around- ever heard of a traffic ticket?
Seriously, I’m sure you could of thought of something smarter to say, no?
I wouldn’t be the first one in shul to use a phone to daven, as people would probably think that I’m being mevazeh the davening. If others are doing it already, I would feel fine.
I remember when the siddur became popular on BB’s in my community, and during a makeshift minyan, I was absolutely shocked to see so many people playing (or so I thought) on their phones during davening.
Old man I would have loved to say that this unfortunate belief is outright prejudice but not truthful, but I see that it is indeed still true.
And I would love to say that you’re not a bigoted, prejudiced fool, but unfortunately, it wouldn’t be true.
P.S. Do you seriously “love” to point out prejudice? That’s kind of weird.
Wisey:I recently put on tefillin on an Air Canada flight under my coat. I probably looked strange wearing a coat with a hood, like an eskimo, on a plane but it would have been worse if I had put black boxes on my head and arm.
People are more afraid when it looks like you’re trying to hide something.
ZDAD: I hope those who claim its an averiah to pay taxes also dont do the following, you are STEALING if you dont pay)
If you are referring to me, my posek never said its an aveirah to pay taxes. The question is whether dina demalchusa dina applies to a secular Jewish government or not. If dina demalchusa doesn’t apply, since the government sponsors both avoda azara and chillul shabbos, it is better to not pay taxes towards those things if possible. Also, if I’m not chayav to pay taxes from halacha, I am not stealing if the gov wants to offer me services for free. Actually, I don’t have a choice of paying other police instead; last I checked the police have a monopoly.
Additionally, according to your logic, tourists are stealing if they call the cops because they don’t pay local taxes.
Human vegetables
(Sorry for the tasteless joke)
Ill take 131.
Someone please find out for me if they sell kosher brownies there.
Singleme, read DY’s comment. There are plenty of guys that will go out to work when th time comes, ie. a couple years in kollel, just don’t expect to find them working before marriage. There aren’t really too many expenses that a young couple can get by pretty easily the first few year
Z’sDad: I don’t like to agree with the troll, though my posek told me that its a mitzvah in Israel to not pay taxes if there was absolutely no chance of getting caught. Unfortunately, I never performed that mitzvah yet.
Nechomah, I am lucky that I found someone skinny, but not necessarily because I got a zero; (contrary to what my list may make you think.)
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! GET ANGRY!
JMH: I always appreciate someone who can man up to the truth, something that is an extreme rarity in the CR.
Popa -42
It is one thing to be against working, and they are misguided in that manner. It is a whole another issue when they get angry and protest others working. Even better is that it’s muttar to stop learning to protest but not to work. Yes, they are misguided, but they are low lives too.
Murderers, drug abusers, harlots and gamblers, all fall under the umbrella of misguided under your definition. Definitely ain’t low lives, right?
JMH: The OP asked for a serious learner/earner, DY said that we are a minority.
Read the OP again. And read DY’s posts again too. The OP is looking for a learner/earner, and DY says that it barely exists. You are saying that learner/earners are serious. Apples and pizza.
I don’t know with who you are arguing with over here.
P.S. Most of the workers that also learn a little bit (that I am familiar with), aren’t too serious about their learning.
JMH: I don’t think you’re getting DY’s point. Yes, we can all agree that the majority of learner/earners are serious learners. What you don’t get is that the majority of working people aren’t learner/earners. And the majority of kollel guys don’t work either. That leaves a mi’uta de’mi’uta that both work and learn seriously.
Have fun finding that guy.
I’m closing in on the halfway point of the years of man and I thought it might be time to finally learn the secret; the semicolon that is…
FTFY.
So we have Chareidi zealots freaking out in protest at a chareidi job fair
Call them criminals, call them thugs, call them whatever you like- but please, do not refer to them as Charedi nor zealots. They are a group of demented individuals that grow up in an extremely secluded enclave that does not connect in the slightest with the rest of the Charedi world.
Their religion is Radical Judaism, not Orthodox Judaism. I take no more offense from their actions than I do from secular Jews.
Well, I guess I’m in the extreme minority. I married a shtick holtz that isn’t a shtick holtz. And before you wise guys pounce on me, the first shtick holtz isn’t her personality.
If I was you, I would look around for a BT guy. There are tons of them and many of them don’t have the support of their parents to continue learning, so they end up working. Of course, there is also less of a stigma to not work as they didn’t grow up with that mentality.
Well, to start off, she’ll have four years to figure out a way to make 6 figures.
(BTW translate the Yiddish for us non-speakers. All I could figure out is “Do you want a shidduch or ______)
Frummy, I got some of it, I just don’t understand the ending, nor how the mirror works out.
Popa: As long as you got the hidden reference in #9.
I’ll try again:
7 – years she will work to get me (reverse Yaakov Avinu style)
8 – ???
Yawn. They’ve been announcing that the Blackberry 10 is coming out in a couple months since 2009.
(Good riddance)
Jah. Ich kannst sprechen a gutte deutsche.
DafBiyun: No self-respecting alcoholic would refer to Blue Label as the gold standard of scotch. It is an overpriced blend of junk whiskies that my father serves to all the fake Meivinim.
TheBear: If Lipa had any talent, Matisyahu would’ve been the next Lipa.
We wil loock intu it az sun az posabul just giv us chans to furst get rid of josefph shud we tayk cer of the redundasy ishu to, Torah613613Torah?
Health I think HaJoseph is a mod because its a brand new SN, unlike what you are suggesting.
One post by a person who has so much info about Joseph is most likely a mod. Besides why would Joseph wanna ruin some of the names that are still used?
Thanks Torah!
Mmmmm….Donuts shenisalem min ha’ayin
The list should start with a 0 and end with a 10
0 – Clothing Size
1 – Rich father/Year in seminary
2 – Jobs: home/work
3 – Hot meals daily
4 – Years of college
5 – Feet tall minimum
6 – Figure Income
7 – Types of Kugel
8 – Head coverings: wig, tichel, hat, turban, yarmulka, veil, burqa, and goalie mask
9 – Inch Heels
10 – out of 10 looks
I found this interesting article from the OU, that posits that it wasn’t the Kamtza and Bar Kamtza story alone that caused the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash to be destroyed.
http://www.ou.org/torah/article/tzarich_iyun_destruction_of_the_beit_hamikdash#.UNIP8HNetQY