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Shopping: Stopping Iran is a political issue, not a financial one. An issue that Barack Hussein Obama has handled very poorly.

apushatayid: “whether he should or should not have joined the contest, whether he should or should not have sung whatever songs he did, are not relative to the discussion of whether millions of non jewish viewers were impressed with the way a jewish boy conducted himself.”

There is no discussion of whether millions of gentiles were impressed by him or not. The discussion is whether he caused a chillul hashem or not. Your attempt to stray this discussion off topic is obvious.

We had many, many, false alarms in my Yeshiva due to sensitive alarms, though to make up for it, it detected and blasted the alarm, when a massive fire took over our kitchen.

popa- Trust me: Israeli buildings are pretty flammable. Also, consider that many Yeshiva and Seminary students do stupid things. In one case, I woke up in the middle of the night choking from smoke. One of my roommates didn’t realize that hookah coals aren’t meant to be disposed into a garbage can…

For six hours, every single time? It is a stretch.

It’s not a stretch. Also, consider that even karov levadai is considered vadai in every place I’ve seen.

It’s still not always/vadai. Besides, following Rashi and the Rambam lechumra is not the ikkar hadin either. The Tur’s lashon is ??? ????? ?????? ??? ?????.

Some reading comprehension- Following Rashi or Rambam “LeChumra”, only applies where they argue, such as after 6 hours if there is still meat in the teeth, according to Rashi assur, Rambam, muttar. Or if one chews on meat for a baby, Rambam assurs, Rashi matirs. These arguments are what the Tur suggests that you should always be machmir. Now: If a person ate a piece of steak, Min Hadin, according to both shittos, it is assur to eat dairy within 6 hours.

It is also clear from the Taz that the Rambam, (Rashi) and Rif hold that it is assur midina, not just a chumra to eat dairy within 6 hours. Additionally, he notes, that even those that are meikil and hold one hour, (ie. obviously not bnei torah), only can rely on the Tosfos if one does Kinuach and Hadacha. (I understand that the kinuach and hadacha would downgrade the issur according to the Rambam from a issur vadai, to a chumra because of a chashash, while the mekilim hold that the one doesn’t have to be choshesh for the various possibilities.)

Then you also have the Pri Megadim, who holds that even if you have a scenario where according to both Rambam and Rashi it would be muttar to eat dairy, still he holds that during the 6 hours, lo plug rabanan and ein lifrotz geder.

The minhag is in accordance with what the Rambam held lehalacha, but it is a minhag, not the ikkar hadin as the Rambam himself held; as I explained the Rema.

Ayen the Taz 2 and Shach 9, who obviously hold that it’s not just a minhag, as minhagim are meant for everyone, not just bnei torah. Nor is it that in every argument where there are mekilim does it make the more stringent shitta just a chumro.

Sam2: I agree. I just wrote the same and didn’t see your response until after. It’s always the “pashut” topics that people tend to have wrong the wrong understanding.

Yitay: Within 6 hours of consumption, any meat eaten is still considered meat, whether you hold like the Rambam or like Rashi (Maran paskens both), as long as there is meat in the teeth or even just the flavor that stays in the mouth. I haven’t seen anyone argue with that.

The videographer that my photographer hired, refused to put together my wedding video. After a year we finally got the video, edited by someone else, with 2 polar extremes of quality within. While the actual video was good, the editing was terrible in the beginning and spectacular in the end. The video of our families taking pictures ( which is about 15 minutes) was set to loud jewish disco music, instead of slow, calm music. It’s painful to watch.

However, the last 10 minutes was a recap of the whole wedding, pictures and video clips, with the perfect music. The difference in quality is mind boggling. I’m still unsure of which video guy did what.

Everyone keeps bringing up the “homey” definition. Thats too literal though as Oomis points out. How would you describe a person who has heimishe hashkafos?

In every sect you can say that there some sort of general fabric that classifies who would part of the group. For example, MO, I would say generally subscribe to JB’s hashkafos, are usually more zionistic etc. Yeshivish are more likely to have an English conversation peppered with Gemara words, etc.

What stereotypes can generally describe a hashkafically heimish Jew?

zahavasdad: There’s nothing wrong with a Jew speaking French. Aside for the fact that French sounds the way it does.

P.S. My grandfather knows French, but B”H I never heard him speak it.

It’s 3 years later….Does anyone have a clear definition of Heimishe yet?

don’t post this.

don’t post this.

MY WORST WORST WORST: French! The language sounds like a bunch of drunk people barfing on each other. I can’t believe that no one has mentioned it. Every time I hear a Jew speaking this language, I get a chance to work on my Ahavas Yisrael.

Favorites: Piglatin

Gibberish

GibLatin- My homemade concoction of Piglatin and gibberish. It is impossible to decode, even for the NSA.

sdrawkcaB- I have a friend that can speak Backwards in real-time speed. It sounds awesome.

hello99: Just wondering- how do you link to a specific post?

yichusdik: Assuming, arguendo, that I agree with else everything you wrote, I still object to the last paragraph: “There are frameworks that could support solutions that can be adapted to work for the chareidi oilem, such as hesder and nachal chareidi.”

This is an outright fallacy. The frameworks from the outset, even in groups such as Nachal Haredi and the Shahar program are flawed by design. The design flaw is that once a soldier joins the army, even with specific terms to keep certain religious liberties, the IDF still has the capability to renege their commitments to those terms. They have done this in the past and they will do it in the future. Until the IDF starts to be as sensitive to charedim as they are to women, there is nothing left to debate.

Health: By buying these products -“Pride” – (hopefully they are clearly labeled as such -so other products in Target are Muttar;)

you are directly being Meesiyah Leiday Aveira!

Toeiva isn’t illegal in the US. Giving money to these groups can only possibly change some marriage laws, not laws about personal preference. Whether you give these groups money or not, no one can stop the Ta’avtanim from committing their aveiros.

I personally, prefer not patronizing stores that support the advancement of Toeiva ideology. A Hashkafic decision, but not Halachic.

interjection: 99% of people disagree with you. After browsing the subject on websites like Imamother, the consensus is that men doctors in general are not only better doctors, but also gentler, more sensitive. Do some research to hear women’s opinions, and you’ll see that basically what I (and Health) say is correct.

@yichusdik @jbaldy

Don’t waste your keystrokes on a obvious troll. Myself being an experienced troll in a past life, it easy to tell that the OP is trying to convince himself of his own nonsense that it has become so ingrained in him that he actually believes it. He learnt this trait from our forefather’s relative, Lavan. Lavan was such a professional liar because he managed to convince himself that his lies were true. All these “issurim” that people are discussing are not issurim at all, as rabbiofberlin has mentioned. It is an eitzah tova at best, as there can be no more issurim invented after the chasimas hagemora. Period.

Next topic: If someone has a filtered TV (yeh it’s possible) would the Debreciner allow him to be the shatz?

I don’t think that Ivrit is the Lashon Hakodesh, because many of the invented words are the exact opposite of Kodesh. However, I do believe that it still takes precedence over other languages being that is a modern spinoff of Lashon HaKodesh and no other language can boast that. There is also nothing less inspiring than watching a fresh ba’al tshuva guiding himself through halacha and mussar seforim with ease without the language barrier. While in other places, even many (though not most) Yeshiva trained men can barely grasp whats going on in those seforim.

Health: Actually, he’s backing me up. You were assuming that basic morals can’t be disproven from a logical point of view, and only from a Torah POV. He clearly negates that by quoting RSRH that there can be no personal morals without the Torah. There could, however, be morals set up by a community in order to keep the society functioning smoothly. That means that morals are not “absolute” as ben levi states, and if you ask me, I would not call “subjective morals”, moral at all.

Health: I’m not sure which book you mentioned before nor why you didn’t mention it again. But either way, IIRC, in R’ Kelemans book he proves that all philosophical approaches for banning murder are flawed.

Ben Levi: Well said! I once read a piece by R’ Lawrence Keleman in one his of his books, where he proves that if it wasn’t for God there would be no morals. In there he proves that without God, there would be no logical explanation for people not to kill each other.

hello99: Exactly. Kinda like how the victim Tnuva got boycotted for no reason last summer. Then, due to financial issues they had to raise their prices to make ends meet. Oh whats that you say? Tnuva was boycotted for price fixing? And the boycott didn’t make them raise their prices rather lower them? So too music producers have always been overcharging, way before the first mp3 player made it big, and people “stealing” music is the equivalent of a boycott.

The producers have been stealing from Jewish victims for so long, who have had no other choice but to buy a highly overpriced package that usually includes only one decent song, as this is one of the only viable forms of Jewish entertainment or relaxation. The original victim in this battle is US, not the music producers, as they are only victims of our tendency of relying on kulos, which were naturally formed after being bullied for so long.

Therefore I proclaim YAY to the producers who stoke the flames even more by charging an even more ridiculous price, and YAY for still not offering digital downloads. With a strategy like that, there would be more success by shooting yourselves in the foot. And one last YAY for the new generation of producers that will have to be different, hopefully sometime in the near future.

Hello99: I agree to your premise based on many poskim that there is “ownership” of ideas. But I do not accept that you understand logically WHY you would be oiver on gezel. Just because you have ownership over something, doesn’t make anything in this case “stolen”. There was nothing taken, nothing to return, no loss applied to the victim. By the same logic that you still haven’t explained, it would be assur to listen to music being played on someone else’s speaker, because at the end of the day, you don’t own the music, Shwekey or MBD does.

Also, you assume that over here there would an Issur gezel because even something worth less than a pruta you would be oiver on. I disagree, because the pruta is only an amount to be chayav ben adam lechavero, and anything less is not. But that doesn’t mean that something less than a pruta has no value at all, rather anything less than a pruta has value and is thereby considered gezel and you are thereby oiver on gezel, but the punishment for it is unenforceable. By music, you did not steal anything of value, not even less than a pruta, as anyways you would have never purchased it, hence you weren’t oiver on gezel. According to your logic, if someone was able to patent oxygen for breathing, we would all have to suffocate ourselves if stealing was a hereg ve’al ya’avor.