Veltz Meshugener

I think it depends on what you consider “work” and what you are willing to do to put yourself in that position.

For example, you could make money off investments without much active and continued effort, but you would need to get that money in the first place, and that would require work.

You could work for the government or a non-profit or in middle management, but you would generally need to be at your workplace during business hours, although you would not be working.

You could try insurance fraud. Even if you get caught, you are also going to have a bed, and food, and medical care. But you might have to work on license plates.

Not this discussion again. It makes no sense to go to law school because the reasons are obvious:

1. Law school is a terrible decision for people who want to make a living.

2. Law school is very hard, and does not result in a living wage for most people who go unless they go to Harvard and have lots of pull and protektzia.

3. You can’t make a living unless you pass the bar exam and you really have to be at the top of your class in order to do that and even if you do, you won’t get a job. See above.

4. Don’t believe PBA and UBENIGNman who are always trolling for people to go to law school. I happen to know for a fact that both of them have close relatives who work at law schools and that’s why they pretend that it’s not as awful an idea as it really is an awful idea.

My patronus takes the form of the free market.

I hardly think that simply because one’s motivations are pure and abilities strong, that we ought to lose our right to amuse ourselves by mocking and denigrating.

Has it ever been worse? You mean when the wives of roshei yeshiva didn’t cover their hair, and most orthodox shuls had mixed dances? The only thing that’s worse than ever now is the judgmentalism.

The OP is a ridiculous question. It is impossible to be modern and frum. This is the one thing that Charedim and Noah Feldman agree on.

Yid, yid, vee dahn boord? Boord Boord vee dahn yid? Yid vee dahn boord dahn yid? Vee dahn yid, vee dahn boordi?

PBA: R’ Levi Yitzchak on YCT:

“Even while they’re being women, they wear tefillin! Me k’amcha yisrael!”

Don’t know what people expected. After all, none of the passengers were shomer shabbos.

Rebyidd, let me assure you: NOBODY can afford law school. It’s like weddings or Honda Odysseys.

Besalel is completely correct. I was going to write that I agree with him, but then I dug deeper into the matter and determined that I agree with him because he is correct.

The story with R’ Nachum as well illustrates the fallacy of this mode of avodah. Would you dance at the grave of a relative? Under certain circumstances, sure. For example, if the relative spent his life trying to find a cure for cancer, and some time after he died, a process he discovered is perfected and turns out to be effective. I would absolutely celebrate at his grave.

The Bais Hamikdash was destroyed because of sinas chinam. It is perfectly valid avodah to dance at the kosel as an expression of achdus. If R’ Nochum doesn’t want to dance he doesn’t have to. I assure you, R’ Nachman will not give him lomdus tips.

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The coffee room, per my scientific analysis, was a bunch of people in law school classrooms playing around. As they graduate, the numbers thin.

For those who don’t believe me, ask yourself this: Am I a law student posting during class because I’m bored? If the answer is no, then you are the only one.

What is most striking about this is how people refuse to accept objective guidance because they are just interested in whatever is convenient for them. I tell people again and again that I prefer to withhold this video from my house, but they persist in making their own decisions about what to do in their houses. I just hope they don’t come crying to me when they’re children go off the derech and there other children can’t find shidduchim.

They are incredibly valuable in their own right, without the need for derivative values like “what they tell us about halacha”. They a direct link to our great-great-grand antecedents.

They also have the potential to teach us an incredible amount about Judaism during bayis sheini – if we are willing to listen. For example, IMO two of the above posts completely miss the point on two of the discoveries.

The “tehilla l’david” with the passuk for nun is not so much a question of who was right vs. who was wrong. It puts R’ Yochanan’s statement into context – he’s not just rationalizing an oddity; he’s explaining why his choice of the no-nun version is better.

And the 364 day calendar is mind-blowing – it completely redefines how we think about the interactions between the tzedokim and the chachamim regarding the calendar. Of course, we are not tzedokim so we don’t care what they thought was the correct day of pesach, but now we know what they were trying to get when they manipulated the beis din to declare rosh chodesh. (It also could explain several discrepancies in the New Testament regarding the death of yoshko and its relationship to Pesach, but I suspect The Yeshiva World is less than interested.)

Some questions:

1. What is the issur in copying a CD?

2. Does the radio station pay the people who own the rights to the songs? Should they?

3. Does everyone have to agree, or can there be a difference of opinion?

4. Assume it’s true that “I wouldn’t buy it anyway” is a slippery slope because if that were true nobody would buy music because everyone could copy it. Does that mean that copying is stealing, or does it mean that charging money for CDs is ona’ah?

5. Do we assume that everyone else is acting k’din, or can we be skeptical of them as well? For example, can we assume because a song is played at weddings that one may perform a song? Or should we worry that they also ought to be paying for it?

The art of moi, I disagree strongly with your post. If there is nothing wrong with doing it, then you don’t care about watching it in shomayim and it doesn’t have any effect on your grandchildren. If anything, it can benefit them – you were busy and tired, but you took the time and put forth the energy to exercise in order to be mekayem v’nishmartem me’od lenafshosaichem. Moreover, you were smart enough to think ahead and realize that you had to choose a fun class so that you would keep coming back even when it gets hard. Even if it was indulgence of a complete ta’ava for prurience, you were careful to do it in a way that was not a michshol to men and was not a chillul hashem. Your grandchildren will be singing!

What the OP fails to address is whether anyone ever kept these halachos. Just because something is written in shulchan aruch as halacha and we don’t keep it doesn’t mean that we are doing less than previous generations.

Additionally, it’s easy to imagine that all of the answers are written in black and white in the Shulchan Aruch or on the OU website, but that is simply not true. Taking Popa’s example of bugs – we have the term ‘Nira l’einayim’ (apparently – I didn’t look into the halacha) but what does that mean? Does it mean with a magnifying glass? With a microscope? Okay, it’s become accepted that it refers to the naked eye. But does it refer to the naked eye when nobody ever used a microscope to figure out what to look for with the naked eye, or must you examine with a microscope or magnifying glass and then re-check to see if you can see the now-identified creature with the naked eye?

Furthermore, does it refer to creatures that are visible to the naked eye after someone happened to notice it while sitting near a luncheon with a magnifying glass, or does it even refer to bugs visible to the trained naked eye in an age when there is a cadre who sit all day with magnifying glasses hoping to find visible bugs in things so they can “save the public from an issur d’oraysoh?”

The advice to you is the same as the advice has been in all the threads on the CR about law school. If you can get in to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia or NYU, or maybe, maybe, a substantial scholarship to Penn, then go. Otherwise don’t, regardless of how interested you are in law. Interest in law will not help you make coffee faster when you work in Starbucks after graduating with tens of thousands in debt and no job.

Emunah in what?

The problem with teaching emunah or hashkafa is that you have to know about it to teach it. My brief encounters with people who attempted to teach it did not convince me that the effort should be expanded.

I have never read an opinion here that was worthy of being related in real life.

I should have saved that post that someone wrote, about how their niece is smart but not super academic and looking to really grow. That should work.

I wrote my personal statement about Solomon Dwek, and I got in, though not to Chemdas.

Sounds like a scam. They won’t tell you anything other than whether you are compatible, which means nothing about any individual’s health, but they make you pay again if you lose your number?

If I had to eat jelly donuts it would be difficult to be mekayem the mitzva of simchas yom tov.

I’m frummer than my spouse because she’s a woman and women aren’t frum.