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Oy… Please, give it a rest.
The Wolf
“YALL’ GOTTA FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT”
Make me.
The Wolf
I had two dogs growing up. I love dogs.
Alas, it’s not really possible for me to adopt one now.
The Wolf
The second part of your sentence shows that you clearly don’t know what it means.
(Or that the joke is over my head.)
The Wolf
OK, but what does that have to do with honoring one’s parents?
Or did I miss something?
The Wolf
The whole level of discourse has declined since the time of Reagan and even Clinton.
I’m not normally a “blame the Internet” person, but in this case, I believe there is some merit to the argument.
Before the Internet, if you wanted to discuss politics, you had to do it with real people in real-time. Very often, these were people you knew — your family sitting around the table, your neighbors in your yards, your coworkers meeting around the water cooler, and so on. And you understood that there may be, in that group, people who disagree with you, but, at the end of the conversation, you still had to live and work with these people. As such, you moderated your opinion. Sure, you argued your position, but you didn’t (generally) go overboard because there may have been some real-life social consequences of being seen as extreme in your position.
Now, however, if you want to discuss politics, you can very easily find entire communities online that will cater to whatever your position is. And because these people are strangers whom you will never meet because you are likely hiding behind the anonymity of a screen name, you can let loose with all the vitriol you like. You can espouse a theory, no matter how wacky, and you don’t have to worry about the consequences of having to live and work with the people you are talking to. You can find your own echo chamber of like-minded individuals and get positive reinforcement for your position with no opposition — no matter how correct or ridiculously wrong your position is.
This, I believe, has led to a fundamental change in the way we discuss politics today. Moderation is no longer necessary. You can go full throttle with any language and theories you choose with little if any, social consequences afterward.
The Wolf
Even the litvish are curious about Gimmel Tammuz.
Curious about what? Everyone in the Litvish community who is interested in it understands what 3 Tammuz is. It’s the Yahrtzeit of the last Lubavitch Rebbe. What else is there to be curious about?
The Wolf
I have personally been experiencing a form of this as well.
About ten months ago, I began writing a Sefer Torah. Along the way, people have been asking me if they can dedicate a letter or word or whatnot for various reasons*. I have always felt very strange about the idea of taking other people’s money for things like this.
Sometimes, I’ll honor the request and tell them, “Sure, I’ll write the letter/word for you for <fill in the reason here>, and do so. But I have never accepted money for it, and I have no plans to change that policy.
The Wolf
* No, they’re not asking to purchase a letter. I’m not really in favor of doing that either, but no one’s asked, so the issue hasn’t come up.
MY ADVICE:
I’m not going to address your points (despite the fact that I think that it reveals quite a bit about you, personally) except to say that they have absolutely nothing to do with the question posed by the OP.
The Wolf
1. Why is it Choshuv?
Presumably because, if your shul is oriented correctly, it’s the front of the shul. Which is why I generally make it my business to sit in the last row of any given shul if possible.
2. Who qualifies?
That would probably be at the discretion of whomever assigns seating in said shul
3. Which side of the Aron Kodesh is more Choshuv?
I wasn’t aware that one side was more chashuv than the other. I’ve been at shuls where the Rav sits to the right of the Aron and other shul where he sits to the left. Ask your LOR.
The Wolf
A graduation ceremony is not in the Torah
Neither is an aufruf. Or a Vacht Nacht.
I have seen here on the CR that people view ceremonies not in the Torah as avoda zara.
I’ve seen lots of silly things claimed here in the Coffee Room too. That doesn’t make them true.
The Wolf
How is your health coming along?
It’s still coming along. I’m still in treatment – I started a new chemo regimen two weeks ago. So far no major reactions to it.
The Wolf
A. Mazal Tov! Wonderful news.
B. Is it not possible to simply change your username? Mods?The Wolf
A. There are halachos that shmonei esrei is to be recited silently and not heard by your fellow congregants.
B. Why would you say that is unique to 10 Teves?
If you want to scream in the privacy of your own home, or in shul when there aren’t other people davening, go right ahead… all the more power to you. But not while everyone else is davening around you.
The Wolf
Stores competing for who’ll make the most over-the-top donuts, meat boards and fish boards for $300, hiring a band instead of just playing music. Is this what chanukah is meant to be? It’s almost as if the Yevanim won. People in Israel are at war with people displaced and held under hostage and this is how we celebrate? Where are the Rabbonim when it comes to addressing needles spending?
Those things may or may not be bad, but they’re hardly dystopian.
The Wolf
The Wolf is a major anav and will likely claim he’s not such an expert and/or he doesn’t do photography at events
Thank you for the kind words. However, I’m afraid that event photography is not my area of expertise. My photography specialties are landscape/cityscape and macro photography. Almost none of my photos have people in them. I would be a poor choice for this type of assignment, as my lighting (with regard to people) and posing skills are not good.
The Wolf
When I was a kid, we had two dogs.
As married adults, my wife and I had hamsters.
The Wolf
No, my daughter does not have a school yet. But then again, my daughter is more than 25 years old.
The Wolf
Before you can define “Kol HaTorah” you have to define the word “Torah.”
The way it’s used, it usually refers to one of two things:
1. The first five books of the Tanach.
2. The entire corpus of Halachic/Aggadic literature.Any other definitions are just arbitrary decisions made by the person making the statement.
Also, why is this thread tagged with “Apikuris?” Was the OP hoping I’d respond?
The Wolf
halachically not be engaged
What does it even mean (in the absence of tenaim) to be “halachically engaged?”
The Wolf
Just “appreciating” the fact that, according to the OP, the MO isn’t considered part of the “Torah world.” I shudder to think what world they do consider them to be in.
The Wolf
So many logical and factual errors…
1) The flag is waving in the wind. There is no wind on in the moon.
The flag didn’t wave. It moved when Armstrong and/or Aldrin moved the pole it was attached to.
2) Any slight degree of deviation of target in 238,900 miles, would result in missing the moon by hundreds of miles. There was no such powerful computing power in 1969 to do that. A cell phone today has much more computing power than a computer the size of a large building had in 1969.
You are correct that today’s computers are far better than what they had in 1969. But so what? How does that prove it was impossible to do in 1969?
That’s like saying today’s ovens are much better than they were a century ago, so my great-grandmother must not have been able to bake a cake.
3) Every video tape today of the first moon landing is proven to be a copy, not the original tape. If cutting and pasting was actually done (to produce a forgery,) it can only be proven on the original. The original is gone. Nasa says they accidentally taped something else over the original video tape. What was this? Someone’s bar mitzvah video that someone accidentally taped a football game over it?? It cost 355 million dollars, and billions in today’s money, and they weren’t careful???
I don’t know if this is true or not, but so what? Because someone may have done something stupid with the tapes after the fact proves that it didn’t happen?
If I tape over my wedding video to record a football game, does that prove that I was never married? After all, who would do something so stupid?
4) President Kennedy vowed to beat the Russians and that the USA would land on the moon before the end of the decade. They had to show something by 1969. The pressure was enormous.
So, the argument here goes: Kennedy promised something, they had to get it done, there was pressure to get it done, so therefore it wasn’t done and the whole thing is a fake???
5) They were no where near the technology in that time to do this.
This is a repeat of the argument above in #2. And completely without evidence.6) Everyone involved in this hoax on the world, including the 3 original astronauts, could never ever reveal it, without becoming the most hated charlatans in history.
So, the proof of the hoax is that no one ever snitched?
One would wonder, however, if it were fake, why didn’t the Soviets scream it to the heavens? Or were they in their arch-rival’s scheme?
7) There was never evidence found of a USA flag post left on the moon.
I don’t know what evidence you’re looking for. None of the landing sites have been revisited, and none of the satellites in orbit around the moon can resolve an object as small as a flag.
However, satellites in orbit have been able to resolve larger items, such as lunar rovers that have been left on the lunar surface. In addition, mirrors attached to the lunar surface by Armstrong and Aldrin are used regularly by scientists.
The Wolf
It’s a well known fact that the “moon landings” were filmed and directed by Stanley Kubrick, the award-winning director.
However, Kubrick, who was known as a perfectionist and always insisted on every detail being correct, demanded that they be shot on location for authenticity.
The Wolf
“Rabbi Yisroel Reisman [a very respected Orthodox Rabbi] spoke out against those Jews who plan their vacations for locations like: Switzerland, France, or Italy where the people hate Jews.”
[He said:] “It would be better to visit the Land of Israel to benefit from its holiness and help our brothers economically.”
SOURCE: Flatbush Jewish Journal, 2010/6/17, page 32
I can’t speak to those places (and I would probably agree with the sentiment), but I can say that I was in Iceland twice and walked around with a kippah only (except when too windy, in which case I put on my baseball cap, but that wasn’t too often) and had no problems whatsoever.
The Wolf
Thank you for posting. I’m glad you were able to get this taken care of early.
Wishing you continued health.
The Wolf
Didn’t we have this argument during the funeral for Elizabeth II?
The Wolf
i prefer a wolf
Thank you very much. 🙂
The Wolf
However when moshiach comes, and techias hameisim happens, we will have the greatest minds of all times so we’ll be able to review everything Halachically according to the new circumstances. Hence we will rule according to Beis Shamai etc.
The greatest minds of all time do not have the power to completely nullify a Torah commandment.
The Wolf
says that apikorsim are from zera of male and female demons.
And here I thought I came from my parents. Do you mean my parents lied to me when they told me that I was born from them?
The Wolf
Sha’arei Shalom (Ave P and Madison — not too far away) has a Mincha minyan at 7:00 pm.
The Wolf
The most exciting thing I’ve learned recently is that I’ll be able to enter the Kodesh hakodoshim as long as I’m at that spiritual level, any day, when moshiach comes.
I have always found claims like this to be very theologically troubling. Another example is the claim that when Moshiach comes the Yomim Tovim will be disestablished.
My understanding is that the mitzvos are for all generations, including those after the arrival of Moshiach. Indeed, it is one of our ikkarim that the Torah will not be changed.
I’m well aware that the origins of this belief (at least with regard to the Yomim Tovim) come from among our earliest rabbinic writing (the Midrash) and are spoken about by the Rishonim and Acharonim. And yet, I still have *serious* reservations about such lines of thought. We believe in the eternity of our Torah. There is nothing there that states that any of the mitzvos are due to be completely annulled at any future date.
(I know, I know… I’m an apikorus for even having such doubts…)
The Wolf
“100% , cannot and will never be a queen of any kind”
And yet, she *is* the Queen.
The Wolf
Dips are only allowed on Pesach.
“On all other nights, we don’t dip even once…”
The Wolf
(Yes, it’s a joke…)
Zaphod Beeblebrox was the President of the Galaxy. He was born on the fifth planet orbiting the star Betelguese. As President, his job was to draw attention away from the true rulers of the universe. In this he was very successful. He is easily identified by having two heads.
The Wolf
The official website of the Royal Family (which, I think, is as good a source as one gets on British royalty) has her listed as “The Queen Consort.”
If her title is officially changed after the coronation, I’m sure they’ll update the website accordingly.
The Wolf
wolfishmusings
I’m still around.
The Wolf
I’m so sorry to hear this. Baruch Dayan HaEmes.
May your memories of her be a source of comfort to you and your family.
HaMakom Yenachem Eschem B’soch Sh’ar Aveili Tziyon V’Yerushalayim.
The Wolf
“Wolf: Thank you for sharing your wonderful thoughts on this subject. It adds to our collective understanding of this topic.”
You’re welcome.
The Wolf
I find it very difficult to accept compliments.
Criticism, on the other hand, I accept readily, provided it has some basis in reality and it’s something that I can use to improve.
The Wolf
I’m reminded of the old joke:
Q: What’s the punishment for polygyny?
A: Two wives.The Wolf
Wolf, why do you always end off with The Wolf?
Because I like doing so.
The Wolf
Yes, and ????
The Wolf
alternate possible other children
Ugh… I used four words when one would have been enough. I need to better edit myself. 🙂
The Wolf
Maybe current neshamos are some substitutions for the ones that were lost? Maybe the originals were better?
We don’t make those decisions. We don’t decide whose blood is redder. And we don’t knowingly sacrifice existing lives for other potential life.
The Wolf