WolfishMusings

Yup, the same way He read all the others.

I’m sorry that you took my disagreeing with you as an insult.

The Wolf

Thank You wolf, that was very informative. Another question, does hashem only recycle the gilgulim amongst 1 group of people? Is my gilgul from a non frum person maybe?

My belief in gilgulim is very wishy-washy at best, so I don’t have an answer for you. I simply tried to provide a *possible* idea of how it might work. Of course, I could very well be 100% wrong too. I don’t have any inside knowledge on what will happen – and I certainly have no knowledge of who your past gilgulim are (if any).

The Wolf

If that fathers in shul are schmoozing through davening, what message is being taught to their sons?

Exactly… and I learned this the hard way.

While I’ve always been a stickler on talking during davening, there was one thing I used to do consistently… learn during Chazaras HaShatz. While the Chazzan recited the Amidah, I would often take out a Mishnayos and learn.

One day, I caught my son reading a novel during Chazaras Hashatz. When I asked him about it, he told me that he sees me reading, so it must be okay. I tried to justify it by claiming that, at least, I was learning, but at the end of the day, I had to admit that he was right.

Since then, I no longer learn during Chazras HaShatz. I now follow along in the siddur with the Chazzan.*

The Wolf

* I’d be lying if I said I *never* drifted off into day-dreaming during Chazaras HaShatz, but it doesn’t happen to often….

To summarize: I believe it is a bizayon to Hashem to learn (or daven) from a device that is loaded with garbage.

I think it is wrong of you to assume that when you see an Ipad, that it is loaded with garbage.

The Wolf

its great for traveling but soon these ipads will not only be used for traveling it will be people one gadget with all seforim on it & thats it

And that’s bad, why????

people may also C”V bring it into a restroom to read YWN & forget that Hashems name is written in it & thousands of seforim are on that same ipad. thats a major bizayon hatorah & may be ossur to bring into restroom.

No it’s not… not anymore than it is to bring a tape with an audio shiur into the bathroom. As long as it’s not on the screen, it’s fine.

Based on your logic, I could never swipe from one passuk to the next because I’d be erasing the Shem. Nonetheless, it’s clear that unless it’s literal writing, those halachos don’t apply.

Of course, one should not actively be learning on it while using the bathroom, but that just as easily applies to a physical book as well.

The Wolf

The zionists should marry the vegitarianists!

But only if they don’t learn from their iPads. 🙂

The Wolf

I know someone who got engaged to the first girl he dated (and I think he may have been her first boy too) after two dates. They knew they were for each other by the end of the first date.

I can’t say that it was *that* quick for Eeees and I, but we knew within about three weeks that it wasn’t “if” we were going to get married, but “when.”

The Wolf

RebYidd: they all gave the potential of being loaded with garbage.

… and any book has the potential to have inappropriate things written in it, and any tape recorder could be used for inappropriate music. Your point?

The Wolf

what will the word davening mean then? a joke C”V i can drive to work wearing my tefillin & davening by heart & then text someone else at the same time C”V

Your example is not relevant to the discussion at hand.

For a minyan, halacha specifies that the members have to be physically present. There is no inherent requirement for paper when it comes to Talmud Torah.

I’m still confused why you feel learning from an electronic source is a bizayon, but learning from a paper one isn’t. Do you feel that listening to a tape recorded shiur is a bizayon? If not, why is that any different?

Personally, I *like* having an app on my Ipad through which I have all of Shas, Tanach, the Shulchan Aruch, works of mussar and halacha and lots of other stuff. It’s a virtual portable library. I’m not limited to learning the one book I have.

The Wolf

When you find a piece in the street, you may assume it is kosher if certain conditions are met (majority sold as kosher, near a store where kosher food is served).

Why should this be any different? The vast majority of appliances are, in fact, new.

The Wolf

Of course, the correct answer is that it depends on the couple.

Look, my in-laws stop by without calling first. So does my sister – and I stop by her place unannounced at times too – but that’s because we have that sort of close relationship. Others may not have it.

By all means, if a couple asks that you call first before coming over, then they’re wishes should be respected — and it doesn’t matter if it’s parents, sisters or brothers, in-laws or even adult children who no longer live in the house.

The Wolfr

Vosizneias has a phone number and email address in their contact info. Yeshiva world has a stupid submit form that apparently no one is checking or theyre just ignoring it!!!!! What type of customer service is that?????? Why wud I want to do business with them and advertise if I can’t get through to anyone for a simple request I have?????????

If you’re actually looking to advertise and they won’t return your calls, then I think you found an answer… don’t advertise here. Would you patronize a store where you were saying “here, take my money!” and they refused to acknowledge you?

The Wolf

So, tell me, blubluh, do you also make sure to read every advertisement in the paper and in every magazine you read? Do you make sure to read every billboard and “this section of road cleaned by ….” sign on the highway? When you go to a store, do you feel the need to read every sign they have up on the walls advertising their wares?

In no way do you owe anything to YWN. If you want to read the ads, then go ahead, no one is going to stop you. But obligated? No more than you’d be obligated to do all the other things mentioned.

The Wolf

Wolf

I beleive “Torah-true” is trademarked by the Agudah

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

In any event, I’ve always known that I’m a torah-false Jew (or however else you want to phrase it); just nice to have a confirmation from a true Torah Jew. Thank you, kj chusid.

The Wolf

Is there an element of hakaras hatov or some other obligation upon a listener/reader to pay attention to ads in return for whatever benefit the person is enjoying?

Obligation? No.

Anyone who puts up a website does so with the full knowledge that not everyone will read the ads. Anyone who advertises knows that not everyone will read the ads.

Do you feel an obligation to read every advertising billboard along the highway?

Do you want to do it as a measure of hakaras hatov for those who put up the site? Then go ahead, no one’s stopping you.

The Wolf

Is this in reference to something?

The Wolf

Many cookbook editors feel that it’s beneath them to include traditional food recipes,such as, p’cha, latkes or matzo knaidlech.

Sounds like you found a market niche for a cookbook.

The Wolf

@wolfishmusings- If all of the Jews and Christians in private schools decided to flood public schools, then it would ruin the whole system. I just don’t understand why part of the public school teacher’s contract can’t be that they have to teach in the private schools in the afternoon.

This again????

We’ve been over this before – the idea that you can just “flood” the public school system with kids and that the Board of Ed will just throw up their hands in defeat and say “OK, go to yeshiva, we’ll pay for it.”

In short, it’s not going to work, for several reasons — none of which have anything to do with a teacher’s contract.

1. There is an amendment in the New York State Constitution (and in the constitutions of many, but not all, states) that says that the state government cannot fund a school if religion is taught there or if it is controlled by a religious organization.

2. Even if every frum person in the city were to suddenly take his/her kid to public school, the amendment (commonly referred to as a Blaine Amendment) would *still* prevent the government from paying for it. If everyone did so (and, trust me, you’ll never get that to happen) all that would happen is that the BoE would send you home, tell you that they’re going to have a spot for you in a week or two and then scramble to find space. That’s all they’re legally empowered to do.

The Wolf

Wolf

Nope it is a befreish Gimatriya!

Are you really trying to tell me that Yosef wasn’t present for any part of Mechiras Yosef?

The Wolf

he arranged not to be invited

Do you have some citation for this? A Jpost article describes the non-invitation of Rabbi Jakobovitz as “a snubbing”

In addition, it seems that Rabbi Jakobovitz was invited to and attended the Queen Mother’s 80th birthday thanksgiving service in St. Paul’s.

The Wolf

The biggest proof that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy is the fact that none of them have tried to contact us. 😉

The Wolf

Rabbi Eleazar ben Azaryah… Harei ani keven shivim shana..

That’s a statement of fact, not a p’sak halacha or even a guideline for physical appearance.

By the same token, we should only use rocks for pillows since it says “YaYikach MeAvnei HaMakom VaYashem M’Ra’ashosav…”

The Wolf

You don’t really believe yourself to be an apikorus, so it wouldn’t count.

Why should my feelings count?

Let’s put it this way… if I were eating treif, would it make a difference if I believed that pig was kosher? Yes, it might matter with regard to my degree of culpability, but it doesn’t change the fact that, regardless of my belief, I ate non-kosher.

Whether *I believe* I’m an apikorus or not is not the issue. If I am, then, according to Joseph, there is a mitzvah to bash me. If not, then there isn’t.

The Wolf

Did you overlook the Chofetz Chaim saying it is a “mitzvah” to put down apikorsum? Do you not want to get as many mitzvos as possible?

Since many Jews would regard me as an apikorus, do I get a mitzvah for putting myself down?

The Wolf

What does this have to do with anything in this thread?

The Wolf