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Would a Jew have to wait for the planet to line up with Jerusalem in order to pray?
Of course not. Facing Jerusalem is optimal but in no sense required to the degree that prayer is impossible without it.
The Wolf
Clearly not all the halachos were given at Sinai. Obvious examples of halachos that came afterward include:
Which death penalty to give to the Sabbath desecrator
Pesach Sheini
Inheritence when there are daughter(s) but no sons
The Wolf
DovBear is the second-most vile anti-Jewish “Frum” blogger out there
WOO-HOO! I’m #1! I’m #1!!
The Wolf
That wasn’t during sefirah.
I don’t see what that has to do with my point.
The Wolf
Because decrees, once issued, could not be undone.
True enough.
Even if it could be undone from a legal point of view, it may not have been politically expedient to do so. This was a decision made amongst some very important ministers in the country. To go back on it would have made him look very weak and foolish — and this was in a time when weak and/or foolish kings very often found themselves dead at the hands of others who would like to rule instead.
The Wolf
I don’t know of any decent courses off hand. However, I can tell you that the best thing you can do is to just go out and shoot. Experiment with different apertures and shutter speeds. Try out different lighting situations.
I’ve become (IMHO) somewhat decent at photography and it was largely through self-learning and lots of reading. There are plenty of photography learning sites (Digital Photography School is pretty good) that have lots of free content dedicated to helping people learn photography.
The Wolf
i think that in flatbush there are way too many fancy cars that i can never parallel park normally. i am always too nervous i will bump the outrageous fancy car. whats wrong with a nice old car?
So the entire world (or neighborhood, if you will) has to restrict their choice of car because of your incompetence at parking?
The Wolf
i think its crazy that all the new aka pella albums by many different artists are aka pella. they are not! they are mamash music! it sounds excatly like music. why can people take a break from music and only listen to real aka pella without any background music… i mean voices. just for one month of sefira!
Let me get this straight… you have a problem with people listening to a capella music during sefira, but you have no problem denigrating people by calling them “mamish chazerim” for enjoying a slice of pizza when it’s 100% permitted?
The Wolf
Wolf – I am curious. Would you please tell us what yardstick you would agree to ?
My apologies. I forgot to include the [sarcasm] [/sarcasm] tags in my previous post.
The Wolf
I don’t want something similar, I want something different.
Fair enough. What type of game do you want? A long German-style strategy game that will keep you engrossed for two hours? A fun, breezy, light game? How many players?
In other words, there are lots of different types of games. Help us out a bit so that we’re not just tossing random game names at you.
The Wolf
I heard that a well-known yeshiva does not hire divorced teachers, what do think about this?
I think a school should only hire teachers who have been married for an even number of months. Then, as the next month approaches (by which they’ll have been married for an odd number of months), the teacher should be told to come back in a month.
Teaches who are divorced should only be hired if they have been divorced for an odd number of months. This way, the married teachers and the divorced teachers won’t come into contact with each other.
The Wolf
Tell us what types of games you currently enjoy (for during the week or Shabbos) and then we can make recommendations of similar games.
The Wolf
Yes. In fact, I think that every possible gradation should have it’s own schools. After all, I don’t want my kids hanging out with those that are only 99.9999% as frum as I and those that are 100.00001% more frum than me don’t want their kids hanging out with mine.
The end result should be that each kid has his own yeshiva. This way, no kid has to interact with any other kid from a differing hashkafah, lifestyle or taste in living room decor.
The Wolf
Next contest: see who can go the longest after Yom Kippur without eating.
Both “contests” have equal merit (which is to say, none).
The Wolf
You know, you really should give some thought before you accuse everyone of doing something and calling them “mamesh chazeirim.”
Not “everyone” does it and not everyone who enjoys a slice of pizza is “mamish” a “chazir.”
The Wolf
Wolf, will you posit that I am a rasha for hoping that people don’t eat hot dogs?
No, I will not.
Just out of curiosity then, why do you hope that people don’t eat them on Shabbos?
The Wolf
I hope not.
We, too, have thrown hot dogs into the chulent on occasion. I personally don’t like them all that much, but the kids love them.
If you want to posit that I am rasha for allowing this massive breach in kavod Shabbos, go right ahead.
The Wolf
but it’s mashma from the megillah that he died on Purim.
No, it’s not. In fact, the megillah makes it fairly clear that he did not die on Purim.
Haman cast his lots on the 13th of Nissan.
Esther fasted for three days (13-15 Nissan) and on the third day had her first meeting with Achashverosh and Haman.
The second meeting (where Haman was sentenced to die) took place on the next day.
Esther 8 makes it clear that some time passed between Haman’s death and the day that the king’s decree against the Jews was to be enacted (which was 13 Adar).
The Wolf
My tefillin are square.
The Wolf
Does it really matter?
If I could prove to you that Eliyahu does not come to each and every Seder, would you stop pouring his cup?
The Wolf
I was addressing wolf’s implication that you need your rav’s permission to speak to a gadol.
I did not imply that at all.
However, I would think that the proper way to go about things is to ask your local Rav. If he doesn’t know, then he can refer you to someone who does.
If you don’t think your Rav is capable of answering the question and will be too embarrassed, unwilling or unable to refer you to someone else whom he believes will be able to answer it, then perhaps you need a new Rav.
The Wolf
I hope your father has a refuah s’hlaimah.
That being said, if you halachic questions, why aren’t you starting with your local rav?
The Wolf
(Apologies in advance if you did and he gave you this list to go and ask.)
While it is certainly possible that there are vessels from the Second Bais HaMikdash hidden away in the Vatican, I believe it is unlikely.
First of all, the Romans who conqured Jerusalem in 70 were not Christians. If they were Christians, they *might* have kept certain things (such as the menorah, for example) around out of respect for their “parent religion” (especially since, at that point, they considered themselves just another sect of Judaism). But these weren’t Christians – they were pagans. Rome would not be Christianized for another few centuries. It’s difficult to say that the pagan Roman emporers would have kept all this treasure around for centuries without melting it down and using the gold/silver for their own purposes.
Another fact to consider is that Rome has been sacked six times since the destruction of the second Bais HaMikdash.
It was sacked in 410 by the Visigoths
It was sacked again in 455 by the Vandals
It was sacked yet again in 546 by the Goths
And yet again in 846 by Arabs
And again in 1084 by the Normans
And yet again in 1527 by the Holy Roman Empire
I would find it very hard to believe that even if the pagan Romans held on to the gold and silver of the Bais HaMikdash that it would have survived the three barbarian sacks of 410-546 and the latter sackings as well.
Does the Vatican have very old Judaic artifacts? Almost certainly. But I’d be highly skeptical of believing that they have any large major artifacts (such as the aron, menorah, etc.) or anything of any significant size and material value.
The Wolf
So, is a driver’s license and ownership of (or access to) a car now a prerequisite for getting married?
Otherwise, what would you recommend that people without driver’s licenses or cars do?
The Wolf
I refuse to answer.
What gives you the right to demand that I “must” answer?
The Wolf
She is still a murderer in my opinion
Why?
Failing to rescue someone in danger may very well be contemptible, but it’s not murder. Bais Din would not execute someone for this.
The Wolf
Hypotheyzing that he was drunk is heresay and not legal under US law
Of course it’s legal. I can hypothesize almost anything I want and the cops can’t do a thing to me. It’s not, however, admissible in court as evidence.
The Wolf
Wolfish- I did not mean to imply that you are in denial about your own actions. I meant you (and it was the plural you of everyone else on the thread) are in denial about other peoples motivations.
That’s fine. Thanks for the clarification.
Now then, I don’t believe that I’m in denial about other people’s motivations because I *don’t know* what other people’s motivations are. I am not a mind-reader. And, I suspect, neither are you.
If you wish to state that the majority of people use baseball caps to hide the fact that they are Jewish, then the burden of proof is on you to show that. It is not upon myself, or anyone else in the Coffeeroom to show that it is not. To date, you have not offered any proof to your hypothesis. Please provide some evidence to back up your claim before accusing people here of being in denial about something that may not, in fact, be true.
Sorry about line btwn paragraphs, i am new to the coffee room and still getting the hang of it.
Not a problem. Welcome to the CR.
The Wolf
Your post still does not explain what it is you think I’m in denial about.
You made an accusation and I want you to please clarify it, so that I may respond to it intelligently.
What, exactly, am I in denial about because of my actions as described in my previous posts? And if it’s not my actions that are in question, then what am I in denial about that I did not address in the second-to-last paragraph of my previous post?
Lastly, please add an extra line between paragraphs. It makes it much easier to read what you write.
Thanks,
The Wolf
He was arrested in Pennsylvania today.
The Wolf
Why is everyone (except for VM, and shnitzy) in such denial about this?
I don’t know what it is you think I’m in denial about. Are there times I put on a baseball cap or some other covering over my yarmulke (never instead of)? Yes, of course I do, but invariably it’s for one of two reasons:
1. Fear that I will lose my yarmulke in the activity (such as in the aforementioned balloon ride)
2. Weather related (such as when I put the hood of my coat over my head when it’s cold).
I fail to see why I am wrong to cover my yarmulke with something else in either situation. I fail to see why this is a problem at all.
As for other people, well — are there people who do it because they’re ashamed of being Jewish? Possibly… but there are also plenty of Jews who eat treif and don’t keep Shabbos. This issue certainly does not rise to the level of the latter-mentioned sins.
Just what is it, exactly, that you are accusing me of being in denial about?
The Wolf
I feel were bringing back the 40’s- VOTES FOR WOMEN!!!
If you’re in the US, you have to go back further than that. The 19th amendment to the US Constitution (which prohibited discrimination in voting on the basis of sex) was ratified on Aug 18, 1920.
The Wol
Last summer, I took a balloon ride over Vermont. When we boarded the balloon, I put a baseball cap over my yarmulke, since I had no idea what the wind would be like when we were a few thousand feet up. A baseball cap stays on the head much easier than a yarmulke does.
If you want to ascribe sinister reasons to my doing so, then go ahead.
The Wolf
Why don’t you actually speak to the schools you are interesting in sending your kids to and see what they say?
The Wolf
See a doctor.
The Wolf
I would like to know who treated him for his alleged gunshot wound?
According to the reports, he did not say he was shot. He said he heard gunshots and/or he was shot at. Neither requires treatment by a doctor.
Yes, I know you’ll say that I’m garbage for making a point in his favor against your argument. Don’t care.
The Wolf
Bittul zman
Bittul Torah
How do these two differ?
Chukos hagoyim
Kemaase ha’emori
How do these two differ?
The Wolf
Our hamsters (yes, I know hamsters aren’t rabbits) eat some veggies, but too many of them (as we discovered one year) gives them the runs. Instead, we do increase their veggies, but we also supplement it with cracked corn, sunflower seeds and alfalfa.
The Wolf
JUST MY HAPPENCE: I’m not the one in denial. You are! You are actually denying among others that Face Book is a terribly damaging site. I don’t have to prove it!
Actually, since you’re the one making the claim, the burden of proof *is* on you.
The Wolf
Ah, you messed it up… it’s “How much wood *would* a woodchuck chuck…” (if plays off the homonym wood-would)
Of course, there’s also it’s cousin-question of “How much ground would a groundhog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?”
The Wolf
The Israeli army and government openly acknowledge the obvious fact that the army is not short on manpower and is not lacking anything that by drafting the Bnei Torah will increase the army’s efficiency and/or power.
Sounds like a question the B’nei Gad and B’nei Reuven could have asked. I wonder what the answer given to them was…
The Wolf
*cough*Nitzavim*cough*
The Wolf
Here ya go: http://bit.ly/WLhbVE
(Mods, I know you normally don’t allow links in the CR, but this one is important to the OP. Please allow. Thanks.)
The Wolf
🙂
That’s very nice but some of them must have died young if they were all Kohanim Gedolim and there can only be one at a time….
Your premise is incorrect. While there is generally only one *active* Kohen Gadol at a time, there can be multiple people at the same time who have the status of Kohen Gadol.
Example: Anyone who served as a substitute KG, still has the status of KG, even after the regular KG resumes his duties.
In addition, it’s entirely plausible that they all lived long lives, but most had short tenures as KG. (i.e. the eldest brother was KG, died at 80 and his younger brother took up the role at age 78. He had it for three years until he died and then his younger brother took it…)
The Wolf
That was one of the more… unusual… books I ever read.
Interesting, but very strange.
The Wolf
It’s possible that he’s asking for a friend/relative, but, to be on the “safe” side, I will wish the OP a Mazal Tov as well.
The Wolf
In the interest of fairness and accuracy, it should be pointed out that all I did was simply point out that an argument was ad hominem. I did not actually stand up for or defend anyone in the thread.
Nonetheless, your thoughtfulness and apologies are appreciated.
The Wolf
The boy should look into her brothers middos etc
I guess my brother-in-law never did this. If he did, my sister would have never gotten married.
The Wolf
wow, pretty pathetic all of you
Yes, you’re right. I’m pretty pathetic for what I did.
(For the record, I am part of “all of you.”)
The Wolf
ZD, the Prohibition Amendment clearly spelled out religious exemptions, so it was not necessary to go to the First Amendment.
Minor nitpick: The amendment itself said nothing about religious practices. It was the Volstead Act (which governed how the 18th was enforced) that made the exemption for religious and medical grounds.
In any event, a later amendment can overrule a previous one (as the 21st did) or anything in the actual body of the Constitution. Hence, had Congress not specifically exempted religious ceremonies in the Volstead Act, it *would* have trumped the First Amendment (vis-a-vis freedom of religion).
The Wolf