WolfishMusings

This again??!!

OK, one more time…

1. New York State has a Blaine Amendment in its constitution which prohibits state funding (barring a few excepted services) of schools where religion is taught or that is controlled by a religious institution.

2. Flooding the public schools will not change point number 1. Even if every Jewish parent showed up with their kids, they won’t go ahead and say “okay, go back to your yeshivas and we’ll pay for it” because it is prohibited by the state constitution. True, they probably couldn’t handle it on day one, but within a few weeks, they’d probably be able to absorb them.

3. The only way around the Blaine Amendment is to amend the state constitution. However, the process to amend the state constitution is over two years long. Are you going to leave your kids in public school for two years?

The Wolf

PBA,

Thanks. As I said above, I was just assuming based on regular makeup. I don’t actually know what’s involved.

The Wolf

It’s like getting a tattoo.

Is it? I’m not certain that it is.

In a tattoo, ink gets injected through the dermal layers. With permanent makeup*, it is applied on the outside of the skin. It may not actually qualify as a tattoo for halachic purposes.

In many ways, it may be similar to eating fake crab meat, which (assuming it is otherwise kosher) is certainly permitted.**

The Wolf

* I don’t actually know this to be fact. If I’m wrong, then obviously you should disregard what I said above.

** I’m not addressing any hashkafic concerns (i.e. is it proper to do so even if technically permitted?). Those are separate questions.

No, but not out of any belief that doing so is forbidden.

The Wolf

Oomis: How excited were the Yekkes when Hitler rose to power? Would you call them sour grapes too?

Oh, please. Don’t post stupid, ridiculous comparisons.

If you really believe that Obama’s re-election is anything akin to Hitler’s coming to power, then you’re truly deluded.

The Wolf

if 50 states all secede, would that leave just Washington dc and porta rica in the USA?

Well, I think the Union would collapse well before the 50th state seceeded. In any event, in addition to porta rica* (sic), the U.S. has other insular territories as well, including Guam, American Somoa, Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands (which, I should point out, is a beautiful place).

The Wolf

* It’s “Puerto Rico.”

Is it proper to discard your own tableware papergoods (plates, forks, etc.) after eating in a pizza shop or is it expected that the restaurant will clean off your table?

My general rule is this:

If the restaurant has waiter service, then I let the waiters do it. If it’s “fast food,” I always clean up after myself, whether it’s “proper” or not.

The Wolf

The short answer is that there is no Jewish court authorized today to try capital cases.

In order to do so, you need two prerequisites — both of which are missing:

1. The Sanhedrin (the Supreme Court/Legislative body of Sages) must be convened in the Bais HaMikdash. Since there is no Bais HaMikdash today, no court can try capital cases.

2. You need judges who have an unbroken chain of rabbinical ordination from Moshe. That chain was broken long ago. As a result, there are no judges today qualified to try capital cases.

The Wolf

Bolding the words does not change that it was not the reason *why* HKB”H sent the hurricane, rather *how* he sent it.

You’re obviously missing this. Let’s try this one more time.

The little I know said the following:

Anyone who tells me the precise cause for Sandy is either a kofer, a ball gaava, or a plain idiot.

Please note that he did not say “anyone who gives the reason HaShem brought Hurricane Sandy.” He said “the precise cause for Sandy.” IME, the precise cause for Sandy was HKBH’s choosing to send Sandy.

Are there reasons He decided to send Sandy? Certainly — and I wouldn’t dare to speculate as to what they are. But that’s a *separate question* then the question of the cause for Sandy.

TLIK said that anyone who gives a cause (not the reason why the hurricane came, but the cause) is a kofer, a ba’al ga’avah or a plain idiot. I gave a cause — HKBH’s will was the cause for the storm.

And I apologize about the kofer, to be accurate you said ” Am I a kofer, a ba’al ga’avah or a plain idiot”.

Apology accepted.

To The Little I Know: I still await your response to my query. Your silence on the matter says to me that you don’t really believe what you said.

The Wolf

You just love being different dont you?

No, it’s not that. I truly did not like either of the two mainstream candidates, so I did not vote for them. For the other races, I *did* vote for candidates from the Republican and/or Democratic party.

The Wolf

Well, I’m a registered Democrat and I voted today. So please, tell me where I should go to turn myself in for casting an illegal ballot.

The Wolf

I will not say whom I voted for, but I will make the following two statements:

1. I did vote.

2. I did not vote for President Obama or Governor Romney for President.

The Wolf

To answer the OP, the laws probably vary from state to state.

The Wolf

When life gives you lemons, make sure to ask for some water, sugar, ice and some tall glasses.

The Wolf

Another one of my favorites:

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. ~ Groucho Marx

The Wolf

A good oldie attributed to Yogi Berra:

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

The Wolf

Hurricane Sandy came because HKBH chose to manipulate atmospheric and oceanic conditions, causing the confluence of weather events which led to Hurricane Sandy making landfall in New Jersey.

Beyond that, all is speculation.

The Wolf

Ditto for the MO. 1) Why aren’t you advocating organizations to help transition MO Jews to a Chareidi way of life? 2) Why has only the reverse occurred to you?

Did you even read what I wrote above:

And, to your point, if an MO person would be more comfortable in a chassidic setting, they should be allowed to follow that derech too.

The truth, however, is that there isn’t a need for organizations the other way. Yeshivish and MO Jews aren’t given the message that it’s either their way or OTD. They know that if they want to join a chassidus, all they have to do is approach them. It happens all the time.

Chassidic people, on the other hand, are given the message that if they don’t follow in chassidus, then it’s little or no different than going OTD.

The Wolf

Avhaben (or whatever you call yourself these days),

You;ve missed the entire point.

There are Chassidic people who are unhappy with their lives in the fold. To escape, they leave the derech altogether, when they might just as easily remain on the derech and in the yeshivish or MO camps. (Now, I know you don’t consider MO on the derech at all and probably think they’re better off in a Reform Temple than in MO, but I’m going to ignore that for now). And so, there should be programs that allow them to go where they’re more comfortable and remain on the derech.

And, to your point, if an MO person would be more comfortable in a chassidic setting, they should be allowed to follow that derech too.

The Wolf

On someone’s 120th Birthday, you can’t really wish him “ad mayah v’esrim shana”, so what do you wish them…”Have a good day”?

How about “may you have many more days and years of health and happiness?”

The Wolf

It is never* wrong to learn Mishnayos, regardless of the reason.

The Wolf

*Barring Tisha B’Av or during mourning.

I hope you”ll tell us, Wolf, that your Zaidy lived to see you born, and to enjoy the thrill of a grandson!

(Calm down all you posters who are thinking of calling me a misogynist; I’m sure Wolf’s grandfather loved all his daughters dearly.)

Well, he did live to see me born, married and become a father myself. Whether or not I am a “thrill of a grandson” I’ll leave to the judgement of others.

The Wolf

(And yes, he loved all his daughters.)

I am being dan l’kaf z’chus that the owner of the website does not yet know about this. But now that I Googled the name, I agree that such a despicable person’s name should not be used as a SN.

FWIW, I was not aware of the significance of the name either before gavra brought it up.

However, as far as the user goes, your sense of humor is… unappreciated and inappropriate.

The Wolf

Meh. I got tired of fighting the haters.

There are several posters on these boards who have nothing better to do than simply make hateful, hurtful statements just for the sake of either hurting others or stirring up the pot. I’ve learned to just treat their statements as the product of people who are either ignorant, xenophobic, possessed of a holier-than-thou attitude or, perhaps, just plain mean and spiteful (or, perhaps a combination of all of the above).

Sometimes you have to remember the old maxim: don’t wrestle with a pig. It only gets you dirty and annoys the pig. (And yes, I, too, am sometimes guilty of ignoring this maxim myself.)

The Wolf

I’ll believe it when I see it. Sounds more like marketing claptrap to me.

I’ll be more than happy to say “I was wrong” if they do, indeed, end the shidduch crisis.

The Wolf