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That may be child labor.
You’re free to call the cops if you think I’m violating child labor laws.
(Besides, one of them is over 18 — so there’s definitely no issue of child labor.)
The Wolf
I don’t know how the non Jewish grandfather was explained to the children.
I often find that the truth usually works the best.
I have relatives who are not frum and relatives who are not Jewish. Never once have I lied to my kids about them.
The Wolf
Wolf – and you? how did you get out of dish-duty?
Simple… Eees and I did them before the kids were old enough. Now it’s their turn. 🙂
The Wolf
If she was the right one for me, why not?
The Wolf
We use seperate sets for dairy and meat because we have two dishwashers, one milchig and one fleishig
You need separate dishwashers for meat and dairy???
OK, George and Walter will handle the meat dishes and Wilma will handle the dairy dishes. 🙂
The Wolf
How similar do two people have to be in Shidduchim? Lets say one is more studious and one is not-is that a good match?
I have an idea… why not meet the girl and find out for yourself? People aren’t usually defined by their level of studiousness.
The Wolf
A rigmarole?
Do you perhaps mean a prohibition or a concern? Neither of those are a rigmarole.
The Wolf
When I was younger, I had trouble with my multiplication tables. For some odd reason, I had it fixed in my head that 12 times 5 equaled 50, not 60. Was I an apikorus then* (since the Torah explictly states that 12×5=60) since, according to R. Chaim, I would seem to be one irrespective of how I arrived at that belief?
The Wolf
* Of course, now, I am very conversant with the multiplication tables and believe with a complete emunah that 12 times 5 is 60 — so I certainly wouldn’t be an apikorus anymore on this count. My question is regarding my belief back then.
WolfishMusings: I didnt think of it that way. I meant that it would be directed at the talkers and not disturb others. If the talkers are behind you, walk behind the talkers and raise your voice a bit so that your voice travels into their conversation and they would hopefully get the hint.
If you’re not going to disturb other daveners in your protest, I suppose it’s okay.
But don’t count on me to do it. As I mentioned above, I no longer protest such things, but rather just sit and simmer about it.
The Wolf
wolfishmusings: However, while they had their values right back then, they did have more deaths and most of the diseases back then were fatal as opposed to those same diseases today.
And so?
Forgive me, but I don’t see the relevance of this to the discussion. Can you please elaborate?
Thanks,
The Wolf
I think you missed the point…
So, why don’t you illuminate me as to what point I missed.
The Wolf
Go argue with the Maharal….
Why should I argue with the Maharal? YOU’RE the one who translated his statement into “carbon dating.”
The Wolf
@The Wolf…..
Of course the Maharal didn’t say Carbon Dating, he wrote counting the age of the objects. However, in 2012, ‘SMART’ people call it Carbon Dating……
Nonetheless, my points remain. Carbon dating cannot be used with dinosaurs and even if it could, the heat and/or pressure from the water would not affect it.
The Wolf
“sound” was never created
What? You think it created itself?
Just because the Torah didn’t explicitly state it, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t created. The Torah is silent on the formation of tornadoes, but certainly you believe that God created them.
The Wolf
You know, if you’re going to copy and paste from R. Eidensohn’s blog, you should at least give him credit. This also goes for the other thread you started (sons vs. daughters) as well.
The Wolf
The Maharal writes in Parshas Beraishis or Noach that with the temperature of the water heat cooking the bones and earth, it throws off the the calculation of the carbon dating of fossils.
I *highly* doubt the Maharal wrote *anything* about carbon dating.
In addition, there are two other salient points to mention:
1. Heat and/or pressure will not change the rate of carbon decay, so the idea that the heat or pressure of the water would affect carbon dating is fallacious.
2. You cannot use carbon dating for dinosaur fossils for two reasons:
a. They are too old. Carbon dating doesn’t work for objects that are millions of years old.
b. It only works on organic materials. Fossils (which are all that remain of dinosaurs) are not organic.
The Wolf
Sometimes, when discussing this subject, I am reminded of the quote from the play 1776. In discussing his place in history with Ben Franklin, John Adams says:
It doesn’t matter. I won’t be in the history books anyway, only you. Franklin did this and Franklin did that and Franklin did some other damn thing. Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them – Franklin, Washington, and the horse – conducted the entire revolution by themselves.
The Wolf
WolfishMusings: You cannot make the Sheva Brochos of “shehasimcho bimoinoi” if the women are (or were) sitting next to the men.
Which does not, in any way, address the point I made (that a man is allowed to say Birchas HaMazon where women are present).
The Wolf
He married <insert wife’s name>
A *true* gadol biography would never mention the name of his wife. 🙂
The Wolf
No it doesn’t. Davening loud is a positive attribute that everyone should be encouraged to do.
No, it should not. If you daven very loud, you very well could end up disturbing other people’s davening, whether you feel that it’s proper or not.
The Wolf
Wolf, my husband sends me to wash the dishes and take out the garbage.
On Shabbos and Yom Tov too?
At a wedding there are waiters and there’s nowhere to send the women at bentching.
Again, so what? There is *nothing* wrong with a man saying Birchas HaMazon in the presence of a woman.
The Wolf
The Gemorah would not record something in the Gemorah if all it is was a local/societal/cultural issue of the day.
It wasn’t merely the cultural attitude of the day… it was pretty much the cultural attitude of most societies from the beginning of time until then. They probably had no reason to suspect that thousands of years later, cultural attitudes towards the birth of girls would change.
The Wolf
Even people who devote years of their lives to studying their words are sometimes left with “teiku.”
Who needs to say “teiku?” There’s a very simple answer… they lived in a different culture with different values than we have today. Most people in today’s society (eman’s acquaintance notwithstanding) view healthy children of either gender as a blessing and a cause for celebration. Back then, it was not culturally so.
The Wolf
As apushatayid so simply posted: daven louder.
That has the problem of being inconsiderate to other people who are davening nearby.
The solution to talking in shul isn’t to disturb other non-talkers.
The Wolf
How many people actually stay until the bentching? What do you propose to do about the people who want to bentch and leave early?
If someone is bentching by himself, he certainly doesn’t need to be separated from women.
When you bentch at home, does your husband send you to another room? Or do you all bentch together?
The Wolf
He was fine about it. Nonetheless, I still felt terrible about the whole thing.
The Wolf
The one time I said something to someone about it, I immediately regretted it. As a result, I don’t protest anymore… I just sit and simmer.
The Wolf
It is loshon hara to say that a yeshiva has secular studies. By saying a yeshiva has secular studies you are saying that they waste many hours.
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!
Then you, yourself, are guilty of speaking Loshon HaRah, as you started an entire thread complaining about taking trigonometry in high school.
The Wolf
Why dont you wear one? Did you ask the Rav if you should be wearing one or did he tell you not to wear one?
In the 25 years that I’ve been laining, no one has ever told me to wear one. If the Rav wanted me to wear one, all he had to do was tell me to do so. The fact that neither rav ever did (I’ve lained in two different shuls over the last 25 years) tells me that, at least as far as they were concerned, I didn’t need to wear one.
The Wolf
By us, the rav told the chazzan to wait until he returned to the bimah before starting the next set of Hoshannos. Thus, we enabled everyone ti circle seven times while saying the seven sets of Hoshannos.
The Wolf
Why did you feel the need to shout this?
The Wolf
Yitzchokim,
If I’m not mistaken bus stops are no standing zones.
You’re correct — they are No Standing zones. However, in NYC, you *are* allowed to pick up and drop off passengers in a No Standing Zone, provided you do so expeditiously.
The New York City DOT web site has a great chart explaining what you can and cannot do at various no parking/standing/stopping zones.
http://a841-dotvweb01.nyc.gov/ParkingRegs/signlegend.aspx
The Wolf
Is Eeees an animal?
No, of course not. She’s my wife.
The Wolf
Never lained in my life, but as a former gabbai I found VaYakhel hard because of the “Es” and he “Eis”.
Yes, but that’s only an issue in the first aliya.
Easy way to remember:
Es is always attached to another word. Eis has its own trup.
The Wolf
Eeees and I love to go to zoos on dates. Unfortunately, our schedules don’t allow us to go on Chol HaMoed this year, but perhaps at some point in the next few weeks…
The Wolf
The issue applies to a twice divorced woman. (See above.) Not a man who divorced two women. In fact, a man cannot be “divorced” under Jewish law.
I never implied that it did. However, the OP was gender neutral — and was not asking vis-a-vis issur vs. hetter.
Besides, it’s her third marriage too. 🙂
The Wolf
My father’s third marriage is, by far, his most successful one — 25+ years.
The Wolf
It is you with the “different” definition of slob.
It’s fairly obvious that you are the one with the misunderstanding since the rest of us understand that one can appear unkempt and messy even if the Torah commands it.
In any event, I don’t want to engage in a meaningless argument about the meaning of the word “slob” with you. I’ve got far better things to do. If you want to believe it means what you think it means, go right ahead.
The Wolf
And, no, an aveil is NOT a slob by not shaving. He would be a slob if he shaved.
You obviously have a different definition of “slob” than everyone else.
The Wolf
In my Shul the Baal Koreh wears a Kittel. I always thought it was a universal Minhag.
Fair enough. In my shul, the ba’al tefillah and ba’al tokeah wear them, whether married or not. I, as the ba’al kriah, do not.
The Wolf
You WolfishMusings forgot to mention what you did vis a vis your Kittel on Rosh haShono of your Shono Rishono?
I never wear a kittle on Rosh HaShannah.
The Wolf
Anglician law allowed divorce already from Henry’s times.
Not necessarily. Consider Edward VIII’s abdication crisis.
In any event, Henry VIII’s marriages to Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves were officially annulled. He did not obtain a divorce for either marriage.
The Wolf
For me, personally, the hardest portions are those that have multiple iterations, but each iteration is slightly different. For example, the last aliya of Pinchas, where the mussafim for each of the days of Succos is ever-so-slightly different (not in the number of animals brought, but in prefixes and suffixes added to/subtracted from words), is challenging to me.
(Although, oddly, the nesi’im, which is similar, doesn’t give me trouble.)
The Wolf
Have you ever tried leining v’zos habracha during the week with regular trop? It’s impossible.
It’s not difficult at all.
But then again, I have about 25 years of experience doing it.
The Wolf
True love only comes once you are already married.
You know, I loved my wife before we married and I love her today.
Considering the fact that you don’t know my wife or myself and can’t possibly know about our feelings for each other over the years that we’ve been together, do you mind telling me how you know when I “truly” loved my wife and when I didn’t?
The Wolf
the reason many states (and many Christian countries) restrict marriage between cousins has to do with the way in which canon law (the law of the Roman Catholic Church) was assimilated into the local legal system
Can you provide some support for that statement, at least as it applies to the states in the US? The reason I ask is because the early Christian influences in the US were largely Protestant and not Catholic. In fact, I can’t see any of the authorities in Colonial America being all that concerned with Roman Catholic canon law.
The Wolf
For whom:- Not for your Kittel. Being in Shono Rishono, stay away from your Kittel for 1 more year until the Simcha of Shono Rishono is over.
Ah, I did not know that at the time. As a result, I wore a kittel on Yom Kippur and by the seder during my first year of marriage.
What are the consequences of one who violates this halacha?
The Wolf
I retorted that if anything people who do shave (and it would be remiss to not mention, even though there are those that differ, there are many authorities who maintain completely shaving is always forbidden) are the real slobs
And you had to throw in the gratuitous insult that they’re “not real men.”
The Wolf
Being a Kohein, I am pretty sure that none of my forefathers married converts.
How can you be so sure? How do you know that your maternal grandmother didn’t have an ancestor who married a convert? Your being a Kohen wouldn’t preclude such a possibility? It’s not like geirus is a p’sul that is passed down the generations. There is no question, for example that the great-granddaughter of a ger can marry a kohen.
The Wolf
Real men have beards. Shaving any time of the year is slobby. Refraining from shaving — any time of the year — is acting like a real mentch.
Wow. You not only manage to insult and disparage thousands of yidden with two short lines, but you also didn’t even address the OP or any previous poster.
Great work for less than a week following Yom Kippur.
The Wolf