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Can you please rephrase that question in English?
The Wolf
it is ABSOLUTELY assur to have your toes uncovered while you are davening.
A. Please present a source for this.
B. Please prove that indicates that voluntarily saying tehillim is the same as davening.
The Wolf
wolf, not to sound pessimistic but I think you are right on this one SO STOP BREATHING!
okay
My personal siman is this: If I continue to breathe, keep living. If I stop, then stop.
This is an issur d’oraisa and an insecurity issue. Get professional help
It’s an issur ‘doraisa for me to continue living if I breathe??! OK, if you say so.
The Wolf
Do any of you folks against taking the bit of shampoo steal the magnetic key card the hotel gave you
When Eeees and I went to Niagara Falls, we gave in the keycards by the desk. They told us to keep them. They are now in the photo album we have of the trip.
The Wolf
Can you please clarify your question(s) (and preferably in complete sentences)?
The Wolf
Is it assur to daven there?
Have your friend ask a rav.
The Wolf
No, your not permitted to do so.
Too bad… I do this every day.
My personal siman is this: If I continue to breathe, keep living. If I stop, then stop.
The Wolf
they said that the Hotel expects you to take the small shampoos and the liek. They actually like that you do, since it has the name of teh hotel. It is cheap advertising for them.
Advertising to whom? The crowds of people who pass through your bathroom?
In any event, even if it is true, then there is nothing to lose by asking at the front desk.
The Wolf
Google is your friend.
Here’s one in Cape May, NJ
http://www.capemayrentals.com/9broadway.html
I don’t know your budget, but putting ‘”15 bedroom” rental ny’ (or nj or ct) into Google should give you some options.
The Wolf
When something is easy to determine and chazal says something that appears wrong,
What are you going to believe? Chazal, or the evidence in front of your eyes?
Rav Uren Riech said (empahsis mine):
Furthermore, the Rashba says (regarding terifos) that if someone comes up to you and tells you that he knows of a cow that lived more than 12 months with one of the simanei treifah that you should not believe him.
So, again, I ask you, who are you going to believe? Chazal when they say that man has 18 bones in his spine, or the “doctors” who say otherwise?
The Wolf
I think that the fact that someone appreciates the importance of a gadol hador’s contribution to the entire klal as being greater than his own protiyus is an incredible maalah. In shamayim it might not be true, but to judge from what we know here, I can’t understand how one could not sympathize with this man’s feelings.
Interesting.
Were I to make a statement like that, I would be bashed down with “the Torah isn’t about feelings and mushiness but about halacha and what’s right.” But when it comes to this, all of sudden we get something along the lines of “it’s all right because his heart is in the right place.”
The Wolf
Do you believe the Twin Towers could have fallen during the lifetimes of the four Gedolim that were niftar the year before
You (and I) have no way of knowing whether it would have happened or not.
The Wolf
I’d love to try a parachute jump from a plane.
So would I…
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… if the plane were about to crash.
The Wolf
Wolf: The din of lo sisgodidu has actual rules; it isn’t just some vague notion.
So, please educate me. Why might techeilis be an issue but other garments not.
The Wolf
I have seen a shitta that one is oiver lo sisgodidu (you can argue),but not everyone agrees.
In what way is wearing “techeiles” an issue of “Lo sisgod’du” but wearing a streimel or some other garb exclusive to chassidus (or any other subgroup) not?
The Wolf
Interesting.
We say that you are not allowed to kill one person to save another. The Gemara uses the phrase “who says his blood is redder [i.e. that his life is more valuable]?” This applies even if the one to be saved is a true tzaddik and the one to be killed is a true rasha — nonetheless, we don’t say “kill the rasha to save the tzaddik.”
And yet, this person has decided that he knows that R. Eliyashiv (who should live and be well) is more valuable than himself. Apparently, he must have some insight into Heavenly matters to decide that a year of R. Elyashiv’s life is worth more than a year of his own.
The Wolf
And why do you presume that 2scents was referring to you?
Force of habit. When someone says “kofer” (or any other variation of the word) the first thought is me.
Granted, it’s possible that 2cents was not referring to me.
The Wolf
Just have her in mind three times a day, when davening vlamalshinim.
Me too.
The Wolf
After all some of the posters are commenting things which are Kefira, at least in the eyes of the yeshivish world.
Saying that Chazal were right is Kefirah??!!
Man, I *really* can’t do anything right, can I? I ought to just give up and cash it in now.
The Wolf
Apparently the OP likes to talk the talk but not walk the walk.
Figures. He talks big about beating people up to bring them in line with halacha but when offered the chance does nothing to follow up on it. And that’s even after I said that I’d offer no resistance.
The Wolf
The answer is speak to your Rav and not to a bunch of anonymous posters on the internet who may or may not know what they are talking about.
He’s right. I should not have said it’s blue. Go ask your Rav what color it is.
The Wolf
Wolf, im joining you in hell.
Please don’t joke about that. I wasn’t joking.
The Wolf
It’s blue.
The Wolf
Sorry. NOT cheered up.
The Wolf
Wolf- Tzum Drite Muhl- A child born in Israel to parents that are both not Israeli citizens, IS NOT AN ISRAELI CITIZEN!!! aargh!
Fine. Yes, I’m thick headed, but now that you’ve yelled at me, I think it got through. Thank you for educating this stupid, thick, evil ignoramus.
Nonetheless, my other point still remains. There is nothing that the OP can do (that I know of) to prevent his children from ever becoming Israeli citizens.
If you know of a way, please, by all means, yell it at me.
The Wolf
and WolfishMusings would have laughed at them.
Who is laughing?
I can’t seem to win.
When I recommend that Chazal ought not to be taken at 100% face value when their observations are found to be in conflict with modern science I catch grief. And now that I say “go with Chazal and forget about modern science” I’m catching grief again by being accused of “laughing at Chazal.”
I just can’t win. So fine, what do I know? It’s obvious that my wickedness and evil nature will prevent me from ever doing anything right. I guess I’m just doomed to continue doing evil no matter which approach I take.
The Wolf
But he’s asking how he can prevent any children who will be born (presumably, if they are born in Israel, they will automatically be Israeli citizens) or immigrate (who may or may not become citizens on immigration) from EVER becoming citizens.
If your children are born citizens, then you would need to renounce that citizenship.
The Wolf
Meh… count this vertebra, disregard those vertebra, count these fused bones as one, count those as multiples… it’s all arbitrary and post-hoc explanatory at best. Much simpler and better to say Chazal was right, we only have 18 bones in the spine and all the anatomy books are, perforce, wrong. Do *you* believe some anatomy book over Chazal?
The Wolf
Despite all this posturing, to answer the OP’s question, there is NOTHING he can do to make sure that his children NEVER become Israeli citizens. Any children will have the ability to apply for citizenship as an adult regardless of any actions the OP takes.
The Wolf
I don’t feel that such contradictions threaten my belief in Judaism.
I don’t let such contradictions threaten my belief in Judaism either. My belief in Judaism is quite strong. My belief in myself, on the other hand, is not.
The Wolf
anyone have a good lamdishe answer to settle the two?
What’s to settle? Chazal said there are 18 bones in the spine and that’s it. Whatever you “learned” in anatomy class is obviously wrong and to be disregarded*. If Chazal say there are 18 bones, then they are to believed and all the so-called doctors are to be ignored.
The Wolf
* Although, for your exam, I suggest you answer “l’shitosom.”
Wolf, don’t flatter yourself. You’re nowhere near the worst person in the world. You’re not even in the top (bottom?) 20.
1. You don’t know me. How can you possibly state that?
2. Even if I’m the 21st worst person in the world, that’s still bad enough.
The Wolf
And why would this bother you?
Because then, according to that opinion, I am, once again, doing something wrong.
The Wolf
I don’t know about your family,
I was not allowing them to beat anyone except myself.
The Wolf
Rav Moshe did not allow receiving heart transplates or even open heart surgery, he considered doctors who performed the transplants to be committing murder.
It is also possible that he did not allow it because the mortality rates from such surgeries was very high and the life expectancy of the patient was rather low.
Those conditions, thank God, no longer exist. Do you know of any *contemporary* poskim who prohibit heart surgery across-the-board?
The Wolf
If you don’t want your kids born here to be citizens, make sure to renounce it formally after each birth.
In the US, you cannot renounce your citizenship if you are physically in the US. A similar situation would seem to agree with regard to Israel. At the Israeli government website dealing with renunciation of citizenship, it specifies that you must be an Israeli citizen *living abroad* to renounce your citizenship. In addition, you will have to present certification from another country that citizenship will be granted. In other words, you cannot deliberately leave yourself (or your child) stateless.
Lastly, the entire process is up to the Interior Minister and can be declined at his/her discretion.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Consular_affairs/Renouncing_Israeli_citizenship.htm
The Wolf
Both Rambam and I believe Shulchan Aruch too bring it as halacha l’maisa that Beis Din can beat someone.
If you truly feel that way, put your (figurative) money where your mouth is. I’ve given you plenty of reasons to come beat me up above in this thread. Form a bais din and come do so.
The Wolf
The wolf: what tune to sing is not a minhag – be my guest and change to a new tune every year…
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some people who felt it was.
The Wolf
what steps must he take to NOT (ever) become an Israeli citizen? Neither himself nor his current and future children.
I highly doubt that there is any step you can take that would prevent your children from EVER becoming citizens. Even if you manage to keep citizenship from them as children, there is nothing you can do to prevent them from applying for it when they become adults.
The Wolf
I cannot emphasize strongly enough how important it is to ask halocha sheilos to a rav. When people make guesses as to what they think the halocha is they are bound to make mistakes.
I am not bothering my rav with a shaila about what tune I should use for Maoz Tzur.
The Wolf
Heck, I begin preparing for the next Shabbos even *before* the present one is finished.
The Wolf
Ah, so this too (as a blogger) is my fault.
The Wolf
tell me pls pls pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!!
That was the story… that he had a story to tell and then got cold feet.
The End
The Wolf
then it follows that things said regarding you can be applied to others
Not necessarily. If someone commits all the same sins that I do, then perhaps what I say about myself can be applied to them. But no one (other than myself) is that bad.
No redeeming features to it at all.
It has one important redeeming feature. It’s the truth. Kabel es haEmes miMi sheAmro.
The Wolf
I had a tune for Maoz Tzur that I learned in yeshiva that I liked greatly. My wife’s family, however, used the traditional tune.
In our (now married) house, we switch off tunes.
Yeah, I know… I’m sure that someone will tell me that I’m transgressing some Y’hareg V’al Ya’avor by using my wife’s tune half the time.
Too bad.
The Wolf
Sushe,
If you’re so eager to follow the Torah, you’re more than welcome to come beat me up for the sins I mentioned above. I won’t even resist or fight back.
The Wolf
If 23 year old boys marry 22 or even 21 year old girls instead of 19 and 20 year olds the problem will be greatly mitigated and iy”h disappear.
I’ve got to tell you, I never get tired of hearing you say that the shidduch crisis is, in small part, my fault, because I married a girl two years younger than myself.
The Wolf
(I believe she meant “spite”, not literal murder.)
“Retzicha” means “spite?”
The Wolf
You are rabbiofberlin? (since in the post you linked us to it was ROB who was called the “koifer”)
No, I’m not. But if he was called a “kofer” for refusing to believe the story of a 73-year-coma, there’s no reason to think that the person who made the accusation would think any different of me considering that I was even more strident in my disbelief than RabbiOfBerlin.
The Wolf